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CLASS NOTES
Ana S. Salper
c/o Columbia College Today
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 917
New York, N.Y. 10115
cct@columbia.edu
Greetings, classmates! As is increasingly becoming customary, I
begin my column with a congratulations to Betty Tanenbaum
Baron, who was married to Michael Baron last March in Boca
Raton, Fla. If anyone would like to get in touch with Betty, she
may be contacted at btanenbaum@hotmail.com.
After two years in international equity research, Malik
Rashid has embarked on his third year at INVESCO Global in
Atlanta as a business analyst and risk management analyst. He took
the CFA Level III exam this summer, and plans on going to business
school in the fall of 2001. If anyone is interested in contacting
Malik, his email address is mo_rash@hotmail.com. Malik reports
that en route to his vacation in the Philippines last fall, he
stopped in Japan and met up with Bradley Meacham, who is
working with Bloomberg News in Tokyo.
Matthew Bowker spent his senior year in Paris at Reid
Hall and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), after
which he lived and worked for some time in Benin, West Africa,
first as a trash collector then with a small non-profit
organization. Since his return he has bounced around a bit, mainly
between Dallas and Denver, doing coursework and working as a mental
health clinician, a debate coach and a grant-writer. This fall, he
will begin his Ph.D. in political psychology/political philosophy
at the University of Maryland as a doctoral fellow at the College
of Behavioral & Social Sciences and the department of
government & politics.
Keith Simon is in the Peace Corps in Bolivia working in
a tiny village with rural sanitation. He has been there since
September '98 and will be there until November of this year. Keith
writes that when he gets home he plans on making a road trip to
visit old friends, so if there is anyone with whom Keith has lost
touch who would like to see him, he may be contacted at simonk99@hotmail.com.
Geremy Kawaller is working as a software engineer at
IXL, a company that designs and develops websites for businesses.
Julie Satow has begun a new job as a reporter for
BondWeek magazine, a publication of the much-revered
Institutional Investor magazine. Matt Lasner is
entering a Ph.D. program this fall in urban planning at the
Graduate School of Design at Harvard.
Jim V. Carter, Cathy Chatawanich and Chris Holst
all graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in May.
They have really enjoyed being in Austin for the past three years,
as it is a fantastic place to live, learn and listen to live music.
Jim plans to spend a year clerking for a federal district court
judge in Sherman, Texas, and then will move to Washington, D.C. to
work for a law firm. Cathy will be working for the firm of Bradley
Arant Rose & White in Birmingham, Ala. Chris will return to the
Philadelphia area to hunt for a job there. They report that Nick
Chremos also graduated with them.
Now
for our budding doctors. Navid Mootabar, Kunal Jajoo
and Parag Gandhi all graduated in May from Mount Sinai
School of Medicine in New York. All three are staying at the Mount
Sinai Hospital for their residencies. Navid is starting ob/gyn, and
Kunal internal medicine. Parag is doing his internal medicine
internship at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu for a year
before returning to Mount Sinai for his ophthalmology residency
next June. He writes that if anyone is going to be in Honolulu this
year, please drop him a note!
On a
recent trip to New York, I ran into Scott Sartiano at Spa,
one of the oh-so-hip new nightclubs in the city (it is the
much-improved setting of the System, which hosted our graduation
ball after-party). Many of you might remember Scott from the tennis
team. He is now a partner with the group that owns Spa, the same
group that owned the club, Life. Scott reports that Adam "Tex"
Beshara just recently got married. Congratulations to you,
Tex!
As
for yours truly, I am probably somewhere in Tuscany or Provence
right now, taking advantage of some free time to traipse around
Europe before moving back to New York to begin my vacation-less
life at a law firm. So please write or e-mail your news directly to
the CCT office, and it will be forwarded to me. I will have
new contact information in New York by the time the next issue is
published. Lastly, for all you folks out there who are getting
tired of the moving, the shaking and the schmoozing, this one's for
you, courtesy of Mark Twain: "It is better to be silent and thought
a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." Until next
time.
