CLASS NOTES
Ana S. Salper
c/o Columbia College Today
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 917
New York, NY 10115
asalper@brobeck.com
Greetings, all. I have now come to the realization that when it
comes to sending in news for my column, the winter season always
begets apathy and lethargy on your part. Hence the reason this
column is embarrassingly short. But I remain optimistic. I expect
that the spring will reinvigorate your spirits, and the summer
issue will be chock full of interesting tidbits about you and your
friends. For now, read on...
Julie Satow was recently promoted from her position at
BondWeek to become the new managing editor of Corporate
Financing Week, which is owned by the prestigious
Institutional Investor magazine. Julie will now be
overseeing a staff of reporters and will enjoy primary
responsibility for the whole publication. Way to go,
Jules!
Kayoko Kanari was married to B.J. Tevelow this past fall
at Tavern on the Green here in New York. Amy Weiss, Andrea
Bond and Dennis Chang '96E were among the wedding party. Ed
Sadtler was also in attendance. Andrea and Dennis also got
married this past fall-to each other-in Los Angeles. John
Fitzgibbon was a groomsman at their wedding. Kayoko is
currently working as an equity analyst for a hedge fund at Moore
Capital Management in New York, Amy is an attorney at the National
Labor Relations Board in Philadelphia, Andrea works as a reporter
for CBS in Las Vegas, Dennis is a consultant for Accenture
(formerly Anderson Consulting), and Ed is an attorney at Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York.
In
other wedding news, Jen Sullivan got engaged to her longtime
companion Cedric, an artist living here in New York. Jen is
finishing up her MBA at Columbia.
And
that, my faithful readers, is all I have to report. Remember-our
fifth year reunion is coming up in June. I look forward to seeing
many of you there. I end, as per usual, with some words of wisdom
from George Bernard Shaw: "All great truths begin as blasphemies."
Good one to take to heart.
Sarah Katz
The Wellington
135 South 19th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
srk12@columbia.edu
As
usual, '97 alumni are busy as ever! I had the pleasure of running
into Allison Orris and Wayne Steward at Yale while I
was attending a conference in February. Allison is in her second
year at Yale Law and Wayne is working on his Ph.D. in psychology
also at Yale.
Bryan Ferro is working at a start-up, high-tech strategy
consulting firm, Mercator Partners, outside of Boston. Michael
Malm has graduated from MIT and has started work as an
assistant vice president in fixed income at Putnam Investments in
Boston. Kate Kelly has a new job at The Wall Street
Journal as a staff reporter. Wilson Rothman is a tech
reporter at Time and On (formerly Time
Digital). He earned his master's from the Journalism School.
Matt Wang changed jobs in December. He left UBS Warburg and
joined his boss at Evercore Partners, an advisory and private
equity firm, as an associate in Evercore's advisory
business.
Haidee Cabusora is happily finishing up her last
semester at Cornell Law School along with fellow '97s Matt
Morningstar and Doug Horowitz. They will all be at firms
next year, Haidee in Boston and Matt & Doug in NYC. Jennifer
Squillario graduated from University of Maryland School of Law
in May 2000. She passed the Maryland Bar, is currently a law clerk
for a judge on the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and next year will
be clerking for a U.S. Federal District Court judge in Baltimore.
Jeremy Feit is clerking for Israel's Supreme Court until at
least June-he earned his law degree last May from Yale and passed
the New York bar exam this past fall. Stephen Wright is an
associate at the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart focusing
his practice in the area of litigation. Mia Watanabe is at
Harvard Law School, will be graduating in May, and will start work
next year at the law firm of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel in New
York. She recently ran into Danielle Paige, who is working
at Guiding Light.
Carrie Sturts is getting a Ph.D. in civil engineering
from Columbia in May. She is currently working as a design engineer
with Parsons and just moved to San Mateo, Calif. Her fiancé,
Stephen Dossick, recieved a Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia
in February. He is working with a new company, KnowNow, in Silicon
Valley.
Rachel Adame lived through the dot.com crash in San
Francisco, did a stint as a cigarette girl, and now is back in El
Paso, Texas, working as a marketing director at a Web design firm
started by Robert "Beto" O'Rourke '94. Check them out at www.stantonstreetdesign.com.
Her first novel is due for release in 2002. Jeffrey Durland
is working as a content strategist at Sapient, in the Internet
services firm's New York office. Laura H. Lee will be
starting her Ph.D. in film at NYU in the fall. Catherine
Park is in her third year of med school at UC-Irvine. David
Coustan is the creative director at Giantheads, an animation
design studio in Boston.
Rachel Rodin (formerly Rachel Levine) is married
to John Rodin. The couple lives in New York City. John works
as a sales associate at Goldman Sachs, and Rachel is finishing up
at the Business School and then joining Goldman Sachs in their
online division. They regularly see Erica Landes and Tim
Benton, who are engaged, as well as Jason Halper, who is
engaged to someone he met in law school at Cardozo. Shivali
Shah also recently got engaged to someone she met while in law
school.
