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CLASS NOTES
Ana S. Salper Classmates: Our generation has been marked forever. The world has changed dramatically since the events of September 11, and living in New York has become a wholly new concept; the usual vibrancy and life that is ingrained in the city and in its inhabitants has been replaced by our fear of biological warfare in subways and of repeated terrorist threats. Who knows if New York will ever feel the same again? I sincerely hope that we can stay strong long enough for the world to snap out of its current state of sheer insanity, because I’m certainly fed up with feeling scared. I hope that no one in our class was a victim of the World Trade Center disaster (although to an extent, we are all victims), but if there were any victims, I extend my deepest sympathies to their families and their friends. I also extend my sympathies to those who were affected by the crash of American flight 587. These last few months have been so taxing on all of us, especially those of us in New York, so I hope that all of you had a safe and peaceful holiday season. This year is one in which we will need our close friends and families to help us through these frightening times. I am glad that despite these tragedies, some of you managed to find time to send in good news. Greg Peck is living in New York and has recently formed a company, Palazzo Partners, which is an investor, manager and designer of unique real estate and real estate-related assets. The company recently acquired the Beverly Crescent Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. and plans to transform it into a spectacular boutique hotel. The company also is working on projects in Las Vegas and Aspen. Greg reports that Stephane Gruffat was recently married to Pauline Enrile in Provence, France. They are living in London, and Stephane works for CS First Boston. Congratulations, Stephane! Last June, Hilda Ramirez married Juan Carlos Abreu. Among the guests were James Grate and John Cardinale. Hilda and her husband reside in Washington Heights. Hilda is working as a Business Systems Analyst in Connecticut and has recently begun a part-time master’s program in computer science. Cathy Ellis is studying at the Law School, and Deganit Stein, who lives and works in Boston, is getting married in March 2002 in Savannah, Ga. Those are all the notes I have to share with you for now. Be well, and be safe.
Sarah Katz I hope that this issue of Class Notes finds all of you safe and well in the wake of the tragic events of the past few months. Some of you wrote to tell us where you were at the time of the World Trade Center tragedy so we’ll start with those notes, and then move on to other updates. Mustafa “Moose” Abdul-Wahid is in Los Angeles. Carolyn Bass was working downtown in NYC a few blocks south of the WTC but got out safely. Hamilton Boardman watched from a great distance in Vietnam. Kelvin Castellar was on a cruise in Bermuda at the time of the tragedy. Monique Chang is now safe on the Upper West Side but was two miles from the Pentagon when the plane hit. Deborah Feldman worked in WTC Tower 2 on the 44th floor. She and her entire department were lucky enough to have started the evacuation process immediately after the first plane hit. Sabra Gandhi was in Brazil during the week of September 11. Lauren Goodman lives about three blocks from the WTC and managed to get out OK. Her roommate, Danielle Paige, also is OK, although they were unable to get into their apartment for awhile. John O’Neill was working from home in Washington Heights. Kate Kelly, who works at The Wall Street Journal, which is around the corner from the WTC, is unharmed. Mike Latham was stuck in Madrid, trying to get back to NYC. Rebecca Linton is safe but lost a friend in the tragedy. Kevin McDonald also lost a few family friends but is safe and working in midtown. Carrie Sturts is living in San Francisco and was supposed to be married on September 14 but has postponed the wedding until May. Susanna Daniel is in Madison, Wis. Stephen Dossick is in San Francisco. Timothy Hogan is in D.C. Shauna LaTouche is in South Florida. Thomas Meyers ’98 is in Berlin. Jisoo Park is in Silver Spring, Md. Michael Pignatello is in Chicago. Heather (Natt) Schechter and Jesse Schechter are in Albany, N.Y. Laura Tatum is in Ann Arbor, Mich. Palma Volino is in New Rochelle, N.Y. Alysha Yagoda is in