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In this issue:

Columbia

College

Today

Volume 17 Number 1
Winter 1990

Editor

James C. Katz '72
Managing Editor
Jessica Raimi
Associate Editor
Thomas J. Vinciguerra '85
Contributing Editors
Phyllis T. Katz
David Lehman '70
Contributing Photographers
Arnold Browne '78
Nick Romanenko '82
Alumni Advisory Board
Ivan B. Veit '28
Walter Wager '44
Jason Epstein '49
Gilbert Rogin '51
Edward Koren '57
Robert Lipsyte '57
Ira Silverman '57
Peter Millones '58
David M. Alpern '63
Carey Winfrey '63
Dan Carlinsky '65
Albert Scardino '70
John Glusman '78
John R. MacArthur '78
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page 18

page 30

18 St. Petersburg camp meeting

One way-station on the author's journey through
the American evangelical subculture.
by Randall Balmer,

Assistant Professor of Religion

25 An always dignified and
gentlemanly presence

The sartorial and intellectual adventures of
former Associate Dean Michael Rosenthal, as
recalled by Edward Said and Peter Pouncey at the
1989 Hamilton Dinner.

30 On missions of mercy

Photographs documenting CARE's relief efforts in
East Africa, Thailand and Armenia.
by Rudolph von Bemuth '66

Also:

2 Letters to the Editor

The gender-neutral brouhaha—The Frank
Lorenzo flap.

8 Around the Quads

The College's 12th dean—The University Senate
at 20—Women visit the Butler pantheon.

33 Talk of the Alumni

The New Yorker connection—The Citizen Kane
auction.

Departments
5 Within the Family
17 Columbia College Yesterday
37 Bookshelf
40 Roar Lion Roar

43 Columbiana: Henley, 1878

44 Obituaries
47 Class Notes

Profiles:

50 The Class of'24

53 Ralph de Toledano'38
55 Richard Heffner'46

63 Carey Winfrey'63
68 First Person: Phillip Ishikawa '80
71 Poetry: Kevin M. Mathewson '80

79 Classified

80 The Lion's Den: Michael I. Sovern '53

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Editor

Not just Brylcream

I do not deal exclusively with Columbia
in this letter. Messrs. G. Leonard and
R. Leonard opened the door with their
remarks in your Spring/Summer CCT
["Sha Na Na and the Woodstock gener¬
ation"]. I have no regrets about the
1950's (and no nostalgia, either). But
then, to say that they are "still accu¬
rately remembered for the Bomb-fear¬
ing, Commie-hunting, money-
grubbing era that they were: the
Eighties without the glamor" is either
stupid or disingenuous.

On January 1,1950,1 had just turned
21 and was finishing my first semester.
The previous May I had been dis¬
charged from the Army after a three-
year hitch, which included two years in
Germany. I was attending Columbia on
the G.I. Bill, which was the reason I
enlisted. I was a native New Yorker
(City Island, in the Bronx), a commuter,
and the first member of my family to go
to college.

I remember:

Fifty-Second Street, Bop City, Bird-
land, the Metropole, the Five-Spot, the
Glen Island Casino, and the Hickory
House.

Dizzy Gillespie, Henry "Red" Allen,
and Louis Armstrong. Lee Konitz, Bud
Freeman, and Cannonball Adderley.
Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday (in a
local Long Island lounge on a Sunday
afternoon).

Roberts. Lynd, C. Wright Mills,
Norman Mailer, and Dissent.

Jackie Gleason, Sid Caesar, Imogene
Coca, and Leonard Bernstein.

The Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants.
Satchel Paige and 70,000 people at
Yankee Stadium.

No Time for Sergeants, Waiting for
Godot, and off-Broadway theater.

Marlon Brando and Karl Malden in
On the Waterfront. Frank Sinatra and
Ernest Borgnine in From Here to Eternity.

Janis Paige, Chita Rivera, and Gwen

Verdon.

The New York Post, Murray Kempton,
Jimmy Cannon, and Max Lerner.

The Investigator, a parody of Joe
McCarthy on LP. Lenny Bruce's satires.
'Nuff said.

Ernest J. Leupp '53
Hialeah, Fla.

Drugs and rock 'n' roll

George and Rob Leonard's article about
Sha Na Na was delightful. It is fair to
say that Sha Na Na was wholly a prod¬
uct of George's demented genius. As
for Rob, he was one of the nicest fellows
I've ever known.

My own one-time membership in
Sha Na Na has followed me throughout
my academic career. For 20 years now,
I've been living down my Warholian
moment of "fame" (about 50 seconds,
actually—the length of my immortal
performance of "At the Hop" in the
Woodstock movie). The last time I saw
any of the other members of Sha Na Na
was in 1976, when I testified in an acri¬
monious lawsuit that had divided the
group into two opposing factions.

A correction about my present
whereabouts: Since 1986,1 have been
Professor of Bible at Hebrew Union
College in Cincinnati. For the record, I
never wanted to be a cantor, as your
article states. During my undergradu¬
ate years, I made some money by serv¬
ing as a cantor during the Jewish high
holidays. What I wanted to be, in fact,
was a rabbi, but I thought the better of it
and went to Yale for a Ph.D., and now I
help to train rabbis instead.

There are lots of little details in the
article that I remember differently than
George and Rob, but that's what memo¬
ries are for. For example, Janis Joplin
never saw us play at Steve Paul's Scene,
where we played shows at midnight
and 2 a.m., mostly for the benefit of
Broadway performers who were wind¬
ing down from their exertions; she
came to see us at San Francisco's Fill¬
more West, and she was reeking of
Southern Comfort. The name Sha Na
Na was not George's invention, but
came from a crooked agent whom I will
not name. The man even threatened to
sue us over the name, claiming that it
was his property! (Actually, the best
thing about the name is that the real
lyrics to "Get a Job" are either "sha-da-
da" or "sha-la-la"—certainly not "sha-
na-na.")

There should have been some men-

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tion of Dave Garrett's father, whom we
knew affectionately as "Fast Eddie"—a
wonderful man and a great friend. He
bought our equipment for us, and used
his personal connections to get us out
of the clutches of the above-mentioned
crooked agent and into the good hands
of William Morris. And one more thing:
The guy who really got us the Wood-
stock booking was one of the stars of
Hair (his name is lost in the ether), then
a big Broadway hit, who schlepped
Michael Lang over to see us. This same
fellow invited us to participate in the
notorious nude scene in Hair (how
benign it seems now), and a few of us
took him up on it.

My favorite Sha Na Na story con¬
cerns Rob Leonard. When we were per¬
forming at Fillmore West, a dazed-
looking young woman came up to him
and asked him if he had any dope. He
didn't (he never did), but he did have a
small bottle of aspirin, which he carried
constantly because of a chronic bad
back. He gave the girl an aspirin to get
rid of her. The next night, there she was
again, waiting for Rob, and begging
him for "another one of those groovy
whites." I guess even the 60's drug cul¬
ture seems benign nowadays.

Alan Cooper '71

Cincinnati, Ohio

Forgotten authors

Your correspondent Bill Costanzo '67
says that one of the features that he
turns to in CCT is normally the "Book¬
shelf." He enjoys seeing what Colum¬
bia graduates have made of their
education and their intellectual lives.

Sadly, not all books by Columbia
authors have been recorded in "Book¬
shelf." None of my books have. I
stopped bothering to send you notices
after you ignored the notice I sent you
of my first book in 1978. That book was
entitled The Impact of American Law on
English and Commonwealth Law: A Book of
Essays published by West Publishing
Co. I decided that if you could not be
bothered to publish the notice, I was
not going to put myself out sending
you notices. The other books I have
written are Interim Protection: A Func¬
tional Approach (1981) and Non-Appear¬
ance Before the International Court of
Justice: Functional and Comparative Anal¬
ysis (1984). Both of these books are pub¬
lished by Martinus Nijhoff in the
Netherlands. The latter book was
awarded the Prix Francis Lieber by the
Institut de Droit International.

My last book, published in 1984 by
Oxford University Press (New Zea¬
land), is entitled A Standard for Justice. It
is about the fundamental Bill of Rights
that the New Zealand Government was
proposing at the time. The fundamen¬
tal bill of rights was never passed, but
the government has introduced a non¬
fundamental bill of rights, so the book
will go into a second edition.

I wonder how many other books by
Columbia authors were never recorded
in "Bookshelf?"

J.B. Elkind '61
Auckland, New Zealand

The pursuit of profit

I was outraged and appalled to discover
in the Spring/Summer issue that the
Alumni Association had chosen to pre¬
sent a John Jay Award for Distin¬
guished Professional Achievement to
... Frank Lorenzo!

Lorenzo sets a disgraceful example
for employers nationwide with his
despicable callousness, cruelty, greed
and dishonesty. Insatiable in his desire
to expand his empire, he is neverthe¬
less unwilling to extend basic dignity to
his employees (let alone the decent eco¬
nomic benefits that likely would aid his

business to prosper), and has moved
ruthlessly and unstintingly to crush the
unions who dare to seek to represent
and protect those workers.

In 1983, Lorenzo took Continental
Airlines into bankruptcy for the pur¬
pose of breaking his labor agreements,
and ousting the unions representing
Continental employees. Fie has not
signed a contract with any union since,
and now employs the lowest-paid air¬
line workers in the industry. In turn.
Continental's workers suffer from low
morale, and the company's reputation
for service is deplorable. Far from dem¬
onstrating business acumen, Lorenzo
has proven more interested in punish¬
ing workers exercising their organiza¬
tional rights than in making a profit.
Hence, he is dismantling and ruining
Eastern Airlines rather than bargaining
in good faith with employee
representatives.

How can the College honor such a
man with a professional achievement
award? By doing so, it endorses,
indeed even celebrates, the misconduct
of a man whose only "profession" is
venality, and whose only "achieve¬
ment" is debasing the humanity of
those who work for him, hence ulti-

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mately corrupting himself as well.
Small wonder that the awards cere¬
mony was to be met with massive
protests.

I have worked over seven years as a
lawyer in the labor movement, where I
have witnessed and fought against some
of the extreme examples of employer
mistreatment of workers, Lorenzo's
included. That experience encom¬
passes four years battling corporate
agri-business' heartless exploitation of
farm workers, who are commonly
thought of as the most mistreated
workers toiling in this country. But I
have yet to encounter a single em¬
ployer in any industry more incapable
of reconciling human values with eco¬
nomic imperatives than Lorenzo. It is
astonishing in any circumstance that
the Association would choose to
attempt to ennoble a man whose deeds
have been so consistently and grossly
mean-spirited and barren; to do so at
the height of his infamy demonstrates
an exquisite Lorenzoesque insen¬
sitivity to boot.

The item in CCT says nonchalantly
that the Association "has made no
plans" to rescind Lorenzo's award.

Until the Association changes those
plans, and does rescind the award, I
have no plans to contribute another
dime to the College, and I do plan to
encourage my fellow alumni to do
likewise.

IraL. Gottlieb'77

Burbank, Calif.

Editor's note: CCT was incorrect in
reporting that the John Jay Award is given
by the College Alumni Association. The
awardees are selected by a committee of
alumni leaders; the award itself is presented
by the Dean of the College and the Univer¬
sity President. At press time, the 1989
awards—to Professor Wm. Theodore de
Bary '41, Nobel physics laureate Melvin
Schwartz '58, film director Brian De Palma
'62, advertising executive Allen Rosenshine
'59, and former American Bar Association
president Lawrence E. Walsh '32, in addi¬
tion to Mr. Lorenzo—were scheduled to be
given in late spring.

CCT welcomes letters from readers.
All letters are subject to editing for
space and clarity. Please direct
letters for publication "to the
editor."

Appeasement

I read with interest both Dean Pollack's
letter to graduates (and students) and
the discussion in the May issue of Alma
Matters with Richard Friedlander. My
initial reaction to the cancellation of a
major College event, the John Jay Din¬
ner, because of the possibility of picket¬
ing and demonstrations against Frank
Lorenzo, is, "There goes Columbia
again!"

I remember very well an incident in
the late 1960's in which a previous Col¬
lege dean refused to take any action
when the SDS disrupted the annual
meeting of the alumni held in conjunc¬
tion with Dean's Day. His Uriah Heep
imitation soured me on the school's
administration and its ability to act
from principle in a way that remains
with me to this day.

I believe Dean Pollack has set a disas¬
trous precedent for Columbia. I can't
help but think that Columbia will be
deterred in future from inviting and
honoring controversial figures, and
that the many anti-something groups
will see the school as vulnerable to the
type of threat to which he has surren¬
dered. Giving in to the bullies of the
world has never led to peace. Dean Pol¬
lack (and his successor) will never be
able to "receive complete assurances
that the [event] could be held without
incident." He has taken the easy way
out, and the College will in future pay
the price.

S.E. Reuter '60

Washington, D.C.

Upholding principles

Having read the exchange of letters in
the May 1989 Alma Matters about Dean
Pollack's cancellation of the John Jay
Awards dinner at which Frank Lorenzo
was to be honored, I have the following
comments to offer to my fellow alumni
and alumnae.

I appreciate that Dean Pollack is sin¬
cerely dedicated to the welfare of the
College. Moreover, it is easy to be a
Monday morning quarterback when
passing judgment on a difficult deci¬
sion such as the one he made. Never¬
theless, one has the eerie sense when
reading his apologia that a well-mean¬
ing official of a distinguished German
university could as well have written it
when describing his actions in
response to the potential disruption of
a university function caused by Nazi
demonstrators who objected to the

presence of a particular person. Then,
as now, it is sometimes necessary for
the university and its community to
take major risks to uphold the basic
principles for which they exist and to
avoid what Dean Pollack concedes is a
"terrible precedent."

The other thought that occurred to
me is the University's (and the press's)
relatively muted reaction to the threat
to disrupt the dinner because Mr.
Lorenzo was to be honored as con¬
trasted to what one can reasonably
assume would have been the case had,
say, thousands of supporters of Oliver
North threatened to do the same thing
because of the presence at the dinner of
Lawrence Walsh. In such a case, or if
the protestors had been members of
the Aryan Nation, is it not likely that
the entire faculty and administration
would have been up in arms and the
event described in detail and repeat¬
edly by television anchorpersons?

I consider this incident to be another
sad example of the failure of great insti¬
tutions of learning and the press to live
up to their responsibilities to the larger
society.

Leonard M. Trosten '53

Bethesda, Md.

Editorial fallacy

I was appalled at some of the practices
and attitudes described in "Parent,
Stayed on Rock Etqjnal" [Spring/Sum¬
mer 1989]. On the topic of eliminating
generic masculine pronouns, Professor
Sandra Prior is quoted as saying:

"There is no reasonable argument
against avoiding giving offense." Yet
when it comes to those who might be
offended by her dogmatic stance, she is
reported to have said: "Those are peo¬
ple who think blacks shouldn't have
equal opportunity." By what contorted
reasoning is the second quotation sup¬
posed to follow from the first? A person
who disagrees about a point of English
usage is not automatically a racist.
What's worse is that the non sequitur
comes not from a college freshman but
from the director of the College's Logic
and Rhetoric program.

The same article quotes Ria Coyne,
an instructor in the Logic and Rhetoric
program, as saying: "The generic mas¬
culine is not accepted in this class. I just
say it's a rule. It avoids long discussions
and arguments... If we accept the
generic masculine we accept the impli¬
cations. But if someone can believe

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Columbia College Today

Within the Family

Overshadowed by real events

F or a time, it seemed the year 1989
would be dominated by the anni¬
versaries of historical events—the
French Revolution, the start of World
War II, the Moon Landing— public
remembrances which all but blotted
out this magazine's own 35th anniver¬
sary gala in November. As I recall, we
ourselves marked the occasion with a
container of mu shu chicken and a gin¬
ger ale from Ollie's, the new restau¬
rant at 116th and Broadway.

As it turned out, the staged news of
1989 was completely overshadowed
by real news, especially the collapse
of the Berlin Wall and the tyranny it
symbolized. Next to this, some of our
more local passions—arguments over
oat bran muffins, gender-neutral pro¬
nouns, or the secession movement in
Staten Island—do begin to appear
trivial.

B lessedly drowned out by the
thunder of change was the debate
about—remember this?—the pro¬
posed flag-burning amendment to
the Constitution. President Bush's
truculence on the subject occasioned
a memorable blast from Lewis
Lapham, the editor of Harper's
Magazine.

"By preferring idolatry to argu¬
ment, Mr. Bush denies the principle,
implicit in the First Amendment, that
a republic always stands in need of as
much disagreement and as many
doubts as its citizens have the courage
to muster," Mr. Lapham wrote. "Free¬
dom of thought brings societies the
unwelcome news that they are in
trouble, but because all societies, like
all individuals, are almost always in
trouble, the news doesn't cause them
to perish. They die instead from the
fear of thought and from the paralysis
that accompanies the silencing of
opinions that contradict the official
wisdom."

Fine thoughts for a republic, or, for
that matter, a business corporation,
religious hierarchy, military com¬
mand or any other organization of
high integrity and purpose, including
a college or university—or an alumni
magazine in the middle of its journey.

W e had long assumed,

erroneously, that the founding
of CCT in 1954 had something to do
with the University's own bicenten¬
nial celebrations of the same year.
Recent conversations with the maga¬
zine's founding father, Joseph D. Cof¬
fee '41, helped to set us straight.

Joe Coffee joined the Columbia
staff in 1946 and directed the College's
alumni effort through most of the
50's. He was later president of
Eisenhower College and a Columbia
trustee. Many of the enduring fea¬
tures of College alumni life—Dean's
Day, the Alexander Hamilton Dinner,
the John Jay Associates, Columbia Col¬
lege Today, the Columbia College Fund
itself—originated in his thoughtful
leadership.

Mr. Coffee persuaded his col¬
leagues that alumni interest and
involvement could not be taken for
granted and that a College alumni
publication would be a smart long¬
term investment. The name Columbia
College Today was suggested by the
late Robert C. Harron, Columbia's
very respected public information
director.

Putting out the early CCT was fun,
but harder work than Mr. Coffee had
anticipated. He was assisted by Jerry
Miller, an alumni office staffer, for a
year or two, and then by editor Ira
Silverman '57. "Ira and I slaved on it
together," Mr. Coffee recalls. "I
remember working nights until three
in the morning in the print shop,
sweating out the layout, writing head¬
lines, writing stories—my blood was
in it."

O ne of the small delights of this
issue is Associate Editor Thomas
Vinciguerra's piece on the Columbia
lineage of Eustace Tilley, the top-hat¬
ted symbol of The New Yorker maga¬
zine [page 35]. Tom wrote the piece for
us partly as a valentine to that great
magazine after it had shown the good
taste to publish an article of his con¬
cerning the crumbling Long Island
mansion of the late King Zog I of
Albania—a typical Vinciguerrian
obsession.

Columbia College Zoday

College Broadens Its Requirements for Degree

Jacqueline Dutton, our other Asso¬
ciate Editor, left the staff last August
to enter business school at NYU. We
already miss her ideas, her range, her
leadership, her skilled reporting, her
easy rapport with students and her
friendly presence.

Because of budget pressures felt
throughout the College, Ms. Dutton
has not been replaced—the magazine
has now lost two key people in the
last year and has seen its operating
budget cut by 26 percent. As reported
in the latest issue of Alma Matters, the
Alumni Association newsletter we
have produced since 1987, Columbia
College Today has now joined the Ivy
League Advertising Network, which
should help on the revenue side.
Meanwhile, the University has dou¬
bled the press run of Columbia Maga¬
zine to include all 140,000 University
alumni, while cutting its frequency
from six to four issues a year. All Col¬
lege alumni should therefore receive
seven magazines a year between the
two publications.

CCT has undergone many changes
of fortune and format over its proud
35 years, and we are now contemplat¬
ing serious alterations which should
improve our ability to publish regu¬
larly and more often, within our cur¬
rent budget and staff constraints. The
leaner product now on the drawing
board will not, we hope, be unrecog¬
nizable to our remarkably loyal
audience^**-

something but they're not allowed to
say it, the underlying belief is less legit¬
imated." I see that George Orwell's
novel 1984, in which words like free
were systematically distorted or
removed from the language entirely so
that people couldn't discuss freedom,
has once again become disturbingly
prophetic. I also see that this latest
member of the thought police demands
unquestioning obedience from every¬
one; the dictates of Big Brother are sim¬
ply to be replaced by those of Big Sister.

It's easy to demonstrate the fallacy of
the belief that eliminating the generic
masculine will somehow bring about
equality of the sexes. Cebuano and Tag-
alog, like the other languages of the
Philippines, do not make a he/she dis¬
tinction; neither does Chinese, spoken
by one-fifth of the world's people—and
yet I hardly think Instructor Coyne
would be happy living as a woman in
traditionally male-dominated Philip¬
pine or Chinese society. It is clear that
ideological wishful thinking has taken
precedence over the facts.

I am disturbed that a university,
which is supposed to promote discus¬
sion and tolerate dissent, has become
so authoritarian that students in one of
its programs are not allowed to dis¬
agree about how to use their own lan¬
guage. I am sorry that once again a
gang of "true believers" is forcibly try¬
ing to impose its doctrines on everyone
else. I regret that somebody like Prior is
permitted to manage a writing pro¬
gram at Columbia. And as for anyone
like the dictatorial Coyne—who should
take, not teach, a course in logic, but
who appears to be teaching a course in
newspeak—let him or her keep his or
her hands to him- or herself, and off my
language.

Steven Schwartzman '67

Austin, Texas

Offending anthems

It was interesting to learn, in passing in
"Parent, Stayed on Rock Eternal," that
Columbia too has a Germanic anthem.
The Yale Alma Mater, "Bright College
Years," is to the tune of "Die Wacht am
Rhein." (It's the song the Krauts are sing¬
ing in Casablanca when the freedom
fighters take up the "Marseillaise.")

Just after World War II, the Yale Glee
Club toured Europe, and found they
were getting booed and hissed in
France and Holland for singing the old
college song. Must have sounded like
bilingual Nazism to the audiences. In

fact, the tune is early 19th-century, and
was bequeathed to Yale by the first
leader of the Glee Club, who was one of
those German refugees from 1848.

Richard Brookhiser
New York, N.Y.

Caveat lector

Applause for gender-neutral writing,
but how to keep it elegant? All the solu¬
tions you document are anything but,
as you show. I propose the simplest
approach of all: Where gender is irrele¬
vant we leave a blank space and the
reader can interpose the pronoun

wishes. I call this "participatory
reading."

Norbert Hirschhorn '58
Boston, Mass.

Newspeak

Perhaps I am a Neanderthal, but I find
the subject of "gender-neutral" lan¬
guage largely an exaltation of form over
substance. What really caught my eye
was the quote attributed, if I follow the
pronouns accurately, to instructor Ria
Coyne: "But if someone can believe
something but they're not allowed to
say it, the underlying belief is less legit¬
imated." Think about that statement. If
it is not familiar, it should be: It is the
basis for every totalitarian government
that has ever existed, and that has ever
been imagined. Whether it is called
"thought control" or "mind control" or
"revolutionary thinking," it represents
the very antithesis of the Columbia
College education and environment.

I thought, at least when I was a stu¬
dent at Columbia, that the idea was to
change minds and persuade by "the
arts of reasoned argument, dispassion,
open-mindedness and tolerance that
all totalitarian regimes, of whatever
religion or ideology, ruthlessly crush as
soon as they take power," in the very
eloquent words of Dean Robert E. Pol¬
lack only two pages later in the same
issue of CCT. I am astonished that any
faculty member at Columbia could so
express the notion of deliberately de-
legitimating beliefs by prohibiting their
expression.

Perhaps instructor Coyne would be
more comfortable teaching at the Uni¬
versity of Beijing, or at North Korea
State. As far as I am concerned, the
attitude she expresses has no place at
Columbia.

Edward C. Steinberg '64
White Plains, N.Y.

Consciousness-raising

I am writing in response to your article
concerning usage of nonsexist English,
which is becoming mandatory in cer¬
tain limited areas of our university. It
took me some time, but as soon as I
ascertained the article's topic, my mind
immediately jumped to the suspicion
that my former Logic and Rhetoric
teacher would be mentioned some¬
where therein. And sure enough,
she was.

Ria Coyne's mandate of nonsexist
usage was met with considerable resis¬
tance by my class, the women,
strangely, joining the sexist pigs you'd
only expect to be opposed to it. Actu¬
ally, none of the students, I believe,
were sexist, and I think that their reluc¬
tance to comply with Ms. Coyne's
instruction has less to do with a sexist
ideology than with a simple, lazy, "Is it
really that important?" type of attitude.
But through the course, and later on, I
began to become aware of blatant uses
of the generic masculine everywhere—
even cringing at the sight of it on occa¬
sion. Soon, I was writing business let¬
ters to "Sir or Madam," patting myself
on the back for being an egalitarian.
Parts of your article confirmed my new
view that anyone who uses "he" and
"men" in the generic and claims that
"everybody knows I mean the whole of
mankind, the human race," is mis¬
taken. I refer specifically to the test
some L&R teachers use, where a pas¬
sage full of generic masculines is read,
and the class is asked to give the subject
a name. Invariably the names are male.
I don't see how this can be refuted.

Was I indoctrinated? Have I been
irreparably corrupted by a militant
feminist who infringed on my rights by
"forcing" me to do things her way? I
really don't think so. If what the class
did was to make me aware of some¬
thing I did unconsciously, then I can
only be better for it. If I then decide that
I don't like what I used to do without
thinking, and change it, that's my
choice, and the choice of every one of
Ms. Coyne's students after completing
the course.

Thank you for a provocative article.

Michael Johngren '92

Wien Hall

Behavior vs. speech

In his moving valedictory, which
appeared in your Spring/Summer
issue, my classmate Dean Robert E.
Pollack declares that at a liberal arts col-

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lege, no idea should be unthinkable or
unutterable. I hope that your readers
noticed the dichotomy between this
high sentiment and the antics of some
of the College's Logic and Rhetoric
instructors, as described in an article by
Jessica Raimi, in the same issue.

Defending instructors who forbid
their students to use the generic "he,"
program director Sandra Prior
explains, "There is no reasonable argu¬
ment against avoiding giving offense."
As a longtime teacher and practitioner
of First Amendment law, I have always
supposed that the free speech clause
protects the right to give offense.
(Inoffensive speech, after all, seldom
stands in need of protection.) And fed¬
eral courts have vindicated this princi¬
ple from Selma to Skokie.

In the same vein, instructor Ria
Coyne informs her students from the
beginning of her course that the generic
masculine is unacceptable. She says to
your reporter that while we can't
change "attitudes," we can at least
change "behavior."

But student writing is not "behavior."
It is speech. Let me suggest an espe¬
cially apposite example of the differ¬
ence between behavior and speech.
When Professor Coyne expresses her
views about sexism and language,
whether in class or out, this is speech.
When she uses her authority to force
her views upon non-assenting stu¬
dents, this is behavior. If Columbia
were a state university, there would be
a judicial remedy against such behav¬
ior. Since Columbia is private, the
courts are probably powerless to inter¬
vene, but I hope that Columbia's faculty
and administrators, and—if need be—
its tenure committee, will have the
courage to act in their place.

Martin B. Margulies '61
University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Conn.

P.S. I note that Ms. Prior dismisses the
views of those who oppose nonsexist
language by opining that these are
people who think blacks shouldn't
have equal opportunity. I'm so glad
that Ms. Prior teaches Logic.

CCT invited replies from Sandra Pierson
Prior and Ria M. Coyne. First, Professor
Prior:

To begin with, I would like to set the
record straight in regard to the follow¬
ing passage in Jessica Raimi's article:

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"There is no reasonable argument against
avoiding giving offense," maintains Pro¬
fessor Prior. As for those who are offend¬
ed by non-sexist language, "Those are
people who think blacks shouldn't have
equal opportunity."

The first statement I did make, although
in the restricted context of writing for¬
mal expository prose, a context in
which authors may argue all kinds of
opposing positions, but should avoid
offensive language.

The second statement I never
thought, let alone said. I am not sure if
Ms. Raimi erred in her understanding
as well as in her writing (the phrasing is
awkward and ambiguous), but the fact
that not all of the statement is in quota¬
tion marks is one clue that something is
wrong. I was making an analogy, not an
identification, an analogy between, on
the one hand, people who not only
oppose methods of giving equal em¬
ployment opportunity (such as affir¬
mative action) but the goal itself and,
on the other hand, people who object
not only to "she or he" or some other
form of gender-inclusive pronoun but
to the very idea that women should be
fully included in our language. The
analogy may not be apt (though I still
think it is), and it apparently was not
sufficiently articulated for Ms. Raimi to
follow it, but it is not absurd and
illogical, as the statement she attrib¬
uted to me most certainly is.

Logic and Rhetoric is a course in

expository writing that, as the name
suggests, concentrates on logic and
rhetoric, not on grammar, although it
does review some grammatical points.
There is a specific syllabus, which all
the instructors are required to follow.

At first the assignments concentrate, on
various logical developments used for
structuring essays, such as "Identifica¬
tion and Description," "Division and
Classification," and "Comparison and
Contrast." Later the syllabus moves on
to rhetorical issues, such as "Metaphor
and Analogy," "Tone and Attitude" and
"Bias and Usage." The topics for the
assigned papers are specific and de¬
tailed. Students do not have the free¬
dom to write on any topics they choose
or to write in idiosyncratic discourse,
not because there is something inher¬
ently wrong with their own topics or
their own discourse, but because those
are not what this course teaches. Both
students and instructors must adhere
to the prescribed syllabus.

Yet, while instructors must cover a
topic like "Bias and Usage," how they
cover it is up to them. I and others
involved in the program make sugges¬
tions about these matters, but we do
not prescribe. Furthermore, we do not
prescribe what instructors should mark
right and wrong. Within the limits of
the prescribed syllabus, I like to allow
the instructors as much freedom as

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the

Quads

Greenberg ushers in a
new era for the College

Since taking office as Dean of Columbia
College on September 1, Jack Greenberg
'45, the renowned civil rights lawyer, has
moved with all deliberate speed to coun¬
teract what he calls "the centrifugal
forces of a large college in a larger uni¬
versity in a big city."

"The College is in great shape. It is the
crown jewel of the University," Dean
Greenberg declared to alumni at the
Alexander Hamilton Dinner in Novem¬
ber, adding modestly, "My job is just not
to get in the way, and to keep it as good
as it has been and maybe make it a little
bit better."

The new dean was Professor of Law
and Vice Dean of Columbia Law School
for five years prior to his appointment.
He succeeds Professor of Biological Sci¬
ences Robert E. Pollack '61, the College's
dean since 1982, who stepped down last
June 30. During the summer. Dean of
Students Roger Lehecka '67 was Acting
Dean of the College, with Associate
Dean of Students Karen Blank serving as
Acting Dean of Students, a role she con¬
tinues to play while Dean Lehecka helps
guide the transition.

Dean Lehecka and Associate College
Dean Kathryn Yatrakis have led the way
in pursuing Mr. Greenberg's most dra¬
matic proposal for reorganizing student
life at Columbia College: the creation of a
house or college system along the lines
of Princeton, Yale and Harvard.

Although the proposal is still under
study. College administrators envision
new units of perhaps 500 members each,
administered by a house master, a chief
resident tutor, and a number of senior
tutors. Both faculty and deans would be
attached to each house, where they
would conduct academic and social pro¬
grams. Each house would have a cere¬
monial dining room-library where such
events could take place.

The new units would embrace existing
residential groupings under new
names, such as Van Doren House, or
Trilling College, and students would
normally remain within the same house
for most of their College years. The cur¬
rent Hartley-Wallach complex, with
about 460 students, is the right size for
one such house, Mr. Lehecka notes, as is
Schapiro-River, with 500, or John Jay,
with 470.

Dean Lehecka believes the proposed
system offers many advantages for un¬
dergraduate life—a more manageable
scale, a greater sense of attachment, and,
especially, the further integration of fac¬
ulty into College life. "Columbia has a
reputation of having a distant faculty,
more interested in research and gradu¬
ate students than College work and
undergraduate instruction," Dean
Lehecka said. "I understand that it feels
that way to most students, but I don't
think most faculty members come here

with that inclination. I think they learn it,
because that's the way Columbia is
structured."

Creating a house system in the Col¬
lege will be expensive—one estimate
calls for five such units at $2 million each,
including renovation costs, faculty chairs
and program funding. Such a project
competes with other needs Dean Green¬
berg has acknowledged, such as main¬
taining competitive faculty salaries and
renovating both the student activities
building, Ferris Booth Hall, and the
main College building, Hamilton Hall.
The sorting out of priorities is given
urgency by the imminence of a new Uni¬
versity-wide capital campaign, expected
to exceed $1 billion.

The house system is part of Dean
Greenberg's vision of a more cohesive
and intimate College community. He
has undertaken other initiatives in this
regard, for example, urging core curricu¬
lum and senior seminar teachers to in-

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A proven coolness under fire

I n 1949, a young Navy veteran
joined Thurgood Marshall's staff at
the NAACP Legal Defense and Edu¬
cational Fund in Manhattan. Jack
Greenberg, not yet 25 years old, had
been recommended by Columbia law
professor Walter Gellhorn, who ad¬
mired his former student's legal
craftsmanship and social ideals.

Before long, Mr. Greenberg had
established himself as a member of
the team that successfully litigated
the five cases known collectively as
Brown v. Board of Education: On May 17,
1954, the Supreme Court ruled that
racial segregation in public schools
violated the 14th amendment of the
Constitution.

When President Kennedy appoint¬
ed Mr. Marshall to the Federal bench
in 1961, Mr. Greenberg succeeded him

Above: Nine attorneys from the NAACP Legal
Defense Fund gathered on the steps of the U.S.
Supreme Court during the historic Brown v.
Board of Education case in 1954. From left:
John Scott, James M. Nabrit, Jr., Spottswood W.
Robinson III, Frank D. Reeves, Jack Greenberg,
Thurgood Marshall, Louis L. Redding, U. Simp¬
son Tate and George Hayes.

as director-counsel of the Legal
Defense Fund, and he built it into the
largest civil rights law office in the
nation. He represented and advised
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., founded
the Mexican American Legal Defense
Fund, and became active in human
rights causes internationally. He won
honorary doctorates from Morgan
State, Lincoln and other universities,
including Columbia, where he
returned in 1984 as Vice Dean and
Professor of Law.

In Simple Justice, the monumental
study of the Brown decision and
American race relations published in
1975, Richard Kluger wrote:

"Those who have worked closely
with him over the years in which
Greenberg has risen to become per¬
haps the most knowledgeable and
successful civil-rights lawyer in
America are agreed on several of his
qualities: a supple and uncluttered
mind, great intellectual energy
eagerly exercised and methodically
disciplined, the courage to take a
position on a complex legal question
and the stamina to stick to it, and the

manipulative skills to keep a large
organization of professionals working
with dedication toward a goal beyond
their own enshrinement."

Another quality—coolness under
fire—has served Mr. Greenberg well
over the years, and may prove useful
to him as Dean of the College. He
showed it during World War II as a
naval officer in the first assault wave to
hit the beach at I wo Jima, and on the
night in 1952 when white-hooded
Klan members menaced him with an
all-night torchlight parade around his
hotel in Orlando, Florida. It was the
same coolness Mr. Greenberg needed
as a lawyer arguing 40 cases before
the Supreme Court over the years.

"He doesn't get into a flap when the
going gets rough," Walter Gellhorn
observes in Simple Justice, "and he can
stand controversy without develop¬
ing animosity."

Or, in the apothegm Mr. Greenberg
learned from his mentor, Justice
Thurgood Marshall, and often re¬
peats: "Lose your head, lose your
case."

J.C.K.

vite students to their homes (and
allocating funds from the dean's discre¬
tionary budget to help fund their hospi¬
tality). Mr. Greenberg has also hosted a
series of faculty dinners in his Hamilton
Hall office. The first one featured his
own celebrated gumbo, which Spectator
delightedly dubbed "Dean Cuisine."

When the Spec reporter entered the
dean's inner office— which is deco¬
rated with artworks from Bali, West
Africa and Mexico—he inquired about
the scary-looking papier-mache skele¬
ton hanging near a window bay. Dean
Greenberg deadpanned: "That's the
last Columbia College student who
made a racist, sexist or homophobic
remark."

It was another reminder of Dean
Greenberg's lifelong commitment to
fighting discrimination in its many
forms.

The College's 12th Dean was born in
New York City on December 22,1924
and grew up in the Bensonhurst sec¬
tion of Brooklyn and on Decatur Ave¬
nue in the Bronx. His parents came to
theU.S. shortly before World War I, his
mother from Rumania, and his
father—a certified public accountant
described admiringly by Dean Green¬
berg as a "hard-headed idealist"—from
Poland. The future dean attended
DeWitt Clinton High School (at the
same time as the revolutionary modern
jazz pianist. Bud Powell) and entered
Columbia College in 1941. Among his
favorite professors were the philoso¬
pher Irwin Edman '16, and Raymond
Weaver, in English.

Two of Mr. Greenberg's core curricu¬
lum teachers—Sherman Hayden in
C.C and Burdette Kinney in Humani¬
ties—also made a deep impression.

The dean remains a strong adherent of
Columbia's required general education
curriculum, and of the current move¬
ment to develop the Extended Core.
"Our answer to objections leveled at
the core curriculum is not to dilute it,
but to add to it sections dealing with
other cultures and contemporary prob¬
lems," he says.

In 1943, Mr. Greenberg entered the
U.S. Navy's V-12 program, which soon
led to midshipman's school at Cornell
and active duty in the South Pacific. His
first assignment was to command a
landing ship from Kentucky down the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New
Orleans—a Mark Twain-like interlude
that contrasted sharply with the car¬
nage he later witnessed at Iwo Jima and

Gumbo diplomacy: "Dean Cuisine" is part of
Jack Greenberg's recipe for a more cohesive College
Faculty.

Okinawa.

Mr. Greenberg entered Columbia
Law School after the war, graduating in
1947 as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar,
and he joined the NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in
1949. Soon, he was litigating major civil
rights cases, including one that led to
the desegregation of the University of
Delaware, and then Brown v. Board of
Education, which culminated in the his¬
toric 1954 ruling of the Supreme Court
[see sidebar, page 9].

After succeeding Thurgood Marshall
as director-counsel of the LDF in 1961,
Mr. Greenberg led the organization to
an impressive string of Supreme Court
victories, including Alexander v. Holmes,
a landmark school desegregation case
in Virginia; Furman v. Georgia, which
outlawed capital punishment (on nar¬
row grounds); and Griggs v. Duke Power
Co., an employment discrimination
case which has resulted in hundreds of
thousands of new jobs for minorities,
Mr. Greenberg estimates. The LDF also
represented hundreds of civil rights
protesters and leaders, among them
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By 1984,
when Mr. Greenberg stepped down as
director-counsel—he remains a mem¬
ber of the LDF's executive committee—
the organization had 25 lawyers and an
annual budget of $6 million.

It was about 30 years ago that he first
met Michael I. Sovern '53, then a Co¬
lumbia law professor researching a

book on employment discrimination.
Before long, Mr. Sovern was directing
lawyers' training institutes for the LDF,
and the two men developed a close per¬
sonal and professional relationship.
"Among Jack's many contributions to
the advancement of human welfare,"
President Sovern has noted, "was the
fact the he and his wife first introduced
me to my wife."

Joan Sovern's old friend, Deborah
Greenberg, also a Columbia Law grad¬
uate, is Clinical Professor of Law at
Columbia, working with the AIDS Law
Clinic. The Greenbergs havg six grown
children, two of whom (Josiah '80 and
William Cole '84) are College alumni.

Soon after Mr. Greenberg returned to
the Law School in 1984, he founded the
school's Summer Human Rights In¬
ternship Program, which places up to
70 law students each year in human
rights offices around the world. He
hopes to encourage similar programs
for Columbia College.

In 1989, he chaired a University-wide
task force on minorities that recom¬
mended a stronger commitment to
affirmative action policies in faculty hir¬
ing and other areas. He also founded a
program to bring Third World human
rights leaders to Columbia as visiting
scholars. Dean Greenberg himself is
chairman of the Asia Watch Committee
and an executive committee member of
Human Rights Watch. He has partici¬
pated in human rights missions to
Korea, Nepal, the Philippines, Poland,
Guyana, and South Africa.

"I would like to affect the direction of
the College so that students will be
more conscious of the needs of their
community and the rest of the world
and be more interested in devoting
themselves to helping others," he said
in a recent New York Newsday interview.

Mr. Greenberg's published works
include Race Relations and American Imw
(1959), Judicial Process and Social Change
(1976) and numerous articles; he is
now working on a history of the
NAACP Legal Defense and Educa¬
tional Fund. With former Harvard Law
School dean James Vorenberg he has
just published The Liberated Man's
Guide to Fine Cooking —"a title which
was perhaps more timely when they
started it 13 years ago," needles
Deborah Greenberg.

In addition to enjoying his foie gras
cookery, an active social life, and the
company of his infant granddaughter,
Jessica, Dean Greenberg likes to spend

Joe Pineiro

Columbia College Today

• Inquiries: Are Columbia and other
Ivy schools "part of a price-fixing
system that OPEC might envy/' as
one Wall Street Journal reporter sug¬
gested last May?

More than 50 colleges and univer¬
sities are currently involved in a Jus¬
tice Department antitrust investiga¬
tion to determine whether they are
illegally setting tuition, financial
aid, and salary levels.

The probe began last summer
when the Justice Department asked
certain schools to turn over financial
records and other information.
Columbia did not initially receive a
notice, but as the investigation wid¬
ened, all of the Ivy schools and doz¬
ens of others were asked to furnish
records. "Some documents have al¬
ready been produced and produc¬
tion will continue as expeditiously
as possible until completed," Eliz¬
abeth Head, Columbia's General
Counsel, informed CCT in
November.

Although the University has not
commented officially on the investi¬
gation, a statement issued by Har¬
vard, which is also under investiga¬
tion, noted, "There are of course
some common standards among in¬
stitutions. For example, Ivy League
universities base scholarships on
need and do not give athletic schol¬
arships. We believe that we are com¬
plying with the law."

• Civility Committee: "Race, eth¬
nicity, religion, gender, sexual ori¬
entation—all have occasioned
attacks by the ignorant, the foolish,
the sick, the evil.... We have not
been exempt from these problems at
Columbia," said President Michael
Sovern '53 in his announcement of

the formation of a Committee for the
Promotion of Mutual Understand¬
ing and Civility. The 15-member
committee comprises faculty,
administrators and students and is
chaired by Provost Jonathan Cole
'64. Its charge, in President Sovern's
words, is "to ensure that all our deal¬
ings with each other are marked by
decency'and characterized by civil¬
ity," and "to develop sensitivity to
the concerns of those among us
most vulnerable to discrimination
and harassment."

• Bridging the Two Cultures: In re¬
sponse to concerns about scientific
illiteracy, the College faculty voted
in November to require a minimum
of two years' study of the natural
sciences, mathematics or computer
science for the bachelor's degree, in¬
stead of the one year currently re¬
quired. The rule will not take effect
until a new standing College Sci¬
ence Committee of faculty is satis¬
fied that enough courses for non¬
science majors have been created,

a process expected to take a year
or two.

These were among the measures
proposed by a committee chaired by
Professor of Chemistry George
Flynn. The committee's report in¬
cluded proposals for augmenting
the "vanishingly small" number of
undergraduates majoring in science
and enhancing the status of science
in the College's general education
curriculum.

• Bellwether: College tuition for
the fiscal year 1990-91 will increase
by 5.7 percent, the lowest increase
in more than 20 years. Low Library
announced on November 17. Tui¬

tion increases are usually stated in
the spring, but according to Provost
Jonathan Cole '64, the early an¬
nouncement is part of an effort to
improve long-range fiscal planning.

"The College in some sense is the
bellwether of the school," he told
the University Senate. "In terms of
tuition patterns, it is the one [divi¬
sion] that people look to, outside of
the University, when they think
about tuition increases. It is also the
single largest source of tuition in the
University." College tuition for the
academic year 1989-90 is $13,686.

• Great Teachers: Carol Gluck, the
George Sansom Professor of His¬
tory, and Atle Gjelsvik, Professor of
Civil Engineering, received the 41st
annual Great Teacher Awards at the
Society of Columbia Graduates'
annual dinner at the Princeton Club
on September 21.

Professor Gluck, a specialist in
modern Japanese intellectual his¬
tory, is the head of the undergradu¬
ate program in East Asian studies
and co-director of Columbia's NEH
project on Asia in the Core Curricu¬
lum. She won the Mark Van Doren
Award in 1982 and the Lionel Trilling
Award in 1987. Professor Gjelsvik is
well known for his designs for off¬
shore drilling platforms and sub¬
mersible oil rigs.

• The Art of Math: The renowned
mathematician Samuel Eilenberg,
University Professor Emeritus, has
endowed a chair in mathematics at
Columbia by donating his collection
of South Asian art to the Metropoli¬
tan Museum of Art in New York.

The collection is valued at more than
$5 million; in return, the museum is
raising the $1.5 million needed to
create the Samuel Eilenberg Visiting
Professorship of Mathematics. Pro¬
fessor Eilenberg's collection,
amassed over three decades, com¬
prises more than 400 pieces and in¬
cludes the world's finest private
holding of Javanese bronzes. Profes¬
sor Eilenberg, who joined the fac¬
ulty in 1947, won the 1986 Wolf Prize
in Mathematics for his work in alge¬
braic topology and homological
algebra.

his off-hours reading historical works,
such as Eric Foner's Reconstruction, or
magazines—he subscribes to The Econ¬
omist, Far'Eastern Economic Review, Dis¬
sent and Time. He is also an opera and
music lover, favoring Bach, Mozart,
Mahler and Verdi.

Mr. Greenberg has upheld one Col¬
lege tradition, the "open-door policy,"
perhaps as strictly as any dean since
Herbert E. Hawkes, who was near the
end of his tenure when Mr. Greenberg
entered Columbia. A sign posted in
Hamilton lobby invites students in to
see the dean any time after 10 a.m.,
without an appointment, unless he is
already busy with a visitor or a phone
call.

In other matters, he clearly differs
from his predecessors.

"We had a bunch of John Jay Scholars
come to my house for dinner last week
with Allen Ginsberg," Dean Greenberg
related to alumni at the Hamilton Din¬
ner. "And he told of the night when
Security found him in bed with Jack
Kerouac, and he was summoned to the
Dean's Office. This was another in a
long list of wrongs he had committed,
so he was sentenced to a year's suspen¬
sion and charged $2.40 for having an
overnight guest.

"Ginsberg asked what I would have
done," the dean continued. "I said that
I would not have suspended him, but I
would have made him pay the $2.40."

Dean Greenberg can only be pleased
by some of the changes he has seen.

In October he was invited to speak
informally to the Charles Hamilton
Houston Pre-Law Society, in Ferris
Booth Hall. He began by remembering
some of his earliest colleagues in the
civil rights cases leading up to Brown v.
Board of Education, men and women he
called "the really great heroes of the
movement." One such man is Louis L.
Redding, a Harvard Law School gradu¬
ate who opened his Delaware law prac¬
tice in 1929 and in the 1950's was still the
only black lawyer in the state. "At that
time," Dean Greenberg explained,
"Delaware was as racially segregated as
Mississippi. Even the courtrooms were
segregated— blacks on the left, whites
on the right."

Glancing at the faces of 40 Columbia
College students, he said, "As I look
around this room, I see virtually as
many black pre-law students as there
were black lawyers in the entire South in
1949 and 1950, when I began working in
this field." J.C.K.

The University Senate:
Advice and dissent

At the height of the '68 student upris¬
ing, on the day after The Bust, shocked
members of the University's senior fac¬
ulty met in St. Paul's Chapel. Ten of
them, including Lionel Trilling, Poly-
karp Kusch, Ernest Nagel, Alan
Westin, Daniel Bell, and a young law
professor named Michael Sovern,
formed themselves into an executive
committee charged with finding a way
for faculty and students to have more
say in the governance of their Univer¬
sity so that such a crisis would never
recur.

The product of their labors was the
University Senate, self-described as "a
policy-making body which may con¬
sider all matters of University-wide
concern [and] all matters affecting
more than one faculty or school." In
September, at a reception that offered
the opportunity to reflect on past suc¬
cesses and work yet to be done, sen¬
ators gathered to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of their body politic.

As finally approved in 1969, the 101-
member Senate was seen as a compro¬
mise between the old University Coun¬
cil, composed only of administrators
and senior faculty, and radical plans for
joint student-faculty control of Colum¬
bia. Made up of administrators, junior
and senior faculty, students, staff, and
alumni, the Senate is not unique in its
broad representation—other univer¬
sities developed similar senates at the
time—but 20 years later, Columbia's
version is distinguished by the fact that
it still exists.

"That is noteworthy," said Karen
Markoe, president of the SUNY Faculty
Senate, who helped organize a national
symposium on university senates last
April. "One of the problems that a lot of
the all-inclusive senates had is that
when the sparks stopped flying in the
early 70's, the students stopped
coming."

In its first years, the Columbia Senate
worked aggressively, drafting codes of
academic freedom and tenure, resolv¬
ing to prohibit acceptance of grants for
classified research, and assuring equal
access to the campus for all recruiters,
including the military. These days,
there is less activism; more typical are
the open hearings that have been con¬
ducted on subjects like changes in the
Rules of University Conduct and the
"Strategies of Renewal" report on the

future of the University.

The Senate now serves primarily as a
forum where the different parts of the
University community can talk with
each other, air grievances, and bring
themselves up to date. At a typical
meeting, senators will question Presi¬
dent Sovern, who chairs the Senate,
about matters ranging from the elim¬
ination of academic programs to cam¬
pus security.

"The Columbia of today is a far cry
from those dark days of 1968," said Mr.
Sovern, explaining the shift in the Sen¬
ate's focus. "So much work has been
done. The current Senate will deal with
them [issues] on the margins, whereas
the old Senate worked on the core
problems."

When the Senate was formed, no one
had any illusions about who was still in
charge of Columbia. All Senate deci¬
sions must be approved by the Trust¬
ees, who were the ones who had the
power to ultimately vote the Senate into
existence. The two groups have been
known to disagree, especially when
the Trustees rejected the Senate's unan¬
imous 1983 resolution calling for the
University to divest its holdings in cor¬
porations doing business in South
Africa. (More recently, selected sen¬
ators have been permitted to sit in on
certain Trustee committee meetings,
and abstracts of the Trustees' meetings
are now available at the Senate office for
review.)

"The only important thing the Senate
can do without the Trustees' approval
is to make the academic calendar and
approve changes in degrees," said
William Phipps, Secretary of the Sen¬
ate, who heads a full-time staff that
keeps the minutes and records of the
body in order, and helps set the agenda
for the Senate's monthly meetings.

"It is not legislative in the sense that it
provides for matters of University pol¬
icy on investments and acquisition of
property and all that," said Frank Grad,
Chamberlain Professor of Law and one
of the Senate's founders. "It does pro¬
vide an avenue for committees relating
to degree programs, community rela¬
tions, and student affairs."

But Tom Kamber '89, one of the most
reform-minded student senators of
recent years, does not believe that the
mission of the Senate ends with discus¬
sion. "If that was the only mandate of
the Senate, then the Senate is not a
governing body and they shouldn't call
it a senate."

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He also believes that many of the
conditions that gave rise to the Senate
still exist. "The nerve to say that those
issues were all resolved!"

During his time in office, Mr. Kamber
led some of his more progressive col¬
leagues in issuing proposals recom¬
mending the use of gender-neutral
language in University discourse, the
coeducation of fraternities, and the
option of substituting community serv¬
ice for the physical education require¬
ment. He also organized, under Senate
auspices, a series of discussion panels
on community affairs. "We had a very
broad view of what the Senate should
do."

It is not a view shared by many sen¬
ators who are senior faculty and admin¬
istrators. The obstacles that Mr. Kamber
and others have met—resolutions
killed in committee or on the floor—
may reflect not only disagreement, but
the Senate's conservative estimate of its
own function.

"I found that on the big issues, my
colleagues were a craven lot and didn't
go to the wall with me," said one for¬
mer member of the Executive Commit¬
tee, a tenured professor who asked not
to be identified. He recalled that he
could barely raise a cry of protest
among his fellow members in 1987
when the name of the Architecture
School was changed without Senate
counsel.

Criticizing the Senate, in fact, is as
old as the Senate itself. In 1970, when it
did not endorse a resolution by Faris
Bouhafa '70 for Columbia to help raise
bail for 21 Black Panthers held on con¬
spiracy charges, Mr. Bouhafa resigned
from the Senate, calling it "a magnifi¬
cent hoax." More recently, at a meeting
last spring, senators Warigia Bowman
'90 and Veena Sud (Barnard '89) pre¬
sented President Sovern with a white
rat they called "Michael" and left the
room without explanation. Like Mr.
Bouhafa, Ms. Bowman later resigned
her seat. "The entire student body has
been duped," she said, charging the
Senate with ineffectiveness.

Professor Grad's reaction to such
charges is philosophical: "People say
the Senate hasn't taken care of this,
that, and the other thing. Well, neither
has God."

On occasion, the Senate will speak
for the University on matters of
national import—as in 1970, when it
denounced President Nixon's sending
of troops into Cambodia—but such

In Lumine Tuo: Research and honors

• Honored: Centennial Professor of
Chemistry Koji Nakanishi has won
the American Chemical Society's
1990 Arthur C. Cope Award for out¬
standing achievement in the field of
organic chemistry. He will receive a
gold medal and $15,000 at the ACS
national meeting next August in
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Nakanishi is a leader in the
development of techniques to iso¬
late biochemicals that are difficult to
study because they are produced in
minute quantities. His methods
have been used to investigate more
than 160 products found in plants
and animals, including red-tide
toxins, natural insecticides, and
antibiotics.

• Honored: Larry Dais, Columbia's
Assistant Vice President for Govern¬
ment Relations and Director of
Community Relations, was recently
named Man of Year by the YMC A of
Greater New York for his work as a
volunteer with the Harlem YMCA.
Mr. Dais, the former head of Project
Double Discovery, has been a
Columbia administrator for 19 years,
the last eight in Low Library.

• Packard Fellowship: Yasutomo J.
Uemura, Associate Professor of
Physics, has received $500,000 from
the David and Lucile Packard Foun¬
dation to support his research into
superconductivity for the next five
years. Professor Uemura, who
received his doctorate from the Uni¬
versity of Tokyo in 1982, is studying
high-temperature superconductors
—a class of materials, discovered in
1986, which lose their resistance to
electrical currents at relatively high

temperatures. Superconductivity
had previously been observed only
in materials a little warmer than
absolute zero (- 273 Celsius).

• Slivers of Light: Columbia math¬
ematicians Gregory and David
Chudnovsky reported last August
that they had calculated pi—the
ratio of a circle's circumference to its
diameter—to more than one billion
places. Working on computers at
IBM's Watson Research Center and
the Minnesota Supercomputer Cen¬
ter, the Chudnovsky brothers
applied a new algorithm to the
ancient problem and achieved a
smashing success.

Pi has fascinated mathematicians
for thousands of years. It was
known to the Babylonians and was
roughly calculated in the Bible. The
ratio comprises an inifinite
sequence beginning with

3.141592653_According to the

Columbia University Record, the
Chudnovkys' billion-digit approx¬
imation would extend more than
1,200 miles, if written out. "Calculat¬
ing pi to such extreme lengths
requires trillions of complex mathe¬
matical operations and thus it looms
as a rigorous test of the speed and
accuracy of a mathematician's com¬
puters, computer programs and
arithmetic strategies," the news¬
paper commented.

Earlier last year, when they had
computed pi to 480 million decimal
places, Stewart Wills wrote in The
New York Times, "The Chudnovskys'
achievement was not a work of prac¬
tical science but of poetry. They
have coaxed from the darkness 480
million slivers of light."

• Named Chairs: Four distin¬
guished teachers were recently
appointed to endowed profes¬
sorships, one of the highest faculty
honors.

Edward W. Said, the noted liter¬
ary and critical theorist, has been
named Old Dominion Foundation
Professor. The author of numerous
works, including Orientalism, The
World, the Text and the Critic, and the
forthcoming Culture and Imperialism,
he also serves as music critic for The
Nation and writes a monthly column
for the Arabic weekly al-Majalla,
published in London. Born in Jeru¬
salem, Professor Said is a member of
the Palestinian National Council
and appears widely as a spokesman
and commentator on the Palestinan
cause. He has taught in Columbia
College since 1963.

Robert A. Ferguson, a scholar of
American law and literature, has
joined the faculty as George Edward
Woodberry Professor in Literature
and Criticism. He also serves as a
professor in the Law School.

Professor Ferguson is the author
of the award-winning Law and Letters
in American Culture and other works.
His books in progress include The
Trial in American Life and The Ameri¬
can Enlightenment, 1750-1820. In
1984, he received the Quantrell
Award as Teacher of the Year in the
Humanities Division of the Univer¬
sity of Chicago, where he taught for
14 years.

Robert L. Jervis, an authority on
international relations and national
security, has been named Adlai E.
Stevenson Professor in the School of
International and Public Affairs. A

former faculty member at Harvard
and UCLA, Professor Jervis joined
Columbia's political science depart¬
ment in 1980. He is the author of
numerous studies, including Psy¬
chology and Deterrence (with Richard
Ned Lebow and Janice Stein). His
course in nuclear strategy and
national security is offered jointly to
graduate students and
undergraduates.

Mario Davidovsky, the composer
and director of Columbia's Elec¬
tronic Music Center, has been
named MacDowell Professor of
Music.

Professor Davidovsky, a native of
Argentina, has earned many honors
for his work, including the 1971
Pulitzer Prize in Music. He has
taught at CCNY, Yale, the Univer¬
sities of Michigan and Pennsylva¬
nia, and the Manhattan School of
Music. Since 1975, he has also
directed the Composers' Confer¬
ence, at Wellesley College (formerly
at Johnson College in Vermont). Pro¬
fessor Davidovsky has received
commissions from numerous
orchestras and institutions, includ¬
ing The Juilliard School, the San
Francisco Symphony and the Phila¬
delphia Orchestra.

• Appointed: The College named
two new Assistant Deans of Stu¬
dents this year, Kathryn Balmer and
Matt White '89.

Mrs. Balmer, whose responsibili¬
ties include first-year students and
orientation programs, is a former
dean of student affairs at Trinity Col¬
lege in Illinois, her undergraduate
alma mater. She is married to Ran¬

dall Balmer, the Hartley Hall profes¬
sor-in-residence. Mr. White, a
former varsity swimmer and resi¬
dence advisor in Plimpton Hall, is
now responsible for transfer stu¬
dents, advanced placement credit,
and the Urban New York program.

Leora Neter-Brovman, a widely
respected administrator who
departed on maternity leave last
year after seven years as Assistant
Dean, has elected not to return.
Another former Assistant Dean of
Students, the popular, savvy Peter
Johnson, has been named Assistant
Director of College Admissions,
replacing Erika Hageman, who now
teaches English at Red Bank
Regional High School in New
Jersey. Mr. Johnson's admissions
territories include Massachusetts,
New York City, and Puerto Rico; he
also coordinates the Undergraduate
Minority Recruitment Committee.

• Named: Patricia L. Francy, a
Columbia administrator since 1969,
has been appointed Treasurer of the
University, while continuing to
serve as University Controller. She
now supervises Columbia's finan¬
cial accounting and the disburse¬
ment of $750 million to the
University's 16 schools, as well as
overseeing risk management, trust
administration, short-term cash
managment, long-term debt issu¬
ance, and government accounting
and reporting.

A graduate of Lewis and Clark
College, Ms. Francy is chairman of
the Women's Economic Roundtable
and is active in a number of profes¬
sional organizations.

• Named: Robert E. Pollack '61, Pro¬
fessor of Biological Sciences, was
appointed in October to a five-year
term on the board of trustees of
Brandeis University, in Waltham,
Mass. Founded in 1948, Brandeis is a
research university with an under¬
graduate enrollment of 3,000.

Professor Pollack, the Dean of
Columbia College from 1982 to 1989,
interrupted his one-year sabbatical
leave in November to accept the Col¬
lege Alumni Association's Alex¬
ander Hamilton Medal.

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instances are rare. They occur. Presi¬
dent Sovern said, when "there is a
direct impact on Columbia. The Senate
is not a political organization that
speaks for Columbia on political
issues."

Last spring, Veena Sud tried to urge
the Senate to draft letters to President
Bush and the Supreme Court Justices,
requesting them to uphold the 1973 Roe
v. Wade decision. The resolution did not
make it to the floor—not only because it
was deemed not of central concern to
Columbia, but because it was felt that
there was enough disagreement about
the issue to preclude the University
from speaking with one voice.

But at the end of the meeting, a
majority of senators, including Presi¬
dent Sovern, remained for over half an
hour to discuss the reasons for the Sen¬
ate's decision. It was an impromptu and
frank forum, unprecedented in its
spontaneity, and one that may have
represented the original purpose of the
Senate at its best.

T.V.

Not carved in stone

The names of Homer, Herodotus,
Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Demos¬
thenes, Cicero and Vergil are inscribed
on the facade of Butler Library, as any
visitor to Columbia knows.* This
standing committee was appointed 55
years ago by President Nicholas Mur¬
ray Butler to represent the forefathers
of Western poetry, history, drama, phi¬
losophy and oratory, and they were all
men, which is what got Laura Hotch¬
kiss Brown so mad.

During her years in the School of
General Studies, from which she grad¬
uated last spring, as she daily viewed
the Butler Eight, "I grew angrier and
angrier about it because I had come to

*The east and west sides of the building bear
the names of Cervantes, Shakespeare,
Milton, Voltaire, Goethe, Horace, Tacitus,

St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas and
Dante; panels under the front windows list
great Americans: George Washington, Ben¬
jamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jeffer¬
son, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James
Madison, John Marshall, John Quincy
Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Abra¬
ham Lincoln, Jonathan Edwards, Washing¬
ton Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William
Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David
Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman
and Mark Twain.

school as a writer and found I wasn't
being taught about my tradition but
was being taught a tradition very West¬
ern and male," Ms. Brown told CCT.
"Rather than get involved in the curric¬
ulum debates, which are all mired in
bureaucracy, I wanted to make a state¬
ment." That statement took the form of
a banner, inscribed with the names of
seven female writers, to hang on the
facade above the inscription on Com¬
mencement Day—"my graduation
present to the University."

She spent several years, she says,
choosing the names, confining herself
to the six languages she knew. She set¬
tled on Sappho (the Greek poet of the
6th century B.C.); Marie de France (a
writer of short fiction, believed to have
been French, active 1160-1215); Chris¬
tine de Pizan (a Venetian-born Parisian
poet of the late 14th century); Sor Juana
In£s de la Cruz (the 17th-century Mex¬
ican poet and scholar); Bronte (the 19th-
century English novelists Charlotte,
Emily and Anne); Dickinson (Emily,
the 19th-century American poet); and
Woolf (Virginia, the 20th-century Eng¬
lish novelist).

From the original plans for Butler,
which Ms. Brown found in Avery
Library, she copied the type face and
dimensions of the inscription. With a
friend's help she sewed the 130-foot
banner out of nylon canvas, and
painted it with the seven names—she
had hoped to include Jane Austen and
George Eliot, but ran out of space.
Finally came the task of smuggling the
banner, ropes and other equipment
into Butler and concealing them in
machine rooms on the roof, and plan¬
ning entry into the library, which is
closed on Commencement Day—
"rather like a bank robbery," she says.

During the ceremonies on May 17, as
she and four accomplices began to
hang their rebel flag from the roof of
Butler, they were arrested by security
guards, charged with trespassing, and
told they would never see the banner
again.

Undaunted, Ms. Brown wrote to
Ward Dennis, Dean of the School of
General Studies, asking official ap¬
proval for the banner. Reminding him
that she had graduated summa cum
laude and won the John Angus Burrell
Memorial Prize and the Arthur E. Ford
Poetry Award, she wrote, "I am a
woman. I am also one of Columbia's
finest graduates. This is not a new phe¬
nomenon; women have always been

extremely intelligent and articulate.
Sappho was writing poetry at nearly
the same time as Homer.... Her work
was revered and copied by many male
poets whose work we still read today."
Yet, argued Ms. Brown, women have
been "constantly thwarted in their
attempts to assemble and maintain
their half of the Western tradition....

In spite of all the honors I have re¬
ceived, none could mean as much to
me as seeing the names of these
women, even briefly, on the facade of
Butler."

Dean Dennis was persuaded. He
suggested that she appeal to Elaine
Sloan, the University librarian, and
with their support, and that of Colum¬
bia's Institute for Research on Women
and Gender, the banner was finally
installed on September 25. This time,
the event was garnished with a press
release, a series of faculty lectures
about the authors, and an exhibit on the
third floor of Butler. Scheduled to hang
for a week, the banner actually stayed
up for a month, due to the illness of a
maintenance man. The trespassing
charges were dropped.

"And so a project that began as an act
of protest by a student became an insti¬
tutionally sponsored event," said Ms.
Brown, addressing several dozen cele¬
brants at the reception following the
banner's second unfurling.

"This is America," said Ms. Brown.
"For the first time in the history of
humanity men and women of all races
and religions are living together in one
place, and, in theory, all of them are
free. The challenge to Americans is to
come to accept diversity, to find joy in
it, and to pass this understanding on,
in a positive way, to our children." Yet,
she said, "Those who give up their cul¬
ture for ours find that America offers
them little more than the ability to buy
a washing machine on credit... We
have no coherent American culture of
anything like the depth of culture of the
peoples who come here... We must all
fight the lie inherent in the concept that
the works of Western European male
society are the finest works available to
us as Americans... We must say with
one voice: We will have no education
without representation."

One balmy evening in October, the
steps of Low Beach were crowded with
people looking across the campus at the
library, the banner, and the fading sky.

"I'm glad they finally did it," said one
student. "It took a while. But it's

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strange because it's so temporary,
almost like an afterthought." She
thought Sappho definitely belonged in
such lofty company: "It's sad we don't
have anything left except for frag¬
ments, but she was the lyric poet of the
rime." In the core curriculum, where
students read Sappho's love poetry and
the "Hymn to Demeter," she said, "We
don't read any other poetry except
epic, and Homer is about war and con¬
quering. Sappho's more emotional.
Now, if it was The Princess ofCleves [the
17th-century novel by Madame de La
Fayette]—but that's like a concession—
they ended up with an empty period so
they stuck her in." Although she likes
Plato, she is no fan of Aristotle: "He
writes outlines—it's like reading a car
manual."

"I think it's great but I would have
chosen Austen over Bronte," said Nic¬
ole Adaniya '90. "Women's work in the
past hasn't been represented very well,
though I know a lot of professors make
a great effort to talk about women as
writers. Western culture, however, was
built on the words of many men, so you
can't help but concentrate on the works
of men."

Her classmate Eric Strumingher was
less enthusiastic: "If they're trying to
show these are equivalents I don't
think that's accurate. I don't know any
women authors who've contributed to
philosophy or oratory—maybe some

did but none of the work has survived.
History's not on their side, so to speak.
We've had hundreds of years to con¬
sider [the men's] work, but not the
women, except Sappho. I like Homer
better."

