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class notes columbia college today he works part-time doing patent searches for a law firm. He has been married to Jan for 27 years. They live in Arlington, Va., and own a retreat house on a lake near the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Len’s interests include tennis, grandkids, the lake house, reading and connecting with old friends. Fred’s career took a different trajectory. He married after graduation and returned to Columbia for graduate work in anthropology. After completing an M.A. in 1953, Fred was drafted into the Army. Upon completion of his military obligation, Fred was employed as an archeologist and curator at the Pennsylvania State Museum. After eight years, he accepted a dual position as director of Franklin and Marshall College’s North Museum and as a member of the college’s anthropology department in Lancaster, Pa. Fred retired from F&M after 27 years and founded an archeological consulting business. Now fully retired, Fred and his wife, Carol, live in Manheim, Pa., where they enjoy traveling, landscaping, reading and volunteer work. Happy ending Yes! About 20 years ago, Len and Fred reconnected after ’51’s 40th reunion. They began exchanging visits several times a year, with and without spouses. A big event last year was when they attended each other’s 80th birthday bash. Recently, the classmates enjoyed a boys’ weekend at the lake house. As Len said, it was comical; “Two old deaf guys shouting at each other.” Both would enjoy hearing from any of the old gang. Len can be reached at lenstoehr@msn.com and Fred at wfkinsey@gmail.com. Fortieth reunion, good; 50th reunion, better; but the 60th will be the best! Planning is under way, and the Alumni Office has assigned Jennifer Freely, assistant director of alumni affairs, to help our nascent committee with the planning for Thursday, June 2–Sunday, June 5, 2011. Information will be forthcoming via e-mail, phone calls, literature and this column. Your ideas and suggestions are most welcome. Jennifer can be reached at 212-851-7438 or jf2261@columbia.edu. John Handley reports all is well with his family, and he and his wife, Mary, still live in Santa Barbara, Calif. Spring skiing has been good at Mammoth Mountain, with 11–14 feet of snow in the high peaks. Like so many of us octogenarians, John and Mary devote considerable time to grandparenting and graduation ceremonies. It recently was cap and gown time for granddaughter Maria, who hopes to be accepted at Brown in the fall. Her Dad, Mark, will get a second star as a rear admiral in the Navy, adding a little icing to the Handley cake! How about this sports item from [the Myrtle Beach] Sun News: Dave Zinman finished first in the 65-and-over mile run at Coastal Carolina University this spring. No real surprise, because Dave got his varsity letter in track 59 years ago at Columbia. As Dave said at the finish line, “These weary legs are still a-truckin’, despite some heavy huffing and puffing along the way.” Stan Schachter, our roving reporter in Florida, sent news about Marvin Berkman, who at the time of our graduation was captain of the varsity track team. Despite Marvin’s mentoring, Stan’s own track career was shortlived. Marvin, and the late Mark Winfield, went on to accumulate numerous victories for the Lions. Marv’s career led to a Harvard M.B.A., retail experience with Bloomingdale’s, a marriage in 1963 and resettlement in the Midwest. In 1975, he moved to Los Angeles, acquired a carwash business, built an empire and turned it over to his son. Now he can come and go as he pleases, has time to enjoy with three grandchildren and a daughter who is an attorney in San Jose and who recently appeared before the California Supreme Court and won her case. No doubt about it. The Core Curriculum has created great diversity in our classmates’ careers. Consider Peter T. Suzuki, who earned a master’s in 1952 from GSAS’ anthropology department, studying with such luminaries as Alfred Kroeber, Joseph Greenberg, Margaret Mead ’28 GSAS and Harry Shapiro, to name a few. After studying at Yale and Leiden University in Holland and acquiring a Ph.D. in anthropology, Peter had a long tenure in the academic world with institutions in Turkey, the University of Maryland, in Europe and finally retiring from his professorial appointment at the University of Nebraska. Most recently, he has published an article in Indigenous Policy Journal (September 2009), “Margaret Mead’s Unpublished Field Notes on the Omaha Tribe: Three Unpublished Ceremonies.” The material is based upon Mead’s documents stored in the Library of Congress since summer 1930. Peter’s paper goes over numerous Omaha Tribe ceremonies, which he discovered were not included in Mead’s book, The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe. In addition to anthropological research, Peter has been going to