Sarah Katz
The Wellington
135 South 19th St.
Philadelphia, Pa. 19103
skatz4@juno.com
Greetings from your new class secretary! Thanks to everyone who
sent in their news! Keep those letters and e-mails
coming!
Luisa Cruz is at Northwestern, where she earned a
master's in music education in June (Congratulations Luisa!) and
hopes to get a high school band director job in Westchester. "If
anyone has any leads, let me know!!!" Also at Northwestern is
Andrew Freedman '95, whom she sees a lot in the computer
lab.
Jim Anthony has moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he owns a
house and has two dogs. He works at Hartford Research, Ltd. and is
also the head coach for the University of Dayton men's crew team.
He was married to Sarah Corathers, Barnard '96, on June 24.
(Congratulations Jim & Sarah!) Sarah attends Wright State
University School of Medicine.
Nomi Victor (my roommate of six years during and
post-college!) works at publisher W. W. Norton. She tells me that
James Hitt has finished three years of his M.D.-Ph.D.
program and is engaged to be married. Kate Kelly recently
began a job at a Time magazine, so we'll no longer be able
to find her wit on the pages of the New York
Observer.
Daphna Gutman (my roommate of three years in college and
down-the-street neighbor in Brooklyn) tells me that both she and
Jon Schwartz work at KBC Financial Products, a Dutch bank.
Shauna Grob works for the Soros Foundation and lives with
Boris Katchka in Brooklyn. John Guthrow works for
Columbia admissions. Daphna and Jon recently attended a
mini-Columbia reunion in Atlanta at the wedding of Laura
Chittick and Graham Goodkin. Laura writes that also attending
were Rickie Sonpal, Shahrad Sassouni '97E, Chris Chavis
'97E, Russell Miller (best man), Katherine Mack,
Lainie Perlman, and Reena Shah. Congrats to Laura
& Graham!
Hannah Trooboff has spent two years living in
Washington, D.C. and working as a research associate for an
independent historical commission established by the Swiss
government, investigating the movement of Nazi gold and Jewish
refugees through Switzerland during WWII. She moved to Rochester,
N.Y., in August 1999 and is now pursuing a master's in teaching
from the University of Rochester. She just completed her student
teaching in secondary English in the Rochester City School
District. Brian McCollum SEAS '97, also in Rochester, N.Y. has been
working since graduation as a process engineer for Xerox's
photoreceptor plant.
Hannah had lots of other news: Sarah Benor and Mark
Bunin were married in September 1999. Hannah attended the
wedding along with many other Columbia grads including Abby
Treu, Jill Jacobs, Rachel Mann, Andy Blumsack, and Ronit
Siegel. Sarah is a Wexner Fellow getting a Ph.D. at Stanford in
linguistics, but she and Mark are moving east, because he will be
attending medical school in the fall. Jill Jacobs finished
her second year at the Jewish Theological Seminary rabbinical
school and will be spending next year in Israel. Beth
Samuels is getting a Ph.D. in math at Yale, and Beth
Packman is in Israel on a Dorot Fellowship and will be at NYU
law in the fall. Dina Spiegel is studying psychology at
NYU.
Hannah also told me that Rachel Mann is working on her
Ph.D. in English at NYU. She got married last summer to Josh
Rosenblatt, a graduate of Wesleyan, and they happily reside in the
Gramercy area of N.Y.C. Rachel also included the following updates:
Tina Hermos finished her second year of medical school at
UMass in Worcester. Nina Covalesky, until February an
associate editor at Columbia magazine, is now an account
executive at Joele Frank, Wilkinson, Brimmer, Katcher, a corporate
public relations firm. She and Jesse Levitt were shooting a
short film called Cressid, based on Shakespeare's Troilus
and Cressida, over the summer. Jesse just graduated with a
master's in mathematics from GSAS. He will be working for Putnam in
Boston this fall.
