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CLASS NOTES
Robert Hardt Jr.
154 Beach 94th Street
Rockaway Beach, N.Y. 11693
Bobmagic@aol.com
Jeremy Feinberg
211 W. 56th St., Apt 4M
New York, N.Y. 10019
thefeinone@worldnet.att.net
Hi
again. A lighter mail bag than normal this time, but still plenty
to report.
One
of the best parts of this job is hearing from people whom I lived
with or hung out with during my first year at Columbia. Thus,
Kevin Sanbonmatsu's e-mail was a particular treat. Kevin got
his Ph.D. in astrophysics from Colorado in the summer of 1997, then
did a post-doctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in
1997-98 where he became a permanent staff scientist in theoretical
plasma physics. He purchased a house in Santa Fe, N.M. last
year.
Another correspondent in the same category is Suzy
Kedron-Lyn, with whom I fondly remember rooting for the men's
basketball team during lean times in Levien Gymnasium freshman and
sophomore years. Since graduating with a B.A. in architecture, she
went to work at an architectural firm that focused on upper-end
residential projects. Although she "had a blast doing that" she
decided to go to law school and is now practicing at Jenkens &
Gilchrist in that firm's Dallas office. Suzy added that she has "a
wonderful son who is now 7 1/2 but thinks he's 13" and a great
husband who lives in New York. Suzy is in New York all the time and
can be reached at skedronlyn@aol.com.
Tanya Nieri raised $3,000 for the Leukemia Society of
America last November and, as part of the organization's cycling
team, completed a 107-mile century bike ride in Las Vegas. In May
of this year, she completed the Santa Fe century, a 104-mile bike
ride with over 3,300 feet of climbing, again with the Society, this
time as the team's mentor. "The thrill one feels upon the
completion of such a physical challenge is amazing, and I hope that
everyone gets a chance in their lives to feel as I did." When not
biking, she has been enjoying her new job working for the Arizona
State Legislature conducting outcome evaluations of state-funded
social welfare and education programs.
Cary Hall and his family have moved from the Baltimore
area to Telford, Pa. Cary is now affiliated with the law firm of
Powell, Trachtman, Logan, Carrle, Bowman & Lombardo, in King of
Prussia, Pa. Making the trek with Cary were his wife, Jen, and two
children Luke, 3, and Tess, 1. Cary offered his e-mail address,
caryhall@abanet.org, for
those who want to get in touch.
That'll do for now. Do stay in touch. If it's not obvious from
all of the columns I've written in this space since 1992, I do
enjoy hearing from you.
Elena Cabral
Columbia College Today
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 917
New York, N.Y. 10115
elenacabral@yahoo.com
I
almost never get actual letters in paper envelopes anymore, but
these days when the news comes in electronically, I get to learn
new words like infomediary (keep reading). Risa Diemond and
Jamie Arbolino were married last month in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
Risa is working toward her Ph.D. in archaeology and Jamie's is
almost finished with a master's in museum studies/anthropology. The
couple is living in Washington, D.C. Although both are Class of
'93, Risa and Jamie's romance did not begin until both were working
at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1995. The
guests included Jennifer Hays Woods, Joe Saba, Jennifer Fetner
Saba, Nandita Gupta Kamdar, Carin Lueck Elam, Russ Singer '93E
and Chirag Gandhi '93E. Other guests included Jamie
Cesaretti and Elisabeth Cutler B'93. Jamie Cesaretti brought
his 3-month-old baby girl, Hannah.
Jamie and Jules Park were married in June 1999 in Ohio
and live in Manhattan. Steve Conway, Neil Turitz and
Chris Tessin started an Internet startup company in
Manhattan called HallofSports.com. Steve said the
company sells authentic sports memorabilia and collectibles online
and serves as an infomediary to the collectibles industry. A quick
perusal of the user friendly site showcased a 1999 World Series
baseball autographed by Derek Jeter and a framed lithograph of Jeff
Gordon. If you're looking for an item for a charity auction, that's
the site to check out.
