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CLASS NOTES
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CLASS NOTES
booming voice of a by-then blind
Nicholas Murray Butler (Class of
1882) — but graduated in ’47. I was
in classes with and had friendships
with others from those classes
but also the Classes of ’46 straight
through the Class of ’50, many on
the GI Bill. I’ve attended a few ’47
reunions and one or two for ’48.
“I lived in Livingston (now Wallach)
Hall during the war years,
and my friendships were drawn
mostly from those who lived on
the seventh and nearby floors, all
from many classes and schools.
Bob Kerker ’49 and I used to dream
of a Livingston Hall reunion, and I
once suggested to an alumni relations
officer that the Alumni Office
run a special ‘war years’ reunion.
But I’m afraid Bob was lost to us a
couple of years ago. He had kept in
touch with the fortunes of most of
the Livingston Hall group. Most of
the names I remember were from
that venue.
“In addition to Bob, I maintained
a friendship with Marshall
Mascott and Joe Adamczyk ’50
for many years until they passed
away. I am in touch with Alan Berman
’46 and Peter LaForte ’47.
“After graduation I worked for
various government agencies.
When programmable computers
became available I did one of the
early Monte Carlo studies and was
offered a professorship at NYU in
the Department of Industrial Engineering
and Operations Research.
This was followed by several years
as the founder and proprietor
of a computer service bureau. I
started an eponymous hedge fund
10 years after my wife, Sue, and I
married, and have managed it for
the 44 years since.
“I moved to Florida with my
family in 1978. My children Carol
and Laura live here, and Tommy
is in Idaho. I have four grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren
(who have been living in Okinawa
but came to Florida in mid-June).
“I have been doing a lot of boating
in Florida and brought the boat
to Philadelphia and then to New
York last summer. A great trip! My
other special avocations are birdwatching
and the environment.
Among other environmental activities,
I am chairman of Defenders
of Wildlife, a national organization
based in Washington, D.C.
Recently I had the honor of having
a nature center in South Miami
named for me.
“Some years ago, I also founded
a named scholarship at the
College. It’s amazing how many
things one can do in a lifetime if
one is lucky enough to be given
the years.”
Dr. Alvin N. Eden writes, “I
practice pediatrics, teach medical
students and am revising and upforeign
service officer Albert Seligmann
and his bride, Bobbie, outside
Alexandria, Va. They had just
returned from vacationing in the
scenic Dordogne area of southwest
France. Bobbie is the sister of Dr.
Martin Beller, who, she reports, is
happily retired in Gaines, Pa.
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Enoch Callaway
87 Barbaree Way
Tiburon, CA 94920-2223
enoch.callaway@ucsf.edu
I’m happy to report some very
interesting conversations of late.
I spoke with Howard Brooks
’48E, who served as an Air Force
radio operator before returning to
Columbia for his second degree,
a B.S. in electrical engineering.
Afterward he worked for General
Electric as an electrical engineer,
retiring in 1987. He married May
Sue in 1953 and they have a son, a
daughter and two grandchildren.
His hobby is photography.
Howard claims his life has been
calm and uneventful but on urging,
he recalled a time when he was sent
by GE to board a submarine and
solve a technical problem. Although
the sub was in harbor, he had to
board her from a lifeboat. Howard
recalls his fear of slipping as he
crawled aboard.
I also chatted with Betsy (née
Jones), the wife for 59 years of
Bruce Hayes, who brought me up
to speed on his lifelong adventures.
(Bruce, unfortunately, is too deaf for
phone conversations.) He attended
Columbia for 1½ years before joining
the Navy; after coming back, he
graduated from Hamilton College,
where he was a DKE and where he
was happy not to have a two-hourplus
commute from Brooklyn.
According to his wife, Bruce is an
avid reader of CCT.
Bruce and Betsy married in 1965,
and they have two children and
three grandchildren, all of whom
live in western Massachusetts.
During the war, Bruce flew off
the carrier U.S.S. Randolph in the
Pacific. He received five Air Medal
citations and the Distinguished
Flying Cross, though the catapults
probably didn’t do much for his
hearing; the males in his family all
have suffered marked hearing loss.
