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side Heights. Joining 180 other
WKCR alumni were paul feldman
of the classical music department;
tom hamilton, news department;
John pegram, engineering department;
and bill seegraber, popular
music department. Beverly Arm-
strong ’60 Barnard was among the
celebrants. The event was held in
the Roone Arledge Auditorium
and at the WKCR station.
Not all of bill tanenbaum’s
time is spent atop the 14,000-foot
peaks in Colorado, though it may
seem that way. In fact, Bill loves to
travel and does so widely. He also
makes it a practice to stay in touch
with members of the class.
Soon after our reunion, Bill sojourned
in California, meeting twice
with bob levine and dick dorazio.
In July, he met with ira Jaffrey
in Glenwood Springs, Colo. All
three are in the medical profession
with different specialties.
In December, Bill traveled through
Israel for 16 days. Three of those
days were spent with Joel levine
and Joel’s wife, Zehavit. “The first
two nights were in Elkana, Samaria,
across the green line,” writes Bill.
“The last night was spent in Kinneret.
They drove us through the
Golan Heights and around the Sea
of Galilee, ending with a delicious
dinner in Tiberias. We enjoyed each
other’s company and got to know
each other better. Joel is semiretired
and enjoys traveling.”
Bill’s conquests of the 14’ers of
Colorado have been chronicled in
prior Class Notes, and those adventures
prompted an e-mail from
dick caldwell: “I just read through
the January/February issue, and it
brought back fond memories. It’s
been a long time since my wife,
Ellen, and I have touched base with
Bill. The last time was shortly after
Reina’s [Bill’s beloved wife] untimely
passing. We would really like
to reconnect with him. Ellen and I
will be making at least two trips to
or through Colorado this year. Our
son Rick has lived there for five
years, and we have been frequent
Colorado visitors. If we could meet
in Colorado with Bill in 2011, that
would be really special.”
Dick provided these details of
his own life: “Retirement for the
past seven years has been great —
golf, travel and so on. I hope Ellen
and I will continue to be blessed
with good health, mobility and
an active lifestyle for many more
years. I changed careers in my
early 50s, from the apparel industry
to insurance and investments.
Fortunately I had many successful
years in both careers, while Ellen
was busy as owner/operator of her
own retail operation, and, after we
moved in 2000 from northern New
Jersey to Maryland, eventually
managed another retail operation
here until finally packing it in a few
months ago. To this point at least,
we have been able to enjoy the
fruits of my/our labors. We have
three middle-aged adult children,
none of whom has yet elected marriage,
so no grandkids yet. Since
Ellen turned 68 in February, and I
hit 73 in March, they’d better hurry
up before it’s too late.”
stephen scheiber has been
elected president of the Lifers organization
of the American Psychiatric
Association, and writes, “In June
2010, I completed two years as
president of The Isaac Ray Center, a
nonprofit that provided psychiatric
services to the Cook County Jail,
which houses more than 8,000 detainees
of whom roughly 15 percent
receive psychiatric care at any one
time. Hence it is the largest psychiatric
facility in the state of Illinois.
The Juvenile Temporary Detention
Center, with approximately 400 residents
at any one time, was the other
correctional organization in Chicago
that received mental services from
The Isaac Ray Center. I continue to
teach psychiatric residents in the
Northwestern University Feinstein
School of Medicine.”
Another blow to the class: Jerry
cantor died on December 15, apparently
having suffered a heart attack
while jogging. Jerry was in private
practice as a psychologist and simultaneously
a financial adviser to
a select group of investors. He had
majored in philosophy at the College
but his lifelong interest and passion
was economics. Jerry’s family
published a trade magazine that he
joined upon graduation. When the
business was sold soon thereafter,
Jerry earned a doctorate in clinical
psychology at NYU and embarked
on his dual careers in counseling and
finance. He was a voracious reader
of financial news and reports, national
and global, and his keen grasp
of macroeconomic trends and influences
enabled him to achieve great
success in managing his personal
portfolio and the portfolios of those
to whom he was an adviser. Upon
his sudden, unexpected death, many
who were counseled by Jerry in his
practice as a psychologist called his
sister Gail to express the esteem in
which he was held and how significant
he had been in their lives. He
was married but briefly and did not
have children, but was a devoted
uncle to Gail’s son and filled an
important role as mentor to him. I
thank Henry Kurtz ’58, who brought
the news of Jerry’s death to my attention,
and Gail, who provided
details of her brother’s life. Henry
and Jerry were fraternity brothers at
Beta Sigma Rho and remained lifelong
friends.
andy feuerstein remembers
Jerry’s intelligence and “unique
sense of humor.”
lenny fuchs recalls Jerry as
“decent, quirky and very interested
in the great philosophers.”