Nor were all the women pleased.
Alysoun Hurst, a Barnard freshman,
wrote to the Federalist Paper, a student
weekly: "I don't want to look up to the
best men or the best minority authors,
but the best. That is why I am at school.
... By placing a banner of 'women'
authors over Butler's facade of 'men'
authors we are drawing a dangerous
comparison and limiting one's accom¬
plishments to their sex, not promoting
anyone's greatness."

And three other Barnard students,
Colette Brown, Risha Henry and Ken-
yatta Monroe, wrote to the Barnard Bul¬
letin: "In this male-oriented and male-
dominated university that requires us
to deny our sex (if we are not male), our
ethnicity (if we are not white), and our
class (if we are not affluent), how can
we effectively protest the constant
assault on our non-elitist sensibilities?

... The fact that Brown's protest took
the same form as what she was protest¬
ing—a canon—rendered her intended
statement weak and ineffectual.... We
suggest another protest. And it too
includes a banner. But our banner is
blank and covers all the names on But¬
ler Library." J-R-

In Memoriam

The campus recently mourned the
deaths of three College faculty
members.

Harold Barger, Professor Emeritus of
Economics, died August 9 at his home
in Kinderhook, N. Y. He was 82.

Professor Barger taught at Columbia
from 1937 to 1975 and was chairman of
the economics department from 1961 to
1964, when he was named the first
director of Columbia's programs at
Reid Hall in Paris.

Born in London, he attended Cam¬
bridge University and the London
School of Economics and became a spe¬
cialist in monetary theory and income
and employment theory. He was a
researcher and consultant for a number
of U.S. government agencies, includ¬
ing the Bureau of the Census and the
Bureau of Mines. During World II and
its aftermath he served in the Office of
Strategic Services and as an assistant
division chief for the State Department.

Professor Barger was especially
devoted to Columbia College students
and served as an assistant to the dean
from 1954 to 1959. He published many
papers and books in his field, including
the textook Money, Banking and Public
Policy (1962) and College on Credit (1981),
co-authored with his wife, Gwyneth.

Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Adjunct Profes¬
sor Emeritus of Architecture, died of

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leukemia last July 31. He was 79 years
old and lived in Manhattan.

A teacher, scholar, curator and phi¬
lanthropist, Mr. Kaufmann inherited
Fallingwater, the famous Frank Lloyd
Wright-designed house near Pitts¬
burgh, in 1955; he later arranged for the
structure and surrounding lands to be
preserved as a public museum.

A member of both the art history and
architecture departments at Columbia
from 1962 to 1981, Mr. Kaufman was
also curator of the department of indus¬
trial design at the Museum of Modern
Art. In 1970, he organized "The Rise of
an American Architecture 1815-1915," a
large-scale exhibition at the Metropoli¬
tan Museum of Art. He was a founding
director of the Architectural History
Foundation and the author of numer¬
ous essays and books, including a vol¬
ume on Fallingwater and a forthcoming
book of commentaries on Frank Lloyd
Wright.

Allan M. Sachs, Professor of Physics
and a faculty member for more than 40
years, died of a heart attack near his
home in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. on Septem¬
ber 20. He was 68.

Professor Sachs, who was awarded
Columbia's 1977 Great Teacher Award,
chaired the physics department from
1967 to 1971 and was associate director
of the University's Nevis Laboratories
from 1972 until his death. He had
directed Columbia's Science Honors
Program for gifted high school stu¬
dents since 1968.

A native New Yorker, Professor Sachs
earned the B. A., M. A. and Ph.D. from
Harvard, with time out for wartime
service in Burma as a glider pilot for the
U.S. Army Air Force. He joined the
Columbia faculty in 1949.

In the early 1950's, he collaborated
with Jack Steinberger, a co-winner of
last year's Nobel Prize, on early experi¬
ments to measure the fundamental
properties of subatomic pi-mesons.
Later, working with John Peoples, then
Professor Sachs's student and now
director of the Fermi National Acceler¬
ator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., Profes¬
sor Sachs helped produce precise
measurements of the decay of muons,
particles that exist for two-millionths of
a second before decaying into an elec¬
tron and two neutrinos. The research
provided evidence to support theories
of weak interactions between sub¬
atomic particles.

Columbia College Yesterday

10 Years Ago—Fall 1979
October: California Gov. Jerry Brown
attacks President Carter's energy pro¬
gram before a capacity crowd in
Wollman auditorium... The Univer¬
sity Senate votes to oppose efforts to
revive registration for the draft...
Varsity football coach Bill Campbell '62,
who has compiled a 12-37-1 record since
1974, announces he will resign at the
end of the season... November:
Columbia finishes the fiscal year in the
black, the first time since 1966... The
University offers to rename Livingston
Hall in gratitude to Ira Wallach '29, who
donated $2 million to the dormitory's
renovation. Jerome L. Greene '26, who
donated $2 million for the renovation of
Hartley, declines to have that building
named after him... December: The
commission chaired by Steven Marcus
'48, Delacorte Professor in the Human¬
ities, releases its report and calls for a
program of "selective excellence" in
which the University should "do only
what it can do superlatively" ...
Columbia's Ivy champion soccer team
finishes fourth in the NCAA playoffs in
Tampa.

25 Years Ago—Fall 1964

September: Citing harassment and
underpayment of dining hall employ¬
ees, the student chapter of the Con¬
gress of Racial Equality (CORE) begins
protesting outside John Jay, carrying
placards that say "Don't Buy Jim Crow
Food" ... Mayor Robert F. Wagner
unveils the Morningside General
Neighborhood Renewal Plan, a 10-year
federal-city project that will upgrade
92 city blocks around Columbia ...
October: The Postcrypt coffee house, a
remodeled storage room under St.

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Paul's Chapel, opens to the public...
Lawrence A. Wien '25, chairman of the
College Fund, is elected to the Board of
Trustees... At a packed lecture in
Wollman, former Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy, campaigning for
the U.S. Senate, argues against travel
restrictions to Cuba... Higgins Profes¬
sor of Physics 1.1. Rabi is named
Columbia's first University Professor
... November: The old Business School
building is renamed Dodge Hall, after
Marcellus Hartley Dodge '03...
December: Former Dean of the College
Harry Carman dies at the age of 80 ...

At the Sundial, two rallies to support
the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
feature the movement's leader, Mario
Savio, and SDS chairman Tom Hayden.
President Grayson Kirk says that Berke¬
ley's turmoils, which have included the
arrest of 600 students in a sit-in, could
not occur at Columbia.

50 Years Ago—Fall 1939
September: At the opening University
Exercises, held just four weeks after the
start of World War II, President Butler
calls upon the German people to
destroy Hitler.. . Some Columbia stu¬
dents abroad return safely as others
elect to stay in Europe or remain to be
heard from . .. Alumnus Walter Wood¬
bury '08 is among the survivors of the
British liner Athenia, which is sunk by a
U-boat on the third day of the war...
October: 273 contributors raise
$2,427.02 for a monument to John
Howard Van Amringe '60, first Dean of
the College, at his unmarked grave in
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx...
Stephen Vincent Benet, Erskine Cald¬
well, and Thomas Mann are among the
speakers to address Professor John
Lyon's class in "The Literature of
Today" ... A Spectator poll reveals that
only one student in 40 endorses U.S.
entry into the war at the present time
... November: On a visit to New York,
screenwriter Sidney Buchman '23, who
has just written the script for Mr. Smith
Goes To Washington , says, "The den
where I wrote 'Mr. Smith' was in Palm
Springs, but the real workshop was a
dorm at Columbia—Hartley Hall" ...
December: Earl Browder, general secre¬
tary of the U.S. Communist Party, tells
a class in American government that
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On his journey into the American evangelical subculture ,

the author found the satisfactions and torments of an austere faith.

by Randall Balmer

Evangelicalism has been a persistent force in Ameri¬
can life, with roots deep in the nation's history and a
vitality which seems to renew itself with each
generation.

In his new book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the
Glory (Oxford University Press, 1989), from which
this article is excerpted, Assistant Professor of
Religion Randall Balmer takes readers into the con¬
servative Protestant world of born-again fundamen¬
talism. Mr. Balmer is less interested in mass-market
televangelists like Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham or
Jimmy Swaggart than in the individuals and insti¬
tutions whose daily lives are filled with Biblical fear
and love.

The author's journey took him to eleven way-

illustrations by Denise Donnell

stations of American evangelicalism. His stops
included a summer Bible camp in the Adirondacks,
the anti-abortion political organizations of the Iowa
Republicans, an Episcopal mission to a bleak Sioux
Indian Reservation in North Dakota, a black minis¬
try that blends religious and social activism in Mis¬
sissippi, and a post-hippie revivalist movement in
Southern California.

"I have tried as much as possible in this eth¬
nographic study," Professor Balmer says, "to allow
people to tell their own stories and thereby render a
portrait—or at least a collage—of evangelicalism,
America's folk religion, in all its variation and diver¬
sity. "—Editor

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F or some months I had been looking for a
Southern camp meeting to get a flavor of
old-time religion. There are plenty to choose
from in America today, from Alabama to
Oregon, Florida to California; one directory,
published by Asbury College in Kentucky,
listed 114 camp meetings for 1987, but even this
list was by no means exhaustive. Then one day
a brochure arrived in the mail. "Enjoy a South¬
ern Vacation in a Spiritual Atmosphere," it
said, sounding more like an invitation to a
cruise than a revival.

The theme of this year's conference was
"Free Indeed," which could mean almost any¬
thing from a kind of right-wing, patriotic free¬
dom to freedom from sin—or a combination of
the two. Camp Freedom advertised itself as
"wholesomely interdenominational," but I had
little else to go on before my arrival in St.
Petersburg, Florida.

The rising bell at Camp Freedom chimes at
six-thirty. When I pulled into the campground
shortly thereafter, it was still dark. By seven
o'clock the faithful had gathered in the chapel
(known here as a tabernacle) for Morning
Prayer. Brother Bedsaul Agee, a large, portly
man with a booming voice, took charge of the
meeting and introduced Brother Rissinger,
frail and infirm, to deliver the morning medita¬
tion. Rissinger's Bible shook noticeably as he
spoke about his concern for the "falling away
from holiness principles" among the people of
God.

Holiness. A large sign over the platform
behind Rissinger read holiness unto the
lord. The people who run Camp Freedom
come out of the holiness tradition, a movement
emanating from John Wesley's conviction that
the biblical injunction "Be ye perfect" should be
taken literally and that complete freedom from
sin was possible in this life. Wesley's belief in
"entire sanctification" became popular in the
nineteenth century, especially in Methodist
circles. The holiness movement emphasized
the centrality of sanctification or the "second
blessing" of the Holy Spirit, which followed
the experience of conversion. The second
blessing eradicated "inbred sin," perfected the
will, and thereby rendered the believer free
from sin. By the close of the nineteenth cen¬
tury, however, the Methodist hierarchy had
grown chary about the enthusiasm and emo¬
tion that attended holiness gatherings, so
many of the people drawn to holiness beliefs
broke away from Methodism (and other
denominations) to form holiness churches,
such as the Church of the Nazarene and the
Pilgrim Holiness Church. Other denomina¬
tions also retain strong ties to the holiness
movement, including the Wesleyan Church,
the Bible Methodists, the Brethren in Christ,
the Salvation Army, and the Church of God
(Anderson, Indiana), among others. Those in

the holiness tradition emphasize the gifts of
the Spirit, including divine healing, and their
worship tends to be lively and enthusiastic.

Brother Rissinger, I am certain, was once a
lively and enthusiastic preacher, and even now
there are flashes of his former fire when he
inveighs against the holiness people who dare
to attend church only on Sunday mornings and
not on Sunday evenings and during the week.
"Time is getting short," he warned, "there is
not much time anymore." As evangelical
preachers are wont to do, Rissinger talked
about his own religious experiences. "The Lord
sanctified me in 1945," he said. "The feeling
was wonderful. I've never had the same feeling
since." He compared the Christian life to a
pond and said that if there is no overflow to the
pond, it becomes stagnant and covered with
scum. "I truly don't like to see all that scum on
top," he said. "We need to get rid of the scum.
The world is looking to us for spiritual refresh¬
ment. That life of yours should be continually
flowing. Let your life overflow."

When Rissinger sat down, Bedsaul Agee
took charge once again and thanked "the dear
brother" for his meditation. He then invited
the congregation forward for prayer, where¬
upon everyone gathered near the platform,
knelt, and began praying aloud—simulta¬
neously. The effect was a cacophonous mur¬
mur accented by an excited emphasis from
time to time that punctuated the din. "Amen!"
"Oh, Father!" "Praise the Lord!" "Burn within
our hearts and stir us. Lord!" "Praise Jesus!"
"Hallelujah!" "Father, we want a blessing. We
want to feel it. Give it to us, God. Glo -ry to
Jesus!"

T he overall effect was a long, plaintive wail.

At various moments, a head rose and a
handkerchief wiped a tear before the head
bowed again to resume praying. "Burn within
our hearts and stir us. Lord!" "Amen!" "Praise
Jesus!" "Heal the sick." "Help us Lord, in a
special way to get the victory done!" "Heal the
sick." "Oh, Jesus, Jesus!" "Help us. Lord!" "We
love thy truth. We love this book," one man
said, raising his Bible. "Fill us today!" "May our
souls be blessed. May we be comforted."
"Amen!"

After about fifteen minutes, the collective
murmur rose to a crescendo, full of noise and
excitation, like a long-distance runner expend¬
ing a final burst of energy in a chug toward the
finish line. The praying continued for another
ten minutes, but one by one members of the
congregation rose from their knees, adjusted
eyeglasses, and waited in silence for the eight
o'clock breakfast bell.

The gathering was all white and quite
elderly—I didn't see anyone who looked
under fifty—but I was still puzzled about the
group's denominational ties. Nearly all of the

“The Lord sanctified
me in 1945," he said.
“The feeling was
wonderful. I've never
had the same
feeling since."

The Second Great
Awakening—a 19th-
century revival that
convulsed New
England, western
New York, and the
Cumberland Valley
—tamed some of the
rowdiness of
frontier life.

women wore white bonnets on their heads,
the sort of covering that most of us associate
with the Amish. A few of the men had long
beards. Some of them wore suits and neckties,
others wore suits and dress shirts buttoned to
the neck, but no ties.

At the close of the prayer meeting, a man
who introduced himself as Larry Strouse came
up to me and said, "I don't believe I've seen
you here before. Are you a Christian?" By now,
toward the end of my travels, I should have
been prepared for the question, because I had
faced it so often. It was, I had decided long ago,
just another way of asking, "Who are you? Can
I trust you?" As we stood in line at the dining
hall, Strouse began to address some of my
questions about Camp Freedom.

Most of the people there came from the
Great Lakes region: Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Ontario. Many
were Wesleyan Methodists or Brethren in
Christ. A lot of the folks at Camp Freedom,
Strouse told me, had grown up as Mennonites
or Amish but had abandoned those churches
after their experience of sanctification. Strouse,
dressed in a sportcoat and tie, leaned toward
me and lowered his voice. "There's no salvation
in them there customs and traditions," he said
in a conspiratorial tone. "Most of them Amish
people aren't even saved." Many of those who
had been born again, like the ones at Camp
Freedom, maintained their traditional dress,
even though they had been excommunicated
by their fellow Mennonites and Amish.

A t breakfast, I sat across the table from
Jacob and Ada Sollenberger, beekeepers
from Franklin County, Pennsylvania. With
only the slightest prompting, they told me
their life stories. Both grew up in the Old Order
River Brethren, a religious group begun in the
eighteenth century by Jacob Engle and so
named because most of his followers lived
along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania
and because of their insistence on baptism by
trine (threefold) immersion in a flowing river.
Ada Sollenberger, a warm, lovely woman of
seventy-five, and Jacob, her bearded husband,
seventy-one years old and a bit quieter than his
wife but no less genial, were dressed as though
they had just stepped off the set of Witness,
Hollywood's 1985 motion picture about the
Amish. "The Bible teaches modesty and sim¬
plicity," Mrs. Sollenberger explained. "Romans
8 tells us to present our bodies as a living sacri¬
fice to the Lord, and First Corinthians instructs
the women to keep their heads covered."

Despite her upbringing, Ada Sollenberger
said, "I didn't start to serve the Lord until I was
twenty-six years old. I had a real experience
with God," she said. "Before that I dressed
quite fashionable. I could show you pictures."
A couple of years after her conversion, she met

Jacob at a River Brethren love feast in Jacob's
parents' home. They were married after a short
courtship; forty-seven years later they clearly
remain devoted to one another and openly
affectionate. "God did not get me a husband
until I got my life turned around," Ada said,
placing her arm around Jacob's shoulders.

E ven though they were both born-again
Christians when they married, their sec¬
ond blessing didn't come until later. "When the
Lord took our second child," Ada said, "I was
just broken. But then the Lord touched me and
I was filled with the Holy Spirit. This was in
1944." Shortly thereafter, she continued, "Jacob
had his big experience with the Lord."

"I had church pride," Jacob interjected,
meaning a kind of religious arrogance. "But
then I was filled with the Holy Ghost."

"It happened at home in bed," Mrs. Sollen¬
berger added, without a trace of guile or irony.
"The Lord filled him up with glory. We knew
we had found something wonderful."

Because the River Brethren did not believe in
the second blessing, the Sollenbergers gravi¬
tated toward the Brethren in Christ in 1951;
"putting on the uniform" of plain-style dress
was a conscious decision that accompanied
their joining the Brethren in Christ. The
Brethren had a dress code in those days,
although they have since abandoned it. The
Sollenbergers have retained the old rigor and
even seemed, at various times in our conversa¬
tions, a bit defensive about it. "When you see a
policeman or a soldier or a nurse in uniform,"
Ada said, "you know who that person is and
what they stand for. The same should be true
with Christians. The Bible says, 'Come out
from among them and be ye separate.'" While
it is true, Jacob added, that "'man looks on the
outward appearances and God looks on the
heart,' the outward appearance is the only
basis that other people have for judging what's
in the heart."

Although all holiness people certainly do not
insist on plain-style dress, moral strictures and
behavioral taboos are common, even though
they have eased somewhat in recent years.
Dancing, card-playing, alcohol, motion pic¬
tures, and "worldly" music are all viewed
askance in holiness circles. They are entertain¬
ments of the devil that lure the unwitting into
sin, debauchery, and prurience. Women must
never cut their hair because it is given as a
covering, a conviction that accounted for all the
buns and "doorknobs" I saw at Camp Free¬
dom. Holiness scruples forbid the wearing of
cosmetics or jewelry. Dress should be modest
at all times, as I was quickly reminded after I
slipped away for a run during my first day at
Camp Freedom. When I returned, an elder of
the camp hurriedly pulled me aside, put his
hand on my shoulder, and gently but quite em-

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phatically informed me that the camp "has a
rule about not wearing shorts on the
campground."

T he tradition of camp meetings in America
reaches back to the late eighteenth century,
and they became a fixture of religious life in the
South during the Second Great Awakening of
the early nineteenth century. The Second
Awakening, a widespread revival that con¬
vulsed three theaters of the new nation—New
England, western New York, and the Cum¬
berland Valley—tamed some of the rowdiness
of frontier life. Indeed, there was plenty to
tame, especially in the South. One in three
brides was pregnant, according to some esti¬
mates. Alcohol consumption was prodigious
and (literally) staggering, due in part to the
cheap and plentiful supply of grain. Inebria¬
tion led to abuse of wives and children, neglect
of the fields, and outright violence. Americans
of the early republic drank on the average of
five gallons of ninety-proof alcohol a year.

more than triple today's consumption. Chil¬
dren and even infants were given liquor, and
drinking began with breakfast and continued
before, during, and after meals. Water was
thought to have no nutritional value; indeed,
according to some wags, it was good only for
navigation. Even Benjamin Franklin opined
that if God had intended man to drink water.

He would not have given him an elbow capable
of raising a wine glass.

Camp meetings of the early nineteenth
century brought religion to the frontiers and
changed some of those habits. Word circulated
among the frontier settlers about the time and
location of a camp meeting, and entire families
loaded into wagons and gathered at the
appointed place for preaching and revival—as
well as for some surreptitious drinking and
carousing. The camp meeting functioned as a
huge social occasion, bringing together people
from widely dispersed settlements in a large
region, but it also schooled them in enthusi¬
astic, evangelical religion. In perhaps the most

A personal stake

Randall Balmer's book, Mine Eyes Have Seen the
Glory, takes inspiration from the family of
American travel literature that includes de
Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Robert
Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainte¬
nance, and William Least Heat Moon's Blue
Highways. "All these pilgrims," Professor Bal-
mer notes, "discovered religion of one sort or
another in the purlieus and beyond the back
roads of America. I did too."

When he set forth on his odyssey, Mr. Bal-
mer was determined to get beyond "the shop¬
worn stereotypes that Sinclair Lewis and
H.L. Mencken perpetrated in the 1920's, car¬
icatures that depicted evangelicals as country
bumpkins and their leaders as venal, disin¬
genuous opportunists." He says, "As both a
student of American religious history and a
product of the evangelical subculture, I knew
better."

Raised in a fundamentalist Christian family
in the Midwest, Mr. Balmer later withdrew
from "the protective cocoon" of that upbring¬
ing and embarked on a scholarly career at
Princeton, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1985.
His first book, A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch
Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies
(Oxford, 1989) has received several awards,
and his Columbia College courses—an
advanced offering in the history of American
religion, and a survey of Western religion—
have earned him high marks from his stu¬
dents. They also appreciate his presence as

professor-in-residence in Hartley Hall, where
he lives with his wife, Kathryn, who is
Assistant Dean of Students, and their two chil¬
dren, Christian and Andrew.

Although he dwells little on his own past in
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, Mr. Balmer's
personal stake is evident. "On the one hand,"
he writes, "I felt something of a compulsion to
defend evangelicalism against its many detrac¬
tors who dismiss it without troubling them¬
selves to understand it. On the other hand, I
could not readily disguise my own discom¬
fiture with all the nonsense that parades as the
New Testament gospel of Jesus Christ."

J.C.K.

"Now there may be
some who don't feel
healed yet," he said.
"Don'tgo by the
feeling. Go by the
word of God. Go by
faith that you are
healed in the name
of Jesus."

famous camp meeting of the Second Great
Awakening, approximately twenty-five thou¬
sand settlers gathered at Cane Ridge in Ken¬
tucky in August 1801. Many souls were saved at
gatherings like Cane Ridge—although cynics
have argued that even more were conceived—
and these revivals were marked by what con¬
temporaries called spiritual "exercises." The
barking exercise, for example, was quite com¬
mon; people who came under the influence of
the Holy Spirit barked uncontrollably. Others
were afflicted with the "jerks," when their
bodies contorted involuntarily. Others danced
or laughed or fell to the ground under the influ¬
ence of the Spirit, and some accounts tell of
heads rotating 360 degrees.

The camp meeting became a fixture of Amer¬
ican religion in the nineteenth century; by mid¬
century, in fact, various manuals appeared
with instructions about how to conduct a suc¬
cessful camp-meeting revival. It was important
to locate the meeting near a creek or river so
that water would be available. Those attending
the meeting camped around the edges of a
clearing, where the meetings took place. The
days were highly structured, beginning each
morning with family prayer at five o'clock and
concluding late at night with the evening serv¬
ice, where most of the conversions took place.
In between, the day was filled with several
prayer meetings, a morning and an afternoon
service, during which time the laity could seek
spiritual guidance from the many clergy in
attendance A

Camp meetings were not confined to the
South. Amidst the urbanization of the latter
part of the nineteenth century, places like
Ocean Grove, New Jersey, and Oak Bluffs,
Massachusetts, provided physical and spir¬
itual renewal for the weary industrial worker.
The camp meeting itself became institution¬
alized; permanent campsites with wooden
pavilions replaced the open fields. + Camp
meetings endure in the twentieth century,
although the substance varies greatly. The
Indian River Camp Meeting in South Carolina
is really a huge, extended family reunion, an
event so large and important that politicians,
even senators, regularly drop by. There is no
longer much religious fervor to such gather¬
ings, at least by the standards of Camp Free¬
dom and other holiness camp meetings tucked
away in the hills of West Virginia, the back-
country of North Carolina, or hard by the Gulf
of Mexico in Florida.

*Most of this information comes from Dickson D.
Bruce, Jr., And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk
Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845 (Knoxville: Univer¬
sity of Tennessee Press, 1974).

+ See Randall Balmer, "From Frontier Phenomenon
to Victorian Institution: The Methodist Camp Meet¬
ing in Ocean Grove, New Jersey," Methodist History
25 (April 1987): 194-200.

Camp Freedom itself is rather inauspicious.
It lies on a modest acreage across Fifty-Fourth
Avenue from the Sons of Italy lodge. The per¬
manent sign for the campground reads:

CAMP
FREEDOM
6980-54TH AVE. N.
YOU ARE WELCOME!
DELIVERANCE FROM SIN
IN CHRIST

A special sign announced the camp meeting,
lasting twelve days, from late January into
early February: come—be blessed by old time

GOSPEL PREACHING AND SINGING.

Palm trees and citrus trees line the edges of
the property. There are a few permanent
cinder-block buildings on the campground,
including the dining hall, various offices, and
motel rooms. Most of the area, however, is set
aside for camper trailers. By almost any stan¬
dard, the accommodations are modest. The
grounds themselves are rather unremarkable
and certainly not secluded. Traffic roars by
only one hundred yards away from the taber¬
nacle, a white, very plain, cinder-block build¬
ing which is clearly the centerpiece of the
campground. The tabernacle seats two or three
hundred people on homemade wooden
benches that only recently have been uphol¬
stered. The ceiling is low, supported by pine
rafters. Two parallel strings of fluorescent
bulbs provide the lighting. A huge platform
dominates the front of the auditorium, flanked
on the left by a ten-by-fifteen-foot room with a
sign on the door that reads "Men's Prayer
Room." The "Ladies' Prayer Room" is on the
right. Between them, running in front of the
platform, is a two-foot-high wooden altar rail
that sits on a patch of carpeting placed there for
the comfort of those who come to kneel at the
altar.

B ecause holiness groups believe in the gifts
of the Holy Spirit, divine healing is often a
part of their gatherings, although, unlike pen-
tecostals, they generally frown on speaking in
tongues. I heard a good deal of shouting and
ecstatic utterances during my visit to Camp
Freedom, but nothing that could be confused
with speaking in tongues. The directors of the
camp meeting scheduled only one service of
healing but decided to offer it early in the
revival so that the sick and infirm might be able
to enjoy what one preacher called "the fullness
of healing" for the remainder of the camp
meeting.

At the beginning of the Friday afternoon
healing service, called "Christ's Miracle

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Moments" in the brochure. Brother John
Rosenberry, one of the many clergymen at the
camp, stepped to the pulpit and announced, "I
feel healing in this atmosphere this afternoon."
Bedsaul Agee gave the sermon. "Our God is
able to meet our needs," he said. "I had a hand
with three withered fingers, and the flesh was
restored on those in two days, and the doctor
said he never saw anything like it in all his
days. Of course he didn't. It was a supernatural
miracle of God!" Agee promised healing and
even "deliverance from evil spirits" to the faith¬
ful. He then invited them to come forward to
the altar rail for healing. "How about you this
afternoon," he said, "do you think God has a
miracle for you?"

Simon Lehman, director of the camp meet¬
ing, then came to the pulpit to expand the offer
to those who were not present at the service.
Two ushers passed out white paper cocktail
napkins to people in the congregation who
wanted to request prayer for "a beloved friend
or relative." Lehman instructed them to write
the name and the affliction of the absent loved
one on the napkin. The ushers collected the
napkins, and Lehman then invited members of
the congregation who sought healing to walk
forward to be anointed with oil, in the manner
prescribed in James 5. "There's room at the
cross for you," Lehman said. "Jesus loves you.
He wants to touch you."

I had noticed an air of expectation through¬
out the campground that morning in anticipa¬
tion of the healing service. "I said to Jacob this
morning," Ada Sollenberger told me, "that I
really didn't need healing today, unless the
Lord wanted to help me with my weight. The
Lord has blessed us with six children, and I've
never gotten my weight back down to where I
wanted." Ada Sollenberger did not walk for¬
ward, but Jacob did, along with many others in
the congregation. They were met at the front
by the clergy, in teams of two, who knelt beside
each individual, quizzed her about the afflic¬
tion, and, placing their hands on her shoul¬
ders, prayed for healing. The tabernacle rever¬
berated with plaintive moanings and shouts of
deliverance mixed with stern admonitions to
"rebuke the power of evil" and "heal this afflic¬
tion in the power of Jesus's name." After each
prayer, the clergy pulled out small vials of oil
from their coat pockets and dabbed a tiny bit of
oil on the forehead of each supplicant. When
the clergy finished with those who had come
forward for healing, they divided up the stack
of cocktail napkins and essentially repeated the
same process, touching the oil to the napkins.

Despite its obvious peculiarities, the entire
service was conducted with decorum and dig¬
nity. After the prayers, Lehman asked the
clergy to spread the cocktail napkins across the
length of the altar rail; he then instructed the
members of the congregation who had

requested healing for others to pick up the
napkins and send them to the afflicted loved
ones. He asked, finally, for testimonies of heal¬
ing from the congregation. None was forth¬
coming, so Lehman hedged. "Now there may
be some who don't feel healed yet," he said.
"Don't go by feeling. Go by the word of God.
Go by faith that you are healed in the name of
Jesus."

J ust as there was no shortage of services at
Camp Freedom (three a day, in addition to
the sundry prayer meetings) so too there were
plenty of preachers—about a dozen, including
those who dropped by for guest appearances.
Most of them were quite skilled. Their sten¬
torian voices alternated between shouts and
whispers. Their fists pounded the pulpit. They
offered graphic descriptions of the perils of
worldliness and sin. And they kept the atten¬
tion of their audiences, who responded with
"amens" and tears and wailing and shouted
affirmations.

One visitor. Brother Paul Martin, president
of Penn View Bible Institute, a small holiness
school in Pennsylvania, echoed the general
suspicion of worldliness and of learning that is
fairly common in holiness circles. "We get so
wrapped up in psychology and general psych
and other psychs that we're all psyched up," he
said derisively. Martin bragged that Penn View
was a "conservative holiness Bible school, a
Bible institute with a camp-meeting atmos¬
phere," and that "the students who leave us
know they're saved and that they're sanctified

She was dressed
fashionably, with a
string of pearls and
high heels. She
drew the eyes of the
congregation like
steel shavings to
a magnet.

before they go out and face the world. There's a
world out there that's dying and going to hell,"
Martin said. "We need to reach them. We need
to be bold for Jesus Christ."

Indeed, one of the recurrent themes in the
preaching at Camp Freedom was the need to
eschew "worldliness" and separate from the
world. "Wouldn't it be wonderful if our grand¬
children, our great-grandchildren, if it could be
said of them, 'They are totally separated, they
don't have the diseases of the rest of the
world'?" Bedsaul Agee intoned. "We are
strangers and pilgrims here. We are not a part
of this society. We belong to the heavenly
throng, and we ought to act like it while we're
here. We ought to live like it and enjoy the
blessings thereof."

"In the world but not o/the world" is a favor¬
ite aphorism among holiness people (and
evangelicals generally). It helps if you can iden¬
tify those who are worldly, those who stand
outside the ken of righteousness, not only for
the ostensible purpose of bringing them into
the fold, but also because it vindicates your
own standing as someone special in God's
eyes. After one of the services, Philip Compton
from South Carolina, eighty-two years old and
a regular at Camp Freedom, cornered me. "Do
you love Jesus?" he asked. "I love Jesus. You
know why I love Jesus? I love Jesus because He
first loved me." Compton, a bald man with a
weathered face and a large hearing aid behind
each ear, walked around the campground with
a handful of books. I had noticed him huddled
at various times with other people, thumping
the books like a used-car salesman kicking

tires. He pulled out a paperback he had written
and published himself entitled Give the Family
Something Better. "I'm against pornography and
abortion," he announced. "And abortion is the
right word for it. You know why?" He looked at
me earnestly. "Because you oughtta shun abor-
shun."

At the conclusion of another service, the
preacher in charge of the meeting invited
responses or testimonies from the congrega¬
tion. An older, white-haired woman near the
front rose to her feet and unleashed a long
harangue about worldliness and her anxieties
about the younger generation. "Oh, my Lord,"
she wailed, her voice rising and falling for dra¬
matic effect, "my concern is have I prayed
enough. This morning at ten minutes to three,

I wondered why I was awakened, so I began to
pray, and I asked God to take care of the one
that needed it the most because I don't always
know why I am awakened. But I'm so glad. If
the Lord has to give me pain in my arm to get
me awakened early in the morning and talk to
Him, I'll take the pain." Her voice became shrill
and insistent. "I have been burdened for our
young people. Friday and Saturday nights I
pray more than ever for some mother's child
out on the streets and nobody to pray for them.
My heart is burdened for our young people. I'd
just love to take them all in."

At the Saturday afternoon service, the peo¬
ple of Camp Freedom got a look at some exem¬
plary young people from Hobe Sound Bible
College, a holiness school across the state. The
men were dressed in ties, white shirts, and
three-piece suits. The women wore plain, very
modest dresses and no makeup or jewelry,
except for wristwatches. In keeping with holi¬
ness scruples, the women had very long hair
wrapped into buns either on top or in back of
their heads.

But if the students from Hobe Sound repre¬
sented all that was virtuous and lovely in the
eyes of those at Camp Freedom, there were
always reminders of the perils of worldliness.
That night, as the congregation gathered for
the evening service, the man seated next to me,
who had taken an interest in my research,
pointed to an attractive, blond woman in her
mid-thirties. She was dressed fashionably, her
shoulder-length hair pulled back in a pony tail.
She wore makeup and gold jewelry, a string of
pearls and high heels. She would have
attracted attention almost anywhere, but
against the very bland pastiche of Camp Free¬
dom, she drew the eyes of the congregation
like steel shavings to a magnet. "See that girl
there," my informant said. "She was brought
up strict, but she reversed." This woman, the
daughter of one of the preachers at the confer¬
ence, was a pharmacist back in New Jersey. She
was also divorced and had, in the words of the
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JOE PINEIRO

Columbia College Today

An always dignified
and gentlemanly presence

The truth about Professor Michael Rosenthal,

erstwhile Associate Dean and culture hero.

O n November 9, the Alumni Association pre¬
sented its highest honor, the Alexander Ham¬
ilton Medal, to two distinguished educators who
stepped down last June after nearly a quarter-cen¬
tury of combined service to Columbia College —

Deans Robert E. Pollack '61 and Michael Rosenthal.

Dean Pollack's seven years of accomplishment
have been much celebrated in the pages o/Columbia
College Today, so he has graciously agreed not to
feel slighted if his alumni magazine concentrates, in
this number, on the many-faceted genius of his Asso¬
ciate Dean.

Michael Rosenthal, now Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, is a Harvard College grad¬
uate who defected in 1964 to Columbia, where he
earned his doctorate in 1967. Before his recruitment

Above: Deans Rosenthal and Pollack, the 1989 Hamilton
medalists, pose for the traditional portrait.

to the College administration by Dean Peter Pouncey
in 1972, Professor Rosenthal taught courses in Vic¬
torian and modern British literature and displayed
his academic leadership as Director of the College
Composition Program and the Freshman Seminar
Program.

Professor Rosenthal'sl7 years as Associate Dean
left a permanent imprint on the life of the College.

As its chief academic officer and secretary of the all-
powerful Committee on Instruction, he helped sus¬
tain Columbia's traditional general education
curriculum while establishing new majors in astro¬
physics, architecture, African-American studies,
urban studies and women's studies. He initiated the
Junior Year at Oxford/Cambridge and the Gold¬
schmidt Fellowship, and presided, with matchless
wit and style, over the high-level dinners of the John
Jay National Scholarship Program. He is the author
of Virginia Woolf (1979) and The Character Fac-

tory: Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts and the
Imperatives of Empire (1986), and the editor of
Centennial (1986), a collection of original essays
celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Statue of
Liberty.

A popular speaker at alumni and admissions
events around the nation, Professor Rosenthal is also
known as a discriminating fan of all Columbia var¬
sity sports (and some intramurals), a skilled compet¬
itor in several racquet sports, and a wily playmaker
and scorer in the two-handed set-shot style of basket¬
ball popular on the West Side (and Horace Mann)
playgrounds of his youth. Recalling his brief cap¬
taincy of Harvard’s freshman team as the high point

of his athletic career, Professor Rosenthal adds
wistfully, "Had the three-point line been in effect
when I was playing, I would have been even greater ."

Also generous in their praise of this year's
medalists were the other Hamilton Dinner speak¬
ers—including University President Michael I.
Sovern '53, Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg '44 and
Alumni Association President Eric D. Witkin '69.
Following are two of the tributes delivered that eve¬
ning—taken together, as memorable a panegyric as
Columbia has witnessed in some time. Connoisseurs
should note that Professor Edward Said's address
was composed in writing, while President Pouncey's
remarks were delivered ad libitum.—Editor.

He crinkled his majestic nose...

by Edward W. Said

L adies and gentlemen: It is my happy privi¬
lege tonight to try to express our common
love and admiration for Michael Rosenthal,
who served the College nobly and brilliantly as
its Associate Dean for 17 years. Yet, I shall
submit, we cannot fully do that without trying
to understand some of Michael's lesser known
but, in my opinion, extremely pertinent char¬
acteristics, interesting aspects of two of which I
shall reveal to you, I believe, for the first time in
so public and relatively unrestrained a forum.
The first is Michael's special, not to say egregi-
ously developed, relationship to the British,
their literature, culture, and history. The sec¬
ond is Michael's remarkable, not to say sharply
skeptical and ironic, relationship to literary
criticism. Both matters, I am sure you will
agree, have a unique place in the pantheon of
Michael's achievements but, I shall argue, only
when their arcane and even recondite twists
are exposed can we truly penetrate to the quin¬
tessence of the Rosenthalian genius. I know
that I say such things rashly in the presence of
three ladies—his mother, the gracious Sylvia,
his sister, the delightful Anne, and his wife,
the tempestuous and tawny Judith—who may
think otherwise, but I shall press on regardless.

I shall begin first by disabusing you of the
notion that Michael's special relationship to
things British can easily be confined to so plea¬
surable a mode as his friendship with his ex¬
colleague in the Dean's Office, the redoubtable
Peter Pouncey. It cannot, for I speak of things
far more complex and sublime, things
almost—no, in fact exactly —metaphysical. Let

Edward W. Said is Old Dominion Professor in the
Humanities.

me illustrate with two only apparently trivial
episodes. It was, I think, about a decade ago
that Michael allowed me to appoint myself his
sartorial advisor, or, as we would say in today's
America, his fashion consultant. I escorted
him to a well-known London bootmaker to see
if what had been done so adequately for me
couldn't also be done for him. As we walked
down Cork Street we both noted that it was an
historic occasion, that two such smart fellows
were there headed together for this excellent
place on that very nice, but rainy day when as
Michael noted, only we, our raincoats and
umbrellas notwithstanding, were getting wet,
the English by some intricate re-arrangement
of their amniotic fluids, and despite the absence
of any covering at all, having performed the
considerable feat of walking between the rain¬
drops in order, quite successfully as it turns
out, to remain dry.

W e entered the dark panelled show room
of this very reputable establishment, and
were greeted by the manager, who immedi¬
ately handed us on to, as he put it, "our Mr.
Smith," an elderly gentleman in a long white
coat, for only in England do shoe salesmen
look and dress like medical practitioners.
Instantaneously assured of his competence
and wisdom we put Michael's feet into his
hands, as it were, and the good Mr. Smith,
having ascertained Michael's preference in
shoes and boots (also known as bootings), pro¬
ceeded to take measurements in what was an
undoubtedly very professional and extremely
competent manner. Now this is where
Michael's character and his special under¬
standing of the British emerged in all their
hard, gemlike clarity. Clearly his much-exam-

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ined and verified shoe size was 10GG, but the
undisturbed Mr. Smith persisted in offering
Michael very handsome shoes whose sole, but
alas, central, drawback appeared to Michael to
be that they were, by some highly complex
algebraic calculation that I have never fully
mastered nor completely understood, 4Vs sizes
too small. We left "our Mr. Smith" an hour later,
I very happy with the elegance of the choice,
Michael in his new shoes walking—to put it
mildly—with so extreme and mincing a deli-
| cacy as to suggest either great fastidiousness

or, the much more correct hypothesis, very
great pain.

The moral of this story is that Michael's supe¬
rior understanding of the British triumphed
over his bodily pain as well as my advice, since
only a profound student of the culture could
have known that to argue with a dedicated
professional like "our Mr. Smith" on the basis
of facts, common sense, or plain comfort was
as useless an exercise as requesting the ocean
to move back a little. Not for nothing therefore
does King Canute occupy a paradigmatic place
in British history, and not for nothing did
Michael's knowledge serve him when he later
negotiated an exchange with Mr. Smith's rival
and competitor—another well-known London
bootmaker—for a very handsome pair of size
10GG shoes. The point here, as it was also the
point when Michael dealt with another distin¬
guished London haberdasher—the florid and
justly renowned "Bertie"—to whom I intro¬
duced him a few years after and who also man¬
aged to massacre Michael's meticulously
placed order of elegantly striped shirts, turn¬
ing reds into greens, stripes into squares, and a
boyishly slim size 16 neck into a grotesque size
ISV 2 —the point is that rather than trying to
change the British pattern by which what you
wanted was inevitably converted into what
you really wanted without actually knowing or
wanting it, rather than trying to change the
norm, Michael accepted the loss of the prelimi¬
nary skirmish, endured a brief spell of disap¬
pointment, and then, by a sudden lateral
movement, he triumphantly redeployed his
forces, and re-mastered the topography by
asking for shirts specifically without the various
maladies and deformations imposed on them
by the genial Bertie—who later came to regard
Michael as a cross between Clausewitz and the
Marquis of Claremont—and finally got them
as he ordered, with the additional gift from the
f thoroughly contrite Bertie of a perfectly hid¬

eous tie, which Michael successfully returned
and exchanged for a most excellent one, also
free.

W e move now from clothes to ideas, which
are actually very close to clothes, as
Thomas Carlyle illustrated so well. Michael
once came to a monthly University Seminar on

the theory of literature that I have been run¬
ning for a very long time. One speaker was an
eminent Yale theorist, who was to become
notorious when after his death it was revealed
that during World War II he wrote for a collab¬
orationist newspaper during the Nazi occupa¬
tion of his country. He was a spellbinding
lecturer, however, and his seminar talk on
Friedrich Schlegel was a massively important
intellectual occasion, even though what I recall
of his talk was a simple reductive formula by
which virtually everything said by the
extremely productive and myriad-minded
Schlegel—who wrote poems, novels, plays,
treatises, aphorisms, essays by the bushel—
was brought down by our very philosophi¬
cally-minded lecturer to the dark formula
"madness and irony." As one importunate dis¬
cussant after another pursued the obdurate
Yale dignitary with no success at all—
"madness and irony" were trundled out as all¬
purpose explanations of Schlegel no less than
47 times—I watched Michael's silent expres¬
sion in the back of the room change from a very

JEFF DODGE

mildly disapproving surprise to the plainest,
most disquieting disgust, his majestic nose
crinkling with that unique combination of
revulsion and moral disapprobation that so
many of his friends have come not only to fear
but also to respect when it is employed first to
confirm and then to unmask the mendacity
and fraud that are so common in intellectual
life. Michael, I should say with understated
firmness, did not frequently attend the semi¬
nar thereafter, but the very next day after the
Schlegel disaster he began, with perfect justi¬
fication, to refer to something called "literary
cricketism," adding to the phrase a certain very
wryly significant inflection and import. This is
a practice he continues to this day, even though
very few of us literary crickets would risk a
frontal encounter with his disdainful, albeit
minimalist, intellectual mordancy.

Clothes and ideas in the Rosenthalian
scheme—quiet, ironic, yet passionately en¬
gaged and authentic—are important because
they set the terms and limits by which manners
and morals can be experienced and judged. A
badly constructed suit is in fact like a bit of ram¬
pant literary cricketism—it won't pass muster,
and it won't win the approval of Michael's

intellectual eye or his very fastidious ear. The
carefully patient and brilliantly executed cam¬
paign by which the revered Baden-Powell was
transformed into the owner and founder of an
entire character-factory has its origin in
Michael's intellectual severity and yet also in
his finely tuned wit. The conscience of Colum¬
bia College for 17 years, the teacher of his col¬
leagues, the critic of critics, the wit of
Broadway, Claremont and College Walk,
Michael Rosenthal is also the truest of friends
and the finest of companions. We honor his
humanity and humor tonight, his high intel¬
lectual and literary achievements and his
remarkably enduring qualities as colleague,
teacher, scholar, friend, and—dare one say it in
this far-too-drastically unbuttoned and under¬
dressed age?—his perennially maintained and
always dignified gentlemanly presence. If
there were world enough and time I could wax
even longer on his fairness and compassion,
his honesty and astonishing gentleness, but I
suspect that now even his forbearance has been
taxed, and I shall stop, but not before I once
again offer my sincerest and warmest congrat¬
ulations to my dear friend and admired col¬
league, Michael Rosenthal.

We yelled at anything that moved

by Peter R. Pouncey

M ike Sovern, Eric, my good friends: Fol¬
lowing hard on the tail of the brilliant
and cosmopolitan Edward-bear, my good
friend, I have to tell you, as a country boy, it's a
great pleasure to come to the city, especially to
this institution, especially on the occasion of its
great award night, especially for this brace of
deans, and—my friend Bob Pollack will
indulge me—especially for Michael Rosenthal,
my main man.

I shall give you tonight an important chapter
of history, some of which is familiar to a few of
you. I am the man who made Michael Rosen¬
thal. And we have to go back to the spring of
1972, when the brilliant dean Carl Hovde had
resigned, and there was a search committee
appointed to find a successor. It included many
heavy hitters, including Lionel Trilling and
Fritz Stern, and it was expected that it would
come up with something pretty hot. And there
was a sense of some dismay and astonishment
when it came up with an unknown and
untenured junior classicist with a vaguely neu¬
rasthenic Limey accent, who had clearly been

Peter R. Pouncey, president of Amherst College,
was Dean of Columbia College from 1972 to 1976.

named by his parents for a rabbit. There was
some feeling—a feeling I have to say I shared
myself, and it became an issue of some impor¬
tance—that the new Dean should choose
someone of extraordinary toughness and
hardness of nose to be the Associate Dean. The
circumstances of this historic appointment are
now legendary in this great institution, but I
shall re-utter them here for the record.

The actual instigator was a man called Bruce
Zimmer, otherwise known as the Hippie Dean,
a young lawyer with long hair and a lively and
restless intelligence, who once, beside the ele¬
vator in Hamilton, said to me, "Pssst—you've
got a chance for Rosenthal." I didn't know
Rosenthal, in fact. He was a dark and saturnine
presence in the English department, a man of
vaguely brooding aristocratic power that I
fondly hoped would be lethal, and I started
checking him out.

About a week later I sat on a doctoral defense
in Professor Said's department (I was always
the soft option brought in for yet another
dubious performer) and this rather dispirited
individual was sitting in front of a giant thesis,
larger than two Manhattan Yellow Pages. We
all sat around, and Michael Rosenthal, there—
elegant, tailored and grim—was asked to

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begin the questioning, and in his rich, sort of
basso voice, honed and polished in Harvard
Yard, he said, "I must say I find this an appal¬
lingly self-indulgent piece of work." And I
said, "Yes! Yes! That's what I want. That's what I
want."

So we made our arrangements quickly there¬
after, and of course I then found that I had got
the man with the softest nose in the universe,
the most humane, the most gentle, the most
graceful, and the funniest man. In fact I would
lie in bed at night, rubbing my nose compla¬
cently on a sheet, staring at the ceiling and
saying to myself, "You must be very, very
smart. You are one of three men who know
exactly how funny Michael Rosenthal is."

Now it has to be said that our beginnings
were fairly shrill. We were nervous and high-
strung, and we yelled at anything that moved,
especially at the central administration, which,
to be candid, did not seem to us to move a great
deal. [Aside to President Sovern: You weren't
there, Mike. ] In the immortal definition of Bill
Oliver, who is here tonight, the style
resembled the famous New York recipe for
avoiding mugging—you started screaming as
soon as you got off the bus. And I think the
truth is we probably were immature. I think
that was probably true.

Donna Badrig, who loved us and tolerated
us and nursed us on as the administrative aide
in the Dean's Office, where she's been a long
time—now Dean Badrig, also here tonight—
always said tolerantly to those who would
come in (I think she said it to the President of
the University): "The thing to remember is,
Michael is eight and Peter is four." I was always
vaguely resentful of this discrepancy because.

looking at his performance, he seemed every
bit as immature as I was. But that, probably,
was my immaturity. However, let me tell you
that we did not simply goof off, although we
had a hell of a good time, being referred to by
the Columbia Daily Spectator as "the British-Yid-
dish combo."

B ut we also had been well taught by the
tradition of this school and we knew what
it stood for. And we knew that it stood for the
life of the mind, that there would be great
books, great ideas, great experiments, great
art, great discussion in texts, communicated
from the greatest literature, the greatest politi¬
cal thought, in the world. Not necessarily
definitively all of it, but that we would never
patronize the students of this College, that
they would never be asked to do anything triv¬
ial. There was a great vision and that's really, I
think, what this school has stood for and what
we stood for. And it's what you stood for: That
young people—now young men and young
women—be brought here, exposed to great
teaching, great ideas, and made to think for
themselves, reach values for themselves, and
finally find what they do best and what they
care for most, and then go out with a sense of
direction for their lives. I think that's what
brings you back here, that's what brings me
back here, that's what it's about—the whole
thing. I mean— [Applause.] The question is
whether Pounce will have a dry run or not.*

It doesn't just happen. It's not just a question
of pushing the paper and doing the phone
calls. It takes somebody actually making con¬
nections, it takes someone persuading—this is
a University full of competitive possibilities for
people, full of tensions and fragmentation—
someone who cares, someone who commands
the respect, whose intelligence and grace
really make people say, "Yes, I ought to do that,
because that's worth doing. He cares about it.

I'll care about it too." And this is, I believe,
what Michael's contribution to this College has
been. I don't want to be morbid about it, but
he's done it one-third of his life. Ten thousand
students, more than ten thousand students
have gone out with this kind of education, with
this passionate commitment, with this grace,
hundreds of them may have known him and
admired him and cared for him. But he was the
person who kept edging departments to do
more, do more for these undergraduates, do
more in Humanities, do more in C.C. And I
know many of the professors here tonight will
concede that he led us all.

And so, for the ten thousand students and
for myself, after 17 years of the closest, often
riotous, always sustaining friendship, congrat¬
ulations, and thank you. q

*Mr. Pouncey is known to be lachrymose at public
events.

He was a dark and
saturnine presence
in the English
department, a man
of vaguely brooding
aristocratic power
that I fondly hoped
would be lethal.

On missions of mercy

Bearing witness to the human toll exacted by war, famine and earthquakes.

Photographs by Rudolph von Bernuth '66

L ike other global-minded students
during the 1960's, Rudy von
Bernuth, then in his first and only year
at Fordham Law, answered the nation's
call for Peace Corps volunteers. But for
him, the assignment in Colombia was
more than a two-and-a-half-year serv¬
ice mission, it was also the beginning of
a career.

A native of Utica, N.Y., Mr. von
Bernuth (the son of the late Anton '17
and nephew of the late alumni leader
R. L. "Pop" von Bernuth '04) is today in
charge of all overseas programs at
CARE, which he joined after the Peace
Corps nearly 20 years ago. Now
assistant executive director, he spent
his first 14 years with CARE doing field
work in Turkey, Thailand, Bangladesh
and other developing nations.

Though he feels his most important
role has been teaching people in
impoverished communities to become
more self-sufficient—the creation of a
home canning operation in Turkey is
one example—Mr. von Bernuth has
also become an accomplished docu¬
mentary photographer. His work
appeared in Time, Newsweek, and The
Washington Post during the peak of the
Ethiopian famine, and over the years
his pictures have been transmitted to
newspapers across the country
through the Associated Press
Laserphoto service. Last year the New
York Daily News ran a two-page spread
of his photographs of Armenian earth¬
quake victims.

Despite the worldwide efforts of
CARE and other relief organizations,
Mr. von Bernuth says the plight of the
Third World has worsened over the
years, as population growth, natural
resource depletion, and political con¬
flict continue to claim millions of vic¬
tims. But improvement is not impos¬
sible, he says, noting the successes of
South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and
India.

These are some of Rudy von Ber-
nuth's photographs—with his own
captions—taken during CARE relief
missions over the past decade.

Jacqueline Dutton

Wello province. Northern Ethiopia, November 1984— These two women were
grieving outside the makeshift morgue in the relief camp at Korem, at the height of the
Ethiopian famine. It was early morning, and one of them had lost a child during the night.
Their heads had been shaved by the Ethiopian camp administrators in an effort to control the
spread of lice in the camp, which at this time held over 45,000famine victims. The village of
Korem normally had a population of3,000; because of the famine, some 250,000 people had
gathered in the area seeking food and assistance. Korem was one of240 shelter and
distribution centers in Ethiopia trying to serve the stricken population.

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Eastern Sudan, 1985 — An Ethiopian mother and child
enter the Fao reception center in search of food and water. At the
height of the African crisis in 1985-6, CARE provided food and
basic necessities for some 2.4 million people in 700 rural
communities throughout the Sudan.

Thailand, late October 1979 —Two days after
the SaKeo Holding Center opened for 32,000 Cam¬
bodians who had just been granted temporary
asylum by the Thai government. Ravaged by
tuberculosis, malaria, and hunger, hundreds of
Cambodians died in transit from the border to this
camp, and hundreds more died in the first several
weeks in the camp. The photo is of a father carrying
his sick child to the camp medical center, while an
older sibling rides astride his shoulders.

Spitak, Armenia, U.S.S.R.,

December 19,1988 —This little
girl and her family had survived
the earthquake that leveled their
city. Their home had been
destroyed and they were living in
the tent you see in the back¬
ground. The tricycle and the
Christmas ornaments were
among the few things they had
salvaged from the wreckage.

Thailand, December 1979— At the SaKeo Holding Center for Cam¬
bodian refugees. We were rejuvenating the old CARE package concept
with cooking pots filled with spicy ingredients — garlic, chili peppers,
sugar, fish sauce—essential to Khmer cooking, but not provided in the
basic United Nations camp ration of rice and dried fish. We distributed
one pot per family this day. I did the honors for this photo by Brian Wolf.

Columbia College Today

Talk
of the
Alumni

John Jays sound the call

To attract new membership and
thereby increase unrestricted giving to
the College, the John Jay Associates are
now offering events, rather than such
benefits as captain's chairs and framed
prints, for membership in the group,
which consists of those donors giving
$500 or more annually to the College.
The benefits. College alumni leaders
decided, represented a potential head¬
ache with matching gift companies and
the I.R.S., as well as a fulfillment bur¬
den to the College alumni office.

Philip Milstein '71, chairman of the
Associates, said he hoped the new pro¬
grams would attract up to 400 new
members—a 20 percent increase over
the current 2,000. One recent graduate
has already pledged $100,000 to match
all gifts from young John Jays—those
less than 10 years out of the College.

"The John Jay group is the vanguard
of major givers for the Fund, and I
thought they should interact more,"
said Mr. Milstein. "We're interested in
both a social experience and an educa¬
tional experience."

Previously, the Associates held three
large parties a year; the number of
events has now been upped to two or
three a month, with the emphasis on
culture. This fall, there were gatherings
at the Hudson River Club, The
Whitney Museum of American Art,
and the Museum of Broadcasting;
future events include Porgy and Bess at
the Metropolitan Opera and a tour of
the Cloisters.

In October, as part of the lecture
series that is also a new feature of John
Jay membership, Wm. Theodore de
Bary '41, John Mitchell Mason Profes¬
sor of the University, told alumni of his
experiences at a conference of the Con¬
fucius Foundation in China shortly
after the massacre in Tienanman
Square. Colleagues who boycotted the
conference had urged him to do the

John Jay chairman Philip Milstein '71 at the Hudson River Club.

Mark your calendar...

John Jay Associates' Tour

Museum of the City of New York

March 10

1990 John Jay Awards Dinner
in Chicago

March 22

John Jay Associates' Spring Event

April 3

Dean's Day

April 7

Parents' Day

April 8

John Jay Associates' Tour

The Cloisters

April 29

Columbia College Alumni Association

Annual Dinner and Meeting

May 10

Reunion Weekend

June 1-3

For more information about alumni events, please call or write to Ilene Markay-Hallack,
100 Hamilton Hall, Columbia College, New York, N.Y. 10027, (212) 854-5533.

same, but he was resolute. "I'm going
to speak for those who have been
silenced," he told them. "And that's the
way it worked out."

Professor de Bary chose a timely
topic: the Confucian tradition of public
discussion in schools. Far from arous¬
ing controversy, his paper was warmly
applauded and printed in a summary
of the conference's proceedings. "You
are a real friend of China," some partic¬
ipants told him.

The big surprise of the conference
was the unscheduled appearance of
Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the
Chinese Communist party, who spoke
with the conferees at length. "He was as

friendly and as gracious as he could
be," said Professor de Bary. "That
doesn't mean that someone else wasn't
doing in the opposition in a big way,
out of sight. But I wouldn't discount
the impression he was trying to make
that China wasn't going into a hole."

Alumni Bulletins

• Tale of Two Cities: Alumni in
London and Paris have succeeded in
establishing the two newest additions
to the global roster of Columbia College
Clubs.

Paris alumni met with Dean of Col-

1990 John Jay Award Winners

Six distinguished alumni have been chosen to receive this year's John Jay
Award, to be given at a gala dinner at the Hotel Nikko in Chicago on
March 22.

Mortimer J. Adler '23

philosopher, teacher,
author, editor

Alan Altheimer '23

lawyer, civic leader

Sid Luckman '39
legendary quarterback,
business executive

Daniel J. Edelman '40 Jeremiah Stamler '40 Marshall Front '58

public relations executive pioneering medical investment banker

and cultural patron researcher, educator and executive

For further information, contact the Columbia College Alumni Office, 100 Hamilton Hall,
New York, N.Y. 10027, (212) 854-5537.

lege Relations Jim McMenamin in
August and made plans to increase
their level of activity, under the leader¬
ship of Robert J. Burton '42 and Jeffer¬
son P. Rostler '67. Plans include a
lecture to be given by Professor Edward
W. Said. College junior Renee Pearl is
also working with Lilia Tchistoganow,
the formidable business manager of
Reid Hall, Columbia's renowned Paris
headquarters, to develop a closer rela¬
tionship between alumni and Colum¬
bia students in Paris.

In October, Dean McMenamin and
Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs
Ilene Markay-Hallack met with Lon¬
don alumni leaders, including Samuel
Notkin '49 and Roger L. Low '66, at the
Hyde Park Hotel. Among those on
hand were Lion athletic heroes Alton
Byrd '79 and Neil Banks '87. The group
hopes to sponsor three or four alumni
events each year, and to greet Colum¬

bia visitors on a forthcoming academic
tour.

• Reunited: An NROTC alumnus,
Anthony Baratta '68, thought that if
Mark Rudd and the SDS could have a
campus reunion, then the NROTC
could, too. So he organized a gathering
on Homecoming weekend in October.
He sent questionnaires to 150 of his
compatriots; about a third replied, and
18 of them, some with spouses,
attended the football game and a din¬
ner at Faculty House. One who made
the trip was John O'Dell '68, a video
tape editor for the ABC affiliate in San
Francisco, who had been assisting for¬
eign crews in their coverage of the
recent earthquake. "There wasn't any
particular reason not to go," he said.
"The airport was running."

"I was very surprised to learn of the
very high number of people [about

half] who had achieved the rank of cap¬
tain in the Navy or Naval Reserve," said
Dr. Baratta, a nuclear engineering pro¬
fessor at Penn State. He suggested that
perhaps NROTC, which was abolished
at Columbia in 1972, might be brought
back, given the conservative climate of
the times. "Anything's possible. I look
like a radical compared to some of the
students."

• Revamped: Thanks to a $265,000 gift
from Patricia Remmer, wife of the late
Eugene Remmer '43, repairs have been
effected on the Gould boathouse at
Baker Field. Renovations include a new
roof and windows, a sandblasted
facade, and a redecorated upstairs
lounge. The structure has been
renamed for Mr. Remmer, who was
Columbia's 84th Alumni Trustee, a
member of the College's Board of Visi¬
tors, and the founder and president of
Chemtex, Inc. Twice captain of the
crew team, he was one of Columbia
athletics' most active supporters.

Mr. Remmer boasted other accom¬
plishments as well. "He was the strong¬
est man I ever met," recalled Connie
Maniatty '43, his good friend and fel¬
low trustee, in an interview with sports
information director Bill Steinman. "He
used to turn off the water in the show¬
ers, and no one could turn it on again."

Mank's "Kane" carbon
fetches record price

Collectors and the curious descended
on Christie's East in New York last June
21, drawn by such items as John
Lennon's wristwatch and Marilyn
Monroe's showgirl costume from Bus
Stop. But when the bidding was over,
the prize lot turned out to be a carbon
copy of the Oscar-winning screenplay
of Citizen Kane that belonged to its
author, Herman J. Mankiewicz '17. The
script was sold for $210,000, the highest
price ever paid at auction for a piece of
entertainment memorabilia. Bound
with a first draft titled American, it was
sold with other Mankiewicz scripts and
letters to Barbara Guggenheim Associ¬
ates for an anonymous collector.

Mr. Mankiewicz died in 1953; his
sons, Frank and Donald '42, inherited
the Citizen Kane script three years ago
from their mother, Sara, and reluc¬
tantly decided to sell it. "If your career
involves politics, you don't end up
independently wealthy," said Don, an
Oscar-nominated movie and television

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writer who was vice chairman of the
Nassau Democratic County Committee
for 20 years. Brother Frank, also long
involved in Democratic politics, is for¬
mer press secretary to Robert F.
Kennedy.

The two men also wanted to focus
attention on the script to end the long-
running argument over who wrote
more of Citizen Kane —their father or
Orson Welles, who shared both screen¬
play credit and the film's only Oscar, in
1942. For Don, the answer is obvious
when one compares the two drafts in
the bound volume: "There is no ques¬
tion that American is certifiably the
work of Herman Mankiewicz, which
he wrote when Orson Welles wasn't
within a hundred miles of him. You see
that the second one is just a cutting job
of the first." Film critic Judith Crist
believes that while the finished prod¬
uct—like all movie scripts —repre¬
sents a collaboration, "I always felt it
was written by Mankiewicz."

The Kane script bears notes written
by the attorneys of publishing magnate
William Randolph Hearst, who served
as the basis for the film's title character,
Charles Foster Kane. Mr. Mankiewicz
had sent the script to fellow screen¬
writer Charles Lederer, nephew of Mr.
Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies. "In
some crazily naive way," wrote film
critic Pauline Kael in 1971, "Mankiewicz
seems to have imagined that Lederer
would be pleased by how good it was."

Instead, Mr. Lederer gave it to Miss
Davies and Mr. Hearst, whose lawyers
underlined, circled, and annotated
passages that they felt paralleled their

Oscar winner: The controversial script of
Citizen Kane, by Herman Mankiewicz '27.

Eustace Taylor '20...

K-lmuirv 2i, k)~ s qpj_j^ Price is a-iils

NEW YORKER.

.. .and Eustace Tilley

The New Yorker's light blue bloodlines

We had known for years that
Columbia gave MGM its lion and
helped inspire the name of NASA's
space shuttle. It now turns out that
the College's reach extends to that
top-hatted, monocle-wielding mas¬
cot of The New Yorker, Eustace Tilley.

In his 1966 essay "The New York
Imbroglio," David Cort '24 wrote
that Corey Ford '23, his predecessor
as editor of Jester and one of the lead¬
ing humorists of his day, was "the
inventor of the New Yorker's symbol,
Eustace Tilley (first name from a fra¬
ternity brother)."

Corey Ford was a "Deke"—a
member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
And the only "Eustace" in the DKE
of that era was Eustace Taylor '20.

Eustace Taylor. Eustace Tilley.

"He [Ford] did know Taylor," Ira
Cobleigh '23 told us confidently,
affirming that they were not only
frat brothers, but friends as well. In
his review of the 1920 Varsity Show,
Fly With Me, which featured Mr.
Taylor in drag, Mr. Ford wrote,

"They say Eustace Taylor makes the
most graceful showgirl."

For Mr. Ford to have named Tilley
after a fellow Deke would have been
in keeping with his strong ties to the
frat. In the foreword to Mr. Ford's
memoirs, A Time For Laughter, fellow
humorist Frank Sullivan recalled the
perils of sharing Mr. Ford's flat in
Beekman Place: "Occasionally some
of his brothers from the Deke house
at Columbia would come home with

Ford after a night on the town and if
I wasn't already home and in bed—
and I seldom was—they would pie
my bed."

And it was in that Deke-filled
apartment, according to Dale
Kramer in Ross and The New Yorker,
that Corey Ford named Eustace
Tilley, who had been drawn by Rea
Irvin for The New Yorker's first cover.
Mr. Ford made him the hero of 20 in-
house advertisements that he wrote
to help fill The New Yorker's pages in
its early, ad-hungry days. As the
humorist recalled in A Time For
Laughter, "'Tilley' was the name of a
maiden aunt, and I chose 'Eustace'
because it sounded euphonious."

The dandyish. Beau Brummel-
esque Mr. Tilley went on to become
The New Yorker personified, even to
the point of being listed in the
phone book. As for Eustace Taylor,
he became a securities analyst.
Active in College affairs, he received
the 1963 Alumni Medal and died last
May at the age of 89.

Mr. Taylor's son, Randy, told us
that his father "often joked about the
similarity of name between Eustace
Tilley and himself, though I'm
pretty sure he never read The New
Yorker. " He insists that his father
shared no other characteristics with
the dainty aesthete. "Daddy worked
in a shipyard before he came to
Columbia, so he was no namby-
pamby Eustace Tilley."

T.V.

JOE PINEIRO

Cellist Joel Krosnick '63 and concert pianist Gilbert Kalish '56 talked with students December 6 in the Kathryn Bache Miller Theatre at the first of
three lecture-recitals to Music Humanities classes this academic year. Mr. Krosnick is a member of the Juilliard String Quartet; Mr. Kalish is artist in
residence at SUNY-Stony Brook. In keeping with the course syllabus, they performed works of several 20th century composers — Webern, Carter, and
Debussy. They will perform together for concert audiences in the Miller Theatre (formerly known as McMillin Theatre) on the evenings of March 15
and April 17.

client's life too closely. One example
occurs when Kane tells a reporter,
"Young man, there will be no war [in
Europe]." The lawyers wrote in the
margin, "This happens to be the gist of
an authentic interview with W.R.H./
occasion his last trip from Europe." A
lawsuit and injunction against the
film's release were contemplated but
not carried out.

Pauline Kael called the elder Man-
kiewicz's circulation of his script to Mr.
Lederer an "idiotic indiscretion;" Don
Mankiewicz has his own explanation:
"It's a strange, silly move in retrospect,
but at the time he may not have realized
that Charlie Lederer was Marion
Davies' nephew. He was not an
abstemious man, and he might have
been reasonably glowing when he
sent it."