Meredith (Deutsch) Levy has been married to Jonathan
Levy, a social worker from Montreal, for four years and the two
have been living in Montreal, Quebec. She is finishing her fourth
year at Mcgill University Faculty of Medicine and in the middle of
the residency application process. On December 8, 2000, she gave
birth to a baby boy named Judah Israel.
John Alfone received his MFA in media arts production
(film, video, multimedia) from City College. His 31-minute graduate
thesis film, Del Fuego, is currently touring the film
festival circuit including visits to the New Orleans Film Festival
and the D.C. Independent Film Festival & Market. As of this
writing, he is working in the production office for a Miramax film
to be made about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. When not
involved in film-related pursuits, he finds satisfaction teaching
English as a second language (ESL) to middle school students in
Chinatown.
Michael Wachsman had been working as a strategic
consultant for financial institutions at Freeman & Co. for the
past two years. In the last year he has done some extensive
traveling, first to Alaska on an epic journey. "The first 13 days
were spent rafting. Our group covered 238 miles and saw some
spectacular scenery. We camped out by the mountains, sometimes next
to the thundering sound of glaciers calving, others by cascading
waterfalls. After that we went mountaineering for about a week,
where we were days away from civilization, with nothing but us and
nature. It was incredible waking up to nothing but snow-capped
peaks around us. Next, I went ice climbing, during which I used
crampons and an ice axe to ascend the frozen walls of glaciers.
After that, I embarked on a week-long kayaking trip, where I
kayaked between icebergs, saw a colony of seals, and where the fish
were so plentiful that I was able to catch a salmon with my bare
hands. For the duration of the expedition we camped out in tents,
brought all our supplies with us, had no access to a phone,
toilets, or any of the amenities of modern civilization." After his
return, he married Felice Tager B'93, and the two spent their
honeymoon in Africa.
Avi Katz Orlow left Columbia and went to Belarus for a
year and a third. Then he went to Israel to study for the next year
and two-thirds. At that point he found out about a new Yeshiva
opening up under Congregation Ramat Orah (110th and Broadway),
where he is now studying in their new Modern Orthodox Rabbinical
Program.
Michael T. Feldman is feeling fabulous and doing great
after a three-week stay in sub-Saharan Africa rediscovering
himself.
Reunion weekend is only a year away, May 30 through June 2,
2002. The weekend will include but not be limited to Broadway shows
followed by cocktails, museum tours, an all-class dinner, panels
and the Starlight Rreception. If you would like to attend or help
in planning the reunion weekend, please contact your CCT
class correspondent. We look forward to your
participation!
Thanks to everyone who wrote in-please keep those e-mails
coming!
Sandra P. Angulo
Entertainment Weekly
1675 Broadway, 30th floor
New York, NY 10019
spa76@yahoo.com
More
'98 wedding news: Best wishes to Kim Van Duzer, who got
married February 6 in Brooklyn. According to Lauren Antler,
who attended the civil ceremony, approximately 20 family and
friends - including Aaron Unger, Leah Madoff and Erica
Siegel - were on hand for the occasion.
Congratulations!
Lauren currently works at Nickelodeon, for the producers of the
hit children's series Blue's Clues. Bethany Livstone
also works in television, for Linda Ellerbee's production company,
Lucky Duck, which produces the MSNBC show Headliners and
Legends. They both live in New York.
I
keep running into classmates at CCYA events: Megan Mulligan
writes for Forbes.com and
freelances for several fashion magazines; Lisa Telfer
co-founded Corporate Training Department.Com, which offers Web
development classes for Manhattan professionals. Michele
Hyndman is the online business coordinator for Sports
Illustrated for Kids magazine; Megan Kearney works for
the new Museum of Women: The Leadership Center, which will be
located in Battery Park City; and Natalie Carlson is getting
her graduate degree at Parsons School of Design; Michele reports
that Camilla Granville left her job as a paralegal at Davis,
Polk and Wardell to travel and volunteer
internationally.
According to Andy Topkins, Zach Kaiman works for
the market research firm DataMonitor Inc., and lives in London.
Joe Masters has relocated to Germany and is still with
Goldman Sachs. Erwin Dweck and Beth Roxland graduate
from Penn Law this May, and after taking the bar, will begin
putting in the long hours for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in
Manhattan. James Kearney works in bond trading at Salomon
Smith Barney in New York. Finally, Maragaret Conley has
moved back to California where she works for the president of ABC
Entertainment in Los Angeles.
Charles S. Leykum
41 River Terrace
Apt. #3404
New York, NY 10282
csl22@columbia.edu
Thanks to those classmates who were able to send in their
updates to me over the past few months. We have a lot to report.