Hannah continues: Gabriella Carolini has spent the last
three years doing consulting work in New York with Orion
Consultants. She heads off in the fall to Oxford University to
pursue an economics/political science degree in economic
development. Cindy Warner just graduated from Penn Law
School and will be working at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a
New York law firm, in the fall. Gabby and Cindy were both headed to
Malaysia in August to visit Chi-Ren Choong, who has been
working for various television and movie producers over there. He
recently did work on location for Anna and The King! Paul
Tuchmann worked for two years in Washington, D.C., both in the
White House speech writing office and for the vice president. He
just finished his first year at Harvard Law and worked this summer
at the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston. Clarette Yen
finished her second year of law school at the University of
Virginia and worked the summer in Washington, D.C., at the Arent
Fox law firm. Joshua Shank finished a master's in city
planning at MIT last year, and he's now working on his Ph.D. in
urban planning at Columbia. Allison Orris spent two years in
Washington, D.C. working for the Department of Health and Human
Services. She finished her first year at Yale Law and spent the
summer at a law firm in Washington, D.C. Allison added the
following updates: Sheeva Talebian finished her third year
at Mount Sinai Medical School, and Maggie Lewis is heading
back to N.Y.C. (following a summer of traveling) to start her J.D.
at NYU law after three years of studying/working in China.
Jeremy Feit graduated from Yale Law and will be spending
next year working in Israel. That's a lot of news, Hannah,
thanks!!!
Nathaniel Mayfield recently completed a Fulbright Grant
in Germany. He also won principal trumpet with the Des Moines Metro
Opera and, since graduation, has played principal trumpet with the
Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony.
Shivali Shah spent a year in India studying Indian
classical dance (kathak) and drumming (tabla). Now she is at Duke
Law School, along with Joanne Kwong. Shivali is part of a
group of women who have started an organization to help South Asian
women in situations of domestic violence in North Carolina. Shivali
is still in touch with Reena Shah, who learns from the same
kathak teacher. Reena just finished an M.F.A. in creative writing
at NYU and is living in Brooklyn. Shivali also often sees Pallavi
Tipnis '95.
As
for me, I am wistfully leaving a job I love at the Children's
Defense Fund-N.Y. and moving to Philadelphia this fall to attend
University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Sandra P. Angulo
Entertainment Weekly
1675 Broadway, 30th floor
New York, N.Y. 10019
sangulo@pathfinder.com
Hey,
folks. Special shout out to Andy Topkins (who, by the way,
got a great big promotion at The Beanstalk Group this summer) and
Julie Yufe for supplying most of the news for this
issue.
Mazel Tov to Brooks Herman and Joanna Erman, who
are engaged. On the back-to-school front there's Jeannette
Jakus, who is going to Jefferson Medical School this fall;
Eric Pinciss, who moved to N.Y.C. from D.C. to start an
accelerated program at Cardozo Law School last summer; and Liora
Powers, who starts her first year of law school at Cornell this
fall. Speaking of law school, Jeremy Kamras (who's at
Harvard Law) was in N.Y.C. last summer working for Sullivan and
Cromwell.
As
for our blossoming entrepreneurs: Daniel Pianko and
Justin Garrett started an Internet company called Acedog
Media, based here in New York. Ezra Freedman launched a
website called eventbooks.com, where people can
create free, events-themed webpages. Ezra, who's living in Rhode
Island, already started a CC '98 page, which you can access by
going to www.eventbooks.com/cc98.
Lauren Giglio is the director of marketing at The Square
(www.thesquare.com), a
web-based community for "students and alumni of prestigious
universities." Lastly, Rafay Farooqui, who is the treasurer
of Columbia College Young Alumni, has been working at Goldman Sachs
in New York.
Hope
you all have a wonderful fall, and keep the e-mails
coming!