The Kane screenplay was a carbon, so
it is possible that another copy might
exist. Don, whose credits include the
film I Want To Live! and the television
series Star Trek and Ironside, hasn't
heard of any, but in light of the record-
breaking sale, he has begun looking for
some of his old scripts. T. V.

New scholarship funds

The Columbia College Fund has
announced the establishment of 12
newly endowed scholarship funds for
the benefit of College students:

Adele Phyllis Balfus
Scholarship Fund
Gift of Roberta R. and Lawrence E.
Balfus'55

Janet and Pierre Bonan
Family Scholarship Fund
Gift of Janet and Pierre Bonan '38
Class of 1939

Summer Research Fellowships
Class of 1949 Lawrence H.

Chamberlain Scholarship Fund
Arthur M. Davis Scholarship Fund
Bequest of Arthur M. Davis '24
William and Ida Dewar
Scholarship Fund
Bequest of Ida H. Dewar
Emanuel Goodman
Scholarship Fund
Bequest of Emanuel Goodman '22

Frederick W. Huber
Scholarship Fund
Gift of John Wheeler '36
Orrin C. Isbell
Scholarship Fund
Bequest of Emily D. Isbell
Martin D. Jacobs Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Gift of Stephen Jacobs '75 and friends
Burton Lehman
25th Reunion Scholarship
Gift of Burton Lehman '62
Lillian and Trygve Tonnessen
Scholarship Fund

Gift of Lillian and Trygve Tonnessen '39

Endowed scholarships can be estab¬
lished in perpetuity through a gift of
principal of $50,000, for an individually
named scholarship, or $100,000, for a
class scholarship fund. For further
information, please contact Marilyn
Liebowitz, Assistant Director, Office of
Alumni Affairs and Development, 100
Hamilton Hall, New York, N. Y. 10027,
(212) 854-5533.

Columbia College Today

Bookshelf

Documenting America 1935-1943

edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly
W. Brannan. Photographs of America in
Depression and wartime created by the
Farm Security Administration's histor¬
ical division under the direction of Roy
E. Stryker '24. The editors have chosen
lesser-known images by Dorothea
Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Gor¬
don Parks and Arthur Rothstein '35
(University of California Press, $60,
$24.95 paper).

The Culture We Deserve by Jacques Bar-
zun '27, University Professor Emeritus.
Recent essays on culture and its trans¬
mission, concluding with a gloomy
assessment of the decadence of our age
(Wesleyan University Press, $19.95).

America's Gilded Age: Intimate Por¬
traits from an Era of Extravagance and
Change, 1850-1890 by Milton Rugoff'33.
Sketches of some who shaped the
age—Ulysses S. Grant, Cornelius Van¬
derbilt, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Henry George, and oth¬
ers (Henry Holt, $24.95).

John Berryman and the Thirties by

E. M. Halliday '36. A memoir of the poet
by a College classmate (University of
Massachusetts Press, $25, $11.95
paper).

Thomas Percy: A Scholar-Cleric in the
Age of Johnson by Bertram H. Davis '41.
Percy, the editor of Reliques of Ancient
English Poetry, a volume that inspired
Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge, was
a bishop of the Church of Ireland and
the senior member of Samuel Johnson's
literary circle (University of Pennsylva¬
nia Press, $39.95).

The Message of the Mind in Neo-Con¬
fucianism by Wm. Theodore de Bary '41,
John Mitchell Mason Professor of the
University. A sequel to the author's 1981
Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of
the Mind-and-Heart (Columbia Univer¬
sity Press, $40).

Travelers of a Hundred Ages by Donald
Keene '42, University Professor. Essays
on Japanese diaries from the dawn of
the millennium to Commodore Perry's
"opening" of the island nation (Henry
Holt, $35).

Stephen O'Connor '74's first collection, Rescue,
includes a story about a war criminal named
Albert Zot who assumes the form of a rat as an act
of penance. He reveals his identity to an exter¬
minator, who spares Albert's life and adopts him.
But this benefactor's sympathy for the talking rat
turns to disgust for the former exterminator of
men. These stories are reminiscent of Kafka in
their dreamlike premises, vivid detail and moral
suspense (Harmony Books, $17.95).

Ginsberg by Barry Miles. Allen
Ginsberg '48, dean of the Beat poets of
the Fifties, has crossed paths with vari¬
ous American cultural scenes—drugs.
Buddhism, Vietnam war resistance and
sexual freedom—but his mission has
always been poetry (Simon and
Schuster, $24.95).

The Reader's Catalog: An Annotated
Selection of More Than 40,000 of the
Best Books in Print in 208 Categories

edited by Geoffrey O'Brien. This catalog,
the brainchild of Jason Epstein '49,
allows one to order books by mail,
phone or fax; some bookstores refuse
to sell it for fear of putting themselves
out of business (Reader's Catalog,
$24.95 paper).

Can We Teach Ethics? by Howard Radest
'49. Reflections on moral education in
the classroom, and a proposed curricu¬
lum, by the director of New York's Eth¬
ical Culture Schools (Praeger, $35.95).

Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial
Germany's Secret War in America,
1914-1917 by Jules Witcover '49. The 1916
explosion at Black Tom, a munitions
depot in New Jersey, was part of a Ger¬

man effort to prevent American sup¬
port of the Allies (Algonquin Books of
Chapel Hill, $19.95).

Whose Broad Stripes and Bright
Stars?: The Trivial Pursuit of the Presi¬
dency 1988 by Jack W. Germond and Jules
Witcover'49. Two seasoned political
journalists tell how the Democrats
failed to reverse the Reagan revolution
(Warner Books, $22.95).

In Time and Place by John Hollander '50.
Prose poems and quatrains (Johns
Hopkins University Press, $16.50,

$7.95 paper).

The Modern World-System III: The
Second Era of Great Expansion of the
Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s

by Immanuel Wallerstein '51. The third
volume of a series outlining world eco¬
nomic history (Academic Press, $39.50,
$17.50 paper).

Acts of Recovery: Essays on Culture
and Politics by Jeffrey Hart '52. A con¬
servative apologist considers socialism,
Nazism, the Christian writers C. S.
Lewis, Hilaire Belloc and G. K.
Chesterton, Hemingway, pornogra¬
phy, Allan Bloom, and other subjects
(University Press of New England,
$19.95).

Napoleon and His Times edited by

Frank A. Kafker '53 and James M. Laux.
Leading American and European his¬
torians, from Aulard to Soboul, assay
the life and times of the French leader
(Krieger Publishing, $25.50, $19.25
paper).

The Law of Life and Health Insurance

by Bertram Harnett and Irving I. Lesnick
'54. A five-volume work covering all
aspects of the structure and regulation
of life and health insurance, including a
clause-by-clause analysis of model pol¬
icies (Matthew Bender, $440).

America's Response to China: A His¬
tory of Sino-American Relations by

Warren I. Cohen ’55. This recently
revised edition covers the China of the
Reagan era (Columbia University
Press, $35, $13.50 paper).

Who Needs God by Harold Kushner '55.
Spiritual advice from the author of the
best-selling When Bad Things Happen to
Good People (Summit, $18.95).

The Election of 1988 edited by Gerald
M. Pomper '55. "The 1988 campaign was
widely characterized as one of the
meanest and least edifying in modern
history," writes the editor, introducing

analyses of the campaigns and results
by seven political scientists, including
Columbia's Ethel Klein (Chatham
House, $25).

The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideo¬
logical Age by Robert Alter '57. "Many
among a whole generation of profes¬
sional students of literature have
turned away from reading," says the
author, proposing a return to the idea
that literature is about life and that one
need not read through the lens of any
"ism" (Simon and Schuster, $18.95).

Movieland: Hollywood and the Great
American Dream Culture by Jerome
Charyn '59. Essays about the dream fac¬
tories and their products (Putnam,
$21.95).

Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with
Culture by Richard G. Fox '60. A study
of the origins of Gandhi's philosophy
and its lasting imprint on Indian cul¬
ture (Beacon, $27.50).

The Flaxfield by Stijn Streuvels, trans¬
lated by Peter Glassgold '60 and Andre '
Lefevere. In this novel, written in 1907
and translated into English for the first
time, the rhythms of the seasons mirror
the decline of an old Flemish farmer
and the ascent of his son (Sun & Moon,
$11.95 paper).

A Strategy for Victory Without War by

Herbert I. London '60. The West has lost
its sense of ideological purpose and has
yielded the moral high ground to the
enemies of peace, the author argues
(University Press of America, $26.50,
$12.95 paper).

The Millers River Reader edited by
Allen Young '62. A portrait of the Millers
River watershed region in Massachu¬
setts, rendered in local newspaper sto¬
ries and photographs from the last two
decades (Millers River Publishing Co.,
Box 159, Athol, Mass. 01331).
Philosophical Explorations: Freedom,
God and Goodness by Steven M. Cahn
'63. Modern philosophers discuss free
will, the existence of God and the rea¬
sonableness of value judgments; an
appendix offers relevant excerpts from
Kant, Plato, J. S. Mill and other thinkers
(Prometheus Books, $14.95 paper).
Toxic Tort Litigation by Edward Greer
'63, Warren Freedman and Stephanie
Levin. A guide, for both plaintiffs' and
defendants' attorneys, to litigating
cases involving chemical exposure; the
volume includes model pleadings
(Prentice Hall, $96).

Nietzschean Narratives by Gary Shapiro
'63. A study of three of the philoso¬
pher's narrative works. Thus Spoke
Zarathustra, The Antichrist and Ecce
Homo (Indiana University Press,

$37.50, $14.95 paper).

The Real Thing: Imitation and
Authenticity in American Culture,
1880-1940 by Miles Orvell '64. The mod¬
ernization of America inspired a shift in
popular taste away from the Victorian-
era preference for reproductions in art
and design and toward authenticity,
argues the author, who traces this aes¬
thetic through literature, architecture,
design and photography (University of
North Carolina Press, $37.50, $14.95
paper).

Little Sports: The Official Rules of
Insignificant Indoor Rivalries by Dan

Carlinsky '65 and Ed Goodgold '65. The
creators of the trivia fad attempt to
bring law, order and humor to Office
Olympic competitions—in such events
as thumb wrestling, penny pitching,
finger football, and rubber-band
marksmanship (McGraw-Hill, $7.95
paper).

Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling by

Leonard Michael Koff'65. "Chaucer's nar¬
ratives teach by encouraging us to use
them as records of human presence in
the world—our own, Chaucer's, and
that of Chaucer's 'medieval people,'"
argues the author (University of Cali¬
fornia Press, $35).

Sex in the Forbidden Zone: How Ther¬
apists, Doctors, Clergy, Teachers and
Other Men in Power Betray Women's
Trust by Peter Rutter '65, M.D. A study
of sexual exploitation, and therapeutic
advice for both victimizes and victims
(Jeremy P. Tarcher, $17.95).

Negotiating a Book Contract: A Guide
for Authors, Agents and Lawyers by

MarkL. Levine ’66. A short, readable
guide to authors' rights and publishing
practices (Moyer Bell, Mt. Kisco, N.Y.,
$12.95 paper).

Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy

by Robert D. Schulzinger '67. An account
of the career of the former Secretary of
State and National Security Advisor,
including the "shuttle diplomacy" of
his Middle East negotiations, detente
with the Soviet Union, and the re¬
sumption of relations with China
(Columbia University Press, $27.95).

New York on Fire by Hilton Obenzinger
'69. A history in poems of New York

City's fires, beginning with the Dutch
trading ship Tigere, which burned
while anchored near the Battery (Real
Comet Press, $24.95, $12.95 paper).

The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detec¬
tion by David Lehman '70. "The detec¬
tive story is unique among literary
forms in that the narrative line flows
backward, from effect to cause, causing
the reader to become a participant or
co-conspirator, since one is continually
asked to guess at the meaning of
events," writes the author in this study
of the genre from Poe to Umberto Eco
(Free Press, $19.95).

History Museums in the United States:
A Critical Assessment edited by War¬
ren Leon and Roy Rosenzweig '71. Studies
of form and fashion in popular presen¬
tations of history, including historic
houses, battlefields, Disney World,
and the inclusion of women and blacks
(University of Illinois Press, $34.95,
$14.95 paper).

The New Historicism edited by H.
Aram Veeser '72. Essays by 20 scholars of
literature and American cultural stud¬
ies who intend, says the editor, to
"combat empty formalism by pulling
historical considerations to the center
stage of literary analysis" (Routledge,
$15.95 paper).

Children of Psychiatrists and Other
Psychotherapists by Thomas Maeder '73.
While the offspring of therapists were
not as crazy as legend would have it,
the author found, many told of parents
who were happier interpreting their
children than disciplining them, or
who entered the profession in the first
place because of their fear of intimacy
(Harper & Row, $19.95).

I Raise My Eyes To Say Yes by Ruth
Sienkiewicz-Mercer and Steven B. Kaplan
'74. Rendered mute and paraplegic by
cerebral palsy in infancy, Mrs. Sienkie¬
wicz-Mercer spent 16 years in an insti¬
tution before she managed to persuade
anyone she was mentally competent
(Houghton Mifflin, $17.95).

The Costa Rica Reader edited by Marc
Edelman '75 and Joanne Kenen. An
anthology of documents, interviews,
articles and analyses, some translated
for the first time, concerning the "Swit¬
zerland of Central America" (Grove
Weidenfeld, $16.95 paper).

Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in
Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne
and Melville by Robert S. Levine '75.

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The art of manuscript painting in Thailand is centuries old, though few examples survive from before
the 18th century, due to damage from dampness and insects, and the destruction of libraries in war. In
Thai Manuscript Painting (University of Hawaii Press, $34) Henry Ginsburg '62, curator of Thai
and Cambodian material at The British Library, examines the principal themes and narratives of the
Thai tradition. This illustration, from a Buddhist text for warding off misfortune, shows two monks
holding their hands to their throats, which may be sore from chanting.

American writers conceived their
country as a historical romance, and
feared conspiracies that might under¬
mine their new nation, argues the
author (Cambridge University Press,
$37.50).

Manhattan on the Rocks by Michael
Musto 76. "As AIDS kept adding to the
city's devastation with pain and anger
and depression, I wanted to forget, to
ignore, to dance—the dance not of a
person who didn't care, but who chose
not to care, because a life of constant
caring was draining and demoralizing
and ultimately didn't change any¬
thing," says the narrator of this novel
(Henry Holt, $18.95).

Betting to Win on Sports by Wayne Alan
Root '83 with Wilbur Cross. Mr. Root, a
national radio personality, shares his
secrets for picking winners, which
include the Letdown Theory, the
Nightmare on Elm Street Theory, the
Paterno Value Theory and other tech¬
niques, as well as adequate financing,
the study of martial arts, meditation
and proper diet (Bantam, $8.95 paper).

A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch
Religion and English Culture in the
Middle Colonies by Randall Balmer,
Assistant Professor of Religion. The
English Conquest of 1664 dealt a blow
to the Dutch Reformed Church, estab¬
lished in the New World half a century
earlier (Oxford University Press,
$24.95).

The Global Rivals: The Forty-Year
Contest for Supremacy between Amer¬
ica and the Soviet Union by Seweryn
Bialer, Ruggles Professor of Political Sci¬
ence, and Michael Mandelbaum. A com¬
panion book to the public television
series (Knopf, $18.95).

Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality
and Sacrifice by M. E. Combs-Schilling,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology. A
study of the cultural foundations of
Islamic political authority, based on the
author's study of the Moroccan mon¬
archy (Columbia University Press,

$27).

A Trap for Fools by Amanda Cross [Car¬
olyn Heilbrun, Avalon Foundation Pro¬
fessor in the Humanities]. In the latest
Kate Fansler mystery, a feminist Eng¬
lish professor at an unnamed univer¬
sity on the Upper West Side must
discover who defenestrated a white
male chauvinist professor and a black
female student activist (E. P. Dutton,
$16.95).

Connections to the World: The Basic
Concepts of Philosophy by Arthur C.
Danto, Johnsonian Professor of Philos¬
ophy. "A problem is not genuinely a
philosophical problem unless it is pos¬
sible to imagine that its solution will
consist of showing how appearance
has been taken for reality," writes the
author in a new work intended to
replace his own What Philosophy Is
(1968) (Harper & Row, $22.95).

Perestroika in Perspective: The Design
and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform by

Padma Desai, Professor of Economics.
What liberalization means in an econ¬
omy without private ownership or
investment (Princeton University
Press, $14.95).

1,001 Things Everyone Should Know
About American History by John A.
Garraty, Gouverneur Morris Professor
of History. A profusely illustrated com¬
pendium of names, places, slogans,
struggles, and other matters the reader

may have forgotten, such as Leisler's
Rebellion, the Union Party, Leon
Czolgosz, and what James Polk said
about James Buchanan (Doubleday,
$26.95).

Vilain and Courtois: Transgressive Par¬
ody in French Literature of the Twelfth
and Thirteenth Centuries by Kathryn
Gravdal, Assistant Professor of French.
The first full-length study of medieval
European parody in the vernacular
(University of Nebraska Press, $22.50).

Realizing Rawls: Defense, Develop¬
ment, Globalization by Thomas W.
Pogge, Associate Professor of Philoso¬
phy. A study of the ideas of the philoso¬
pher John Rawls, defending his
conception of justice against libertarian
and communitarian criticism and
applying it to economics, education,
health care and international relations
(Cornell University Press, $37.50,
$12.95 paper). J.R.

Roar

Lion

Roar

Six years of progress
for women's athletics

When Ula Lysniak (Barnard '87)
returned to Momingside Heights this
fall as assistant women's basketball
coach, she brought more than just pro¬
fessional playing experience and coach¬
ing ability to Columbia. She also brought
a tradition.

In 1983, when the Columbia Univer-
sity/Bamard College Athletic Consor¬
tium was established, Lysniak began her
first season with the Lions. During her
four years, Columbia won the Division
III New York State championship with a
21-6 record in 1985-86, and made a suc¬
cessful transition to Division I a year
later. In her senior year, Lysniak became
Columbia's first 1,000-point scorer.

"The fact that I made it through the
four years here, played professionally [in
Salzburg, Austria], and came back
should reaffirm to these players all that
can be accomplished here," she said.

For a fledgling women's intercolle¬
giate athletic program, such individual
accomplishments—or team successes
such as the volleyball squad's first Ivy
victory this past season against Har¬
vard—are important milestones.

According to Athletic Director A1 Paul,
Columbia's primary goal is to be compet¬
itive within the Ivy League. How far has
the program progressed in its first six
years? Although some teams are lag¬
ging, it is clear that Columbia has moved
closer to its objective in every sport.

By forming the Columbia/Barnard
consortium—in which women from
both schools compete under the Colum¬
bia banner—the program gained a run¬
ning start. At the beginning, Columbia
was able to offer an established. Seven
Sister-level, Division III program with
nine varsity sports: archery, basketball,
cross country, fencing, swimming, ten¬
nis, indoor and outdoor track, and vol¬
leyball. More recently, soccer and crew
have been granted varsity status. Now,
after only six years, all eleven teams are

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Breaking into the Ivies: The season-long performance of Devon Martin (278 )— shown here pushing
the front-runners in the 1989 Heptagonal Games in Van Cortlandt Park—has given credibility to the
Columbia women's cross-country team. Martin finished eighth in theHeps, the annual 5,000-meter
championship race that matches the Ivy teams, Army and Navy. Suzanne ]ones of Harvard (327) was
the winner, with Yale's Susanna Beck (379) finishing second and There se Devlin (298) of Dartmouth
taking fifth. Columbia's Martin, after placing first in five of her six regular-season races, finished a
strong 10th at the ECAC Championships, making her the first Lion woman ever to qualify for the
NCAA's in cross-country.

competing at the more difficult Division
I level of the Ivy League.

"I think we're somewhat ahead of
where we anticipated we'd be," said
Margie Tversky, Associate Director of
Athletics for Women's Sports, who was
Barnard's Athletic Director before the
consortium was formed. "We've had
great commitment on the part of the stu¬
dents, as well as great support from the
administration to see the program
develop and grow and respond to stu¬
dent interest."

The swift progress has paid off for
women's basketball. Every member of
this year's squad is a Division I recruit,
and after last year's 12-14 (overall), 5-9
(Ivy) season, head coach Nancy Kalafus
believes the team is ready to move into
the upper tier of the Ivy League.

"For the seniors now, there's no wait¬
ing around for anything," said Coach
Kalafus, who for the first time is able to
start more juniors and seniors than
freshmen and sophomores. "I don't
think that these kids are thinking about
the fact that the program is young—
they're thinking that they don't want to
wait anymore. So they're going out there
and working hard," the coach told CCT
early in the season.

For some teams, the improvement
hasn't shown up yet in the won-lost
record. In soccer, where Ivy opponents
are often nationally ranked, the Lions
are still searching for their first league
win. But they came close against Yale
and Dartmouth, while winning six of
nine non-league matches. And women's
tennis, which has already produced a

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nationally ranked player, Happy Ho '90,
is in a state of flux this season, following
the departure of coach Eve Ellis.

Fencing offers the best example of
team success: the squad brought Colum¬
bia its first women's Ivy crown last sea¬
son and finished second at the NCAA
tournament. With only one starter,
Darlene Pratschler '89, lost to gradua¬
tion, the team is a strong contender for
the national title this spring. And fenc¬
ing has given the intercollegiate athletics
program—both women's and men's—
its greatest star of recent years: Katy
Bilodeaux-Banos '87, who notched a
203-9 record and won two individual
NCAA championships during her four
years at Columbia. Bilodeaux-Banos
went on to an 11th place finish at the 1988
Summer Olympics, the best perform¬
ance ever turned in by an American
woman.

The next great success, many feel,
will come from the women's swimming
team. Coach Jeff Ward believes that the
six freshmen recruited to this year's
varsity represent the team's strongest
class ever. The Lions, who finished
fourth in the league last season, are
only a year or two away from their first
Ivy title, he feels.

"I think there is a natural evolution
you go through. If you look at all the
women's teams, you'd have a lot of par¬
allels," Coach Ward said. "Essentially
it's a process of two steps back and four
forward. You have to build on tradition
and learn everything twice."

In addition to learning everything
twice, the Lions must also split every¬
thing in half. With the exception of vol¬
leyball and archery, quartered at Bar¬
nard, the men's and women's teams
share all facilities except locker rooms.

Several coaches cite a need for more
facilities and an increase in the number
of athletes so that more women's junior
varsities can be established. Even more
important, they say, is the role of re¬
cruiting. Alumni play a key role in this
area, both as potential representatives
of the school, and as contributors.

"With such a new program, we don't
have alumni out there who have the re¬
sources yet to give substantially to the
program," noted A1 Paul, who is oper¬
ating his department on a zero-growth
budget for the second year in a row.

One alumnus who has taken the lead
in supporting women's athletics is Alan
Cohen '52, the part-owner of the Bos¬
ton Celtics. Last year he made a five-
year, $100,000 commitment to women's

Men's soccer returns
to the NCAA tournament

C olumbia men's soccer made a
dramatic return to NCAA tour¬
nament play this year, blowing by
13th-ranked Fairleigh Dickinson
University by a score of 4-1 before
succumbing to fifth-ranked
Rutgers, 3-1, in the second round.

The Lions (12-5,5-2 Ivy League)
earned their first post-season
appearance since 1985, when they
ended an eight-year run in the
NCAA's. In 1983, the team went all
the way to the final round before
losing to Indiana 1-0 in double
overtime.

With a talented and young side
which tied Princeton for second
place in the Ivy League this season,

(Above): Sophomore midfielder Peter
DiMaggio heads one in Lions' 1-0 overtime
victory over Harvard.

Coach Dieter Ficken hopes to mount
a challenge against Yale for next
year's crown.

Returning veterans will include
two first-team All-Ivy players: for¬
ward Nick Ziadie, a junior from
Kingston, Jamaica, who led the
Lions in scoring, and sweeper Oren
Plitman, a freshman from Israel.
Three other All-Ivy (honorable men¬
tion) choices will return next year:
sophomores Mike Connolly and
Peter DiMaggio, a forward and a
midfielder, respectively, both from
Long Island, and junior stopper
Sigurdur Valtysson, from Iceland.
Team captain Chris Ziadie, a sec¬
ond-team All-Ivy midfielder, will
graduate this year; along with his
younger brother Nick, he was
named All-Region.

Less is more: Senior tight end Matt Less was a conspicuous bright spot for the 1-9 Lions this year. A
first-team All-Ivy selection who was usually double-teamed by opponents, the 6-3, 220-pound receiver
caught 61 passes, the fifth-highest Columbia total ever and a new season record for his position. Against
Penn, in a hard-fought nationally televised game, Less set a school record with 13 pass receptions, good
for 180 yards and two touchdowns; the Lions went down 24-21 that day on a fourth-quarter TD plunge
by Brian Keys. After the season, Keys and Less each scored a TD as teammates on an Ivy League All-
Star team which defeated the Japanese All-Stars 49-17 in Yokohama. The Ivies were coached by Maxie
Baughan and Johnny Unitas.

basketball to help finance their annual
western trip over the winter break, and
to create an endowment fund for the
team.

"The winter trips are important for
recruiting purposes and, in general, I
think women's sports are a good thing
for everyone to be involved in," Mr.
Cohen commented. "I think if you've
gotten a Columbia education you've
been broadened and you're not biased
or sexist. It then becomes an educa¬
tional question of making people real¬
ize that this [women's athletics] is a vital
part of the college experience."

Supporters like Alan Cohen give the
program more than a financial boost.
Margie Tversky believes athletics give

the school a needed social and emo¬
tional focus. She is enthusiastic about a
winter picnic planned for students, fac¬
ulty and families on January 27, on a
Saturday when Columbia men's and
women's teams were scheduled from
morning to night. She thinks the
Alumni Association might even want
to "adopt" the day in the future as a
winter homecoming.

Looking back on six years of Colum¬
bia women's athletics, she says, "As far
as support and acceptance on the part
of this University, we have far exceeded
the expectations I had when I first came
over from Barnard."

Sam Marchiano'89 .

Heads Up

Devon Martin
First Columbia
woman to qualify
for NCAA
cross-country
championship.

Chris Ziadie
Men's soccer captain
helped lead Lions
back to NCAA
tourney; named
All-Region with
brother Nick.

Kathy Gilbert
Junior center led
Light Blue to Iona
Basketball Classic
crown, earning
MVP honors.

J.R. Clearfield
Sophomore's 93-
yard TD sprint
against Bucknell tied
school record.

Bart Barnett
Football captain
anchored ace
linebacking corps,
was named All-Ivy.

Kirstin Friedholm
Soccer captain was
the program's first
four-year starter.

Jeff Chiang
Toppled three of the
top U.S. tennis
players en route to
semifinals at Volvo
Collegiate
Championships.

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Columbiana

When Columbia ruled the waves: Henley, 1878

A sked to name the greatest upset
in Columbia's athletic history,
most light blue-blooded alumni would
pick the 1934 Rose Bowl victory over
Stanford. A hundred years ago,
though, the answer would have been
the 1878 victory at England's Henley
Royal Regatta. Coached by Edmond
Kelly '70, the Columbia four captured
the Visitors' Challenge Cup on July 5,
becoming the first Americans to win a
cup at Henley—then as now interna¬
tional rowing's premier event.

Against all odds, Columbia over¬
came the best teams from Dublin,
Oxford, and Cambridge. "It was going
to be a walk-over for the English," team
captain Jasper T. Goodwin '76 recalled
in 1909. "Cambridge men visited us
every once in a while and told us they
were really sorry that we should have
gone to all that expense and trouble,
just to be beaten by their crew. Some
even offered to coach us during our
stay, saying that while they wanted to
see their crew win, they also wanted to
see us make a good showing."

When word of the victory reached
the States, the College cut loose.

Alumni dropped their work and took
to the streets to pump whatever hands
they could find; students festooned the
boathouse with blue and white flags
and bunting. They placed a symbolic
new broom in the bow of an eight-
oared barge and rowed it up and down
the Harlem. Later, they converged on
the 49th Street campus to ring the
school bell and dance around a bonfire.
"The anniversary of our country's natal
day," The New York Times observed
proudly, "is the day above all others
when we can most signally whip all
creation."

The team's return on August 10 was
triumphal. Students boarded a steamer
to intercept their ship even before it
had docked. Hoisting the winners onto
their shoulders, they unhitched the
horses from the victory carriage and
themselves pulled the rowers to a
reception at Delmonico's. The Visitors'
Cup was exhibited at Tiffany's, and
everyone wanted to see the winning
boats. Unfortunately, the team had
sold them to Cambridge, so another

shell was procured and passed off as
the authentic item until interest in the
race had died down.

With the exception of Goodwin, who
coached the Columbia crew from 1904
to 1906, none of the veterans of that
championship season continued to
stroke as adults. The last of them,
Henry Ridabock '79E, died in 1923.

Though their achievement is largely
forgotten today, the team brought an
international dimension to Henley,
considerable pride to New York and the
nation, and public attention to the

future potential of American sports.

The following bit of verse from the
October 7,1878 issue of Acta Columbiana
gives some idea of the glow that was felt
by so many at the time:

And here's to Alma Mater,

The College of the crew
That made the Britisher respect
The dashing White and Blue.

Here's to the boys who never bragged,

But now they hit her up,

From Oxford and old Cambridge
To win the Challenge Cup.

tv. Q

Victors: The legendary 1878 crew. Captain Jasper T. Goodwin 76 (stroke) is on the right; with him are
Henry Ridabock '79E (3), Cyrus Edson '80 (2), E. E. Sage '77E (bow), and Charles Eldridge 79
(alternate).

Obituaries

1913

Jacob L. Mulwitz, retired busi¬
nessman, Sarasota, Fla., on April

12,1989. Mr. Mulwitz graduated
from Columbia Law School in 1915
and was president of the Mulwitz
Co., the family furniture busi¬
ness, in Port Chester, N. Y.

1917

Otto Ewald Dohrenwend, retired
investment broker, Scarsdale,
N.Y., on October 19,1989. Mr.
Dohrenwend joined the New
York firm of Baker, Weeks & Co. in
1929; he retired as a partner in
1972. Following the 1929 stock
market crash, he devised an
accounting system for office pro¬
cedures that became standard on
Wall Street until the computer
era. Mr. Dohrenwend was a
staunch anti-communist, serving
as chairman of the American
Legion's "For God and Country
Committee." He was active in
Catholic organizations and in
Columbia fund-raising and
alumni affairs, and served as a
trustee of Manhattanville College,
in Purchase, N.Y.

Emory Porter Starke, retired
mathematician. North Plainfield,
N.J., on March 9,1989. Dr. Starke
earned hisPh.D. at Columbia
under Joseph Fels Ritt in 1926 and
chaired the mathematics depart¬
ment at Rutgers University for
many years. He edited the prob¬
lem section of the American Mathe¬
matical Monthly and served as
organist and choir director of the
Presbyterian Church in Westfield,
N.J.

1919

David Gaines, history professor.
New York, N. Y., on March 23,
1989. Professor Gaines, who
received his M. A. from Columbia
in 1922 and his Ph. D. in 1952,
taught at CCNY for 40 years. His
specialty was modern European
history.

1920

Eustace Lowell Taylor, retired
investment banker, Brooklyn,
N.Y., on May 18,1989. Mr. Taylor
was with several companies,
including Macy's, Arthur Ander¬
sen, and Lehman Corp., where he
was a securities analyst and vice
president. Active in alumni
affairs, he received the Alumni
Federation medal in 1963 and

served as his class's fund
chairman.

1921

Louis Greenstein, neuro¬
psychiatrist, Newtown, Conn.,
on April 19,1989. A1924 graduate
of Columbia P&S, Dr. Greenstein
was an authority on brain tumors
and convulsive disorders. He had
a private practice in Brooklyn and
taught at SUNY-Downstate; he
was also a staff physician at Dan¬
bury Hospital. During World War
II he was a captain in the Medical
Corps, serving with the 8th Air
Force in England and North
Africa.

Roger Derby Prosser, retired
businessman, Englewood, N.J.,
on May 22,1989. Mr. Prosser was
president of Thomas Prosser and
Son, a steel importing company
in New York, and of the American
Saw Mill Machinery Manufactur¬
ing Co. of Hackettstown, N.J. He
was later the proprietor of the
Lazy II Ranch in Comstock, Texas.
Mr. Prosser was also active in
community affairs for Week-
apaug, R.I.

1923

Augustus Slater, retired securities
analyst, Los Angeles, Calif., on
March 4,1989.

1924

Edward M. Friend, Deerfield
Beach, Fla., on August 15,1989.
Theodore C. Garfiel, real estate
investor. New York, N.Y. on July

5,1989. Mr. Garfiel, a former pres¬
ident of the Alumni Association/
was one of the College's most
active alumni leaders. President
and secretary of his class, he was
the founder and first chairman of
the Society of Class Presidents, as
well as a founder and chairman of
the College Fund. He received the
Alumni Medal in 1958.

Charles Good, dermatologist.
Union City, N.J., on Mayl, 1984.
After receiving his M.D. from
Cornell in 1929, Dr. Good became
a consulting dermatologist to sev¬
eral corporations, including
Standard Oil, Union Carbide, and
Bethlehem Steel. An attending
dermatologist at several New York
and New Jersey hospitals, he also
maintained a private practice.
Hamill Kenny, professor,
Annapolis, Md., on March 9,

1989. Professor Kenny taught
English at a number of institu¬
tions, including the University of
Maryland, where he received his
Ph.D. in 1951. He also studied the
Indian languages and place
names of West Virginia and Mary¬
land, publishing many articles
and three books on those
subjects.

Theodore C. Garfiel '24

Donald Lewis, retired busi¬
nessman, Dallas, Texas, on July
29,1988. Mr. Lewis, a 1926 gradu¬
ate of the Law School, worked for
the family business of I. Lewis
Cigars until it was sold in 1956,
when he began a career in invest¬
ments. He was active in Dallas
civic and church organizations.

1926

Edmund L. Palmieri, judge. New
York, N.Y., on June 16,1989. Mr.
Palmieri was a Federal District
Court judge for New York's
Southern District for 35 years. His
most publicized case occurred in
1988 when he ruled that Congress
could not require the Palestine
Liberation Organization to close
its observer mission to the United
Nations. A1929 graduate of the
Law School and editor of the Law
Review, Mr. Palmieri was law sec¬
retary to future Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes and to
New York City Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia. As a major in the Allied
Commission for Italy during
World War II, he helped re-estab¬
lish that country's civil court sys¬
tem and the rights of Italian Jews.
For his work he was awarded the
Legion of Merit.

1927

Louis Hausman, broadcast execu¬
tive, Washington, D.C., on Janu¬
ary 18,1989. Mr. Hausman was a
vice president at CBS from 1940 to
1959 and at NBC from 1962 to 1965.
He also organized and directed
the Television Information Office
in New York City to serve as a link
between the television industry
and the public. As Assistant to the
U.S. Commissioner of Education
from 1966 to 1968, he was instru¬
mental in arranging support for
the Children's Television Work¬
shop. He later worked for the
National Endowment for the
Humanities, the National Council

on Aging, and other public
organizations.

1928

Benjamin F. Swalin, conductor,
Carrboro, N.C., on September 27,
1989. From 1940 to 1972, Mr.

Swalin conducted and directed
the North Carolina Symphony,
which he formed from the rem¬
nants of a W.P.A. band. It was the
first U.S. orchestra to be recog¬
nized as a state agency and was
placed under state patronage as
an educational institution in 1943.
A member of the Minneapolis
Symphony at the age of 18, Mr.
Swalin received his Ph.D. from
the University of Vienna and
taught at DePauw University and
the University of North Carolina.
He told his story in Hard-Circus
Road: The Odyssey of the North Car¬
olina Symphony.

1929

Arthur Hartley, retired physician,
Cranbury, N.J., on September 9,
1989. Dr. Hartley, who graduated
from Columbia P&S in 1933, spe¬
cialized in anaesthesiology.

Collin Meyers, retired lawyer,
Whiting, N.J., on July 5,1989. Mr.
Meyers graduated from Brooklyn
Law School in 1935 and received a
doctor of jurisprudence degree
from the school four years later.
He was a tax attorney for General
Time Inc. in New York City for 36
years.

1931

Henry P. Malmgreen, retired edi¬
tor, West Orange, N.J., on April

22,1989. A former staff writer for
Cue magazine, Mr. Malmgreen
joined Dell Publishing Co. in 1940
and retired in 1973, during which
time he was editor of Modern
Screen magazine for 15 years. He
was active in the civil rights and
peace movements, especially
with SANE, the New Jewish
Agenda and the NAACP.

1932

Edward B. Hall, retired sales¬
man, Yarmouth Port, Mass., on
January 29,1989. For 35 years Mr.
Hall was the New England mar¬
keting representative for Cities
Service Oil Co., retiring in 1976.
Well known in bridge circles in
Boston and Cape Cod, he was a
life master of the American Con¬
tract Bridge League and a member
of several bridge clubs.

Charles Tesar, retired research
chemist, Baltimore, Md., on May

27,1989. As laboratory director of
the Brady Urological Institute at
Johns Hopkins from 1947 until his
retirement, Dr. Tesar made major
contributions to the understand¬
ing of prostate cancer. After grad-

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sapequa, N.Y., on June 4,1989.

Mr. Hollander was a former presi¬
dent of H&K Auto Spring Corp.
and treasurer of Moreland Hose &
Belting Corp., both in Hemp¬
stead, N. Y. He was a lieutenant
colonel in the Civil Air Patrol for
many years.

Paul J. MacCutcheon, retired
business executive, Fullerton,
Calif., on July 9,1989. A1939 mas¬
ter's degree holder from Colum¬
bia Engineering, Mr. MacCutch¬
eon spent much of his career as a
an industrial engineer and man¬
ager with food companies,
including Hunt Foods and Nestle.
At his retirement, he was a plant
manager for All American Nut
Company. He was a leader in class
alumni and fund-raising activi¬
ties, and was active in churches,
school boards, libraries and serv¬
ice clubs in the communities
where he lived.

1937

Robert S. D. Roy, retired banker
and lawyer, Irvington, N.Y., on
July 18,1989. A graduate of Ford-
ham Law School, Mr. Roy was a
former president of Sunnyside
Federal Savings and Loan Asso¬
ciation of Irvington and was jus¬
tice of the peace in Greenburgh,
N.Y.

1938

Laurence A. Brewer, retired pur¬
chasing agent and stockbroker,
Zell wood, Fla., on October 1,

1988. A former Columbia pur¬
chasing agent who helped found
the Lion's Den cafe on campus,

Mr. Brewer was honored for his
service with Columbia's war
research division during World
War II; he also served in the U.S.
Naval Reserve as a supply officer.
He later worked in purchasing
and sales for various industrial
companies in Wisconsin and
Michigan and, after retirement,
became a stockbroker in Green-
port, N.Y. A member of the John
Jay Associates, he established
with his wife the Laurence and
Marion Brewer Scholarship Fund
in the College, for needy students
from the Chicago area.

1940

Chauncey Depew Steele, Jr.,

business executive, civic leader,
champion tennis player, Brook¬
line, Mass., on May 14,1988. One
of the finest tennis players ever to
attend Columbia, Mr. Steele even¬
tually won 34 national titles from
his junior days through the
seniors circuit. He served as a
naval officer during World War II
and was a hotel executive in
Cambridge, Mass, for many years
before entering the financial field.
Mr. Steele was a past president of

Cornel Wilde '33

uating from the College, he
became a research associate to Dr.
Albert Claude at the Rockefeller
Insitute and worked on the isola¬
tion of cellular components; the
research won Dr. Claude the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974.
Mr. Tesar returned to Columbia to
earn a master's degree in 1940 and
his Ph.D. in 1946. He conducted
research at P&S and the Univer¬
sity of Chicago before joining the
Brady Insitute. At the time of his
death. Dr. Tesar was associate pro¬
fessor emeritus of urology and
physiological chemistry at Johns
Hopkins.

1933

Cornel Wilde, actor, Los Angeles,
Calif., on October 16,1989. With
his dashing good looks and ath¬
letic prowess, Mr. Wilde was best
known as the swashbuckling star
of such films as A Thousand and
One Nights (1945), The Bandit of
Sherwood Forest (1946), Omar
Khayyam (1957) and The Fifth Mus¬
keteer (1979). But in his more than
50 movies he played a variety of
parts, including a headstrong tra¬
peze artist in The Greatest Show on
Earth (1952) and Frederic Chopin
in A Song To Remember (1945), a

role that brought him an Acad¬
emy Award nomination. The son
of a Manhattan perfume importer,
Mr. Wilde spent a year in the Col¬
lege and was later a member of the
1936 U.S. Olympic fencing team,
but he decided to pursue acting
instead, and his performance as
Tybalt in the 1940 Laurence
Oliver-Vivien Leigh production of
Romeo and Juliet on Broadway
landed him a Hollywood contract.
In 1955, he formed Theodora Pro¬
ductions and began producing,
directing, and starring in his own
movies, including The Naked Prey
(1966) and Beach Red (1967).

1935

Allen H. Toby, retired account¬
ant, White Plains, N.Y., on
August 8,1989. A partner for
many years in the New York firm
of Charles Hecht&Co., C.P.A.'s,
Mr. Toby was a leader in Class of
'35 alumni and fund- raising mat¬
ters, and served as class corre¬
spondent for Columbia College
Today.

1936

Jerome E. Hollander, retired
manufacturing executive, Mas-

the Cambridge Rotary club, the
Longwood Cricket Club, the
Massachusetts Hotel Association,
and the Cambridge chapters of
the YMCA and Salvation Army.
Richard Stockton, retired airline
pilot and teacher, Sebastian, Fla.,
on June 22,1988. A former pilot in
the Royal Canadian Air Force, Mr.
Stockton also worked as a com¬
mercial pilot for TWA before
becoming vice president and ten¬
nis director at the Tidewater Colo¬
nial Racquet Club in Virginia. Two
of his six children, Donna and
Richard, Jr., became tennis pro¬
fessionals, the latter ranking for a
time among the world's top ten
players.

1941

Robert E. Christie, clerk, photog¬
rapher, New York, N. Y., on
December 15,1987. A longtime
employee of the Columbia Uni¬
versity Bookstore, Mr. Christie
devoted himself also to photog¬
raphy, specializing in Columbia
people and subjects.

1942

Henry Mednick, physician,
Lynbrook, N.Y., on July 11,1988.

A1946 graduate of N.Y. U. medical
school. Dr. Mednick practiced
internal medicine in Lynbrook for
many years and served on the
staff of Meadowbrook Hospital.
He was also chief of the intensive
coronary care unit at Long
Island's South Nassau Communi¬
ties Hospital.

1943

Warren W. Schwed, public rela¬
tions consultant. Fort Pierce, Fla.,
on May 1,1989. After World War II
Army service, Mr. Schwed
worked as a journalist for U.P.I.
and Newsweek, and as an editor at
McGraw-Hill, before joining the
public relations firm of Carl Byoir
& Associates in New York. For
nine years, he was with Grey
Advertising, where he became
founding president of Grey Public
Relations. The first director of
communications for the U.S.
Catholic Conference, Mr. Schwed
was also a consultant to a number
of companies and organizations,
including Columbia University,
for whom he helped create Colum¬
bia Today, the short-lived prede¬
cessor of Columbia Magazine.

1944

Daniel R. Kifner, retired military
officer and business executive,
Kunkletown, Pa., on August 15,
1989. Following a 20-year U.S.
Army career from which he
retired as lieutenant colonel, Mr.
Kifner became a divisional man¬
ager for International Chemical
Corp. He was later director of

safety and security for Restaurant
Associates in New York.

1945

Joseph M. Duffy, Jr., English pro¬
fessor, South Bend, Ind., on April

30,1988. Mr. Duffy earned his
Ph. D. at the University of Chicago
in 1954 and taught for 34 years at
the University of Notre Dame,
where he was considered to be
among the school's most chal¬
lenging and popular teachers.
Deeply influenced by Lionel Trill¬
ing at Columbia, Professor Duffy
became a specialist in 19th and
20th-century fiction, especially
Austen and Dickens. He fre¬
quently wrote on politics, moral¬
ity and the imagination, and was
an outspoken opponent of Ameri¬
can military involvement in
Southeast Asia in the 1960's and
70's.

Ernest A. Heizog, civil engineer.
North Scituate, Mass., on August
3,1989. Mr. Herzog was chairman
of Herzog-Hart Corp., the Boston
engineering firm he co-founded
in 1973 to specialize in the design
and construction of research and
production facilities for the phar¬
maceutical and process indus¬
tries. Earlier, as president of
Alonzo B. Reed, Inc., he special¬
ized in transportation design; Mr.
Herzog helped create the mono-
rail system for the 1962 Seattle
World's Fair, the prototype for
similar systems at Walt Disney
World and elsewhere. He was a
past president of the Boston Soci¬
ety of Civil Engineers and a well-
known lecturer and writer in his
field.

1946

George Moller, physician. Lock
Haven, Pa., on May 3,1989. A
graduate of Long Island College
of Medicine, Dr. Moller served in
the Army Medical Corps in Texas
for two years. He was chief radi¬
ologist at Lock Haven Hospital.

1947

Richard A. Freund, industrial
engineer, Rochester, N.Y., on July

23,1989. Mr. Freund served in the
Army Air Corps during World
War II and received his M.S. from
the Engineering School in 1949.

He was a quality control engineer
with Eastman Kodak in Rochester
for 34 years; a process control
technique he invented called
Acceptance Control Charts is now
used worldwide. A fellow of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the
winner of many awards in his
field, Mr. Freund served as presi¬
dent and board chairman of the
American Society for Quality
Control and was active in other
professional societies. In 1988 he

was one of nine judges for the
Malcolm Baldridge National
Quality Award established by
Congress and presented by the
President. Mr. Freund left Kodak
in 1983 to found a consulting firm,
and joined the Rochester Institute
of Technology as associate direc¬
tor of its Center for Quality and
Applied Statistics, which he
helped to establish.

1948

Albert Abdoo, insurance claims
manager. River Edge, N.J., on July

11,1989. A decorated Army vet¬
eran of World War II and a gradu¬
ate of Brooklyn Law School, Mr.
Abdoo was with Allstate Insur¬
ance for many years.

William H. Grumet, Fullerton,
Calif., on January 18,1989.

1953

Bruce Bahrenburg, writer and
movie publicist, Keyport, N.J., on
March 4,1989. Mr. Bahrenburg
earned two Pulitzer Prize nomina¬
tions with the Newark (N.J.) Eve¬
ning News, where he was a feature
writer, state house correspon¬
dent, film critic and editor of the
Sunday magazine for over 15
years. In 1972 he became a pub¬
licist for commercial feature films,
including The Paper Chase, the
remake of King Kong, The Rose, An
Unmarried Woman and Urban Cow¬
boy. The holder of an M. A. in his¬
tory from Columbia, he wrote six
books, including a history of the
Pacific and a work which became
the TV movie Grambling's White
Tiger.

1955

Walter Karp, writer. New York,
N.Y., on July 19,1989. Mr. Karp
was the author of eight books,
including Indispensable Enemies:
The Politics of Misrule in America
(1973), The Politics of War (1979) and
Liberty Under Siege: American Pol¬
itics, 1976-1988 (1988). A defender
of individual rights and limited
government, he wrote for Pageant,
Horizon and American Heritage
magazines, and was a longtime
contributor to Harper's; he was an
active member of the PEN Ameri¬
can Center's Freedom to Write
Committee.

1956

Michael P. Rosenthal, law profes¬
sor, Austin, Texas, on March 14,
1989. Mr. Rosenthal, a 1959 gradu¬
ate of Columbia Law School, was
Thomas S. Maxey Professor at the
University of Texas-Austin School
of Law, where he founded law
clinics for juveniles and the aged,
and co-founded the Criminal Jus¬
tice Project. A specialist in crimi¬
nal law and drug policy, he wrote

John R. Sturman '73

several landmark articles and
helped to draft the Texas Con¬
trolled Substances Act of 1973. He
was a consultant to President Lyn¬
don Johnson's Commission on
Law Enforcement and Adminis¬
tration of Justice and to the
National Commission on Reform
of Federal Criminal Law. Before
coming to Texas in 1967, he taught
at Rutgers University and prac¬
ticed privately with the New York
firm of Kaye, Scholer; he also
clerked for Judge Harold Medina
of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit.

1959

Bruce Bailey, tenant leader, New
York, N. Y., a homicide victim, on
June 14,1989. Mr. Bailey helped to
organize protests against Colum¬
bia University's eviction of thou¬
sands of single-room-occupancy
tenants in the late 1950's and
1960's. He joined the Columbia
Tenants Union soon after its
founding in 1970, eventually lead¬
ing the group and working with
tenants in Harlem and Washing¬
ton Heights. A controversial activ¬
ist whose foes included drug
dealers as well as landlords and
liberal politicians, Mr. Bailey was
last seen by his wife as he was
leaving for a tenants' meeting; his
dismembered body was found in
the Bronx the next day. No arrests
have been made.

1961

Russell Somers, business execu¬
tive, South Orange, N.J., on
March 17,1989. Mr. Somers
earned an MBA from Rutgers and
worked in marketing and sales at
IBM, retiring after 25 years to
become an executive with Clarke
Checks. Active in civic groups
and his church, he also served as
chairman of the Parking Author¬
ity of South Orange.

1966

James F. Heinz, businessman,
Johnson City, N.Y., in an automo¬

bile accident on October 28,1988.
Mr. Heinz was a manufactured
housing broker with The Clearing
House in Johnson City.

1973

Mark Grossinger Etess, hotel
president, Margate City, N.J., on
October 10,1989. Mr. Etess began
his career in his grandmother's
resort, Grossinger's Hotel in the
Catskills; in 1986 he joined the
organization of the developer
Donald Trump, becoming presi¬
dent and chief operating officer
for the Trump Taj Mahal hotel,
casino and entertainment com¬
plex in Atlantic City, N.J., sched¬
uled to open in April. Mr. Etess
was one of three Trump execu¬
tives who died in a helicopter
crash on the Garden State Park¬
way. The boxing arena at the Taj
Mahal will be named for him.
John R. Sturman, writer and edi¬
tor, New York, N. Y., on May 7,
1989. Mr. Sturman was a regular
contributor to Art News.

1984

Brady J. Hester, tax examiner,
Austin, Texas, on May 17,1989.
Mr. Hester worked for the Inter¬
nal Revenue Service.

1987

Catherine Choi, Ardsley, N.Y.,
on July 20,1989.

1989

Irene Pan, Newton, Mass., on
September 24,1989. Ms. Pan was a
member of Phi Beta Kappa and
graduated magna cum laude.

1990

Adrienne G. Jones, student,
Albuquerque, N.M., on August

29,1989. Ms. Jones, a philosophy
and economics major, was a mem¬
ber of the Columbia swimming
team and Delta Gamma sorority.
She died after being struck by a
van on Broadway and 115th Street.

1992

Jay Jardine, student. Mine Hill,
N.J., on July 11,1989. Mr. Jardine,
a wrestler and a member of Beta
Theta Phi fraternity, was killed in
an auto accident in Denville, N.J.
Nina Saks, student. New York,
N.Y., on August 4,1989. Ms. Saks
was killed in an auto accident in
Nebraska.

Obituaries Editor:
Thomas J. Vinciguerra '85

Columbia College Today

Class

Notes

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Today

100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

Admirers of Howard Dietz T7,
the late songwriter, hosted a gala
tribute on October 31 at the Hotel
Pierre in Manhattan. Kitty Car¬
lisle Hart led the toasts to Dietz's
artistry—his credits as a lyricist
include "Dancing in the Dark"
and "You and the Night and the
Music." Prominent among the
event's organizers was Page Mor¬
ton Black, whose husband was
the late Chock Full O'Nuts chair¬
man, William Black '20, a leading
benefactor of the University.

Armand Hammer '19, the noted
business executive, diplomat and
philanthropist, was pardoned by
President Bush in August for hav¬
ing made illegal contributions to
President Nixon's 1972 re-election
campaign. Dr. Hammer, chair¬
man and chief executive officer of
Occidental Petroleum in Los
Angeles, had twice pleaded guilty
to misdemeanor charges in con¬
nection with a secret $54,000 con¬
tribution. He was fined and
sentenced to probation in 1976.
World renowned as a leader in
humanitarian and educational
causes—especially the fight to
cure cancer—Dr. Hammer has
also advised several presidents on
U.S.-Soviet relations. He received
the College's John Jay Award in
1981.

"I deeply appreciate President
Bush's action in clearing my
name," Dr. Hammer said. "Hav¬
ing spent my lifetime fighting
injustice, this vindication rein¬
forces my abiding faith in the
American system of justice."

Leon F. Hoffman

67-25 Clyde Street
Forest Hills, N.Y. 11375

The editor's note in this space in
the last issue of CCT stated that
this would be my inaugural col¬
umn. This aroused my curiosity
(one of the benefits of a Columbia
College education) about the
meaning of the word "inaugural,"
which customarily is reserved for
ceremonies honoring individuals
who are attaining high office of
one kind or another. I looked it up
in my Johnson O'Connor's English

Vocabulary Builder and found that
it comes from the Latin "inaugu-
rare," which means "to practice
fortune telling (augury)." If that
means the editors expect me to try
my hand at fortune telling, I have
some doubts about my ability to
perform such arduous duties as
satisfactorily as befits a man
accorded such high distinction by
Columbia University. As a matter
of fact, the only plausible predic¬
tion that I can think of for the
members of my illustrious group
is that they will live to a ripe old
age (based on the fact that most of
them have already done so).

Now with regard to the activi¬
ties of us "old fogies," I regret that
I have not received any informa¬
tion from them regarding same.
Therefore, I have no alternative
but to burden you with a brief
account of my own recent activi¬
ties. Some short time ago I was
released from my job with one of
the largest manufacturers of win¬
dow curtains and bedspreads as a
result of a takeover by a finance
company. I am now involved in
the writing of three books. One is
an autobiography, which features
my adventures as an expendable
combat soldier in the Israeli army
in Jerusalem, my dangerous
duties in the Haganah spying on
my Arab friends in the Arab
neighborhood in which I lived.

and my j ourney to the U. S. with a
lunatic brother-in-law who tried
to murder me en route.

The second book is a series of
letters between my sister, a Smith
College graduate who joined a
bolshevik kibbutz in Palestine,
and our father, Charles J. Hoffman,
a prominent rabbi who had pre¬
viously been a leading Philadel¬
phia lawyer. He tried all of his not-
inconsiderable powers of persua¬
sion to stop her from abandoning
her Jewish religious upbringing
for the immorality of an idealistic
bolshevistic way of life. In her
replies she scorned us poor
Americans who didn't know how
to enjoy "the great things of life."

The third book is being written
by a prominent rabbi of the new
generation on the extraordinary
life of my father, who was the
guiding spirit in organizing the
Jewish Conservative movement in
America. It seems that I am the
only person still alive who knew
him intimately, and I have agreed
to help the author in writing the
book. So it looks as though I shall
have enough work to keep me
busy for some time to come.

Inspired by the "very special beauty" of the 17th-century French chateau in
Amiens where he was billeted during World War I, J. Mayhew Wainwright
(Class of 1884) wrote to his wife, "If I come through this attack and get back to
RyelN.Y.], I would like to build a house on the property that was my father's ...
not as a replica, but at least suggested by this lovely chateau ." Lt. Col. Wain¬
wright made it back to Rye and, in 1929, built a 32-room French Provincial
mansion on five acres overlooking the Long Island Sound. He died in 1945 after a
long political career during which he served as a New York State legislator,
Assistant Secretary of War under President Harding, and a four-term U.S.
Congressman. In 1951, his daughter, Fonrose, donated the mansion to the
Laymen's Movement for the Development of Human Resources, a non-sectarian
organization that conducts seminars and programs in such fields as health,
psychology, business leadership, and global issues. Outside groups may also use
Wainwright House's facilities, which include a dining room and overnight
accommodations, for their own conferences and meetings.

Michael G. Mulinos

42 Marian Terrace
Easton, Md. 21601

Columbia College
Today

100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

Henry Miller

1052 N. Jamestown
Road, Apt. F
Decatur, Ga. 30033

Joseph W. Spiselman

873 East 26th Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210

By now you will have received the
detailed report by Ben Edelman
and myself as co-chairmen of our
most successful 65th reunion on
campus at the Faculty House.

This report is to get it recorded
in CCT for others to note, and
hopefully to encourage succeed¬
ing classes to try a 65th reunion.

Although originally planned as
a luncheon only, enough of our
group enthusiastically opted for a
continuation dinner at the club.
Just before the luncheon started,
more classmates, with wives,
friends and guests, were coming
at the last minute than were antic¬
ipated the day before. Another
beautiful table to match those
already set was produced. Assur¬
ances from the club chef that the
kitchen could take care of the
extras in ample fashion smoothed
the final arrangements, and led to
a well-run, enjoyable and great
get-together.

Separate tables in the adjoining
lounge were thickly covered with
memorabilia and pictures of our
college and after years.

Eighteen classmates were
there: Sid (A.) Bernstein, Ben
Edelman, Abner Feinberg, Joe
Goldman, Milton Handler, Ed
Helwig, George Jaffin, Sid Jar-
cho, Doug Judd, Chauncey Levy,
Henry Miller, Joe Paradise,
Harold Scharf, Erwin Schwarz,

A1 Sparrow, Joe Spiselman,

Lester Tuchman and Vic White-
horn. In all, including their wives,
friends and guests, 40 were seated
at five tables at the luncheon. Not
only did six classmates come from
as far afield as California, Ari¬
zona, Georgia and Maryland, but
five others came from Connecti¬
cut and Westchester.

The dinner, with its smaller
attendance, took on the flavor of
an intimate family group; and
when over, the partings were very
reluctant.

In the mailed report, the names
of Frances Mayer (widow of A1
Mayer) and Albert Sparrow III
(son of Albert Sparrow, Jr.) were

Hogan Schapiro ]affin

The Class of '24 calls the roll

inadvertently omitted. We
apologize.

Our fund committee (Jaffin and
Handler) did a yeoman's job, rais¬
ing (at this writing) over $500,000
in the name of 1924 for the Colum¬
bia College Fund. And there
probably will be more to come. In
addition, we are very enthusiastic
about the "Class of 1924 Progeny
Fund Project." We urge all who
received the questionnaires on
the project to send them in. If the
project is successful, it will carve a
landmark path for other classes to
follow.

In addition to the "thank-you's"
in our mailing, I personally wish
to thank our president Ben
Edelman for the consummate
work he did in compiling and
evaluating the records of some
forty classmates who achieved
social worthiness in our after¬
graduation years.

Since all classes are now limited
in space in the class notes (proba¬
bly because this section is so pop¬
ular, it's filled up tremendously
since it began) only a few notes
are possible this time on some
other classmates.

Heard from Ben Erger in Sun
City, Ariz. He was 90 in October,
gets around well, but is plagued
with eye trouble.

Charlie Crawford has heart
trouble. He could not come to the
phone when I called. According
to his nurse he understands, but
has trouble responding easily to
conversation.

Saw that Paul Shaw was inter¬
viewed (with handsome picture)
in the September issue of the pub¬
lication of the National Commit¬
tee to Preserve Social Security and
Medicare. The article says, "He
thinks that the catastrophic surtax
is one of the most unfair laws—by
Congress—he should know after
almost 60 years of political
involvement." He is happily mar¬
ried to Eleanor for 62 years, has
one daughter, four grandchildren
and three great-grandchildren.

Spoke to Cornelius "Nick"
Saperstein in New Jersey. Both he
and his wife Anne had bad bouts
health wise while in Florida; he
with knee surgery, she with her
heart. Happily, both are now
fairly well and in good spirits.

Julius P. Witmark

215 East 79th Street, 9B
New York, N.Y. 10021

Every so often we have asked you
to tell us about yourself and your
family. After all these years we'd
all be interested.

A short while ago, we received
a clipping from classmate Frank
Joseph '27L. Here are some
highlights:

Frank and Martha Joseph were
married 50 years ago. They were

[Editor's note: In honor of the 65th
Reunion, Class of'24 President Ben
Edelman compiled an annotated
directory of class notables. Follow¬
ing is an excerpt, with an invitation
to classmates and others to submit
additional names or amendments to
Class Correspondent Joseph W.
Spiselman.]

S ix hundred entered the
freshman class in 1920; more
than 20 percent are still with us,
still adding to their good deeds.
From this number I have
selected a few biographies to
highlight, giving some notion of
the quality and range of achieve¬
ment in our class. The List of
Notables includes not only our
survivors, but those we remem¬
ber with deep appreciation of
their worth.

James L. Anderson: Scholar of
the classics; Kings County, N.Y.
Sheriff.

Marshall Baldwin: Historian,
author, NYU professor.

Sidney A. Bernstein: A lead¬
ing orthopedist.

Theodore M. Bernstein:
Renowned New York Times editor
and journalism educator.

Victor H. Bernstein: Author
and foreign correspondent,
noted for coverage of Germany
and Austria in the 30's and 40's.

Alvah C. Bessie: Screen¬
writer, member of the "Holly¬
wood Ten" blacklist.

Francis T. Bitter: MIT phys¬
icist, National Magnetics Labo¬
ratory head.

Gerald B. Brophy: Noted law¬
yer and aviation executive.

John T. Cahill: Prominent
attorney both in government
and private practice.

Whittaker Chambers: Author
and Time magazine editor; for¬
mer Communist became key
witness in Congressional
espionage probe; Presidential
Medal of Freedom winner.

Thomas W. Chrystie:
Esteemed lawyer and Univer¬
sity Trustee; the field house was
named in his honor.

William E. Collin: Retail mer¬

chandiser and toy industry
consultant.

David Cort: Distinguished
journalist and iconoclast, for¬
eign editor of Life magazine.

David M. Cory: Devoted
Brooklyn church pastor for 62
years.

Marcy H. Cowan: Public
school educator and attorney.

J. Ward Cunningham: Insur¬
ance executive, bon vivant, fish
catcher and tagger for U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service.

Max Delson: Lawyer, labor
and civil rights advocate, politi¬
cal organizer.

Wolcott B. Dunham: Physi¬
cian, medical researcher with
Linus Pauling Institute,
humanitarian.

Carlos J. Echavarria: Promi¬
nent textile manufacturer in
Medellin, Colombia; active in
national politics.

Beril (Ben) Edelman: Indus¬
trial engineer, utility company
executive, education propo¬
nent, and class officer for 45
years.

Henry I. Fineberg: Dedicated
physican, serving his profession
and the public.

Thomas W. Fluhr: Noted
geologist and consultant to New
York City on water supply
planning.

Albert W. Fribourg: Attorney
and legal columnist.

Joseph H. Fries: Leading
pediatric allergist and a promi¬
nent figure in his specialty;
president of the American
Magicians.

John W. Gassner: Theater his¬
torian, editor and critic, former
head of the Theatre Guild play
department.

Joseph L. Goldman: Distin¬
guished otolaryngologist and
professor with Mount Sinai
Hospital.

Milton Handler: Taught at
Columbia Law for 45 years;
authority on antitrust law; advo¬
cate of consumer and employee
rights and fair competition; gov¬
ernment counsel and commis¬
sion member; founding partner

of prestigious international law
firm; Jewish community leader
and philanthropist.

Edward R. Hardy: Clergy¬
man, religious scholar, rector of
Jesus College, Cambridge
University.

Frank S. Hogan: Nationally
respected Manhattan D. A. for
32 years. College and University
alumni leader, Columbia
trustee.

George M. Jaffin: Brilliant
lawyer and founding partner of
law firm, dedicated proponent
of public interest law, and phi¬
lanthropist to many sectors.

Walter V. Irving: Bingham¬
ton, N.Y. community leader.

Chauncey (Chip) Levy: Attor¬
ney, "Dean of the Bankruptcy
Bar."

George F. Maedel: Electrical
engineer, former head of RCA
Institutes, New York Institute of
Technology professor.

Edwin B. Matzke: Professor
of Botany, former head of
Columbia's department of bio¬
logical sciences.

Benjamin Miller: Chemical
engineer and consultant, com¬
mitted to education.

Henry S. Miller: Emeritus
professor of economics at
Oglethorpe University, College
alumni leader in Atlanta.

Seymour J. Phillips: Chair¬
man of Phillips-Van Heusen
Corporation, Jewish commu¬
nity leader, philanthropist.

Adolf (Al) Robison: Suc¬
cessful businessman, philan¬
thropist, patriot, composer,
playwright, musician, Arctic
traveler, and past class
president.

Max H. Savelle: Honored his¬
tory professor at several univer¬
sities, including Columbia;
author.

Meyer Schapiro: World
renowned art historian. Univer¬
sity Professor Emeritus.

Paul R. Shaw: Lawyer and
civil court judge; alumni leader.

Herbert S. Solow: Prolific
journalist, editor at both Fortune
and Time magazines.

Joseph W. Spiselman: Chem¬
ical engineer, research consul¬
tant, New York City water
department official, class leader.

Roy E. Stryker: Farm Security
Administration historian who
helped produce important
photo-documentaries of the
Depression.

Morris W. Watkins: Alumni

leader, co-composer of Roar Lion
Roar.

Otto V. Whitelock: Author,
poet, and noted editor for Funk
and Wagnalls, Encyclopedia
Americana.

Ben Edelman '24

Columbia College Today

second cousins, so Martha has
been Martha Joseph all her life.
They had their first date when she
was only 16. Of course, Frank's
good sense of humor came to the
fore, so he sent Martha a rattle,
she being so young. When her
father saw it he said, "If this was a
corsage, you could wear it," upon
which Martha tied it on her wrist.
Martha had a good sense of
humor, too. Guess that's what's
kept them together these many
years.

Quoting Frank, "The Joseph
men traditionally go to Columbia
and the women go to Smith."
Though Frank, Jr. went to Yale
and granddaughter Robyn wants
to go to Columbia, Frank, Jr.
redeemed himself by going to
Columbia Law School. It's inter¬
esting to note that Frank, his
father Emil (who also graduated
from the College and the Law
School) and Frank, Jr. had bach¬
elor quarters in a house on West
115th Street.

The Josephs are descended
from German immigrants who
came to Cleveland in the mid-19th
century. While others were ped¬
dling notions out of a backpack,
Frank's great-grandfather hired a
boat in New York, filled it with
notions, sent it to Cleveland via
South America and made enough
capital to start the Joseph and
Feiss Co., still located in
Cleveland but no longer owned
by the family.

Emil Joseph (Class of 1879),
Frank's father, was a leading cor¬
porate attorney in the city and
president of the Cleveland Public
Library. He also served as presi¬
dent of Bellefaire, a post which
both Frank and his son Bill, an
attorney with Arter & Hadden,
have taken. Bellefaire is an organi¬
zation which aids disturbed
children.

Naturally talented or musical
by marriage, the Josephs' lives
have been bound up with the
Cleveland Orchestra and the
Cleveland Institute of Music.
Frank had heard about George
Szell's reputation as a tyrant, but
the maestro soon found out that
Frank was also a tough customer.
"He was my best friend," said
Frank, "and I'm sure I was his. He
was in no sense a tyrant. He was a
perfectionist. He was a very warm
person, very knowledgeable in
everything, whether it was music,
golf, wine or cooking. The
Cleveland Orchestra was his only
objective in life. He did many
things for orchestra people that
no one knew anything about."