I
received a notice from the broker-dealer firm of Cantor, Weiss
& Friedner in New York announcing that Matt Murphy has
joined the firm as a vice president. Alicia Doiron moved to
Los Angeles three years ago after finishing a degree in fashion
design at F.I.T. She has worked at Vera Wang, Ralph Lauren and
Guess in New York and L.A. before ending up in her current job as a
wardrobe stylist. Alicia works on commercials and print jobs for
companies like McDonalds, Maxwell House, Sears, Golden Grahams and
others. You can catch her on the X Show on FX as the resident
fashion expert.
Alicia recently met up with Lara Kass and Seth
Rockman. She reports that Lara was visiting last month from New
York, where she is a business consultant for an Internet website
development company. Lara moved back to New York after finishing an
MBA at Emory University in Atlanta. Seth is an American history
professor at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Calif., near
Pasadena. He earned a doctorate from UC Davis.
In
April, I joined the ranks of the newly wed, and after posting so
many wedding announcements over the years, I can now see, with much
joy, what all the fuss is about. I'm grateful for all the good
wishes, and to friends I was able to lure to the party in San
Antonio. Send more of that mail.
Leyla Kokmen
2748 Dupont Ave. South
Minneapolis, Minn. 55408
Marriage and moving seem to be on the agenda for lots of our
classmates. Tony Ambroza has moved to Portland, Ore., to
work as a marketing manager for Nike. He married Cheryl Reed in
November 1999. He's enjoying the Pacific Northwest and recently
took a trip to Texas for the wedding of Burke
Banda.
Marina (Gurin) and Erik Groothuis made the move
out of the East Village and into the burbs, buying an apartment in
Great Neck. Elizabeth (Berke) Vickery and her husband also
moved to greener acres, buying a tree-shaded home in Scarsdale.
Elizabeth also left her job at Towneley Capital Management to work
for Flemings Capital Management.
Alex Metzger and Ritu Mukerji, sweethearts since
sophomore year, were married in June in Napa, Calif. Alex wrote
before the wedding that a few alumni were expected to be there,
including David Divita '95 and Jane Doherty. Ritu is in her
third year of medical school at Jefferson Medical College in
Philadelphia. Alex has finished med school and started his
residency in internal medicine at Thomas Jefferson University
Hospital, also in Philadelphia, with an eye toward a
hematology/oncology specialty. They plan to eventually move to
California.
Word
from Camilla Jackson is that she is now an associate at the
law firm of Covington & Burling. Christine Parlamis is
working as a manager in new business development for American
Express, and Ali Lemer will be attending the University of
Chicago this fall to get a master's in humanities.
Thanks to all those who wrote in, and please keep the news
coming. Until next time.
Janet Frankston
2479 Peachtree Road NE
Apt. 614
Atlanta, Ga. 30305
janet.frankston@mindspring.com
I'm
glad to report on lots of our classmates here. We had a good
turnout for our five-year reunion in June, and I hope everyone who
attended had a great time. The weather was perfect.
At
reunion, Colleen Shaw was days away from receiving her MBA
from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. The former
varsity swimmer heads to London this fall, where she will work for
Ford Motor Co. Hilary Lerner Gershman also came to the
weekend with her husband, David, a lawyer. Hilary graduated from
Fordham Law and was studying for the bar. Colleen and Hilary also
gave updates about Lea Rappaport Geller, who graduated from
Stanford Law and will clerk for a judge in L.A., and Denise
Conanan, who is working on her Ph.D. in education at
Michigan.
Colleen also mentioned that Doug Finn is an officer in
the Marine Corps and Ed Goldstein is a lawyer for the
government in Washington. According to an announcement in The
New York Times, Ed married classmate Rebecca Gottesman.
Rebecca graduated from P&S this spring and will do her
residency in neurology at John's Hopkins. Ed, a lawyer in the
office of the chief counsel of the Army Corps of Engineers in D.C.,
received his law degree from Yeshiva University.
At
Saturday's dinner, Minie Shu, Colleen's freshman roommate
and fellow varsity swimmer on Carman 10, talked about her new job.
Minnie is now teaching seventh grade math in Washington Heights.
She reports that Liz Poon is working for an Internet
start-up after graduating from the Kennedy School at
Harvard.