Bruce spent the rest of his career
in retail sales. For a time after he
retired, he and Betsy traveled extensively,
but now they are content
to stay home and enjoy time with
their family. They live in their
house of 46 years in Longmeadow,
Mass.
Jean C. Chognard ’46E, ’48L,
whom you can reach at jchognard
@comcast.net, sent a snail mail.
He writes, “After graduating from
the College, I obtained a B.S. in
electrical engineering and a law
degree, both from Columbia. I then
worked in the patent field in New
York and Boston until, in early
1958, I joined Hewlett-Packard in
Palo Alto, Calif. It had just finished
the 1957 fiscal year with sales of
about $26 million and about 1,000
employees. The massive use of
transistors and integrated circuits
was yet to come and Silicon Valley
did not exist. As the company
grew, I became general counsel and
later v.p. for patents and licenses. I
retired in 1985; it was a most exciting
time.”
Exciting indeed! And incidentally,
this report was done on an
HP computer.
Finally, on a sad note, I leaned
from his wife that Dr. Bill Bikoff
has died. Our condolences and
thoughts are with his family.
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Bernard Sunshine
165 W. 66th St., Apt. 12G
New York, NY 10023
bsuns1@gmail.com
Dr. Paul Marks ’49 P&S’ distinguished
career as dean of P&S,
president (now emeritus) of
Memorial Sloan-Kettering and
researcher who developed a cancer
drug makes him uniquely qualified
to respond to the question I
posed: “What are the three most
important challenges confronting
medicine today?”
Paul responded, “I would say 1)
advancing our ability to control and
cure cancers; 2) better understanding
and more effective intervention
for neurodegenerative diseases, in
particular Alzheimer’s disease; and
3) infectious disease — the development
of resistant bacterial strains
and viral strains continue to pose
a major health problem, for which
new and better antibiotics must be
developed.
“I would add that perhaps the
greatest challenge to healthcare in
this country is access to affordable
healthcare. This will become more
so as we move toward expanded
healthcare. A neglected area is
developing funding — federal
funding — for health professional
training to meet the increased
population that should have access
to healthcare, through healthcare
reform legislation.
“In the area of cancer in particular,
but in medicine in general, the
rapid advances in molecular and
genetic diagnosis are establishing
a new paradigm in diagnosis: that
no two patients’ cancers are exactly
the same, even though they have
the same clinical diagnosis. What
is emerging is that identifying the
molecular defects in a particular
patient’s cancer is providing targets
for therapy that are personalized
to the particular patient — increasingly
more effective with fewer side
effects.”
Paul, thanks for your meaningful
insights.
[Editor’s note: See CCT’s profile
in the May/June 2007 issue or,
more recently, the cover story in
the Spring 2012 issue of Columbia
Medicine.]
Bernard Goldman’s collection
of awards and honors continues
to grow. He recently received the
Halstead Memorial Award from
the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association
“for services to the sport of
skiing in the Rocky Mountain Division.”
Bernie said, “To be included
with the list of previous recipients
is overwhelming.” When asked if
he still skis, he replied, “Is the pope
still Catholic?”
Lawrence Ross writes that
having been associate editor
of the ’45 Columbian yearbook
prepared him to be a reporter
and then news chief in 8th Army
HQ in Yokohama. (As Columbian
editor, I remember his wonderful
drawings.) We can add Larry to
our list of classmates who have
Dr. Robert S. Jampel ’47, ’50 P&S is emeritus professor
of ophthalmology at Wayne State University
School of Medicine.
changed careers. After 14 years of
pediatric medicine, he went back
into residency at New York Hospital,
now Weill Cornell Medical
Center, in radiology. Now retired,
Larry paints (he’s a talented artist)
and, with a new shoulder and
new hip, plays golf, but he gave
up tennis.
Stuart Tears in Ft. Worth, Texas,
recalls corresponding with Richard
Heffner in 1985 when Stuart was
on the Dallas Motion Picture Classification
Board rating movies. Dick
chaired the Classification and Ratings
Administration of the Motion
Picture Association of America in
Hollywood for 20 years.
Dick is creator and host of TV’s
The Open Mind, a university professor,
author and now, we learn, has
ties to Hollywood, too? Wow! [Editor’s
note: See feature on Heffner in
this issue.]