The preceding is a good exam¬
ple of what I've been asking for.
Come on, guys, give me a break.

Just a reminder: we're having
our 65th (believe it or not) reunion

on June 2. You'll hear more about
it later from Julie Witmark, chair¬
man of the reunion.

It is most unusual for us to
include the obituary of a class¬
mate's widow in this column, but
Gertrude T. Friedberg, who died
in September, was a most unusual
person. She was the widow of
Charles K. Friedberg, and had to
her own credit two Broadway
plays, numerous short stories,
and a science fiction novel pub¬
lished. She had also been a
teacher at Stuyvesant High
School. And last but not least,
Gertrude was a fine human being
and a lovely lady.

Robert W. Rowen

1510 W. ArianaSt.,

Box 60

Lakeland, Fla. 33803
Hugh Kelly and Kay report that
three grandchildren were married
in 1989. If our class notes are up to
date, two were married in 1988 so
we will report on the thirteen yet
to be married.

Arnold Dumey said that he and
Dorothy are having bouts with
arthritis. When Ed Palmieri died
in June, Arnold wrote that they
had been classmates at Boys' High
in Brooklyn, and at both the Col¬
lege and Law School ('29).

Ray Wagner is in St. Peters¬
burg. Said he is taking it easy and
still drives his car. I reminded Ray
that he is the only living member
of the team that beat Army 21-7 in
1925. He had not seen TV on Octo¬
ber 7 when we lost to Penn by a
last-minute touchdown.

Otie Rawalt was manager of
football in 1925 and we think that
Columbia is showing promise
under the new coach. Otie got
back to New York on October 20
after summering at Queechee
Lake.

Rod Wiley's donation to the
class of a charcoal print of a reclin¬
ing lion was reported in the last
issue. The framed print was pre¬
sented to Phyllis Katz, class notes
editor of CCT, and now occupies a
prominent place in the alumni
office, 100 Hamilton Hall.

Gus Von Groschwitz is the
most active member of the class.
Thanks, Gus. He and his wife
Frances were honored last year as
"Best Fund Raising Team." This
year Gus and Frances, hopefully
with the help of Otie Rawalt, Ezra
Wolff and others, will talk to
everyone in the class for the Fund,
and will make notes for a really
good class notes column.

Bob Rowen, your class secre¬
tary, is desperately in need of
news for class notes. Send me a
note: what you are doing and
where you are, even if it is a nurs¬
ing home; whom you have seen or
heard from; what meeting you

attended and who was there. Any
word from widows of classmates?
Even hearing from you will let me
know that you are alive and read
the class notes. I'll feel that my
effort to keep '26 up to date is
appreciated. I want to see your
name in the class notes, not in the
obituaries.

Greetings, keep well! If you
come down to Disney World,
phone me: (813) 687-2823.

William Heifer

27 West 55th Street
New York, N.Y. 10019
Classmates who receive the
Columbia University Record will
have observed, from reading the
issue of September 16,1988, that
Columbia's McMillin Academic
Theater, since 1924 and still
located on campus, enjoyed a $3
million renovation to provide
state-of-the-art lighting and
sound systems, increased seating
capacity (to 700) and an orchestra
pit. This transformation from an
academic theater into one of New
York's premier performance
spaces was made possible by a $1
million gift from the Kathryn and
Gilbert Miller Fund, of which our
classmate Charles Looker is presi¬
dent and CEO, along with gifts of
$450,000 from Columbia trustee
John Goelet and $250,000 from
the Vincent Astor Foundation.

The theater, located in Dodge
Hall, was renamed the Kathryn
Bache Miller Theater in honor of
the well-known philanthropist
who died in 1979. Her husband
Gilbert Miller, the celebrated pro¬
ducer, died in 1969. Peter Smith,
Dean of Columbia's School of the
Arts, is the theater's artistic direc¬
tor, the first in its history.

In his dedicatory remarks. Pres¬
ident Sovern said: "This elegant
new theater represents the
achievement of a long-sought
goal of Columbia, where creativ¬
ity has always flourished. Colum¬
bians have contributed much to
the cultural life of New York City
and the nation; at last we have a
setting worthy of their talents."
Dean Smith said, "It is the Univer¬
sity's and my firm intention to
establish this hall not only as a
jewel in Columbia's crown, but
also as a valuable addition to the
cultural inventory of New York
City."

A number of functions have
taken place since the last issue of
CCT was distributed. Illness or
distance from the locus of some
such occurrences prevented my
presence. Also, since the last CCT,
the Columbia Alumni Federation
has distributed a listing of local
Columbia clubs throughout the
U.S. Ifanyofyou have attended
any Columbia events or visited

any of the clubs and would care to
share news of these adventures, I
would be happy to report on
these items in this column.

In this connection, I sometimes
hear from classmates complain¬
ing that they don't hear more
Columbia news. I have found the
Columbia Record, a very good tool
to that end. It is published
weekly—not in July or August,
but about 40 issues during the
other months. Inquiries regard¬
ing subscriptions can be sent to
the Record at 304 Low Library,
Columbia University, New York,
N.Y. 10027.

Jerome Brody

39-48 47th Street
Long Island City, N.Y.
11104

Just like the College, we wound
up our year with an annual get-
together. Ours was at the prize¬
winning home of Dr. Fred Lane,
who again was the host of our
June meeting. Needless to say, it
was a very happy occasion, and
all regretted that more classmates
did not avail themselves of this
opportunity to meet again.

Perhaps next year.

Joseph W. Burns

127 Oxford Road
New Rochelle, N.Y.
10804

The Class celebrated its 60th anni¬
versary with a reunion on June
23-25 at the Rye Town Hilton, Rye
Brook, N.Y. Our surviving class
officers, vice presidents Joseph
W. Burns and Edward R. Aranow,
served as general co-chairmen of
the reunion. The co-chairmen of
the 60th anniversary gift commit¬
tee were Horace E. Davenport
and Samuel R. Walker. The other
members of the reunion commit¬
tee were: Reuben Abel, Stanley
Boriss, P. LeRoy Griffith, Richard
F. Hansen, E. Arthur Hill, Ken¬
dall G. Kimberland, Beryl H.
Levy, Arthur E. Lynch, George
McKinley, Alan F. Perl, Joseph L.
Rhodie, Irving R. Sarot, Louis R.
Slattery and Alexander P. Waugh.

Our weekend at Rye Town was
a huge success. This Hilton is
more like a country club with
hotel facilities. The rooms are in a
four-story building, with inner
rooms facing a large park with
paths, trees, flowers, and a very
large swimming pool. Those who
did not swim or lounge poolside
enjoyed strolling the paths. Join¬
ing us were Marion and Reuben
Abel, Nathan Ancell, Rita and Ed
Aranow, Arthur Arsham, Ginny
and Milton Axenfield, Maria and
Biagio Battaglia, Stanley Boriss,
Marion and Joe Burns, Horace
Davenport, Ruth and Lou Fri-

bourg, Ruth and Bill Gerdes, Dot
and Roy Griffith, Kay and Dick
Hansen, Genie and Art Hill,
Louise and Ken Kimberland,
Susie and Alan Perl, Kirsten and
Joe Rhodie, Hortense and Irv
Sarot, Miriam and Ira Wallach,
Jackie and Sam Walker, and Jean
and Alex Waugh.

Festivities began Friday eve¬
ning with a welcoming cocktail
reception in the Gazebo, a hand¬
some main floor lounge set aside
for our private use. With its view
of a beautiful indoor swimming
pool, it was a very attractive set¬
ting to greet friends and renew
acquaintances. After Friday din¬
ner, Art Hill gave a most interest¬
ing talk about the great changes
which have taken place since our
undergraduate days.

On Saturday we were treated to
a post-breakfast talk by Allen
Lynch entitled "Quest for Peace."
Ira Wallach, one of the founders
of the Institute for East-West
Security Studies, provided this
interesting speaker. The
luncheon talk was given by James
T. McMenamin, Dean of College
Relations, who gave an interest¬
ing and complete report on the
state of the College today, includ¬
ing answers to our questions.

Saturday night we had our gala
banquet. Since we were favored
with clear sunny weather, we had
cocktails on a private, open-air
terrace adjoining our banquet
room. This provided an opportu¬
nity for a half dozen cameras to
shoot pictures of everybody. After
dinner, Sam Walker gave a tribute
to the memory of Chuck Rousse-
lot, who died December 26,1987.
Chuck was class president for 58
years. Then Davvy gave the gift
committee report. The principal
goal of the 60th anniversary gift
was to create a "Class of 1929 Crew
Center at Baker Field." To start
this off, Davvy contributed
$250,000 in cash and pledges.
Walter Gutmann matched this
with another $250,000 gift in cash
and pledges. Recognizing that
some classmates might not wish
to make a major contribution for
crew, the gift committee divided
the 60th anniversary gift into two
funds: the crew fund and the gen¬
eral fund. Each of these is admin¬
istered by a separate committee.

The final item on our banquet
agenda was a songfest which
included "oldies" and Columbia
songs. The alumni office pro¬
vided song sheets, and Joe Burns
played the piano.

Sunday was another beautiful,
sunny day. We started with a lei¬
surely breakfast in the private
room of the Tulip Tree restaurant.
After that, some went to the Class
Room to look at memorabilia
while others sat around the pool.

walked in the park, or packed
their luggage for departure. At
noon we had another cocktail
party on the terrace, followed by
an "afterglow" luncheon. Every¬
one expressed appreciation and
admiration of the entire reunion
program and the excellent service
by the Hilton staff. The reunion
ended with the singing of good
old, familiar "Sans Souci."

Harrison H. Johnson

50 Duke Drive
Paramus, N.J. 07652

Our class did very well in the 37th
College Fund with 45 percent of
our classmates contributing. That
was up from 39 percent in the 34th
Fund and 38 percent last year.
More classmates now appreciate
what Columbia contributed to
their lives. Let's hope more will
join the ranks in the future.

The 60th reunion of our class
will be on the weekend of June 1-3
on campus, so mark it down on
your 1990 calendar and make your
plans to be on Morningside
Heights with your wife or girl
friend. The committee is already
at work to make it a great gather¬
ing and lots of fun. You will be
getting letters providing details.

Jacob J. Lichterman, M.D. tells
us that he is retired and lives in
Roslyn Harbor, N.Y.

William Young Pryor writes
from Essex Fells, N.J. that he still
travels all over the world but pre¬
fers to winter in Florida. Last year
he visited Iceland on his way to
Europe. He is excited with his first
grandchildren—twins!

Edward J. Allen lives in Jersey
City, N.J. Should be easy for him
to cross the Hudson for the 60th
reunion.

Hyman Ashman, M.D. is
retired but still lives in New York
City.

Edward G. Baker is also retired
and lives in Morehead City, N.C.

Also retired is Shaler Bancroft,
inTryon, N.C.

Schroeder Boulton also lives in
the Big Apple. Should have no
problem making the 60th.

Ward Brower, Jr. lives in
Eldred, N.Y.

James W. Bryson, Jr. is retired
in Rome, Ga.

Seymour L. Bloom lives in
Pittsburgh.

Dominic E. Campanella lives
in nearby Scarsdale, N.Y. Should
be easy for him to see us at the
60th reunion.

So should it be for Manuel Can¬
tor, who retired from teaching
and lives in Hillside, N.J.

Max Chamlin, M.D. is retired
and resides in New Rochelle, N.Y.
Also an easy drive for the
reunion.

T.J. Reilly

Box 766

Ridgewood, N.J. 07451
Couple of notes from Stan Brams.
Seems he had a typewriter which
could not make capital letters or
spell and screwed things up. Tried
for Homecoming last year but
found himself here 2-3 weeks
early—with the machine. Then,
on Homecoming, he and Jean
were in Spain (no fault of Jean's).
Fortunately, George Gregory was
available to advise by phone good
news anent the Princeton game.
(George was not interested in the
typewriter.) Then Stan's next
note, on a borrowed machine no
doubt, announced his appoint¬
ment as chairman of the board of
trustees of the National Auto¬
motive History Collection of the
Detroit Public Library but it
would not give a toot. So here is a
big toot for you, Stan. We are
proud of you.

Note from Judge Charley
Marro of Vermont (had no type¬
writer?) announcing his retire¬
ment as dean of allU. S.
bankruptcy judges on August 1,
1989. Still practices some law and
has a son in Montclair, N.J. Brags
about not being an octogenarian
(goes to church anyway?) For¬
warded copy of letter from Ernie
Preate of Scranton, Pa. (Ernie had
a typewriter). Still practicing law
and brags of Ernie Jr., now attor¬
ney general of Pennsylvania, after
three terms as district attorney of
Lackawanna County. Good boy,

Jr.—saw him on TV giving hot
foot to drug pushers.

Note from John Kilgore (no
typewriter either) protesting ele¬
vation of brother Joe Kilgore to
eminence of "The Dancing Joe
Kilgores" in last issue. Seems Joe,
an engineer who took French
poetry in college, could not possi¬
bly be such an expert dancer. So,
with apologies, it is "The Dancing
John Kilgores," available for exhi¬
bitions, etc. when not dancing or
eating vegetables with the Sev¬
enth-Day Adventists in Massa¬
chusetts. Jeanne and John are
enjoying cruises on "The Arthur
Smith's Sagafjord" (sic). No won¬
der the Smithes are always
cruising.

Note from Fred Farwell advis¬
ing that special committee for
classes 1931-35 unearthed a rare
opportunity to obtain Arden
House for a reunion weekend for
all five classes on May 11-13,1990.
If interested, contact Fred or Joe
Moukad.

Joe Moukad announced plans
for usual supper party at Stella
d'Oro (now The Carriage House)
at Homecoming. Will report on
this next time.

Ann Moukad joined Doris at
the Thrift Shop and enjoys it so

much, recommends it to other
Columbia ladies.

No report from Arthur Smiths
re last cruise—all we know is that
they landed safe and sound.
However, Dea phoned Doris to
advise that they will attend 60th.

My typewriter just quit, so so
long till next time!

Lloyd G. Seidman

180 West End Avenue,
28-M

New York, N.Y. 10023

In September, the response to our
Victory Anniversary newsletter
about class plans for Homecom¬
ing Day on October 21 was most
encouraging and we were predict¬
ing a record turnout for the spe¬
cial Class of 1932 luncheon in the
Field House at Baker Field preced¬
ing the game with Yale. Those
with early reservations included
Bill Bloor, Len Brooks, Fred
Bruell, Ed Fay, Jr., Aaron Mold-
over, Mortimer Rosenfeld, Lloyd
Seidman, Bernie Simon, A1 Tim-
panelli, Harry Wearne and A1
Wiegman. Practically all of these
were multiple reservations, and
more were coming each day. Let's
single out Len Brooks, A1 Tim-
panelli and A1 Wiegman of our
committee for their splendid help
in making this year's Homecom¬
ing such an enjoyable, nostalgic
and meaningful occasion for all
who attended. You missed it this
time? Sorry, but there's always
next year. Hope to see you then.

In the course of rounding up
our classmates for Homecoming,
we managed to pick up a few bits
and pieces of news about them,
all leading to the general observa¬
tion that, despite our advancing
years, we remain a fairly active,
interested and peripatetic bunch.
For instance: Jim Florsheim
couldn't join the happy group at
Baker Field because he was on his
way to Paris on one of his twice-
yearly trips. Irving Moskovitz,
on the other hand, was just
returning from a European jaunt
and hadn't overcome his jet lag
yet. Harold Luxemburg became a
grandfather for the eighth time
(can you top this? If so, let's hear
about it. Yes, it's okay to include
grown grandchildren recently
acquired). Arthur (Tex) Gold¬
schmidt is moving to a retirement
community. His new address is
3300 Darby Road, #5209, Haver-
ford, Pa. 19041-1095, and he'd sure
like to hear from any of his class¬
mates, especially those who may
living in that area. Del Zucker
hadn't started packing when we
heard from him, but his plans
were all made for his regular Janu-
ary-through-March sojourn in
Scottsdale, Ariz., where he will
interrupt his schedule of golf.

Columbia College Today

swimming and bridge to accept a
daily phone call from his office
just to make sure that the under¬
lings back home remember who
he is. Sylvan Furman had yet
another one-man showing of his
paintings, this time at Simon's
Rock College in Great Barrington,
Mass. Dr. Irving Solomon gives
four mornings a week of his pro¬
fessional services to the Work¬
men's Circle Clinic. Lloyd
Seidman has been named chair¬
man of the Edward R. Murrow
Brotherhood Awards for the
broadcasting industry given
annually under the auspices of
B'nai Brith.

Not all the news is good, how¬
ever. We sadly record the passing
of classmate Salvatore Baudo of
Massapequa, N.Y., and Dr.

Arthur Neumaier of Iowa City.
Our deepest sympathy goes out
to their families.

Reminder: Saturday, April 7 is
Dean's Day. If you've been com¬
ing to these stimulating gather¬
ings through the years, we don't
have to tell you what a great
opportunity they provide to hear
timely, fascinating lectures by
stars of the present-day Columbia
faculty. If you've never been
before, come on along! We'll all be
glad to see you.

Alfred A. Beaujean

40 Claire Avenue
New Rochelle, N. Y.
10804

Received a note from A1
Skrobisch (as I recall, we were in
Freshman C.C. together). Any¬
way, he was quite a fencer, as you
probably remember. He tells us
that he and Inger moved down to
Boone's Mills, Va., which is near
the Blue Ridge Mountains and
about 20 miles from Roanoke.
They love it and said they should
have done it years ago. He visits
Wales in the U.K. as a consultant
for a local company and has been
back several times in the past year.
He even found a young man
eager to learn fencing, so he has a
pupil, and it may expand into a
class. How about that?

Art Lelyveld writes, "You may
be interested to know that I have
been named occupant of the Wal¬
ter and Mary Touhy Chair of
Interreligious Studies at John Car-
roll University, Cleveland, Ohio,
for the fall semester of 1989." Con¬
gratulations, Art.

William Van Til is Coffman
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
of Education at Indiana State Uni¬
versity. An annual Van Til Lecture
series was established by his uni¬
versity 11 years after his retire¬
ment. On April 12,1989, he
presented the first lecture in the
series, "Restoring Honor to the
Teaching Profession." "A Conver¬

sation with William Van Til," by
Dean John A. Beinere, University
of Evansville, appeared in Social
Education, the journal of the
National Council for the Social
Studies, in January, 1989.

Your correspondent continues
to perk along—this fall my wife
and I planned to visit La Rochelle,
France again and travel with some
of our French friends down along
the coast to a region known as Le
Perigord. More later. In the mean¬
time, get off your collective duffs
and send me some news.

Lawrence W. Golde

27 Beacon Hill Road
Port Washington, N.Y.
11050

Herman Wouk was unable to
attend our 55th reunion, but in an
earlier letter to Bill Golub he
shared the following comments:
"For my sins, and in a fit of tempo¬
rary insanity, I agreed to address
the College Class Day on May
16th. I haven't the foggiest notion
of what I can say to a class gradu¬
ating fifty-five years after we left
Morningside. My prediction is
that, after I've spoken, the audi¬
ence will be in the same fog. If
we'd been addressed by a gent
similarly removed in time, he'd
have been of the Class of 1879.1
don't think any of us really
believed such a class ever existed;
or if they did, that they must have
had prehensile tails and other
convincing evidence of
antiquity."

Reunion weekend took place in
perfect weather June 2-4. Attend¬
ing were: Dr. and Mrs. Hylan
Bickerman, Mr. Fon W.
Boardman, Jr., Mr. and Mrs.
Julian Bush, Mr. and Mrs. Evald
Gasstrom, Mr. and Mrs. Law¬
rence W. Golde, Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Goldenheim, Mr. and Mrs.
William Golub, Mr. and Mrs.
Judson Hyatt, Mr. and Mrs. Her¬
bert P. Jacoby, Mr. and Mrs.
Howard L. Klein, Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Leonardo, Sr., Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Meyer, Judge and
Mrs. Millard Midonick, Dr. and
Mrs. Alexander Papas, Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Pinches, III, Dr. and
Mrs. Philip R. Roen, Mr. Ralph
Sheffer and guest, Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin McMahon Singer, and Dr.
Raymond Suskind.

Dr. Suskind, who is professor
emeritus of environmental health
and director of the Kettering Lab¬
oratory at the University of Cin¬
cinnati, delivered a lecture on the
environment and health, which
was well received.

The Office of Alumni Affairs
arranged for a number of interest¬
ing events including lectures, a
tour of the campus, a bus tour of
Manhattan's diverse architecture

Norman F. Ramsey '35 shared the
1989 Nobel Prize for Physics for his
improvements on the technique of
atomic beam magnetic resonance, a
method of measuring the energy levels
of atoms developed by his teacher and
colleague, 1.1. Rabi. In the late I940's
and early 50's, Dr. Ramsey and his co¬
workers developed the hydrogen
maser (microwave amplification by
stimulated emission of radiation), an
instrument that led to the invention of
the cesium atomic clock, now an inter¬
national time standard based on the
oscillation frequency of the cesium
atom. Dr. Ramsey, who received the
Presidential Order of Merit for his
work in developing radar during
World War II, has taught at Harvard
since 1947 and has twice served as
director of the Harvard Nuclear Labo¬
ratory, and is a former president of the
American Physical Society. He
recently co-chaired a Federal commit¬
tee to examine cold nuclear fusion
(which it found to be of no practical
significance).

and a performance of the 1989 Var¬
sity Show, Sans Souci, Be Happy, at
the Miller Theater.

At our class meeting, new
officers were elected: president.
Herb Jacoby; vice president,

Larry Golde, and secretary-treas¬
urer, John Leonardo.

Meyer Sutter

510 E. Harrison Street
Long Beach, N.Y. 11561

Many of you may know by now
that Norman Ramsey, professor
of physics at Harvard, was
awarded the Nobel Prize for per¬
fecting a way to study the struc¬
ture of atoms. He recently
returned from a trek to Tibet. That
is life as it is supposed to lived.
Thanks for the example, Norman,
but we'll never catch up. You
make us proud and happy.

Sid Barnes, in Florida, is sched¬
uled for heart surgery. Our very
best wishes.

CCT recently received the fol¬
lowing letter from David Cook:

"My wife and I left Beijing,
China, where we were teachers
for over 40 years, on the morning
of June 3, just before theTienan-
men massacre.

"After graduation from Colum¬
bia College in '351 joined the Brit¬
ish Battalion of the International
Brigade in Spain, which country I
left for China in 1938.1 was a
teacher there from 1938-41, then
returned to England (my birth¬
place) and joined the Royal Air
Force. After demobilization in
19461 returned to China with my
wife, Isabel (Canadian) who was
born in that country and whom I
first met there. Together we
taught English language, liter¬
ature and history in what is now
the Beijing Foreign Studies Uni¬
versity. We also wrote three books
on land reform. People's Com¬
munes, etc. We witnessed and
were personally involved in his¬
toric events of the first 40 years of
the P.R.C. including the 'Great
Leap Forward of 1958' and the
Cultural Revolution as well as the
recent tragedy.

"I am now writing my autobiog¬
raphy and would be grateful for
any of my classmates' recollec¬
tions of my activities and their
own at Columbia and for any
memorabilia. My permanent
address is Foreign Studies Uni¬
versity, Beijing, China."

I wrote to David Cook at a Ver¬
mont address he gave me, asking
about his activities at school, but
my letter missed him. Later, how¬
ever, I received a reply from Bei¬
jing. He notes that he took the
Colloquium with Jacques Barzun
and Lionel Trilling in his junior
and senior years, was on the edi¬
torial board of Jester, and was a
member of the Social Problems
Club and the American Student
Union. I believe he would wel¬
come a word from classmates, at
the address above or by phone at
89-0351, extension 685.

Although David is not in our
yearbook nor in the alumni direc¬
tory, he indeed graduated from
the College in 1935. If anyone
remembers him, please let him—
and its—know.

I hope many of you can come to
New York for our 55th anniver¬
sary reunion, June 1-3, on cam¬
pus. Classmates are expected to
return from all over—let's try to
encourage the widest possible
participation.

Paul V. Nyden

P.O.Box 205
Hillsdale, N.Y. 12529

Unfortunately, I was unable to
attend Homecoming in October,
but your class officers have dis¬
cussed plans for a get-together
this spring at some mid-Atlantic

region hotel or resort. If you have
any ideas or interest in this mat¬
ter, please let your correspondent
know.

Herbert L. Jacobson, who

retired to Costa Rica in 1979 after
having served for 15 years as the
first executive director of the
International Trade Center, which
assists 80 Third World countries
in promoting their foreign trade,
recently received a congratulatory
cable from ITC's 25th annual
assembly of 100 national delega¬
tions. Besides writing articles
occasionally for The Wall Street
Journal, he is editing his memoirs
of war and peace in 50 countries
on all six continents, titled In the
Great Game of History, for which
Jacques Barzun '27 is writing a
foreword.

Fred H. Drane was recently
honored by the board of the trust¬
ees of the Institute of Industrial
Engineers for his contributions to
the industrial engineering profes¬
sion. He was also awarded a life
membership in the Institute. Fred
has been carrying on a volunteer
industrial engineering project in
Leisure World, Laguna Hills,
Calif., where he and Mary have
been retired for more than 16
years. He was a co-founder of the
Community Association which
monitors the operations, building
projects, and finances of this com¬
munity of 22,000 residents, with a
yearly budget of $60 million.
Rotary International also honored
Fred for his part in the $120 mil¬
lion campaign to immunize the
children of the world against
childhood diseases. Fred is a vice
president of our class.

Ernest Kroll, Washington,
D.C., submits this poetic creation
as a tribute to our illustrious class¬
mate, the late A1 Barabas.

Elegy for Al Barabas

The airwaves with the story glowed
from Pasadena to Fordham Road.

It was raining on the western bowl
when Barabas into glory stole
around right end, the ball paw-clutched
against his hip. He crossed untouched,
and then the line cohered to rock,
and it was over. What a shock!

The Little team from Morningside
had tumbled giants in their pride.
Montgomery to Barabas handed
off, and legend has expanded,
saying, "A snap. Rolling off a log."

Not that snappy for the underdog.

When a Barabas runs and cuts,
it takes artistry and guts —
artistry and rigid drilling honed
until the runner has it, owned.

Barabas had both; they got him past
admiration that would hold him fast
among the living as the hero
of that rain-soaked score: seven zero.

Betty and Ian Ballantine '38, who founded Bantam and Ballantine Books,
recently celebrated 50 years in the paperback trade. Mr. Ballantine first argued
the merits of quality paperbacks in a paper he wrote while a senior at Columbia;
the next year, 1939, he and his spouse began importing England's Penguin Books
to the United States. They founded Bantam Books in 1945 to appeal to American
tastes, and in 1952 they gave their name to a publishing house that would be
dedicated to bringing out original paperback works. In doing so, they helped
change the face of publishing. "Today, the mass marketplace has become the arena
in which a reputation is first created," they wrote in the New York Times Book
Review last April. "Many exciting young writers.. . appear first in paperback.
Hard-cover publication follows. The wheel has come full circle." For their
contributions, Mr. and Mrs. Ballantine were honored at Noreascon III, one of
science fiction's major conventions, held at Boston's Hynes Convention Center
in September.

But when Barabas runs and cuts
from life itself, our vision shuts
and sees the runner in full stride
forever toward the other side
of the line—but never quite across:
we could not tolerate the loss.

We see him running still, untouched,
the ball against his right hip clutched.

Walter E. Schaap

86-63 Clio Street
Hollis, N.Y. 11423
Almost no column this issue! Not
a single word from any of you '37s
out there!

At least I know these lines
aren't totally wasted. Our recent
mention of Charlie Marks out in
Akron caught the eye of Juan de
Zengotita '38, who sent a nice let¬
ter recalling the days when we
were gallivanting about the sec¬
ond floor of Livingston together.
Juan is now retired from a career
in the foreign service.

Next day, we had a phone call
from another State Department
man, Hal Marley. Classmates
who attended our 50th will
remember how much it was
enhanced by hearty Hal and his
charming wife Rosita. I'd give my
eyeteeth (if I have any left) for a
consultant job like Hal's, which
takes him to Europe for months
every year.

'37 lost Robert Roy to cancer on
July 18. We'll miss Bob, a crew¬
man throughout our college
years, and a loyal classmate and

devoted Columbian ever since.
Judge Roy was town J. R in Green-
burgh, N.Y. for28 years, and
president of the Sunnyside Fed¬
eral Savings and Loan up in
Washington Irving land. Our
deepest sympathies go out to his
wife Genevieve; his sons William
'64, James, and Douglas '70; and
his brother Malcolm '34.

Not far up the Hudson from the
Roys, we visited Mary Wilbur,
widow of Dr. Dan Wilbur. An
independent soul, Mary left Hun¬
tington, L.I. after Dan's passing in
1983, and moved, alone, to Cold
Spring, not too far and not too
near to Rhinebeck, where the
Wilburs had their roots.

Peter J. Guthorn

825 Rathjen Road
Brielle, N.J. 08730

Geer and Ernie Geiger hosted a
meeting at their N.J. home over¬
looking Sandy Hook and the
lower bay, followed by lunch at
the Channel Club. The steering
committee, Geer and Ernie, Sarah
and Len Luhby, Alenda and John
Crymble, Kappy and Art Myers,
and Kay and Pete Guthorn dis¬
cussed the planned weekend at
Arden House.

Ralph de Toledano writes that
there is little news about the "Old
Fourth Floor of John Jay Gang,"
except that they are getting older.
He continues to write his nation¬
ally syndicated column, was
named Distinguished Journalism

Fellow by the Heritage Founda¬
tion, and was given a grant to
update his 1960 Lament for a Gener¬
ation. (See Tom Vinciguerra's pro¬
file in this issue.)

Barbara and Stan Leggett have
moved permanently from Mar¬
tha's Vineyard to 60 Bearded Oaks
Drive, Sarasota, Fla.

I have been curious about the
reading tastes of Columbians
since someone reported Nicholas
Murray Butler was once seen
reading the Daily News and Holly¬
wood Screen. My own journal read¬
ing is now limited to The New
England Journal of Medicine, Sci¬
ence, and The New Yorker; reduced
from Surgery, Gynecology &
Obstetrics; Annals of Surgery; Sur¬
gical Clinics; Yachting; Fly Fishing;
Antiques, and Scientific American —
which had collectively become
expensive and posed a problem of
non-wasteful disposition. I still
read The New York Times, and
when away, either the Los Angeles
Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Wash¬
ington Post, or Atlanta Constitution.
Any and all of them with a reason¬
able sense of security in their indi¬
vidual integrity. I regret the
passing of The New York Herald
Tribune.

Kay and Peter Guthorn
attended the meeting of the Inter¬
national Society for the History of
Cartography in Amsterdam in
early June where he read a paper
on "The Last Independent Ameri¬
can Hydrographer, George
Eldridge."

Congratulations to Ed Kloth
and Helen Schenk, widow of Don
Schenk, married June 17 in the
presence of all their children and
grandchildren. They reside at 37
Lenox Ave., Ridgewood, N.J.

President Len Luhby has
secured reservations for a Class of
'38 reunion at Arden House the
weekend of May 25-28,1990.

A new scholarly journal
devoted to Thomas Merton is
edited at the Merton Center, Bell-
armine College, Newburg Road,
Louisville, Ky. 40205.

The class extends deepest sym¬
pathy to Paul Taub on the death of
his wife, Elsie Ann, on August 23.

Robert E. Lewis

464 Main Street, # 218
Port Washington, N.Y.
11050

Sixty-six members of the class
gathered at Arden House on Fri¬
day, May 12 for their 50th reunion.
The weather was perfect, the sur¬
roundings elegant, and the
atmosphere festive. Class presi¬
dent Al Sommers, program chair¬
man Vic Futter and their
committees put together a diver¬
sified program that drew on the
expertise of class members as well

Columbia College Today

I nterviewed 50 years to the
day after he learned of the
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression
pact of 1939, Ralph de Toledano
remains the ardent anti-com¬
munist he became at that epi-
phanic moment. "The long
bemusement, the inner debate,
the half-hearted flirtation" he
had had with communism
ended the instant he realized
that the pact tacitly equated
Hitler with Stalin.

"Overnight," he recalls, "I lost
all my friends"—Communists
whom he had met through his
wife, and who were now
ordered by the Party to close
ranks. One of them came to bid
a plaintive farewell. "'WeTlmeet
again,' she cried, 'we'll meet
again on opposite sides of the
barricades.'" And that was the
last he saw of her.

A friendly, husky man, Mr. de
Toledano smiles when given the
chance to redeem himself in the
eyes of liberals, but he stands by
his canon of 19 books, which
includes laudatory biographies
of Richard Nixon, Barry Gold-
water, and J. Edgar Hoover, as
well as vitriolic studies of Robert
Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and
Ralph Nader. Senator Jesse
Helms wrote the foreword to Let
Our Cities Burn, his indictment
of many of this country's labor
unions. In Spies, Dupes & Diplo¬
mats, Mr. de Toledano laid the
blame for Chinese communism
at the steps of the State
Department.

Over drinks in his Foggy
Bottom apartment, he mellows
a little, daring to question the in¬
fluence of Ronald Reagan on
American politics. "I have never
bought the idea that there is a
really strong conservative move¬
ment in the United States. I
don't see the Reagan revolution,
so to speak, continuing. There's
no leadership."

R alph de Toledano calls him¬
self a member of that gener¬
ation which grew up between
the "Lost" and the "Beat." Born
in the International Zone of Tan¬
gier, the son of a foreign corre¬
spondent, he returned to the
United States when he was five
but was reminded of his Old
World roots by relatives who
would argue passionately about

the Spanish Civil War whenever
they met.

At the College in the mid-
1930's, he found himself up
against the Young Communist
League, which had a hand in
most of Columbia's student
activities. "I was at war with the
YCL, not really on ideological
grounds, but mostly because I
thought they were a bunch of
stinkers." He remembers one
protest outside Nicholas Mur¬
ray Butler's home starting with
the students yelling "Castigate
Butler!" and ending with "Cas¬
trate Butler!"

More writer than politician,
Mr. de Toledano went from Col¬
lege literary activities— Specta¬
tor, Jester, Review, and Philolexian
—to a career in journalism. He
was an editor for The New Leader
and Plain Talk and, in 1948,
joined Newsweek's Washington
bureau. He became a news¬
paper columnist in 1960, syndi¬
cated first by King Features and
then Copley News Service. He
still writes music criticism as a
contributing editor to National
Review, decades after he and his
friends drank wine and played
records on the fourth floor of
John Jay, waging "great big ideo¬
logical battles" over jazz. "I'm
what they were at one point call¬
ing a 'moldy fig'"—that is,
someone who doesn't like bop,
the modernist movement asso¬
ciated with figures like Charlie
Parker and Thelonious Monk.

In 1950, he co-authored the
first book about the Alger Hiss
case, Seeds of Treason. His work
brought him together with
famed witness Whittaker
Chambers '24.

"I'd say it's the most signifi¬
cant friendship I ever had in my
whole life," Mr. de Toledano
says, visibly moved by the
memory. "God, he was his¬
tory—he could be talking about
the French Revolution and
you'd think he'd lived through
it. His grasp of history and pol¬
itics and his understanding of
the Communist movement—
why people got involved as
deeply as they did and so on—
was just fantastic."

With a fellowship from the
Heritage Foundation, he is now
updating his 1960 autobiog¬
raphy, Lament For A Generation.
New chapters will examine

Barry Goldwater ("a wonderful
guy") and Ronald Reagan ("no
lightweight; the idea that he
slept through his eight years in
the White House is a lot of
nonsense").

There will also be some revi¬
sion of the original, especially
on the subject of Joe McCarthy,
whom Mr. de Toledano criti¬
cized in the first edition. "I
thought he'd wasted a tremen¬
dous opportunity ... Joe was
really just a country politician
who was suddenly on the stage
of history, so he lost all sense of
proportion." When he could,

Mr. de Toledano says, he dis¬
suaded the senator from per¬
secuting Communists who had
renounced their activities.

Whiie defending the intent of
those congressional committees
that tried to ferret out subver¬
sion, Mr. de Toledano now con¬
demns the "bunch of crumbs"
who ran them, among them "a
liar, a vicious character, one of
the lowest people I've ever
known in my life"—Mr. McCar¬
thy's chief counsel, Roy Cohn
'46. "How he stayed out of jail, I
don't know."

nother figure who will
undergo rewrite is Richard
Nixon, once a good friend who
wrote the foreword to the origi¬
nal edition of Lament for a Genera¬
tion. Mr. de Toledano says that
while at Newsweek he used to
"run interference" for the Vice
President against the liberals at
the magazine. If something neg¬
ative was printed about Mr.
Nixon, "he'd scream and yell at
me as if it were my fault." In
return, "I'd go in to see Nixon

for an hour or so and I'd walk
out with six exclusive stories."

But relations have since
soured. "I was sort of forced out
of Newsweek because they
thought I was too close to
Nixon, and he could have pre¬
vented it." In 1960, when a
Nixon presidency seemed
likely, “Newsweek sent some¬
body to see him and say, 'Would
you be very mad if we fired
Ralph?' And instead of saying,
'Yes, I would be,' he said, 'I'm
not editor of Newsweek’ and
refused to make any comment."

It didn't end there. "He cut
my throat after he became Presi¬
dent. Four of the top Republican
senators—including Gold-
water—wrote to Nixon urging
him to make me head of the
USIA [United States Informa¬
tion Agency]. The answer they
got was signed by the fourth
under-office boy at the White
House. He didn't even acknowl¬
edge the letter and say no.

"That's Nixon. Nixon had no
personal loyalties. If someone
was useful to him, fine, and if
somebody was no longer useful,
the hell with him—no matter
how close their friendship."

So when Mr. de Toledano sees
the Watergate complex—which
he does every day—he views it
not so much as a political sym¬
bol as a personal one. "Water¬
gate did have an effect on me in
that I defended Nixon all the
way through, and he allowed all
his supporters to stick their
necks way out in his defense,
and then boom—there was the
smoking gun, and we all looked
like idiots."

Thomas Vinciguerra '85

as College faculty while still leav¬
ing plenty of time for socializing.

The class was welcomed by
Dean Robert Pollack '61 who
noted that our group included
Jack Alexander, who had been his
dean when he was an under¬
graduate. In a roundtable discus¬
sion of the future, Vic Wouk
warned that either we have to get
more energy-efficient or our
standard of living will decline,
and speculated on the possibility
of space colonies. Bob Banks
noted the revolution in transpor¬
tation that is under way. A1 Som¬
mers reviewed the economic
excesses of the past decade and
warned that recession, high inter¬
est rates and a falling dollar will
correct imbalances if we don't do
it ourselves through higher taxes.
Together with Frank Reich of Flu-
oramics, Inc., Vic Wouk demon¬
strated superconductivity and the
properties of liquid nitrogen. Dr.
Martin Gunter gave a non¬
technical description of
Alzheimer's disease. Isaac Asi¬
mov was invited but, unfortu¬
nately, could not attend.

Saturday afternoon, some
played tennis or bridge or toured
the grounds. But others chose to
hear Professor Howard Stein of
the Columbia faculty discuss
"Art—Who Needs It?" and raise
questions on the value of beauty
in a materialistic age. Tony
Dimino gave a first-hand account
of the difficulties of an American
firm doing business in Mexico in
the face of pervasive corruption
andanti-U.S. sentiment. Tom
Macioce, former chairman of
Allied Stores, provided a blow-
by-blow description of how it
feels to be the target of a hostile
takeover bid, as Allied Stores
was, and of the economic conse¬
quences.

The reunion dinner was fol¬
lowed by dancing to John Blower's
Giants of Jazz, plus a glee club
concert conducted by Si Alpert.

The next morning featured Pro¬
fessor James Shenton '49 discuss¬
ing the history of immigration,
particularly through Ellis Island.
Dr. Shenton invited the class to be
the first class he escorts through
Ellis Island when it reopens.

A brief business meeting
included a memorial to the 87
class members now deceased.

A new set of class officers was
elected: president, Jim Welles;
vice president. Bob Banks; fund
chairman, Bernie Schutz; secre¬
tary and class correspondent.

Bob Lewis; treasurer, Ralph
Staiger.

The class gift, as reported by co-
chairmen Jim Welles and Bob
Pelz, totals $650,000 in donations
and pledges over a five-year
period. That makes us the first

50th reunion group to exceed the
half-million mark. Over half the
gift is going to fund summer
research fellowships and the
remainder will go toward
endowed scholarships.

Altogether, a most stimulating
and successful reunion. See you
all at our 55th!

Ellis Gardner

131 Long Neck Point
Road

Darien, Conn. 06820

The Charlotte, N.C. papers were
recently filled with accolades
about Frank Snepp, who resigned
as Superior Court Judge when he
reached the mandatory retire¬
ment age of 70 this past August.
The headlines of the newspaper
items were most impressive, like
"The Gavel Falls on a Legend,"
and "The Courage to Lead." I
wish I could quote all the praise
they sent his way, but I have to
keep it to the following: "Snepp
has a reputation as an incorrupti¬
ble and brilliant scholar, with the
courage to take on controversial
cases and make unpopular deci¬
sions," and, "What a contribution
he made: by dint of personality
and ability he played a major role
in strengthening the courts, and
his commitment and strong
shoulders have been critical."
Having been in college debates
with Frank, and being his frater¬
nity brother, your intrepid class
correspondent can get misty-eyed
with pride about this kind of
achievement. Boy, are we ever a
great class!

Speaking of which, I have just
received a note from our famous
international movie mogul, Char¬
lie Schneer, who sets the world
on fire from London. He prom¬
ises to be at our 50th. All of you
had better start now planning to
come!

James Fletcher, who served two
different times as head of NASA,
was named winner of the
National Academy of Engineering
1989 Arthur M. Beucche Award.
This award recognizes "states¬
manship in the field of
technololgy."

Franklin "Buzz" Gould and his
wife Irene have established in
their estate a full four-year schol¬
arship to the College for a Swiss
national. It is intended both as a
tribute to the Swiss birth of Irene
and also to help enlarge the inter¬
national base of the College. This
is indeed an admirable gesture.
Maybe it will start a trend!

Mel Intner and his wife Lila
very graciously hosted the first
get-together of the New York
members of the committee for our
50th reunion. The program com¬
mittee, comprising Mel Intner,

Philip H. Thurston '40 was named
professor emeritus at the Harvard
Business School last July, where he
was Richard P. Chapman Professor of
Business Administration. Mr. Thurs¬
ton joined the Harvard faculty in 1959
after receiving his doctorate from the
school, and has taught production and
operations management and entrepre¬
neurship; he also taught a required
course in strategy in the Owner/Presi¬
dent Management program for execu¬
tives, a program he helped to develop.
He plans to write for the Harvard
Business Review on his specialty,
the management of mid-sized
companies.

Saul Kolodny, and Seth Neu-
groschl, will, I am sure, do an out¬
standing job. There should be no
further confusion as to where the
reunion will be held: it will be on
campus. Those of you who did
not attend our 45th and who think
a stay in the dorms is still as spar¬
tan as it was when we were under¬
graduates will be surprised at the
luxury, comfort, and convenience
of the present dorms. And you do
not have to go "down the hall" if
your bladder calls during the
night! Make your plans now to
attend... save the whole week¬
end of June 1-3 for a lot of fun and
sentimentality!

Arthur Friedman

Box 625

Merrick, N.Y. 11566

Our own A. David Kagon,
famous L. A. lawyer, faxed that he
looked forward to being with us at
the 48th reunion in November.

By the way, 35 years ago our Joe
Coffee was a driving force in the
creation of Columbia College Today.

On August 29, Art Weinstock,
Bob Dettmer, Saul Haskel, Joe
Coffee, Semmes Clarke, Bill
Batiuchok and Art Friedman met
at the Princeton Club (in the
enemy's camp) to discuss plans

for the 50th reunion in 1991.

Last April, Lee Smith, assistant
dean of community service at Syr¬
acuse University, received the
Chancellor's Citation for Excep¬
tional Academic Achievement,
recognizing outstanding contri¬
butions in scholarship, research,
teaching and creative work.
According to a Syracuse dean,

"Lee has played an instrumental
role in strengthening the Univer¬
sity's involvement in education
for public responsibility. There
may never be another S.U. pro¬
gram administrator or continuing
educator who will do as much—
singularly—to enhance town-
gown relations."

As reported by Flora Lewis in a
New York Times article on August
29, "There was a meeting in early
August at Pope John Paul II's sum¬
mer palace in Castel Gondolfo on
civil society and what it means.
Most of the participants were dis¬
tinguished philosophers and his¬
torians." Among them was our
own Wm. Theodore de Bary, "a
Far Eastern scholar at Columbia,
who noted that people in the East
had to adapt to limits—of geogra¬
phy, of population, of resources—
that the West is only beginning to
face. Oriental experience may
become more important to the
West as it confronts new dilem¬
mas or limits."

Last time we heard from Ray
Robinson. This time we've heard
from Ray Raimondi, who recalls.
"I was in oral French class with
Semmes Clarke ... I remember
when Bob Quittmeyer was in my
Humanities class. Professor Trill¬
ing asked how Virgil compared
with the Greeks. Bob said that Vir¬
gil's prose was legato! I remember
that Bob sang with one of Colum¬
bia's choral groups and had
known musical terms.

"It was interesting to know of
Doug Gruber's retirement. I had
heard him discuss his job on sev¬
eral Thursdays at our evening
meals together. I suppose he
should write about his experi¬
ences. ... I hope alumni write
about their lives. ... What about
Coffee writing about the families
and the 19 grandchildren of his?
Good luck!" Ray can be reached at
the Orange County Home & Infir¬
mary, Box 59, Goshen, N.Y.

10924.

Remember, you can fax me your
news at (516) 868-6897.

Herbert Mark

197 Hartsdale Avenue
White Plains, N.Y.
10606

I'm afraid the mail from class¬
mates has been light recently, but
I have a few notes to report.

Merle Severy, who is assistant
editor of the respected National

Columbia College Today

A lthough Richard Heffner's
Open Mind is taped for
later broadcast, it is conducted
"live"—no stops, no editing.
During one session, the chain¬
smoking Allan Bloom couldn't
get his cigarette lighter to work,
even after repeated attempts.

"I turned to the cameraman,"
Mr. Heffner recalls, "and said,
'Dr. Bloom needs a light. Do you
have a match?' And the guy was
petrified—'How can you do
something as natural as this?'
And I repeated myself. By the
third time, he realized I was
really talking to him. He
unfroze, gave me his lighter,
Allan took it, lit his cigarette,
and went on."

What to others might be a
glitch is to Mr. Heffner, who
thinks himself first and fore¬
most a teacher, an opportunity
to break down the barriers that
separate him from his audience.
Since May of 1956, when Open
Mind was first broadcast, he has
been addressing major issues of
the day, aided by "hundreds
and hundreds" of guests,
among them Margaret Mead,
John Kenneth Galbraith, Ben¬
jamin Spock, Lionel Trilling '25,
Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Norman Mailer.

In an era of high-tech graph¬
ics and sound bites. Open Mind
is a curio, one that reflects its
avuncular host. "For one thing,"
New York Times television critic
John Corry has written, "people
speak in whole passages; Mr.
Heffner would sooner dive
under the tablecloth than need¬
lessly interrupt." Instead, he
plays the patient listener, pre¬
senting an expression of skep¬
tical interest and amusement to
his guests, a silent goad. "My
objective is to draw out people
and let them say anything and
encourage them to say
everything."

This approach appeals to a
small but loyal following—
mostly older folk, says the host.
"The letters, so frequently, are
so warm. Much of the mail that I

get refers in some way, directly
or obliquely, to 'your seminar.'"

D inner with Dick Heffner is
not unlike a segment of
Open Mind. The low-key, inti¬
mate, searching talk conducted
across a table at the Century
Club might as well be conducted
on the show. The main differ¬
ence is that at mealtime, he plays
with his cutlery.

Why does he indulge his
guests by letting them talk at
length, instead of pouncing on
their every word? "It's largely a
function of my personality. I
was brought up, as our friend
Thomas Hobbes said, in con¬
tinual fear. The hard times of the
Depression and the war loom
large in my psyche, and I think I
prefer the kinder, gentler
approach."

His father was a prosperous
bookie who was able to provide
his son with a governess for the
first eight years of his life. But
when the bottom dropped out
of the stock market, few people
continued to plunk down hun¬
dred-grand bets on the ponies.
Mr. Heffner's brother quit high
school to go to work, and his
mother sold costume jewelry.

A graduate of DeWitt Clinton
High School, Mr. Heffner
received a Shapiro Scholarship
at the College. He joined WKCR
when it was still CURC, but not
to pursue a broadcast career; his
interest was history, and he
stayed on to get a master's
degree in 1947. After teaching at
Berkeley and Rutgers, he
returned to Columbia in 1950 to
teach Contemporary
Civilization.

For his ability to converse
intelligently on a different topic
every week, Mr. Heffner credits
the general education curricu¬
lum. "If one studied Humanities
and C.C. at Columbia, and then
was fortunate enough to teach
it, of course all these ideas
would be familiar. It's honest-to-
God true."

In 1953, while a professor at
Sarah Lawrence, he was struck
by the country's rising tide of
anti-New Deal feeling and pro¬
duced a radio documentary on
Franklin D. Roosevelt. WMCA
then gave him a weekly half-
hour series. History in the News,
for which he got about $25 a
week, and he left the classroom
("I was too young to be giving
up all that much") to pursue
broadcasting full-time.

In 1954 he joined NBC and, as
director of public affairs, pro¬
duced and hosted such televi¬
sion shows as All About Men —
All About Women and Man of the
Year. He then came up with The
Open Mind, which quickly gar¬
nered critical praise and broke
early television ground in its
tasteful treatment of the contro¬
versial. In its first six months, it
addressed such topics as di¬
vorce, integration, alcoholism,
and homosexuality. "The Open
Mind is not just the title of a
show, but an expression of a way
of life I happen to believe in,"

Mr. Heffner said in 1959. "Given
what is happening in the world
today, I don't see how you can
dare have anything else but an
open mind."

Ironically, Mr. Heffner is not
at all sure that the show's title—
which he thought an "obvious"

choice at the time—is still a
good one.

"Thirty-three years ago, peo¬
ple were much more willing and
eager to exchange views, and
you could see people on the air
changing their minds listening
to others, and sort of nodding
their heads, saying, 'Hey, that's
a good point.' Those partici¬
pants had open minds."

But the power of television,
he has come to believe, has so
influenced people that when
they come to the show now,
they usually have an agenda to
push. "I miss the time when
guests came and learned. Let's
put it this way: The Open Mind is
not a misnomer, because there is
somebody with an open mind,
and I'm the guy."

Loyal viewers will be inter¬
ested to know that the Open
Mind logo—two intersecting,
slowly revolving profiles with
brain-shaped holes cut in
them—was conceived by none
other than Mr. Heffner. The
evocative theme of flute, tri¬
angle, and piano that introduces
the show has a name appropri¬
ate to the occasion: "World
Without Time," by the Sauter [as
in Edward Sauter '36]-Finegan
Orchestra. Its eerie dissonance
generates a few complaints

(continued)

Richard D. Heffner '46

(continued from preceding page)

every year from even the
staunchest fans, and Mr.
Heffner, who likes it, jokingly
calls it "mental health music."

A fter three years of hosting
the program, Mr. Heffner
was asked to become secretary
of the CBS editorial board.

"They were very happy to let me
bring over Open Mind with me,
but NBC was not happy to have
me take it." So he left the show
in the care of historian Eric
Goldman, who hosted it for sev¬
eral years.

In 1961, Mr. Heffner also
helped negotiate the purchase
by New York's Metropolitan
Educational Television Associa¬
tion of Newark's WNTA, Chan¬
nel 13, a deal that Governor
Robert Meyner of New Jersey
did his best to undermine. "It
was like the Perils of Pauline. We
almost didn't make it." But New
York public television station
WNDT [now WNET] went on
the air on September 16,1962,
with Mr. Heffner as general
manager and vice president.

The next year, after he tried
unsuccessfully to expand Chan¬
nel 13's programming and focus,
he was dismissed. "I wasn't wise
enough to understand that
there were powers in the city
that might not agree with me."
He returned to teaching in 1964
and is now Dowling Professor of
Communications and Public
Policy at Rutgers University.

F or 15 years, he has also been
chairman of the Classifica¬
tion and Rating Administration
of the Motion Picture Associa¬
tion of America. Jack Valenti,
president of the association,
personally asked him to take the
job. "My response was, 'Thank
you very much, but my mother
did not raise me to count nip¬
ples.'" But he eventually agreed
and now believes that the sys¬
tem, which is purely voluntary,
is preferable to censorship.

The film rating board screens
up to 600 movies a year; Mr.
Heffner will often watch two
films in the course of a New York
weekend, but on his frequent
trips to California he will see
more than a dozen. Even as he
keeps a dispassionate eye on the
sex and violence on the screen,
he manages to stay entertained.
"Of the enormous number of
dreadful productions that we

see, it happens frequently
enough to delight even as
cynical a person as I am that you
see something that restores
your faith in man's creativity."

One of the rating board's best-
known cases was fought over
the "X" rating for violence it
gave in 1983 to Scarface, directed
by Brian De Palma '62. The
board wouldn't budge, even
after Mr. De Palma edited the
film several times; one scene
was of a drug dealer being dis¬
membered by a chain saw. The
director then went to the
Appeals Board, hoping to get
the rating overturned.

"I gave the most impassioned
plea to maintain a rating I ever
did," Mr. Heffner recalls, "and
boy, was I whomped." The
appeal was successful; Scarface
ran in theaters as an "R." After it
came out, Mr. Heffner and his
family met Mr. De Palma in a
restaurant. "Mrs. Heffner," the
director said, "believe me, from
now on I'm a pussycat."

Closer to home, Richard
Heffner recently chaired the cit¬
izens committee to determine
whether legislation should per¬
mit cameras in New York State's
courtrooms. His extensive
knowledge of television led him
to say no.

"Television makes a major-
itarian phenomenon of every
event on which it focuses," he
wrote in the Wall Street Journal
last March, echoing what he
told the New York State Legisla¬
ture. "Those who assume that
the judiciary's traditional sov¬
ereignty over the courtroom will
remain inviolate if a judge
shares it... with the television
camera fail to appreciate the
power of the media."

T en minutes before his show
airs on Channel 13 at 11:30
a.m. on Saturdays, Mr.

Heffner's watch alarm goes off.
When it's time, he turns on the
television in his Riverside Drive
apartment.

"I watch The Open Mind every
week, and I'm interested in the
way this fellow who moderates
it is really into the subject and
the guests and really wants to
know ... I have to tell you—it's a
god-awful thing to say, I
guess—but I know that most
Saturdays, when I sit and watch,
I have a smile on my face."

Thomas Vinciguerra '85

Geographic magazine, wrote a
superb piece on the bicentennial
of the French Revolution in the
special July, 1989 issue of that
magazine. Writing in the first per¬
son, he related some of the prob¬
lems and divisions of contempo¬
rary France to the events of 1789.

Dick Reedy has moved to
Pinehurst, N.C. to enjoy his
retirement. An earlier retiree. Bob
Cherneff, chose Ashley Falls,
Mass. Bob continues to do part-
time consulting for his former
public relations firm.

Morris Grossman is still fully
active at Fairfield University,
where he is professor of
philosophy.

You may have seen the issue of
Columbia magazine which had an
article by Jack Arbolino recalling
his emotions at Commencement
in 1942 and reporting with great
feeling that his grandson Jamie
has followed in the footsteps of
his grandfather and father, Philip
'68, to become a member of the
class of '93. Read that article if you
haven't already. It speaks to all of
us.

Once again, I need material for
these notes. Overcome your iner¬
tia or shyness and write about
yourselves: retirement, new
careers, grandchildren, any¬
thing—especially at Columbia.
And remember our 50th is not far
off! Let me have your thoughts
about that.

John Pearson

5 Walden Lane
Ormond Beach, Fla.
32074

Walter Wager

200 West 79th Street
New York, N.Y. 10024

The 45th Reunion was acclaimed
as a great success for many rea¬
sons, especially the fascinating
talk on DNA by Nobel laureate
Joshua Lederberg. Dr. Lederberg
is retiring as head of The Rockefel¬
ler University in 1990, but will
continue his research there. The
classmate traveling the greatest
distance to attend was Californian
John Strom, from Foster City. The
major fund-raising efforts of cor¬
porate leaders Joseph Leff and
David Sacks were rightfully
lauded. Further details to follow.

Clarence W. Sickles
321 Washington Street
Hackettstown, N.J.
07840

The Class of '45 is proud and
pleased to have its own Jack
Greenberg as the new Dean of
Columbia College. Recognized
nationally as a leading human

Bernard Mandelbaum '42, presi¬
dent emeritus of the Jewish Theologi¬
cal Seminary of America, has
published a new book, You Are Not
Alone (Sheingold Publishers, New
York, N.Y, $8.95), presenting
insights on the conquest of loneliness
from sources as diverse as the Bible,
Socrates, and Dag Hammarskjold.

A scholar and teacher of midrash,
or Biblical commentary, and homi¬
letics, Rabbi Mandelbaum has written
or edited several other works for non¬
specialists, including Choose Life
and Assignment in Israel. For 10
years editor ofNBC-TV's Eternal
Light, he is currently president of the
Foundation for Future Generations,
in New York.

rights advocate. Jack has been
serving as Professor of Law and
Vice Dean of Columbia's Law
School. The University has con¬
ferred the honorary doctorate on
Jack. His classmates say a
resounding "Amen" to this splen¬
did appointment.

George T. (Ted) Wright writes
from Edina, Minn., that his book,
Shakespeare's Metrical Art, was
published last year by the Univer¬
sity of California Press. (Do we
detect Mark Van Doren's influ¬
ence here?) Also, Ted was
appointed a Regent's Professor of
English at the University of Min¬
nesota, where he has been teach¬
ing since 1968. Summing up past
activities, Ted states that he has
written a "number of books" and
has received "two Fulbrights (to
France and Greece), a Gug¬
genheim, an NEH Fellowship,
and some prizes for critical
essays." Good show, Ted; keep us
posted on further activities.

It is not too early to set aside the
dates of June 1-3,1990 for our 45th
reunion on campus. Besides hop¬
ing for a great attendance, our
class would like to double the
number of our John Jay Associ¬
ates, membership in which
requires a minimum gift of $500
annually. We'd like to see our
about-25 John Jays increase to 50.

Columbia College Today

The committee leaders for the
reunion are: David Peyster
(802-234-9735) and myself
(201-852-2839), general chairmen;
Enoch Callaway (415-476-7278)
and Sheldon Isakoff
(302-366-2455), fund chairmen;
and Peter Mastrorocco
(718-768-3373) and Harold
Samelson (201-455-5144), reunion
activities chairmen. (Peter and
Harold have already arranged for
Professor James P. Shenton '49 to
speak at our Saturday evening
dinner!) Your help is needed; why
not contact one of the above and
offer your support?

Our class column honorees this
time from the end of the class list
are: Dr. Barnett Zumoff of Brook¬
lyn, N.Y., and Dr. Martin Zwer-
ling of Aiken, S.C. Love to hear
how things are going, Barnett and
Martin!

By the way, and in a personal
concern for a friend, does anyone
know the whereabouts of class¬
mate Donald Timmerman, who
was last heard to be in California?
He and I were camp counselors at
Eagle's Nest Camp in Delaware,
N.J.

Did you ever read Teacher in
America by Jacques Barzun '27? In
it he defines note-taking as a proc¬
ess whereby information goes
from the notebook of the profes¬
sor to the notebook of the student
without having gone through the
mind of either. Surely you
remember some professorial tid¬
bit. Why not share it with your
classmates?

Henry S. Coleman

P.O.Box 1283
New Canaan, Conn.
06840

A good gathering of classmates
took place at the Remmer Boat
House at Baker Field on October 7
when an eight-oared shell was
dedicated to Jack Bainton. It was a
beautiful day and those present
had the chance to see the Light
Blue football team almost cause
the upset of the year against
Pennsylvania.

There has been, per usual,
sparse correspondence with* your
class secretary from his class¬
mates. President Carlo Celia
came close to calling a class meet¬
ing but at the last minute it was
cancelled, so there is no news to
report in that area.

Fortunately from the hin¬
terlands came the mellifluous
voice of Howard Clifford with his
share of comments on '46.
Howard is braving the winter in
West Dodge, North Dakota,
where he is busy selling sump
pumps to the Indians who live in
the marshes. Howard feels that
when they get all the power lines

in, the pumps will be a real life-
saver to the tribe.

Howard told me that he feels as
if our era has finally come into
power. Not only is Jack Greenberg
'45 the new Dean, but Bernie
Sunshine is one of only two
alumni members of the Columbia
University Senate. Howard did
have some rough comments
about the class, however, once he
read the report of the College
Fund 1987-88. He noted that the
Class of 1946 had only 29 percent
participation, which was the
lowest going back to 1917 and for¬
ward to 1978. It was a distinction
that Howard was not proud of. I
suggested that he might send in
his own contribution and he
agreed to do so. Howard is still
writing his memoirs of the
Columbia years and wishes that
his '46 classmates would drop him
a line—for that matter your class
secretary would love to hear from
someone else in the class.

George W. Cooper
P.O. Box 1311
Stamford, Conn. 06904

Saved by a press release! Other¬
wise, once again this column
would be a total blank. They tell
me up at the CCT office that, and I
quote, "when a correspondent's
name appears with nothing
below, classmates often conclude
that the columnist is simply not
doing the job" (note the careful
and proper avoidance of sexist
pronouns). Pardon my modesty,
but you know that's not true—it is
the classmates who are asleep at
the switch of their word proc¬
essors, failing to report the latest
accomplishments of themselves,
their "sisters and their cousins
and their aunts."

Anyway, not to demean its
importance with the foregoing
diatribe, let it be reported that
Dan Hoffman was awarded the
Paterson Poetry Prize for Hang-
Gliding from Helicon (see the Fall
'88 issue of CCT.) The prize is
given annually by the Poetry Cen¬
ter of Passaic County Community
College, with funding from the
New Jersey State Council on the
Arts. It is nice to know that poetry
is still appreciated in these days of
"sound bites" and "photo ops."

Okay, classmates, as we were
wont to say in dear old Brooklyn,
so what else is new?

John F. O'Connor

171 East 84th Street
New York, N.Y. 10028
Recent months have evinced a
reawakening of class interest.

Pat and George McKay moved
to Illinois. They can be reached at
The Benchmark, 1515 Barrington

Road, Hoffman Estates, Ill. 60194,
where their new home overlooks
a lake and a golf course. George, a
former class president who was
very active in the Alumni Associa¬
tion, is suffering from Alzheim¬
er's disease. They send their
regards to the class and thank
many classmates for the "sense of
pleasure and fulfillment" they
have received as fellow alumni.

We wish the McKay family well in
their new lives.

Millicent and Roy Miller are
concentrating on tennis as they
enter retirement. On the other
hand, Jim Nugent has taken on a
new job and writes that he is
enjoying it. He and Marianria cel¬
ebrated their 40th wedding anni¬
versary this year. Jim spends the
summer commuting between
Southampton and New York City.

Seth Rubenstein is actively
involved in the practice of law, as
is his son Joshua '76, '79 LLD. Son
Ephraim '78, '87 MFA, is profes¬
sor of painting at the University of
Richmond and Micah is professor
of music at Kenyon College. Seth
is a grandfather times four.

Jesse Schomer is still very
active in the field of psychiatry
and said he enjoys hearing about
his classmates.

Arthur Wittenstein is also
engaged in the legal field, work¬
ing with Stroock & Stroock &
Lavan in New York.

Please keep the letters coming.
We are interested in any change
in your life or in the family's lives.

Joseph B. Russell

180 Cabrini Boulevard,
Apt. 21

New York, N.Y. 10033

What a weekend! '49ers from near
and far gathered on campus for a
40th reunion the likes of which
none have seen before, and
among us were many who had
never returned for any Columbia
activity. Our directory contains a
fair bit of information from and
about those who troubled to
respond, but Alvin White's pro¬
file came in too late for inclusion;
here it is:

"I married my high school
sweetheart when we were soph¬
omores in college, after my dis¬
charge from the U.S. Navy in
1946. We moved to California
where I received my Ph.D. in
mathematics from Stanford. I've
been at Harvey Mudd College
since 1962.

"My greatest personal satisfac¬
tions have been organizing my
faculty colleagues to appreciate
interdisciplinary studies and to
view mathematics as a humanistic
discipline. Next year I'm going to
study the philosophy of mathe¬
matics, especially values in
mathematics.

"Our two sons are established.
My wife has a responsible posi¬
tion. We get to be with our two
grandchildren often because they
live in the same city."

In response to the College's
offer I had put forward the name
of an old friend who had been
pigeonholed in a different class;
he and wife Norma were duly
invited to attend Saturday's fes¬
tivities as guests of the College.
They did so, and in the event he
got himself properly reclassified
as a '49er. I take the liberty of shar¬
ing with you Paul Moroz's letter:

"I am deeply in debt to you for
being the catalyst to make Satur¬
day possible for me with all its
joys. Norma enjoyed it
immensely: She had her own
reunion with John Weaver whom
she knew as an agency TV pro¬
ducer at Compton and at Esty. He
looked familiar when we stood
together watching the Army-
Columbia game film and I finally
realized that I, too, knew him at
Compton over 13 years ago. The
film was a rare and great pleasure
with Gene Rossides narrating it
as a participant in the event. As
the Lion mascot in the game, I
stood on the sidelines, and there¬
fore did not [have] the perspective
of the film taken from the press
box. On Saturday, it seemed so
fresh because I came to under¬
stand how that courageous and
smart team won. (I also got a
glimpse of myself—and now
Norma knows I am a Lion.)"

Paul also ran into a Stuyvesant
High School classmate: "Seeing
and talking with Dominick Pur¬
pura after almost exactly 44 years
was a moving experience, and
gave me the opportunity to pay
him homage for his attainments of
which I was aware over the years.

I had aimed to make a visit on
Saturday if I could. It had to be a
last-minute decision since a fifth
grandchild is imminent and
because of some other pending
obligations. Then came the letter
from Michael Klebnikov '76 of the
alumni office. (His great-grand¬
father was the garrison com¬
mander near my father's village
[in Byelorussia].) Because of you,
a visit became an event. Thank
you."

For those of you who have not
heard, we have new class officers,
elected by acclamation following
Saturday's festive dinner: suc¬
ceeding Bill Lubic as president,
to serve for a like term of 40 years,
George Cook; to serve as vice
president, Bob Rosencrans; and
as our class fund chairman. Jack
Stukey. Somehow or another I
became secretary; please remem¬
ber to let me know when anything
of interest happens to, with or
about you.

Dick Hyman '48 (third from right, beside First Lady Barbara Bush) is music director of The House I Live In, a set of
three one-hour specials for the PBS series In Performance at the White House. The programs celebrate democracy and
freedom through a variety of instrumental and vocal music, accompanied by dramatic readings. The first segment was
broadcast last July 5; pictured above, with President and Mrs. Bush, are the show's guests (left to right): opera star Simon
Estes, Tony Award-winning singer and actress Judy Kaye, actor Barry Bostwick, singer John Denver, and ragtime pianist
Joshua Rifkin. Mr. Hyman, a noted jazz pianist in his own right, has received six Most Valuable Player Awards from the
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and has won two Emmys—one for scoring Sunshine of the Way and
the other for the musical direction of a PBS special on Eubie Blake. A former music director for Arthur Godfrey and David
Frost, he has scored half a dozen films for Woody Allen. His most recent movie score was Moonstruck.

