CLASS NOTES
Michael Hausig
19418 Encino Summit
San Antonio, Texas 78259
m.hausig@gte.net
Tom Lippman left The Washington Post after 33
years and began a new career as vice president for communications
at the World Wildlife Fund. His new book, Madeleine Albright and
the New American Diplomacy, was published in June by West View
Press and was featured in the National Journal as the cover
story.
Jonathan Shapiro was honored by the Massachusetts
chapter of the National Lawyers Guild in Boston on May 19. Shapiro,
who graduated Harvard Law in 1964, lived in Mississippi in the
mid-’60s, working with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law for the enforcement of newly enacted civil rights
laws. He joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York in 1968,
handling celebrated civil rights cases throughout the country. In
1973 he moved to Boston, and with Max Stern and Margaret Burnham
founded a law firm committed to representation of the disadvantaged
and the dispossessed.
Stuart Newman has moved his law practice to Salon,
Marrow, Dyckman & Newman, 21 years after founding his original
firm. Two of his three children have graduated from Columbia, Steve
SEAS ‘87 and Jennifer ’00. Jennifer is engaged to
Lorenzo Melendez ’00 and is pursuing and advertising career
with Ogilvy & Mather. Stuart’s wife, Joyce B’61, is
still in active ob/gyn practice in Manhattan.
Eugene Milone has co-authored with Josef Kallrath a book
on the analysis of light variation of binary star systems in and
out of eclipse. It’s entitled Eclipsing Binary Stars:
Modeling and Analysis. He continues to direct activities at the
University of Calgary’s Rothney Astrophysical Observatory in
the foothills of the Canadian Rockies.
Allen Kaplan has been elected president of the
International Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology
and was appointed editor of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
International. Allen lives in Charleston, S.C.
Ed McCreedy has had a busy year. He became the
grandfather of twins, his son Matthew was married, and Ed was
reelected to the board of trustees, New Jersey State Bar, and named
treasurer of the New Jersey Lawyer newspaper.
Arthur Wisot has limited his practice to high-tech
reproduction as a member of Reproductive Partners Medical Group
with offices in southern California. He also teaches in the
residency program and reproductive endocrinology fellowship as a
clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine. He and his wife,
Phyllis, are enjoying their new vacation home in Palm
Desert.
Sharon and George Gehrman returned recently from a trip
to Arizona where they had the opportunity to see their son, David,
an aspiring actor, perform in As You Like It. George works
at the energy department in Washington. When asked how many people
work at the energy department, George indicated that about half of
them did!
Wedding bells rang in our family in April! Daughter Sterling
married Christopher Gill during the San Antonio fiesta celebration.
The wedding was held in Mission San Jose, which was founded in 1720
and is the largest of the Spanish Missions in Texas.
Ed Pressman
99 Clent Road
Great Neck Plaza, N.Y. 11021
Sidney P. Kadish
121 Highland Street
West Newton, Mass. 02465
sidney.p.kadish@lahey.org
In
April, your humble correspondent headed back to the campus for
Dean’s Day, accompanied by daughter, Emily. In addition to a
stimulating day of lectures, we heard a recurring litany:
applications are up, admissions are restricted to the super-gifted
and mere mortals need not apply. “We wouldn’t be able
to get in today, either,” said the Dean, our own Alumni
Association president, and other notables, trying to give comfort.
All in all, it seemed a bit discouraging.
David Alpern writes to say how happy he is to have
helped choose a new editor for the revitalized Columbia College
Today, as a member of the magazine’s outgoing board of
advisors. A senior editor at Newsweek magazine, he now
directs the Newsweek poll of public opinion on various
issues and trends in the news. He is also producer and co-host of
the magazine’s radio broadcast, Newsweek On Air.
Guests over the years have included Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton,
Katherine Hepburn, Norman Schwartzkopf, Michael Eisner, and other
major figures. Helping to produce the program each week was a crew
of modestly paid interns drawn from the staff of WKCR.
Steve Barcan welcomed his first grandchild, Katherine
Talia Draisen. His son Adam will graduate this year as
Rutgers’ first ever Spanish-Portuguese major. “No more
tuition payments!” exclaims Steve.
Henry Black continues to love Chicago, where he is the
Charles and Margaret Roberts Professor at Rush Medical College. In
addition, Henry has just been named associate dean and
vice-president for research.
