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CLASS NOTES
COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY
Nora Weber ’10 and Alex Calhoun ’11 were married on May 5 in New York City. Left to right: Genevieve
Deleon ’10, Lillian Udell ’10, Carolina Brito ’10, Frances Bodomo ’10, the bride, the groom and Linnea
Hincks ’10.
to head to the Serengeti, Rwanda,
for some gorilla tracking, and on
and on until I make my way back to
the United States in a year (or so) to
make some grown-up life decisions.
For now, I’m enjoying life as a wanderer
and soaking up some culture
along the way to put my anthropology
degree to good use.”
Last but not least, our quarterly
installment from Chris Yim: “The
biggest accomplishment that I have
to report is the completion of the
treehouse project on my roof. You
wouldn’t think that any landlord
in New York would allow his tenant
to build a faux-treehouse, but I
got lucky. My interests of late lie in
listening to This American Life with
Ira Glass, buying Trader Joe’s pizza
dough and making homemade
pies, promoting the educational
startup uclass.org and living life on
the edge.
“I was heartbroken in May
when Chelsea won the Champions
League, denying Tottenham entry
next year. On a side note, I visited
classmates in New Orleans and
went to teacher prom. The achievement
gap is closing there.
“I have a very apparent language
and cultural gap with my folks. Is
anyone else running into a similar
issue? I have a longing to have my
parents understand the struggles
of a 20-something-year-old adult,
but it’s tough not being able to communicate
with them about what I’m
going through. What does one do?
“Lastly, I agreed deeply with Marina
Keegan, when she said: ‘What
we have to remember is that we can
still do anything. We can change
our minds. We can start over.’ I
wish I could have met her, sounded
like she had a very beautiful soul.
“Until the next episode.”
[Editor’s note: Marina Keegan
’12 Yale was killed in a car crash
just days after her graduation. To
read her essay, “The Opposite of
Loneliness,” which was distributed
at her class’ Commencement, go
to yaledailynews.com/news/
2012/may/27/keegan-oppositeloneliness.]
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Colin Sullivan
c/o CCT
Columbia Alumni Center
622 W. 113th St., MC 4530
New York, NY 10025
casullivan@gmail.com
Greetings, Class of 2011! To start off
with some happy news, Kara Bess
and Chase McCaleb ’10E were married
on June 9 at St. Paul’s Chapel
on campus.
Congratulations to both of them!
Emiddio Licursi is the editorial
assistant at Bidoun magazine, a
quarterly publication dealing with
art and culture from the Middle
East. He also is publishing a chapter
of his thesis in an Albanian academic
journal, Përpjekja, and will travel
throughout Latin America this year,
starting this summer in Cuba.
Michael Mirochnik finished
his first year at Harvard Law
and worked in-house at a private
equity firm this summer.
As always, I encourage you to
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Sarah Chai
c/o CCT
Columbia Alumni Center
622 W. 113th St., MC 4530
New York, NY 10025
sarahbchai@gmail.com
“Mr. President: Standing before
you in Sections 8 and 9, which
must be an indexing error because
Columbia College students only sit
in Section 1, are the 1,132 candidates
of Columbia College — candidates
who have heroically completed the
overly demanding and seemingly
endless requirements for the degree
of Bachelor of Arts!”
After proclaiming the accomplishments
of the Columbia College
Class of 2012 at University Commencement
on May 16, Dean James
J. Valentini called on the graduates
for a “collective roar as lions most
powerful,” as students proudly
waved neon orange inflatable lions
in the air. The ceremony concluded
with Frank Sinatra’s “New York,
New York” and Jay-Z’s “Empire
State of Mind,” sending Columbia’s
newest alumni off to all parts of the
globe, where we will undoubtedly
continue to make our mark wherever
our paths take us — in school,
in work, in life.
This fall, some of our classmates
will begin pursuing post-graduate
and professional degrees.
Randy Subramany returns to
our beloved Columbia as a full-time
student in the Healthcare Management
program (M.P.H.) at the
Mailman School of Public Health.
Anthony Testa has started at the
Harvard School of Dental Medicine,
where he will engage in dental
research and receive his D.M.D.
after four years.
