No.5
June 1, 2005
Welcome to the fifth issue of the Columbia College Class of 1963 eNewsletter.
It's starting to be a habit, and each month I hear from someone
who has not been heard from in quite awhile. I figure if we
keep this up, the word might spread and I will hear from my
long missing freshman year roommate, Patrick Cary-Barnard (if
anyone is in touch with him, please let me know). If there is
anybody from our class, who you have lost touch with, and would
like to find, let me know. If Columbia doesn't know where they
are, I'll start a "lost" list here, and those of you
with the missing information can pass it back through me.
As I mentioned last month, if any of you would like to send
a longer format article for inclusion here, send me an email
(pauln@helpauthors.com). I would like to see if we could expand
the scope of this eNewsletter to give the class a fuller forum
for communication. I also have talked to Columbia about setting
up a Class of 1963 site within their eCommunity structure, and
still welcome your ideas on what could/should be included there
(nobody suggested anything in May).
The next issue of Columbia College Today (CTT) that I can get new articles
in will be the September one (deadline first week of July).
Please send me more news before then, If you'd like it published
while it's still fresh. It's always great to learn what you're
up to.
Hope to hear from you, so we can let everyone know what you've
been up to.
Table of Contents:
Every Second Thursday, 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Columbia College Club - 15 West 43rd Street, NYC
Please join your classmates for an informal lunch
at the Columbia Club every second Thursday of the month. It
is our hope that these gatherings will renew old friendships
and foster improved relationship with our class and the College.
The next lunch will be on June 9, 2005 (NOTE: Revised
date) .
May Lunch Brings Some New Faces
The sixth Second Saturday Class of 1963 lunch was
again well attended and included a couple of welcome fresh faces.
Joining us for the first time were Daniel Perl and Ben Tua.
Here is the happy group.
(From left to right) Bob Heller, Paul Neshamkin,
Larry Newman, Tom O'Connor, Gerry Dwyer, Daniel Perl, Ben Tua,
and Bill Goebel)
I hadn't seen Daniel Perl in a
while (who can forget his famous talk on Alzheimer's disease
at our physician panel at the 35th Reunion (or was it the 30th?).
He is still on the staff at Mount Sinai Hospital here in NYC,
and his expertise in neuropathology has had him in the media
lately (I caught him on TV commenting on the Schiavo case, and
again, adding his critique of a controversial theory for a rare
brain disease described in The New Yorker article, "The Tangle"
in the April 11, 2005 issue.
I hadn't seen Ben Tua since our
undergraduate days. He has retired from the State Department
after 27 years of service. His posting included 13 different
countries. A fascinating life, and I hope he will share some
notes here in the future.
I have included some very bad candids of the last
lunch, which you should be able to access through this
link.
We always a great group at the lunch, but still
over 550 of you haven't shown up. So, please join us at the
next lunch on Thursday, June 9 (NOTE: Revised date).
Please let me know if you will attend so that we can reserve
a big enough table; RSVP to Paul Neshamkin (pauln@helpauthors.com).
Lunch Archives
If you like to see our previous lunches, click on
the dates below:
December
9, 2004
January 13, 2005
February 10, 2005
March 10. 2005
April
14, 2005
For information
and inquiries call Paul Neshamkin at 201-714-4881 or email at
pauln@helpauthors.com.
I attended Class Day at Columbia on May 17, and
took part in the Parade of Classes, a two-year old "tradition"
that has representatives from the last 50 years of alumni carrying
their class flag. Last year Don Margolis and
I carried the 1963 flag, this year I was alone (the other no-show
flag carrier will remain anonymous). The weather and campus
were beautiful, and the Class Day Keynote Speaker was our classmate,
Bob Kraft, who gave the Class of 2005 some
good advice on what to look for in life ( a couple of Super
Bowl teams turns out not to be as important as the pleasure
from a happy family). I wasn't able to get close enough to get
a good picture of Bob, and have not found one on the Columbia
web site, but these might give you the general idea.
Some of the younger classes parade.
Bob at the podium.
Here is a selection of notes and news that you
have sent me in the last month.
Steve Bauer writes, "My wife,Linda,
and I have 5 children and 9 grandchildren between us. As I indicated
to you previously, my 3 are all Columbia College grads. Diane
('88) went on to Hopkins Medical School and is a practicing
dermatologist in Baltimore with 4 kids, Lauren ('90) is a Fordham
Law grad with 3 little ones including twins. David ('97)is a
derivative trader on Wall Street.
I am still working as a senior tax partner with RSM McGladrey
in Stamford . We live in Pound Ridge, NY and Naples, Florida,
and get down south as often as possible.
Looking forward to meeting you guys at the next luncheon. "
Steve, you didn't make the May lunch, I hope to see you on June
16.
Gary S. Rachelefsky says that he "saw
classmates Sy Moskowitz and Gary Toback
for dinner in Chicago recently. Nice to catchup. I’m still
practicing Allergy/Immunology full time in Los Angeles while
actively being a clinician-scientist. The family continues to
thrive and grow – Holly (36) has 3 children - Emma (7
½), James (5), Caroline (4). Cara (32) CC ’94 (and
David Cuse CC 94) have a recent addition (2 ½ week old
Adam) to complement Colin (22 months). Lindsay (26) CC 2001
is head of development for the ACLU of Southern California.