A deadline extension provided
an opportunity to update the
activities of several more class¬
mates: George Brehm showed up
at a recent John Jay donors' recep¬
tion, looking barely older than
when I last saw him, some 20
years back. He reports that in
addition to being active in the
Quaker ministry he has become
an astronomer and consultant,
dividing his time between metro
N. Y. and the Rio Grande valley.

Not satisfied with being edi¬
torial director of Random House,
Jason Epstein is also publishing a
Reader's Catalogue which offers, by
mail order, more than 40,000
books in print in some 200 distinct
categories. Word has it that it is
about as large as the Manhattan
phonebook.

A high school classmate of
mine, recently retired from teach¬
ing history at that same institu¬
tion, reports that James Fenner,
who has long been chairman of
the English department at
Lafayette H.S. in Brooklyn, has
retired. To him and his lovely
wife, warm wishes for a long,
healthy and fulfilling life.

The comprehensive N.Y.C.
Charter revision proposal voted
on in November's election was
hammered out by a distinguished

commission which numbered
among its hard-working mem¬
bers Judah Gribetz, "statesman"
(so described by fellow member
Fred Friendly). If memory serves,
Judah dissented from the major¬
ity report. '49ers remain idiosyn¬
cratic iconoclasts; long may they
continue.

On July 1, your correspondent
was sworn in as Acting Village
Justice in Ocean Beach, N. Y., the
Fire Island community where he
has had a summer home since
1971. Will the real judges please
stop snickering?

Again, we keep in touch only to
the extent you keep in touch.
Thanks to those of you who have
taken the time (it doesn't need all
that much) to write, and a
repeated plea to the rest of you
out there—let me hear from you,
if not in writing then by phone;
my number is (212) 923-7642.

Mario Palmieri

33 Lake view Ave.

West Peekskill, N. Y.
10566

Trivia quiz: June 1990 will mark
the 40th anniversary of what his¬
toric event? Hint: You were there
in the company of a future U.S.

President and a future dean of
Columbia College. Got it?

Of course—the Big Four-Oh for
the Class of '50. And listen to this:
some of your classmates are
already at work, in concert with
the Office of Alumni Affairs, to
make it a memorable occasion.

Spearheading the preparations
are Carl Hovde and Bud Kassel,
co-chairs of the activities commit¬
tee; Norman Skinner, heading
the attendance committee; Ash
Green, Alex MacDonell and
Mario Palmieri on the directory
committee; and Mike Loeb head¬
ing the fund committee.

I can tell you that enthusiasm is
running high among classmates
with whom I've spoken. Maybe
there's something magical about
the number 40, but whatever the
reason, I think we're going to
have a terrific reunion.

Now to news of our friends. Joe
Mehan wrote to let us know that
he retired from the United
Nations, where he headed the
UNESCO Liaison Office, but then
was "unretired" to serve as a con¬
sultant to the organization. Joe is
also teaching a seminar at Yale this
fall on "Communications as a Fac¬
tor in International Relations." He
also mentioned that he became a
grandpa for the first time.

Speaking of retiring, I guess I
should mention that I have retired
from full-time work but am keep¬
ing busy as a freelance writer.

Dick Hukari sent a postcard
from Bermuda to let us know that
he survived Hurricane Dean, and
that he had seen John Iorio on a
St. Petersburg, Fla., PBS telecast.
John is a professor of English at
the Univ. of South Florida,

Tampa. No doubt about it; the
Class of '50 is making its mark on
the world.

Speaking of which, if you want
to make your mark, return the
reunion questionnaire you have
received. With your help we will
have a super class directory. After
all, who else is going to offer you
the opportunity to write your
own biography and have it
published?

Richard N. Priest

Bryan, Cave,
McPheeters &
McRoberts
500 North Broadway
St. Louis, Mo. 63102

Not much to report, but anyway:

George Keller, former editor of
Columbia College Today, is now a
senior fellow at the Graduate
School of Education of the Univer¬
sity of Pennsylvania.

Congratulations to Peter T.
Suzuki. Peter, who is Foundation
Professor, Department of Public
Administration at the University
of Nebraska, is the 1989 recipient
of the Burlington Northern Fac¬
ulty Achievement Award. This
award is given to a member of the
University of Nebraska at Omaha
faculty for excellence in research
and teaching.

Let your classmates know what
is happening to you. Send me a
note for the next issue.

Robert Kandel

Craftsweld
26-26 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City, N. Y.
11101

This report will be brief because I
am sorry to report that I have
nothing to report in this edition
because no one has reported any¬
thing for me to report. Future
reports in this space will depend
upon reports received, if any. In
other words... write!!!

Lew Robins

89 Sturges Highway
Westport, Conn. 06880

Columbia College Today

Thomas J. Swisher '53 has been
elected vice-president of Optimist
International, a service organization
which counts some 167,000 members
in the United States, Canada and the
Caribbean. The group sponsors a
range of youth- directed programs,
including "Just Say No," "Bike Safety
Week” and the Optimist Junior World
Golf Championships. Mr. Swisher is
president of Swisher & Associates, a
financial consulting firm in Fort
Myers, Fla., where he lives with his
wife, Gwen. They have three daugh¬
ters and six grandchildren.

Howard Falberg

25 Coley Drive
Weston, Conn. 06883
It was a great 35th reunion. About
60 of our class members gathered
during the course of the June 2-4
weekend. Most came with their
wives or "significant others." The
weather was glorious, the campus
looked beautiful and the genuine
warmth that the reunion gener¬
ated among classmates who
attended was both real and a
boost to one's spirits.

The beauty of the reunion
weekend program was that it
allowed us to participate with
other five-year reunion classes
while we had very specific '54
events. Hank Buchwald came in
from Minneapolis and assured us
that bionic living was currently a
reality for us and would be an
even more important part of our
lives in the years to come. I guess
that means that we can count on a
good turnout for our 75th
reunion. Pete Ehrenhaft updated
us as an insider on the Washing¬
ton scene and I ended up feeling
more confident about Peter being
in our nation's capital than some
of the other people who get more
media coverage.

The dinner boat ride around
Manhattan was outstanding and
the Sunday brunch next to the

boathouse at Baker Field capped a
wonderful weekend. Jay Seeman
and Alan Fendrick did a great job
as reunion co-chairmen.

As a class we exceeded our
reunion gift goal of $750,000,
thereby endowing Columbia Col¬
lege's Urban New York program,
establishing a Class scholarship
and providing general purpose
funds for the College. Along with
the support of a great committee,
Harvey Rubin and Bob Viarengo
did an extraordinary record-set¬
ting job as fund co-chairmen.

I know that like ourselves, '54
activities improve with age. Out¬
side of a much larger turnout, our
40th will have to go quite a way to
improve upon our 35th.

On September 21, the Society of
Columbia Graduates held its 80th
annual Great Teacher Award din¬
ner. Representing our class were
Dick Bernstein, Kamel Bahary,
Bob Weber, Len Moche, Alan
Fendrick and myself. It was a
stimulating meeting, and fun,
too.

Saul Turteltaub is the Columbia
Alumni Club of Southern Califor¬
nia's Alumnus of the Year.
Congratulations!

Gerald Sherwin

181 East 73rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10021

There are only a few months to go
before our 35th reunion on cam¬
pus, June 1-3. The class steering
committee has been meeting with
great diligence on a regular basis
in Ezra Levin's office in mid-Man¬
hattan. The committee has grown
tremendously, with members
from not only the tristate area, but
other parts of the country as well.
The interest level is higher, if pos¬
sible, than it was for our wonder¬
ful 30th.

Committee members from the
New York area include Herb
Cohen, Bob Brown, Bill Epstein,
George Gudger, Arnold
Schwartz, Bub Kushner, Jay
Joseph, Donn Coffee, Bob Ber-
not, Charles Solomon, Edward
Siegel, Ferdie Setaro, Steve
Bernstein, Tom Chrystie, Ed
Ettinger, Alfred Gollomp, Allen
Hyman, Jim Phelan, Roland Plot-
tel, Ezra Levin, Peter Douglas,
Jack Armstrong, John Graham,
and your trusted correspondent;
from Long Island we have Paul
Mitchell, John Nelson, Joe Sav-
ino, and Denis Haggerty; from
upstate New York come Chuck
Garrison, Daniel Bernard, Gor¬
don Kaye, and Emile Bernard;
Connecticut sends us Bob
Dillingham and Dan Culhane;

from New Jersey we have Tom
Chrystie, George Raitt, Paul Zim¬
merman, Frank Laudonio, and
Ferdie Setaro; A1 Momjian and
Dave Stevens join us from Phila¬
delphia. We have members at
even greater distances from N.Y.:
Joseph Zielezienski (Bethesda,
Md.); Jim Larson (Toledo, Ohio);
Ben Hoffman (Eau Claire, Wise.);
John Wagner (Brighton, Mich.);
Gerhardt Hein (Grosse Pointe
Farms, Mich.); Dick Carr (Homo-
sassa, Fla.); Bob Mercier (Scotts¬
dale, Ariz.); Ralph Tanner
(Saratoga, Calif.); Jeff Broido (La
Jolla, Calif.); and from the Ameri¬
can Embassy in Germany, Rich¬
ard Benedick.

Plans for special events are still
being finalized, but they include a
class reception on Friday evening,
June 1, and a special reception/
dinner on Saturday, June 2. In
addition, we are trying to arrange
for several speakers from the class
to address us on Saturday. If you
remember (it's only been five
years, guys), the noted raconteur,
critic, and historian of the theater
Martin Gottfried gave a terrific
talk at our 30th reunion.

The momentum is building.

Neil Opdyke, who is chairman of
the geology department at the
University of Florida, contacted
us before he and his wife went on
a four-month sabbatical to
Europe. Neil was in the process of
contacting all classmates who
played or managed football at the
old Baker Field to get them to
come to the 35th and maybe have
a pre-reunion reunion.

We are trying to ascertain the
whereabouts of A1 Ginepra. Al,
call us. Let your classmates know
where you are.

Super sleuth Edward Siegel has
tracked down several of our "lost"
members. Harry Wagner has
been in our own back yard, living
right around the corner from
Columbia. Henry Wolf was in
Falls Church, Va. Hank, as he is
affectionately known, is director
of ADP at Grumman. The third
"lost soul," Paul Baum, is living in
Great Neck and is associate pro¬
fessor of physics at Queens Col¬
lege, CUNY. Ed Siegel didn't stop
at the East Coast in his endless
search. Living in Marina del Rey,
Calif., is Malcolm Barbour, who
has his own television and motion
picture production company. Mai
is executive producer of the TV
series Cops, and has a two-hour
TV movie coming up on HBO.

The last of this batch of classmates
to have been found is Bob Zeph,
who lives on Long Island. With a
little prodding. Bob may make it

to the reunion.

Key events involving our class
over the past several months have
included getting together at
Homecoming and the special
"Kickoff" reception at Anthony
Viscusi's apartment on Novem¬
ber 1. More than 75 classmates
and guests were present at the
Kickoff, renewing old friendships
and getting a chance to chat with
Dean Jack Greenberg '45. So far,
close to two hundred question¬
naires have been returned. It is
important that those classmates
who have not filled theirs out
reach into the drawer, dig to the
bottom of the pile of papers, and
fill out one of the three or four
copies of the questionnaire sent to
them. A class directory is being
planned—we want everyone's
pertinent information (no pic¬
tures, please).

There are a few other things to
report: Boris Ivovich, living with
his family in Annandale, N.J., is a
medical director at Hunterdon
Development Center in Clinton.
Also in New Jersey, Gerry
Pomper has a new book. The Elec¬
tion of1988, published by
Chatham House. Gerry's son just
graduated from the College.

Big Dan Hovey has moved. He
and his family are now ensconced
in Rochester, N.Y. near the Beryl
Nusbaums.

For those who have been won¬
dering what Richard Knapp has
been doing, wonder no more!
Richard, who lives with his family
in Cary, N.C., directs the Bar¬
buda, West Indies Volunteer
Medical Program, which he
founded in 1981. The program is
responsible for obtaining supplies
and funds plus volunteer doctors
and dentists for Springview Hos¬
pital, Barbuda.

On a sad note, we offer sincere
condolences to the Karp family in
New York City on the passing of
Walter Karp a short time ago.

Look for the next Newsletter for
a reunion update.

Stay well. Love to all,
everywhere!

Victor Levin
Hollenberg Levin
Solomon Ross &
Belsky

585 Stewart Avenue
Garden City, N.Y. 11530

It is with deep regret that we
mourn the passing of Michael P.
Rosenthal, who died on March
14,1989. Mike, who was 52, held
the Thomas S. Maxey Profes¬
sorship in the School of Law at the
University of Texas at Austin. His
scholarly interest was in criminal
law and drug abuse control pol¬
icy. He had previously taught at

Alumni Sons and Daughters

Sixty-two members of the Class of 1993 are children of College alumni.

Children

Nicole Angiel
Maplewood, N.J.
Jonathan Arbolino
Tenafly, N.J.

Nadya Birnholz
Amherst, N.Y.

Robert T. Bonn
Garden City, N.Y.
Peter Brady
Ridgefield, Conn.
Amy Budin
Englewood, N.J.
Christopher Burrows
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Alexander Cohen
New York, N.Y.

Alan D. Cohn
Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.
Laura Cook
Pittsfield, Mass.

Risa Diemond
Millbrook, N.Y.

Adam Ducker
Suffem, N.Y.

Daniel Ehrenhaft
Washington, D.C.
Michael Feldman
Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
Emily Fischbein
Short Hills, N.J.

Alan Freeman
Bethesda, Md.

Miriam M.

Friedlander
Lexington, Mass.
Jennifer Friedman
Scarsdale, N.Y.
Yitzhak Gitelman
Southfield, Mich.
Elizabeth Gomperz
Short Hills, N.J.

Fathers

Serge Angiel '60
Philip Arbolino '68
Alan Birnholz '67
Robert L. Bonn '59
Gerald Brady '51
Joel Budin '65
David Burrows '67
Donald Cohen '57
Peter F. Cohn '58
Charles J. Cook '63
Joel Diemond '64
Paul Ducker '53
Peter Ehrenhaft '54
Arnold Feldman '58
Robert Fischbein '60
Arthur Freeman '58
Daniel Friedlander '66

Joel Friedman '61
Zvi Gitelman '62
Paul Gomperz '58

Peter Graff

Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.
Tania Gregory
Aiken, S.C.

Alexandra Hillson
Lloyd Neck, N.Y.
Jocelyn Judd
Middleboro, Mass
Jill Kateman
Wellesley, Mass.
Nicholas Kottak
Ann Arbor, Mich.
David Kreeger
Miami Beach, Fla.
Erika Lasko
Chevy Chase, Md.
David Lerner
Teaneck, N.J.

Sara Levin
San Francisco, Calif.
David E. Levine
Los Angeles, Calif.
Daniel A. Levy
St. Albans, Vt.

Sascha Liebowitz
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Candice Loeffler
Potomac, Md.

Daniel Lorge
Paxton, Mass.

Joel Lusman
East Setauket, N.Y.
Harlan Malter
West Newton, Mass.
Kathryn Maris
Old Westbury, N.Y.
Shana Marmon
Roslyn Heights, N.Y.
John P. Mathews
Washington, D.C.
Jeremy Matz
Los Angeles, Calif.

George Graff '62
Michael Gregory '66
Solomon Hillson '61
Robert N. Judd '60
Paul Kateman '64
Conrad Kottak '63
Julian Kreeger '61
Warren Lasko '62
Stephen Lerner '60
John F. Levin '65
Robert E. Levine '60
James Levy '65
Stanley Liebowitz '61
Robert Loeffler '63
Benjamin Lorge '65
Paul Lusman '61
Ira Malter '63
Peter Maris '54
Allen Marmon '65
John F. Mathews '57
Alvin Matz '65

William Maxwell

Cambridge, Mass.

Jay Michaelson
Tampa, Fla.

George Miller
Brooklyn, N.Y.

Frank Nussbaum
Scarsdale, N.Y.

Tracy Palmieri
Brookville, N.Y.

Koco Phillips
Atlanta, Ga.

Elizabeth Roman
Bronxville, N.Y.
Tammie Rosen
Denver, Colo.

Michael Rothfeld
Livingston, N.J.
Elizabeth Rudin
Belle Harbor, N.Y.
Matthew Schechter
New York, N.Y.
Jon-Bernard Schwartz
San Antonio, Texas
Molly Sellner
Brookfield, Conn.
Jason A. Smith
Vienna, Va.

Peter Sultan
Old Westbury, N.Y.
Myles Wang
Basking Ridge, N.J.
Steven Winitsky
Miami, Fla.

Margaret Wolf
Springfield, Mass.
Jessica Wollman
Pittsburgh, Pa.

David Worenklein
Englewood, N.J.
Christopher Zilla
Wollaston, Mass.

Hugh Maxwell '69
Stanley Michaelson '47
Bernard Miller '61
Bernard Nussbaum '58
Thomas Palmieri '60
Peter Phillips '66
Norton Roman '56
Reuven Rosen '57
Stuart Rothfeld '59
Ira Rudin '64
Daniel Schechter '64
Bernard Schwartz '64
Henry Sellner '63
David B. Smith '66
Burton Sultan '56
Stephen Wang '60
Theodore Winitsky '64
Anthony Wolf '62
Michael Wollman '64
Jacob Worenklein '70
Leo Zilla '68

Rutgers after clerking forjudge
Harold Medina oftheU.S. Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit,
and then a brief stint at private
practice. A Phi Beta Kappa, he
leaves his wife, Mimi, and a
daughter, Regina, both of Austin.

I believe that this is the first death
of a classmate that I have reported
in my several years writing this
column.

Dick Capen, former publisher
of The Miami Herald, has been pro¬
moted to a senior position with
the Knight-Ridder newspaper
chain. Dick gained national recog¬

nition for making the Herald one
of the most prominent daily
newspapers in the country.

Joe Berzok has become presi¬
dent of Macy's South/Bullock's, a
47-store division located through¬
out the Sunbelt. He has decided
to cut the airlines' profits by
relocating to Atlanta. Both of his
children are getting married this
year.

Don Horowitz, who has served
for a time as a judge, is enjoying
his senior partnership in an
important law firm in Seattle.

What are you doing these days?

Kenneth Bodenstein

Duff & Phelps
2029 Century Park East
Suite 880

Los Angeles, Calif.
90067

Judy and A1 Frommer spent the
summer crisscrossing the coun¬
try, helping celebrate August and
Lou Rothman's son's wedding
(Mark '85) in Los Angeles and Sue
and Ken Bodenstein's daughter's
wedding (Leslie) in Chicago. All
happening during the successful
move of Al's business. Art Sup¬
plies Wholesale, to a new location

in Beverly, Mass. Al's son Ben,
Class of '92, is an editor of the
exciting new paper on campus.
The Federalist Paper.

Bob Lehner, our Federal pros¬
ecutor, is still with the Federal
Strike Force in Miami. His wife
Lisa just joined the State Attor¬
ney's office as an attorney. This
past summer, Bob, after fighting
off defeat in several tough
matches, lost in the finals of the
32nd South Florida Seniors Tennis
Tournament.

Columbia College Today

Barry Dickman

Esanu Katsky Korins &
Siger

500 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10036
When your reporter was vacation¬
ing in California this past sum¬
mer, we had dinner with Diane
and Asher Rubin at their home in
Tiburon, across the bay from San
Francisco. Asher is still a state
assistant attorney general; Diane
was in the process of starting her
own CPA firm. They were about
to take off for a month in France
with their two delightful children,
Jacob, 5, and Shaina, 2.

Harlan Lane's 1984 book. When
the Mind Hears: A History of the
Deaf, has now been issued in
paperback.

Carl Stern, NBC-TV's Washing¬
ton law correspondent, found
himself closer to the headlines
than usual this past spring when
the judge presiding over the
Oliver North trial recruited him to
serve as intermediary between
the judge and the press. Carl
helped the judge deal with media
inquiries in one of the most heav¬
ily publicized proceedings in
recent history.

In addition to his ophthal¬
mology practice in San Francisco,
the versatile Joel Levine reports
that he and his wife, Amy, pro¬
duce As We Like It, a quarterly din¬
ing guide for the Bay Area and
beyond. The issues Joel sent us
included reviews of restaurants as
far from the Golden Gate as Paris,
Brussels and Basel. Another pre-
med still adding extracurricular
activities to his resume!

Edward C. Mendrzycki

Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett

425 Lexington Avenue,
Rm. 1916

New York, N.Y. 10017

Our 30th reunion in June was
wonderful, with more than 80 of
our classmates and their families
attending. Among the highlights
were Allan Gardner's report on
the Class of 1959 survey and the
lectures by Clive Chajet, chair¬
man and CEO of Lippincott &
Margulies on "What Will Tomor¬
row Bring?" and by George
Mann, professor of architecture
and 1989 faculty lecturer at Texas
A&M University on "People,
Resources and Architecture: 21st
Century Challenges."

We also just elected the follow¬
ing new officers: president
Michael Allen, vice president Ed
Mendrzycki, secretary/treasurer
Mike Tannenbaum, and fund
chairmen David Peck and Bob
Stone.

You should have received the
30th Reunion Directory, which

William Borden '60 wrote two dra¬
matic works which figured promi¬
nently in the 1989 North Dakota
Centennial celebration. His opera,
Sakakawea: The Woman with
Many Names, with music by
Thomas Peterson, premiered in Grand
Forks in September, and his play,
When the Meadowlark Sings
(which earned a $10,000 award as the
Centennial Drama), began a statewide
tour in October. Another of Mr.
Borden's dramas, The Last Pros¬
titute, has been optioned for film by
Universal Studios; it was earlier pro¬
duced in New York, Los Angeles and
Denver. And, at last word, a Minne¬
apolis film company was negotiating
for the rights to his play Loon
Dance, which won the 1988 Hum¬
boldt State University Playwriting
Competition. Now on sabbatical leave
from the University of North Dakota,
where he is professor of English, Mr.
Borden reports more works on the
way. Til be researching and writing
two plays," he says, "one about the
philosopher Wittgenstein, the other
commemorating the 500th anniver¬
sary of the discovery of Columbus by
America (sic!)"

contains the Class Survey Report
and Class Directory. If you
haven't taken the time to read it, I
recommend that you do. It is full
of interesting information about
many of your classmates.

J. David Farmer

University Art
Museum

University of California
Santa Barbara, Calif.
93106

Plans are under way for a memo¬
rable 30th reunion in June. Three
committees have been meeting to
make this happen: Bob Abrams
and Bill Host are co-chairing the
Activities committee; Bob Berne,
Bob Machleder and Larry Men-
delson are co-chairing the Fund
committee; and Steve Lerner is in

charge of the Directory commit¬
tee. If any of you would like to get
involved, please contact our
chairmen. We need your
participation.

You'd have to have been on
Mars for several years not to know
that Robert A. M. Stern has
become one of America's best-
known architects. Your corre¬
spondent, an art historian, knows
him as well as a provocative archi¬
tecture critic and historian. One
recent news item celebrates the
opening of the new Casting Cen¬
ter for job applicants building,
designed for the Disney Corpora¬
tion. It is described in The New
York Times as "Cinderella Gothic—
a functional building designed to
double as court jester." Another
item announces a line of bed-
sheets designed by our classmate
for Westpoint Pepperell. Like his
architecture, they reveal a respect
for past architectural styles and
ornamentation.

One of the few classmates seen
regularly by your correspondent
is Norman Hildes-Heim, also a
successful architect. Norman was
a mainstay of the varsity light¬
weight crew (still a supporter of
the Columbia program) and has
covered rowing internationally
for The New York Times for a num¬
ber of years. Your correspondent,
also a lightweight rower in those
earlier years (but much less
skilled), continues to row and
sees Norman at least once a year at
San Diego's Crew Classic. It's a
tough job for Norman, but some¬
one has to do it.

Michael Hausig

3534 Interlachen Road
Augusta, Ga. 30907

Stuart Sloame reports that his
wife Ellen gave birth to their first
child, Joanna Lynn, on June 24,
1987. Stuart is Deputy General
Counsel, U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Develop¬
ment.

David Wilson has moved to
Brussels as counselor for public
affairs for the U.S. Mission to the
EEC.

Ethan S. Rofman, M.D., direc¬
tor of human services and chief of
psychiatry at New England
Memorial Hospital, Stoneham, is
the recipient of a "Pride in Medi¬
cine Nurse/Physician Quality
Award." Dr. Rofman received the
award at a ceremony in West
Springfield on June 29.

Robert R. Salman became one
of the senior litigation partners at
Carter, Ledyard & Milburn in
New York City. Bob lives in Marl¬
boro, N.J.

Eugene F. Milone, a professor
of physics at the University of Cal¬
gary, has been awarded a Killan

Resident Fellowship to work on
two books.

Joel J. Karp has become senior
tax partner at Paul, Landy, Bailey
& Harper in Miami.

Dr. David W. Pugh has been on
sabbatical leave in Rochester, N.Y.
David is a high school teacher in
the Toledo, Ohio school system.

Robert E. Juceam was honored
recently at the American Immi¬
gration Law Foundation gala din¬
ner in Washington, D.C., for his
generous and unique contribu¬
tions to the immigration field as a
leader, mentor, advocate and
friend. Bob lives in Manhasset,
N.Y.

Julian Amkraut was elected
president of the New York City
High School Football Officials
Association for 1989. This is Julie's
25th year as a football official. His
son, Brian '90, has been elected
captain of the Columbia rugby
football club. The team was
undefeated last spring. On a sad
note, Ruth Amkraut, Julie's wife
of 23 years, passed away after a
two-year battle with cancer. We
offer our heartfelt sympathies to
the Amkraut family.

Ed Pressman

3305 211th Street
Bayside, N.Y. 11361

We have an update on the odys¬
sey of Robert Allan Kohn with
the U.S. Foreign Service. He has
transferred from Athens to our
embassy in Madrid as counselor
for commercial affairs. He has fre¬
quently been back to the U.S. as a
guest speaker at conferences
about the upcoming European
single market in 1992. Robert has
two sons: Aaron is pre-med at
Franklin & Marshall College in
Lancaster, Pa. while Robert Alex¬
ander is a junior at the School of
Foreign Service, Georgetown
University. Robert expects to
remain in Madrid through 1992,
and points out that during this
period, Spain will be the host
country for the summer Olympics
in Barcelona, the World's Fair in
Seville, and the Quincentennial of
the discovery of Atnerica. Not that
we're envious.

From a kibbutz in Israel Barry
Levinson writes that he is doing
quite well. He works with the
planning of the Kibbutz Artzi
(Kibbutz Movement) in Tel Aviv.
His job is "to build a system for
design and drafting with com¬
puters for architecture and engi¬
neering." Barry has a son and
three daughters. The two oldest
are currently serving in the Israeli
army. The younger daughter is in
school.

Vincent Fasano corrresponds
with us from Montreal, where he
lives with his wife Julie and their

Bert Kleinman '63 (left) has been named producer of the popular radio series,
Casey's Top 40 With Casey Kasem. Mr. Kleinman, a veteran of more than 25
years in radio, oversees all aspects of the Westwood One Radio Network's weekly
countdown, hosted in Los Angeles by Mr. Kasem (right) and heard over more
than 450 stations nationwide. Mr. Kleinman has been with Westwood One since
1978 and has written and produced a number of series, specials, and "rockumen-
taries," including The Rock Years, Radio USA for Africa, The History of
Rock and Roll, and Album Greats, a 48-hour history of album rock. He has
been affiliated with WRFM, WABC and WPLJ in New York, as well as CBS
News and Radio Luxembourg. Mr. Kleinman got his start in radio at Columbia's
WKCR as a United Nations correspondent; he's also proud to say that he was a
copyboy at The New York Herald Tribune. Mr. Kleinman now lives in Pacific
Palisades, Calif, with his wife, Carol, and three daughters.

two children, Eric, 15, and Louise,
11. Vincent works at Dawson Col¬
lege in Westmount, a suburb of
Montreal. He speaks proudly of
his son's achievements, both aca¬
demic and athletic. Eric is an
honor student in his school's
advanced science and math pro¬
gram, and a provincial level
medalist in track.

John Valentino has become
senior vice-president and man¬
ager of the Bank of Tokyo Trust
Co. in New York. He is in charge
of the securities industry depart¬
ment at the bank, managing
global relations of major securities
firms. He and his wife Marguerite
live in Glen Ridge, N.J. There are
three children in the Valentino
household: Jennifer, who entered
Caldwell College last fall, John, a
power-hitting sophomore at Glen
Ridge High, and Christopher,
also at Glen Ridge in his freshman
year. John has developed a unique
leisure interest: he studies high-
quality Italian wines of good
value. We want to know—did our
wild campus parties spark this
hobby?

Arthur Ware is enjoying his job
as director of gifted education of
the Edmonds School District in
Lynwood, Wash. He is an elder of
the Cottage Lake Presbyterian
Church, where he also teaches
adult classes. He coaches three
scholastic sports, which prevents
him from enjoying any leisure
activities. Arthur has three chil¬
dren, two of whom are engineer¬
ing majors at Ivy League schools:
Mike is a junior at Princeton and
Andy is a freshman at Harvard.
Daughter Laurie is a junior in high
school, where she plays volleyball
and softball as well as oboe and
saxophone. Arthur's wife Eloise is
a reading and language remedia¬
tion instructor at Immanuel High
in Bellevue, Wash. Last but cer¬
tainly not least, Arthur is active on
the Columbia Secondary Schools
Committee, interviewing pro¬
spective Columbia applicants.

Captain Galen Plummer, USN,
is "Director Nuclear/Submarine
Officer-Distribution Nuclear Pro¬
pulsion Program Manager" in
Washington, D.C. This recent
assignment places Galen as pro¬
gram manager for all nuclear-
trained personnel in the Navy. He
finds this position extremely
"interesting and challenging."
Recently transferred from
Hawaii, Galen is now living in
Springfield, Va., with his wife
Regina and three children: David
has just graduated from the Uni¬
versity of Hawaii, Sandy is study¬
ing music at the University of
Michigan, and Rebecca is in ele¬
mentary school.

John Chinkel is an agent and
financial planner for New York

Life Insurance Co. with an office
near his home in Queens. John is
also doing interviews for the Sec¬
ondary Schools Committee, and
has found that experience to be "a
most rewarding one." Recently
John learned that Richard Hansen
is also working for New York Life
and, as a result, they have re¬
established their friendship after
all these years.

Sidney P. Kadish

215 Dorset Road
Waban, Mass. 02168

We had two enjoyable visits last
summer from '63 notables: The
first was from Maynard
Rabinowitz and his charming
wife, Judy. Manny, an attorney in
Manhattan, has been specializing
for years in corporate law. He
explains that this means shifting
money from one pile to another
pile with legal refinements.
Recently he became counsel to the
publishers of the National Enquirer.
Manny enthusiastically solicits
manuscripts from the CCT read¬
ership, and enjoins us to purchase
the Enquirer, not just leaf through
it at the check-out counter.

Our second visitor was Bernard
Kabak, with his charming wife,
liana. Also an attorney, Bernie
serves as counsel to the New York

State Comptroller with a special
interest in New York City finance.
Not bad for a fellow who still can't
balance his checkbook. Bernie
explains that his office was created
in response to the New York fiscal
crisis in 1975, and was to termi¬
nate when the financial emer¬
gency was over. But bureaucracies
being what they are, when the
crisis passed, his office was made
permanent and doubled in size.

We recently heard about Marc
Galanter while driving to work.
His book. Cults: Faith, Healing and
Coercion, was favorably reviewed
on National Public Radio and also
in The New York Times. Marc is a
professor of psychiatry at NYU
School of Medicine, where he
directs the alcoholism and drug
abuse program.

Paul M. Lehrer writes from
Kendall Park, N.J., that he is a clin¬
ical psychologist, recently pro¬
moted to professorial rank at the
Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School in New Jersey. Paul is the
author of a widely read source
book. Principles and Practice of
Stress Management. He is married
to the former Phyllis Alpert, with
two children: Jeffrey, 20, a Bran-
deis student currently studying at
Oxford, and Suzanne, 15.

Contemporary Civilization or
Music Hum curriculum revisers:

is it time for Don Giovanni to
move over and cut some slack for
good ol' rock 'n' roll? Readers:
send in your opinions. They will
be published in the Enquirer, or
better yet in the next CCT.

Gary Schonwald

Tenzer, Greenblatt,
Fallon & Kaplan
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10174
Since I was unable to attend many
of our reunion events, Brian Saf-
fer was good enough to cover the
weekend for this column. Here's
his report on a fabulous 25th
reunion:

The reunion was a smashing
success with almost two hundred
'64 alumni, spouses, children and
friends arriving for the three-day
weekend. All were in suitably fes¬
tive spirits for the weekend and
even the weather cooperated by
supplying three sunny June days
during which the campus looked
its best.

The Friday night kickoff was a
cocktail party at the spectacular
Park Avenue apartment of Maya
and Larry Goldschmidt. The
atmosphere dripped with nostal¬
gia as the old camaraderie was re¬
established among people who
had not seen each other, in many
cases, for 25 years. The most fre¬
quent topic of discussion seemed
to be how fat, gray, bald or
wrinkled some of us had become.
Your correspondent also noted
that he was in good company
among classmates who were in a
race to see whether they would go
bald before they went totally gray
or vice versa. Those who wished a
quiet moment to sip their drinks
got quite an eyeful perusing the
wonderful artwork and antiques.

The highlight of Saturday's
lunch was a very perceptive
speech by New York Senator Pat
Moynihan (secured for us
through the connections of John
Cirigliano) on the challenges that
face Mikhail Gorbachev in trying
to improve agricultural and
industrial productivity in a coun¬
try whose leading exports, furs
and caviar, are those of a hunter-
gatherer society. Later that same
afternoon we were treated to Pro¬
fessor Joe Rothschild's percep¬
tions of how the fate of the Central
European countries, particularly
Poland and Czechoslovakia, fit in
with the desire of the Soviet
Union to be less involved and
drained by these countries.

The crowning event of the
weekend was the Saturday night
dinner, hosted by University
President Michael I. Sovern '53.
The first major highlight of the
evening was the presentation by
Joe O'Donnell, A1 Butts, John

Columbia College Today

S itting in his office at Memo¬
ries magazine, a few blocks
north of Times Square, Carey
Winfrey looks the way you
might expect a 47-year-old, Ivy-
educated magazine editor to
look: calm, intelligent, well-
groomed, tweedy. He's articu¬
late and witty, and he holds the
journalistic equivalent of a ped¬
igree: Columbia Journalism
School, Time magazine, public
television. The New York Times,
and a published book, for
starters.

So it is unexpected that Mr.
Winfrey, a man who in the 1970's
covered Idi Amin's Uganda and
the Jonestown mass suicide,
credits tattletale European
celebrity magazines for the orig¬
inal look of Memories, a contem¬
porary magazine of yesteryear,
which debuted in January 1988.
In contrast with the serious
Winfrey image. Memories wore a
splashy cover of multiple
paparazzi-style photographs,
underscored with titillating tab¬
loid captions.

"I had a sense that there was
more energy and excitement in
some of the European maga¬
zines," Mr. Winfrey said, kneel¬
ing on the office carpeting with
covers torn from Paris Match,
Semana, Oggi and SHE, which
were among the $35 worth of
eye-catching titles he bought on
the first day of his Memories
assignment. He wanted a cover
that would make newsstand
browsers pick it up and look
inside. Once past the bait, he
hoped they would get hooked
on the magazine's serious, often
insightful firsthand accounts of
the news and newsmakers of 20
to 50 years ago.

"Most of the things that I've
done in my career have been
successes d'estime," said Mr.
Winfrey, who won an Emmy for
his public television series
Behind the Lines for 1973-74 and
the Columbia Journalism
School's Meyer Berger Award in
1978 for his feature writing at the
Times. "Awards are nice, but I
really want this magazine to be
successful commercially."

Part of the formula has come
from writers who know their
subjects. "We found over and
over again that the opportunity
to go back to what for many

reporters was one of the three or
four biggest stories of their
careers and take another look at
it [was] almost irresistible." For a
25-years-ago story about the
Boston Strangler, Mr. Winfrey
called mystery writer George
Higgins, who had covered the
Strangler for the Associated
Press and had even worked in
the prosecutor's office. "I don't
know you," he told Mr. Winfrey,
"and I don't know your maga¬
zine and I don't know what you
pay, but there's no way I'm not
going to do that story."

J ournalism wasn't an obvious
career choice for Mr. Winfrey,
the scion of a line of distin¬
guished horse trainers—his
father. Bill Winfrey, had trained
the racing legend Native
Dancer. In his 1975 autobiog¬
raphy, Starts and Finishes, Mr.
Winfrey wrote that as a boy he
was a regular at the training
grounds about New York City
and Florida. At McDonogh,
then a Maryland military school
popular among horsemen, he
worked earnestly to demon¬
strate his manliness to his father,
but the sword never interested
him as much as the pen. He
wanted to attend an elite col¬
lege; his English teacher sug¬
gested Columbia.

"I expected another row with
my father when I told him that I
wanted to go to Columbia," Mr.
Winfrey wrote. "If Williams'
reputation as a snob school had
bothered him, what of Colum¬
bia's as a 'pinko' school, a cradle
of sedition, even communism?"
To his surprise, his father was
pleased with the choice—he
was good friends with racing
excecutive Frank Kilroe '30.

At Columbia, Mr. Winfrey
joined St. A's and secretly
admired Princeton, but he also
trekked across the country on a
hitchhike worse than that of Jack
Kerouac '44. And while he spent
the academic year under the
spell of Lionel Trilling and F. W.
Dupee in the English depart¬
ment, he chose to spend his
summers with the Marines,
which he joined for three years
after graduation.

He then returned to Colum¬
bia, graduating with honors
from the Journalism School. An

internship with a Hong Kong
television station followed, but
"when all hell started breaking
loose" in 1968, he came back to
New York to land a job covering
the press for Time. The reputa¬
tion and connections he made
there prompted WNET to ask
him to produce a season of pro¬
grams about the press. "I got
there and they basically said,
'Here's your budget, go to it.'"
He stayed for five years, produc¬
ing Behind the Lines and Assign¬
ment America.

In 1977, Mr. Winfrey became
a metropolitan reporter at The
New York Times, moving on to
become a correspondent in
Africa the next year. En route to
his new assignment, he spent
two weeks covering the People's
Temple mass suicide in
Jonestown, Guyana.

"That was such an awful
story, but it was so exciting," he
said. "It confirmed my desire to
go overseas for the paper. But
when I got to Africa, I found
there were very few Jonestown
types of stories—most of the
stories were either wire service
stories or everything you want¬
ed to know about Tanzania."

At age 39, he quit the Times in
search of new challenges. After
working on a screenplay and a
novel, he joined CBS Cable and
later became director of video
development for CBS Con¬
sumer Publishing, the magazine
division. When publisher Peter
Diamandis bought the division,
he installed Mr. Winfrey as edi¬
tor of Cuisine magazine. He
knew nothing about the subject
but soon learned that "trying to
make sense out of manuscripts
was pretty much the same
whether you were writing about

fruitcakes or Idi Amin, who was
a fruitcake of another kind."

Mr. Winfrey made Cuisine so
successful, both editorially and
commercially, that the competi¬
tion, Conde Nast, "shot it out
from under me" by paying $10
million for its circulation list.
When Peter Diamandis
acquired 11 new titles from Ziff-
Davis in 1985, Mr. Winfrey
became his "editorial guru."
Then Mr. Diamandis thought
up Memories. "From that second
on, there was no question in my
mind that I was going to be the
one to edit it."

S o far, Memories has beaten
the odds that defeat most
new magazine ventures. Cir¬
culation, which began at
275,000, is now up to 600,000,
and Advertising Age has named
it "Best New Magazine of 1989."
The staff moved production up
from four to six times a year in
1989 and has plans to go
monthly this year. "It's been
great—it's been the most fun
I've had," said the editor. He has
a wife, Jane, and twin sons,
Graham and Welles, but when
he talks about "my baby," he is
referring to Memories, which is
"not just an exercise in nostal¬
gia," he says.

"It's as important for culture
to have a memory as it is for an
individual, and it's important to
profit from that cultural mem¬
ory. Not only to avoid repeating
mistakes, but to chart a course.
As you remember from plane
geometry, it takes two points to
make a line, and the present is
just one point. In order to see
where you're going, sometimes
you have to connect them."

Jacqueline Dutton

Cirigliano and Larry Gold¬
schmidt of a check in the amount
of $1.15 million to the College
Fund, by far the largest contribu¬
tion of any class at the reunion.

The other highlight was the
visit by David Dudley, the direc¬
tor of admissions for the Class of
1964—"Dudley's Folly." Joe
O'Donnell, chairman of the
reunion committee, in introduc¬
ing Mr. Dudley, presented the fol¬
lowing information: the average
age of our freshman class was
I 6 T 2 , and board scores averaged in
the 690's. In terms of IQ and board
scores, the class was said to be the
smartest all-male class that had
ever been admitted into a liberal
arts school. We were not to be a
bunch of nerds, however; Mr.
Dudley reminded us that in addi¬
tion to our academic achieve¬
ments (over 90 percent went on to
graduate school) the class also
produced the last Columbia team
to win an Ivy League football
championship and a host of other
academic and athletic awards.

Mr. Dudley was truly touched
at the outpouring of warmth and
affection he received during the
party and was clearly very moved
by Joe's introduction. He went on
to say that he thought that the
Class of '64 at Columbia was the
greatest achievement of his career,
and it was evident that the invita¬
tion to the reunion was the high
point of his retirement.

More than all the testimonials
to what their Columbia education
had done for them, the looks of
appreciation in the eyes of all of us
middle-aged men for having had
the opportunity to go to Colum¬
bia really summed up the
weekend.

The weekend finished on Sun¬
day with a performance of an orig¬
inal musical and an awards
ceremony at which the class won
the award for the largest dona¬
tion. See you all in five years.

Leonard B. Pack

300 Riverside Drive,
Apt. 10A

New York, N.Y. 10025

Save the dates: our class's 25th
reunion will be held June 1-3,

1990, at Columbia. We have an
active reunion committee in New
York and regional chairmen
around the country, so each of
you should be personally con¬
tacted soon about attending the
reunion. But don't wait for a call;
save the dates now and plan to be
there. If you have any suggestions
for activities during the reunion
weekend, please drop me a line.

Garett J. Albert, a partner in the
law firm of Hughes, Hubbard &
Reed, was the subject of a New
York Times story last March about

Bruno Santonocito '66, a Columbia
University administrator for 13 years,
took office in September as vice presi¬
dent for development at Fordham
University. Mr. Santonocito now
directs Fordham's capital campaign,
annual fund and prospect research
efforts. A former Assistant Director of
College Admissions, he was Director
of the Columbia College Fund from
1978 to 1983, when he joined the Uni¬
versity's central development office.
When he left he was Columbia's Direc¬
tor of Major Gifts. Mr. Santonocito,
an All-Ivy fencer as an undergradu¬
ate, now chairs Columbia's Fencing
Advisory Committee. He is also presi¬
dent of the Varsity "C" Club and a
Fellow of the College's John Jay Associ¬
ates. Mr. Santonocito lives in Man¬
hattan with his wife Patricia and four-
year-old son, Paolo.

the annual "Albert Dinner," a
black-tie party he organized ten
years ago which has become an
annual event.

Richard M. Newman has been
promoted to vice president and
associate general counsel of Con¬
tinental Bank in Chicago.

Dr. Julius L. Shaneson has
joined the faculty of the Univer¬
sity of Pennsylvania as holder of
the Francis J. Carey endowed
chair in mathematics. His work
focuses on contemporary
topology, including surgery the¬
ory, knot theory and the theory of
transformation groups. For him,
they are not knotty problems.

Harvey Zarren writes that he
and his family are "busy with
spiritual growth—learning more
about our mother Earth and all
nature and how we are con¬
nected." We hope Harvey and his
family will connect with the rest
of us at the reunion.

Bruce La Carrubba

42 Trinity Street
Newton, N.J. 07860

Ken Haydock

1117 Marquette Ave.

South
Apt. 1801

Minneapolis, Minn.
55403

As part of your correspondent's
unending quest for class news,
since so many of you never write,
and at great personal risk, we
attended Homecoming. Spotted
in the reunion tent was Bob
Liotard, standing within the pri¬
mary meltdown zone of the
Cleverest Band in the World.

Other Cleverest Class alumni in
the tent were attorney Elliott
Hefler (whose name was mis¬
spelled in our Summer '85 col¬
umn, which he was gracious
enough to overlook, but for which
we apologize), along with his son,
Scott; also. Garden State resident,
journalist and bon vivant Charlie
Saydah and his wife and a lot of
children, many of them related to
Charlie. In the stands, Joan and
(Chemical Bank SVP) Bob Costa
were miffed at us for not giving
Bob one of the free light blue base¬
ball caps of which the reunion
tent had run out. (Back home, we
gave it instead to attorney and
father-of-two Roger Clarke, who
wears it when playing tennis.

[The Upper Great Lakes dress
code is very loose.]) On the field,
the band performed yet another
rewrite of one of Stan Adelman's
classic halftime scripts. At the
sidelines, holding the markers for
the first down chain, were Ivy
Athletic Group undercover agent
Kent Hall and his wife. Carman;
good to see them again.

Absent from the game was our
25th reunion committee leader,
Jenik Radon, who was either at
home with a virus or, as originally
planned, again in Moscow for
commercial trade negotiations.
Mentioned in conversation were
Phil Greco, who when last heard
of was still a psychotherapist in
Washington, D.C., and author
Tom Hauser. Not mentioned, but
still the co-author of a new book
about the infamous Medellin
drug cartel. Kings of Cocaine, was
journalist Guy Gugliotta.

Stuyvesant alumna, Barnard
graduate and College English
instructor Ria Coyne was wed "at
the last winter solstice" (in ' 88 ,
that is) to Stuyvesant alumnus.
College graduate and Dean of Stu¬
dents for Life Roger Lehecka. You
read it here first.

Dick Jupa, you owe us a phone
call. Everyone else, please write!

Ken Tomecki

2983 Brighton Road
Shaker Heights, Ohio
44120

Not one, not even the politicos,
provided fodder for this column.

Always resourceful, I dis¬
covered that Hugo devastated
much of Charleston but only
dampened Steve Taylor's resolve
and spirit. Now expert swimmers
and meteorologists, he and Julie
and children fought the wind and
tides, emerged intact, and plan to
rebuild the damaged part of their
beach house as soon as the granite
arrives from New England.
Attaway. Fenwick and Frodo live.

Ed Weathers now pitches Eng¬
lish as a teacher in Tennessee
where he also scouts for talented
amateur writers for Memphis mag¬
azine. He provides assistance and
8 cents a word for burgeoning
writers with potential and a pen¬
chant for low earnings. Inter¬
ested? His address and phone at
the magazine are Box 256,
Memphis, Tenn. 38101; (901)
521-9000.

Where is Jim Rizzo, famous
pizza man from Syracuse who
thought we also would forget him
and his antics on the Heights?

Remember the College Fund.
Columbia can always use the $$.

Michael Oberman

Kramer, Levin, Nessen,
Kamin & Frankel
919 Third Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022

As surprising as this may seem,
our 20 th reunion was a great suc¬
cess. For the first time ever (or, at
least, since our fifth reunion), the
number of classmates attending
greatly outnumbered the reunion
year being celebrated—more than
80 classmates registered (or, in a
few cases, dropped by from
within the neighborhood to say
hello). But the success went
beyond numbers. The weather,
for the most part, cooperated, and
the campus looked grand. There
was ample time to wander, as well
as numerous chances to catch up
with classmates. The flow of activ¬
ities worked well, the mood was
enthusiastic and it appeared—
even without formal exit polls—
that a good time was had by all.
Much credit goes to our class's
reunion planning committee, led
by our class president Joe
Materna, Fund chairman Richard
Rapaport, co-chairmen Andy
Bronin and Fred Bartek, and
committee members Steve
Ditlea, Stark Whiteley, Dick
Menaker, Jim Alloy and Richard

Columbia College Today

Wyatt. Credit must be given, as
well, to the loyal handful who
have attended all our reunions,
and to the many others who
joined us on this happy occasion.

Let me add a special note of
thanks to Professors Morris
Dickstein '61 (now at Queens Col¬
lege) and Fritz Stern '46 for speak¬
ing to us and helping us to see the
significance of our College years
in the larger context of historical
and cultural events.

A definite high point of the
reunion was Steve Ditlea's
insightful and witty review of the
questionnaires classmates com¬
pleted. The full text is scheduled
for distribution to the class. Per¬
haps the most interesting insight
concerned Steve himself. His
principal source of income these
days is a book on how to use
WordStar, the popular word proc¬
essing program. The other best¬
selling guide to WordStar was
written by classmate Vince
Alfieri, who lives in California.
With all the evidence in the media
these days concerning identical
twins who are separated at birth
and who nonetheless come to
exhibit similar personalities and
to assume similar jobs, this odd
coincidence within our class
might point up the significance of
a Columbia education on indi¬
vidual development. Other evi¬
dence of this character might be
drawn by a further observation
from Steve's report: "Perhaps the
most striking fact about the Class
of '69 is that it includes one Pres¬
byterian minister (Neal Earley),
one Jewish rabbi (Stephen
Steindel), one Hindu priest (Bob
Martin) and two Zen Buddhist
monks (Steven Bodin and Alan
Senauke).

Steve also revealed some trends
that emerged from the 130 ques¬
tionnaires that were returned.
Over 90 percent of those report¬
ing earned advanced degrees
(reflecting. I'm sure, the strong
groundwork of a Columbia edu¬
cation, rather than a need to sup¬
plement it). Of the 130 respon¬
dents, over half are either practic¬
ing attorneys or physicians, with
an equal number of each. There
are also numerous classmates
who are now professors in fields
as diverse as law, medicine, Eng¬
lish, math, music, astronomy,
anthropology and journalism.
New York is home to the largest
group of classmates (with some 10
percent of respondents still to be
found on the Upper West Side),
followed by California and, in
substantial numbers, Washington
D.C., New Jersey, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas.
Over 80 percent of the respond¬
ents are married, with 75 percent
listing children. Steve noted that

Michael Rosenblatt '69 has been
appointed to the newly created posi¬
tion of senior vice president-research
for Merck Sharp & Dohme Research
Laboratories. In addition to oversee¬
ing Merck's basic laboratories in Italy
and japan, Dr. Rosenblatt will be
responsible for the company's univer¬
sity and industry relations world¬
wide. He will continue to lead basic
research in osteoporosis and bone biol¬
ogy at Merck's West Point, Pa. site.
Merck's research and development
budget for 1989 was $755 million; the
company has been chosen by a For¬
tune magazine survey of8,000 busi¬
ness executives as "America's Most
Admired Corporation" for the third
straight year.

A summa cum laude graduate of
the College, Dr. Rosenblatt received
his M. D. from Harvard in 1973 and is
former chief of the endocrine unit at
Massachusetts General Hospital. He
is active in several national biomedical
research organizations and is on the
editorial boards of a number of medical
journals. He lives in Ardmore, Pa.
with his wife and two children.

our most prolific class member is
Bruce Gillers, with six children;
fortunately, his wife Mina (Bar¬
nard '69) is a practicing pediatri¬
cian. Steve drew one interesting
conclusion about our choice of
mates: "We must have listened to
those dire warnings given us dur¬
ing Freshman Week: less than 5
percent of the reunion question¬
naires list Barnard grads as
spouses." A few classmates came
to the reunion with toddlers in
tow. Still, five classmates listed
children already in college and
one, William Sleeper, has a son
attending the School of
Engineering.

Twenty years is obviously a
long time; for each of us, it is liter¬
ally half a lifetime. And, in these

20 years, we have largely devoted
ourselves to further education,
building careers and raising fami¬
lies. But on those days in June
1989, it was impossible to believe
that 20 years had passed and that
so many personal events sepa¬
rated us from our college years.
The campus looked remarkably
the same, despite some expan¬
sion. Even more, old friendships
were quickly rekindled and a
sense of camaraderie and com¬
mon ties quickly prevailed. I am
sure those of us who attended our
reunion are glad we did. For us,
and for the rest of the class, 1994
isn't really that far off.

Peter N. Stevens

12 West 96th Street,

Apt. 2A

New York, N.Y. 10025
A light but interesting mail bag:
Michael Browning, a staff writer
for The Miami Herald, was in China
for the spring uprising. Albert
Scardino, a Pulitzer Prize-winner
and a CCT Advisory Board mem¬
ber, has been appointed press sec¬
retary to New York City mayor
David Dinkins. As part of the 20th
anniversary of the University of
California's School of Journalism,
A1 served on a panel discussing
news coverage. John Grant, a Bay
Area playwright, had one of his
plays produced for last summer's
Edinburgh Theatre Festival in
Scotland. Paul Lehner is now a
partner in the Chicago law firm of
Schuyler, Roche & Zwirner,
where he concentrates on busi¬
ness, commercial and employ¬
ment litigation. Phil Russotti is a
trial lawyer in Manhattan spe¬
cializing in medical malpractice,
product liability, and personal
injury litigation. Dave Sokolow
apparently is not busy enough
teaching law at both S. M. U. and
Texas schools of law. He is also in
an executive MBA program at
Texas. Finally, Ron Johnson has
been appointed district repre¬
sentative for American Approval
Associates, which specializes in
business valuations.

As someone who is on the 20th
reunion committee, I can tell you
that the planned reunion and
related activities will be strictly
first class. It will be well worth the
effort to attend. I hope to see a lot
of you living class notes there.

Jim Shaw

139 North 22nd Street
Philadelphia, Pa. 19103

New York State Assemblyman
Dan Feldman ran second in the
September Democratic primary
for Brooklyn District Attorney.
Dan retains his Assembly seat.

Paul Appelbaum

2 Hampshire Avenue
Sharon, Mass. 02067

Robert Williams is now working
as senior counsel for Bechtel Envi¬
ronmental in San Francisco,
which performs environmental
clean-up work around the world.
His accomplishments include
sailboarding, unicycling, and
near-bankruptcy through Califor¬
nia home ownership. He'd love to
hear from classmates in the envi¬
ronmental field.

Sandy Landsman is in the
midst of an internship in clinical
child psychology and neuropsy¬
chology at North Shore-Cornell
Hospital on Long Island, as part
of his doctoral program at St.
John's University. He and wife
Wendie Paisner have a son named
Josh, who celebrated his first
birthday last summer.

Steven Hirschfeld, after com¬
pleting two years in a research fel¬
lowship at NIH this year, will
remain for another year in a clini¬
cal fellowship program in pedi¬
atric oncology.

Jonathan Groner has moved to
part-time status as a reporter with
Washington's Legal Times, after
landing a book contract for an in-
depth look at a legal case that has
attracted national attention.

M. Barry Etra

326 McKinley Avenue
New Haven, Conn.
06515

Barry Kelner, proving once again
that late is better than not at all,
sent in pictures of our 15th
reunion. What was lacking in
numbers was compensated for in
spirit, as the pictures show. Barry
and wife Nancy had their first
child, Marshall Bender, on April
27; she is back practicing law, and
both child and nanny are doing
fine. Congrats to James Minter on
his appointment to head the
Alumni Secondary Schools Com¬
mittee, thus (along with head of
admissions Larry Momo) solid¬
ifying '73's stranglehold on the
admissions office. New appli¬
cants will not only need good
grades, boards, activities, and
personality, but will have to watch
out for trees as well.

Speaking of admissions, trav-
elin' man Nick Lubar wrote in
from the Hotel Okura in Tokyo;
when in the U.S. he resides in
Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He also has
been quite impressed with the
bright and well-rounded young
people he has interviewed in the
Cleveland area, and is even more
amazed that some are not
accepted (fierce competition!).
Would that this spirit would
trickle down to the locker room...

Steve Hornstein wrote from the

Governor Spottswood Motel in
Williamsburg, Va.; his permanent
mailing address is P.O. Box 3701,
Norfolk, Va. 23514. His Me$hugenah
Method$ of P$ychotherapee is
ostensibly in its third printing (!),
and he had planned to publish
another cartoon book. The Way It
Was, within the week. You can get
either one for a sawbuck, replete
with author's signature.

Finally, we were extremely sad¬
dened to hear of the tragic death
of Mark Etess on October 10; he
was one of five people killed in a
helicopter crash in New Jersey on
his way back to Atlantic City from
Manhattan. Mark was president
and chief operating of the Trump
Taj Mahal casino hotel; he will be
sorely missed by those of us who
knew him.

Hasta.

Fred Bremer

532 West 111th Street
New York, N.Y. 10025

Our 15th reunion last June was
like a Polaroid picture—dim at
first but vibrant as time passed.
Here, a bit late, is a review of the
festivities.

Scarcely a day before the big
event, only 13 classmates had reg¬
istered to attend. The only thing
that made me feel somewhat opti¬
mistic was that I was not one of the
13!

On Friday night I bravely went
up to South Field for the cocktail
party opening the weekend
events. In the distance I saw
Simon Taylor (from NYC) and
then Stu Offner (from Boston),
neither of whom had been on the
list. We then came upon a table of
classmates including Andrew
Wang and Raymond Reed (both
from Los Angeles) and George
Vassiliades (from Florida). As the
liquor flowed, more classmates
showed up, but my clouded mem¬
ory won't reveal any more names.

The Saturday luncheon at Fac¬
ulty House brought out a greater
showing. Peter Budieri, Chris
Kulkosky, and Pasquale De Vito
(all from the NYC area) were
there, as was Abbe Lowell (from
D.C.), Joel Almquist (from
Boston) and Tom Ferguson (from
San Francisco). We were now up
to around two dozen classmates,
a dozen wives and a gaggle of
kids.

It wasn't until the big Saturday
night dinner that true "Class of '74
mayhem" broke out. The caterers
had expected to see Richard
Agresta and Steve Kaplan (both
from Connecticut), Michael
Hanrahan (from Delaware), and
David Saunders and Dewey Cole
(both from NYC). But as the cock¬
tails flowed we were graced by the
unexpected appearance of Brad
Higgins and Rob Knapp (both

from NYC) and many others.

When the cocktail party started
to wind down, it was like musical
chairs. The 60 or so classmates'
wives quickly filled the 30 chairs.
We then resorted to stealing
chairs—and then whole tables—
from the Class of '79's area.

The highlight of the dinner was
a series of after-dinner talks by
some of our favorite faculty and
administrators from our days on
campus. After a rousing and elo¬
quent rambling preamble by Fred
Bremer, Peter Zegarelli intro¬
duced chemistry professor
George Flynn. Eliot Soffes gave
opening remarks for the talk by
architecture professor Gene San-
tomasso. Gerry Krovatin had the
honor of presenting former resi¬
dence halls dean Roberta Spag-
nola Campbell (a.k.a. "Dean
Dear"). The always amusing, but
not always Associate Dean of the
College, Michael Rosenthal, was
our final speaker. Also with us for
dinner was Harry Coleman '46,
former Dean of Students.

I can't report on the Sunday
morning breakfast, as the red
wine and late night carousing had
done me in. However, I was able
to get to the farewell luncheon on
South Field. Through bleary eyes
we exchanged fond remem¬
brances of our carefree days of
yesteryear. Father Fred Dolan,
now looking appropriately cher¬
ubic in clerical garb, had brought
with him his freshman I.D. and
some photos that revealed his for¬
mer demonic look of shoulder-
length hair and goatee.

Having failed to take notes at
the time, I want to apologize to all
of the classmates I have left out of
this report. But all of those who
returned to Morningside Heights
will remember the great time we
had at the 15th reunion.

I want to thank Peter Tafti of the
alumni office for his incredible
effort in helping to pull together
our recalcitrant class. Maybe at
our 20th reunion we'll actually
have half the attendees register in
advance!

George Robinson

282 Cabrini Boulevard
New York, N.Y. 10040

[Editor's note: After 11 years of valiant
service to the Class in writing this
column, Gene Hurley has decided to
take a well-deserved break. One of the
few remaining of the original corre¬
spondents' group formed in 1978,
Gene served through several moves
and career advances, and remained
cheerful despite having to write about
a class that seems to prefer anonymity.
We wish Gene well and convey our
thanks.

We are delighted to announce that
George Robinson agreed to take over

this column just as the class began
gearing up for its 15th reunion. In a
burst of Robinsonian enthusiasm,
George filed his first entry just as
Gene Hurley submitted his final one.
We present both below—the smooth¬
est baton-pass in CCT class notes his¬
tory. Welcome, George!]

From Gene Hurley:

Richard Witten and his wife
Lisa are the proud parents of
three children, ages 7,5 and 1.

The Wittens live in Mamaroneck,
N.Y.

Jim Jarmusch's third feature
film, Mystery Train, has opened to
rave reviews. Jim's earlier films
were the much-acclaimed Stranger
Than Paradise and Down by Law.

Our 15th reunion festivities are
planned for the weekend of June
1-3. Please send in your question¬
naires—and don't forget to fill in
the box for CCT news. If you are
able to volunteer for reunion com¬
mittee work, so much the better.
At a minimum, please try to con¬
tact your acquaintances in the
class about attending. See you
there.

You probably noted that I am
stepping down as correspondent
for the class, and that George
Robinson has agreed to take over
for me. George is one of the hand¬
ful of people who actually earns
his living as a freelance writer. He
is associate editor of The Main
Event (a sports magazine for doc¬
tors), writes a weekly sports col¬
umn for a United Features
Syndicate TV supplement enti¬
tled TV Update, prepares several
feature articles a month for the
Newspaper Enterprise Associa¬
tion, and is vice president for the
Eastern region of the National
Writers' Union. George recently
celebrated the third anniversary
of his marriage to Margalit Fox, a
cellist, whom he met in one of the
most romantic spots on the Upper
West Side: Tom's Restaurant.

From George Robinson:

My wife has been busily orga¬
nizing a reunion of her high
school chamber orchestra and, lis¬
tening to her, I realized that I had
fallen out of touch with everyone I
knew in high school, by choice.
My closest friends are all people I
met at Columbia or after, so when
Phyllis Katz asked me if I would
serve as class correspondent for
'75,1 was happy to say yes.

Since my predecessor, the
estimable Mr. Hurley, has
detailed my most recent activities,
I thought I would use the rest of
this space to bring those of you
who have departed New York up
to date on the Columbia neigh¬
borhood. To be honest, guys, you
wouldn't recognize the place.
Gone are Chock Full O'Nuts,

Jim's Tavern, The Gold Rail,

House of Ho, Salter's, Yung
Yuan, Aki, L&M Burger Shop and
The West End. Amir's and the CU
Bookstore have moved. Sam is
gone and so is Betty.

The fixed stars of our small uni¬
verse seem to have spun out of
their orbits, leaving behind
designer ice cream shops, an
abundance of tacky clothing
stores, a couple of new pizzerias
and a dearth of bars and restau¬
rants. At present, Columbia's
major contribution to the neigh¬
borhood as chief landlord is aban¬
doned storefronts. This too, I
assume, will pass.

On the positive side. Book-
forum is bigger and better than
ever. Ollie's, the Chinese place
that replaced Chock Full, is quite
pleasant, if terribly crowded. And
the campus remains more or less
as we knew it, except for the spa¬
cious but ugly East Campus addi¬
tion. Of course, if you have been
reading CCT, you know some of
this already, but with our 15th
reunion only a few months away, I
wanted to remind you so that the
shock won't be too great this sum¬
mer. Hopefully, you'll make it to
the reunion and see for
yourselves.

David Merzel
3152 North Millbrook
Suite D

Fresno, Calif. 93703
Last summer turned out to be
quite interesting for me. Purely by
chance, I ran into several recent
College graduates who have set¬
tled in this part of California
because of careers and family. In
all of them, I perceived pride and
enthusiasm toward their alma
mater. It was quite infectious and I
was happy to see that school spirit
continues as strong as ever.

Just a few notes came to me for
this issue: Neel J. Keller, of Way-
land, Mass., will be starting his
second year at the Zion Bible Insti¬
tute in Barrington, R.I., where he
is studying to become a Pen¬
tecostal minister. His student
ministry has focused on street
evangelism in Providence and
Boston. He sends "best regards to
everybody from the Class of '76!"

Karl Doerner III, of Houston,
sent a press release titled "Colum¬
bia Graduate Takes Plunge." The
victim is Karl Doerner III, who
married Mary Frances Ziz of
Biloxi, Miss., in May 1989. Karl is a
former police reporter covering
the night shift for the Houston
Chronicle. Currently, he is a com¬
edy writer working on his second
feature film script.

Tim Tracey, true to form, has
moved again, this time from Rich¬
mond, Wash, (a Seattle suburb) to
Las Vegas, where he is vice presi-

Columbia College Today

Gary and Mark Blackman '78 and their jazz quintet, Blackman Brothers,
performed in concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in September. Gary
(left), a trumpeter and composer, and Mark, a saxophonist, have received
awards for performance and composition from theNational Endowment for the
Arts, downbeat magazine, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the New
Jersey Council on the Arts. In 1987, Mark was featured in a concert that
included the Nat Adderley Quintet at Symphony Space in New York. Gary has
toured in the U.S. and Europe with the Clark Terry Big B-A-D Band. Five years
ago the Blackmans co-founded ArtsPower, Inc., a Paramus, N.J.-based nonprofit
organization which has created original music, theater and dance productions for
young audiences in 14 states, mostly in public schools and civic centers.

dent of Dinosaur Manufacturing
and Packaging Corp., a multina¬
tional conglomerate based in Can¬
ada and Nevada. He has only 23
more states in which to live!

Until next time, take 'er easy
and keep those cards and letters
coming.

Jeffrey Gross
11 Grace Avenue,

Suite 201

Great Neck, N.Y. 11021

This last column of the Eighties
has been mailed to you for deliv¬
ery in January 1990. By misnomer
and popular ignorance, many
people consider 1990 to be the
start of the Nineties decade, and
for the purpose of this column
only, so shall I. It has been my
privilege to act as your correspon¬
dent since the late Seventies, and
as I enter (or, more precisely,
approach) my third decade, my
one request is that you keep in
contact.

Sullivan Graphics in Nashville,
Tenn., is a privately held $600 mil¬
lion company that is one of the
nation's largest commercial
printers and a leading producer of
quality books, software documen¬
tation and fine bindings. It has
appointed Timothy M. Davis vice
president and general counsel.
Tim, who began his law career
with the firm of Chadbourne &
Park in New York City, previously
worked for Macmillan. A native of
Cambridge, Mass., he majored in
East Asian studies while at
Columbia. He and his wife, an
attorney, have three children.

One year ago, Virgil Aquino
was promoted to vice president of
the fixed income services division
of Paine Webber. Married to a Bar¬
nard graduate and physician, Vir¬
gil is the father of a five-year-old
son.

Happy New Year and onward
to the millenium.

