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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY home of Derek Manwaring and his wife, Athena (Lenas) Manwaring ’91 Barnard, who hosted a Carman 13 reunion of sorts. Derek and Athena have happily settled in Ridgewood, N.J., with their children, Leandros and Eleni, after their most recent assignment in Switzerland. Derek is global marketing director for Colgate-Palmolive. Also in attendance was Kamran Ahmad, who met Angela Grinstead in London (where she was an attorney with his brother). They were married in 2006 and now live in Orange County with their boys, Aden and Alec. Kamran works in corporate finance and M&A at Corinthian Colleges but really works harder at wrangling the gang for its annual Columbia reunion in Vegas for March Madness. Julio Cuevas is an assistant district attorney in NYC who wanted desperately to be cryptic here and gave Paul creative license. Paul shares that Julio has extended his wardrobe beyond black, no longer buttons the top button of his shirts, has run a marathon, is still an awful golfer and likes to vacation in Montréal. He lives on the Upper West Side with his longtime girlfriend, Kerry Kiang. And finally, also at the gathering was Kieran Corcoran and his wife, Alyssa, who have clung with desperation to the Upper West Side. But with toddler (Kieran II) in tow, they are planning a move to nearby Tenafly, N.J. Kieran is a partner at a nontraditional, blended contingency-oriented complex litigation boutique. Kieran and family attended the “Carman 13 reunion” as Carman 12 interlopers. [See photo.] Daniel Balsam wrote: “I’m the chief foodie of the Epicurean Circle of the Columbia University Club of Chicago. Each month, I organize prix fixe dinners at Chicago’s trendsetting restaurants for a devoted, multi-generational group of food aficionados representing all of Columbia’s schools. Since the event’s inception two years ago, we have explored cuisines from Ethiopia, Nepal, China, Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece and the United States. We had two more events lined up for the fall. Going forward, I welcome any out-of-towners who would like to partake in our culinary cornucopia. Weekdays, I wear the engineering hat that I earned so diligently in Columbia’s history department, and design and assemble cloud- enabled information infrastructure for financial services companies. Weekends, I don my marine biology cap, which I also earned in Columbia’s history department, and enter- tain and educate children from around the globe at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, where I am a volunteer docent. Every other winter, I lead Columbia alumni and their families on a private tour of the Shedd’s wonderful animal collections. In March, I will travel to the remote island of Papua New Guinea, where I will dive pristine reefs, discover new marine fauna and explore WWII naval wrecks. Warm regards from the Windy City!” Sara Armstrong and her family live and bike-commute in New Haven, Conn. They recently were featured in the September/October edition of Momentum Magazine. You can see the digital edition here: momentum-digitalmag.com/ SeptOct2011. Sara writes about her family’s bicycling adventures at fullhandsx3.blogspot.com. Carl Marci switched from academic medicine to co-founder and CEO of a neuromarketing firm, Innerscope Research. He recently celebrated his ninth anniversary, but has no kids as of yet. Adam Barrison wrote that Claude Mattessich was married earlier this year to Sabina Blaskovic. The wedding in St. Catharines, Canada, was attended by a proud group of his Fiji brothers including Adam, Tony Alessi ’91E, Shereef Anbar ’91E, John Hopp, Eric Hopp ’98 and Jamie Mendelson. Don’t forget that we have a Facebook page — Columbia College Class of 1991. It’s a great way to keep up with classmates. And, you can always submit updates directly to me via CCT’s web submission form: college.columbia. edu/cct/submit_class_note. Until next time … cheers! REUNION MAY 31–JUNE 3 ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS ALUMNI AFFAIRS Jennifer Freely jf2261@columbia.edu 212-851-7438 DEVELOPMENT Amanda Kessler ak2934@columbia.edu 212-851-7883 92 Jeremy Feinberg 315 E. 65th St. #3F New York, NY 10021 jeremy.feinberg@ verizon.net Hi out there! Let’s get right to the news. I spent a summer evening with Eric Garcetti in Southern California, taking in a high school football game, having