Charles S. Leykum
41 River Terrace
Apt. #3404
New York, N.Y. 10282
cs122@columbia.edu
Now
that we have been out of school for over a year, we have a number
of updates for the class.
First, on Saturday, July 1, Melissa Li was married to
Derek Ng on campus, at none other than our own St. Paul's
Chapel. Melissa is finishing up her first year as a medical student
at Stony Brook.
After spending a year pursuing studies in Jerusalem and
traveling throughout Israel and Europe, David Schach '99E recently
returned home to Nashville, where he spent some time before leaving
for Camp Remah, a summer camp in Wisconsin. Following his time as a
camp counselor, he will start his first year as a Northwestern
University medical student in the fall.
In
the world of finance, Hisataka Muto has completed his first
year as an analyst in the credit risk management group at Bear
Stearns. His position involves quantifying credit risks in
derivatives trades to match the firm's risk appetite. Sarah
Holst recently returned from vacationing in France and is
working in the financial institutions group of the investment
banking division at Salomon Smith Barney here in New
York.
Justin Shubow has left his position as the online editor
of the Forward newspaper to study for a Ph.D. in philosophy
at the University of Michigan. Jason Deck is living in
London and working for a high technology firm. Kate
Schechter spent the last year at the Manhattan District
Attorney's Office, where she worked as a trial preparation
assistant in the rackets bureau. She is also looking forward to
attending law school in the fall to pursue a career in public
interest law.
Thanks again to those classmates who sent in
updates.
Prisca Bae
1832 N. Veitch Street, Apt. #1
Arlington, Va. 22201
pb134@columbia.edu
Hi,
everyone! Here's our class's first-ever alumni update. Ironically,
I wrote it from within Columbia, in the computer lab in
Schapiro!
I
want to begin our first column with our first weddings. Eric
Goldberg was married on June 25 to Karen Zelenetz '01. He will
soon start working in the fixed income division at DLJ (Donaldson,
Lufkin, and Jenrette). Congratulations also to Allison
Snider (a John Jay 12 alum) and Matt Young, who also
were married over the summer.
Hopefully, everyone has been well since we last saw each other.
I went back home near Chicago after graduation, then passed through
Manhattan on my way to Washington D.C. Being in the Columbia area
was great - I ran into many familiar faces.
Ami Shah is still in the city - we ran into each other
in front of Ollie's. She'll be living in Brooklyn for the time
being. On my way to Schapiro one night, I saw Charles Saliba
and Amy Lin on 115th Street. Amy is currently living in IKEA
heaven in Astoria and was (hopefully) going to be vacationing soon.
She will be consulting at Towers Perrin. Meanwhile, Charles, our
fearless class president, is interviewing and has found an
apartment in Harlem. Other classmates in New York over the summer
included Alicia Dooley and Anthony Ramirez. Alicia is
working at Electric Artists, an Internet music marketing company,
and Anthony was taking summer school classes. He would like me to
report that he did quite well on his midterm. I hope you did well
on your final, Anthony.
In
typical New York fashion, I bumped into Mark Mitchell at
Zabar's and Adelaide Scardino at Barney's. Mark will be
working in I-banking at Lehman Brothers and living in a beautiful
apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Adelaide was acting in a theater
festival in Williamstown, Mass.
As
requested, this next bit will be dedicated to all those who lived
on John Jay 12.arguably the best first-year floor ever:
Abigail Krauser received Columbia's Euretta J. Kellett
Fellowship, which sends her to the University of Oxford for the
next two years where she will earn a B.Phil. in Philosophy.
Vanessa Countryman will also be at Oxford pursuing her
M.Phil. in Victorian literature at Lincoln College. In New York,
Lystra Batchoo is working at the Robin Hood Foundation, an
organization that funds and provides management assistance to
nonprofit organizations with the objective of ending poverty in
N.Y.C. Tom Dapice is starting his master's in public policy
at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Jeremiah
Marble was in L.A. working for an Internet startup before
heading to Western Europe, and begins working for Deloitte
Consulting in September. Salil Seshadri spent the summer
teaching tennis at a Long Island country club and will be working
in Manhattan at Goldman Sachs. Finally, Jon-Claude Zucconi
will be working as an investment banking analyst for Salomon Smith
Barney in the fixed income division.