Matthew Nemerson

35 Huntington Street
New Haven, Conn.
06511
Long time, no hear.

It has been several issues since
your faithful scribe last faithfully
scribbled. The problem, dear
friends, is in the cards. Or rather,
the lack thereof. After ten years of
tracking down the children of the
'78 Diaspora by phone or just
making things up when I got des¬
perate, I have a new policy. If you
don't write, neither will I. Calls
will be accepted, even scraps of
paper from your local daily
announcing weddings, children
or misdemeanor convictions. So
the burden is now where it should
be, on you guys. After being
elected to this post for three five-

year terms, I am now setting my
own rules.

Good news from New York
City, where Jeffrey Klein and his
wife, Justine Blau, welcomed their
first child, Asher Hart Klein. Jeff,
a serious hockey maven, will no
doubt be fitting his youngster for
skates soon. Justine is working on
a master's degree from Colum¬
bia's Film School, while Jeff writes
and edits for several magazines,
including The Village Voice. Jeff
and Justine recently spent their
summer weekends in the
Berkshires (you mean you're still
going to the Hamptons?) near me
and my wife, Marian. Jeff, never
easily impressed, is reported to
have summed up the summer's
experience as too bourgeois and
too food-oriented. So, remember
not to invite the new family to
your next barbecue. Or if you do,
no mesquite, please.

A year ago we learned that Ste¬
phen Gruhin and his wife Jenny
had their first child, Whitney Lau¬
ren. The Gruhins live in West
Orange, N.J. where Steve has a
successful law firm.

Henry Aronson sent a message

to tell us that he wrote the orches¬
tration for last year's "Baryshni¬
kov & Co." tour. He conducted
the 1987-88 Broadway "block¬
buster manque," Mail. Henry is
married to Colleen Heffernan,
whom he describes as an "actress/
cult figure." Being a resident of a
small New England town. I'm not
up on New York cult figures ex¬
cept for the likes of Tama Janowitz
and Jami Bernard, so I cannot
comment.

I recently talked with Timothy
J. Alvino about some real estate
that he was looking at in Connecti¬
cut. Tim is at the law firm of
Dewey, Ballantine.

A long and interesting letter
came in from Alan Miller, who
graduated in 1986 from the Uni¬
versity of Cincinnati College of
Medicine and is now a full-time
emergency physician at United
Hospital Medical Center in Port
Chester, N.Y. Before ending up
with his M.D., Alan was an
ambulance driver, drove cross¬
country, worked as a reporter,
spent time as a day camp coun¬
selor, was an orderly, learned to
be a technician and was a

researcher of various things at
Albert Einstein College of
Medicine.

If you aren't making enough
you might want to call Charles D.
Reuter, who is a benefits consul¬
tant at the international firm of
Buck Consultants, Inc. Charles is
working on medical benefit issues
and is the author of "Funding
Long-Term Disability Benefits:

An Innovative Approach," which
appeared in a recent issue of Com¬
pensation and Benefits Review.

Which I am sure is available at a
local library if you don't
subscribe.

Jim C. Chang was working for
Nabisco Foods in New Jersey the
last we heard, and he's living in
New York City again after a stint
in Winston-Salem in the Planters-
Life Savers division. I do not
know how he made out during
the buyout and various reorgani¬
zations there. Jim is married to
Betty Mah (Barnard '77).

We received a long write-up on
the life and times of Chuck Callan
of Boston. Chuck is at the Index
Group, Inc., a 150-person man¬
agement consulting firm spe¬
cializing in advising companies
how to best handle information
resources. Sounds like a great job
for somebody who used to be
with The Company. But, the
interesting angle here is Chuck's
wife, Yolanda. It seems that she is
an instructor with the Boston
Zoological Society. In this role she
has cared for and trained many
creatures, from snakes to para¬
keets, and most impressively a
gorilla named Gus. After training
Gus for nearly a year, Yolanda
sent him off to the National Zoo in
Washington, D.C. Five years later,
Gus picked Yolanda out of a
crowd when she visited him at the
zoo, and the two of them started
up a "sign" conversation right
where they left off five years
before! And to think that I proba¬
bly won't recognize Chuck at our
15th reunion.

I look forward to hearing from
you in greater numbers in the
years ahead, now that you know
the very survival of this column
depends on it. Thanks to the folks
at CCT for not selling our slot to
the Baruch College alumni who
keep asking for our space.

Lyle Steele

511 East 73rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10021

We're looking for information on
the 10th anniversary reunion so
please send any news/comments.

Andy Semons is associate
director of research and planning
at DDB Needham Worldwide. He
lives in the city and Amagansett,
L.I., and is still single.

First Person: Phillip Ishikawa '80

The Persian Gulf: In harm's way

Craig Lesser

160 West End Avenue,
Apt. 18F

New York, N.Y. 10023
Our upcoming 10-year reunion
(June 1-3) has made writing this
column easier than most recent
columns. Thanks to those who
answered the reunion question¬
naires—it's not too late for the rest
of you to let us know what you're
doing.

Here's an update on some of
our classmates:

Married with children: James
Schachter (wife Pamela, daugh¬
ters Ariel and Miriam); Francis
Connolly (wife Meg, son
Thomas); Alan Dagen (wife
Sandy, son Ryan); Mark Slouka
(wife Leslie, son Zachary); Tariq
Husain (wife Maliha, daughter
Samar); Michael Lee (wife Anne,
daughters Alexandra and Steph¬
anie); Mike Liberatore (wife
Dalva, daughter Teresa); John
Marzano (wife Deborah, sons
John and David); Mike Panzner
(wife Catherine, daughters
Sophie, Emily and Molly); A.J.
Sabatelle (wife Clodette, daugh¬
ter Amanda); Rich Rodriguez
(wife Trinidad, daughter
Nathalie, and son Steven); Mike
O'Connor (wife Rena, daughter
Lydia); Ray Tong (wife Evelyn,
son Leland); Mike Brown (wife
Marianne, son Michael, Jr., and
daughter Katherine); Manny
Chris (wife Evangelia, daughter
Elina).

Married without children: Matt
Pimm (Elisa); Dave Fleischner
(Diana); Eric Goldstone (Miriam);
Geoff Gompers (Donna); Van
Gothner (Pam); Hans Polak
(Lisa); David Sherman (Angela);
Jon Nehrer (Sarah); Paul Gulino
(Charla); Garry Whittemore
(Lisa-Anne); Jonathan Dachs
(Ann).

What they're doing: David
Tseng is an attorney with Baker &
McKenzie in L.A., specializing in
corporate transactions for Pacific
Rim clients and Erisa and employ¬
ment law. Kenji Harahata is an
attorney with Hara, Vematsu,
Tanabe & Magari in Tokyo. Jeff
Slavitz is in northern California,
where he's the president of Com¬
puter Creations, Inc. Ariel Teitel
is a rheumatology fellow at Cor¬
nell Medical. Michael Kazim will
be a fellow in orbital surgery in
Pittsburgh—he had been a fellow
in oculoplastic surgery at the Uni¬
versity of Pennsylvania Children's
Hospital in Philadelphia.

Marshall St. Clair is vice presi¬
dent, director of asset marketing
with Citicorp in D.C. Marshall is
also a member of a New York
band—the Surreal McCoys—that
won the Marlboro Music Contest
and opened at a sold-out Mead-
owlands concert starring Ricky

I t has been a year since I
returned from a Persian Gulf
deployment aboard the U.S.S.
Vandegrift, a fast frigate out of
Long Beach, Calif.

Our cruise was in direct sup¬
port of operation "Earnest Will,"
which provided an American
presence to guarantee freedom
of navigation during the Iran-
Iraq conflict. As the name
implies, "Earnest Will" was
intended to project American
resolve against any belligerents
in the region.

Summer in the Gulf is not for
the casual traveler. Sun, heat
and dust are constant compan¬
ions. It never rained during our
stay although we prayed for any
change in weather, just for a
respite from the intense sun.

The low point of our voyage
occurred before we entered the
Gulf. On the Fourth of July,

1988, the U.S.S. Vincennes
brought down an Iranian air¬
bus. Iranian propaganda raged
at a fever pitch, and I considered
the possibility of a worst-case
scenario as we transited the

Straits of Hormuz "Silkworm
Envelope" (effective range of
Iran's Chinese-made Silkworm
missiles).

The Gulf is an odd body of
water. It is shallow, no more
than 150 feet at its deepest point,
and warm, with a summer tem¬
perature of 100 degrees—one
enormous hot tub. Tankers with
deep drafts are confined to a sin¬
gle corridor for navigation. The
predictability of shipping
lanes—straight down the mid¬
dle (analogous to pitching with
a full count)—and their prox¬
imity to Iranian Revolutionary
Guard bases, made the tankers
easy prey for gunboat attacks
prior to "Earnest Will."

One early assignment was to
maintain a position off Farsi
Island, a known base for Revo¬
lutionary Guard operations.
Off-duty entertainment con¬
sisted of watching the fireworks
as Iraqi aircraft pounded Iranian
positions on Farsi. We con¬
ducted several escort missions
with ships such as the S.S.
Bridgeton, which, at 1,000 feet

long and displacing half a mil¬
lion tons, functioned as the
world's largest minesweeper in
the Gulf's explosive waters. In
addition, we would locate and
assist in the destruction of a
floating mine.

One odd reminder of the
United States was the ubiqui¬
tous Country-Western music
which saturated the Gulf's local
airwaves. In the "country" bars
of Bahrain, otherwise tradi¬
tionally robed men donned ten-
gallon hats, in an Arabic version
of the urban cowboy.

Mail from home is the tie that
binds when you are in the mid¬
dle of nowhere. Out on the front
lines, any news generates
intense interest. And my partic¬
ular concern was, yes, "The
Streak." Things appeared bleak
in the first games of the '88 sea¬
son and my mind drifted to
other things. But when we beat
Princeton, that made my week. I
recall thinking the next day in
the shimmering heat, if Colum¬
bia can win a football game, how
bad can things be?

(Above): Airborne patrol outside the Gulf: Helicopters or ", helos" played an important role. Well-suited for
reconnaissance, they extended the range of a ship's sensors, thus increasing her effective patrol zone.

Columbia College Today

Skaggs, Alabama, and Merle
Haggard.

Robert Kelley is pursuing a
master's in painting and sculpture
at Columbia. He's also associate
director of Columbia's Office of
Student Information Services (the
Registrar).

I hope that many of you plan to
attend our 10th reunion. I hope to
hear from many of you before
then. Call me at (212) 580-0371 if
you don't feel like writing.

Ed Klees

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison
1285 Avenue of the
Americas

New York, N.Y. 10019
Greg Harrison was busy this past
fall. In October, he married Janet
Locker. Also in October, he was
named director of communica¬
tions at Southern Methodist Uni¬
versity, where he is working on
his second master's degree.

Daniel Gordis is currently
dean of students and lecturer in
rabbinic literature at the Univer¬
sity of Judaism in Los Angeles. He
is finishing up his Ph.D. at U.S.C.
in Los Angeles. Recently, Daniel
and his wife, Beth (Social Work
'83) celebrated the arrival of their
second child, Aviel Meir.

Other new arrivals: Katherine
Anne Kinsella, born on July 25 to
Lisa and Michael Kinsella; and
Marissa Spoer, born on June 21 to
Bob Spoer and Danielle Morton.

Bill Carey is a managing direc¬
tor of Cortland Associates, Inc.,
an investment management firm
in St. Louis.

Robert Passloff

505 East 79th Street
New York, N.Y. 10021
There are very few news items
again, so please send some
updates in.

Lou Orfanella did. He is cur¬
rently an English teacher at
Webutuck Jr./Sr. High School in
Amenia, N.Y. Lou is also an
adjunct instructor at Western
Connecticut State University,

Iona College and Dutchess Com¬
munity College. He sent regards
to the 12 Jay procrastinators. I
understand why we have not
heard from them yet.

John Sweeney Swen (formerly
John P. Sweeney) is back East after
spending some time in California.
He is starting a business building
computers. His wife, Jeanne, is an
intern in family practice at Brown
University while Erin, their
daughter born in June 1988, "is
working on her ABC's." John
would like to hear "from fellow
Columbians. If you are in the
Providence area, feel free to drop
by," he says.

Dexter Lockamy '80 was appointed
by Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke as
chief of the city's Bureau of Treasury
Management in November. A former
deputy assistant comptroller of Chi¬
cago, Mr. Lockamy earned a joint
MBA-MPHfrom Columbia in 1984.
He was a health care management
consultant and an investment banker
with the public finance group of Bank¬
ers Trust Company in New York
before moving into government work.
A graduate of Brooklyn Tech, Mr.
Lockamy played varsity football at
Columbia and served as the first chair¬
man of the students' joint Budgetary
Committee in Ferris Booth Hall. He
was a CORO Fellow in 1981.

Shahan Islam is a member of
the intellectual property group of
the Anderson Russell Kill & Olick
law firm in New York.

Yakov Karpishpan has been an
instructor in the math department
at MIT since 1987. Recently, he
was appointed assistant professor
of mathematics at the Johns
Hopkins University. Yakov spe¬
cializes in Hodge theory and
hypersurface singularities.

Dr. Andrew E. Mulberg is at
New England Medical Center in
Boston, completing a fellowship
in pediatric gastrointestinal
medicine.

CCT recently heard from Fred
Schwarz, who writes, "I bought a
new shower curtain last week at
Woolworth's. The package actu¬
ally says 'shower curtain liner,'
but I use it by itself. It's trans¬
parent—well, not actually trans¬
parent, but you can see blurry
shapes through it. The one I had
before was dark brown and that
was pretty nice when it was new,
but it soon started accumulating
streaks from dried soap and
shampoo suds and stuff, and
eventually it looked pretty gross.
That shouldn't happen with the
new one because the stains won't
show up."

Andrew Botti

130 Elgin Street
Newton Centre, Mass.
02159

Ed Barbini was, at last report,
serving the Koch administration
as director of communications for
the NYC Department of General
Services. Commenting in News-
day on the city's plastic owl cam¬
paign which failed to keep
troublesome pigeons off the
Tweed Courthouse, Ed said, "I
guess New York pigeons are not
as stupid as they're made out to
be." Ed used to cover City Hall for
The Staten Island Advance, and was
once a sportscaster for WKCR.

John A. Case writes that he is
now an associate with the law firm
of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom, in its Los Angeles office.

Bill Kolbrener and his wife,
Leslie (Leslie Horowitz, Barnard
'84) are running their own Carvel
ice cream franchise in Levittown,
N.Y. We wish them much
success.

David Birman is executive
director of the Lawyers' Commit¬
tee on Nuclear Policy, the only
lawyers' group in the country
devoted to nuclear disarmament.
He is also a gay activist and writer.

Kevin Chapman and his wife,
Susan Gerstman Chapman (Bar¬
nard '83), recently welcomed a
new member to the family,
daughter Samantha Megan, who
arrived on September 7,1989.

Brad Gluck, a licensed physi¬
cian in New York, is a second-year
resident in radiology at Mount
Sinai Hospital.

Richard Garden is a second-
year resident in urology, also at
Mount Sinai.

A news release from score in
Los Angeles reports that
fnn:score cable sports network
has named Wayne Root to the
sports anchor/host position.
Wayne is the contributing sports
editor for the Robb Report maga¬
zine, and recently authored Bet¬
ting to Win on Sports, released last
fall by Bantam Books.

Let's hear from more of you.
Your correspondent is getting
lonely.

Jim Wangsness

35 East 10th Street,

Apt. 3E

New York, N.Y. 10003

On June 2-4, the Class of '84 cele¬
brated our first five-year reunion.
Planning for the event had started
the previous summer and all the
events were well-organized and
enjoyable.

Friday night started with a well
attended "Welcome Back" dinner,
followed by a roof party at
Eldridge Gray's apartment on
West End Avenue. On Saturday,

we were joined by Barnard and
Engineering '84 graduates at
Baker Field for an outdoor
barbecue.

Jacques Augustin showed that
he's learned some new dance
moves since departing Columbia.
Apart from dance fever, Jacques
keeps busy these days managing
Chaka, an African fashion outlet
in New York.

Other activities during the day
included volleyball and softball.
Jim Weinstein and Larry Kane
were captains of the two softball
teams. Despite the lack of gloves
or talent, Jim's team managed to
squeak out an evenly contested
(only kidding, Jim) 10-1 victory.

On Saturday night, about 100
classmates and spouses attended
the formal dinner at the Faculty
House. Afterwards, we attended
a midnight champagne party at
Low Library, and then were off to
the 'Plex at Ferris Booth Hall. Ben
Pushner was seen using tech¬
niques honed at Cornell Law
School in coercing several young
maidens to dance.

On Sunday, a large group
headed off to Cafe Iguana while
others embarked on the journey
home. Special thanks to Beth
Ritchie '88 who served as our class
coordinator during the past year
in shaping the events and to all
who participated in getting those
events off the ground. All in all, it
was a hell of a good time for all
concerned. If we missed you this
year, don't forget '94!

As always, drop me a line when
you get a chance.

Richard Froehlich

7 Irene Lane North
Plain view, N.Y. 11803

We are now approaching five
years out of the College,' which
means that our reunion is around
the corner. You should start plan¬
ning to return to Columbia for our
reunion over the June 1-3 week¬
end. If you are interested in help¬
ing with the planning please
contact either Jon White or myself
through the Alumni Office. You
will be getting more information
as we begin the process of putting
together a program. You can also
help out by calling your friends
and encouraging them to come.
The best reunion is one which as
many classmates as possible
attend.

Besides reunion planning I
have started working for the law
firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom in their New
York office. Plans to move to Chi¬
cago as I reported in CCT did not
come to pass.

Other lawyers who have
recently graduated from Colum¬
bia Law include Dan Poliak,
Arthur Morin and Andrew

Columbia College Today

Hayes. Rob Ripin has graduated
from NYU Law and now works
for Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy in New York. He also
reports that he has married.

Quite a few of our classmates
have just graduated from Mount
Sinai School of Medicine. They
include John Bendo, Richard
Campo, Delbert Kwan, Stephen
Manghisi, Frank Nelson, Steven
Rogers, and Daniel Rosenbluth. I
presume that they are all intern¬
ing at hospitals near you. Woody
Lee graduated from the New Eng¬
land College of Osteopathic Medi¬
cine and is interning at Memorial
Hospital in York, Pa.

John LunnisinajointM.D.-
Ph.D. program at Yale. He
recently was awarded a doctoral
fellowship from the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute for his
studies in immunology. He was
one of 61 students to receive fel¬
lowships this year and will receive
support for up to five years of full¬
time study.

David Goldman writes that he
is working in the music business
in New York.

Denis Searby has been study¬
ing at Uppsala University in Swe¬
den for his doctorate in classics.
He already received a master's in
Greek from GSAS in 1986.

Pace Cooper has graduated
from Harvard Business School
with his MBA and has returned to
his family's business, the Cooper
Hotel Group, in Memphis, Tenn.

Eugene Jen has graduated from
Stanford Business School with his
MBA and is working in Los
Angeles.

David Fleiss has moved from
Kwasha Lipton to Peat Marwick in
the consulting biz.

That's it for now—keep the
notes coming and start getting
ready for our reunion. We want it
to be a blast!

Christopher Dwyer

6501 Wayne Avenue,
#2

Philadelphia, Pa. 19119

Paul Dauber finished Columbia
Business School last May and is
working in retail sales at Kidder
Peabody. He was married last year
to 1988 Barnard graduate Elaine
Neumann.

Bill Teichner finished a two-
year stint at the President's Coun¬
cil of Economic Advisers in June,
where his projects included writ¬
ing a section of Reagan's speech to
the Toronto Economic Summit
and preparing briefings for both
Reagan and Bush. Bill started
Harvard's MBA program this fall.

David Huemer, an indepen¬
dent trader on the New York
Merc, is married and has a daugh¬
ter, Nancy, born in June 1988.

David says any alumni who want
a tour of the Merc should come
down.

Scott Weber married SMU Law
School classmate Catherine
Dickson last year, and is now a
trial attorney for the Dallas firm of
Malory, Lynch, Jackson, Kessler
and Collins.

John C. Kirkland will graduate
from UCLA School of Law in the
spring. He was a finalist in the
Roscoe Pound Moot Court Com¬
petition, a Distinguished Advo¬
cate in the UCLA Moot Court
Competition, and will represent
his school this year as a member of
the state moot court team.

Len Kreynin is on law review at
Columbia and will clerk for a
judge in Washington after gradu¬
ating this spring.

Dave MacDonald is on Temple
law review and works part-time
for a Center City firm here in
Philadelphia.

Sue Benesch wrote from St.
Petersburg, Fla., where for a year
she has been Latin American cor¬
respondent for The St. Petersburg
Times, traveling to a new country
every six weeks. Sue mentioned
that Lee Edwards has returned
from China, where he had some
"grim adventures."

Rifle Platoon Commander
Sheldon Hirt, USMC, is in charge
of 40 "hard-core, steely-eyed kill¬
ers" deployed with the Sixth Fleet
in the Mediterranean—the
"ground combat element of a
Marine Expeditionary Unit
embarked on amphibious ship¬
ping." He'll be an infantry officer
for another 18 months, then plans
to go to law school.

I ran into Steve Finegold in
Philly (we were both trying to get
into a sold-out show of Lethal
Weapon II). He's a Bryn Mawr Col¬
lege "post-bacc," taking science
courses in preparation for medical
school. I also ran into Dave Kor-
nacker in New York. Dave
received an M.F.A. in translation
from the University of Iowa and is
working on a Ph. D. in French at
City College.

Elizabeth Schwartz

64 Willett Street
Albany, N.Y. 12210

There is so much news of wed¬
dings, children, new graduate
schools and new jobs!

The most logical place to begin,
I suppose, is with the first person
I met at Columbia—my Carman
Hall roommate, Katie Tkach.
Katie and I lived on the eighth
floor. Dick Dawson lived on the
ninth floor. I introduced them,
and they're getting married next
summer. Not bad, huh? Katie is in
her first year at Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, and Dick is

Poetry: Kevin M. Mathewson '80

Don Quixote's Prayer
After the Penultimate Blow

I do not disregard
the harsh remembrance of
what brought me here
But cannot worship cruelty,
cannot delight in rimless wounds.

Show me no more

the fell blessing of foolish wishes crushed
when all I ever was
had been a foolish wish
in gentle eyes.

SONETO 21

Rota barquilla mia, que arrojada
de tanta envidia y amistad fingida,
de mi paciencia por el mar regida,
con remos de mi pluma y de mi espada,

una sin corte y otra mal cortada,
conservaste las fuerzas de la vida
entre los puertos del fervor rompida
y entre las esperanzas quebrantada

Sigue tu estrella en tantos desenganos;
que quien no los creyo sin duda es loco,
ni hay enemigo vil ni amigo cierto

Pues has pasado los mejores anos
ya para lo que queda, pues es poco,
ni temas a la mar ni esperes puerto.

Sonnet 21

Oh, my old broken boat, blasted
by so much envy and false friendship,
guided by my patience over the waves
with only this pen and sword for oars,

—coarse pen and uncourtly sword!—
how you held fast to life, though
breaking up on riotous shores,
coming apart in search of hope.

Follow your star past all disappointment

(whoever wasn't taken in must be an even bigger fool),

and know you have no enemies, no friends.

So you are past the best years,

and as for what's left, which isn't much,

don't fear the sea nor look forward to any safe harbor.

—Translated from the Spanish of
Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562-1635)

Kevin M. Mathewson '80, a poet, translator, and songwriter, is a
graduate student at Columbia's School of Library Service.

getting ready to join her in the
Bronx.

Katie reports that Jonathan
Seckler, who also lived on our
freshman floor, is a third-year stu¬
dent at Mount Sinai Medical
School. Eric Genden is in his sec¬
ond year there, and is engaged to
Debra Lau (Barnard '87), Katie's
classmate at Einstein.

Another Columbia marriage is
Reva (Haynie) Corrigan and John
Corrigan. They live in Washing¬
ton Heights, and Reva is an
assistant risk manager at Turner
Corp., a construction company,
and John works at American Prac¬
tice Management, a consulting
firm. They were wed on July 8,
1988.

Exactly one year later, David
Kornguth and Linda Wang were
married and they now live in San
Francisco. David works for Kaiser
Permanente, a health mainte¬
nance organization, and Linda is a
tax accountant at Price Water-
house. They survived the eath-
quake without injury, although
they lost their gas and electricity
and David's office building was
condemned.

David Scala married Joann
Consolino in February, 1989, and
he is now a systems engineer at
the Bank of America in San
Francisco.

Another Californian, Suze
Kim-Villano, was married in
August, 1988, to Michael Villano.
They have a daughter, Marisa,
and live in Irvine. Suze is study¬
ing music at the University of Cal¬
ifornia at Irvine. John Corrigan
reports that Virginia Harnisch is
in her third year of law school at
the University of Virginia, and
Natalie Nielson is living in Boise,
Idaho, after working for two years
in England.

Ed Hoffman, a wonderful
source of information on our
classmates, tells me that Monty
Forthum, another former resident
of the eighth floor of Carman
Hall, is living with his wife and
son in Michigan. Monty is also
the head of his county's Republi¬
can committee. Ed is manager of
data processing at Capitol Bank
and Trust Co. in Boston and is
taking courses in government at
Harvard. A former member of the
band, Ed still seeks out Columbia
football games to attend.

Ed says Ian Grable is in his
third year of medical school at
Tufts University in Boston, and
Carol Salt, who started Columbia
with us and graduated in 1988, is
in her first year at Cardozo Law
School.

Karen Rutman is in her third
year at Cardozo, and in the sum¬
mer of 1988 was an intern for U.S.
District Court Judge Alvin I.
Krenzler in Ohio.

Eleanor Hsu reports that Mat¬
thew Evans is getting his Ph.D. in
biology from the University of
Pennsylvania, Allen Hsieh is in
his third year of medical school at
Johns Hopkins and Linda Velez
works in the garment district in
New York City. Chuck Wu,
according to Eleanor, worked for
two years at Norstar Bank in
Latham, N.Y., and is now in Tai¬
wan preparing to join the Peace
Corps. For the past two years,
Eleanor has been a marketing rep¬
resentative for IBM, and she lives
in Weehawken, N.J.

I also received news of two jour¬
nalists. Allison Sarnoff is earning
her master's degree in journalism
at the Medill journalism school at
Northwestern University.

Michael Gormley was an intern
last summer with Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich,
West Germany.

Jennifer Lynch has left her par¬
alegal job to inspect foster homes
for New York City's Human
Resources Administration.

Thanks so much to all the peo¬
ple who wrote to me. I look for¬
ward to hearing from other
classmates.

George Gianfrancisco

328 West 77th St.,

Apt. 8

New York, N.Y. 10024

Hello. An era ended for us at
Columbia as Dean Pollack
stepped down, but our classmates
have continued to succeed in all
their endeavors.

Nahum Felman was awarded a
prestigious Mellon Fellowship to
study philosophy at Harvard.

Patrick Ball is a National Sci¬
ence Foundation fellow and is
working toward his Ph.D. in soci¬
ology at Michigan. He spent last
summer in South America, cer¬
tainly a break from winter in Ann
Arbor.

Martin Lewison dropped me a
letter to say that he is beginning
his second year in the economics
Ph.D. program at the University
of Minnesota. He is keeping his
ties to Columbia alive by actively
participating in events sponsored
by the Columbia Club of Min¬
nesota and has even interviewed
potential Columbians for the
admissions office. Martin informs
me that some of his close friends
from Columbia are also doing
quite well. Scott Essex is attend¬
ing Penn's School of Architecture;
David Walker is entering his sec¬
ond year at Fordham Law; Jamie
Gamble is currently working for
Con Ed; and George Suarez has
begun his own chocolate com¬
pany—look out, Hershey's.

Adam Fertig took a break from
demanding first-year law studies

at Brooklyn Law School to be the
director of Columbia's Double
Discovery Center summer pro¬
gram for high school students.
Michael McLaughlin put his
future MBA to work as a summer
associate at Chase Manhattan.
Andrew Hyman worked for the
A.C.L.U. legal department in
D.C. this summer. And David
Fondiller is Gannett West¬
chester's City Hall correspondent
in Peekskill. Hopefully, we'll soon
be reading him in USA Today.

Emma Rawlinson is a research
assistant in zoology at Cam¬
bridge. Her research has directed
itself toward the effects of kidney
failure in animals. She's been
keeping her good humor by
enjoying Britain when the
weather permits.

So keep in touch. Write. It's
always a pleasure to receive news
about the Class of'88.1 think we
will prove that it was a good year.

Alix Pustilnik

1175 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10128

Apologies are in order as there
was no column in CCT's last issue,
but any of you who saw me dur¬
ing Senior Week understand. I got
my first piece of official Class Cor¬
respondent mail a couple of
weeks ago—Nicholas Corwin
writes to say he is enjoying his
first year at SMU Law. Other '89s
pursuing legal careers include
Meaghan McGrath, Sharon
Spodak and Dave Gordon at
Georgetown; Julie Jacobs at Noth-
western; Marc Liebskind, Marci
Lobel and David Markatos at
NYU; Alissa Spielberg at Boston
College; Andy Hoffman at Boston
University; Duane Bartsch at Cor¬
nell; Tod Siegal at Michigan;

Chris Della Pietra at Fordham;
Bonnie Host and Sean Donohue
at Chicago; and, last but not least,
Susan Loring, John Lupkin, Paul
Radvany, Tom Momjian and
Alex Margolies have all stayed in
Morningside Heights at Columbia
Law.

Future doctors are really out¬
numbered—Jui Lim at Columbia,
Felice Glazer at Einstein and
Sonia Cvercko at U Miami Med.
But the investment bankers make
up for it. Chained to their desks at
just about every firm in Manhat¬
tan are Eli Neusner, Lisa Landau,
Matt Assiff, Todd Thomason,
Barbara Rosenthal, Bruce
Machanic, Danielle Campbell,

A1 Pollard, Steve Stonberg, Dan
Loughlin, Bob Gianini and
David Kerestes.

In other news. Matt White is
now Dean White and residing in
202 Hamilton. DougTeasdale is
traveling around the world while
Andy Landers has settled in D.C.,

and Brian Thomson and Eli
Neusner are playing rugby for the
Old Blue. Shira Kaplan is work¬
ing for Knoedler Galleries, Dawn
Muchmore is paralegaling at The
Equitable and Pamela Auerbach is
at The New Yorker. Paul Childers is
working at a textile firm here in
NYC, Debra Rosenzweig is get¬
ting an M. A. in clinical psychol¬
ogy at Teachers College and Bill
McGee is working on the fresh¬
man football program at
Dartmouth.

Internationally, Amy Perkel,
Mike Madrid and Catherine
Pawsat are working in Japan, Tim
Bishop has joined the Peace
Corps and Mark Zelizinski is
teaching in South Africa. Maiken
Baird is living in London, where
she may see Chris Reohr if he gets
away from his Oxbridge studies,
and Julie Kowitz and Chrissy
Mitchell are travelling in the Far
East. It all makes the College seem
kind of far away.

In closing, I regret to announce
the death of Irene Pan in late Sep¬
tember. A memorial service was
held in Chinatown.

Well, that's all for now. If I for¬
got you, or there's something you
want broadcast to the Columbia
College world, just drop me a
line.

Ijeoma Acholonu

c/o CCT

100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

Hello, everyone. I am Ije ("EJ"),
for those of you who don't know
me. I am the CCT correspondent
for the Class of 1990.1 am the one
who will be letting you know how
everyone is doing in the years fol¬
lowing graduation. Of course,
this information will be coming
from you; I can only report what
you send me.

I have usually been accused by
my close friends (you know who
you are) of "knowing everyone,"
but I am positive that there are
quite a number of you whom I
don't know. This should not stop
you from writing in; your other
classmates would like to hear
from you. In addition, I would
like to hear from you and maybe
get to know you so that it can be
truly said that I do know everyone
(in our class, that is). So, please
write me at the above address
when you know your plans,
when something interesting hap¬
pens, or when you just want to
say hi to your classmates.

Class Notes editor: Phyllis Katz

Columbia College Today

St. Petersburg Camp Meeting (continued from page 24)

man next to me, "fallen away from the Lord."
There was a lesson in all this, of course. "That's
what happens when you go the way of the
world."

The service in the tabernacle that evening
opened with a lively song whose chorus went:

He brought me out of the miry clay.

He set my feet on the rock to stay.

He puts a song in my heart today,

A song of praise. Hallelujah!

Such rejoicing is all the more powerful when
juxtaposed with a reminder of the depreda¬
tions of the world, the miry clay of sin. Brother
John Rosenberry obliged. "Our hearts go out
to the world in which we live," he prayed. "The
world of teenagers, of kids out on the street
who need Jesus. They're suffering terrible
things in New York and San Francisco and
Calcutta. We need to bring Jesus to the world."

There is a kind of protocol that governs
behavior at holiness or pentecostal gatherings.
In some churches, worshippers lift both arms
high into the air, palms up, to indicate that they
are affected by the Holy Spirit, or, more pre¬
cisely, to indicate a broken, obedient will,
receptive to the Holy Spirit. At Camp Free¬
dom, protocol dictates a brief, discreet wave of
one arm. When some element of a prayer or a
song or a sermon strikes a chord, members of
the congregation simply lift a hand and wave it
quickly, in the manner of a second-grader
trying to catch the eye of her teacher. The con¬
gregation also responds with amens and
shouting, especially in the presence of a skilled
preacher.

B rotherH. E. SchmulfromSalem, Ohio,
widely regarded as the best orator at the
camp meeting, stepped to the pulpit. His
theme tonight was repentance, or the lack of it.
He bemoaned the fact that he saw little differ¬
ence between Christians and "the world" and
wondered if that similarity had something to
do with the prevalence of "health or wealth or
prosperity gospel," the notion, immensely
popular in many evangelical circles, that God
wants to make you rich. Too much of the
preaching today, Schmul said, "does not dis¬
turb the sin" in people's lives, "their adultery or
their immorality or their fornication or their
cheating or their lying or whatever."

Schmul himself would not be guilty of such
reticence. Sin, he said, "is a moral corruption
that will result in final separation from God."
Schmul became more and more impassioned
as the audience shouted him on. "It's a mad¬
ness. It's a madness that, 'regardless of the

consequences I have to do it. I have to shoot it. I
have to drink it. I have to smoke it. I have to
have it. I have to have him. I have to have her.'
It's a madness. People rush into this regardless
of the consequences." He paused and lowered
his voice. "One thing that is happening is
good, even though it's bad. I'm talking about
AIDS," he said. Schmul dismissed the various
education programs directed against the
spread of AIDS. "The real answer is a change in
the hearts of men," he said. "God's way of all
purity, of all chastity, is the way. God's plan is
the only way! Amen." The AIDS epidemic,
Schmul suggested, was having a salutary
effect. "Some people are backing up on this
homosexual thing. Some of the gays that had to
have sex the homosexual way are changing
their minds after seeing their buddies drop off
or fall over like flies. When they're sure that a
person who has AIDS is going to go down the
tubes and go out into eternity—they're really
beginning to change their minds a little," he
said with evident satisfaction.

Only the blood of Jesus Christ will cure sin,
Schmul continued. "No man, no man, no man
ever sins purely out of weakness but lets him¬
self go in his weakness to do as he wills." Here
Schmul touched on a matter of perennial con¬
troversy within Protestant circles: the extent to
which an individual is responsible for his sal¬
vation. Citing the New Testament writings of
St. Paul, Martin Luther and John Calvin had
insisted that we all inherit Adam's sin and that
only the grace of God, mediated through Jesus
Christ, delivers us from the condemnation we
so richly deserve. We can do nothing, they
insisted, to earn our salvation; God, in His
inscrutable wisdom and mercy, has chosen to
rescue us from the squalor of our sinfulness,
regardless of our merit.

I n an age inebriated with self-determinism,
Lutheran or Calvinist theology does not sit
well. It seems narrow and fatalistic. But such
naysaying misses the point. Luther had been
profoundly troubled about the state of his soul.
He couldn't escape a sense of his own
unworthiness and his insouciance toward
God. Was he saved or damned? Had he prayed
enough? Had he received the Eucharist often
enough? Had he sinned since his last confes¬
sion? The slightest lapse, he believed, meant
perdition.

Luther's confessor finally advised him to
study Paul's letters to the Romans and the
Galatians in the New Testament. There Luther
"rediscovered the gospel" that liberated him
from the works-righteousness of medieval

"Even those who
carry grudges in their
hearts/'he said, "are
going to the same
hell along with the
harlots and the
drunkards and the
swearers and the
ne'er-do-wells."

CAMP

TREfBoM

WELCOME!

DELIVERANCE FROM SIN

J5*o irist

Catholicism and from the burden of earning
his salvation. We are saved by grace through
faith in Jesus Christ, Luther concluded, not by
dint of our own efforts, which fail pitifully
before a holy and righteous God. Good works,
then, are not a condition of salvation; rather,
they follow in the life of the believer as a natural
response to grace.

In many Protestant circles, however,

Luther's breakthrough, which John Calvin
codified and systematized in the Institutes of the
Christian Religion, has been compromised by a
theological strain generally known as Armi-
nianism, named for Jacobus Arminius, a Dutch
theologian of the early seventeenth century,
who restored human agency to the doctrine of
salvation. Anyone can choose to follow Christ;
by the same token, anyone can lose her salva¬
tion by falling back into sin. There is no such
thing as "eternal security." While this theologi¬
cal recidivism obfuscated the Reformation's
insistence that the grace of God alone provided
deliverance from sin, Arminian theology (also
known as Wesleyanism, for John Wesley)
caught on in America. Its emphasis on human
agency worked well in the revival meetings on
the frontier. Preachers sought to persuade and
cajole sinners into the kingdom—salvation,
after all, was simply a matter of choosing God
over Satan, good over evil—and the self-deter¬
mination implicit in Arminian or Wesleyan the¬
ology appealed to Americans of the new nation
who had recently taken control of their politi¬
cal destiny.

Arminianism long ago eclipsed Calvinism in
American Protestantism. Camp-meeting evan¬
gelists and Methodist circuit riders carried it to
the frontiers, and it persists to the present
among holiness people, who believe that their
salvation hinges on their probity and their abil¬
ity to eschew evil. For Brother Schmul, then,
conscious or deliberate sin is not, as Calvinists
insist, a consequence of our fallen nature; it is a
matter of our volition and specific transgressions
of sundry moral codes, and the responsibility

to resist temptation lies with the individual.
Moral lapses are deadly. "I don't believe there
are Christian men who are going to be taken up
in the rapture from the arms of a harlot,"
Schmul preached. "I don't believe they're
going to put a hole in the ceiling of these vari¬
ous dives and saloons around the country
where the saints can move out of those places
when Jesus comes. I don't believe that. The
Bible doesn't teach that. There's no grounds for
it in the word of God." The congregation
responded with hearty amens. Even those
who carry grudges in their hearts, Schmul
said, "are going to the same hell along with the
harlots and the prostitutes and the drunkards
and the swearers and the ne'er-do-wells."

True repentance, Schmul said, meant leav¬
ing the old sinful life behind. "There is no
cheap grace," he concluded. "There is no cheap
salvation. Saving faith is impossible without
repentance and obedience and renunciation."

W hat was all this rhetoric about "world¬
liness" that pervaded the preaching at
Camp Freedom? Unlike Calvinism, which
holds that the elect of God attain salvation
regardless of merit and cannot resist God's
grace, the Wesleyan tradition views salvation
as a matter of volition—we must choose to for¬
sake our sinfulness and follow Christ. "We
don't go to heaven to become saints," Edsel
Trauten, one of the preachers at Camp Free¬
dom, said. "We become saints to go to
heaven." We must prove ourselves worthy of
salvation on earth before we can hope to
receive a reward in heaven. Brother Schmul
said that a believer's identification with Christ
"will lead you against the world, against the
flesh, against the devil; it will lead you to
opposition; it will lead you to persecution; it
will lead you to fiery trials; it will lead you to a
place of contradiction with the world." He then
warned of the consequences of equivocation.

"If you are seeking an accommodation with the
world," he said, "then, friends, you are fooling
yourself, and you are toying with your eternal
destiny. We are not citizens of this world; we
are citizens of another country." Life on earth,
then, is a constant struggle to root out sin¬
fulness and show oneself worthy of salvation;
sanctification, or the "second blessing" of the
Holy Spirit, cleanses sin, but there is no "eter¬
nal security" in the Wesleyan tradition. Just as
we come to God of our own volition, so too we
can lose our salvation by lapsing into sin.

Indeed, sin cannot be taken lightly in
Wesleyan theology. "My friend," one of the
preachers shouted, "if you're really converted,
you're going out of the sin business, you say
goodbye to the world." The repeated, insistent
warnings against the depredations of the
world, then, are more than mere rhetorical
flourishes. The destiny of one's very soul is at

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stake. The moral and behavioral strictures
shield the believer from sin and temptation
and keep him or her on the narrow road to
heaven. "We know you're all trying to get to
heaven," Brother Lehman told one of the
gatherings. "Some of you aren't ready yet, but
we'll try to get you ready."

All of this issues in an underlying, though
largely unspoken, anxiety. The people at Camp
Freedom sing the old Protestant hymn,
"Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine / Oh, what a
foretaste of glory divine!" but I encountered
precious little assurance beneath the fragile
veneer of confidence.

O ne afternoon, I struck up a conversation
with "Roger," a youthful-looking gentle¬
man in his late sixties.* Roger lives and works
in Indiana most of the year, but he arranges his
vacation time so he can be in St. Petersburg for
the camp meeting every winter. He asked if I
had toured the campground, and in the course
of our walk he related the story of his life. "The
Lord sure helped me," he began. "He saved me
from a life of sin when I was seventeen. I lied
and cheated; I would steal. But you can't find
joy in serving the devil. You can find pleasure,
but it's only for a season. Jesus is the only one
that satisfies. He is the only one."

After his conversion, Roger felt obligated to
make restitution for all of his youthful mis¬
deeds. "I went back to five-and-dimes and gro¬
cery stores and so many places to apologize to
storekeepers for the things I'd stolen. I'd do
work for them to make it up. I even went back
to schoolteachers to apologize for cheating on
tests and assignments. I'd been to twelve dif¬
ferent schools in twelve years, so that took
some time and effort, but I did it." Roger cred¬
ited his mother with being a godly influence in
his life. "I surely had a wonderful mother," he
said. "My mother never had a haircut in her
life, never wore jewelry or cosmetics. I'm sure
glad the Lord saved me from a life of sin."

By this time, I had heard countless conver¬
sion narratives at Camp Freedom, and nothing
in Roger's account struck me as unusual. After
a pause, however, he continued. "I want to tell
you something else. May I?" he asked. "When I
was growing up, I was always kind of a sissy. I
found myself attracted to boys rather than
girls." He hesitated. "I'm a homosexual." He
spat out the words in disgust. Roger had some
sexual encounters with older men when he
was a teenager, but after his conversion at age
seventeen he promptly broke off all such rela¬
tionships. Coping with his sexual urges there¬
after without giving in to temptation, he said,
was hell. In addition, he faced suspicion and
ridicule from his peers. During World War II,

*1 have altered some of the details of this story in
order to disguise the identity of the person involved.

he recalled, "people constantly would ask me
why I wasn't in Europe fighting for my
country."

"I remained celibate for thirty-seven years,"
he continued, "but then I felt myself falling
into temptation." His voice became intense,
almost fierce. "I was lean in my soul at that
time, and I would pray, 'Lord, help me get my
mind on you.'" Despite those prayers, how¬
ever, Roger lapsed into sin, a year-long rela¬
tionship with a younger man. "It still haunts
me," he recalled. "It's a blot on my life. I finally
came to the point where I said, 'Lord, it's either
you or the world.'"

As Roger continued his story, he struck me
suddenly as a tragic figure, a man haunted by
what he considered a wanton transgression
deep in his past. I tried to imagine the self-
hatred he felt, the sense of vileness that shad¬
owed him constantly. Indeed, there was a sad¬
ness to many of the people I had met at Camp
Freedom. Even as they spoke of the sweetness
of Jesus and their deliverance from sin decades
earlier, I detected an underlying uneasiness,
an uncertainty about the fate of their souls. The
need to keep a strict moral accounting for one's
life reminded me of Martin Luther's anxieties
about whether or not he had sinned since his
last confession, thereby imperiling his immor¬
tal soul. The insistent proclamations and the
triumphal hymns about deliverance from sin at
Camp Freedom sounded tinny to me, an exer¬
cise in self-persuasion. The seductive darkness
of the "world" for most of us—and even, I
suspect, for more than a few at Camp Free¬
dom—lies not in the taverns and bordellos and
movie theaters but much closer to home, in the
recesses of the heart. It's easier, though, and a
good deal more comforting, to insist that the
enemy is outside rather than inside. You need
to shore up your defenses and patrol the ram¬
parts to keep the adversary at bay.

For Roger, however, the enemy had pene-/
trated the fortress, and even these many years
later he couldn't be certain about the effects of
that contamination. His intensity had abated
now, and he spoke in measured tones. He
alternated between expressing his own deep
sorrow and repeating the bromides of sermons
he had heard for half a century. "To know the
Lord is life eternal, but to know the world is
nothing," he said. "My biggest regret is that I
cannot say that I've been faithful to my Lord for
a full fifty years; instead, I fell back into sin
thirty-seven years after I had given my heart to
God."

He paused, dabbed the corners of his eyes
with a handkerchief, then looked away into the
distance. "Sin is not worth it," he said, "be¬
cause that one little sin may keep you out of
heaven."

The seductive
darkness of the
"world" for most us
lies not in taverns
and bordellos and
movie theaters, but
much closer to home,
in the recesses of
the heart.

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possible. Such freedom not only
encourages each of them to develop an
individual style of teaching; it also pro¬
tects academic freedom.

The principle of academic freedom,
as I understand and apply it, guards
teachers from any interference with
their evaluation and grading or with
their philosophical, political, and social
views. This means that I cannot dictate
to instructors on any issue that has
been politicized or is a matter of con¬
science—issues like sentence structure
or paragraph development do not fall
into this category, but the issue of gen¬
der-inclusive language does. At the
same time I assume that instructors will
not allow personal political views to
influence their grading. There is a thin
line between academic subjects and
personal opinion, between the faculty's
legitimate authority to set standards
and a teacher's unfair control over a
student's opinions. Indeed, one of the
things students discover in our courses
is the impossibility of eliminating all
bias from any human discourse.

My own opinions on gender-
inclusive language are not really the
issue here, since they can have no
direct bearing on what instructors do.
However, in the interest of contributing
to the larger discussion, let me offer a
few thoughts. Gender-inclusive lan¬
guage is fairly universally prescribed in
today's grammar handbooks, as well as
by many academic journals and pub¬
lishing houses. This is a recent devel¬
opment, but a clear one. Language and
usage change, and the changes depend
on many aspects of our society and cul¬
ture; in this particular case, the feminist
movement has obviously had an effect.
Even conservative grammarians do not
resist all change, or they would still be
writing Old English. As I pointed out
to Jessica Raimi, I have little doubt that
someday soon gender-inclusive lan¬
guage will be as prescribed as proper
verb forms are today.

My own practice depends on my
role: when I edit, I follow the editorial
policy of the publication in question;
when I write, I aim for gender-
inclusive language in almost all cases,
although I never use "s/he" and certain
other neologisms that I consider ugly
and inelegant (which means I resort
often to the plural—see the second-to-
last sentence in the previous para¬

graph); and when I teach, I do not mark
students wrong when they use "he" to
refer to any person, although I advise
them against the practice.

I am sorry that Ms. Raimi did not
write a more balanced article. Her
agenda became clear to me in the inter¬
view and is tellingly, if not forthrightly,
revealed in the article itself. The issue is
an interesting one, especially since the
facts and reasoning involved are appar¬
ently unknown to some readers of
Columbia College Today, and the oppor¬
tunity for using your journal as a forum
should not have been missed—it
might, by the way, have been useful for
the author and some of the readers to
attend a Logic and Rhetoric class on
"Bias and Usage," not to mention "Tone
and Attitude."

Sandra Pierson Prior

Director of Logic and Rhetoric

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est.

—Horace, Ars Poetica.
("Grammarians disagree and the case is still
before the courts.")

Had I written an article about this
topic, I would have chosen different
words to represent my position than
the ones Jessica Raimi extracted from
our many hours of friendly debate. To
clarify:

The "generic masculine," an ancient
relic that requires every unidentified %
member of a group that contains or
might contain a man to be referred to as
masculine, implies that women have
value only as honorary men. Like refer¬
ring to women by the name of their
genitals, this synecdoche is unfair,
biased, ugly, outdated, and offensive.
Therefore, like almost all modern
grammarians, I believe that current
usage should be explicitly inclusive
with regard to gender; in class I insist
on challenging the use of the "generic
masculine," although only once have I
lowered a grade for its use and then
because its use undermined the argu¬
ment of the paper. Similarly, a law pro¬
fessor would criticize the logical flaws
in a paper that defended the legality or
morality of racial segregation and
would censure the rhetorical decorum
of a paper that throughout used a
pejorative term instead of "African-
American." These actions no more vio¬
late constitutional rights than does cor¬
recting an adjective modifying a verb.

(As Ms. Raimi notes, at the outset of
some semesters I have told my class
that the "generic masculine" was not

acceptable. This comes in a list dis¬
couraging the use of some grammatical
and stylistic matters such as the passive
voice and "it" without an antecedent.
The "long discussions and arguments"
about these topics, actually, the free-
for-alls which I referee, follow later
when we have actual texts, i.e. student
papers, to analyze.)

Is non-sexist usage a form of thought
control? Yes, because language shapes
our thoughts. When the sun set on the
Ptolemaic universe, the world turned.
Copernican astronomy revolutionized
Renaissance thinking not because it
changed people's everyday lives, but
because it invalidated so many of their
organization metaphors. Similarly, cur¬
rent language patterns reflect the con¬
tent of our thoughts. Several of my
former students who initially advo¬
cated use of the "generic masculine"
now say that when they read, it leaps
off the page at them, making them
question the writer's character and
underlying attitudes. While this won't
directly rectify all injustice toward
women, as Steven Schwartzman seems
to think I argue, at least some people
are more attuned to bias.

My real adversary in this debate is
not Martin B. Margulies (who could not
correctly name either of his female
opponents in the original of the edited
letter above) or Edward C. Steinberg—
both of whom fail to distinguish
between inevitable, appropriate, and
invidious uses of thought control,
including their own—but Jacques Bar-
zun, who says that the removal from
polite speech of racial and ethnic slurs
"has done absolutely nothing to re¬
move the hostility between groups." I
disagree. These slurs were not the
cause but rather the self-perpetuating
result of tensions based on other in¬
equities. Ending their tolerated use
breaks that self-perpetuation. Thus,
the world is a better place for all indi¬
viduals and groups because height¬
ened sensibilities mean that slurs are
recognized to reflect more on name-
callers than on their victims.

Ria M. Coyne

Preceptor

English and Comparative Literature

Jessica Raimi replies:

Professor Prior says that she never
thought, let alone uttered, the opinion
I attributed to her, but then says that I
mistook her analogy for an indentifica-

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lion. Her ability to clarify a statement
she never made would be impressive,
except that as I recall our conversation
(and my notes indicate), I said, "What
about people who are offended by non¬
sexist language?" and she replied,
"Those are people who think blacks
shouldn't have equal opportunity."

Although I appreciate the difference
between an identification and an anal¬
ogy, her formulation, "the very idea
that women should be fully included in
our language," is loaded. I object to
"she or he" precisely because I do not
believe women have been excluded
from our language.

Michael Johngren says he cannot see
how the generic masculine "demon¬
stration" used by some L&R teachers
can be refuted. In my article I quoted
one such demonstration, which asked
the student first to read a passage
beginning, "When he pens his
memoirs, a prominent doctor, lawyer
or politician may be taking his reputa¬
tion into his hands..." and then to
invent two full names for the hypo¬
thetical character described. But the
student is cautioned, "Each name may
be only one syllable long (for example:
Edd Mudd)." Why does the teacher
give an example of a male name before
the student comes up with his own
names? What about the tendency of
students to give the answer they think
the teacher wants? What about the fact
that a prominent doctor, lawyer or politi¬
cian is likely to be over 45 and thus
male—what name would a student
give to an ambitious young doctor, law¬
yer or politician? Why the prohibition
on multisyllabic names? Why, for that
matter, is "Edd" spelled with two d's—
is it a typo or does it have some signifi¬
cance? I don't know what demonstra¬
tion Ms. Coyne used in her class—she
tells me it was not the one above—but I
hope it was less methodologically
flawed than the one I quoted.

The show had legs

It was with great sadness that I learned
of the passing of Arthur Snyder '20 in
the Winter 1989 issue. In the early 80's,
when a small group of undergraduates
sought to resurrect the Varsity Show,
Arthur and Sylvia Snyder were among
our earliest and most vocal supporters.
This dedication to our cause was not
without its explanation: Mr. Snyder,
who graduated three years behind
Oscar Hammerstein II and three years
ahead of Richard Rodgers, would

proudly admit to appearing as a chorus
girl in the 1920 Varsity Show, Fly With
Me.

In 1984, Mr. Snyder led his class¬
mates in contributing their entire treas¬
ury toward future productions of the
Varsity Show, thus assuring its contin¬
uance indefinitely. There is little doubt
that these musicals will be only one of
the many legacies to a most articulate,
warm and caring gentleman.

Indispensable linguistics

I am writing to explain why, as a
Columbia alumnus and a professor of
linguistics at the University of Iowa, I
cannot possibly give money to Colum¬
bia. Columbia has recently abandoned
its graduate degree program in lin¬
guistics, after previously abolishing the
College major (Barnard still offers a
major, I believe).

My objections go beyond the per¬
sonal insult of having my major and my
discipline considered dispensable by

Adam Belanoff'84
Los Angeles, Calif.

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Columbia. There is a point of intellec¬
tual responsibility here, as well. It is
inconceivable that Columbia would
abolish its majors in, say, economics or
physics, or do away with graduate
work in biology or philosophy. At any
serious research institution, it is
equally preposterous to suppose that
linguistics is somehow "optional."

Columbia has, as it happens, one of
the finer linguistics traditions among
universities in the United States. It is
true that it has fallen from its earlier,
structuralist glory. Yet comparable uni¬
versities with comparable histories
have successfully rebuilt without ever

doing away with linguistics; I am think¬
ing here specifically of Cornell and
Penn.

If we look at major research institu¬
tions, both private and public, there is
not one that lacks linguistics. Indeed,
one reasonable way to distinguish
research institutions from others is by
looking at the treatment of linguistics.

Linguistics is at the center of one of
the most exciting, fastest-growing
interdisciplinary ventures of recent
years, viz.. Cognitive Science. Insofar
as Columbia wishes to lag behind in or
simply ignore this area, it can justify
obliterating linguistics; I can imagine

no positive intellectual justification for
this scandalous action. When Richard
Hofstadter and Lionel Trilling died,
there was no thought of closing down
history or English; any such proposal
would have been treated as a mad, or
bad, joke. Yet Columbia seems to
assume it can do without linguistics;
the joke is on Columbia, since this posi¬
tion reveals only a breathtaking combi¬
nation of ignorance and arrogance. I
blush for my alma mater, since those
who run it apparently have no shame.

More in anger than in sorrow,
Robert Chametzky '78
Iowa City, Iowa

Equal treatment

Dean Pollack's "Summing Up" was
especially interesting to an alumnus of
the 1940's, recounting, as it does, some
of the events which have changed the
College for the better in recent years.

I must observe, however, that the
program to recruit bright young scien¬
tists is ethically questionable.

It is unfair to the class to afford spe¬
cial advantages to select freshmen. I
think that everyone has a right to equal
treatment—and that this requires an
evaluation of actual performance by a
faculty having actual experience of a
student.

Freshmen not in a special program
have been denied a right inherent in
their admission: their status has been
devalued in an essentially dishonest
way.

In my experience, this sort of thing
has had a less blatant antecedent. In my
core curriculum courses, not one ten¬
ured faculty member taught my sec¬
tions. The teachers were all junior
faculty, or visiting junior faculty. They
were excellent scholars, but I must
believe that sections taught by tenured
men were populated by students pre¬
selected on the basis of special consid¬
erations. My New York State Scholar¬
ship was evidently not one of these.

Strangely, there is an ethical parallel
between these programs and those in
collegiate athletics. There is a competi¬
tion of special blandishments between
institutions; extraordinary privileges
are unfairly afforded certain students,
and the status of non-participants is
devalued in various subtle ways. The
only distinction is that the "scholars"
programs are for academic rather than
economic ends.

Let care be taken that over the years,
these programs do not tend toward the

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excesses we have seen in collegiate
athletics.

I note in passing, that I have commu¬
nicated with President Futter of Bar¬
nard on that College's similar
Centennial Scholars program.

Stanley Harwich '46

Brooklyn, N.Y.

The end of an era

The recent word that Phyllis McKnight,
the widow of Dean Nicholas McKnight
'21, had died and the realization that
earlier this year both Dean Lawrence
Chamberlain and his wife, Mildred,
had also died, made me realize that a
special era of Columbia College had
truly ended. From 1950 to 1957, the
team of Larry Chamberlain as Dean of
the College and Nick McKnight as
Dean of Students along with their won¬
derful wives could be found at every
activity that took place in the College.
Whether it was a game at Baker Field, a
student or faculty reception, a prom or
block party, the four were well known
to all the undergraduates and faculty
for their interest in and caring for the
welfare of the students of the College. I
might add that their warmth and care
were also most important to a young
administrator and his wife as they
joined the Dean's staff. Lila and I will
never forget them.

Henry S. Coleman '46

New Canaan, Conn.

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three books was sent to me. These
books were required reading before the
start of Contemporary Civilization.

One was The Greeks by H. D. R. Kitto;
the second was The Origins of Modern
Science by Butterfield.

My question is: What was the third
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there is any way to find out, I would be
very grateful.

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An open forum for opinion, humor, and philosophy.

The ideals of community service

Columbia students are demonstrating that the values
we discuss and teach are also worth living.

by Michael I. Sovern '53

S everal tiny babies born to drug addicts lay in their cribs in
the pediatric ward in Harlem Hospital. On a visit there
not long ago, I could see that the staff gave the babies as
much attention as humanly possible, but the need was still
great, for these were "boarder" babies who had been there
since birth and they needed more stimulation. Having
learned that babies develop more quickly and fully if they are
fondled, I arranged for several students to spend a few hours
a week holding and feeding the babies. A simple act—hold¬
ing a baby—but it can affect a life profoundly.

In fact, as anyone who has volunteered to help another has
learned, that act of giving can affect two lives profoundly.

The Columbia students who answered my call for help will
never be the same.

Columbians have always included service in their defini¬
tion of the successful life. In the 1760's, a member of the
King's College faculty petitioned King George III for a char¬
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But in recent years, with so many publicly funded services in
decline, we have been trying harder than ever.

In dozens of volunteer programs, Columbia students have
forged links between their academic training and the urgent
realities lying in wait. For the impoverished, the homeless
and the homebound, and the children who are given a
chance to cope—even to succeed—the help brought by stu¬
dent volunteers is shaping lives and saving lives.

A nd our students are learning how exhilarating helping
can be. I remember joining a march designed to drama¬
tize the plight of Soviet Jews denied the right to emigrate. We
assembled at City Hall, and I was given a sign with a picture
of Anatoly Sharansky to carry. He was then well known, but
still imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain. As I fell in line, the
parade marshal came over and said the mayor wanted to
carry Sharansky. Amused, I relinquished the sign and was
given another with the photo of a woman on it. I did not
know who she was—only that she too needed help. A
moment later, I saw that woman. I was not hallucinating: she
had just been allowed to leave Russia and had flown to New
York the day before. Though I obviously had nothing to do
with her escape, the moment was a thrilling one. We
embraced and I took the sign back to the marshal and told
him, "Well, I got that one out. Who's next?"

People working for other people need not be grim. As in
the races for charity that Columbia students sponsor, doing
good, being of service, standing up for your principles, can
be fun.

Michael I. Sovern '53 is completing his tenth year as President of
Columbia University.

The volunteers of Earl Hall's Community Impact work
hard, but they also enjoy what they do. A professional
administrative staff and a student executive committee coor¬
dinate 17 different projects supported by more than 600
volunteers from the University and the community.

Community Impact volunteers staff and support: a shelter
for homeless men operated through area churches; a com¬
munity lunch program; an emergency food pantry; a
"clothes closet" and tutoring program for homeless families;
a "clinic" to help in dealing with bureaucracies; a Big Brother/
Big Sister program; Student Help for the Aging.

Campus fraternities and sororities sponsor a charity race
for UNICEF, participate in fund-raising for need-blind
admissions, and work in the annual blood drive as well as
raising money for several national charities.

Double Discovery, the nation's largest Upward Bound pro¬
gram, trains student volunteers to participate in the tutoring
and counseling of low-income youngsters, mostly black and
Hispanic, who might otherwise drop out of high school.

More than 90 percent of the program's graduates continue on
to college.

Among other Columbia programs sparked by student vol¬
unteers are the Columbia Area Volunteer Ambulance service
(CAVA) and the MBA tutorial in work readiness and com¬
puter programming for students from the Frederick Doug¬
lass Children's Center. And every night, starting at ten and
working until three in the morning, 20 students take their
turn at staffing a crisis center called Nightline.

L ionel Trilling '25 warned us of "the dangers which lie in
our most generous wishes. Some paradox of our nature
leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the
objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them
the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our
coercion." An essential ingredient of Columbia student vol¬
unteer service is respect for those served. In fact, "Double
Discovery" means that Columbia students get as much as
they give, as they discover new qualities to value in those
they serve—and in themselves.

In a broader context, these students, through their hard
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its ideals. They are demonstrating that values are worth
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worth living. The moral test of our responsibility is not what
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Spring/Summer 1990

Editor

James C. Katz '72

Managing Editor

Jessica Raimi

Associate Editor

Thomas J. Vinciguerra '85

Contributing Editors

Phyllis T. Katz

David Lehman '70

Contributing Photographers

Arnold Browne '78

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Alumni Advisory Board

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14 Brought up in the groove, these homeboys move

Peter Nash '89, a/k/a Prime Minister Pete Nice of the rap duo
3rd Bass, is heading for the toppermost of the poppermost.
by Suzanne C. Taylor '87

19 Asian classics and the humanities

Columbia's 40-year experience of introducing Eastern
civilizations to Western students offers many lessons for today's
evolving college curricula.
by Wm. Theodore de Bary '41,

Special Service Professor

Departments
2 Letters to the Editor
6 Around the Quads
13 Columbia College Yesterday
26 Bookshelf
28 Obituaries
30 Class Notes
Profiles:

38 David Wise '51
44 Glenn Switkes '72
43 Poetry: Rachel Hadas

52 The Lion's Den: Frederic D. Schwarz '82

53 Classified

Cover drawing by R.J. Matson '85.

Letters
to the
Editor

Little house on the campus

The article about the efforts of Dean
Greenberg and Deans Lehecka and
Yatrakis to promote a "house or college
system along the lines of Princeton,

Yale and Harvard" [Around the Quads,
Winter 1990] reminded me of a fascinat¬
ing assertion I often heard at Yale.

When I was an assistant dean of Yale
College and resident fellow of Timothy
Dwight College during the heady
period from 1968 to 1971, there was
much gloating that student activism
was more genteel at Yale than at Har¬
vard. This was attributed to the fact that
the Yale colleges were smaller than the
Harvard houses, which enabled faculty
to have mitigating influences on
students.

This assertion was extended to the
claim that any residential unit which
exceeds 300 students cannot sustain
close relationships between faculty and
students. Above that threshold, it was
claimed, a highly nonlinear effect
comes into play which causes people
not even to try to get to know each
other. The conditions at the several resi¬
dential colleges which exceeded this
number at Yale itself were often cited to
prove the point.

Part of the gloating 20 years ago was
due to the remnants of guilt from 40
years before when conservative Yale
practically rejected Edward S.
Harkness's munificent offer to fund a
residential college system and then
ended up barely salvaging a share
(albeit almost 16 million Depression
dollars) after seeing progressive Har¬
vard jump at Harkness's largesse.

The structuring of a residential col¬
lege system for Columbia College stu¬

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dents may well be predetermined by
the configuration of existing buildings,
but if there is any flexibility then the
assertion that there is a threshold effect
might bear serious consideration.

I believe it!

Theodore S. Baker '55
Kennebunkport, Maine

Crossing swords

I was taken aback by the obituary of
Cornel Wilde, embellished with a king-
size photo of a romantic swashbuckler,
in the Winter 1990 issue. Do you claim
Wilde as a son of Columbia?

Wilde had only a fleeting connection
with Columbia that ended 60 years ago.

I was a classmate of his in high school
and came to Columbia with him (and
with Bob Lilley) in 1929.1 did some
fencing with Wilde in high school and,
because we were both in freshman
fencing at Columbia (although I had
learned before then not to cross swords
with him), I saw him frequently and
knew him fairly well. He left at the end
of our freshman year and, as far as I
know, never had any other connection
with Columbia. As a matter of fact, the
Alumni Office a year or so ago was try¬
ing to trace "lost" classmates, including
Wilde. Apparently they had been look¬
ing for him for 60 years and did not
know who he was.

Wilde meant nothing to Columbia
and Columbia meant nothing to him. I
don't think he ever gave a dime to
Columbia. Are you trying to claim that
Columbia had something to do with
Wilde's careeer or that there was some
substantial relationship? If not, what
are you trying to do?

Immediately beneath Wilde's obit is
that of an alumnus. There is no picture
and the obit, less than a third as long as
Wilde's, states that the deceased "was a
leader in Class of '35 alumni and fund¬
raising matters, and served as class cor¬
respondent for Columbia College Today ."
Not very important, according to you,
next to Wilde's flamboyance that owed
nothing to, and gave nothing to,
Columbia.

Why can't we cut out all the hokum,
of which this is but an instance?

Lawrence R. Eno '33
New York, N.Y.

Role models

Just as I was about to bemoan again the
apathy on our nation's college cam¬
puses, there appeared two heartening
articles in the Winter 1990 CCT.

The appointment of Jack Greenberg
as the new Dean tells me Columbia has
high ideals and clear priorities. I am so
impressed by Dean Greenberg's ac¬
complishments. What a role model for
the students!

President Sovern's article, "The
Ideals of Community Service" [The
Lion's Den, restored my faith in stu¬
dents, at least in one college. The phi¬
losophy behind volunteering in
Double Discovery is to be applauded,
lest the volunteer become patroniz¬
ing. I would only add that the condi¬
tions which lead to homelessness,
abject poverty and injustice can be
changed, as Dean Greenberg has
proved.

Molly Tan Hayden P'88, M.D.

Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Team player

The elegant speeches given by Edward
Said and Peter Pouncey on the occasion
of Michael Rosenthal's being awarded
the Hamilton Medal made wonderful
reading.

Michael's 17-year tenure as Associate
Dean of Columbia College will long be
remembered as the most creative and
productive in the school's history. A
Harvard graduate who truly became an
important part of the Columbia family,
he was instrumental in returning Co¬
lumbia to the high level where we all
know it belongs.

By the way, Mike did have an out¬
standing outside shot; we played to¬
gether at Horace Mann and if the three-
point shot had been in effect, he would
have been very dangerous.

Robert Tauber'58, D.D.S.

Pleasantville, N.Y.