dinner and catching up. Eric, who is president of the Los Angeles City Council (college. columbia.edu/cct/mar_apr10/ features0), had some big news to share — he’s running for mayor. No doubt during the months leading up to the election there will be more to report, but for now, know that one of our own is taking a shot at being the leader of a major metropolitan area. Sticking with Los Angelesthemed news, Mignon Moore is an associate professor of sociology at UCLA. While Mignon was a faculty member at Columbia (2000–06), she collected data for her 2011 book, Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood among Black Women. Congratulations! I heard from Eva Graburn through the CCT website. (If you haven’t tried submitting news there, it’s quick and easy: college.colum bia.edu/cct/submit_class_note.) Eva enjoys running her active tour company, Terracotta Journeys (terracottajourneys.com), which offers cycling and walking tours of Spain and Portugal. Eva told me that “things are picking up but we’d love to host some Columbia alums. Come join us!” I received a long email from Jennifer Madrid, who wrote, “After six years raising three beautiful children (Nico, Alexa and Isabella), I reinvented myself as a corporate events manager at the Bedford Post Inn (bedfordpostinn.com) in Bedford, N.Y.” Jennifer says she loves working “on behalf of such kind, hip, forever young owners” and at a place that “feels like more than a meditative eating experience.” She is reconnecting with many CC friends seeking a romantic day in the country. Jennifer also told me that her best news is that her three children “think the Columbia quad is an extremely cool place to visit. I’d love to say it’s the academic aura and that they are future intellectual Lions but I think they like chasing the pigeons, as we don’t have any such urban activity up here.” Finally, on the personal front, it’s been a summer and early autumn filled with travel. I can add Venice, Italy; Anchorage, Alaska; and even Split, Croatia, to my places visited. For now, I can safely say, it feels good to be home and sharing all of our classmates’ news with you. Keep it coming, and be well. 93 WINTER 2011–12 86 Betsy Gomperz 41 Day St. Newton, MA 02466 Betsy.Gomperz@gmail.com I received a nice note from Down Under when my McBain floormate, John Callaghan, responded to a recent plea for news. John has been living back in Australia since 1994 and is married with two daughters, Missy (5) and Piper (3). After leaving Morningside Heights, John received another undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney. He also is a kung fu instructor and speaks intermediate-level Mandarin. I also was fortunate enough to hear from Richard Carrick, who returned to Columbia this fall to teach the graduate composition seminar in the music department. As you may have guessed, Richard is a composer. His works have been performed internationally by the New York Philharmonic, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and the Tokyo International House, among many others. He also conducts, plays piano and guitar, co-founded and co-directs the New-York based contemporary ensemble Either/Or and teaches “20th Century Music” at NYU. This fall he released his first CD (Richard Carrick: The Flow Cycle for Strings), and the release concert took place in October at the Austrian Cultural Forum. Congratulations, Richard! As for family news, Richard and his wife, Nomi Levy-Carrick ’92, have two children, Hannah (4) and Claude (3), and enjoy life in NYC. Best wishes to everyone this holiday season and I hope you have a healthy and happy New Year! 94 Leyla Kokmen 440 Thomas Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55405 lak6@columbia.edu Saskia Traill writes with the happy news that she had twins, Penelope and Timothy, on May 25. “The twins and their dad, Josh Weinberger, enjoyed a hot, sticky summer in Harlem,” she writes. “Our apartment is just a few blocks from Columbia, and I can see East Campus from my building’s roof (not quite the same as seeing Russia from my house, but you get the idea). I’ve enjoyed getting back in touch with Community Impact alums at a couple of events this past year, and encourage any Community Impact supporters to look out for the CI Alumni Organization.” On the career front, Saskia is v.p. of policy and research at The After-School Corp., a nonprofit dedicated to giving all kids expanded learning opportunities that support, educate and inspire them. In other baby news, Josh Shannon and his wife, Rona Marech, welcomed their second child, Mae, in August. The family, including son Jasper, live in the Mount Pleasant district of Washington, D.C., and Josh teaches contemporary art history at Maryland. “Now and then we get to see Kay Bailey, Eric Roston ’93 and his wife, Karen Yourish ’98J, for a collaborative afternoon of true kid chaos,” Josh writes, adding that they’ve also spent time with John Mathews ’93, his wife, Linda, and their kids since they moved to D.C. a couple of years ago. Lola Rephann earned her 200- hour yoga teacher training certifica-
COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY CLASS NOTES tion in June 2010 and has been teaching regularly since then. She also started an independent record label, Plan B Recordings (planbre cordingsnyc.com), about three years ago with her business partner, DJ Spider. Not only does she release music regularly, but Lola also works on her own music production as dakini9. “I make electronic dance music,” Lola writes, “mostly deep house and techno. Anyone interested in my yoga practice or music can view my blog dakinisbliss.com.” David Robbins went on to medical school, settled down in Battery Park and is “happily single in the city.” He works at Lenox Hill Hospital in a field known as interventional endoscopy. “I was trained as a gastroenterologist, but most of my work relates to early cancer detection and treatment of digestive cancers,” he writes. “I get to do some teaching and clinical research as well — good times!” Laurie (Galluzzi) Reid lives in Syracuse, N.Y., with her children, 5 and 7, and teaches ecology at Bryant & Stratton College. “I still have fond memories of Bacchante, Fiddler on the Roof, The Wiz and The Varsity Show,” she writes. Miranda Pinckert lives in Menlo Park, Calif., with her husband, Christian, and their 2-year-old daughter. Miranda worked for Yahoo! for many years and now is finishing a doctorate in clinical psychology. And finally, my own update: After almost three years working for the Minnesota Department of Health in communications, I recently started a new job as associate director of public relations for OptumHealth, part of the health services arm of UnitedHealth Group. I am in charge of leading strategic planning for external communications and media and public relations for OptumHealth’s Care Solutions division, which provides a broad range of health and wellness services including tobacco cessation, disease management and diagnosis support. A big change from the public sector, but very interesting so far. Thanks to everyone who wrote in! Until next time. 95 Janet Lorin 127 W. 96th St., #2GH New York, NY 10025 jrf10@columbia.edu While Hurricane Irene ruined our family vacation in August, it brought a nice reunion with Ari Abramowitz, who also lived on Carman 10. My husband, Scott, our 3-yearold son, Ike, and 1-year-old daughter, Charlie, evacuated the beach house where we were vacationing near Westerly, R.I., and headed to Providence. Scott found a restaurant for dinner, and soon after we sat down Ike began talking to a little girl at the table next to us. I looked up to talk with her dad, and it was Ari! “How serendipitous! Sitting at abutting tables with Janet at the only restaurant in Providence to stay open throughout Irene,” Ari writes. “I was taking the family (wife and trio of kids) on an Eastern seaboard road trip (Chevy Chasestyle), with stops on the Vineyard (hanging out with Christine Lai and her family), in Providence and in Boston. Even splurged on a Sox game (though we had to endure typically awful pitching courtesy of John Lackey). The kids were psyched as long as they could order cotton candy.” Ari’s kids are Logan (6), Gabby (4) and Brynn (2). He is still in New York, is a copyright/entertainment lawyer and digs for good music. Ari and his wife, Gwen, have been married for nine years. The couple met at business school. Gwen went to Michigan and was in brand marketing at Kraft. “I keep thinking I’ll magically run into someone from our class on the street,” he writes. “But it somehow almost never happens. Only in Providence.” Ari’s mention of Christine was a good reason to check in with her. After graduation, Christine worked in equity research on the sell side, first at Sanford Bernstein and later at JPMorgan, covering property casualty insurance companies. She left to join her then-boss at the