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Ethan Braun, born on July 14 at 7
lbs., 10 oz. and 19 ¾ in. Ethan joins
sister Hayley at home in NYC.
courtney vowels wrote in with
an exciting update: “John garnevicus
and I got married on July
4, 2009, on the Garnevicus family
farm in Nelson, Wis. It’s the farm
John’s mom grew up on; his parents
retired there a few years ago
after 40 or so years in the Bronx.
We happily were able to convince
about 60 close friends and family
to make the tough trek to the middle
of the country (2½ hours from
the nearest airport and about a
mile from the closest neighbor) and
got to give a bunch of city folks the
full rural Wisconsin experience,
including feeding newborn lambs
at the farm next door.
“Columbians in attendance
included Karen Bram (née Garnevicus)
’74 Barnard, Erin Bailey ’09 TC,
Elisa Jacobs ’01 Barnard, Joe Garnevicus
’03 (John’s middle brother;
his youngest brother and my brother
were also in attendance), Kate
Fillin-Yeh ’01 Barnard, Josephine
lee, dean lin, laura baldez and
Tom Garnevicus ’69 (John’s dad).
Also present was Ben Frisch ’10 PH,
and present in spirit was rebecca
Zimmerman. She was scheduled
to be part of the wedding party, but
instead was on the other side of the
planet welcoming a new addition to
her family: She and husband, Eric
Friedman, are now busy raising
their son, Shai, in Israel.
“John and I have had a whirlwind
of a year. Just before the
wedding we bought a townhouse
in our hometown of the past four
years, Seattle. John teaches high
school math and science at Lakeside
School in Seattle, and I’m the
director of education at Tacoma Art
Museum. I’m also on the board of
our local Columbia alumni club, so
we’ve gotten to meet a lot of local
alums.”
Congratulations to Courtney
and John!
Best wishes to all, and please do
keep in touch.
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sonia dandona
hirdaramani
2 Rolling Dr.
Old Westbury, NY 11568
soniah57@gmail.com
Hope everyone enjoyed the summer.
With fall came a new season
and many new beginnings. Fill us
in by e-mailing me at soniah57@
gmail.com.
Melissa tominac was married
on June 12 to Mike Stewart in New
York City. They will live in London
this year, where Melissa is participating
in a study-abroad program
for her second year of law school.
beth stein lipschitz and her
husband, Nat, welcomed their first
baby, Eva Tess, on July 29. Evie
already has been enjoying walks
with Mom from the Upper West
Side to the Columbia campus.
daniel lupo is serving in the
Army as a chemical specialist at
Fort Carson, Colo., and is soon to
be deployed to the Middle East.
ginger gentile is filming her first
feature documentary, Goals for Girls:
The Movie, which follows the struggle
of teenage girls in a Buenos Aires
shantytown who dare to play a sport
off-limits to women in Argentina:
soccer. You can watch the awardwinning
short and support the
project at goalsforgirlsthemovie.org.
lindsay Jurist rosner graduated
from Harvard Business School
and lives in Los Angeles. She
works for Microsoft.
avi fernandes graduated with
an M.B.A. from INSEAD after having
lived in France and Singapore
for the last 10 months. He is now
deciding on which city to make his
permanent home: HK? SF? Singapore?
NYC? Only time will tell!
su ahn will be attending business
school at INSEAD in Fountainbleau
and Singapore beginning
in January.
Bethany Milton ’06 recently
finished a two-year tour as a
foreign service officer at the U.S.
Consulate in Mumbai and is heading
out again in April to serve as
an economic and consular officer at
the embassy in Tel Aviv.
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Michael novielli
World City Apartments
Attention Michael J.
Novielli, A608
Block 10, No 6. Jinhui
Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing, 100020, People’s
Republic of China
mjn29@columbia.edu
I wanted to take a moment to reflect,
through this column, on the unfortunate
passing of John W. Kluge ’37.
His generosity toward Columbia
was unparalleled, and the Kluge
Scholars Program that benefitted
many of our friends through the
years is just one example of his legacy.