Andy’s and Lenny’s recollections
precisely coincide with my own.
A dry wit and a mordant sense of
humor were characteristics that
immediately sprang to mind as
memories of Jerry returned when I
learned of his death.
The class sends its deepest
condolences to Jerry’s family and
friends.
REUNION JUNE 2–JUNE 5
ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS
ALuMNI AFFAIRS Jennifer Freely
jf2261@columbia.edu
212­851­7438
dEVELOPMENT Paul Staller
ps2247@columbia.edu
212­851­7494
Michael hausig
19418 Encino Summit
San Antonio, TX 78259
mhausig@yahoo.com
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MAY/JUNE 2011
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Our 50th Alumni Reunion Weekend
is less than a month away, Wednes-
day, June 1–Sunday, June 5. It’s not
too late to register for what prom-
ises to be a fantastic long weekend
(alumni.college.columbia.edu/
reunion). In addition to great cul-
tural events and lectures during
Dean’s Day on Saturday, June 4,
there are numerous class-specific
events where we will have a chance
to catch up. Wednesday has a special
evening gathering just for our class,
followed on Thursday by great
events on campus and throughout
the city, including Broadway theatre
and the New York Philharmonic. On
Friday, there will be a class medical
panel, a class lunch in Low Library
and a class dinner hosted by tom
gochberg and his wife, Lettie, at
their home. Saturday offers a financial
panel for our class. The day will
end with the all-class Wine Tasting,
our class dinner and the Starlight
Reception, with champagne and
dancing on Low Plaza. And if you
aren’t completely exhausted after
that party, there will be a brunch on
Sunday morning. Don’t miss it!
In celebration of our 50 years
since our graduation, we will be
conducting an e-mail survey this
spring and will present the findings,
as well as those from last
year’s survey, at Alumni Reunion
Weekend. The survey will focus on
alumni accomplishments and alumni
perspectives on major issues. If
you suspect that we might not have
your e-mail address, please send it
to tony adler: awadler@sparta
commercial.com. We urge your
participation in the survey, as we
would like as accurate a representation
of our class as possible. herman
Kane will compile the data.
allan J. schwartz has contrib-
Friends and part-time neighbors
at the Painted Desert Community
in Las Vegas gerry Brodeur ’61
(left) and Jack Kirik ’61 kicked
back after a round of golf in February.
PhOTO: JOhN BROdEuR
uted the lead chapter to the soonto-be-published
book Understanding
and Preventing College Student
Suicide. His most recent scholarly
paper on this topic, “Rate, Relative
Risk and Method of Suicide
Among Students at Four-Year
Colleges and Universities in the
United States: 2004–05 Through
2008–09,” soon will appear in the
journal Suicide and Life-Threatening
Behavior. Allan has shown that it is
the dramatically lower availability
of firearms to students on these
campuses that is responsible for
the suicide rate among these students
being half that of the general
population. Suicide, he notes, is
the second leading cause of death
among students at these campuses.
Michael schachter writes that
his love during the past 35 years
has been nutritional and integrative
medicine, although he is a
board-certified psychiatrist. At his
center (schachtercenter.com), they
see patients with all kinds of health
challenges. Michael’s book, What
Your Doctor May Not Tell You About
Depression: The Breakthrough Integrative
Approach for Effective Treatment,
offers depressed patients alternatives
to the usual prescription of
anti-depressant drugs. His recently
published article, “Integrative Oncology
for Clinicians and Cancer
Patients,” is available as a PDF
file for anyone who is interested
by just contacting his office (see
website above) and requesting it.
Michael has six children from three
marriages with an age range of
15–40. He has two grandchildren
(3 months and 5). Michael and his
wife, Lisa, hope to make our reunion
dinner.
arnold Klipstein has entered
his 40th year in the practice of
gastroenterology in Manchester,
Conn. He received a reward from
his hospital for 40 years of service
and for the second consecutive
year has been recognized by the
Consumers’ Research Council of
America as one of “America’s Top