Seattle. Danielle Lynch is working as a technology project manager at America Online, Inc. in the headquarters office. She has been with AOL for two years and is working on her business school applications for Fall 2002 and studying for the GMAT. Eva Burmeister, violinist, is in Leipzig, Germany, where she is the first American woman to become a member of the Gewandhausorchester. Paul Feuer is working at Softwax.com. Tracy Hammond is at MIT. John Condon is enrolled in grad school at the University of Texas but is spending the year at Harvard. Ana Kono just returned from the National Society of Hispanic M.B.A. conference in San Antonio, where she was a representative of Wharton as well as a marketing case competition contestant. Joshua Schank recently started working for the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, where he analyzes various issues about Amtrak and the airline industry relating to economics and competition. He is still working on a Ph.D. in urban planning from Columbia, which he hopes to complete by May 2002. Jackie Sadker is at University of Virginia Law School. She spent last summer at law firms in Chicago and Portland, Ore. She will be clerking for a federal judge on the 9th Circuit in L.A. next year. After that, she is planning to work on civil rights policy in D.C. and hopes to teach law in Portland. Angeline Koo, Sarah Canoniero, Carter Burwell ’96 and Susan Burgess are also at UVA Law. Sarah Skoda is a first-year at George Washington University Law School. Erika Moravec ’99 married Nelson Jaeggli on July 21, 2001. The wedding was held in Owings Mills, Md., and the couple honeymooned in the Bahamas. Nelson is in his second year at Columbia Medical School and Erica is in her first year of graduate school at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Nelson was Erica’s COOP leader her freshman year at Columbia and they have been together since 1996. Jennifer Squillario got engaged this past June to Ian Taylor, whom she met at University of Maryland Law School. Hannah Trooboff and Brian McCollum ’97E are excited to be planning for a July 2002 wedding in Washington. Brian works for Xerox, now in the toner division, for a fifth year. He’s supporting a start-up plant in Ireland, so he has already had the chance to travel there twice for extended trips. Hannah is a second-year English teacher at School of the Arts in Rochester, N.Y. She’s teaching 10th grade honors and regents-level English/Language Arts and absolutely loving it. She’s just received a $2,500 Michael Jordan Fundamentals Grant to create and implement an interdisciplinary unit on 17th century French literature, theater and cultural history. Rachel Adame was married on September 14. Her husband is a corporal in the Army, and after the 11th, they decided they’d better get married in case he was deployed. Joshua Ross is in Anyang, a suburb of Seoul, South Korea, teaching English at a private language school. He arrived in early October and will be there for a year, and would love to be contacted by any Korean alums. Since graduation, Rokeia Smith has been living in Harlem on 135th Street. For the past three years, she has been working in various capacities at NBC; currently she is a TV sales account manager for WNBC (selling airtime to advertisers). Some of her accounts include Coca-Cola, Wendy’s and Hyundai. Though she hasn’t been doing so as of late, her spare time has been spent traveling throughout the country and internationally (Australia, Acapulco and Jamaica). I hope that you’re getting excited about reunion weekend 2002 (May 30 - June 2)! So that you keep up to speed on reunion info as it develops, please remember to update your contact information with Columbia. You can do it at www.college.columbia.edu/alumni/address.html. Also, if you do not already get an e-mail from me to remind you about Class Notes submissions, please send me your e-mail address and e-mail addresses for your friends. Keep those notes coming! Last issue’s column published some misinformation about Jonathan Grandon. He and his wife Sea Ann actually met about six years ago when he was a junior. They went to Michigan Law School together. She is a patent attorney at Clifford Chance in New York, and he is starting his third year doing corporate work at Simpson Thacher. Kencade Babb was NOT present at the wedding, and as far as Jonathan knows, he is not working at a pecan farm in Oklahoma.
