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CLASS NOTES COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY Gary Mesko ’09 and Feryal Hirji ’09 Barnard were married on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania, over four days. The official ceremony was on July 16. Among the many friends and relatives who joined in the festivities were (left to right) Chantal McKay ’09, Ula Kudelski ’09, Katrina Cragg ’09, Clark Koury ’09, Jade Smith ’09 Barnard, the bride, the groom, Kaitlyn Busler ’10, Stefan Savic ’08, Ralph DeBernardo ’09, Erin Conway ’11, Gene Kaskiw ’09, Andrea Derricks ’07 and Cody Steele ’09. tions of a Columbia College degree in philosophy. After two years of consulting in the Middle East, Josh Mathew returned to the majestic Jersey shore in August. He enjoyed working in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and he is excited for new paths ahead. Also, while living in Jordan, he had the pleasure of meeting six wonderful Columbia undergrads interning in Jordan through the Center for Career Education. He recently went camping with Phillip Fletcher ’13 and Amirah Sequeira ’12 in the Wadi Rum desert, where they woke up to a beautiful sunrise and a Ford Taurus stuck in the sand. Also, after some persuasion from the fantastic Dominique Jean-Louis, who has been working for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Josh interviewed about 10 Jordanian high school students for Columbia undergraduate admissions. He enjoyed the experience because he could explain why he chose Columbia to many students who had never visited the campus or the United States. Through that process, he met an extraordinary young man, Thaer Al-Sheikh Theeb ’15E. Finally, in March, Josh attended a potluck mini-reunion in Brooklyn with Dominique, Nhu-Y Ngo, Gabrielle Apollon, Courteney Ervin, Maryam Parhizkar and Sumaiya Ahmed. The summer after graduation, Grace Park lived and worked as an environmental educator on the AJ Meerwald, New Jersey’s historic tall ship. Since then, Grace moved to Massachusetts and has been administering grant programs for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Most recently, she has managed a grant program that helps multi-family housing owners retrofit their buildings to save energy, reduce operating costs and help tenants save on utility bills. In her spare time, Grace has been an active member of the Columbia University Club of New England, and she has had a great time getting to know local alumni through its events. She now has moved to Washington, D.C., and is looking forward to connecting with Columbia alumni in the D.C. area! And, finally, Yelena Shuster is a copywriter for Saks Fifth Avenue. 10 Julia Feldberg 4 E. 8th St., Apt. 4F New York, NY 10003 juliafeldberg@gmail.com Since it likely will be snowing by the time you read these notes, I will not say that I cannot believe an entire school year has passed without us at Columbia. No, I will not say that. Instead, I will dive right in to the updates: After working at a New Yorkbased consulting firm for a year, Joe Saia got bored and decided to take the next logical step in his career — move to Silicon Valley and sell robots. He now is a business development analyst at RoboteX, a robotics startup in Palo Alto, Calif., that designs, manufactures and sells surveillance robots to police, SWAT and military organizations. Joe’s excited to work in an entrepreneurial environment, and he hopes to curry favor with the human race’s future robotic overlords. He will miss New York and all of the great people he met there, but he will not miss the East Coast’s humidity. Laura Taylor is performing with the Metropolitan Opera for the 2011–12 season. She has some excellent information and advice for the rest of our class: “Don Giovanni will be directed by Michael Grandage, who won the Tony for Best Direction of a Play for the play Red in 2010. Don Giovanni is arguably one of Mozart’s best operas, and the integrity of this production and its cast makes me proud to be a performer at the Metropolitan Opera! For more information on the Met Opera season and tickets, check out this link metoperafamily.org/opera/don-giovannimozart-tickets.aspx. “For alums who are students at other institutions or still have their student IDs, they should be able to sign up for the Met Opera student tickets program (significantly discounted tickets for the 2011–12 season and beyond). More information on that at this link: Laura Taylor ’10 is performing with the Metropolitan Opera for the 2011–12 season. WINTER 2011–12 94 metoperafamily.org/metopera/ students/register.aspx. “This year has taught me that you can actually do anything that you set your mind to. Upon graduating from Columbia, I wanted to dance and I wanted to teach, but I didn’t want to choose between the two. As a Met Opera performer and a Kaplan Test Prep teacher/tutor, I’m able to do both of the things I love and still pay rent/eat/live/ go out. Sure, it took some hard work and difficult balancing acts at first, but the trial and error was so worth it. “I have friends who are going through a rough time right now in jobs that don’t really thrill them, and I don’t want any of my classmates to feel like they have to stay in a professional situation that isn’t exactly what they want out of life!” Emelie Kogut spent the spring in Geneva working for an NGO that helps strengthen legal institutions in developing countries. Aside from working, she spent her time skiing, wine-tasting and traveling around Europe. Now, she is back in New York City and has started a new job at an intellectual property law firm in 30 Rock (which has also become her favorite television show!). She hasn’t gotten too far away from Columbia, however, as she’s still living in Morningside Heights. Even over a year after graduation, she still feels nostalgic seeing all of the freshman with their big, blue carts during move-in weekend! Nellie Bowles is using her Fulbright scholarship in 2011–12 to