Perth, Australia, twice each year since 2006. There, he keeps his widowed sister company and has time to ponder his next publication. A few final notes: Martin L. Katz and his wife, Olga, recently completed their 45th winter in Puerto Rico and are back in New Jersey for the summer. Marty got tied up with a “little heart problem” as he called it, but all is well. Best of all, he learned to say “Hello” in Tagalog, Korean and Hindi from the multicultural nurses in the hospital. His e-mail is torero1465@aol.com. Ralph Lowenstein co-authored a book with John C. Merrill that came out in January: Viva Journalism: The Triumph of Print in the Media Revolution. (Available from Amazon and other Internet bookstores for those with grandchildren who can help with a computer order.) Sam Haines, class v.p., is in a nursing home in Bergen County, N.J. Fraternity brothers and close friends should keep in touch with Sam. The New York Times reported the death of Allison Stacey Cowles, who died on April 24. Allison was the wife of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. Columbia’s Alumni Office reported the death of John W. Garrett, of Asheville, N.C., on January 10. Frank Lewis had a serious automobile accident last August. His car was totaled when another vehicle turned into him. Frank is pleased with his excellent overall recovery, feels fine and is hoping he can make the 60th reunion despite a couple of lingering problems. Keep in touch with Frank at franklewis@aol.com. Something to think about: The online-only Columbia College Fund 57th Annual Report (http://fund. college.columbia.edu/annual report) noted that $14.6 million was donated in Fiscal Year 2008–09. Our class, consisting of 295 members, had 98 donors who contributed $52,431. Next year is a reunion year. Can we double our giving and make a big splash Yes we can! 52 Sidney Prager 20 Como Ct. Manchester, NJ 08759 sidmax9@aol.com Here we are in the midst of summer. July: hot, hazy and humid. But also, it’s time for the beach, picnics and ballgames with hot dogs, hamburgers, beer and soda. The lazy days of summer that remind us of when we were kids, playing in the park, running under the cold water of the open fire hydrants or if you were lucky, going to camp. What freedom we had, away from the house all day, just having to be back in time for dinner. Remember waiting for the bells to announce Good Humor or Bungalow Bar and holding on tightly to that nickel or dime that you needed for that special summer day treat. Many of us were so poor that we were inches away from welfare, but we didn’t even know it. The Police Athletic League provided free tickets to Yankee Stadium where I saw Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg and Ted Williams. Also, there was always a handball game in the playground 10 blocks away. Some days I would spend the entire day playing handball. If you could win, you could stay on the court. And then there were the ongoing softball games in the empty lot on the corner. Of course, June was the time of graduations. Speaking of which, my wife and I happily attended three of our grandchildren’s high school graduations. One of our granddaughters will be attending Washington University in St. Louis, one of our grandsons will be attending Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. (having been valedictorian of his high school class), and another grandson will attend Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. I couldn’t talk them into going to Columbia. Peter G. Lee writes: “I began my career working for defense and defense-related companies. DuPont (smokeless gun powder), G.D.-E.B. Division (nuclear submarine) and Secondary Lead Smelters (ballasts and bullets). Anyway, it is not a distinguished career, but it kept me out of military service. “I have four children, three sons and a daughter. They are all engineers. I have a most wonderful wife who is a chemist. We met at a scientific conference. She thought I was a salesman, so I sold myself to her. We have been making beautiful chemistry. “After coming to the United States in 1940, I finally had the opportunity to visit my birthplace, a small village in southern China. My wife saw her home in Shanghai. However, everything has changed. My house was torn down, and my wife’s home is now housing five families. “My wife and I like outdoor activities such as hiking, sightseeing and gardening. We bought a small camp with three acres of land in upstate New York. It became our place of refuge, where we can unwind and relax. Since we like the place, we thought we could we retire there. In 1987, we replaced the one room shack with a Lincoln log cabin. We purchased the cabin kit and friends helped put it together. After it was finished and comfortably livable, we realized it was not good for an old couple to live there year-round. This place is too remote. It has no public transportation, limited medical facilities, and only mom-and-pop shopping. The winter is too harsh, with temperatures 20 degrees below zero and 300 inches of snowfall each season. That situation, we cannot handle. But, it is still an attractive july/august 2010 42