Sandra P. Angulo Chen A belated “Mazel Tov!” is in order for our Class’s first set of wedding twins. Josh Ratner married Elena Salkovsky, Barnard ’98, on August 5 in San Diego. On the same day in the same town, Brooks Herman married Joanna Erman. Josh, who wrote me about the “Columbia coincidence,” is a third-year at Columbia Law. Elena is in her third year of medical school in Buffalo, so the two have a commuting marriage. Brooks and Joanna are pursuing graduate degrees at Harvard, he in theology, she in law. Congratulations to both couples. My former resident Casey Gane-McCalla is living in Cambridge, Mass., where he runs a math tutoring program and a record company. In response to September 11, many classmates logged on to Columbia’s “Checking in September 11 Status Page.” Here are a few updates from those who visited the site: Adria Armbrister is in D.C. and doing well. Her family in N.Y. is fine as well. Adina Berrios: “These days I’m working midtown and living uptown. I’d love to hear how other folks are doing.” Jennifer Bildersee: “Fine in Brooklyn and headed to Bolivia for the year.” Ari Blank “is safe and sound in Los Angeles. His family in New York also is unharmed.” Jacie Buitenkant: “I watched the second tower go up in flames from across the street and had to run from the falling debris, but I am OK. I am working at the New York Stock Exchange and would love to hear from people.” Elon Johnson wrote that Dawan Cornish is fine. She is teaching in the Bronx and has a 2-year-old son, Djassi. As for Elon, he saw the tragedy on his way to midtown. Elon also reports that Felicia Williams is fine. She is working as a teacher in Brooklyn and has a 1-year-old daughter. She was married last year and her last name is now Wilks. Michael Degnan was working for Sapient in New Delhi, India, on September 11. All family and friends are well. Mario Favetta was safely evacuated from One World Financial Center. Michelle Garcia is attending Columbia Law School. She got married this summer and changed her last name to Navarro. Elliot Han: “Just moved to Rector Street. Had to run for it but am fine, living with friends until I can return to my new apartment.” Jack Merrin: “I am living in New York City doing research at Rockefeller University.” Natasha Pfeiffer ’98E: “Living on Upper West Side. Saw the towers collapse from work across the Hudson in New Jersey. My heart goes out to everybody.” Danika Smith: “No longer live on Wall Street; safe and sound in Charlotte. My heart is heavy for those who lost friends and associates in the WTC attack.” Thank you all for contributing to the site, and I hope to hear from more of you for the next Class Notes.
Charles S. Leykum We hope everyone had a great holiday season. We would like to first update members of the class on Homecoming, which this year was on Saturday, October 13. Despite losing to Penn, Homecoming was a great opportunity to visit with fellow classmates and other alumni. Our class had a great turnout at both the afternoon game as well as the post-game CCYA party on campus. We do not have a lot of updates in this issue, so for those who are interested, please take a moment to send in information on your whereabouts. We’re scheduled to join several ’99 and ’00 alums in Vancouver at the end of December to celebrate the wedding of Allan Ng and Meredith Jones ’00. Allan is in San Francisco working as an account supervisor with JWT & Tonic advertising and Meredith is a first-year law student at Cal Berkeley. As noted last month, Joseph Della Pietra was among those lost at the World Trade Center on September 11. His brother, Chris ’89, writes, “In response to many inquiries regarding donations to a particular fund or cause on behalf of my brother, Joe, I wish to inform you that our high school, Poly Prep, has formally established the September 11 Memorial Fund. While Joe certainly made an impact on many people during his lifetime, we hope that the establishment of this fund will result in a meaningful legacy that will benefit many Poly students for years to come. The address is Poly Prep C.D.S., September 11 Memorial Fund, c/o Development Office, 9216 Seventh Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11228-3698. For more information, call (718) 836-9800. Checks should be made payable to Poly Prep, and should reference Joe’s name. My family is grateful for your support.” David Koenig is teaching math at his high school alma mater, Dwight-Englewood School, and living in Englewood, N.J., with his wife, Adela Roxas. They were married in October in Hoboken, N.J., and several Columbians were in attendance: Riaz Ali, Michael Feldman, Marius Hentea ’00, Amity Law ’00, Wendy Liu, Paul Rohwer ’98, Sameer Shamsi and Jason Viehland ’97E. Thanks again to those who sent in updates for this edition and we look forward to receiving future ones.