write for a newspaper in Johannesburg on witch doctors in Swaziland. She and Laura Seidman went on a romantic vacation together to Ravenna, Italy. A few of our classmates aren’t quite done with school yet. Veronica Couzo is attending Notre Dame Law and will be studying law in the hopes of practicing entertainment law in New York City or California. Ben Freeman is in his second year at Harvard Law. Pin-Quan Ng started in the Ph.D. program in government at Harvard and misses New York (and Columbia) terribly. Kate Redburn and Sarah Leonard haven’t left the house since Hurricane Irene. Their hobbies include canning and growing their own water. They’re adapting to Brooklyn just fine. 11 Colin Sullivan c/o CCT Columbia Alumni Center 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530 New York, NY 10025 casullivan@gmail.com Season’s greetings to the Class of 2011! Now that summer is behind us, we each seem to have entered a new rhythm, whether it’s an internship, a first job out of college or continuing on to graduate school. To begin, Amanda Olivo is working on campus as a research technician in the [Virginia] Cornish [’91] lab completing work in biochemistry. During the summer, she spent a month traveling Europe (Dublin, London, Paris, Venice, Florence and Rome). Throughout her travels she met up with many Columbians including Doug Yolen
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No refunds for canceled ads. 10% discount for Columbia College alumni, faculty, staff, students and parents Mail or email orders to: Columbia College Today Columbia Alumni Center 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 1st Fl. New York, NY 10025 Email: cctadvertising@columbia.edu Online: college.columbia.edu/cct/advertise_with_us Telephone: 212-851-7852 ’11E, Keshal Patel, Ben Gaston, Bryan Kipp ’11E, John McGovern, Flan Gallagher and Felix Vo. Thomas Rhiel is a technical account manager at Google in New York. He lives in leafy, pleasant, Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He’s not a huge fan of the C train. Betsy Morais lives in Washington, D.C., on a fellowship at Atlantic Magazine. She has been working with the editorial staff and writing pieces that are available online. Having celebrated graduation aboard a bicycle in France and Italy, Joey Shemuel is counseling homeless and at-risk youth in San Francisco and learning how to pickle everything he can get his hands on. During the summer, Eric Rosenberg spent time at home in Boston while making frequent trips to NYC to hang out with Class of 2011 bud- Deadline for Spring 2012 issue: Thursday, January 26, 2012 dies. He went to Coney Island for the first time with Ian Kwok and his cousin. He highly recommends it. He is attending Georgetown University Law Center (alas, not yet in the real world). Last but certainly not least, George Mu has entered the warm and fuzzy world of consulting at Booz & Co. (along with me!). He wishes he had all the frequent flyer miles before he spent this past summer traveling around Asia. Thank you very much to those of you who submitted notes, and I look forward to hearing more exciting updates from the rest of the class in a few months! Send a note to me at the email at the top of the column, or use CCT’s easy-to-use webform: college.columbia.edu/ cct/submit_class_note. Your note will come right to me. WINTER 2011–12 95 CI Connect! We are looking for you! If you volunteered during your time at Columbia, you SERVICES might have been a Community Impact (CI) Volunteer! PROMOTE YOUR BOOK on tv, radio talk shows, print. Columbia alum offers free Send consultation. us your Frank contact Promotion, information 561-737-2315, and frankpromo@aol.com. we will tell you about a fantastic complimentary reunion party in RENTALS December! Historic Jekyll Island, Georgia. 4BR cottage near beach. Weekly. Bingham ’65 CC. 732-571-0552, Email Us jekyllrental.com. at: CIAO@communityimpactatcu.org  Website: www.communityimpactatcu.org/ci/  Tel: PERSONAL (212) 854-2617  DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. CC grads contact Fred Ripin ’54 for reminiscences at mauripin8@hvc.rr.com or call 845-876-3592. Community Impact Connect! We are looking for you! If you volunteered during your time at Columbia, you might have been a Community Impact (CI) Volunteer! This December, we are planning a fantastic complimentary reunion party for you, our alumni! Send us your contact information to find out more. Email Us at: CIAO@communityimpactatcu.org  Website: www.communityimpactatcu.org/ci/  Alumni Corner (Continued from page 96) the years, dealers have sworn with straight faces that the cows, dogs, cats, tigers and even one frog they had in stock were in fact lions. A few close friends with exquisite taste have spotted, and occasionally even bought for us, some of our favorite pieces, while other friends have had to be forcibly restrained from continuing to shower us with well-meant leonine kitsch. Building and enjoying our lion collection has informed and inspired my active Columbia involvement at the College, the Business and Law Schools, the Libraries, the Society of Columbia Graduates, the 1754 Society, the Columbia University Club of New York and most recently, the Columbia Alumni Singers. I look for- Tel: (212) 854-2617  ward to continuing both my service to alma mater and expanding and deepening the Lion Collection. To view more of Garrett’s collection, go to Web Extras at college.columbia. edu/cct. Michael Garrett ’66, ’69L, ’70 Business has lived for decades in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and Shinnecock, Southampton. He spent his legal career as general counsel of global financial services businesses and has devoted himself to a mix of legal, consulting, coaching and board activities; Columbia; photography; piano; gardening; fine-woodworking; and family, which includes his son, Justin Graham Garrett ’98, his son’s wife and two grandchildren.  
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