insurance company Chubb. She moved over to the buy side — first at Chilton Investment Co., where she followed European financials, and then later at Carlson Capital, where she traded global insurance companies. Christine left the buy side after her son, Spencer, now 7, was born. Two years later, she had Wesley, now 5. From 2006–09, she was CFO of Dr. Bobby, a dermatological-level skincare line for children created by a pediatric dermatologist. In 2002, she married Craig Elkind ’91 Business. “Since 2009 I’ve been a full-time, stay-at-home mom,” Christine writes. “We live in Greenwich (since 2001) and spend summers on Martha’s Vineyard. Periodically we have mini Columbia gatherings at our house that include the Abramowitzes, Robyn Pangi Sassaman, Sura Alammar Rathore, Kelly Dailey and Kevin Dailey ’95 GS.” Robyn earned a master’s in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2000 and stayed on at the Kennedy School as a researcher with the executive session on domestic preparedness for a few years. She married Corey Sassaman in 2002, and they moved to Kalamazoo, Mich. While they were living in the Midwest, they adopted two children from Kazakhstan: Hayden (7) and Kathryn (5). She freelanced for The Kalamazoo Gazette, writing a weekly column and editing a monthly magazine, while staying home with the kids. The family now lives in Wood- Ridge, N.J., outside of New York, and for the last three years Robyn has been working for the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney’s Office as director of legislative affairs and special projects. Danny Ackerman writes from the West Coast that he started teaching a white-collar crime seminar at Loyola Law. “I’ve been living in South Pasadena for 10 years, still single, no kids and enjoying life,” he writes. I ran into Eric Roston ’93 at Bloomberg, where I have worked for 3½ years. Eric lives in D.C. with his wife, Karen Yourish ’98J, and their daughter Madeline (4). Karen is deputy graphics director of The Washington Post. Eric is the sustainability editor of Bloomberg Businessweek (busi nessweek.com), which is a website about the global race among countries and companies for resources — energy, commodities and ideas. 96 WINTER 2011–12 87 A group of CC ’94 classmates, all mothers, vacation together yearly “to reconnect and share the wonderful joys of motherhood. Nine kids in total between all the ladies, so that’s a lot of complaining … err, excuse me, celebrating how hard we work all year,” shares Sharene (Barnett) Wood. Relaxing in Miami Beach at The Palms Hotel in mid-May 2010 were (left to right) Annys Shin, Wood, Kemba Dunham, Nicole (Johnson) Sanders and Leslie De Lara Luck. The group has traveled to Mexico, Miami, Scottsdale and Las Vegas. Ana S. Salper 24 Monroe Pl., Apt. MA Brooklyn, NY 11201 asalper@ebglaw.com Greetings, classmates, and happy winter. Only a bit of notes for you this time around. I am happy to report that my good friend Matt Lasner has returned to New York from Atlanta to accept a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Urban Affairs & Planning at Hunter College. Welcome back, Matt! He reports that Bekah Burgess works in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don’t let the momentum from our reunion subside — please send in more notes! Write to me directly or use CCT’s easy online form: college.columbia.edu/cct/ submit_class_note. For now, I leave you with this: “Dwell in Possibility.” —Emily Dickinson REUNION MAY 31–JUNE 3 ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS ALUMNI AFFAIRS Patricia Carchi pc2389@columbia.edu 212-851-7807 DEVELOPMENT Harrison Kobb kh2468@columbia.edu 212-851-7444 97 Sarah Katz 1935 Parrish St. Philadelphia, PA 19130 srk12@columbia.edu Plans are under way for our class’ 15th Alumni Reunion Weekend, Thursday, May 31–Sunday, June 3. Take a look at the reunion website (reunion.college.columbia.edu) and mark your calendars now. More information will start to arrive during the spring, so be sure Columbia has your correct postal and email addresses. Hope to see many of you there! Congratulations to Alex Grossman, who was recently named creative director at Bon Appetit! Also, congratulations to Naveena Ponnusamy, who has been named executive director of development at RAND Corp. Jeanette Brown is writing about early childhood education for Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children. Her
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