Prisca Bae We’re back to the updates, folks. It was wonderful to hear from those who wrote in — thanks so much for the patience. We start this column with Kat Rakowsky, who e-mailed all the way from Cambridge, England. Kat (who, by the way, sends much love to her mother back in the U.S.) is studying social anthropology on a Fulbright grant. Marisa Cravens, meanwhile, has returned to Boston after completing her coursework for an international master’s program in Stockholm. She is living in a small arts commune, working on her thesis, writing a play and working at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. According to Marisa, Christine Martinez is teaching in Los Angeles and Tom Dapice is in his second year at the JFK School of Government. Also back in the United States are Claire Hunsaker and Melissa Rosenstein. Claire was in the United Kingdom for the year wreaking all sorts of havoc and making a name for herself in the publishing biz, etc. Melissa, meanwhile, divided her time between Chile, Venezuela and Nicaragua working with different women’s health groups. Naomi Schiller, according to Melissa, also is back in the States after completing her Fulbright in Venezuela. Evidio Musibay is now in NYC having transferred to P&S from the University of Miami, where he was doing graduate work in microbiology. Adrienne Brown is still in the city (moving to Brooklyn soon) and working at Harm Reduction Coalition, a progressive nonprofit that deals with drug policy reform. In addition, Adrienne has founded her own non-profit, Conscious Movements, with fellow Columbia graduate Tchaiko Omawale. Jean Wang has relocated to Reston, Va., to start work as a federal employee. Welcome to the government, Jean! She, Vikas Mittal ’00E and Steve Specht ’00E have successfully completed the yearbook and that it should be out by the time you read this. You can e-mail her at taiwanchina@aol.com with any questions regarding the long-awaited book. Erica Easley and Jenny Park are in Los Angeles, adding to the growing mass of Columbians out there. Erica is, among other things, writing a screenplay and Jenny is studying architecture at UCLA. Members of other classes also are representing Columbia out on the West Coast: Zea Malawa ’99 is a first-year med student at UCLA with Rashmi Menon. In San Francisco, Sami Mesrour is working at Barclays after having graduated with a master’s from the London School of Economics. Other ’00ers in the area include John Kim, Mike Marks and Erin Ferrell. Back in Washington, D.C., Shaline Khurana is getting her masters in physiology and biophysics at Georgetown through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Medical School. Juliet Ross has moved down here from NYC with boyfriend Dan Burstein, who is studying at Georgetown Law School. Finally, it was wonderful seeing many of you during Homecoming weekend. Thanks to Lystra Batchoo who played hostess! Lystra is now working at NPower NY, the nonprofit world’s technology consulting firm. In New York, I had the pleasure of running into Ingride Richardson (who is at Cornell Med) on the subway and seeing Vikas Mittal ’00E, Joel Daniels, Katy LeBlanc, Laura Pietropinto, Tara Gangadhar (who celebrated a birthday that day) Christophe Gillet, Cory Martin, Jason Yang, Jon-Mychal Bowman ’99, John Kriegsman, Eric Yellin, Don Saelinger, Sander Cohan, Leslie Zivin, Nathan Hale, Nelson Chan, Maciej Paluch (who, apparently, has taken up exotic dancing in the East Village), and many, many others. I apologize for not getting everyone. Please e-mail me and remind me what you are all doing! Take good care. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Jonathan Gordin It’s been a while since I wrote a traditional column, and I have lots of updates to pass along. I’ve had the good fortune of seeing many of you at Columbia events (including Homecoming). I look forward to seeing more of you at other events in the future, and hearing from more of you via e-mail. Best wishes for a happy new year to all of you! I’ll start the column with a quick correction on Ariel Neuman. I mistakenly reported that he started law school in the fall, but he has been spending this year toiling away at Club Med during the summer and early fall (bartending at their resorts). He then headed to Copper Mountain, Colo., for a grueling season of “work” on the slopes. In his words, “Law school isn’t happening until next year.” On September 