Dr. Herbert Hendin was honored
by Suicide Prevention International
(SPI) with a Lifetime Achievement
Award at a full-house luncheon at
the University Club in Manhattan.
Herb is not resting on this or his
previous awards and distinctions.
The Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation
recently awarded him and SPI
a major grant for a project to reduce
suicides among combat veterans of
the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. [Editor’s
note: See the Spring 2012 issue.]
As reported in a San Francisco
newspaper, “Herb Gold, the famed
writer of Russian Hill, is a great
walker. He takes on the Filbert
Street steps daily without gasping
for air. No wonder he looks so good
at 87.”
Dr. Irwin Nydick ’48 P&S was
honored on June 7 at the graduation
of medical residents of the
Weill Cornell Medical Center. The
hospital created “The Irwin Nydick
Voluntary Attending of the Year
Award,” to be awarded annually
to the member of the Voluntary
Attending Physician Faculty who
best contributes to the residents’
professional development. He was
further honored at graduation by
the young medics who demonstrated
their regard and affection
by presenting him with a beautiful
crystal piece engraved with “For
his tireless commitment to instilling
in each of us a spirit of lifelong
learning, and inspiring us to be the
best clinicians we can be.” After
retiring in 1998, Irwin continued to
teach and tutor. The CC ’46 Class
Notes in the November/December
2010 issue carried the story of what
have come to be known by residents
at the hospital as “Nydick
Rounds.”
John McConnell’s wolf sightings
in Post Falls, Idaho; Bernie
Goldman’s Colorado mountains;
Herb Gold’s San Francisco hills ...
it would be fun to read about your
“backyards.” Are alligators sunning
on Collins Avenue in Miami?
Drop me a line and we will run it
here.
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Frank Iaquinta
620 Pelhamdale Ave.,
Apt. 15
Pelham, NY 10803
fiaquintamd@aol.com
[Editor’s note: CCT is pleased to
welcome Dr. Frank Iaquinta as the
new CC ’47 class correspondent.
Please send your news to him at
the postal or email addresses above
or via CCT’s easy-to-use webform:
college.columbia.edu/cct/submit
_class_note. The webform will go
right to him.]
Dr. Frank Iaquinta attended the
class’ 65th reunion in June, as did
William Kahn and Lawrence
(Larry) Friedland. The three joined
six members of the Class of 1942
for a luncheon celebrating both
classes on June 2.
Three other classmates sent news
to CCT this summer.
Dr. Robert S. Jampel Ph.D. ’50
P&S is emeritus professor of ophthalmology
at Wayne State University
School of Medicine. After P&S he
finished residencies in ophthalmology
and neurology at the University
of Michigan, where he also earned
a Ph.D. in neuroanatomy. From
1960–70 he was on the faculty of
the Institute of Ophthalmology of
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/
Columbia University Medical
Center.
In 1970 Robert was appointed
professor and chairman of the
department of ophthalmology at
Wayne State and director of the
Kresge Eye Institute. He served
in that capacity from 1970–93.
During his tenure, Robert recruited
a distinguished faculty of clinicians
and scientists. He planned
for and raised the funds for the
construction of a new building to
house the Kresge Eye Institute and
supervised the training of more
than 130 ophthalmologists. In 2000,
the School of Medicine established
the Robert S. Jampel M.D., Ph.D.,
Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology
to support a research scientist.
Robert lives in Bloomfield Hills,
Mich., with his wife, Joan. They
have four children and 12 grandchildren.
Former poet laureate Daniel
Hoffman shared an article, A
Poet’s Busy Maundy Thursday, which
ran in the April 12 issue of The
Swarthmorean:
“This year’s Maundy Thursday
(April 5) was a day Dan Hoffman
of Swarthmore isn’t likely to forget.
“At 2:30 he donned his academic
gown in Irvine Auditorium on the
Penn campus. Then, following a
bag-piper, and Dean Michael A.
Fitts of the law school and Supreme
Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Dan
led the law school faculty single file
through the thousand spectators to
the stage.