Rob Hora is finishing up his second year at Harvard Law
School. While in school, Rob has carried the Columbia banner by
attending quite a few Columbia athletic events in Cambridge. This
summer he will be returning to New York City to work for Patterson,
Belknap, Webb & Tyler.
Nina Tannenbaum recently left leveraged finance at J.P.
Morgan to join Alliance Capital as an associate in fixed income
research. Alliance Capital, a subsidiary of AXA Financial, is a
leading investment management firm with over $450 billion in assets
under management. Also working in research, Cristina Lucci
recently joined Bear Stearns as a research associate in the fixed
income high grade division. This past February, she moved into a
co-op on the Upper East Side with a friend.
While pursuing his M.A. in political science at the New School
for Social Research, Juan Kim is currently working on the
ratification campaign for the forthcoming International Criminal
Court, a court that will prosecute diverse human rights
violations. In his spare time, Juan has picked up Thai
kickboxing. This summer Juan and I are going to try and field an
indoor soccer team, so if you're interested in joining us, please
let us know.
In
Boston, Susie Lee just started a new job as a venture
capital investment analyst at Community Technology Fund, where she
evaluates early stage opportunities in technology and life
sciences. She has also been active on the Young Alumni Steering
Committee for the Columbia Club of New England, where they've been
planning a number of networking and social events. Susie is living
with Adrienne Lavidor-Berman and Becky Kaufman, both Barnard '99,
and they've hosted several social events, one of which featured a
Toga theme, with several '99ers in attendance. The best toga was
awarded to Steve Trudel '99E, but Andrea Brecher made a
"good attempt at Cleopatra." Cate Reilly and Judy
Kaplan also had a strong showing.
That's it for this round of class notes, so please keep in
touch and e-mail with any and all updates.
Prisca Bae
1832 N. Veitch Street
Apt. #1
Arlington, VA 22201
Pb134@columbia.edu
Congratulations to Anne (Caballero) and Colin
Eckman who were married on July 1, 2000! They now live in the
D.C. area; Anne is working at the Department of Education and Colin
is at the DIA.
John Kriegsman, meanwhile, has joined the Navy. He is
currently stationed in Pensacola, Fla. in Naval Intelligence.
Former members of EC 1802 appear to be doing quite well. Stephan
Boeker is in Hawaii and seems to be surfing and meditating
mostly; Mike Showalter is working quite hard as a paralegal
in New York; Emily Chenette and Mark Jezyk are in
graduate school at the University of North Carolina; Dan
Park is in Minnesota; Jim Murphy is still rowing in
Princeton; and Russ Kratzer is still alive in Tianshui,
China.
In
London, Claire Hunsaker is finishing up graduate school and
recently started working for Europe's largest literary agency,
Peters Fraser and Dunlop.
In
my neck of the woods, I've had the pleasure of tracking more of you
down and/or you have been kind enough to find me. Charlotte
Sanders is a paralegal at the EEO Project of the Washington
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, a nonprofit
firm that represents plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases.
The Washington Lawyers' Committee also has sections in fair
housing, public education, immigrant and refugee rights, and
disability rights. She reports that James Alexander is
working in real estate in Atlanta.
Other alums in D.C. include Tom King, whom I ran into in
Dupont Circle. Tom also is at the Justice Department, doing some
exciting work in the civil section. And Story (Robert) Karem
has just started with the appropriations committee in the U.S.
Senate. To all other alums in the D.C. area: Please get in touch
with me! We want to organize more young alumni events, but we don't
have your contact information.
Finally, it's been a year since graduation. I'd love to hear
how you're all doing and your feelings on the so-called real world.
Has the time flown by? Are you bored? The rush of e-mails has
stopped, unfortunately, but I know many of you are heading to new
places in the next few months, so drop me a line and let me know!
Take good care.
Jonathan Gordin
Columbia College Today
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 917
New York, NY 10115
jrg53@columbia.edu
Classmates, congratulations on your graduation. We've all
worked hard to get to this point, and we should be proud of our
joint efforts.
I'm
pleased to say that I will be serving as correspondent for the
Class of 2001, which as we all know is truly the first class of the
new millennium. Some of you may know me from my activities at
Spectator and Residential Programs. I am looking forward to
being an active alum, so if we haven't met yet, I hope we do so in
the future.
The
success of this column depends on you. I'm hoping all of you will
keep in touch by sending me your news, whether personal or
professional. I will always be happy to hear from you, and, of
course, glad to share it with the rest of the class.
My
own plans involve a relaxing month following graduation, then
beginning my job as a business analyst in the midtown offices of
William M. Mercer, an HR consulting firm. The best way to reach me
for the time being is by e-mail at jrg53@columbia.edu. I should have
further contact information by the next issue of CCT in
September, but I look forward to hearing from many of you before
then.
Please be in touch.
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