20, I attended the CCYA awards reception held in Times Square. Other classmates attending included Emily Burkes-Nossiter, Akhill Chopra (working at J.P. Morgan Chase), Camille DeLaite (working at Lehman Brothers), Christine Dunphy (teaching and working at MetLife), Daniel Jean-Baptiste, Dave Matteini and Joe Rezek. To try to list everyone who attended Homecoming without leaving people out would be foolish. It was nice to see everyone there! Shawnee Pickney is at SIPA focusing on finishing her M.P.A. degree. She recently changed plans to play basketball in Europe, deciding to stay in the U.S. and concentrate on school. However, she remains committed to the game, co-coaching a girl’s team in the Greenwich Village Youth League on weekends. Shawnee now has more time to “improve and enhance my basketball skills for whatever path I decide to blaze in the arena of basketball, whether coaching, playing, or both.” Shawnee’s friend and teammate Manju Chacko is teaching health and physical education and applying to medical school. Lendell ’00 and Tamika Thompson are now happily married — Tamika is a production associate at the Iyanla Show and Lendell is doing well as a financial analyst for the Federal Reserve. My old Carman 11 pal Samra Haider ran into Marla Goodman and Kim Harris in Turkey this summer, while she was travelling with Leah Aden and Chi Mgbako. Samra works at J.P. Morgan Chase and lives in SoHo with Jane Jhun, Brynn Wurmbrand and Maureen Koons. She is busy studying for LSATs in “the hopes of going back to school ASAP.” As for other Carman 11-ites, Chi Mgbako is teaching English in Nepal and is headed to Harvard Law School in September 2002. Liz Salamy, Chi’s former roommate, is living in Tudor City, and working for the corporate offices of a retail clothing company in Manhattan. Jessica Lee is working at Jones, Lang and LaSalle, a real estate company, and will attend Columbia Law in the fall of this year or next (she hasn’t decided yet). Jason Billy is working as a paralegal at Wolf, Haldenstein, Adler, Freemen, and Herz and living in Queens. Ethan Perlstein is in a Ph.D. program for biology at Harvard. Nazreen Karim is attending NYU Medical School. Sheila Nazarian, Adam Jacobi and Danielle Novetsky are studying at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Michael Smith is attending Chicago Medical School. Adam Sokol is in graduate school at Yale studying architecture. Ann-Marie Tesar is “among the idealistic, brave and often broke multitude toiling in the nonprofit realm here in New York City, working for the National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts, a project of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund.” She is happy to be using her women’s studies degree. She lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Simon Moshenberg, another women’s studies major, spent his summer in Honduras and is now in El Salvador, working as a representative of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and “sure to be stirring up as much trouble as possible.” Members of my CC class are doing a variety of interesting things. Deme Kasimis is in Greece on a Fulbright. Evan Michailidis is living on Long Island and working as a paralegal at Davis Polk, & Wardwell. Ronen Landa is living on the Upper West Side, working on a film score and pursuing several musical projects. Sybil Dodge is living in SoHo and working at Booz-Allen. Aaron Cohen is in graduate school at University of Pennsylvania studying city planning and real estate development. Aaron also is working with Goldman Properties on the redevelopment of 13th Street between Chestnut Street and Walnut Street in downtown Philadelphia. At the end of the summer, I had the pleasure of attending a rooftop party in the East 40s of Manhattan at Vasantha Rao and Molly Thompson’s apartment. Also attending were Annie Lainer, Annie Simpson, Matthew Hughes, Chris Miller, Paul Getto, Eric Lane, Andrea Villanti, Milan Markovic, Rahul Prasankumar and Georgia Ewen-Campen. I ran into Georgia several weeks later on a crosstown bus, and she is living on Upper East Side and working full-time at an architectural firm where she used to intern. Cheryl Young and Mary Lee are “enjoying the less frenzied atmosphere of Park Slope, where one can often bump into fellow alumna Susie Cowen.” Cheryl is a project manager for the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development, helping