columbia college today class notes place to spend summer and fall. We are now a ‘snowbird couple.’ ” James D. Kelly writes: “I was supposed to graduate with the Class of 1953, so few in the Class of 1952 are apt to know me. I went on to Columbia’s graduate school for economics and ended up working as an economist at IBM’s Armonk HQ for 27 years. I have a message for all of you out there: Despite appearances, the earth is not flat, and the sun does not revolve around the earth. As with physical science, assumptions using common sense alone frequently lead to the wrong conclusions. I knew from my studies of the history of economics that there were, indeed, bubbles in both the worldwide real estate market and in most stock markets, despite assertions from Fed officials that it was impossible to know that a bubble exists until it bursts. Some of us knew that huge bubbles existed. I acted on that knowledge and got out of the stock market long before it crashed. Finally, it is essential that the federal government continue to run large budgetary deficits until it is clear that the economic recovery will not abort and send us reeling into another Great Depression. Common sense says that big federal deficits must be reined in. Wise economic policy says, ‘not so fast.’ Before we curb the deficits, let’s be sure that the crisis is really behind us.” Sorry to report the passing of Donald J. Engel, a retired comptroller from Hopewell, N.J., on September 11, 2009. Good wishes and good luck to all. I left Florida in May and will be in my New Jersey home until December. Please feel free to send me any information or updates. 53 Lew Robins 1221 Stratfield Rd. Fairfield, CT 06825 lewrobins@aol.com In 2008, Bob Wallace received the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award. At the time, Dr. Eugene Braunwald of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston called our distinguished classmate “a giant in cardiovascular surgery.” Among his many medical achievements, Bob was the first surgeon in the nation to perform the Rastelli operation to correct transposition of the great arteries with ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis. After serving as the chair of Mayo’s department of surgery from 1968–79, Bob went to the Georgetown University School of Medicine, where he became the chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. In 1999, Bob was v.p., president and chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the LeDucq Foundation. Dr. Andrew Wechsler has written, “Bob Wallace set the direction for what will probably turn out to be the largest private foundation supporting cardiovascular research. Individuals supported by the LeDucq Foundation represent the highest level of cardiologic investigation on both sides of the Atlantic.” Bob has written more than 250 articles or book chapters. He was a resident on Dr. Michael DeBakey’s service in Houston and later worked with Dr. Denton Cooley. Amazingly, Bob claims that it is quite likely he would never have pursued a career in medicine if it had not been for football coach Lou Little, who took a great deal of interest in the young men who played for him. He’s sure that Little had a great deal to do with his acceptance at P&S. Bob and Betty have been happily married for 55 years. They have three children and six grandchildren. Talking to Bob on the phone, I learned that since his retirement, he has been involved in a program to provide tutoring and mentoring to inner-city children in Washington, D.C. In addition, he has become addicted to playing golf and carving two decorative decoys a year, which he gives away to friends and family. What a great classmate! Here’s to many more years of productive activity! Sad to say, Jay Levine passed away on February 22. Jay earned his M.A. in English and comparative literature in 1954 from GSAS and became a professor in Chicago. The American Physical Society, in recognition of scientists who have worked to uphold human rights, awarded Herman Winick its Andrei Sakharov Prize on February 14. The award is named for a Russian physicist and Nobel laureate who campaigned extensively against nuclear proliferation in the former Soviet Union. Herman suspects that he was nominated for his work to pressure the Iranian government to release Iranian physicist Mohammad Hadi Hadizadeh Yazdi, who had been one of his colleagues in a physics project Herman started in 1997. In 2001, Herman organized a letter-writing campaign on Hadizadeh’s behalf, recruiting 32 Nobel Prize laureates in the effort. Later, he was able to help Hadizadeh secure research positions at Ohio and Harvard. “I got very upset that