Gail and I are well and looking forward to our 39th wedding
anniversary."
Steve Barcan and his wife, Bettye (Barnard
’65) welcomed their third grandchild, Max Jeramiah Barcan,
born April 22, 2005.
Zev bar-Lev writes, "If you include my
news in class notes, you can add a parenthetical (né
Rob Lefkowitz) to my name, to help recognition.
But note that that’s “né” in the masculine
form, without the second e (in case French wasn’t your
language)." and continues
"I noticed that Ira Epstein is looking
for a class ring. I’d be happy to part with mine: It has
the wrong initials anyway. (In case you missed my announcement
in class notes a few decades ago, I was once Rob Lefkowitz CC
63 — until we lived in Israel.) I think I can find it:
I think I saw it recently, poking through some box or other
of old doodads." Well, Ira, here's your big chance.
Zev continues, "I thought I might also share my “news”:
I’m finishing up my 26th year as professor of linguistics
at San Diego State University. My wife Shoshana (formerly Jane
Wirth, Barnard 63) has been an account executive (i.e. stock-broker)
and VP for 22 years, for the last many years at AG Edwards.
We’ll be going to Israel this summer for me to give a
lecture in Jerusalem, and for us to visit our son — and,
God willing, greet our second grandson. Our first grandson lives
with his mother and father — in San Diego; our other daughter
also lives here.
My main research specialty for 20 years has been my “heretical”
method of foreign language teaching (see my website languagebazaar.com);
my Hebrew series is used at 3 universities, and hopefully soon
at additional universities and schools. I lecture around town
on topics from Judaism and kabbalah to Middle-Eastern and American
politics."
I visited Zev's web site and found his language instruction
methods fascinating, and the sample courses easy. I recommend
you take a look.
Yoshiharu Fujisawa wrote, “You may have
heard already, but I regret to inform you that David
Cohen, my freshman year room-mate at Hartley, passed
away several months ago from leukemia. As I was an ignorant
foreigner being 7000 miles away from home, David, a local New
Yorker, was a big help for me and I certain miss him a lot.
The company I started in 1970, Internix, Inc., got listed in
the First Section of Tokyo Security Exchanged (equivalent to
N.Y. Security Exchange) last September, and I plan to relinquish
presidency in June to become chairman and devote more time to
save the nature and wild-life.”
Yoshiharu, I'm sadden to hear of David's death, and have passed
the news on to Columbia. If any of you knew David, I hope you
will share your memories with us.
Michael D. Nolan contributes
"Here's a newsnote for you: I'm one of the convenors of
the PS 99 ~ Brooklyn, Class of 1955 Reunion, taking place at
our alma mater on June 24, fifty years to the day when we graduated
from the 8th grade.
Yours truly was 8th Grade President, and I'm leading a fundraising
drive among my classmates to support arts and music programs
at our beloved elementary school.
Cinematic note: Woody Allen graduated 6 years ahead of us and
named the psychiatrist portrayed by Mia Farrow in "Zelig"
after his and our PS 99 principal, Dr. Eudora Fletcher."
I hope to meet up with Michael when he gets to New York in
a few weeks. I told him I was disappointed that my old alma
mater, PS 6 (Manhattan) didn't have a 50th (or maybe they did
and didn't invite me). There must have been about 10 Class of
'63s from PS 6 (love to hear from you all).
Doug Anderson dropped me a note to say hello,
and I asked him if he still collects art glass, he responded,
"Yes, we're still involved with the contemporary glass
world but Dale, the one with the collector itch, has focused
on very edgy photography. Occasionally we will buy a piece of
sculpture made of glass if it's fabulous but we've been there
and done that for 25 years and eventually you've done it all
too many times. That said, we're still trustees of Pilchuck
Glass School outside of Seattle (after more than 15 years).
It's kind of a cross between a hippy commune and a school........started
by Dale Chihuly and a few hardy souls 33 years ago and we're
always being thought of as "glass collectors" which
is fun when I'm asked to give a lecture or sit on a panel."
Great to hear from you all.
Share your news and views with your classmates. Contact your
Class Correspondent, and let him know what you would like posted
here or in Columbia College Today (CCT).
For information
and inquiries call Paul Neshamkin at 201-714-4881 or email at
pauln@helpauthors.com.
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Mini-reunion Still Planned for Homecoming Weekend
I have absolutely nothing to update you on on the planned mini-reunion.
Bottom line is we need to hear from you to see if there is any
interest out there. If you come, we will build it.
To repeat what we had in the May eNewsletter:
Plans to center mini-reunion events around the Homecoming Game
on October 15 proceed. Start with lunch with your classmates
on Friday, the 14th, and then some socializing that evening.
On Saturday, we will get together at the Homecoming tent in
the morning at Baker Field, and then watch Columbia beat Penn
at the Homecoming game that afternoon. We then will then probably
have another gathering on Saturday afternoon/evening to be determined.
For those of you who missed the last real reunion (and most
of you did) this is a great opportunity to meet old friends
and acquaintances, and have some fun. Watch this space for more
news as we firm this up, but save the dates, October
14-15, 2005.
And, let me know if you would like to take
part in any of this. I will post a list of prospective attendees
in the July eNewsletter, and in the September CCT (remember
my deadline is the first week of July).
For information
and inquiries call Paul Neshamkin at 201-714-4881 or email at
pauln@helpauthors.com.
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