the fiscally challenged to better homes and loans. Also working for the city is Kim Mosolf, who investigates the NYPD as a field investigator for the Civilian Complaint Review Board. For the past three months, Mary has been working for A&E Television Networks as an associate producer for the History Channel’s educational program, HistoryChannel.com Network. Nkosi Anderson is working in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in its Family Violence and Child Abuse Bureau as a paralegal. Nkosi hopes to go to law school in the future. Jorge Herrera moved to Washington, D.C. and received the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Fellowship where he works for the Senate Democratic Steering Committee. Jorge wants to give everyone his new phone number “so people always know they have a friendly place to visit in D.C.:” (202) 659-9431. Marc Dunkelman is sharing an apartment in D.C. with Andrew Dennington and David Teller Goldman. He is working for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and more specifically, the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs. Marc is working on anti-terrorism legislation, “so as others struggle to find ways they can contribute to victims, families and heroes, I’m honored to play a small part in an effort to address and remedy the nation’s ills.” Anne Lainer reports that Andrew Dennington is working as a research associate at the Center for Health Services Research and Policy at George Washington University. Also in the D.C. area is my old friend from New Jersey, Lillian Ho, who is living in Columbia, Md. Spectator alums have been busy as well, pursuing careers in journalism and beyond. Alex Eule is working at Citigate Sard Verbinnen, a financial communications firm in Manhattan, and enjoying his apartment in Murray Hill. Arthur Harris is working at ABC News learning all about broadcast news and “abandoning my quaint fantasies of a writer’s life.” Dan Laidman is in Missoula, Mont., freelancing for a weekly paper and some magazines. Jori Frakie also is in Montana, working as a grant writer for a homeless shelter. Benjamin Lowe is living in Philadelphia and working at the Philadelphia Inquirer as a business reporter and a New York disaster correspondent. Jonathan Lemire is living near Columbia and working as a metro news reporter for the Daily News. The job has allowed Jon to “get my hands dirty seeing what really makes this great city tick. Since September 11, however, everything’s changed, and I’ve had a front-row seat: It’s been scary, but at the same time inspirational to see how the city is persevering. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by this tragedy.” Rich Luthmann is still living in the Columbia area and attending New York Law School. He was recently down in Longport with Artie Harris visiting Stu Dearnley (who’s going to be “ski-bumming” in Colorado for the winter) and Brie Cokos, who had returned from her deep-sea-diving trip to Belize a few weeks before. Abigail Burns is living in the East Village and working for the Gilder Lehrman Institute, a nonprofit historical organization. Randy Aussenberg is teaching eighth grade science in Baltimore through Teach for America. Randy finds that the job has “many rewarding aspects, and I enjoy many of the personalities of my eighth grade students.” Lauren Goldstein is in a joint program with Columbia School of Social Work and Bank Street College for Education. She is getting a master’s in special education and social work. Lauren student-taught at the Bank Street School on 112th Street and has since received another placement at a different school. She reports that Kelly Camamis is in law school at Cardozo. Martha Sparks is teaching middle school in Manhattan and pursuing a master’s degree from Teachers College in a pilot program sponsored by Columbia called Columbia Urban Educators. Other classmates in the program include James Massey, Teresa Genao, Jaime Pannone, Amy Kimpel, Ari Dolid and Jamila Lenard. Lindsay Torrey worked at a small NYC production company during the summer and has left for Europe for some travel. She hopes to backpack around Ireland, Scotland and Sweden, as well as, perhaps, get some dance training in London. After her travels, Lindsey plans to settle in Brooklyn. She reports that Genna Weinstein and Mariel Martinez are living in D.C. and working as paralegals. Jake Hart is living in London