a guy like him, whom I respected so much, should be in prison for views so similar to mine,” Herman writes. In 1957, Herman earned his doctorate in high-energy physics from Columbia and has held positions at the University of Rochester and Harvard. He was one of the primary actors at Stanford in the creation of SSRL and Linac Coherent Light Source. Herman has written more than 100 scientific articles and is a fellow at the APS and the American Association for the Advance of Science. He is working on a collaborative effort with a group of physics experts he organized from nine Middle Eastern countries, including Jordan, Iran, Israel and Egypt. If their work is successful, Herman believes it will dramatically help all countries in the Middle East. Renee and Herman have been married 57 years. Their wedding took place the day after our graduation in 1953. They have three children and seven grandchildren and live on the Stanford campus. Keep up your innovative, dedicated, enthusiastic work! 54 Howard Falberg 13710 Paseo Bonita Poway, CA 92064 westmontgr@aol.com I’m feeling great, since a good number of classmates have responded to my “agonized call for help” regarding information. Many of our classmates are involved in activities, regardless of retirement, and concentrate on business or community, family or sports, hobbies or travel, or just plain leisure. Peter Ehrenhaft is serving as an arbitrator in an international commercial dispute. Peter and his wife, Charlotte ’57 SW (whom he met in his last year at Columbia), recently spent two weeks in China to see the terra cotta warriors in their pit and cruise down the Yangtze Larry Kobrin ’54 is senior counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, practicing real estate and corporate law. River. Peter also serves as national treasurer of Compassion & Choices, which seeks to allow Medicare to reimburse doctors who provide end-of-life counseling. Alan Fendrick and his wife, Bev, are well and were planning to leave Sarasota in late May for their home in the Berkshires. Among their family sources of pride is their grandson, Jonah, who has been playing the cello since he was 5 and will be part of an interscholastic student high school orchestra giving a concert at Alice Tully Hall. Saul Turteltaub and his wife, Shirley, will celebrate their 50th anniversary on August 1. Here’s to a happy 50 more years together. They have two sons and four grandsons (in the words of our classmate, “Boys are us.”). Saul is considering moving back from Beverly Hills to New York so that he can “hang around Hamilton Hall” to see if he can assist grandsons Max and Ross with their admission to Columbia College. He was talking to Stan Swersky, who lives in Weston, Fla. Stan has successfully recovered from serious surgery and is well enough to play golf again. It’s always good hearing from fellow members of “The Class of Destiny,” and it’s even better when someone contacts me whom we haven’t heard from for a long time. Demetrios “Jim” Caraley is a wonderful case in point. Jim’s career involved academia at Columbia and Barnard, where among other honors accorded full professors, Barnard honored him with a special chair, the Janet Robb Professorship of the Social Sciences. Jim held full professorships at Columbia and Barnard. He is a prolific author and has been editor of several scholarly journals such as Political Science Quarterly, and since 1992 has been president of the Academy of Political Science. One of Jim’s comments to me was “Columbia College, especially the humanities Core, really shaped my life, and I advise anyone who I think has a chance of getting in to apply to the College as the best undergraduate institution in the country.” I couldn’t have said it better. Peter Kenen refuses to retire. Although he ascended to emeritus status at Princeton some years ago, he continues to teach, write and travel. Peter is a prolific writer and has three new papers, all forthcoming, on the reform of the international monetary system. His areas of interest involve him in a great deal of international travel. Peter and his wife, Reggie, have four children and four grandchildren, one of whom is a freshman at Columbia in a joint program with the Jewish Theological Seminary. Peter is another example of how one can be retired, involved and having fun. He is happily involved in deep sea fishing and enjoyed the sailfish he caught on a deep sea trip. Arnie Tolkin is not only fascinated by genealogy but he also does something about it. He has uncovered relatives all over the world, and shortly, Arnie and his bride will be off to Africa to visit with relatives he found in Johannesburg and Capetown. Arnie maintains a strong Columbia connection, since his grandson, Aaron ’08, is engaged to Dena ’09 Barnard. “We are now three generations of Columbia grad- july/august 2010 43
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