Written on ev'ry heart

I've just finished the Winter issue of
CCT. Wonderful! The "St. Petersburg
Camp Meeting" story covered some¬
thing about which I knew absolutely
nothing. And some useful controversy
about the University Senate, Mr.
Lorenzo, and "gender neutral" what¬
ever. But one suggestion for a page in a
future issue.

At orientation in September 1948, the
"beamed" freshmen listened to a lec¬
ture about Columbia history. Then
song sheets were handed out, a band
appeared and we learned the words
(well) and tunes (not so well) of the
Columbia songs. I still remember some
parts of them, but not always the sec¬
ond and third verses—which often

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were the best, e.g.:

1. "Here upon the hill where heroes

fought for liberty and died."

2. "Long may Coumbia stand.

Honored throughout the
land..."

3. "We guard the city's walls."

Anyway, how about a page with all
the verses to the old songs? Somebody
on Morningside must still have them.
The Hon. Theodore Diamond '52
Brooklyn, N.Y.

Ohne Sorgen

I have an addendum to Richard Brook-
hiser's discussion of German influence
in college songs [Letters, Winter 1990].
Do not be fooled by the title "Sans
Souci." It starts in my acquaintance as
a drinking song, to wit:

Was die Welt morgen bringt,

Ob sie uns Sorgen bringt,

Leid oder Freud';

Komme, was kommen mag,

Sonnenschein, Wetterschlag,

Morgen ist auch ein Tag,

Heute ist heut'!

Morgen ist auch ein Tag,

Heute ist heut'!

Victor Coutant '29
Kalamazoo, Mich.

A loose translation: "What if tomorrow
bring..." —Editor.

No withdrawal symptoms

I gave up the generic "he," cold turkey,
back in 1975. In 1980, the University of
North Carolina Press offered one Susan
B. Anthony dollar to anyone who could
find a generic "he" in my book Women of
the Republic. The prize has never been
claimed.

I scorn neologisms like she/he and
s/he. The exercise of saying what I
mean has greatly improved the clarity
and precision of my prose. I recom¬
mend it most heartily.

Linda K. Kerber (Barnard '60)

May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal
Arts and Professor of History
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

The woman question

Before I read Jessica Raimi's essay "Par¬
ent, Stayed on Rock Eternal" [Spring/
Summer '89], I was undecided on the
issue of gender neutrality, but now I am
fully convinced that I should take the

side of those fighting to eradicate sex¬
ism in language. Ms. Raimi has inad¬
vertently mastered the art of reverse
psychology. Her main argument is that
women should work toward actually
improving their position in society
instead of squandering valuable time
bickering over a few words. The author,
however, is guilty of this to an even
greater extent than the "anti-sexists."
After wasting four pages trying to pre¬
sent her reasons for being against the
movement to unsex the English lan¬
guage, she has not refuted a single
argument of her opponents. If some¬
thing is truly worthless, or even detri¬
mental to society, four pages of writing
should be more than enough to expose
it as such. I doubt it would have taken
more than one or two sentences (short
ones, at that) to have adequately de¬
nounced the entire Nazi ideology.

Although I understand that chang¬
ing language to further include women
does not necessarily promote equality
between the sexes, I disagree with Ms.
Raimi. She sees no value whatsoever in
the drive to update pronouns and, in
fact, seems to be saying that sexism
doesn't exist. If sexism really doesn't
exist, what would the paying of lower
wages to women than to men of equal
qualification be called? By attacking the
traditionally accepted "he," Ria Coyne
and sympathizers have turned society's
attention toward the grievances of
modern women. I feel that this, in
itself, is commendable. How can a mis¬
treated group, without raising its voice,
hope to awaken society?

By forcing people to re-examine the
exclusion of women in language, the

Corrections and amplifications

Our listing of alumni sons and daugh¬
ters in the Class of 1993 in the Winter
1990 issue should have included the
names of three freshmen: Peter Gottes-
man, of Scarsdale, N.Y., son of the late
George Gottesman '58; Ian Quinn, of
Hartford, Conn., son of John J. Quinn
'64; and Andrew Alan Schmeltz, of
Pittsburgh, Pa., son of Ralph Schmeltz
'63.

CCT and the College Admissions
Office apologize for the omissions.

Four transfer students, equally
deserving of mention, entered the Col¬
lege this year: Daniel M. Dauber, of
New York, N.Y., son of Leonard G.
Dauber '58; Aaron M. Hoffman, of
Brooklyn, N.Y., son of Stephen D.

anti-sexists are putting pressure on
society to address more important
issues of sexism, such as inequality in
the workplace. Ms. Raimi would prob¬
ably say, "Why start by unsexing lan¬
guage?" By the same token, why
dismantle only 100 atomic missiles
when there are still enough remaining
to blow up the world four times over?
Dismantle them because any destruc¬
tion of missiles will start the ball rolling
on disarmament. Remember that it
took more than a day, probably at least
a week, to build Rome. I can only hope,
for everyone's sake, that the ball Ms.
Coyne and friends have started rolling
will one day soon be seen speeding
down a snow-covered mountain. We
will know that this ball is well on its way
when people can hear the word doctor
and not automatically think it must
refer to a man.

Steve Winitsky '93

John Jay Hall

The view from the West

I was pleased to read Dean Greenberg's
opening remarks to the Class of '93 at
Orientation [Alma Matters, November
1989], particularly his support for the
core curriculum, which still seems to
me one of the best educational experi¬
ences in all my student years. I don't
recall who spoke at our first orientation
session in '56, but his statement that
our education at Columbia would mark
us in a special way has remained true
for me to this day. I have a friend at
another college in the city (also a
Columbia graduate) who recently told
me that as his colleagues were debating
endless proposals for revising their lib-

Hoffman '65; Kimi M. Sakuda, of Hon¬
olulu, Hawaii, daughter of David H.
Sakuda '58; and Ari Gold, son of Her¬
bert Gold '46, of San Francisco.

A letter in the Winter issue from Ira
Gottlieb '77 criticizing the selection of
Frank Lorenzo '61 for the College's John
Jay Award should have identified the
writer's affiliation more fully. Among
the clients of Mr. Gottlieb's Southern
California law firm are two labor
unions—the Union of Flight Atten¬
dants and the International Association
of Machinists and Aerospace Work¬
ers—which represent employees of
Continental and Eastern Airlines.

Mr. Lorenzo is the chairman of Texas
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eral arts program, he was thinking that
Columbia already had the answer
when he was there, thirty years ago.

Thus, I was puzzled and disturbed
by remarks further on in Dean Green¬
berg's speech: "You will hear criticism
of the core curriculum as Eurocentric
and dominated by the writings of dead
white males. That criticism has force
and Columbia has moved to address it
by extending the core curriculum to en¬
compass other cultures and other
issues."

As a college English teacher, I am
familiar with attacks on "canon forma¬
tion" and "Eurocentric" thinking, at¬
tacks that seem reprehensible, however
well-intentioned. The 20th century is
littered with the wreckage of high-
sounding motives. In this instance, the
idea that Tacitus, Dante, Cervantes and
Montaigne are "dead white males"
seems grotesque. Will ideologues de¬
cide that modern science from Coper¬
nicus to Bohr is equally derived from
"dead white males," as modern dicta¬
tors once destroyed whole libraries in
the name of liberation from "bourgeois"
or "cosmopolitan" or "Jewish" culture?
One could say that Lao-Tzu, Confu¬

cius, and Basho are "dead Asian
males," and that George Sand, Wanda
Landowska, and Madame Curie are
"dead white females." I find it espe¬
cially repugnant to think of cultural his¬
tory in terms of the dead bodies of
writers and thinkers, as though Dante
and Montaigne do not live today in the
depth and vitality of their words.

The strange thing is that it was in
C.C.-B that I first learned to see a wide
horizon, beyond "Eurocentric" think¬
ing, in various selections from Mead,
Malinowski, Spengler, and others—
sources that led me to read further and,
in the case of Spengler, opened my eyes
to world history itself:

The most appropriate designation for this
current West-European scheme of things
[the division of history into "ancient-
medieval-modern"], in which the great
Cultures are made to follow orbits around
us as the presumed Centre of world-hap¬
penings, I regard as the Ptolemaic system
of history. The system that is put forward
in this work in place of it I regard as the
Copernican discovery in the historical
sphere, in that it admits no sort of priv¬
ileged position to the Classical or the
Western Culture as against the Cultures
of India, Babylon, China, Egypt, the
Arabs, Mexico—separate worlds of

dynamic being which in point of mass
count for just as much in the general pic¬
ture of history as the Classical while fre¬
quently surpassing it in point of spiritual
greatness and soaring power.

The Decline of the West (1917), 1:21

Current attacks on "Eurocentrism"
pale beside the clarity, comprehen¬
siveness, and generosity of this
vision, which I never would have
come across if it had not been for the
source book in C.C.-B.

Steve Cogan '60
Borough of Manhattan

Community College-CUNY
New York, N.Y.

Editor's note: In a letter, Dean Green¬
berg clarified his use of the term "dead
white males," noting: "It was not my
invention and I do not embrace it for
myself. I think my feelings about the Core
are best indicated by the fact that we are
continuing with it unimpaired."

Strokes and folks

I read with interest Sam Marchiano's
article about the progress of Columbia
women's sports [Roar Lion Roar, Win¬
ter 1990]. It's good to see how far the
program has come in just six years and
perhaps she is right in citing the fenc¬
ing team as the best example of team
success. After all, they have won an Ivy
title and finished second at the
NCAA's. But why no mention at all of
last season's women's crew, undefeated
in the regular season? After all, that
ain't chopped liver!

Donald McGuire '59
New York, N.Y.

We agree, and apologize for the oversight.

—Editor.

The average verbal Joe

My education at Columbia was the sin¬
gle most important intellectual experi¬
ence of my life because it opened for me
the world of a group of thinkers who
have shaped most of our notions of the
intellectual universe and of the human
mind. I have been lucky enough to
have had a successful legal career and
then become a psychotherapist. In both
fields I have been able to use a wide-
ranging approach which is traceable
directly to my Columbia education.

But where Columbia failed me com¬
pletely, and I think has failed others, is
in the study of the physical universe.
Both science and mathematics were
taught only as part of a professional

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curriculum for people whose major
endeavors would require such train¬
ing. For the average verbal Joe, these
courses were a chore to be disposed of
as quickly as possible. Neither fascina¬
tion nor romance (nor even intellectual
pretension—a major force for some of
us) moved us to work harder or spend
emotional or intellectual energy on
these subjects. One was either words
or numbers.

What resulted was a generation with
little interest in science as a part of 20th-
century culture, and a group of parents
who raise children in just such a manner.
I need not burden this letter with
research to establish the influence of
parents upon a child's view of himself
and his life's work. Aside from the pro¬
fessional, no one at the College was
educated to conceive of science as a
part of that body of knowledge which
an educated person must have.

To cut to the chase, what I propose is
a basic sciences curriculum which
would parallel the core C.C. and
Humanities courses and provide an
ideational rather than technical
approach to the sciences. As a model in
physics, for example, one might take

Stephen Hawking's very popular book,
A Brief History of Time. It is interesting
that a book on this subject should rank
with many more popular works on the
Times list for so many weeks. People
like me, who have no scientific learning
but who understand their own need to
know about the physical universe,
have created this unusual circum¬
stance.

The course should cover physics,
chemistry, mathematics, astronomy,
biology and anatomy, including neuro¬
anatomy. The student need not learn all
the answers from such a course, but
should be able to find out what the
questions are. This would be a major
step in the inception of self-education
in science, which most of us seem to
pursue in other fields—to our plea¬
sure. Columbia has always led the way
in the education of people who seem to
be able to move the society—some
more, some less. It seems to me that
once again the College is in a position
to affect American education as it did
with the C.C. and Humanities
curricula.

I should also say that it would not
break my heart if this curriculum were

created soon and alumni permitted to
attend.

Paul A. Zola '57
New York, N.Y.

See news article, page 10 .—Editor
The third book

In response to the inquiry by classmate
Edward T. King, M.D. in the last CCT,
regarding the identity of the third book
assigned to entering members of the
Class of '71 as required reading for Con¬
temporary Civilization: It was Economic
and Social History of Medieval Europe by
Henri Pirenne.

Lawrence Goldberg '71, M.D.
Westfield, N.J.

Editor's note: David H. Margulies '71,
M. D., also supplied the identity of the
book, adding that it was "a blue-spined Pen¬
guin paperback ."

Fashionable "relevance"

Far be it from me, as a member of a
generation that came of age with the
holy trinity of sex, drugs, and politics,
to dispute the relevance of these things
to a modern education. After all, col-

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Around the Quads

Honoris causa: Columbia president Michael I. Sovern '53 shares a light moment with the president
of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel (center), and his compatriot, Professor of Film Milos Forman, at a
special convocation in Low Library on February 22. Mr. Sovern conferred an honororary doctorate on
the visiting leader and praised his "war of wit against the inhumanity of authoritarian society ."

Campus Bulletins

• Audubon Flap: Manhattan's Com¬
munity Board 12 punctuated weeks of
rancorous public hearings on April 24
by voting 26-7 in favor of a University-
sponsored biotechnology research
park on the site of the Audubon Ball¬
room in Washington Heights, across
Broadway from the Columbia-Pres-
byterian Medical Center. The $25 mil¬
lion project is opposed by both archi¬
tectural preservationists and those
who believe the ballroom should re¬
main standing as a memorial to Mal¬
colm X, the African-American leader
who was assassinated there in 1965.

The project, now more than seven
years in the works, is jointly backed
by Columbia and the New York City
and state governments; the first
phase is expected to create nearly 300
permanent jobs. According to the
University, the Audubon plan repre¬
sents "the first effort to bring new
industry to New York to convert basic
medical research discoveries by a uni¬
versity into useful products for the
benefit of the public." Columbia also
announced that it is consulting with
Dr. Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's
widow, about plans for a permanent
memorial on the site. For several

years, the University has also spon¬
sored a Malcolm X scholarship pro¬
gram in the medical school.

The Audubon research building
has been strongly supported by local
newspapers, including the Amster¬
dam News, the Carib News, and the
Washington Heights Citizen & The
Inwood News.

• Attack: A first-year student was
raped in the McBain residence hall on
West 113th Street last February by an
off-duty Columbia security guard.

The guard, Reginald Darby, who had
a prior criminal record, turned him¬
self in to the police and has since
pleaded guilty to first-degree rape.

He is awaiting sentencing.

University President Michael I.
Sovern '53 gave a detailed report on
the incident to the Unversity Senate
several days afterward. He noted that
because of bureaucratic delays in
screening records, the guard's pre¬
vious misdemeanors had not been
known to his employer. Summit Secu¬
rity Services. Columbia contracts
with Summit to patrol off-campus
buildings.

According to Dominick Moro,
director of campus security, Colum¬
bia will continue to do business with
Summit, but from now on, none of its

guards will be assigned to residence
halls until their records have been
checked. College Dean Jack Green¬
berg '45 has been in touch with the
student and her family and reports
that she is "composed and balanced"
about the incident.

• Priority: The long-anticipated ren¬
ovation of Ferris Booth Hall, the stu¬
dent activities center, should soon be
coming to fruition, according to Dean
of the College Jack Greenberg '45. He
said that the renovation and possible
expansion of the building would be a
top College priority in the Univer¬
sity's planned billion-dollar capital
campaign and that $15 million would
be required to do "a minimally decent
job." Dean of Students Roger
Lehecka '67 is in the process of select¬
ing a student committee to determine
how best to use the space. In addition
to providing adequate facilities for the
over 50 activities that call FBH home,
the renovations will be designed to
make the building a more convivial
place for students to meet.

• The Raw and the Cooked:
Columbia's John Jay Dining Hall
offers better food than eight other
New York colleges, according to the
New York Foodie column in the Daily
News Magazine of January 7.

The hot entrees, brown rice and
veggies, homemade muffins and
doughnuts, bagel dogs and 16 flavors
of ice cream outclassed Hunter's
unexciting baked ziti, Fordham's
"chicken hockey pucks," Wagner Col¬
lege's "contaminated cruller... pain¬
fully symbolic of Staten Island's
environmental concerns," and even
Queens College's "surprisingly good"
broiled bluefish. The John Jay room,
described as "a grand hall with high,
arched windows, chandeliers and
rich woods," also won favor, unlike
Brooklyn College's "depressing,
makeshift facility" and LIU's "spooky
old hall with tall columns and
balconies."

• Poetry Series: A chance remark
made by Allen Ginsberg '48 to Col¬
lege Dean Jack Greenberg '45 at a stu¬
dent dinner last fall has resulted in
plans for a Columbia poetry series.
"Columbia is the only college of any
importance in the country that
doesn't have a poetry series," Mr.

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Ginsberg told the dean.

In September, the College will kick
off the series with what Dean Green¬
berg called "a big celebratory dinner"
for its alumni and faculty poets. A
roster of Columbia alumni poets
assembled by Professor of English
Kenneth Koch included such nota¬
bles as John Hollander '50, Louis
Simpson '48, Daniel Hoffman '47,
Ron Padgett '64 and David Shapiro
' 68 .

• Chosen: With 13 recipients of
National Endowment for the Human¬
ities Younger Scholars Awards, the
College garnered the highest number
of such grants for summer research
projects of any institution in the
nation. The students are: Samuel E.
Baker '90, Jennifer Baszile '91,
Thomas J. Davis '91, Amy Dooling
'92, Shelly Eversley '90, Kristen
Fresonke '91, David A. Kaufman '91,
Olga Litvak '92, Wayne Plasha '91,
Adam Price '91, Dafna Siegman '91,
Alan Walkow '90 and Stephen E.
White '90. The NEH granted 112 such
scholarships nationally.

Other distinctions recently won by
students or young alumni include a
Luce Fellowship for graduate study to
Erica Avrami '88; Fulbright fel¬
lowships to Yichieh Shiuey '90 and
Julie Bibb '90; a National Science
Foundation fellowship to Catherine
Shaw '89; a Haynes Fellowship to
Cybele Merrick '89; and Mellon Fel¬
lowships for graduate study to Bar¬
bara Petzen '87 and seniors Marian
Feldman, Janice Pang and Karin
Pizer.

• The Old Nabe: Alumni often ask
about changes in the familiar social,
architectural and commercial land¬
scape of Morningside Heights. To
help readers keep up with the old
neighborhood, some recent bulletins:

The Green Tree Hungarian restau¬
rant, long a fixture at the corner of
111th and Amsterdam, has closed, to
be replaced by a Hunan/Szechuan
restaurant called Columbia Cottage
... The West End Gate, Art D'Lugoff's
reincarnation of the legendary hang¬
out and cafe, opened its doors in Jan¬
uary. A jazz band led by Branford
Marsalis kept the faith for a sold-out
opening night crowd ... On campus,
the Furnald Grocery closed this year,

Librarian Kenneth Lohf

but the Hartley Kosher Deli, run by
Columbia Student Enterprises, is
again open for pastrami and fixin's ..
Amir's Falafel, the world-famous
baba ghanouj purveyor, has moved
north to sleeker quarters on the West
End block ... The Amsterdam Cafe
has rebuilt its glass-enclosed terrasse,
destroyed last year by a wayward
truck in the wee hours.

Laurels

• Honored: On April 27, students pre¬
sented historian Walter Metzger with
the 29th Mark Van Doren Award for
teaching and English professor
Andrew Delbanco with the 15th Lionel
Trilling Award for his book The Puritan
Ordeal.

Professor Metzger has taught at
Columbia since 1950 and specializes in
the history of higher education and
20th-century American history. His
books include Academic Freedom in the
Age of the University and Sources of the
History of Western Civilization. Professor
Delbanco, a specialist in early Ameri¬
can literature, is a regular contributor
to The New Republic and The New York
Review of Books. He is the recipient of

NEH and Guggenheim fellowships
and has taught English at Columbia
since 1985.

• Bibliophile: Kenneth Lohf, the head
of Columbia's renowned Rare Book
and Manuscript Library for 23 years,
has been elected president of the
Grolier Club, the country's premier
club for book collectors. He has been
secretary of the 106-year-old organiza¬
tion for the past three years and direc¬
tor of its public exhibitions committee
as well. Its 600 members include
Brooke Astor, Vartan Gregorian, and
Alice Tully.

• Swiss Prize: Ronald Breslow, the
Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of
Chemistry, has been awarded the
Swiss Chemical Society's Paracelsus
Prize "in recognition of pioneering con¬
tributions to bioorganic and synthetic
organic chemistry." Dr. Breslow, who
has taught at Columbia since 1956, is
the founder of biomimetic chemistry,
which seeks to create new molecules
that imitate certain features of natural
enzymes.

Dr. Breslow received the prize, a
gold medal and 20,000 Swiss francs
($12,000), at ceremonies in Zurich in
March.

• Art Director: Sarah Elliston
Weiner, Curator of Art Properties
since 1987, has been assigned addi¬
tional duties as Director of the Wal-
lach Art Gallery in Schermerhorn
Hall. She will be in charge of planning
and all gallery exhibitions. Formerly
with the Philadelphia Museum of
Art, Dr. Weiner has also lectured at
Columbia and N. Y.U. and worked as
an assistant curator of the Museum of
Modern Art. The Wallach Gallery, the
University's first museum-quality
exhibition space, was established in
1986 with a gift from Miriam and Ira
D. Wallach '29.

• Named: Two scholars were recently
appointed to named chairs:

Alfred Stepan, Dean of the School
of International and Public Affairs
since 1983, has been designated Bur¬
gess Professor of Political Science.

Dean Stepan is a specialist on com¬
parative politics with special attention
to Latin America.

Historian Michael F. Stanislawski

has been named Nathan J. Miller Pro¬
fessor of Jewish History. He is acting
director of the Center for Israel and
Jewish Studies. His book Tsar Nicholas I
and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish
Society in Russia, 1825-1855, won the
National Jewish Book Award in History
in 1984.

In Lumine Tuo

• Deadly Accurate: The American
Geophysical Union has credited sci¬
entists led by Higgins Professor of
Geological Sciences Lynn R. Sykes
with the most accurate prediction of
the California earthquake last Octo¬
ber 17. In 1984, Dr. Sykes and a col¬
league, Stuart Nishenko, had pre¬
dicted that an earthquake of 7.0 on the
Richter scale had a 60 percent chance
of striking the region within 20 years.

"Our long-term forecasts are work¬
ing," said Dr. Sykes. "We should now
attempt to move from the decade

scale of prediction, to the few-years
scale."

• Quanta: Columbia has been chosen
as a founding member of the National
Center for Integrated Photonic Tech¬
nology, a five-university consortium
that will develop new uses for light
and lasers. Established with a $12.5
million grant from the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency,
the consortium will incorporate lasers
and light detectors in integrated
microelectronic circuits for data trans¬
mission at higher speeds than ever
before. The consortium will also
develop new materials to convert
light pulses to and from electrical
energy.

• Fossil Find: Scientists from Colum¬
bia and the Smithsonian Institution
have discovered a major trove of rare
and previously unknown fossils dat¬
ing from 225 million years ago near
Richmond, Va. Assistant Professor of

Geological Sciences Paul E. Olsen and
his colleagues found several uniden¬
tified lizard-like and salamander-like
animals, and if further studies prove
they are true lizards and salaman¬
ders, they will be the oldest such
examples in the world. The dig was
sponsored by the National Geo¬
graphic Society.

• Screening: Some 45,000 fragile
drawings in the internationally
renowned Avery Architectural and
Fine Arts Library will soon be avail¬
able on videodisk, permitting them to
be safely viewed on computer and
television screens. When the project
is completed in September 1991, the
videodisk and a computerized cata¬
logue will be made available to other
institutions worldwide. The project,
funded by the Mellon Foundation,
the National Endowment for the
Humanities, and Eastman Kodak, is
headed by Avery librarian Angela
Giral.

Fast break: Wally Halas (right) resigned as men's basketball coach in March following a disappointing 2-12 Ivy season highlighted by the team's first victory
over Penn at the Palestra in 22 years. Coach Halas, who posted a 18-60 overall record in three years, was nonetheless upbeat about the players he has recruited
to Morningside, telling Spectator: "1 think [the team] has a pretty good nucleus to be competitive. This season's close losses should be Columbia's games next
year." As this issue went to press, the University announced that JohnP. Rohan '53, Columbia's head basketball coach from 1961 tol974, had been named as
Coach Halas's successor. Coach Rohan, chairman of the physical education department and varsity golf coach for many years, was the winningest basketball
coach in Columbia history.

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Proposed house system
meets student resistance

Students and administrators agree that
the College could do more to engender
a sense of campus community. So it
came as a surprise that when Dean Jack
Greenberg '45 envisioned creating a
house system along the lines of Har¬
vard, Princeton, and Yale, he encoun¬
tered vigorous student opposition
before some compromises were made.

Roughly speaking, college "houses"
differ from dormitories in that they are
more than simply places to sleep and
study. In general, their physical
resources—libraries, dining halls, rec¬
reation areas—serve to increase contact
and thus camaraderie among the resi¬
dents. Typically in charge of a house is
a "master," usually a faculty member or
administrator responsible for organiz¬
ing events and providing academic and
personal guidance.

The Dean's Office had hoped that
introducing such a system to Columbia
would solve two problems: By creating
self-contained housing that would pro¬
mote close relations among students,
school spirit would be fostered. The
presence of house masters would also
compensate for the lack of student con¬
tact with teachers and advisors outside
of class. Most faculty have limited office
hours, and there are only six deans of
students to handle the academic prob¬
lems of 3,200 undergraduates.

With neither the space in Hamilton
Hall nor the money in the College
budget to hire new advisors, the idea of
placing current deans and faculty
members in residence halls made
sense. Dean of Students Roger Lehecka
'67 argued the merits of "an assistant
dean associated with a small group of
students over a number of years, rather
than a corral of deans dealing with dif¬
ferent students." The existing faculty-
in-residence programs of Hartley, Wal-
lach. East Campus, and Schapiro
offered some precedent. An anony¬
mous gift of $100,000 gave the opportu¬
nity to conduct a three-year trial run in
Hartley-Wallach, whose combined
total of about 450 residents would be
enough to generate interest and partici¬
pation in activities, especially a pro¬
posed speakers program that would
bring to campus notables from New
York's political, entertainment, and
publishing fields.

Although the Dean's Office had con¬
sulted with students about its plans,

there had evidently been some sort of
communications gap, because it wasn't
long before individual undergraduates
and a group called "Students Against a
House System" began raising Cain. In a
tongue-in-cheek column for Spectator,
Lyle Zimskind '90 wrote, "For a school
that has been telling its students for
years that Hey, you're in New York City,
you don't need no campus life, talk to us
when you get a job to now all of a relative
sudden propose a full-fledged residen¬
tial college system seems to me a bit
presumptuous."

Students were particularly rankled
by references to the house systems of
Harvard, Princeton, and Yale as models
of college living. In discussions with
administrators, Sarah Wolman '92, for¬
mer president of the Central Under¬
graduate Dormitory Council (UDC),
said, "If we say 'Harvard-Yale-Prince-
ton' and if we say 'house system,' then
we will never be able to implement any
program. It's something completely
non-applicable to this environment.
People don't want to live in an environ¬
ment where certain identities come out
of certain residences." She and other
UDC representatives didn't want
Columbia to follow the example of the
Big Three, where the orientation of
houses is often determined by the
interests of their denizens (athletics,
arts, etc.). Such exclusivity, it was felt,
would be inappropriate for Columbia,
which places a premium on diversity.

Opposition also stemmed from an
unfounded rumor that under a house
system, students would be confined to

certain dorms for years. Though mis¬
placed, the apprehension was under¬
standable; any graduate knows that not
all of the College's residence halls are
created equal: While Furnald remains
the top choice of many students, Wien
is now considered the worst dorm on
campus and students try to avoid living
there. (The announced renovation of
Wien has been held up because drastic
repairs on the facade of East Campus,
to the tune of $10-12 million, have been
accorded a higher priority.)

Such confusion may have accounted
for the tone of a February forum in John
Jay Lounge, where Deans Greenberg
and Lehecka met with about 50 stu¬
dents, not one of whom spoke in favor
of a house system. One Wallach resi¬
dence advisor said that every one of the
45 students in her charge opposed the
idea. Many at the forum applauded the
suggestion that the millions of dollars
that would be needed for a house sys¬
tem would best be spent on improving
Ferris Booth Hall, the student activities
center.

For their part, the deans were only
somewhat surprised by the uproar.
"Whenever we talk about a residential
change, students tend to be the most
conservative," Dean Lehecka later
reflected. "If the students felt that they
weren't consulted adequately, then we
should have done more." And as mis¬
understandings were cleared up, pro¬
tests subsided. The three-year test
period for Hartley-Wallach has been
shortened to one year, whereupon a
residence life committee of students.

Chemist George Flynn: "I have a feeling that over half the kids who don't want to take science
had teachers who turned them off."

the universe, or the methods by which
they are discovered, suffer a double
loss. History, philosophy and literature
alone will not equip our students for
responsible adulthood. Whatever their
professions, as voters and citizens of
the 21st century they will be called
upon to know something about ozone
depletion, acid rain, biodegradability,
tropical rain forests, the rate of species
extinction, the pollution of aquifers,

artificial intelligence and genetic engi¬
neering. And they ought to under¬
stand the scientific definition of truth,
so as not to be at the mercy of supersti¬
tion, like the recent President of the
United States who scheduled meetings
on the instructions of an astrologer.

For more than a decade, some
Columbia scientists, noting the thin¬
ning ranks of science majors and the
scientific innocence of non-majors.

faculty, and administrators will evalu¬
ate the results. In addition, students
were reassured that they would be nei¬
ther locked into nor out of Hartley and
Wallach; no change in the lottery sys¬
tem is currently contemplated. (Dissat¬
isfaction with that system is another,
unresolved, issue.)

For the time being, the changes envi¬
sioned for Hartley-Wallach are mini¬
mal: A new assistant dean will have an
office and living space in Hartley, and
the 10th floor kitchen facilities of both
dorms will be renovated to accommo¬
date an expanded events calender. A
greater percentage of graduate-student
residence advisors will assist the dean
in providing counseling.

Contemporary Civilization and Lit¬
erature Humanities teachers will also
be asked what features they would like
to see in a seminar room that will take
the place of the computer room on
Hartley's ground floor. Such a space
could serve as a model for future Ham¬
ilton Hall classrooms—few of which.
Dean Lehecka argues, are currently set
up to promote the roundtable discus¬
sion that is ideally found in the core
classes.

"One of the most incredible things
about our history is that we've had a
core curriculum for 70 years and we've
never had a classroom designed for
those classes," he said. "Hamilton
shouldn't be the College building just
by virtue of having administrative and
departmental offices."

Thomas Vinciguerra

The earth and stars:

A minimum of science

Through its core curriculum, Columbia
College attempts to introduce many of
the great ideas of Western civilization—
natural rights and the invisible hand,
diatonic harmony and Renaissance
perspective. But although the scientific
method is arguably one of the West's
better ideas, some critics charge the
College with falsely certifying as edu¬
cated people who are ignorant of much
that is known about the universe and
our corner of it. Every student at the
College is required to read Plato and
Shakespeare, Marx and Freud, but
there is no comparable requirement to
understand molecular structure,
genetic expression, plate tectonics, or
the death of stars.

Those who are ignorant of the laws of

JESSICA RAIMI

Columbia College Today

have lobbied for changes in the way the
College teaches the sciences at the
introductory level. The most recent ini¬
tiatives—to double the current one-
year science requirement, from 6 to 12
points, and to establish a permanent
faculty committee on science to oversee
it—were ratified by the College faculty
last November. Although the new
requirement will go into effect only
when the science committee is satisfied
that enough new courses have been
created specifically for non-scientists to
meet the increased need, it seems likely
that this will be achieved in the next
year or so.

The aim of the new requirement is
twofold. For those students who will
not major in the sciences, it is to require
something more comprehensive and
rigorous than "poet's physics" or "rocks
for jocks"; for those who arrive at col¬
lege undecided, it would provide
enough foundation, and generate
enough enthusiasm, to recruit some
students into the sciences before it is
too late.

The new proposals were proffered
by a faculty committee named in 1988
by then-Dean Robert E. Pollack '61 and
headed by Professor of Chemistry
George Flynn. The Flynn Committee
also recommended:

• That the minimum unit counting
toward the requirement be a full year of
work in a single department, or an
approved interdepartmental course;

• That the student study in two of
three broad areas: physical sciences,
the biological sciences, and mathemati¬
cal sciences;

• That more science majors be
recruited to the College and the course
offerings for majors be improved.

The number of College students
majoring in the natural sciences has
been falling since the 70's. In 1983,
when a faculty committee headed by
Professor of Physics David J. Helfand
studied the question, only 10 percent
were science majors, nearly one-third
of whom majored in psychology,
which Columbia considers a hard sci¬
ence but most universities do not.
(These figures excluded pre-medical
students, another 20 percent of under¬
graduates, some two-thirds of whom
major in the sciences.)

Today, only about 11 percent of Col¬
lege students, including many pre-
meds, major in the natural sciences,
and more than a third of these in psy¬
chology. (See box.) Those who do not

By the numbers 1

Declared majors,
by department and gender

Which fields are students choosing?

Major Field % Total # Women # Men

Political Science

17.6%

110

201

History

14.8

174

English

14.3

138

115

Economics

8.5

113

Psychology

4.1

Architecture

3.6

Philosophy

3.4

Comparative Literature

2.9

Biology

2.8

Philosophy-Economics

2.4

Biochemistry

2.1

East Asian Languages

2.1

and Cultures

History-Sociology

2.0

Regional Studies

1.9

Art History

1.8

Sociology

1.5

Urban Studies

1.4

Religion

1.1

Computer Science

1.1

Anthropology

1.1

Mathematics

1.0

Biology-Psychology

0.8

-5

Physics

0.8

French

0.7

Chemistry*

0.7

Total

100.0%

781

990

Social Sciences

45.4%

283

521

Humanities

30.7

289

255

Science & Math

14.8

125

137

Interdisciplinary

9.1

Total

100.0%

781

990

This chart reflects the academic majors declared by Columbia College

juniors and seniors, as of the spring semester of 1989. Because of double

majors, early declaration, leaves of absence and other special cases, the

number of majors tallied here exceeds the actual number of students in the

Upper College. Many students change majors before graduation.

Majors are offered in several fields not represented in this chart-

-for

instance, in African-American Studies, Geophysics, Greek, or Italian.

Students may also devise individual major programs in other fields, with

faculty approval.

*The following majors were declared by fewer than 12 students each: Classics (11),

Middle East Languages and Cultures (11), Spanish (11), Women's Studies (11),

Russian (8), Ancient Studies (7), Applied Mathematics (7), Astrophysics (7), German

(6), Geological Sciences (4), Music (4), Linguistics (3), Pre-Engineering (3), Chemical

Physics (1), Geography (1), Latin (1), Medieval and Renaissance Studies (1), and

Statistics (1).

Source: Dean of Students Office

The Rabi Scholars:

Recruiting tomorrow's scientists today

T he University makes no secret of
the fact that more American
Nobel laureates in physics, chemis¬
try and medicine received their
undergraduate training at Columbia
than at any other school. But today,
when a "vanishingly small" number
of undergraduates majors in science
nationwide, the College is failing to
attract its share of the most talented,
concluded a faculty committee
headed by chemist George Flynn in
its 1989 assessment of science educa¬
tion at the College.

The College's own proud tradi¬
tion—and consequent public rela¬
tions effort—buttresses an
undeserved reputation, the Flynn
Committee wrote: "This focus of
attention on the core curriculum,
which contains no science what¬
soever, has unhappily encouraged
the idea that Columbia College is not
the place to go if one is interested in
science."

To address this concern, the Rabi
Scholars program was instituted last
year. Named for the Nobel laureate
1.1. Rabi, who brought modern
physics to Columbia, the Rabi
Scholars join the world of scientific
inquiry immediately, through
research assistantships (sometimes
during the summer prior to fresh¬
man year), monthly dinners with
noted faculty members, and sup¬
port for individual research and
travel to scientific conferences.

Rabi Scholarships are currently

held by 22 students, and have been
offered to 43 of those admitted for
the Class of '94, of whom perhaps a
dozen will enroll. Columbia's sci¬
ence faculty recruits those students
enthusiastically, through phone
calls, campus visits, and a luncheon
a few weeks after the acceptance let¬
ters go out.

To choose Rabi Scholars, a faculty
committee reviews 200-250 applica¬
tions, culled by the Admissions
Department from the pool of admit¬
ted freshmen using criteria fur¬
nished by the science departments.
In the future, the science faculty
hope to review the larger pool of
applications, since some fear that
the College's admissions standards,
which favor "well-rounded," articu¬
late, personable young people, may
miss the scientifically gifted. Teen¬
agers who still play with their chem¬
istry sets or collect rocks are often
considered nerds, in the common
parlance, and may lack the social
skills, volunteer experience or ath¬
letic ability that impress admissions
officers. Often, too, students gravi¬
tate toward science and math pre¬
cisely because they seek the
provable and quantifiable, and are
confused by the uncertainty and
subjectivity of history and liter¬
ature. As a scientist once remarked,
during a discussion of the merits of
fiction, "If it never happened, why
do you want to read about it?"

J.R.

major in the sciences rarely take more
than the minimum requirement, and
most take one semester of two different
sciences.

The College used to require more of
its graduates. Two years of science were
required until 1971, when the require¬
ment was reduced to one.

The Flynn Committee's proposals
were only the most recent in a series of
attempts to regain ground lost since
1941, when Science A and B, an inte¬
grated sequence of courses established
in 1934, was suspended during the war
and never replaced. A similar course,
proposed by a committee headed by

philosopher Ernest Nagel, was ap¬
proved by the faculty in 1948, but
was never instituted.

The last decade has brought several
initiatives. In 1981 Professor Pollack
proposed and helped develop a one-
year course called "Theory and Practice
of Science," which began with concepts
central to all the sciences, such as scales
of complexity, error, and pattern recog¬
nition, and proceeded to case studies
from recent scientific literature. The
course is still given, and can be used to
fulfill the science requirement. And in
1983, the Helfand Committee offered
several proposals, tailored to various

staffing levels, for courses for non¬
majors in individual disciplines and for
survey courses covering the major sci¬
entific ideas. Professor Helfand is now
chairman of the standing Science
Committee.

Although Professor Flynn now
favors a two-year science requirement,
in 1971, he remembers, he had no
strong objection to cutting the require¬
ment to one year. Nor did the rest of the
science faculty, he believes: "They
probably thought, 'You can't do much
in one or two years, so why bother.' But
now they believe the situation is des¬
perate and they have to do something."
Scientists are generally less complacent
nowadays, he thinks. "In 1971 scientists
thought the populace would listen to
scientists advising them. They've lost
faith in that model."

Lack of enthusiasm for science is a
national phenomenon, the reasons for
which are much debated. American
high school students study less science
and math than their counterparts in
other developed countries, and the
shortage of high school science teach¬
ers is severe. While some of today's
freshmen are better prepared than
their predecessors—"An enormous
number of kids come in with calculus
backgrounds," says Professor Flynn—
at the other extreme: "The kids who
don't enjoy math are probably getting
more acceptance from society. That's
one of the major things we fight—they
have a real psychological block." He
adds, "I have a feeling that over half the
kids who don't want to take science
had teachers who turned them off.
There's a lot of bad teaching at the high
school level. Even private schools have
trouble getting good science teachers.
It's not lack of ability on the part of
students."

Under-preparation is not the major
problem at Columbia, which since co¬
education has become more selective
than ever. Most College freshmen score
above 600 on the SAT math tests, the
Flynn Committee reported, conclud¬
ing, "Even moderately well-designed
courses for non-science students
should not tax the innate abilities of
members of a typical Columbia College
class."

Professor Helfand is less confident,
however: "None of them are well pre¬
pared because we live in this country.
Our whole society is innumerate." He
points out that many College freshmen
do not take math as high school sen-

Columbia College Today

iors, and under the current system
they can leave the College science re¬
quirement until the senior year. At that
point, they haven't done math for four
years, and "they literally do not re¬
member what division is," he says. "It's
true—at least one per class. They know
algebra and geometry when they take
the SAT's but six years later it's flushed
out." And, he says, while "you can
entertain people about science without
math," serious teaching is impossible.
For that reason, he has long advocated
science courses with a math tutorial
component for non-majors.

Another problem, some say, is
Columbia's own culture, which
stresses literature and philosophy,
although, as the Flynn Committee
noted, "The total body of accepted sci¬
entific and mathematical knowledge
probably far exceeds that of any other
field of intellectual inquiry. Even in the
medieval trivium and quadrivium,
which dominated liberal arts education
at European universities, almost half of
the curriculum was devoted to science
and mathematics at a time when science
and mathematics were nowhere near their

present relative level of overall importance ."

The sciences should be studied for
method as well as content, continued
the Flynn Committee: "The emphasis
of the present core courses appears to
be on honing students' abilities at intel¬
lectual disputation, through the read¬
ing of texts with multiple interpre¬
tations, and through the subsequent
discussion of these texts by students
and teachers, who in many cases are
(by deliberate design) relatively unin¬
formed about their subject matter....
The emphasis of the sciences on reach¬
ing agreement through an iterative
process of confrontation among hy¬
pothesis, experiment and observation
should furnish an important counter¬
point to the style of intellectual en¬
deavor which derives from the existing
core courses. A significant part of a
Columbia student's education must en¬
tail exposure to intellectual disciplines
in which truth is based on objective
standards."

Professor Helfand, who chairs the
astronomy department, has had suc¬
cess with an astronomy course for non¬
majors, and has just designed another

such offering for next year, entitled
"The Universal Timekeeper: An Intro¬
duction to Scientific Habits of the
Mind." He has long urged other de¬
partments to design similar courses.
The physics department teaches two
thousand engineers a year, so they
have plenty of business even with only
a dozen physics majors, he notes, but
some other departments are getting
lonely. With access to Columbia's
Lamont-Doherty Geological Obser¬
vatory upstate, he says, "Being a geol¬
ogy major here could be wonderful.
There's 110 Ph.D.'s at Lamont dying for
students. It's an exquisite setting, and
one of the top departments in the coun¬
try. It's a real shame the undergrad¬
uates don't know about it."

And it's important for the non¬
majors to have an introductory course
in common, he says—"They do discuss
the books they read in C.C. in the
dorms." But he would insist on rigor:
"The science requirement should not
be like the swimming requirement.
There's no easy way through C.C. or
Humanities." Jessica Raimi

Columbia College Yesterday

10 Years Ago—Spring 1980

January: Provost Michael I. Sovern '53
is appointed the 17th president of the
University... February: A CCT poll
reveals that 60 percent of students
think Ronald Reagan is a "totally
unacceptable" choice for President of
the United States. Jimmy Carter is
their favorite candidate... The torch-
bearer for the 1980 Winter Olympics at
Lake Placid passes the gates at 116th
Street and Broadway... March: Sen¬
ator Edward Kennedy lambastes Pres¬
ident Carter's foreign policy as "bluff"
in a campaign speech in Wollman and
reveals his own plan to restore
Afghanistan to independent, non-
aligned status... April: Bicycles, car
pool lists, and emergency housing
proliferate on campus as the city's
transit workers' strike drags on... A
tripartite provostship is announced,
with separate provosts for the arts
and sciences, the health sciences, and
the professional schools... At the
second annual John Jay Awards din¬
ner, 150 students opposing draft regi¬
stration protest against one of the
recipients. Defense Secretary Harold

Brown '45; Nobel laureate 1.1. Rabi
accepts the prize for Dr. Brown, who
does not attend.

25 Years Ago—Spring 1965

January: Columbia receives its largest
grant to date, $10.9 million from the
Ford Foundation. A quarter of the
money will go toward the construc¬
tion of the new international affairs
building; the rest will be divided
among several professional schools
... February: The College Committee
on Instruction approves a new major
in linguistics... Malcolm X speaks on
"The Black Revolution and its Effect
Upon the Negro of the Western
Hemisphere" before a packed crowd
in Barnard gym. He is assassinated
three days later at the Audubon Ball¬
room ... March: Fifteen contestants
match wits in the country's first
"Trivia" competition, conducted by
seniors Dan Carlinsky and Ed Good-
gold ... New Hall, nameless since its
opening in 1959, is designated Car¬
man Hall after former Dean Harry
Carman... April: Several students
form the 52nd chapter of a new cam¬

pus organization called Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS)... May:
Senior shortstop Archie Roberts wins
the Ivy League batting crown with a
.371 average.

50 Years Ago—Spring 1940

January: Historian Charles A. Beard
returns to campus to deliver a lecture
on the Constitutional Convention of
1787,22 years after resigning his post
at Columbia to protest the firing of J.
McKeen Cattell, the head of the psy¬
chology department... February:
Betty Grable dances with students at
the junior prom, held at the Waldorf-
Astoria ... March: In an interview
with Spectator, Professor of History
Harry J. Carman says that "Too many
people consider the College as the tail
end of the kite, when it is actually the
backbone of the University" ... Dorm
rates are revised; room prices now
range from $130 to $275 per year...
May: Wm. Theodore de Bary '41 is
unanimously elected chairman of the
Student Board. T y

Brought up in the groove,
these homeboys move

He could have been a Naval officer at Annapolis, or a basketball star at
St. Bonaventure, but Peter Nash '89 chose Columbia. Now he's a rap artist
with a gold record to his name.

by Suzanne C. Taylor '87

Columbia College Today

F or starters, def is cool is dope. Stupid
means good, but wack is stupid. A moni¬
ker prevents identity crisis, but if someone
dubs you Grand Master Dirt and the Funk Zoo
Crew your mack-daddy license has been re¬
voked. In fact, you are miles from being def or
dope, so you might as well call it quits 'cause
you've been dissed. Got that?

That's the language of hip-hop, nicknamed
rap. Rap is attitude. Rap is violence. Rap is
social commentary. Rap is black. Or is it?

Like jazz and rhythm & blues before it, rap
has arrived at the cultural boundary line divid¬
ing blacks and whites. Given the broad audi¬
ence rap has earned in the decade since its
birth in the discos and streets of the Bronx, that
boundary has crumbled just enough for some
white artists to scramble over and take a crack
at the newest wave of African-American
culture.

For Prime Minister Pete Nice (a/k/a Peter
Nash '89) and MC Serch (ne Michael Berrin),
that cultural boundary never existed. Together
they form 3rd Bass, the white hot new rap duo,
immersed in the hip-hop culture. Mr. Nash
and Mr. Berrin have gracefully sidestepped
parody and cheap imitation. Though white
artists, like the former punk band the Beastie
Boys and Dixieland minstrels in blackface,
have long parodied the African-American
musical forms, in doing so they have attracted
a new audience with considerably stronger
buying power: white America. Even rock 'n'
roll began as a spoon-fed version of r&b.

Part of rap's appeal, however, is that it is an
unadulterated African-American musical
form. 3rd Bass is doing nothing to change that,
according to Doctor Dre and Ed Lover, who
host Yo! MTV Raps, one of Music Television's
highest-rated shows. "The Beastie Boys more
or less made a mockery of the music," said Mr.
Lover in an interview on Fox-TV's Reporters.

"To me, the Beastie Boys could have been any
three white boys. 3rd Bass can't be any two
white boys because when they rap it's coming
from the soul."

They are the first white rap artists to be taken
seriously by both fellow rappers and the listen¬
ing audience. "People have accepted us be¬
cause of the quality of our music," says Mr.
Nash, "and to call us white rappers is just a
crutch for those who label us that way. Color is
just the cover of a mind and a soul."

3rd Bass's debut record, "The Cactus Al¬
bum," has just gone gold, selling 500,000 cop¬
ies. "If you even sell 200,000 records for a
debut, it's a big deal," says Angela Thomas, a
marketing executive with Columbia Records,
which distributes 3rd Bass's records on the Def

Suzanne C. Taylor '87, a former member of
WKCR's executive board, is a photo researcher at
Newsweek.

Jam label. "We expect it to go platinum plus."

"The Cactus Album" is a wild concoction of
music and sound bites, from the "Little Ras¬
cals" theme to a piano line lifted from one of
Aretha Franklin's cuts. Over this background
the two def MC's (cool rappers) chant their
taut, witty, sometimes biting raps, while their
DJ, Richie Rich, squeezes new instrumental
riffs and rhythms out of dueling turntables.

A masterful DJ stops the alternating discs
with his hands at rhythmically strategic mo¬
ments. This scratching, as it's called, forces to
the surface the "between-the-lines" sounds, or
allows the DJ to repeat a word or phrase by
spinning the turntables in reverse and forward
again. The sound of needles scratching discs is
rap's signature. And like a skilled audiotape
editor who can change the content of a re¬
corded speech with a sharp razor and a spot of
splicing tape, a DJ can transform the content of
the tracks he's working with.

The recording studio as an instrument in its
own right is rap music's greatest ally, and 3rd
Bass takes full advantage of it. In one cut, tak¬
ing Abbott and Costello's famous dialogue
"Who's On First," they add in drums, a bass
line and a horn line, all from different recorded
works, and then manipulate the dialogue to a
new groove. Abbott and Costello never
dreamed they'd be rapping.

No discussion of popular music should fail
to acknowledge the power of videos, and of the
cable music television station MTV, a dominant
outlet for the art form. 3rd Bass's two videos,
"Steppin' to the A.M." and "Gas Face," have
definitely boosted sales of "The Cactus Al¬
bum," says Mr. Nash. In its videos the group
strives for a mini-movie aesthetic layered with
as many visual images and textures as their
songs.

Their latest, "Brooklyn Queens," mixes color
footage of a performance on location in Brook¬
lyn with black-and-white clips from a vintage
Brooklyn Dodgers game with the Giants. In
the video the Prime Minister chugs on a stogie
and stalks Brooklyn armed with a silver-tipped
walking cane. MC Serch sports the band's logo
shaved into the hair on the back of his head and
shakes down some impressive dance moves.
The heavily bejeweled rappers are shown
dodging the "Brooklyn queens"—gold-dig¬
ging women who, failing to impress 3rd Bass,
turn their attention to some dude wearing a
four-finger ring (an 18-karat gold update on
brass knuckles).

A t 22, Peter Nash is no youngster in the
music business, having signed his first
contract in the Carman Hall lobby six years
ago. "I feel like a veteran because everything
that could possibly go wrong in a musician's
career did—from bad managers to missed
gigs," recalls Mr. Nash. "For instance, we were

"To call us white rap¬
pers is just a crutch
for those who label us
that way. Color is
just the cover of a
mind and a soul."

Opposite: Prime Minister
Pete Nice (foreground)
andMC Serch.

A rap "professor" splits the campus

Where rappers go, controversy often
follows, as evidenced this past semes¬
ter when Columbia's Black Students
Organization (BSO) invited Richard
Griffin, a/k/a "Professor Griff," the
former "Minister of Information" of the
popular rap group Public Enemy, to be
its keynote speaker for Black History
Month.

According to Hector Carter '91,
political chairman of the BSO, Professor
Griff was invited because of Public
Enemy's message to blacks—specifi¬
cally, "the importance of African-
Americans educating themselves and
understanding the importance of giv¬
ing their skills, labors, as well as their
funding back to the community."
Though Professor Griff wasn't a
musician with the critically acclaimed
group, he was their chief spokesman
and would lead his uniformed "S1W"
unit in choreographed paramilitary
maneuvers during concerts. His notori¬
ety stems in part from a widely quoted
interview in the Washington Times last
May, in which he said that "Jews are
wicked" and, in fact, are to blame for
"the majority of wickedness that goes
on across the globe."

At various times, Professor Griff has
recanted his remarks, and Public En¬
emy has denied that it is anti-Semitic.
But the group's lyrics, among them
"Crucifixion ain't no fiction; so-called
chosen, frozen" and "It's pathetic to
think you're Semitic," remain fixed in
wax and, while open to interpretation,
have unequivocally offended many
people.

Although Mr. Griffin's right to speak
on campus was never seriously chal¬

lenged, his appropriateness as a guest
—and the question of whether student
activities fees should pay for his hono¬
rarium—was hotly debated. Jewish
and non-Jewish students alike blasted
the invitation. College Dean Jack
Greenberg called for a boycott of the
speech, and Ferris Booth Hall's Board
of Managers withdrew $1,000 it had
committed to Black History Month.
Mordechai Levy of the Jewish Defense
Organization added fuel to the fire
when he appeared on campus to incite
protest. Many students, meanwhile,
both black and white, defended their
right to hear what Professor Griff had to
say so they could make up their own
minds.

On February 11, while 500 people
protested the BSO event at a "Rally
Against Hatred & Prejudice" on Low
Plaza, Professor Griff spoke to 400 oth¬
ers in Altschul Auditorium. (CCTcould
not get a ticket to the sold-out event.)
His speech, which did not mention
Jews, was primarily about the future of
black education and the need for self-
knowledge in place of a traditional cur¬
riculum. According to Spectator, he also
said that integration is a delusion: "As
long as you're connected with your
slavemaster, it won't do you no good."
And he repeated his oft-stated belief
that AIDS is a man-made disease that
was injected into Africans. A dis¬
claimer at the end of his speech stated
that his opinions were not necessarily
those of the BSO.

"The BSO is not unsympathetic to the
concerns of the Jewish community,"
said Hector Carter before Mr. Griffin's
arrival; indeed, a few members have

had private misgivings about the whole
affair. This failed, however, to satisfy
many students. Senior Laura Shaw, a
former leader of the Council of Jewish
Organizations (CJO), asked in a two-
page Spectator opinion forum why the
BSO had not made an effort to invite "a
black leader who did not hold anti-
Semitic ideas, or any ideas that preach
hate and discrimination." She lament¬
ed, "I would hope that a people so sen¬
sitized to the negative effects of an
unhealthy atmosphere on their own
people would not willfully perpetuate
one for another people."

In the same pages. College junior
Joseph Senyonjo wrote, "At a time
when what we need is more progress
toward Martin Luther King's dream,
and when racism is still so much of a
hindrance to millions of minorities'
dreams, Griff's anti-Semitism does us,
blacks, a great disservice. Instead of
reducing racism, it almost certainly
spawns more of it."

At the very least, students now seem
to want to avoid a similar confrontation
in the future; on April 2, a forum to im¬
prove race relations drew some 70 peo¬
ple to Wollman Auditorium, including
representatives of the BSO and the
CJO. But sophomore Tony Fletcher, an
occasional though not active attendee at
BSO meetings, reports that a good deal
of anger still exists on both sides and
may well boil over again. "It's a shame
that after something like Griff, we have
to go to FBH and talk about it," he said.
"Why couldn't we have talked about it
before?"

T.V.

chosen to write and perform the theme song
for the cult movie hit I'm Gonna Get You Sucka,
but like a lot of things it fell through at the last
minute."

"We persevered for six years, and sheer per¬
sonal strength got us through a number of
ordeals. If we were only doing this for money,
chances are we would not have survived," says
Mr. Nash. One such ordeal was their first live
gig, opening for the popular rap group De La
Soul last summer. Columbia Records' Angela
Thomas remembers, "At first the audience was
ready to boo them, especially the whites, be¬
cause the last thing a white audience expects to

see is a bunch of white rappers. But once 3rd
Bass got going that barrier vanished and the
audience was jamming." Since that gig, 3rd
Bass has toured with big names in rap like
Queen Latifah, Big Daddy Kane and Public
Enemy. They will tour with Public Enemy this
summer. (Public Enemy wrote and performed
the theme song "Fight the Power" for Spike
Lee's film Do The Right Thing.)

3rd Bass claims fans across the nation, in
Europe, and close to Mr. Nash's home on the
Upper West Side. "Til never forget one after¬
noon when I was going to the grocery store,"
he recalls, "and as I rounded the corner a

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bunch of school kids were just getting off a city
bus. They recognized me as Prime Minister
Pete Nice and then swarmed me for auto¬
graphs. It was a mob scene, and at the same
time it was amazing."

So how do two white, middle-class boys get
into rap? Both grew up with it in rap's home¬
town of New York City. Mr. Nash was intro¬
duced to rap in the locker room of his father's
basketball team at Brooklyn's Bishop Ford High
r School where Raymond Nash is the athletic

director. "I was about ten years old when I
started helping my dad out at practices and
\ games as a ball boy. The players on the team

gave me rap tapes, and I liked the sound imme¬
diately," recalls Mr. Nash.

The idea of being in the know about an un¬
derground subculture appealed to him as well.
Brooklyn parks had basketball courts, and bas¬
ketball players always had rap music on hand.
Mr. Nash hung out on those courts, improving
his game and hearing the latest in rap music.

He augmented his education with daily jam
sessions in the Bishop Ford lunchroom where
he and fellow aspiring rappers would "bug
out" or chant their raps. "During my senior
year in high school. Jazzy, a friend of mine, and
his group Whistle recorded 'We're Only Bug-
gin',' which became a big hit locally. I had been
writing raps and performing them with friends
in a group called Sin Qua Non for quite some
time. And it got me thinking, if Jazzy could do
it, why can't I?" Initially he was known as Cash
Money, but later on a friend dubbed him Prime
Minister Pete Nice.

Graduation from high school disbanded Sin
Qua Non. "All the other members went to Syr¬
acuse," says Mr. Nash, "but I was faced with
deciding between St. Bonaventure, the Naval
Academy at Annapolis or Columbia College.
Having grown up in New York City, I had
always wanted to go away for college. The
Naval Academy granted me an appointment,
and St. Bonaventure recruited me seriously for
their basketball team, but in the end I decided
on Columbia because of the academics."

For his first two years Mr. Nash played for
the Lions, but, he says, "Playing basketball for
Columbia was not particularly inspiring. Either
* I was sidelined with ankle injuries or the losing

scores would get me down." He abandoned
basketball in favor of his writing and music,

I and hosted a hip-hop show one summer on

Columbia's radio station, WKCR-FM, but was
dismissed at vacation's end. "It was a shock
because we had worked hard to attract a sizable
audience with underground rap acts like Kid
'N' Play," says Mr. Nash. "I believe the decision
to pull my show was founded upon ignorance
and paranoia. It was black music, and it is kind
of ironic that Columbia could be in the middle
of Harlem and not give rap music to the
community."

MC Serch and Prime Minister Pete Nice were
rivals until Sam Sever, now one of their pro¬
ducers, brought them together in 1987. Before
long, Def Jam Recordings, a leading rap label,
signed 3rd Bass to an eight-album deal. Not a
bad position to be in, considering approxi¬
mately 30 percent of all record sales today are
rap albums.

Mr. Nash's family has supported his music
career although, he says, "My mother won¬
dered why I wanted to go to Columbia if I was
already planning a career in rap." Attending
Columbia was not easy. "I had to work three
jobs during the summer to help with the costs
of my education. My mother hoped I'd become
a lawyer because they make a good living. But
now I have a lawyer!" he chuckles, pausing to
dig through a stack of papers. "She was right.
Lawyers do make a good living!" he says, dis¬
playing a sizable bill for a 15-minute phone call
with his lawyer.

R ap music has grown out of the black ver¬
nacular tradition, and one could argue that
it is a form of "signifying," which the black
studies scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. defines
as "the literary equivalent of a ritualized lan¬
guage game full of indirection, boasting, insult
and salacious humor." Rap's potential for mul¬
tilayered meaning and flexible use of the lan¬
guage is enticing to a writer like Peter Nash. In
the title track on his debut album, for instance,
he says, "The cactus is a metaphor for survival
and bravery. But on a baser level the listener
could liken the cactus to a particular aspect of
male anatomy."

Mr. Nash often writes about his own experi¬
ence with the hip-hop culture and his struggle
to become a rap artist, but he also tackles larger
issues. "Race relations have come a long way
since the 60's, but we still still have a long, long
way to go," says Mr. Nash. "As white rap art¬
ists, Serch and I stand on a middle ground. We
can say a lot of things whites want to say and a
lot of things blacks want to hear." Consider the
simple phrases we take for granted: "Black cat
is bad luck/Bad guys wear black/Must have
been a white guy that started all that/Make the
gas face/for those little white lies." ("Gas face"
is rap for a facial expression of disgust.) Mr.
Nash contends that one track in particular, "Tri¬
ple Stage Darkness," cuts to the quick about
how stereotypes and race distinctions grow
out of ignorance and darkness. The haunting
horn line and the powerful lyrics back up his
claim: "Fallacy/The great wall fell in disgrace/
How can hatred uplift a race... Knowledge is a
child with a mind and a crayon/Brilliance and
difference/Traits and true sight/Third stage
knowledge pours forth a new light..."

But for all the wholesome messages, 3rd
Bass, true to rap's reputation, serves up plenty
of boasts and hormone-driven raps of the sort

The sound of needles
scratching discs is
rap's signature.

that inspire feminist criticism of macho hip-
hop culture. Again, the title track provides a
rich illustration. "The smut villain chillin' like
Gilligan out on an island/Fishin' with my string
and bamboo/caught somethin' in a see-
through nightie/might be a little tasty, a 300-
pound white girl/No one to see this./Boom! I
dropped my fluid like a chemist./She's con¬
tained and I'm a lame brain/But doing the wild
thing."

"I chose rap music because it's what I felt,
and it's a way to write," says Mr. Nash. "Writing
within the constraints of the rhythm is quite a
challenge, and things I learned as an English
major became more tools to work with. Like
alliteration, for example—now everything I
write doesn't necessarily rhyme. The rap
music I enjoy is more like intellectual modern
poetry. Take the modern poet William Carlos
Williams—he takes something quite ordinary
like a wheelbarrow and creates something
quite extraordinary. And that's the relationship
lam interested in."

S adly, the sting of race hatred has touched
upon 3rd Bass's success. Enter the infa¬
mous Professor Griff (Richard Griffin). 3rd
Bass, in their video "Gas Face," poked fun at
Public Enemy's paramilitary-style dancers, the
Security of the 1st World (SIW's). Professor
Griff, Public Enemy's former "Minister of Infor¬
mation," found no humor in the spoof, and
engaged 3rd Bass in a verbal scuffle in the

offices of Def Jam Recordings. "Professor Griff
called Serch a Jew bastard," recalls Mr. Nash,
though he denies rumors that the argument
escalated into a fistfight. "Fie also dubbed us
'the 3rd Race' because he thinks we are whites
trying to be black and that makes us worse than
niggers. His personal thing with us has noth¬
ing to do with our professional relationship
with Public Enemy because Griff isn't even
signed with Def Jam. And I lost a lot of respect
for Columbia University's Black Students
Organization for inviting Professor Griff to
address a forum, even if the BSO didn't know
what he was about. Griff is so full of hate and is
such a negative force. I'd like to know where he
got his degree."

As 3rd Bass continues its steamroll to the
top, they take every opportunity to state how
they feel about racism. In February, when they
appeared on the popular Arsenio Hall Show, in
response to a question about the "white thing,"
Mr. Nash said, "We're no more white rappers
than you're a black talk show host, or than
Mayor David Dinkins is a black mayor. We're
rappers. The most important test is if people
will move to your music."

When asked recently whether he would
have retired to another republic if a public ref¬
erendum had sunk 3rd Bass with a no confi¬
dence vote, the Prime Minister mused, "I'd still
be writing raps and working that much harder
to make it. I couldn't be anything else. I am a
rapper." Q

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Asian Classics and the Humanities

Columbia's 40-year experience of introducing
Eastern civilizations to Western students offers
many lessons for today's evolving college curricula.

by Wm. Theodore de Bary '41

P erhaps the two most celebrated efforts to
define a classic canon for modern America
emerged, paradoxically, from the abandon¬
ment of a required curriculum based on the
classical languages of Latin and Greek. One
was the famous five-foot shelf of Harvard
Classics, edited by President Eliot of Harvard,
who is also responsible for introducing the
elective system. In other words, Eliot put the
classics on the shelf and then told undergrad¬
uates they were free to leave them there. At
Columbia in the teens and twenties, George
Woodberry and, more practically, John Erskine
'00, took the classics off the shelf and put them
on the table for discussion in Erskine's famous
Honors Course, a colloquium which became
the prototype for Great Books courses of all
kinds— at Chicago, St. John's, Aspen, and in
the Humanities course at Columbia, required
of all undergraduates from 1937 to the present.

It was as a natural extension of these earlier
Honors and Humanities programs that the
Oriental Humanities, featuring the "great
books of the East," was born 40 years ago. The
comparatively open and expansive view of the
canon which the Oriental Humanities bespoke

contrasts with the educational hostilities that
have broken out since. The challenge now to
the so-called WASP canon, even when offered
in the name of so-called "non-Western" cul¬
tures, is revealed in this negative and incoher¬
ent formulation, for "non-Western" stands for
nothing in itself and is meant less to affirm
these alternative traditions than to call into
question the validity of any tradition at all.
Indeed, it often amounts to nothing less than a
radical, cultural-revolutionary challenge to
any kind of canon. Eastern or Western.

In response, however, we cannot simply
mount a defense of established practice, or
superimpose a preconceived definition of the
canon on other cultures. Rather, we must ex¬
amine what other traditions have considered
classic and develop criteria that may contribute
to an enlarged conception of both the classics
and the humanities—in short, a working, con¬
testable canon for educational purposes.

One need not imagine it possible to isolate
such an enterprise from all politics or ideology,
nor suppose that education can be free of in¬
doctrination. Better instead that the premises
and purposes of an educational program be

(Above): Mohammed.
From a miniature in
the Royal Asiatic
Society.

"In China, if one went
no further than the
Analects, one would
get only an archaic,
fossilized view of
Confucianism. In the
West it would be like
reading the Old
Testament without
the New."

made explicit, and that faculties openly take
responsibility for the values their curriculum is
meant to serve. Better still that faculties con¬
sider first the needs of students themselves,
rather than promote some political or social
program or pursue the faculties' own special
interest.

T he original idea of Erskine's Honors course
was to preserve the benefits of old-fash¬
ioned classical learning. As an Honors course,
Erskine's could be thought "elitist," insofar as it
sought to perpetuate the liberal values of a clas¬
sical education in the manner of 18th- and 19th-
century gentlemen. But the influx of large
immigrant populations into New York meant
that Columbia's student body had become
quite diverse and "democratic," as compared
with other Ivy League institutions, and when
the Honors colloquium became a required
Humanities course in 1937, it was part of a
larger movement with a distinct populist fla¬
vor. Its early teachers worked not only in

Columbia classrooms, but in "people's insti¬
tutes," Cooper Union, adult education centers,
union halls, and the best New York high
schools. Mortimer Adler '23 was no WASP, and
when he took "The Great Books" to Chicago
and thence throughout the country, his com¬
mitment was to democratic education. Iron¬
ically, had he been less of a populist, Adler
might have spared himself the condescending
criticisms of a real elitist, Allan Bloom, who
would later deprecate Adler's efforts as border¬
ing on vulgarization and hucksterism.

The so-called "Western" tradition, at its
inception, drew heavily on "Oriental" sources
in the Near and Middle East. Much of Greek
philosophy came into the hands of the medie¬
val West through the good offices of Muslim
Arabs, who recognized the importance and
responded to the challenge of Greek thought at
a time when it had been eclipsed in Europe
during the so-called Dark Ages. Long before
there were any WASPs in the world, Aristotle
stood as a formidable presence in the minds of
the great Islamic philosophers A1 Ghazali and
Ibn Khaldun, as much later he would again in
the eyes of modern East Asians. Plato, Aristo¬
tle, St. Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, and
Dostoevsky, when once made available to edu¬
cated Japanese and Chinese, were quickly
acclaimed as classic thinkers and writers of uni¬
versal stature.