Huai Han Kung of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. reports that his
daughter, Andrea, will start Columbia in the fall.
Bill Goebel has just retired from TIAA-CREF as senior
counsel, after 28 years of service. He intends to continue to live
in Syosset, N.Y. and would welcome hearing from fellow alums in the
N.Y. metropolitan area.
Bob Ennis is living in Weston, Fla. and works as an
associate professor of clinical orthopedic surgery at U. of Miami.
Bob also heads a research company, Orthomed Consulting Services. In
his spare time, he is the “Gasogene of the Miami Sherlock
Holmes Society, the Tropical Deerstalkers.” (What is a
gasogene?)
News
flash: Barry Reiss recently resigned from Columbia House as
senior vice president for business and consumer affairs. He has
established a private practice in entertainment law at 100 Park
Avenue at 41st St. in New York.
Finally, it was a special day on April 2 when the Kraft Center
for Jewish Life opened on 115th St. The Center will allow the very
many Jewish activities to thrive and grow on campus, since before
the Center they were confined to a small office in Earl Hall.
Bill Goebel wrote: “I had the fortune to attend the
dedication of the Robert Kraft and Family Jewish Center. It was
quite enjoyable and emotionally and spiritually uplifting.”
Bob told me by phone that Columbia is dear to his heart, and he
feels that now tradition and spirituality can have a better place
on the campus that he (and all of us) love so well. Congratulations
Bob Kraft and the Kraft family.
Norman Olch
233 Broadway
New York, N.Y. 10279
Daniel J.B. Mitchell reports the publication of his
book, Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social
Movements and Their Lessons for Our Aging Society. Dan is Ho-Su
Wu Professor at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management
and the School of Public Policy and Social Research. He is also
director of the Anderson Forecast, which provides quarterly
projections of the United States and California
economies.
Ken Matasar has been elected a fellow of the Academy of
Radiology. His son is an internal medicine resident at
P&S.
Ivan Weissman is the proud father of a newborn, Julia
Rose. Ivan, Steve Singer and I attended the second (night)
game of the Yankees-Mets doubleheader at Yankee Stadium (the first
game was played at Shea Stadium that afternoon) in July. The
Yankees won, so we all went home happy.
Leonard B. Pack
924 West End Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10025
Depending on the time of counting, approximately 35 to 50 of
our classmates attended our 35th reunion at Columbia on June 2-4.
Our reunion class committee put together a marvelous Saturday
afternoon panel, “Back to College: Columbia’s Core
Curriculum,” where we were treated to superb lecture
presentations by Cathy Popkin, Jesse and George Siegal Professor in
the Humanities and the director of the Humanities program, and
Elaine R. Sisman, professor of music. Your correspondent was
impressed by the incisive questions and thoughtful comments that
your classmates are still capable of producing. It was wonderful to
revisit the Core Curriculum.
Dr.
David Berke, a cardiologist at Washington Hospital, Fremont,
Cal., recently climbed to the top of Aconcagua in the Argentine
Andes, the highest point in the western hemisphere. It took David
and his guide nine days to reach the summit. He has now conquered
three of the world’s highest peaks (Kilimanjaro, Mt. McKinley
and Aconcagua). Says David, “It can be dangerous at times and
I usually lose about 10 pounds on a climb, but I enjoy every moment
of it. The camping, solitude, and the challenge, I just love
it.”
A. Howard Matz has been a U.S. District Judge in the
Central District of California since 1998. He was the subject of a
front-page profile in the May 17 issue of the Los Angeles Daily
Journal, the official newspaper of the City and County of Los
Angeles, featuring two smiling portraits — formal in his
robes and informal in shirt sleeves in his chambers. Howard also
furnished us with the following remarks in his reunion
questionnaire: “As a federal judge, I am expected to make
important decisions on a near-daily basis. It is a humbling
challenge but one that often is exhilarating, because what I do
really matters — to litigants, lawyers, jurors, witnesses,
and my staff.”
Bob Szarnicki was prevented from attending the reunion
by his son Tim’s graduation from eighth grade. Bob and his
wife, Mary, have established an endowed scholarship fund at
Columbia to support deserving students, “just as I was
supported during my years at the College.”
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