and working at a theatre company. Jennifer Hoekstra is working at an environmental policy firm and living in Park Slope. Also in Brooklyn is Laura Kruter, who is working at Bloomberg. Rena Seth has enlisted in the Air Force Reserves. She started the application process before the tragedies of September 11, and “the events did not change my decision.” On top of all this, Rena is applying to graduate school (but she has scrapped plans to go to medical school). Robin Haber (Freyberg) got married in August and started a social psychology Ph.D. program at Rutgers. Adam Lesser is unemployed in L.A. after teaching earth science to eighth graders in Atlanta for Summerbridge. Anne Olivar and Seth Kotch are living together in Rome. Jon Rick is a temp/waiter and is applying to do graduate work in philosophy. Elaine Shen is “swimming in a deluge of applications and standardized tests” for a job in urban planning and law school. Last summer, Elaine interned at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination and learned a lot about brownfield remediation and environmental regulation/legislation. Although currently in Baltimore, Elaine hopes to find a job in New York soon. Seth Morris is teaching third grade at Lincoln Elementary School in Compton, Calif., with Teach for America, while pursuing a master’s in education at Loyola Marymount. Seth also is training for the Los Angeles Marathon in March. Richard Plotkin, who ran into Seth this summer while traveling Route 66 from Chicago to California, is pursuing a Ph.D. in music theory at the University of Chicago. Seth reported on many people: Ramsey Chamie is working for the Justice Department in D.C. Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely is teaching sixth grade in L.A. with Teach for America. Shreya Kangovi is at Harvard Medical School and Will Bagley is at University of Michigan Medical School. Dan Fazio is a paralegal in New York. Nancy Perla has been busy in various journalism jobs. After a stint with Conde Nast Publications (at Glamour), she now works at ABC News. Nancy reports that fellow-Parisian-study-abroad student, Heather Doherty, is again living in Paris, and working at the International Herald Tribune. Julie Oh is working at a small international trade organization in midtown and living on the Upper East Side. Outside of work, Julie spent time volunteering for the John Liu for City Council campaign in Flushing, Queens. As for her friends, Julie reports: Van DeBergh is working in the Navajo Nation, teaching English to sixth graders. Surupa Sen Gupta is working for Fortune in midtown and living on the Upper East Side. Annie Simpson is working for a graphic designer in Chelsea and living in Alphabet City. Gabriel Pitta is living around the corner from SoHo and working at Harlem Hospital as the NYC site director of Project HEALTH, a nonprofit that develops health interventions for kids with chronic illnesses (HIV, diabetes, sickle cell, asthma, obesity). Gabe is interviewing for medical school and plans to enroll next fall. He also reported on the whereabouts of many friends: Heather Lee is in her first year at NYU Law and Lisa Kasser is working for a financial firm as well as volunteering at Mount Sinai with a pediatric art therapy program. Valaine Hewitt is in her first year at Cornell Medical School. Jenny Garcia is back in New York and looking for work. Bree Akesson is in Chepterwai, Kenya, working with the Peace Corps. She’s delivered several babies, does HIV education, and lives by herself on top of a mountain, loving every minute of it. Eliel Flores is working at the Vera Institute. He’s applying to law school and will be enrolling this coming fall. Sarah Case is dancing in New York as well as Boston and did some dancing in London a while back. Barb Nellenback and Cassie O’Shea are living in Manhattan. Cassie is waitressing at Cafe Lalo. Jordan Fischbach is living in Cambridge, Mass., and working as a research analyst for the Cadmus Group. Also in Cambridge are Dean Lin and Matt Davis, who are both at Harvard Law. Gabe sadly reported that Mandy Reichmann, who started her Columbia career with us, passed away in September from cancer. In his words, “She was easily one of the warmest, most amazing people we knew and we miss her and love her very much.” On that sad note, I wish you all the very best this year. Please be in touch.
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