Mark Kravitz, who also made it for part of the reunion,
graduated from the Cardozo School of Law in June. At Cardozo, Mark
served as managing editor of the Arts & Entertainment Law
Journal, which focuses on legal issues concerning intellectual
property law, entertainment law and the First Amendment, and also
as a member of the American Bar Association subcommittee on
Internet gaming. In addition, last spring he published an article
discussing the application of one of the federal rules of civil
procedure about Internet jurisdiction. This month, Mark begins
practicing intellectual property and commercial litigation at the
New York office of Bryan Cave, a St. Louis firm with more than 600
lawyers worldwide. He is also working on a new Internet project
with his dad. Check out kosherfinder.com - the most comprehensive
guide for kosher products and services on the Internet.
Amanda Kahn is working on her Ph.D. in neuroscience at
the University of California at San Francisco. During the reunion
dinner Saturday night, Amanda volunteered that she has one of the
more unusual jobs among our classmates: she studies how worms
smell. Owen Hill claimed he had the second most unusual
career: he teaches squirrels to water ski. (Just kidding, he
admitted. He's really a corporate lawyer).
Our
famous "Road Rules" classmate, Allison Jones, is now a
doctor. After spending time on the MTV show (usually clad in a
Columbia sweatshirt) Allison went to med school at P&S. She
will do her residency in emergency medicine at Boston City
Hospital, but will first spend a year in San Diego. Allison said
several of our classmates also graduated with her: Emily Hu,
Jason Levine and Patty Irigoyen.
At
the Saturday dinner, Mona Zutshi slipped me a note about her
and her fiancé, our classmate John Opufor. Mona writes
that she and John met in logic and rhetoric in the spring of 1992
and have been together ever since. They plan to marry next June.
"I'm a writer, he's a banker and we live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
with our sweet dog, Roxie."
More
news: Susan Nathan is at the Law School. Arlo
Devlin-Brown graduated from Harvard Law and is clerking for a
judge in Portland, Maine. Marilyn Farquharson is an attorney
in Pittsburgh, practicing corporate and sports law. Rob
Springer is living in Boston. He finished his degree at the
Kennedy School and is working in real estate investment. Jocelyn
Liang is living in San Francisco, where she works for a
PR/public affairs agency.
Mike Stanton got married last spring and brought his
wife, Elizabeth Roy, to reunion. "She went to Yale as an undergrad,
but repented and actually graduated from the J-School in '95, same
day we got out of the College," Mike writes. They met at The
Bond Buyer, where Mike now works as editor-in-chief, and
started a long-distance relationship after he moved to Washington
in 1996. She's now at TheStreet.com.
Mike
reports that classmate Noam Saxonhouse served as his best
man. Noam is now an MBA student at the University of Chicago. Also
in attendance were Mike Kingsley and Adam Epstein,
along with Stephanie Geosits and Elliot Regenstein, both '94.
"Also, in one of those 'small world' things, Beth's cousin is
Noah Roy," Mike writes. Noah sang at the
reception.
Another Spekkie: Tim Carvell, who couldn't make the
reunion from his place in the Bay area, is now working at the new
Time magazine eCompany Now. I asked Tim to write in a short
update, and he responded: "Could you just write the following: Tim
Carvell '95 is now an astronaut; it's the first time in their
history that NASA has sent a Nobel Laureate into space. 'And he's
handsome, too,' NASA added. 'Damn handsome.'"
Tim
is a senior editor at eCompany Now, which covers business
and the Internet. "The magazine is based in San Francisco, and I'm
living in Oakland, both of which are perfectly lovely cities filled
with quaint little stores; there is a local chain of coffee bars
out here called 'Starbucks' that I think is really going to catch
on, but then again, I still have all my eight-tracks, so what do I
know?" Tim writes. Previously, Tim wrote about the entertainment
industry for Fortune.
Svetlana Brook completed a master's degree in English at
Hunter College. "At Hunter I received an award for 19th and 20th
century British literature. I've been accepted to the CUNY Graduate
Center for a Ph.D. in English, which I'll start in the fall." She
will also be teaching English at John Jay College for Criminal
Justice.
Finally, due to an editing error, Bryonn Bain's name was
spelled incorrectly in the last issue. CCT regrets the
error. In case you missed it, Bryonn was featured on the cover of
the Village Voice last spring for an essay he wrote called
"Walking While Black." Check out www.villagevoice.com/issues/0017/bain.shtml
to read his story, though it may not be there by the time this is
published.
Thanks for all the updates, and keep the news
coming.
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