Columbia produced many Peace Corps volunteers this year.
Russ Kratzer will be in China teaching English, while
Ellen Downes will be in Mozambique. Tom King will
travel to Russia, and Jerry Bramwell will be in St. Lucia to
do a business program in the Peace Corps. Until then, he's just
hanging out in Staten Island, visiting with friends.
Meanwhile, back in the States, James A. Schmid is
playing league roller hockey, going to the opening concert for
Poison's tour and getting ready to head to rural eastern North
Carolina to start Teach for America.
Stacey Browne is currently between moves, but can be
contacted at slb55@columbia.edu and will (at
least for the next two years) be in the South Jersey/ Philadelphia
area, where she will be teaching in Philadelphia's public middle
schools.
As
for some fellowship recipients, Yosie Levine is off to
Berlin in September. He and Roger I. Zakheim will be fellows
there under the auspices of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation. In
Berlin, they will be teaching/studying at the newly-founded Beit
Midrash of Berlin - the first Yeshiva to operate in Germany since
WWII. The program director is a fellow CC alum - Joshua Spinner
'92. Lindsay Koss received a Fulbright grant to study in
Spain. She will pursue a project about colonial Latin American
history.
Future doctors include Bram Raphael, who summered at his
parents' house in Scarsdale, N.Y., relaxing before NYU Medical
School began in late August. Rob Duffey also started med
school in August, at Albert Einstein in the Bronx. Ravi Shah
will attend the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago.
Glenn Yiu headed up to Boston on July 1 to begin an
M.D./Ph.D. program at Harvard Med and MIT. Ramya Mohan will
be starting her studies at Harvard Medical School in the Ph.D.
program in biological and biomedical sciences.
As
for lawyers-to-be, Greg Lembrich and Lucy Chen are at
Columbia, Kevin Woodson is attending Yale, Mike
Saarinen and Kenny Keutsch are at Harvard, Barbara
Ho is at the University of Chicago and Edgar Lewandowski
is at NYU Law. Daniel Guggenheim will be starting law school
at USC in August 2001 and will also be working toward his M.I.A. in
addition to the J.D. In the meantime, he spent the summer surfing
off the south shore of Kauai, and from there was planning to travel
the oceanic world for a year working as a SCUBA Divemaster
(instructor). Currently, his plans include Australia and New
Zealand, Argentina, Chile, the South Pacific and the
Caribbean.
Jacquie Seidel was interning at a contemporary Asian art
gallery down on Walker Street over the summer and still living on
campus before starting law school down in the East Village at
Cardozo. Felix Bronstein was a summer intern at Proskauer
Rose in Times Square and is attending Cornell. Sam Hirzel is
attending Penn State's Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pa., on
a full scholarship and plans to pursue his M.B.A. as well.
Andrea Toth worked for the summer at the Business Council
for International Understanding in N.Y.C. and then headed to
Georgetown's Law Center to study international law.
Other grads who can't get enough of school include Scott
Schnee, who worked for an astronomy professor at Columbia this
summer. In the fall he will begin a Ph.D. program in astronomy at
Harvard. Paul Wehn will be at Stanford pursuing graduate
studies in chemistry. Michelle Wang (my fabulous calc TA)
will be at UCLA as a grad student in math. Linda Lam Perez
is enrolled in Columbia's Teachers College and expecting to receive
her Ed.M. in social studies in May 2002. Flavius Stan will
begin his master's in European politics and policy at the Center
for European Studies at NYU. He spent the summer in Romania
fundraising and working for a foundation that he started in 1997.