“After the dean’s introductions,
Dan began the ceremony to dedicate
the law school’s new Golkin Building
by invoking ‘the Founding
Grandfather of our Commonwealth,’
—
“‘Before there was a Philadelphia
“‘There was a Philadelphia
lawyer,’
“William Penn, hero of his book
Brotherly Love, whose initial code
of laws set forth the ideals we have
since striven to live up to.
“Justice Sotomayor said she
wanted first to become a lawyer
after reading [Nancy Drew books],
then a detective and judge, after
watching the TV series Perry Mason.
According to Dan, she spoke about
her career and ‘responded to students’
queries with eloquence that
gave credence to her empathy and
dedication.’
“After the ceremony, Dan joined
a march to Golkin on Sansom
Street for ribbon-cutting, a reception,
a photo session, and a dash by
taxi to 30th Street to catch a train to
New York.
“In NYC, he hailed a cab to the
Cathedral [Church] of St. John the
Divine and the 19th annual reading
of cantos from Dante’s Inferno,
a tradition begun when Dan was
Poet in Residence of the Poet’s
Corner. An organ recital filled the
huge cathedral at 2 a.m., following
which there was a reception in the
chapter house.
“It was quite a day for an octogenarian
(actually any) poet.”
Read more about the event at
law.upenn.edu; search for “Dedicating
Golkin Hall.”
Dr. Irving Moch Jr. ’49E, ’50E, ’56
GSAS of Wilmington, Del., shared
his biography: “I received my undergraduate
and graduate chemical
engineering degrees following an
Army discharge in WWII.
“For the last 30 years I have
been associated with water
purification. I founded my own
consulting organization, specializing
in all facets of water treatment,
including design, operations and
projects, and troubleshooting,
providing both on-site plant visits
and teaching seminars. Before
consulting, I spent more than
40 years with the DuPont Co. in
various capacities in marketing,
manufacturing, engineering, and
research and development.
“My activities have included
being former director, chair of the
Publications Committee and editor
of the International Desalination
Association; director emeritus
and past International Liaison
Committee chair of the American
Membrane Technology Association
(AMTA); and currently being
a member of the American Water
Works Association’s Membrane
Standards and Water Desalting
Committees and chairman of the
American Society for Testing and
Materials D19 task group on water
treatment membranes, leading the
effort for writing standards for
U.S. industry. I’m also involved in
the health effects protocol adopted
within the United States as a
member of the Joint Committee,
Water Additives-Health Effects
NSF International, Standards 60
and 61 under the auspices of the
Environmental Protection Agency
and American National Standards
Institute, and, together with the
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation,
developed a CD-ROM water treatment
cost model for membrane
and thermal desalting processes
that is employed as a standard
for estimating plant capital and
operating costs. A holder of patents,
I have published extensively
throughout the world in the field
of water resources and am on the
editorial board of the International
Desalination & Water Reuse Quarterly.
As an expert witness I am
listed in the National Directory of
Experts and American Chemical
Society, also on the Project
Advisory Committee, Middle East
Former poet laureate Daniel Hoffman ’47 read a
poem at the dedication of Golkin Hall at Penn Law.
Desalination Research Center.
“A recognized expert in water
treatment, I have been elected to
the AMTA Hall of Fame, received
the Pakistan Desalination Association
Lifetime Achievement
Award and am listed in Who’s Who
in Science and Engineering, Who’s
Who in Finance and Industry, Who’s
Who in the East and American Men
& Women of Science. In addition, I
have been elected to membership
in Phi Lambda Upsilon and Sigma
XI, honorary chemical and research
societies, respectively. I also
hold membership in the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers,
American Chemical Society and
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.”
Thank you to those who got in
touch! Please share what’s going
on in your life. Your classmates
want to hear from you.
REUNION WEEKEND
MAY 30–JUNE 2, 2013
ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS
ALUMNI AFFAIRS Fatima Yudeh
fy2165@columbia.edu
212-851-7834
DEVELOPMENT Valentina Salkow
vs2441@columbia.edu
212-851-7833
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It seems appropriate to begin this
column with correspondence from
Alan W. Steinberg ’50E, who shares
his first Class Note in 65 years.
“Well, just missed my 65th
reunion, more or less. I was a war
year student, admitted as Class
of ’48 — to greetings from the
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