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A group of alumni stopped to have their photo taken outside Tom’s
Diner during their annual Super Bowl celebration in New York City.
The party included (left to right) Mark Lewis ’86, Ted Munter ’87, Brian
driscoll ’86, Jeff Monroe ’86E, Jack Catapano, Claude Catapano ’86,
Lane Vanderslice ’86 and Dave Katz ’86E.
PhOTO: ChAR SMuLLYAN
ure of attending the Columbia-
Princeton basketball game. Although
not our finest hour on the court (we
lost by 30 points and were not in the
game after 10 minutes), my youngest
son, who would be CC ’20, and I got
great seats and were named “Family
of the Game.” We also bumped
into CCT class correspondent Roy
Pomerantz ’83, who was there with
two of his children. When I moved
into John Jay 30 years ago this fall,
Roy was the first person who greeted
me (with his energetic juggling
act). The enthusiasm and good spirit
that he had way back then remains
to this day.
REUNION JUNE 2–JUNE 5
ALUMNI OFFICE CONTACTS
ALuMNI AFFAIRS Jennifer Freely
jf2261@columbia.edu
212­851­7438
dEVELOPMENT grace Lee ’02
sl695@columbia.edu
212­851­7492
Everett weinberger
50 W. 70th St., Apt. 3B
New York, NY 10023
everett6@gmail.com
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This is the last column before our
25th reunion, Thursday, June 2–Sunday,
June 5. If you haven’t been very
active with Columbia since graduation,
that’s OK. It’s not too late!
Come back to the beautiful, vastly
improved Columbia campus in early
June, the best time of year. Remember
when we had to reluctantly leave
campus after finals each spring just
when the weather was starting to be
amazing? Well, this is your chance to
return without final exams pressure
and enjoy great food and drinks and
the company of old and new friends.
You also can benchmark yourself
vis-a-vis your classmates in terms of
body shape, hairline and material
success.
The schedule offers a great mix of
cultural happenings throughout
New York City as well as classspecific
events where we will have a
chance to renew old friendships.
Thursday night, there will be a
chance to take in a show in Manhattan.
Friday offers mini-Core courses
and a class dinner. Saturday is
Dean’s Day, with great lectures,
including a talk by Dean Michele
Moody-Adams, followed in the evening
by the all-class Wine Tasting,
our class dinner and cocktails, and
then sweets, champagne and dancing
on Low Plaza at the Starlight
Reception. In between, there will be
plenty of other happenings to keep
us entertained. Don’t miss it.
It’s not too late to register: alumni.
college.columbia.edu/reunion. And
new this year is the ability for us
to register on a smartphone. The
Alumni Office has launched the
free Alumni Reunion Weekend app,
which features a full and detailed
listing of events, an up-to-date list
of registered classmates, answers to
reunion FAQs and several ways to
stay connected to Columbia: Twitter
(twitter.com/Columbia_CCAA)
and the app’s news module, which
includes CCT (college.columbia.edu/
cct) and Columbia news (news.
columbia.edu/).
IPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
users can search Apple’s App Store
for “Columbia Reunion” to find our
class app. BlackBerry, Droid and
other smartphone users can access
the app from mobile browsers by
visiting http://reunion.college.
columbia.edu/1986mobile.
Congratulations to dennis chi.
His daughter Jessica will enter the
College this fall after graduating
from Horace Mann School.
John featherman is running on
the Republican side in the Philadelphia
mayoral election this fall.
He will face incumbent Michael
Nutter. John, a Philadelphia real
estate agent, faces an uphill battle
in a city where most voters are
Democrats.
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MAY/JUNE 2011
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sarah a. Kass
PO Box 300808
Brooklyn, NY 11230
sarahkassUK@gmail.com
With more public tributes to greg
giraldo hitting the stages and the
airwaves, we will hold off on our
promised cumulative tribute for
one more issue in order to make it
more comprehensive. Thanks for
your understanding.
In the meantime, we have great
news on the admissions front: three
— count ’em — three of our classmates
have children who have been
John featherman ’86 is running for philadelphia
mayor this fall on the republican ticket.
accepted early decision to the Class
of 2015. Our heartiest congratulations
go out to Cynthia Campo,
daughter of Dr. diane hilal-campo
and Richard P. Campo ’84; Justin
Goluboff, son of nicole goluboff;
and Brian McGrattan, son of laura
ting and Kevin Mcgrattan ’87E.
Welcome to Columbia!
I received an e-mail from Eric
rogers, who has written a new
novel, Bangkok Vanishing, which he
describes as “a gritty crime thriller
about a good family man who goes
to Thailand and makes terrible
decisions and is required to battle
his way back to redemption with
his family.”
Eric also wrote, “I miss Columbia,
living so far from New York in California.
I live with my dream girl and
have two spectacular kids. Ethan
(10) is a stunning soccer player, and
Lindsay (8) is a guitar-playing country
singer. I am blessed.”
In other book news, Keith
thomson’s Twice a Spy: A Novel,
hit the shelves in early March. A
sequel to his Once a Spy: A Novel,
the book finds his lead character,
Charlie Clark, having left his life as
an inveterate gambler far behind
as he and girlfriend Alice go on the
lam in Switzerland from Alice’s
employer, NSA, and a special CIA
black ops unit known as Cavalry.
The real star of the group is Charlie’s
father, Drummond Clark,
who after a career as a CIA agent
is sinking into the throes of early
Alzheimer’s, but who is able, when
the occasion demands, to revive his
old skills and save their skins.
In addition, Spyglass Entertainment
is developing a feature film
version of Once a Spy.
My dear friend and Hunter
College H.S. classmate Dr. Juanita
punwaney has started to see dermatology
patients at Manhattan’s Physician
Group. She said the group is a
wonderful multispecialty provider
with three locations in Manhattan.
Juanita will be available to see dermatology
patients at the Upper East
Side, Midtown and Flatiron offices,
and the group accepts most major
insurance plans.
Please do not forget to join our
Class of ’87 Facebook group and
connect with Columbia on LinkedIn!
The time you put in now in setting
up your accounts may pay you back
huge dividends later in the amount
of networking you can do both with
other classmates and with connecting
with current students to give
them a few minutes of your guidance
that could help them immensely.
And that is more than worth the
few minutes of set-up time.
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Eric Fusfield
1945 South George
Mason Dr.
Arlington, VA 22204
ericfusfield@bigfoot.com
Congratulations to the Class of
1988’s newest legacy parent, Mark
timoney. The Timoney family will
be represented on Morningside
Heights this fall by Mark’s son,
John Timoney-Gomez, a Bronxville
(N.Y.) H.S. senior who earned early
admission to Engineering’s Class
of 2015.
Another proud parent, graham
dodds, writes from Canada with
perhaps the best argument ever
offered for moving north of the
border: “For the past six years, I’ve
been a political science professor at
Concordia University in the great
city of Montreal, trying to explain
the strange politics of the United
States to puzzled Canadians. Five
months ago my wife, Amy Kimball,
and I had our second child, Julia.
I’m presently taking advantage of
Quebec’s generous social welfare
state by being on a year of paid parental
leave as a stay-at-home dad,
but I plan to return to academic
work in the fall.”
It was great hearing from my
former Carman Hall suitemate
Jonathan Etra ’91L. Jonathan, a
lifelong New Yorker, moved with
his wife, Kate Myers, to her native
Miami in 2003, where they have
been raising “two fantastic girls,”
Lilly (6) and Annabelle (1). Once
a federal prosecutor in New York,
Jonathan now is a partner at the