The foundation, called the Ovidiu Foundation (named for a friend
with Down Syndrome) has six projects so far and deals with
abandoned babies, mentally and physically handicapped youth, abused
teenage mothers and other underprivileged people in Romania. So far
the Ovidiu Foundation has helped in one way or another more than
600 people since its beginning. Best of luck, Flavius!
Evidio Musibay is attending the University of Texas for
graduate school in microbiology. Narisa Laplamwanit is
beginning work toward her Ph.D. in economics here at Columbia.
Andrew Goldberg spent the summer writing and producing, with
Andrew Olanow, a series of comedy shorts for Nibblebox.com called American
Standard. He enters the producers program at UCLA's Film School
in September.
Nathan Hale wrote in from Nice, France, where he enjoyed
a few weeks with Bram Raphael (and was expecting to meet up
with Charlie Nightingale). Nathan was going to be working on
the sports desk at Newsday on Long Island this summer before
attending the School of Journalism in the fall. Kimmy Szeto
reports that for the next six years or so she will be at the
department of music, University of Chicago, but can still be
reached at ks287@columbia.edu.
Now,
for those in the so-called "real world." Matt Greer will be
"selling his soul" at Goldman Sachs in their high technology
investment banking group. Nicole Carter reports that she and
her twin sister, Nadia, also will be at Goldman Sachs as analysts.
They were busy training for Tae Kwon Do tournaments, hopeful of
regaining titles they relinquished while concentrating on getting
their degrees. Since they began competing again they won the
Northeast InterCollegiate TKD league's final tournament of the
year, which was held at Columbia, helping Columbia to win first
team all-around for the first time ever. Nicole recently won the
president's cup and hopes for the same success in the future. She
will also continue with her other love, deejaying, and hopes to
play in N.Y. clubs on the weekends.
Some, although not all, other Columbians at Goldman Sachs are
Kristen Ankerbrandt, Seth Kammerman and Ben
Giesmann. Yong-kyoo Rim is at Salomon Smith Barney, and
he tells me there are apparently five from Columbia in the
investment banking division. Mike Shen is starting at J.P.
Morgan and hopes to live on the Upper West Side, after a summer
spent taking a road trip of the eastern United States. He said his
other immediate goals included getting headshots and sending them
to agents while SAG and Equity were still on strike, and getting a
masseur's license. Mike Glynn was in Florence enjoying a
four-week European tour before returning to Manhattan to start work
at Credit Suisse First Boston. Natalia Mehlman is also at
Credit Suisse First Boston as an investment banking
analyst.
Berrick Chang moved to Hong Kong in July to work for UBS
Warburg, trading equity derivatives. Felix Tubiana moved to
Philadelphia in August, where he's working as an assistant trader
at Susquahanna Partners, after a summer of travel that included
France, Germany and Italy. Dan Smith has opted for a
brokerage firm in Parsippany, N.J., over the Air Force officer
program for military intelligence. In N.J., Dan will work with high
net worth clients who seek tax-free bonds and other commodities. He
will be receiving his series seven license upon completion of the
training and then will work as a broker!
After some time at home in California, Annie Ulevitch
began work at the New York City Department of Parks and
Recreation's Manhattan Borough Office in July. Kit Yan Siu
worked at Miller Theatre until mid-July, then planned to start her
new job at GE's Corporate Research and Development Center in
Schenectady. Erin Erdman spent the summer hanging out in
Dallas but hoped to begin work at an advertising firm in N.Y.
sometime in the Fall. Jonathan Sproul, who graduated last
spring with a film studies degree, worked a few nights a week at
the door of a local bar over the summer, where he described himself
as "an identification verification and authorization expert."
Jonathan thanks his Columbia degree for this prestigious
opportunity.
Tanya Bank is in New York working at a non-profit
organization called Harlem RBI. Jennifer Chang worked at
Hartford Hospital in a summer fellowship program in clinical
research and plans to take a year off before medical school. She
will be working in the city while living in New Jersey. Xuan
Pan is in N.Y.C. working at Barclays Capitals as an information
technologist.
