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CLASS NOTES
Stanley H. Gotliffe During the "business meeting" portion of our 60th class reunion
(see previous
issue of CCT), the following classmates were awarded the
Dean's Pin, recognizing service to the class and the college:
Hugh Barber, Jack Beaudouin, Semmes Clarke, Joe Coffee, Ted de
Bary, Bob Dettmer, Jim Dick, Arthur Friedman, Stan Gotliffe, Dick
Greenwald, Harry Mellins, Bob Quittmeyer, Len Shayne, Arthur
Weinstock and Bob Zucker. Among those unable to attend the 50th reunion, June 22-24, were Bob Wallerstein and wife Judith, both of whom had been scheduled to present papers at the International Psychoanalytic Association Conference in Vienna, Austria. To those classmates who were unable to come owing to illness or other problems, we extend our hopes that your difficulties are now resolved. Finally, it is my sad duty to report the passing of classmate Ray Raimondi on August 14, 2001. Ray was a retired Professor of English at SUNY Orange, Middletown, N.Y.
Herbert Mark Since these notes were completed, we have all been shocked by the horrible, destructive attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, along with associated air piracy. These events will influence every aspect of our lives so that any and all of our plans may be altered. In the meantime, we offer our thoughts, deep sympathy and condolences to all who have suffered directly from these unbelievable and unprecedented attacks. Although I have spoken to or received mail from many classmates over the past summer, I have little to report. Most of our discussions have focused on preparations for our 60th reunion. There have been offers of help from many quarters. Dick Davies in Washington, D.C., Lee Reuther in North Carolina, Alan Creeger from Richmond, Va., and Dave Gelbard from Los Angeles, as well as many of the usual suspects living closer to New York, have contacted me or Vic Zaro with suggestions, offers to help and to say they hope to attend. For once, their names (roughly 40) are too numerous to list. (See the class newsletter.) Francis Romano, who has been out of touch for a while, is back in the fold, recruited by his friend and medical school classmate, Nick DeVito. Frank still practices medicine on Staten Island. I've written about the many grandchildren of classmates who are currently students at Columbia. Let's not forget that one of Bill Carey's grandsons earned his varsity letter in football last year. My wife and I tried all summer to get together with Ruth and Charles West but couldn't quite work it out. Charles, busy in retirement as we all are, was commuting to Europe for a series of meetings and reunions. Don Mankiewicz underwent cardiac surgery a few months ago and is recovering at home. With the arrival of cool weather, our informal lunch meetings are back on track. Write to me or call if you want to join us, bring your old friends up to date or merely see your name in print.
Dr.
Donald Henne McLean From
Bob Greene, Box 2832, Amagansett, NY 11930: "I'm
glad you quoted Joe Kelly's lines, '...nearing our 80th year
on this planet. It would be interesting to learn how many of us are
left...' "Can it have gone so quickly? It is really almost 60 years? And in the distance I hear the bell tolling. "So best I write. To account myself present, reasonably together, class of '43, freshman beanie, Dean Hawkes, McKnight, Miner and Barzun, Trilling and Van Doren, and war in Europe just weeks before we entered. I remember Dunning's orientation lecture. 'We're blowing up atoms in Pupin, so if the building goes sky-high, you know what happened!' It wasn't even a secret. Otto Hahn had just split the atom in Germany. It was still a curiosity. "You make me add up. What did I do with the 60 years? Where did they go? I think of Thomas Wolfe, 'O' lost and by the wind grieved...' Yet I had to do something. "I'll fish for the past. I find myself a documentary writer at CBS in New York, then writing a book called Television Writing, playing jazz piano and recording for Blue Note in the early '50s. Staff writer with American Broadcasting, then back to CBS and ultimately to Washington, D.C., to work for Ed Murrow during the Kennedy time. More music in Washington, waiting to go to work for Bobby Kennedy until disaster struck. After which I went into music almost full time, re-forming Jelly Roll Morton's band of 1926 with a handful of old timers who played with him, and beginning a concert career with 'The World of Jelly Roll Morton.' "Another book, Blum-San, the biography of Paul Blum, more music, another book still on the shelf unsold, and that damn bell still tolling. "Sixty years? It's can't be. The wrong calendar. Joe Kelly must have it wrong. Approaching 80? But once again it's summer, and once again the leaves will fall, and I do not like to think that the times of their falling are now numbered. It prompts me to write, after this long silence. "I send warm greetings and my best." Extracted from extensive correspondence, Lou Gallo, who formerly had his own monologue radio show on WBAI, reiterates his theme that "God is an artifact" and that, perhaps, we were all first introduced to this concept in the Core Curriculum: sympathetically, your correspondent insists that "God is an artifice," but does not specifically remember arguing the point with him at seminars, though I do recall someone (Lou?) proposing "An atheist is a-theist."
Walter Wager Martin L. Beller — the retired surgeon signals from Gaines, Pa., that his gifted granddaughter, Ruth Kjelgaard Foreman, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the U. of Pennsylvania in June and. The "and" is his suggestion that we hold our 60th reunion at Arden House in Harriman, N.Y. — site of our 25th. Dr. Ira Gabrielson — noted medical educator and doggedly decent public citizen, active on a half-dozen local health boards, has returned with his multitalented (does your partner fly her own plane?) and pediatric mate from a PBS-sponsored visit to Finland and Russia to hustle to California to see his great new granddaughter. He's back serving the community and his camera in Williamsburg, Mass. Dr. Robert McInerney — another dynamic medical marvel in fertile Massachusetts, he and glorious Gloria — a genuine pistol in Pittsfield — discreetly confirm that they now bask in the glow of 12 grandchildren. Dr. Clement Curd — eminent brother-in-law of McInerney and fellow dignitary in Pittsfield was warmly greeted at the 55th anniversary reunion in New York of his P&S class. Dr. Joshua Lederberg — the Nobel Laureate has been honored by the National Library of Medicine, which has placed all his scientific papers and many personal ones of 55 years of achievement for biographers online at http://profiles.NLM.nih.gov/BB. His Columbia years are included. Our nation is now dedicated to justice for thousands slain in New York, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. Columbia's alumni also are moving forward with a campus memorial of remembrance for all our undergraduates and graduates who died in defense of our country from 1776. You'll soon receive a graphic view of the design and a request for your support. It is a timely and worthwhile thing that deserves your thoughtful consideration.
Clarence W. Sickles Jean L. Cook, retired in Nice, France, graduated from P&S in 1947 and en route received a degree from the College, '44 or '45. Since our class needs more members, we welcome you with open arms, Dr. Jean. Please keep in touch. Your CC is now substitute teaching K to 1 in the local district. Regardless of the class, I put the grammar questions on the board. The students might guess the right answer but cannot tell why. Sample: "This secret is between you and me or you and I?" Did you say "me" and give the reason of "me being the object of the preposition between?" Try that on your grandchildren. Hope they are better trained in grammar than the students in this area. Talking about the fundamentals of education leads me to mention the public speaking course I took at the College in preparation for preaching. I was told that the course was instituted just after Columbia defeated Stanford 7-0 in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day in 1934. When the Columbia players were interviewed on the radio after the game, they spoke so poorly that the College decided a course in public speaking was necessary. Our honorees this time, chosen at random, are Dr. Roger Newman of Indio, Calif., and Robert J. Roman of Salt Lake City, Utah. Let's hear from or about our honorees.
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