Fall 2006 - College of Dental Medicine - Columbia University

TASIOS VAKKAS ’00 and SONIA VARLAMOS ’00were married recently. Tasios is an oral surgeon inNew York City, and Sonia is practicing periodontics.CATHERINE SANTIAGO ’01 and JAHANGIRMOZAFFARI ’01 were married in the summer of2005, and have a son named Camron Jon.BRYANT TO ’03 writes that he has learned to appreciatethe education he received at Columbia, discoveringthat it has made his practice of dentistryboth easier and more enjoyable.AMY BRYER ’04 (standing far right in photo below,left) is a Navy Lieutenant on the USS Enterprise carrier,treating patients in restorative and preventivedentistry. Dr. Bryer was recently asked to be aDistinguished Visitor Tour Guide for the SecretaryGeneral of NATO. She has traveled to Malaysia,Hong Kong, Greece, South Korea, and Croatia.MARTIN DAVIS, STUART EPSTEIN, LAWRENCEGOLUB, LAWRENCE GELB, ROBERT GOLDMAN,and LEONARD SKOPE, met this past summer fortheir annual Class of ’74 tennis tournament reunionat Dr. Epstein’s home in Connecticut.BENJAMIN F. LEVENE ’41KENNETH F. LEVENE ’72, ORTHO ’76A FAMILY PRACTICE CENTENNIALDr. Benjamin F. Levene ’41 recently rounded out100 years of continuous service to dental patientsby his family. In June of 1905, Dr. Levene’s father wasgranted a license to practice dentistry in New York.Thirty-six years later, there were two Dr. Levenestreating patients in the same Manhattan dental officeoverlooking Central Park at 57th and Fifth. The thirdprovider in this family of dentists, Dr. KennethLevene, received a DDS at Columbia in 1972, andfinished his postdoctoral orthodontics training atCDM (SDOS) in 1976.Still working two days a week, Dr. Benjamin Levene,is also still treating patients who began their dentalcare with his father. One family has been coming tothe Levene office for five generations. Dr. KennethLevene, although limiting his own practice to orthodonticsrather than offering the variety of servicesthat both his father and grandfather made available,has been granted the privilege of carrying on thefamily record for service longevity.24primus2006