In this season of giving thanks,
it seems fitting to thank him and his
family for their generous support of
our alma mater.
Members of our class continue
to make unique contributions to
society, including lien de brouckere,
who is “now happily living in
lovely Hamburg, Germany, where
I am at White & Case’s office here
working on EU and German competition
law.”
Oscar Olivo ’04, also in Germany,
completed his “diploma
in 2008 at the ‘Hochschule für
Schauspielkunst “Ernst Busch” ’
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Jessica Bobula Foster ’06 married her UVA School of Medicine classmate
Sean Foster in Charlottesville, N.Y., in July 2009. Keeping the bride
company were (from left to right) Lauren Baranco ’06; Carly Hugo ’06;
Tara Wedin ’06; Kelly Gavin ’06; the bride; Danielle Joset ’06; Katie Fernandez
’06, ’09L; Dana Gold ’06; and Emily Berkman ’06 Barnard.
PHOTO: DAVE CROCKETT
and entered my second year of my
three-year contract in the fall. I am
part of a 30-person ensemble and
am working at the Staatstheater
Hannover. It is the state repertoire
theater for the State of Hannover.
Every state and big city has a state
theater in Germany.”
Eric siskind recently published
his latest novel, Moment of Clutch,
which can be purchased and downloaded
on Amazon for Kindle, iPad,
iPhone, and smartphone reader
applications. lauren Kornreich
shawn writes, “I married brett
shawn. We didn’t know each other
in college, surprisingly, but met a
few years out of college. I’m in my
last year of residency in emergency
medicine at NYU/Bellevue, and
Brett is a first-year associate at Wachtell,
Lipton, Rosen & Katz.” luz
Jimenez graduated from medical
school and is in her second year
of residency in combined internal
medicine/pediatrics.
pat holder writes, “My wife,
Kirsten, and I moved in June 2009
to Boston, where I took a job as a
postdoctoral researcher for Daniel
Nocera in the chemistry department
at MIT. I was fortunate enough
to receive an NIH Fellowship for
three years for my research. Kirsten
found work with the John A. Volpe
National Transportation Systems
Center in Cambridge, where she
is planning alternative transportation
such as shuttles and trails for
National Parks and federal land
agencies.”
Miru Kim has been “working
full-time on my artwork and traveling
a lot. This year: April, one-month
stay and a solo show in Istanbul;
May, shooting in Iowa; July–August,
The Fountainhead Residency in
Miami (artist residency); September,
Lodz, Poland, stay for two weeks
to produce work for the Łódź Biennale;
October, Uruguay for a show
in Montevideo and another Miami
residency.”
Lastly, beth priest “recently
completed the Intern Development
Program and passed the last of my
Architecture Registration Exams
to become a licensed architect. I
am practicing at DeStefano and
Partners in Chicago. My husband,
Gregory, and I welcomed a daughter,
Mallory Eleanor Murphy, into
our family on April 5.”
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angela georgopoulos
200 Water St., Apt. 1711
New York, NY 10038
aeg90@columbia.edu
Hello fellow alumni! I hope you
are all doing well and gearing
up for a fun holiday season. As
always, please send any and all
updates my way. On to the news:
ryan brumberg is the Republican
candidate for Congress in New
York’s 14th District. Ryan graduated
from Stanford Law School
in 2007 and worked at McKinsey
and Co. for the past several years
as a management consultant. In
March, he resigned in good standing
to run full-time for Congress.
Matthew Einhorn is his campaign
manager.
After three years as a litigation
associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel,
sogol somekh started a judicial
clerkship in the fall working in
the federal courthouse in Brooklyn
Heights. She is looking forward to
what should be a wonderful professional
and personal experience.
Congratulations to arielle fenigstein
and Yehuda cohen, who
were married on August 1 in L.A.
Yehuda writes, “We knew each other
during college but were not really
friends; we reconnected while living
in Washington Heights during the
past two years. Arielle is an English
teacher at SAR H.S. in the Bronx.
I am completing my residency in