Elizabeth Runnoe will be staying in N.Y. working for an
interactive advertising agency called Beyond Interactive as an
account coordinator. Rose Francis is working at Stanford Law
as an R.A. for a year and living in Palo Alto. Greg Bowman
(5 Parkland Avenue, Larchmont, N.Y. 10538; h: (914) 636-0208; w:
(212) 393-0348; gbowman@manciniduffy.com.) is
working for Mancini Duffy, an architectural office at the World
Trade Center. Matt Bloodgood will be consulting for Cap
Gemini in their e-business unit here in N.Y. Mark Neighbors
is still living in N.Y.C. and will be working for Grey Advertising,
in their division that does traditional advertising (TV, radio,
print) for dot.com companies.
Kimberly Fisher (3 Ambler Rd. Westport, Conn.
06880-3934; (203) 227-6731) just got back from Portugal and Spain
with three other members of our class, Kimberly Worly,
Maia Ridberg, and Jaime Sanders. She will be working
at Cisco Systems where she will be trained in North Carolina's
Research Triangle Park for a year before moving to an office in
Rockefeller Center. Jennifer Newman will remain in N.Y.C. as
the internet coordinator for IBM Interactive at the advertising
agency Ogilvy & Mather.
Lainy Destin will be working at Hale & Dorr in
Boston as a corporate legal assistant. She sends her love to the
class of 2000. Chip (Charles) Moore is doing well in the
Boston area as well, working at a psychiatric hospital and trying
to get into the U.S. Border Patrol. Good luck, Chip!
In
California, Gregory B. Lemmons writes in his contact info
as: 743 Stoneridge Way, Pleasant Hill, Calif. 94523. Joshua
Seidenfeld, meanwhile, rode his bike across the U.S. this
summer and then planned to end up in the Bay area doing music and
environmental advocacy work. Josh Sternlicht moved to San
Francisco to pursue a career in film and live with his girlfriend,
Erin Hooks. He can be reached at 105 Crespi Drive, San Francisco,
Calif. 94132; (415) 584-8137. He would like to know who else is out
in the area. Swimmers Cristina Teuscher and Gerd
Doherty both participated in the Olympic Trials in Indianapolis
August 9-16, hopeful of competing in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney,
Australia in September.
In
other parts of the world, Eric Leskly tells me he will be
spending the upcoming year working in Tel Aviv, while Claire
Hunsaker writes from London where she is currently
flat-hunting. Joanna Shen participated in the Spearhead
Project, a short-term missions project with the Latin America
Mission, living with a host family in Mexico City for two months.
The first month entailed taking classes in Mexican history and
culture and Spanish, and in the second month, she was assigned
duties at a local church. She expected to also be performing at
other churches as a clown and/or mime. Joanna would very much like
to thank the Columbia grads and undergrads who supported her on
this trip.
Richard Shih, fellow residence life staffer, has been in
Taiwan, where he is teaching English and PE at Ta Hwa Senior High
(a private school in the small mountain town of Yangmei).
Meanwhile, he is applying to medical schools in the U.S. (for
entrance in the fall of 2001). Richard will be in Taiwan until
mid-fall, when he will return home to Portland, Ore. Brian
Legum, meanwhile, was in Spain, where he taught Spanish while
traveling with high school students.
As
for me, I've been driving from Chicago to New York with friends
Heidi Yeung and future roommate Rashmi Menon. Heidi
will be attending medical school in Vancouver and Rashmi will be
working at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. We have a
cute apartment in Arlington so please come by for a visit if you're
ever in town! I'm starting my job as a paralegal at the Justice
Department in the housing and civil enforcement section in the
civil rights division later this summer.
Thanks to everyone who wrote in. Please keep the e-mails
coming! I'd love to hear from all of you!!! If you want to get in
touch with someone, please let me know. But for now,
congratulations, take good care, and keep in touch!
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