On the West Coast, Zach Brill is
beginning a Ph.D. in organic chemistry
at UC Berkeley, while Wesley
Yip is attending Keck School of
Medicine at the University of Southern
California.
Other classmates are heading
back to school, but this time as
teachers!
Returning to the Empire State,
Debbie Feng has joined the educators
of Teach for America. Jake
Goren is a Teach for America 2012
New York City Corps member at
VOICE Charter School in Long
Island City, Queens.
Helping to mold young minds
through Teach for America outside
of New York, Mason Fitch
has begun his first year at Aiea
Intermediate School near Honolulu.
He’s teaching U.S. history
(Revolution to Reconstruction) to
approximately 125 eighth-graders.
Hannah D’Apice is teaching sixthgrade
social studies at TW Browne
Middle School in Dallas.
Heading straight into the work
force, Stephanie Foster is an ad
sales assistant for Crown Media.
She is in charge of making deals
and placing commercials for
Hallmark Channel and Hallmark
Movie Channel.
Negin Navab was planning
to spend a few weeks traveling
around Europe before returning to
New York and hopefully finding
an apartment before she starts
work as an analyst at J.P. Morgan.
Negin writes that she is “definitely
attending a few Columbia young
alumni events in between my
travels!”
Lastly, although Dean Valentini
is not an official member of the
Class of 2012, we were Deantini’s
first graduating class, so it seems
only fitting to include here that
Dean Valentini has officially been
appointed dean of Columbia College
and v.p. for undergraduate
education.
Now that we don’t have the
luxury of living in close proximity
to one another in East Campus,
Hogan, Watt, Woodbridge or
Broadway, I hope these Class Notes
will make it easier for us to stay
connected! Please don’t hesitate to
reach out at sarahbchai@gmail.com
with updates on your life. I hope
you enjoyed your first post-grad
summer, Class of 2012!
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Answers to Dean Quiz
on Inside Back Cover
1. Herbert E. Hawkes, who
was dean from 1918–43.
2. 16.
3. Harry J. Carman, for
whom the student residence
originally called
New Hall was renamed.
4. Austin E. Quigley, for
whom the Black Box
Theatre in Lerner was
renamed.
5. John Howard Van Amringe
(Class of 1860)
became the College’s
first dean in 1896.
6. False. Only seven of the
16 deans are College
alumni.
7. 1130 Amsterdam Ave.
8. Jack Greenberg ’45, ’48L.
9. David B. Truman.
10. Peter Pouncey.
Bonus: Robert E. Pollack ’61.
Alumni Corner
(Continued from page 104)
cops. Not a lot of people spend
time in the stacks anymore. (Except,
as Ms. Green pointed out,
around the graphic-novel section.)
It’s not the current nature of finding
information.
Doing it the inefficient way, you
use the senses. You look at a row
of spines, imprinted with butch,
ultra-legible white or black type;
your eye takes in more at any time
than can be contained on a computer
screen. You hold the books
in your hand and feel the weight
and size; the typography and the
paper talk to you about time. A
lot of libraries smell nice, but the
smell of the Butler stacks is a song
of organic matter, changing as temperatures
do through the reaches
of a pond. Get yourself near Goffredo
Casalis’s life’s work on the
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duchy of Savoy, the Dizionario
Geografico-Storico-Statistico-
Commerciale, published in 27
volumes from 1833 to 1854, and
breathe in. A fantastic, pre-acidicpaper
smell: burned caramel,
basically. Nobody there but you.
There are 15 floors of stacks
with 64 rows of books per floor,
running about 25 feet each; 6 or
7 shelves in each row. Can you
actually browse there, find books
on your own, faced with the dark
phalanxes? You can, once you get
subject areas in your head. Having
made enough spot searches, you
grasp the logic of each floor. There
are no signs to help you, only diagrams
with codes and numbers.
You can also create luck in any
given spot: You turn your head to
the opposing row of books. A different
subject area can arise, perhaps
only partly to do with your
areas of interest. This is non-linkbased
browsing. You can discover,
instead of being endlessly sought.
I’ve already gone back this year:
Above 90 degrees was my cue. I realize
that I am lucky to do this free.
If you have no affiliation with the
school, it will cost you $55 a month.
You’d pay more to go to the gym. I
think it’s a good deal.
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