It is not just that "each generation chooses its
own ancestors," as the saying goes, but that
certain works perennially survive translation
and critical scrutiny across time as well as cul¬
tures. This is what marks them as "classics"—
worthy of serious consideration by each new
generation— and thus deserving of attention
in any structured curriculum.

In this way, the core at Columbia has come to
be defined through practical experience more
than by an abstract definition or ideological
design. A common body of required texts and
source readings is used to encourage the indi¬
vidual's confrontation with challenging ques¬
tions and ideas, as well as to facilitate dis¬
cussion. Through common readings and the
exchange of ideas, the core courses help stu¬
dents learn to think for themselves and express
themselves. The curriculum promotes a
shared discourse that, in an age of inescapable
specialization, bridges the disciplines and sus¬
tains communication among educated per¬
sons. "Core," then, refers not just to content or
canon, but to process and method.

Wm. Theodore de Bary '41, who founded the Oriental
Studies program at Columbia, is Special Service Professor.
This article is abridged from the keynote address he gave at
the regional meeting of the Modern Language Association
in Atlanta last November. A fuller discussion of the same
subject can be found in Approaches to the Asian
Classics, edited by Professor de Bary and Irene Bloom,
published this spring by Columbia University Press.

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T he thought of including Asia in the core
curriculum arose in the 1930's, well before
World War II, the postwar boom in Asian stud¬
ies, or the rise of Third World politics in the
sixties. The real radicals, the ones both rooted
in fundamental human concerns and visionary
of future trends, were members of the Colum¬
bia faculty in the 1920's and 30's, whose extraor¬
dinary foresight made them anticipate the
need to bring Asia within the scope of the core
curriculum.

Efforts to remedy this lack, not just by adding
so-called language and area studies, were
delayed by the distractions of World War II
rather than hastened by America's increasing
involvement in the Pacific. But under the post¬
war leadership of College Dean Harry J. Car¬
man, courses were established first in an
Oriental Colloquium, then in Oriental Human¬
ities, and finally in Oriental Civilizations.

There followed an intensive development of
teaching materials, source readings, transla¬
tions of major texts, study guides, and syllabi.
By the late 60's, the materials on Asia for use in
general education were fully equivalent to
those in the parent core courses.

Thus, the inclusion of Asia in the core curric¬
ulum was neither a betrayal of the West nor a
capitulation to the political pressures of dis¬
affected minorities— nor anything but a natu¬
ral follow-through on the original intention of a
core curriculum that would be incomplete
without other world traditions. What may well
alarm conservatives is the more radical claim
that today East and West should be treated on a
par, with no privileged status reserved for tra¬
ditional values or Western civilization.

I would suggest that one's own cultural tradi¬
tion should have priority in undergraduate
education anywhere. The globalization of cul¬
ture may well produce a "global village," but
there are grounds for doubt whether it will
retain any real local color, distinctive culture,
or sense of intimate association. Might not uni¬
versities everywhere be doomed to a unifor¬
mity as anonymous, dull, and graceless as the
shopping malls proliferating around the globe?

If intellectual diversity and cultural plural¬
ism are to survive in universities, they must
tend the roots of their own cultures and nur¬
ture whatever there still is of distinctive excel¬
lence in their own traditions. Which is to say, in
the matter of core curricula, giving some pri¬
ority to the study of those ideas, institutions or
cultural traditions that make each of us—in
East or West—what we are and can be at our
best. No matter how well our translators do
their work, studying another culture is much
like learning another language. The stranger
the culture, the less accessible it will be, and
the greater the risks of misunderstanding and
superficiality.

I question the feasibility of bringing all major

traditions in a single "great books" or world
civilization course. Can justice be done to the
distinctive features of each tradition in a one-
year survey? One can have something like
"globality" in the academic equivalent of a one-
year shopping mall, but nothing like the inti¬
mate personal experience of life in a village, or
the sense of identification with a community
for which one takes some personal responsi¬
bility.

A t Columbia in the 30's, the advocates of the
new Oriental Studies program were ama¬
teur types, liberal-minded gentlemen who
took education, and not just their own schol¬
arly research, seriously. In contrast to Orien¬
talists of the classical type, they believed in
general education and felt that something
should be done to expand its horizons so as to
bring Asia into the picture—a task demanding
both great breadth and openness, rather than
the kind of intense, specialized language study
traditional Orientalism favored. Typical of (Above)- Confucius.

these teachers were Mark Van Doren; Ray- Portrait after a

mond Weaver, an authority on Herman Mel- Chinese drawing.

"Tagore saw the need
for a curriculum in
which the several
Asian traditions
would complement
each other. Regretta¬
bly, modem educa¬
tion in Asia has taken
a different turn."

ville with a deep appreciation also of Japanese
literature; Burdette Kinne, an instructor in
French with a passion for everything Chinese;
and Harry J. Carman, a professor of American
history and New York State dirt farmer who
wanted to see Asian civilizations brought into
the Contemporary Civilization program.

The lead in the first Oriental Humanities
course, set up in 1947, was taken by such schol¬
ars as Moses Hadas, the Greek classicist; Her¬
bert Deane '42, a political scientist specializing
in Harold Laski and St. Augustine; James Gut-
mann Y8 in German philosophy; and Charles
Frankel '37, the philosopher of Western liber¬
alism. As they put together the reading list for
their first Oriental Colloquium, Deane and
Hadas had to deal in several traditions, not just
one. If the choice of Oriental classics were to be
governed by the same selectivity as in the
Western case, this selectivity would have to be
exercised in respect to several Asian traditions
at once—indeed, all that might be included in
the so-called "non-Western" world.

Exercising this selectivity in the multicultu¬
ral East was far more difficult than it had been
within the bounds of the more unified Western
tradition. Though the "East" had something
like "great books," it had nothing like the Great
Books of the East. The latter is a Western idea,
both in seeing the East as one, and in imagin¬
ing that there had been a common tradition
shared by the peoples of this "East." Each of the
major Asian traditions tended to see itself as
the center of the civilized world and look in¬
ward—spiritually and culturally—toward that
center rather than outward to the world or to
each other. The famous "Sacred Books of the
East," as published at Oxford, was a Western
invention. "Asia," a geographical designation,
represented no common culture or moral bond
among the peoples of that continent until, in
modern times, a new unity was found in their
common reaction to Western expansionism. To
construct a reading list, therefore, we had to
look for what each of the several Asian tradi¬
tions themselves honored themselves as
essential to their own heritage.

O ne way of doing this was to identify the
scriptures or classics already well known
within the distinct ethico-religious traditions
of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucian¬
ism, Taoism, and others. Yet one could also
find recognized classics of the literary and in¬
tellectual traditions, which might or might not
run parallel to the religious traditions. This
method, proceeding inductively from the testi¬
mony of Asians themselves rather than deduc¬
tively from some Western definition of a classic
norm, has produced what might seem an odd
assortment of genres. Great poetry exists in
each of the major traditions, though it varies
considerably in form. Epics can be found in

Iran and India that bear comparison to the
Odyssey, Iliad, and Aeneid, but there is nothing
like them in China and Japan. The reverse is
true of the haiku or Noh drama— classic forms
in Japan, but found nowhere else. Histories as
monumental in their own way as Herodotus
and Thucydides have been produced in the
Islamic world by Ibn Khaldun and in China by
Ssu-ma Ch'ien but by no one in traditional
India or Japan.

Perhaps the greatest diversity, however, is
exhibited among the religious scriptures, some
of which can barely be regarded as "texts" in
any ordinary sense of the term. For instance,
although the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Ch'an
Patriarch is presented in one sense as authori¬
tative scripture, in another sense it points to an
abjuration of all scripture.

Other problems of selection arise from the
lack of geographic and cultural congruence
among the four major traditions we have
chosen to represent the "East": the Islamic
world, India, China, and Japan. The Islamic
world, which covers almost half of Asia and
North Africa, also includes Iran, with its own
language, civilization, and religions. Our "cov¬
erage" of India includes Buddhism as well as
Brahmanism and Hinduism, and in China and
Japan, Buddhism as well as Confucianism and
Taoism. Thus, religion cuts across cultures
while it may also provide some of their under¬
lying continuity.

If, for instance, the case for Islam and our
understanding of the Koran depend heavily on
how one views the distinctive claims made for
it as prophecy and for Mohammed as the "seal
of the prophets," the significance of that claim
cannot be judged from a reading of the Koran
alone, without seeing how the matter is dealt
with later by A1 Ghazali in relation to Greek
philosophy and Sufi mysticism, or by Ibn Khal¬
dun in relation to the patterns of human his¬
tory. The contrasting claim of Hinduism that it
transcends any such particular revelation and
can accommodate all other religions may be dif¬
ficult to evaluate except in some relation to
Islam or to the Mahayana Buddhist philosophy
that Sankara is variously said to have refuted
and assimilated into the Vedanta. These reli¬
gions or teachings may not always have ac¬
knowledged each other openly, but if we know
or even suspect that there was indeed an
unspoken encounter among them, some re¬
connaissance of the alternative positions is req¬
uisite to an understanding of any one of them.

In China, though the inception of the Confu-
cian tradition is most directly accessible
through the Analects, if one stopped there and
went no further into any of the later Confucian
thinkers, one would get only an archaic, fossi¬
lized view of Confucianism. In the West it
would be like reading the Old Testament with¬
out the New, or the latter without St. Augus-

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tine, St. Thomas, or Dante. Yet it can equally
well be argued that the encounter among the
so-called "Three Teachings" in China is even
more vividly brought to life in such great Chi¬
nese novels as the journey to the West and the
Dream of the Red Chamber. Thus, reading classic
fiction can give access to the dialogue on China
on levels not reachable through the classical
and neo-classical philosophers.

The same—and more—can be said for Japa¬
nese literature as a revelation of Buddhism's
encounter with the native tradition. Often that
tradition is identified with Shinto, but as there
were no written texts or scriptures antedating
the introduction of the Chinese script, the best
one can do is look to the earliest literature in
Japanese—such works as the Manyoshu, the
Tale ofGenji, and the Pillow Book, to name only a
few of the finest examples—if one wishes to
get, in the absence of open doctrinal debate, a
more intimate glimpse of what is going on in
the Japanese mind and heart behind the out¬
ward show of polite professions.

Thus, unless other guests are invited, there
will be no party for us to join, no way to renew
the conversation with any of the great works or
thinkers of the past without having others
present who had engaged in the original dia¬
logue. How long the list of participants may
become is always a matter for local discretion,
but in no case can just one or two works gener¬
ate a real conversation. In the silence of Zen
there may be such a thing as one hand clap¬
ping, but in the discourse we are entering into
there is no book that speaks just to itself.

In this way, working through the natural,
original associations among the recognized
classics of the Asian tradition, one arrives at a
provisional set of the Asian classics or Great
Books of the East. Admittedly a modern crea¬
tion, it is put together from material quite
authentic to one or another of the Asian tradi¬
tions. Yet it is an "East" that has emerged in its
true reflected colors only upon being observed
in a modern light.

R abindranath Tagore, the charismatic cos¬
mopolitan from Calcutta who thought of
himself above all as a citizen of the world, was
perhaps the first to appreciate this. In his new
perception of the "East," brilliantly articulated
in an essay on "The Eastern University," he saw
the need for a curriculum in which the several
Asian traditions would complement one an¬
other, highlighting each other's distinctive fea¬
tures in a way no solitary exposure could do.

Regrettably, the direction of modern educa¬
tion in Asia has taken a different turn, empha¬
sizing technical learning and specialized train¬
ing at the expense of any kind of humanistic
education. Eastern or Western. In this situa¬
tion, as in our own, the humanities are taught
as discrete disciplines and each national tradi-

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tion is a separate subject of specialization. The
usual result of this process is that nothing can
be seen whole and every great work is subjec¬
ted to unmitigated trivialization. In most Asian
universities today it is only the student major¬
ing, say, in Sanskrit, Chinese, or Japanese
studies who learns anything of the classics of
his own tradition beyond the high school level,
and even then it will most likely be to specialize
in a single text.

I n the study of other cultures or civilizations,
an understanding of one's own situation and
one's own past is a precondition for under¬
standing another's. Our experience with Ori¬
ental Humanities at Columbia shows how
much deeper the new learning experience can
be for those who have first come to an appre¬
ciation—or even just a keen awareness—of
their own tradition. The same principle applies
in reverse to the Asians' understanding of the
West, which may be just as advantaged or

handicapped, depending on how well they
have come to know their own culture. Not to
come to terms with one's past is to remain a
hostage to it, and thus not to become fully
master of oneself. In such a condition, being
unable to take responsibility for one's own
past, one is in a poor position to become truly
responsive to others'.

Such considerations are bound to enter into
what I refer to as "parity of treatment." If one
can appreciate what it would mean for the
Great Books of the Western World to be repre¬
sented only by Plato's Republic or the Book of
Job, one can begin to appreciate why a reading
of the Analects alone might not do sufficient
justice to the Confucian tradition, or why the
Dhammapada by itself would be inadequate to
represent Buddhism.

Whatever is to be done, it seems to me,
should be governed by two considerations.

The first is that the reading and understanding
of a text should work, as much as possible,
from the inside out rather than from the out¬
side in. This means that no reading of an East¬
ern text should be undertaken which is so
removed from its original context as to be dis¬
cussable only in direct juxtaposition to some¬
thing Western. Such a reading leads almost
inevitably to one-sided comparisons and does
not serve genuine dialogue. Party to this new
dialogue must be enough of the original dis¬
course (i.e., writings that present alternative or
contrasting views) so that the issues can be
defined in their own terms and not simply in
opposition to, or agreement with, the West.

The basic criterion for recognizing the Asian
classics as such has been that they were first so
admired in their own tradition. In quite a few
cases this admiration spread to other countries,
and these works came to be regarded as either
scriptures or great books outside their home¬
land. Further, after the West made substantial
contact with Asia in the 16th and 17th cen¬
turies, many of these works were translated
and admired in the West as well. For at least
two centuries they have been essential reading
for many of the best minds in the West—phi¬
losophers, historians, poets, playwrights, and
indeed major writers in almost every field of
thought and scholarship. Thus, one whose
education does not include a reading of the
Asian classics today is a stranger not only to
Asia, but to much of the best that has been
thought and written in the modern West.

While not perhaps to be called "Great Books of
the West," many of these works and their au¬
thors have already entered the mainstream of
the conversation that is going on in the West
today. As that conversation is broadened to in¬
clude a fairer representation of the Asian tradi¬
tion, bringing out the implicit dialogue within
and among them, it could indeed become a
Great Conversation for all the world. o

The freedom of the scholar

I n his more than forty years at Columbia,
Wm. Theodore de Bary '41 has been a voice
of academic conscience and an exemplar of
devotion to students. His retirement last year
has renewed appreciation for his contribu¬
tions; his recent honors include the College's
John Jay Award and the Father Ford Award. In
March, Professor de Bary was celebrated at a
two-day campus symposium entitled "Free¬
dom of Learning and Discussion in Asia and
the West," a subject especially appropriate in
light of the recent wave of burgeoning demo¬
cratic movements worldwide. The event was
something of an oral Festschrift; academics
from around the country listened to such dis¬
tinguished figures as historian Jacques Barzun
'27, human rights scholar Louis FFenkin, and
philosopher Arthur C. Danto hold forth on the
subject of intellectual freedom—and its
repression—everywhere from Tienanmen
Square to American campuses. The diversity
of subjects and disciplines of the attendees
reflected Professor de Bary's forsaking of cul¬
tural boundaries in pursuit of common ideals
and dialogue.

F or the guest of honor, the symposium was
the culmination of a lifetime spent at
Columbia, beginning with his years in the Col¬
lege, where he was chairman of the Student
Board, manager of the Debate Council, and
president of the Van Am Society and the
Nacorns. Fie graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1941,
and after four years of wartime service in the
Navy, he returned to campus and got his M. A.
in 1948. Fie then conducted research in Canton
and Beijing, barely escaping the 1949 revolu¬
tion, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia in
1953.

The University's Oriental Studies program
was largely inchoate when Professor de Bary
was placed at its head that same year, but by the
end of the decade he had revolutionized the
field by enlisting the aid of scholars to translate
thousands of the most important political, eco¬
nomic, social, philosophical, literary, and
religious documents of the East. The result was
three bestselling "source books" published by
Columbia University Press— Sources of Indian
Tradition, Sources of Chinese Tradition, and
Sources of Japanese Tradition —which brought
previously unattainable materials to students
at hundreds of colleges and helped establish
the Press as an internationally known pub¬
lisher of Oriental works in English.

"The teaching of the classics of the East was

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not automatic," recalled University Professor
Donald Keene '42, one of Professor de Bary's
oldest friends, at the March symposium. "Some¬
one had to start it, and Ted did it." Having
formulated a new approach to the study of the
East, Professor de Bary went on to administer it
as chairman of the department of East Asian
Languages and Cultures, making Columbia
one of the country's preeminent centers for
such studies.

In all of his roles at Columbia, Professor de
Bary has become known as much for his intel¬
lectual probity as for his scholarship. "You have
to be careful about what you ask Ted de Bary
because he's going to tell you the answer," said
Professor of Business Frank Macchiarola, the
former New York City schools chancellor.

"He's not going to offend, but he's going to be
honest."

"He has never brought his religion or politics
to bear on his students," noted Wing-tsit Chan,
Gillespie Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at
Chatham College. "I still don't know if he's a
Democrat, or a Republican, or both." He added
wryly, "I know he had an audience with the
Pope last year, but I still don't know his
religion." A model of professorial cool during
the '68 riots, in 1969 he was elected the first
chairman of the Executive Committee of the
University Senate. "My instinct is to talk. Ted's
instinct is to get other people to talk," said
Professor Keene of his colleague's general
approach.

Professor de Bary was Executive Vice Presi¬
dent for Academic Affairs and Provost of the
University from 1971 to 1978. He insisted on
keeping one foot in the classroom even while
most of his time was spent in Low Library: "I
made a deal with Bill McGill that allowed me to
teach a class from 9 to 11 Monday mornings.
From that regular weekly experience I always
knew that the best part of life was spent in the
classroom Monday morning and the rest of the
week was downhill." When he returned to
teaching in 1979, a new chair was created espe¬
cially for him: John Mitchell Mason Professor of
the University, named after Columbia's first
provost.

Ted de Bary's civil demeanor masks a deep
passion for Columbia College and its mission.
His outrage at the attempt to eliminate the Col¬
lege faculty two years ago was a decisive factor,
many feel, in preserving its integrity. In 1988,
he chaired the Commission on the Core Cur¬
riculum. His students have responded over the
years by presenting him with the Lionel Trill¬
ing Award in 1983 and the Mark Van Doren
Award in 1988.

He has also received the Great Teacher
Award of the Society of Older Graduates, the
aforementioned John Jay Award for Distin¬

guished Professional Achievement, and, in
April, the Father Ford Award of Distinction.

Given by the Father Ford Associates, which
supports Catholic campus activities, it recog¬
nizes leadership, character, and commitment.

Nor has Professor de Bary escaped the atten¬
tion of his classmates, who will raise some
$500,000 of the $1.5 million that will endow the
Wm. Theodore and Fanny B. de Bary and Class
of 1941 Collegiate Professorship in Oriental
Humanities.

Professor de Bary currently holds the title of
Special Service Professor, a rank for excep¬
tional retired faculty which allows them to con¬
tinue service to Columbia. He also remains the
Director of the Heyman Center for the Human¬
ities, whose activities include the Lionel Trill¬
ing Seminars, the Human Rights Program, the
Society of Senior Scholars, and many activities
associated with the College's general education
program. Thus, even in retirement, he con¬
tinues to promote intellectual discourse on
campus.

At the March symposium, after receiving the
congratulations of others, Ted de Bary himself
paid tribute to his teachers, colleagues, and
friends, but most of all to his wife of more than
half a century, Fanny. "I owe to her, more than
anyone else in this world, the freedom I have
enjoyed."

t.v. a

Bookshelf

The Hone and Strong Diaries of Old
Manhattan edited by Louis Auchincloss.
Excerpts from the diaries of Philip
Hone and George Templeton Strong,
Class of 1838, with Currier & Ives
illustrations, covering the half-century
of New York City's growth from busy
seaport to world metropolis (Abbeville,
$35).

Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Jour¬
nalism of Whittaker Chambers ['24]
1931-1959 edited by Terry Teachout. This
collection spans Chambers's career
from the New Masses to National Review,
including many unsigned pieces from
Time (Regnery Gateway, $24.95).

Transformations of Myth Through
Time by Joseph Campbell '25. Thirteen
lectures by the renowned mythologist,
with 125 illustrations (Harper & Row,
$14.95 paper).

Dream Song: The Life of John Berry¬
man ['36] by Paul Mariani. A new biog¬
raphy of the tormented poet (William
Morrow, $29.95).

John Berryman: Collected Poems 1937-
1971 edited by Charles Thornbury. All the
published books of poetry, except for
The Dream Songs, in one volume (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, $25).

The People and Uncollected Stories by

Bernard Malamud, edited and intro¬
duced by Robert Giroux '36. At his death
in 1986, Malamud left the first draft of a
novel. The People, and six unpublished
stories. This volume contains those
works and ten other stories previously
published in literary magazines (Far¬
rar, Straus & Giroux, $18.95).

Somers: Its People and Places edited by
Richard Farmer Hess '37 and the Somers
Historical Society. The 200-year history
of the northern Westchester County
(N. Y.) town that was the birthplace of
the American circus, with 523 pictures,
maps and illustrations (Somers Histor¬
ical Society, $35 ppd.).

Approaches to the Asian Classics

edited by Wm. Theodore de Bary '41, Spe¬
cial Service Professor, and Irene Bloom,
Assistant Professor of Oriental Studies
(Barnard). This successor to the 1959

Approaches to the Oriental Classics con¬
tains many new essays by Columbia
faculty on the great books of the East¬
ern tradition, including the Koran, the
Upanishads, and the Tale of Genji
(Columbia University Press, $32.50).

Neo-Confucian Education: The
Formative Stage edited by Wm. The¬
odore de Bary '41 and John W. Chaffee. The
first comprehensive study of the 12th-
century thinker Chu Hsi as an educator
and intellectual influence throughout
East Asia (University of California
Press, $65).

From Sibelius to Sallinen: Finnish
Nationalism and the Music of Finland

by Lisa de Gorog and Ralph de Gorog '43.

A study of the evolution of Sibelius's
music and its influence on younger Fin¬
nish composers (Greenwood, $39.95).

The Liberated Man's Guide to Fine
Cooking, or. Dean Cuisine by Jack
Greenberg '45, Dean of the College, and
James Vorenberg. Most of these recipes
can be prepared in under an hour, and
women too can use them, argue the
authors (Limited edition).

Faulkner's Country Matters: Folklore
and Fable in Yoknapatawpha by Daniel
Hoffman '47. A study by a noted poet of
Faulkner's fictional Mississippi county
^Louisiana State University Press,
$19.95).

Picasso and Braque: Pioneering
Cubism by William Rubin '49. From 1907
to 1914, the two painters conducted a

visual "dialogue" as they refashioned
art in the image of the 20th century.

This catalog, with 400 plates and an
essay by the former director of painting
and sculpture at the Museum of Mod¬
ern Art in New York, accompanied a
recent exhibition (Musem of Modern
Art/Little, Brown, $70).

Macromedia: Mission, Message and
Morality by Ralph L. Lowenstein '51 and
John C. Merrill. A textbook surveying
the mass media (Longman, $17.95
paper).

Love and Other Infectious Diseases by

Molly Haskell. In 1984 the film critic
Andrew Sarris '51 was stricken with
cytomegalovirus, a disease that par¬
tially paralyzed him and remained
undiagnosed for some time. This
memoir by his wife, a well-known film
critic and feminist, limns Mr. Sarris's
illness and ultimate recovery to draw a
portrait of a marriage (William Morrow,
$18.95).

James Fenimore Cooper by Robert
Emmet Long '56. A study of the author
of The Deerslayer, who laid the founda¬
tion of the American novel (Con¬
tinuum, $16.95).

The Mutant Season by Robert Silverberg
'56 and Karen Haber. In this novel, set in
2017, a mutant race with extraordinary
mental powers peacefully coexists with
the normal humans, although keeping
to its own clans and neighborhoods.
Then a mutant boy seeks to marry a

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normal girl (Foundation/Doubleday,
$18.95, $8.95 paper).

What About Me? by Edward Koren '57.
This latest collection of drawings from
The New Yorker assembles work from
1983 to 1988 (Pantheon, $9.95 paper).

The Broken Apple: New York City in
the 1980's by Herbert London '60. A lover
of the place deplores crime, drugs, the
homeless, rent control, incivility, and
the relation of these dysfunctions to lib¬
eral pieties, in this collection of essays
originally published in various news¬
papers (Transaction, $24.95).

Selected Works of Wilhelm Dilthey

translated and edited by Rudolf A. Mak-
kreel '60 and FrithjofRodi. The first two
of a projected six volumes of the works
of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), the
influential German philosopher and
social historian: Vol. 1, "Introduction to
the Human Sciences," and Vol. 5,
"Poetry and Experience" (Princeton
University Press, $55 and $39.50,
respectively).

A House Divided: America in the Age
of Lincoln by Eric Foner '63, DeWitt
Clinton Professor of History, and Olivia
Mahoney. A large selection of illustra¬
tions and photographs from the collec¬
tion of the Chicago Historical Society,
accompanied by chapters on slavery

and the Civil War by the award-win¬
ning Columbia historian (W. W. Nor¬
ton, $35).

Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools
for the Crafts of Knowledge and Deci¬
sion by Martin H. Krieger '64. A study of
models used in the natural and social
sciences, covering such concepts as
enumeration, centralization, marginal
and sticky resistance, perversion, mod¬
ularity and eschatology (Russell Sage
Foundation, $25).

The Voice of Jacob: On the Composi¬
tion of Genesis by Leslie Brisman '65.
The text of Genesis can be seen as con¬
flict between a pious and a revisionary
spirit, posits the author (Indiana Uni¬
versity Press, $22.50).

Worthington Whittreage by Anthony
Janson '65. A monograph, with 16 color
pages and 184 halftones, on the 19th-
century Hudson River School land¬
scape painter (Cambridge University
Press, $50).

The Experience of World War I by J. M.

Winter '66. A political, military and
social history of the Great War, drawing
on many firsthand accounts, with maps,
tables, hundreds of photographs, and a
chronology (Oxford University Press,
$29.95).

"Iam walking behind three men/obviously undergraduates/who are talking in loud
voices. /Why do they have to read Plato?/They speak of the opportunities/in medicine and
law... in computers. /Who cares about Shakespeare?/What's Hecuba to them?'' So begins a
reminiscence of the career of one of the poet's Columbia classmates, from In the Room We
Share, recent poems by Louis Simpson '48 (Paragon House, $18.95).

Never Too Young to Die by Lewis Cole
'68. The tragedy of Len Bias—the
Maryland basketball star who died of a
drug overdose in 1986—led the author
to examine the cocaine epidemic and its
impact on black America (Pantheon,
$18.95).

White Ninja by Eric V. Lustbader '68.

The further adventures of Nicholas
Linnear in a novel of Tokyo-Washing¬
ton intrigue (Fawcett, $19.95).

The False Prophet by Robert I. Friedman
'69. An expose of Rabbi Meir Kahane,
from his founding of the Jewish
Defense League in Brooklyn to his role
as a right-wing leader in the Israeli
Knesset—a career which offers, in the
author's view, "a looking glass into the
dark side of Israel's soul" (Lawrence
Hill Books/Chicago Review Press,
$19.95).

The Best American Poetry, 1989 edited
by David Lehman '70, series editor, and
Donald Hall. This second annual collec¬
tion includes work by Louis Simpson
'48, John Hollander '50, David Shapiro
'68, and Professor Kenneth Koch (Col¬
lier, $24.95, $9.95 paper).

Shopping for a Better World by Alice
Tepper Marlin, Jonathan Schorsch '86,
Anitra Swaminathan and Rosalyn Will. A
pocket-sized guide to brand-name
products listing the manufacturers' rec¬
ords on affirmative action, military con¬
tracts, animal testing, South Africa, the
environment and other issues (Council
on Economic Priorities, New York,
$5.95 paper).

Neighborhood Tokyo by Theodore C.
Bestor, Associate Professor of Anthro¬
pology and East Asian Studies. This
ethnographic study of a typical Tokyo
neighborhood was named an "Out¬
standing Academic Book of 1989-90" by
the college library journal Choice (Stan¬
ford University Press, $39.50, $11.95
paper).

The Age of Rights by Louis Henkin,
University Professor Emeritus. An
examination of human rights—an idea
peculiar to our century—in the domes¬
tic and international spheres (Colum¬
bia University Press, $30).

Indelible Shadows: Film and the Hol¬
ocaust by Annette Insdorf. A new edition
of a study of 125 movies, primarily dra¬
mas, concerning the "final solution"
(Cambridge University Press, $16.95

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Obituaries

1911

Henry Baker, real estate broker.
New York, N. Y., on January 31,
1990. A legendary figure, Mr.
Baker was thought to be the oldest
active commercial real estate bro¬
ker in the United States. After 66
years in his family's business and
on his own, he joined Edward S.
Gordon Company in 1978 at age
88. He founded and was past
president of the National Realty
Club, which named him Man of
the Year in 1989. An ardent ath¬
lete, Mr. Baker was an official at
the 1924 and 1948 Winter Olym¬
pics and won many club tennis
tournaments.

1919

Edward Pierpont Hamilton,

retired executive. Two Rivers,
Wise., on October 7,1989. From
1941 to 1963, Mr. Hamilton was
president of Hamilton Industries,
the family manufacturing com¬
pany. Active in state and national
manufacturing associations, he
was also known for philanthropic
endeavors in his home town of
Two Rivers.

1922

William G. Chorba, physician,
Bronx, N.Y., on July 5,1989. A
1925 graduate of Columbia P&S,
Dr. Chorba was director of sur¬
gery at University Heights Hospi¬
tal in the Bronx. During the war,
he saw action in Normandy and
earned a Bronze Star at the Battle
of the Bulge.

Henry Dumper, retired architect,
Roslyn, N.Y., on December 25,

1988. Mr. Dumper, a 1924 graduate
of the Architecture School, was an
active amateur horticulturalist,
serving on the boards of several
arboretums and as president of
the American Rhododendron
Society.

Walter Eberhart, retired civil engi¬
neer, New York, N. Y., on Febru¬
ary 2,1990. Mr. Eberhart received
a master's degree from the Engi¬
neering School in 1924 and was a
partner in Eberhart Brothers, Inc.
He was a past president of his
class and a Fellow of the John Jay
Associates.

Nathan Wartels, publisher. New
York, N.Y., on February 7,1990.
Mr. Wartels was the founder and
chairman of Crown, which he
built into one of the largest pub¬
lishers in the United States before

Louis A. Tepper '27

he sold it to Random House in
1988. He made much of his for¬
tune in the remainder business,
which he entered in 1933, buying
publishers' surplus books and
then selling them to bookstores
for their remainder bins. His busi¬
ness empire included the Outlet
Book Company, Publishers Cen¬
tral Bureau, and the Living Lan¬
guage record courses.

1924

Charles W. Crawford, attorney.
New York, N. Y., on October 9,

1989. Mr. Crawford graduated
from the Law School in 1935 and
was a partner in Crawford & Levie
in New York. He was president of
his class from 1954 to 1959.

Louis W. H. Heynen, retired busi¬
nessman, San Diego, Calif., on
December 6,1989. After working
for various investment banking
companies and as a beverage dis¬
tributor, Mr. Heynen joined Gen¬
eral Dynamics/Convair and
served as publications editor.
Morris Kemp, retired archivist,
Bethesda, Md., on December 31,
1989. Mr. Kemp was an archivist
for the State Department and the
National Archives. He was also an
independent translator and
editor.

Kenneth S. Pratt, retired advertis¬
ing executive, Stuart, Fla., on Feb¬
ruary 5,1990. Mr. Pratt worked in
automotive advertising.

Julian Wolff, physician. New
York, N.Y., on February 12,1989.
Although he specialized in treat¬
ing workplace injuries. Dr. Wolff
was best known as the leader of
the Baker Street Irregulars, the
club of Sherlock Holmes enthusi¬
asts, from 1960 to 1986. He also
edited their scholarly quarterly.
The Baker Street Journal.

1925

Eugene J. McCarthy, retired
banker. New York, N. Y., on
December 23,1989. Mr. McCarthy
was with the Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company from 1929 to 1965.

1926

Richard G. Mosher, retired busi¬
nessman, Springfield, Mass., on
September 22,1989. Mr. Mosher
was president of Mosher Co., a
manufacturer of abrasive
products.

Frederic C. Smedley, retired law¬
yer, New York, N. Y., on Novem¬
bers, 1989.

1927

William Heifer, attorney. New
York, N.Y., on January 2,1990.

Mr. Heifer graduated from the
Law School in 1930 and was a part¬
ner in the firm of Garey & Garey.

A John Jay Associate, he was ac¬
tive in alumni affairs, serving as
secretary of his class and class cor¬
respondent for Columbia College
Today.

Louis A. Tepper, attorney. Fall-
brook, Calif., on January 13,1990.
A1929 Law School graduate, Mr.
Tepper specialized in complex liti¬
gation during his many years of
practice in New York. At age 70,
he passed the California Bar and
served San Diego Superior Court
as a judge pro tern and arbiter.

1928

Arthur D. Bates, retired teacher.
Lakeland, Fla., on October 31,
1989. Mr. Bates taught at Boys'
High School in Brooklyn. He was
later a citrus grower in Florida.
Samuel Murray, bookseller,
Wilbraham, Mass., on June 4,
1989. Mr. Murray was with the
G. & C. Merriam Company for 18
years and later established his
own rare book business.

Alfred Parker, tax expert, Larch-
mont, N.Y., on July 14,1989. For
over half a century, Mr. Parker
was associated with the Tax Foun¬
dation, a nonprofit organization
that monitors government spend¬
ing. A classical music scholar, he
served on the board of the West¬
chester Philharmonic.

1929

Edmund B. Fritz, printer. New
Providence, N.J., on August 12,
1988. Mr. Fritz worked for the
Keuffel & Esser Co. and was exec¬
utive vice president for sales of
the Azoplate Corp., both of New
Jersey. He later became a graphic
arts consultant.

1930

Bertram Field, attorney. New
York, N.Y., on September 23,

Emerson Buckley '36

1989. Mr. Field was a 1932 gradu¬
ate of the Law School and was for
many years of counsel to Sterling
National Bank & Trust Co.

George Gebel, retired engineer,
Adelphi, Md., on November 2,
1989. Mr. Gebel was with the
Bureau of Ships in Washington,
D.C. and the Applied Physics
Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins
University.

Isidore N. Kagno, retired mathe¬
matician, Bronx, N.Y., on April 4,
1988.

1931

Charles A. Becker, retired banker.
Saddle River, N.J., on September
23,1989. Mr. Becker was a vice
president of Manufacturers Han¬
over Trust Co.

1932

Jeff J. Coletti, physician. Old
Beth page, N. Y., on December 7,
1989. A staff member of several
Nassau County hospitals. Dr. Col¬
etti was on the county board of
health and was the medical exam¬
iner for the regional FA A. Active
in professional societies, he re¬
ceived numerous awards for his
work.

1933

Jerome P. O'Neill, retired electri¬
cal engineer, Rochester, N.Y., on
August 22,1989. Mr. O'Neill spe¬
cialized in traffic control and was
manager of safety systems at the
General Railway Signal Co. of
Rochester. For the company's 75th
anniversary, he co-authored the
volume Elements of Railway
Signalling.

Charles Steer, retired physician,
Bronxville, N. Y., on February 22,

1990. Dr. Steer was a 1937 graduate
of P&S, specialized in obstetrics
and gynecology, and taught at the
school for 36 years. He developed
the electrohysterograph, which

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measures electrical activity in the
uterus as a woman approaches
labor.

1935

Eugene H. Clay, lawyer, Sarasota,
Fla., on February 4,1990. Mr.

Clay, scion of a prominent Geor¬
gia family, had a distinguished
career as an assistant district attor¬
ney and corporate lawyer in New
York City, as a much-decorated
combat veteran in North Africa
and Europe, and as a State De¬
partment diplomat in Greece and
the Philippines. For 16 years he
was director of advanced develop¬
ment and new business ventures
for Owens-Corning Fiberglas
Corp.

1936

Emerson Buckley, conductor,
Miami, Fla., on November 18,
1989. Mr. Buckley retired in 1986
as artistic director and resident
conductor of the Greater Miami
Opera and as music director of the
Fort Lauderdale Symphony. He
was a guest conductor with many
orchestras in the U.S., Europe
and China, and enjoyed a long
professional association with the
tenor Luciano Pavarotti. A stu¬
dent of Douglas Moore at Colum¬
bia, he won the University's Alice

M. Ditson Award in 1964 and the
College's John Jay Award in 1984.
Raymond P. Tenney, Howell,

N. J., on September 5,1989.

Scott Burton '62

1937

C. LeRoy Carpenter, chemical en¬
gineer, Metairie, La., on Septem¬
ber^ 1989.

1938

William M. Cook, Jr., retired
marketing executive, Hilton Head
Island, S.C., on September 3,
1989. A former Columbia crew
captain and World War II naval
commander, Mr. Cook worked in
advertising and sales for Schick,
Chesebrough-Pond's and other
firms, and retired as vice presi¬
dent and marketing director of
Young & Rubicam, in New York.
Hubert Davis, retired chemist.
Pleasant Hill, Calif., on October
19,1989. An authority on hydro¬
carbons, Dr. Davis worked on the
Manhattan Project at Columbia
and was a research scientist for
many years with Union Carbide.
He retired in 1986 from the Uni¬
versity of California's Lawrence
Laboratory in Berkeley.

1939

Thorvald Eugene Tonnessen, re¬
tired chemical engineer, Talley-
ville, Del., on October 25,1989.

Mr. Tonnessen did research, plant
design and production work with
dyes and fluorocarbons for 30
years at Du Pont's Deepwater, N.J.
facility and in the Netherlands
before his retirement in 1971.

1940

William H. Pawling, editor and
publisher, Lauderhill, Fla., on
July 21,1989. Mr. Pawling was an
editor and vice president for
many years at Prentice-Hall Pub¬
lishing Co. in Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.

Edwin F. Shelley, inventor, engi¬
neer, and management consul¬
tant, New Rochelle, N.Y., on Jan¬
uary 4,1990. An authority on
advanced communications sys¬
tems, Mr. Shelley developed and
patented the first commercially
sold production line robots in the
U.S.,aswellas mail sorting sys¬
tems, DigiFlex teaching ma¬
chines, and military ordnance
devices. He was a co-founder of
Bulova Research and Develop¬
ment Laboratories, an executive
with U.S. Industries, and presi¬
dent of E. F. Shelley & Co., the
Manhattan consulting firm he
founded in 1965. A past president
of the National Council on Aging,
Mr. Shelley served as a trustee
and administrator at the New
York Institute of Technology in
Old Westbury.

Thaddeus Tomkowit, retired
chemical engineer and manager,
Wilmington, Del., on July 25,
1989. Mr. Tomkowit was with Du
Pont for 40 years, retiring in 1982
as manager of logistics and works
supplies in the chemical and pig¬
ments department. A leader in
Catholic lay organizations and his
parish, he was past president of
the Americans of Polish Descent
Cultural Society and chairman of
the Aid to Poland Committee. He
died in Warsaw while attending a
congress of Polish scholars.

1942

Donald E. Janelli, physician and
teacher, Lakeville, Conn., on
March 22,1989. Dr. Janelli was
emeritus chief of surgery at Win-
throp-University Hospital (for¬
merly Nassau Hospital) in Mine-
ola, N. Y., and professor emeritus
of clinical surgery at SUNY-Stony
Brook.

Hanan C. Selvin, sociologist. Fair
Lawn, N.J., on July 20,1989. Pro¬
fessor Selvin, a specialist in sur¬
vey analysis and the use of statis¬
tics, taught at Berkeley and
chaired the sociology department
at the University of Rochester and
SUNY-Stony Brook before retiring
in 1985. A hereditary disease
blinded him in the 1970's, but he
continued to teach and he served
as a trustee of Helen Keller Serv¬
ices for the Blind, in Brooklyn. In
1968, he received the C. Wright
Mills Award from the Society for
the Study of Social Problems.
James Roger Boyd, musician, Col¬
orado Springs, Colo., on March

14,1989. Mr. Boyd was the organ¬
ist, choirmaster and director of
the cadet chorale program at the
United States Air Force Academy
Cadet Chapel for 27 years.

1962

Scott Burton, sculptor. New York,
N.Y., on December 29,1989. Mr.
Burton's granite tables and chairs,
inhabiting the boundary between
sculpture and furniture, adorn
public spaces in New York, Seat¬
tle, Cincinnati, and other cities.

He exhibited regularly in America
and Europe, with one-man shows
at the Tate Gallery in London, the
Baltimore Museum of Art and, in
1989, a retrospective in West Ger¬
many. Last spring, he curated an
exhibition of Brancusi's sculptures
at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York.

1967

Kent Cunow, clinical psycholo¬
gist, New York N.Y., on June 27,
1989. Dr. Cunow, a specialist in
the treatment of substance abuse,
was director of diagnostic services
in the psychiatric division of Four
Winds Hospitals in Katonah, N.Y.

1977

Peter Lovi, environmental engi¬
neer, Pine Bush, N.Y., on Decem¬
ber 15, 1989. Mr. Lovi was a senior
scientist with Wehran Engineer¬
ing Corp. in Middletown, N.Y.,
and a musician who recorded
with the group Brainfood. He
died in a plane crash near Albany,
N.Y.

Adam Remez, real estate execu¬
tive, New York, N. Y., August 28,
1989. Mr. Remez was vice presi¬
dent of Silverstein Properties in
New York.

Obituaries Editor:
Thomas J. Vinciguerra '85

Class

Notes

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100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

A letter from Thomas R. Dash 18
laments the lack of a true column
for his class news in this section of
CCT: "Could it be that all my class¬
mates are as extinct as the
dinosaurs?"

Mr. Dash was a champion
debater at Columbia and went on
to a noteworthy career as execu¬
tive editor at Fairchild Publica¬
tions in New York and ultimately
as drama critic for Women's Wear
Daily. He is a past president of the
New York Drama Critics' Circle,
where his colleagues included
Brooks Atkinson, Richard Watts
'21, John Chapman and Joseph
Shipley. "We were very fortunate
to work during the golden age of
American drama, reviewing plays
by Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell
Anderson, Tennessee Williams,
Arthur Miller, as well as the great
musicals of that era," Mr. Dash
writes.

Looking forward to his 93rd
birthday on September 3, he
remains active as a director and
sometime president of the West
Palm Beach, Fla. condominium
where he lives with his wife of 68
years, Ruby.

Leon F. Hoffman

67-25 Clyde Street
Forest Hills, N.Y. 11375

Michael G. Mulinos

42 Marian Terrace
Easton, Md. 21601

Columbia College
Today

100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

Henry Miller

1052 N. Jamestown
Road, Apt. F
Decatur, Ga. 30033

Two members of the Class of 1923
were among the six recipients of
the College's John Jay Award for
distinguished professional
achievement in 1990: Alan
Altheimer and Mortimer Adler.

Alan Altheimer '23 accepting the John Jay Award on March 22.

Mr. Altheimer earned his law
degree at Columbia in 1925 and
has practiced for the past 64 years
with the firm of Altheimer & Gray
in Chicago. A leader in that city's
bar association and with a variety
of civic, educational, and philan¬
thropic organizations, he was
praised for his active role in pro¬
moting race relations long before
it was fashionable to do so. The
John Jay citation called Mr.
Altheimer "a defender of tenants'
rights, a catalyst for educational
improvement in the inner city,
and a friend to black neighbor¬
hoods." He has also served as
chairman of the civil rights com¬
mittee of the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith.

For Mortimer Adler, the John
Jay Award was the second major
honor in about five months. Last
October, he received the second
annual Phi Beta Kappa Associates
award at the society's annual
meeting in Boston. This award is
given "in recognition of excel¬
lence, creativity, and oustanding
intellectual achievement that
uniquely enhance the scope of
human understanding and depth
of human knowledge."

Dr. Adler has made headlines
ever since he received his Ph.D.
from Columbia. As an under¬
graduate, he never passed the
swimming test, so he never
received his A.B. until a few years
ago when the degree was finally
granted to him without, we imag¬
ine, his having to prove any

waterbound proficiency. At his
"commencement," he chose to
forego sitting and marching with
the VIP's, but sat with the gradu¬
ating seniors, of which he, of
course, was technically one.

As I recall, Dr. Adler was teach¬
ing philosophy at Columbia
before I graduated. I was aston¬
ished to see him as a faculty mem¬
ber who must have secured his
doctorate years before the Univer¬
sity realized it hadn't given him
his A.B. His long and distin¬
guished career has included
teaching at Columbia for seven
years, and at the University of
Chicago for 22 years. A philoso¬
pher by trade, he is the author of
How to Think About War and Peace
(1944) and Philosopher at Large
(1977). His most recent is Reform¬
ing Education: The Opening of the
American Mind (1989).

Dr. Adler has also been a suc¬
cess as chairman of the board of
The Encyclopaedia Britannica. He
has encouraged the discussion of
philosophy and brought it to the
lay public in a most successful
way. Congratulations to Dr. Adler!

Joseph W. Spiselman

873 East 26th Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210
For starters, Ben Edelman and I
apologize that in our "roll call" of
distinguished classmates, a num¬
ber of men who truly enhanced
the status of 1924 were not noted.
A limitation on the length of

alumni class columns now short¬
ens the following notes, which
hardly do justice to their accom¬
plishments.

For instance, Bill Dollard's pro¬
file in Men of Achievement says in
part: "Major William A. S. Dol¬
lard: Military service. World War
II; military intelligence and gov¬
ernment (joint U.S.-British);
Major, U.S. Army (various Euro¬
pean campaigns and occupation);
staff officer in the Pentagon; Gen¬
eral staff officer with U.S.-G.I.,
Department of Defense." Prior to
and after his army stint of eight
years he was an educator at vari¬
ous colleges, retiring at 70 as pro¬
fessor of English at Hunter
College and Lehman College
(CUNY). He is listed in Who's Who
in Education, and is a member of
Phi Beta Kappa and a number of
professional societies, a contrib¬
utor to various publications, and
the recipient of educational and
military honors.

Also missed was Joe Pernice,
one of the electrical engineers of
our class. He was out of the U.S.
for a good portion of his career;
currently he is an electronics and
industrial consultant in Pasadena,
Calif. He is a senior life member of
the Institute of Electronic Elec¬
trical Engineers (probably a fellow
at this writing); a distinguished
life member of AFCEA; a fellow of
the Institute for the Advancement
of Engineering, and is still active
in those societies. More could be
said, were there space.

Also Doug Judd, a consulting
civil and structural engineer in the
San Francisco area, with many
credits to his name in concrete
and steel construction. He sent a
very complete and concise report
written by him on the damage
done by the recent earthquake.

He has been called upon to exam¬
ine a number of buildings to eval¬
uate what has to be done with
them.

Joe Grubs, in Sarasota during
the winter, is still able to play golf
three times a week. He sends
regards to Ed Helwig and his wife
Christine, both of whom are in
good health.

Received a touching letter from
Hal Muller, now living in San
Diego with his wife. Age and a
longing to be close to their son
and family made them make a
not-so-easy decision to move
from Pennsylvania and leave
friends of some 20 years.

Elmer Klein is wintering in
Florida to help his sniffles.

Mort (Dutch) Groothuis writes
from Laguna Hills, Calif., that
after many times around the
world by air he is now fearful of
20-year-old planes; he gave his car
to his grandson because of Cali¬
fornia highways; has no lake so he

Columbia College Today

gave his canoe away; and now his
garden and grounds are cared for
by Leisure World. That is truly
retirement from retirement!

Marcy Cowan in Brooklyn
writes me often. His latest proud
news is that his granddaughter is
a member of the Class of 1990. Her
father is Edward Cowan '54.

Spoke with C.R. (Dick) Parsons
last November. He remarried 20
years ago. We exchanged fond
memories of "fraternity row" of
the 20's.

Jack Murphy is fine and chip¬
per, and sounded so on the
phone.

Bob Rudolff in Green Briar,
N.J., complains of heavy medical
bills. That makes him a member of
the club!

Terry Garfiel, widow of past
Class President Ted Garfiel,
sends thanks for the class contri¬
bution to the College Fund in his
memory. The class made the same
in memory of Bill Collin and A1
Robison, both past presidents.
And did you note the bequest to
our scholarship fund in Art
Davis's will? Do these give you
good ideas?

Let the letters come. The "glue"
is not only on the flap and stamp,
but is also part of the spirit that
holds our class together in our
sunset years!

Julius P. Witmark

215 East 79th Street, 9B
New York, N.Y. 10021
We bet you'll remember these
classmates (now let's hear what
you've done and are now doing):

Adrian Twinkletoes: Varsity
Show pony ballet, also same,
Ziegfeld Follies, 1924. Now tipto-
ing thru the tulips in his own
garden.

Charlie Swizzlestick: Bootleg¬
ger for the frat houses. Still (no
pun meant) making bathtub gin.

Joe Batboy (really his name):
was the same on the Lou Gehrig
team at Columbia. From bat boy to
"Batsy," watches all the ball games
on TV.

Jeffry L. Horowitz, M.D.: After
retiring from Valley Everest Hos¬
pital, he still practices on his
Steinway baby grand.

Harbidenger Flounder: Swam
on the team with Paul Wacker.
Now has the largest stand at the
Fulton Fish Market.

Julie Witmark: Managed radio
and TV stars, goes to a gym three
times a week (has for over 40
years) and writes for Baron
Munchausen.

Now that you've struggled
through this, you know what we
mean when we say that we need
material. Come on boys, loosen
up, tell us all.

Robert W. Rowen

1510 W. Ariana St.,

Box 60

Lakeland, Fla. 33803

Kay and Hugh Kelly have three
married grandchildren. After cat¬
aracts and glaucoma, Hugh can
still drive.

Dorothy and Arnold Dumey
both have arthritis and blame the
weather in New Jersey. Come
down to Florida and enjoy life!

Roberta and Otie Rawalt cele¬
brated their 50th wedding anni¬
versary last November. Both Otie
and son Peter are OK after the car
accident a year ago.

Our Dwight C. Miner Scholar¬
ship is being awarded to Valerie
Purdie, a good athlete and an
excellent scholar who graduated
from Brentwood (N.Y.) High
School.

Phil Harburger and Joy are in
Naples, Fla., from October
through May, then at Crestwood,
N.Y. Phil plays bridge at the Cav¬
endish Club in New York City. He
writes, "I swim at Naples,
although hardly at my record-
breaking pace of February 14,
1925."

Salvatore Gambino and Rose
are enjoying their golden years in
Lake Worth, Fla. Sal is 91 and
reports he is physically, mentally
and spiritually in great shape.
They have three children, seven
grandchildren and nine great¬
grandchildren.

Gus von Groschwitz, our class
treasurer, talked to several class¬
mates at the last phonothon. He
did not have anyone to help, so we
missed a good opportunity to get
some class notes.

Rod Wiley's reclining lion pic¬
ture is in the renovated Alumni
Office. Rod and Arnold Dumey
suggest canvassing the surviving
members of our class.

Let me know how you are, what
you are doing, whom you have
seen. I'll include it in the next class
notes. I know you read these, so
share your news with us.

John G. Peatman

Research Consultants,
Inc.

83 East Avenue
Norwalk, Conn. 06851

[Editor's note: It is with deep sadness
that we note the passing of William
Heifer on January 2, 1990. Bill was
one of the most devoted of CCTs cor¬
respondents, and served the class for
more than 12 years in the post. His
legal background and his interest in
literature — particularly in James
Joyce—were evident in the many col¬
umns he produced for this space. His
diligence, humor, and friendship will
be missed.

We are fortunate that Dr. John G.
Peatman has agreed to act as Class

Correspondent for 1927, and we pre¬
sent his inaugural column below. We
wish him the best in this new enter¬
prise, and hope that members of the
Class will get in touch. ]

We of '27 have learned that Bill
Heifer died this past winter. His
contributions over the years to
CCT in behalf of our Class are
indeed memorable. We shall miss
him and them. Our heartfelt sym¬
pathy goes to his family.

I have been invited to carry on.

I consider this a worthy chal¬
lenge. So here I am at age 87,
unknown to many of you because
I had only my senior year at
Columbia. I migrated east to New
York after three years at the Uni¬
versity of Colorado in Boulder. I
majored in philosophy and politi¬
cal science at the College, and
cherish the memory of many,
especially Irwin Edman '16, Fred
Croxton, and Dean Hawkes; they
spoke in my behalf for Phi Beta
Kappa.

My intent in the spring of '27
was to continue with graduate
work in philosophy, but in May I
was invited to be an assistant in
psychology for the next academic
year. This came about despite the
fact that I had had only one course
in psychology that year, viz.,
Experimental Psychology with
Harold Jones, Herbert Conrad,
and Mortimer Adler '23. Yes!
Mortimer Adler, who met the
class one hour a week but instead
of using the usual lab materials
tried to teach us how to think, to
solve mental problems.

I received my M. A. in psychol¬
ogy in 1929 and my Ph.D. in 1931.
My career in psychology, mainly
statistical method and history,
spanned 41 years, 1929 to 1970, at
the City College of New York,
conveniently on the hill just north
of the Columbia campus. In the
meantime, I became involved in
an aspect of market research,
courtesy of Paul Lazarsfeld, and
have been working at it continu¬
ously since 1941. Hence my cur¬
rent address.

I hope each and every one of
you survivors of '27 will help to
continue interesting notes and
observations for CCT. Let me have
word of your pertinent thoughts
and doings. For example, Dr.
Alfonso Libasci writes at the age
of 85 about his good health, and a
retrospect on his life at Columbia:

"College for me was the hap¬
piest and most fulfilling time of
my life. I spent 30 years as an
Army surgeon and received the
Legion of Merit for my deeds in
World War II. I haven't found any¬
thing more enjoyable in my life
than my four years at Columbia."
Our devoted classmate now lives
in Tucson, Arizona.

Jerome Brody

39-48 47th Street
Long Island City, N.Y.
11104

Hillery C. Thorne, our fund
chairman, is a much-traveled
man. He has visited 84 countries
and all continents except Ant¬
arctica, and is embarking on a 108-
day, round-the-world cruise.

Hilliard Shair is disturbed that
more '28ers are not represented at
Dean's Day. These lectures cer¬
tainly warrant more active sup¬
port, what with the caliber of the
programs and personnel
available.

Dick Kessler says he enjoys
retirement by watching the boats
going along the Intracoastal
Waterway. We'd give you the
name of the waterway but we
can't read his writing (too many
preoccupations, I guess).

How's this for a dynasty: Dr.
Fred Lane '28, P&S '32; Lewis B.
Lane '70, P&S '74; Joseph M. Lane
'61, Harvard Med '65; Edward M.
Lane '72, P&S '77. Need a
consultation?

Leon Ulman is performing vol¬
unteer legal work for the Mary¬
land State Attorney's Office and
joins us all in lamenting Colum¬
bia's football records. Have you
got any great-grandchildren who
will be available for our teams?

A small group of us south Flor¬
idians attended a luncheon of the
Columbia Club of Palm Beach
with guest speaker Professor
Roger Hilsman, who discussed
the breakup of the Russian
empire. These luncheons are usu¬
ally around the Presidents' holi¬
days in February, and if any
members are interested in next
year's luncheon, just drop me a
line and I'll get back to you as soon
as I get the information (usually
around December or January).

Joseph W. Bums

127 Oxford Road
New Rochelle, N.Y.
10804

When our class celebrated its 60th
anniversary last June, it reached a
milestone in its history. CCT gave
a detailed account of that reunion
in its Winter 1990 edition. For sev¬
eral years preceding that anniver¬
sary, I sent newsletters to all
members of the Class giving,
among other things, information
about the Reunion. Now that we
have passed our greatest
milestone, there is no need to con¬
tinue that duplication. From now
on, instead of class newsletters,
you can get all the class news by
reading this column in CCT.

There are still over 150 names
on our class mailing list, but fewer
than 50 show any interest in the

class, either by sending me news
of their activities or making contri¬
butions to the class or College
Fund. Those who are interested
in their classmates should send
me news of their activities from
time to time. This can refer to any¬
thing you like—your activities,
your children's, your grand¬
children's, or even your great¬
grandchildren's.

Since I have no news from other
classmates to give you in this edi¬
tion, I can report only my own.
Marion and I have just returned
from a two-week cruise in South
America on the Sun Line ship
Stella Solaris. We flew by charter
plane from Miami to Rio de
Janeiro on February 25 to attend
the Carnival. This may be the
greatest single entertainment
activity in the world. Rio built a
Samba Parade road over a quarter
of a mile long with an 85,000-seat
stadium along one side, and three
tiers of parterre boxes on the
other. There are 16 Samba associa¬
tions, each having from 4,000 to
5,000 participants. The parade is
presented on two nights—eight
groups each night, each given
about 90 minutes to traverse the
route. The first starts out about
5:30 and the last finishes after
dawn. Each group is divided into
many sections, each of which has
different costumes and floats. The
ingenuity, design, and colors of
the costumes are breathtaking,
and the floats are larger and more
spectacular than those in the Rose
Bowl parade. While most of the
participants are decked out in
elaborate costumes, there are
many young girls who go topless,
and their dancing (and wiggling)
make men's eyes pop.

That is my "news." What is
yours? Please send me any kind of
news you feel would interest your
classmates.

Harrison H. Johnson
50 Duke Drive
Paramus, N.J. 07652
For the benefit of those who are
not attending our 60th Reunion I
will include highlights of the
event in the next issue.

We had 63 replies to the class
reunion questionnaire. A sum¬
mary of the responses was
included in the directory that was
mailed to each of you.

Those responding included:
Jerry M. Alexander, Charles Bal¬
lon, Eduard Baruch, Marshall C.
Beeman, Prescott H. Blatterman,
Jr., FrederickH. Block, Robert F.
Blumofe, Adolph D. Casciano,

H. Ralph Cook, Jr., Felix S.
Dworak, David R. Estlow, Robert
H. Evans, William A. Farrelly,
William C. French, Robert
Friedenberg, Bernard

Friedlander, Alfred H. Friedman,
Melvin I. Friedman, Robert F.
Genovese, Louis I. Goodman,
Eaton K. Goldwaite, Olindo
Grossi, James A. Hamilton, Jr.,
Leslie R. Hansel, William Paxton
Hewitt, Harold A. Horan, Har¬
rison H. Johnson, Lionel M.
Kaufman, Milton Katims,

Charles T. Keppel, Claude J.
Kirkland, Arthur B. Krim,
William E. Largent, Leonard
Lazarus, Henry P. Lefebure,

Jacob J. Lichterman, Theodore
Lidz, Judd Marmor, Hubert H.
Margolies, Daniel C. McCarthy,
William T. Matthews, Gerard P.
Meyer, Martin A. Meyer, Jr.,
Howard B. Morris, Thomas L.
Mount, J. Walter Olstad, Saul Par¬
ker, Ellis D. Rand, Eugene
Raskin, Frederick W. Read, Jr.,
Sidney L. Robbins, Samuel R.
Rosen, Paul Rosenberg, William
B. Sanford, Egon B. Scherl, Niels
H. Sonne, Thomas A. Styles,
Thomas P. Tierney, John A.
Thomas, Sigmund Timberg and
Felix H. Vann.

Dr. Robert Friedenberg tells us
that he retired from the practice of
internal medicine and cardiology
in 1980. He is a former governor of
the New Mexico American Col¬
lege of Physicians. Sends regards
to Bill Matthews and Elvin
Edwards.

Sidney Robbins contributes
crossword puzzles to The New
York Times.

Judge Samuel R. Rosen has
been re-elected to the board of
directors of the Indiana Judges
Association.

Frederick W. Read, Jr. under¬
went surgery recently and may
not be able to attend the reunion.
We wish him a speedy recovery.

T. J. Reilly

Box 766

Ridgewood, N.J. 07451

One morning, whilst partaking of
my Metamucil, it dawned on me
that perhaps we are surrounded
by a certain amount of confusion
about football, particularly the
Homecoming game bragged
about in the last issue. The game
we were referring to was in 1988.1
was not present in 1989, so cannot
offer a firsthand report. You see, I
was at school (not Columbia) that
Saturday in an endeavor to learn a
better way of gathering a third
fortune.

It also occurred to me that for
some reason, not so many of us
are in a condition to report. Seems
to be the same old names over and
over—but a loyal band indeed.
Let's hear from some talking and
perambulating octogenarians.

Well, to get to work: At 1989
Homecoming were Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Davis; Mr. and Mrs. John
Kilgore (without dancing

shoes?); Mr. and Mrs. Stan
Brams; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moukad;
Mr. and Mrs. John O'Connell;
and Mrs. Doris Reilly with grand¬
sons Tom '95 and Marc '98. After¬
wards, all repaired to the Carriage
House (formerly Stella d'Oro) for
a jolly repast, so I was told.

Another card from Dr. Leon
Greene. He lives in Miami Beach
and not Miami. We trust that the
establishment will get this
straight.

Christmas card from the Rollo
Steenlands. Planning on a cruise
once a suitable ship could be
located. They perhaps should
have contacted the Arthur
Smiths, who, at this writing, are
on another of their "round the
worlds," this time on a new ship,
the Royal Viking Sun. The Smithes
expect to celebrate their 60th wed¬
ding anniversary while docked at
Rome, with guests like Jimmy
Stewart, etc.

Card from Stan Brams in Singa¬
pore. Expects to make Homecom¬
ing but no word about his
typewriter. Hope many of you
will attend next Homecoming
(1990, to be precise). If you plan on
staying away because of football,
don't! We are finally in for a pleas¬
ant surprise this year. Got it in
between munches of huge
mouthfuls of oats (a horse's, not
mine).

Any good ideas for 1991? Joe
Moukad wants to hear from you.

That's all this time. If you have
any information about yourself or
classmates, please send it in.

Lloyd G. Seidman

180 West End Avenue,
28-M

New York, N.Y. 10023

At last writing, we were talking
about Homecoming. Now that it
has actually come and gone, here
are a few happy details. As we all
gathered in the Field House
lounge, we were serenaded by
Columbia's mixed-voice Glee
Club with the strains of "Sans
Souci," other more current
Columbia songs, and a special
toast to the class. The mood thus
set, it was time for some of our
members to regale us with tales of
their adventures over the years.
Dr. Mort Rosenfeld told of a
canoe trip taken 25 years ago with
his family and two Indian guides
which brought them to Moosonee
in Northern Ontario, the most
northern railroad station in the
world. Mort and his group cov¬
ered over 300 miles in a matter of
13 days, paddling and back-pack¬
ing all the way.... Not to be out¬
done, Len Brooks told of being
the last American citizen to leave
Cuba in 1961 and also of his two-
year stay in Iran, during which he
met the Shah's family under inti¬

mate circumstances.... And
finally, Harry Wearne recounted
the story of his trip to the Soviet
Union in 1935, when he and his
Blue Lions Band were the first for¬
eign entertainment group to
appear there since before the Rev¬
olution. ... That should give you
some small idea of how fascinat¬
ing a get-together we had that day
back in October. (You'll notice that
no mention is being made of the
game against Yale—ugh!) Will you
be joining us when next year's
Homecoming rolls around?

Dr. Roland Roecker wrote to
ask if anyone knows where to
reach Dr. Frank Di Fabio. Seems
that Roland's letters to Frank
have all been returned marked
"unknown" and there's no listing
for him in the Manhattan phone
book at his old address. So, Frank,
if you read this, or if anyone else
knows his whereabouts, please
get in touch with Doc Roecker at 1
Bedford Road, Summit, N.J.

07901.

A report from our newly
appointed Dean of the College,
Jack Greenberg '45, brings good
tidings about our two Class of
1932 Scholarship recipients. Ana
Castillo is distinguishing herself
in her coursework while pursuing
her interest as a Civil Air Patrol
auxiliary pilot. After she gradu¬
ates in our 60th anniversary year
of 1992, she hopes to pursue a
career in international news
broadcasting. George Takoudes,
now a junior majoring in architec¬
ture, made the Dean's List both
semesters last year while serving
on the executive council of the
Undergraduate Recruitment
Committee and on Ferris Booth
Hall's Board of Managers.

Regrettably, we must end on a
sad note. Just too late to catch the
previous edition of CCT, word
was received of the death of Dr.
Jeff Coletti. Most of you know
how active Jeff was for many years
in our class organization, serving
as class chaplain with effective¬
ness and inspiration. He had a
truly distinguished career in med¬
icine and received many profes¬
sional and civic honors, including
the presidency of the Nassau
County (N.Y.) Medical Society,
the Lion's Award of Columbia
College, and the 1971 United Jew¬
ish Appeal Award. He will be
sorely missed.

Alfred A. Beaujean

40 Claire Avenue
New Rochelle, N.Y.
10804

Correspondence from Don
Kirkham as follows: in May 1989
he was awarded a faculty citation
for professional achievement by
the alumni of Iowa State Univer¬
sity. In October he also received

Columbia College Today

the Bouyoucos Award from the
Soil Science Society of America for
Distinguished Career Achieve¬
ment. Don received his M. A. in
'34 and Ph.D. in '38 from our
beloved Alma Mater.

Les Alberty writes: "Since
retirement in '74 have played
plenty of golf and enjoyed many
cruises throughout Alaska,
Hawaii, the Caribbean, Europe
and South America. Have been
unable to attend class or campus
functions in the past for one rea¬
son or another, but hope to in the
future, depending on my wife's
health."

The following from Graham
Erskine: "This is my 50th year in
the practice of architecture work¬
ing in Nevada and Massachu¬
setts. I have been a director of the
Suicide Prevention and Crisis
Calls Center in Reno since its
founding 20 years ago and am
state coordinator for the A.I.A.
intern development program.
Serve on the Uniform Building
Code Board of Appeals for the city
of Reno and act as arbitrator for
the American Arbitration Assn, in
the Reno area. Now that I am a
one-man office I work ten times as
hard as I did with a 15-man crew
and it's more fun." Graham
received his architecture degree
in '36 and Dottore in Arch, in
Roma in '37.

As I mentioned to you in my
last report, my wife and I visited
friends in La Rochelle, France last
September. They took us on a
beautiful trip in their car down
through the southwestern part of
France in a region known as Le
Perigord. We even got down to
the Pyrenees, which are very
beautiful and wild.

I'll make a deal with you: send
me some news and I'll see that it
gets published. OK?

Lawrence W. Golde

27 Beacon Hill Road
Port Washington, N. Y.
11050

Our class luncheon at the Prince¬
ton Club on December 12,1989
was attended by Bob Baker, Fon
Boardman, Larry Golde, Bill
Golub, Jud Hyatt, Herb Jacoby,
John Leonardo, Will Midonick
and Phil Roen. Jud Hyatt, our
class fund representative, gave a
report on the status of the fund.

Julian Bush's new home in
Charleston, S.C., was destroyed
by Hurricane Hugo.

Evald Gasstrom reports that his
Gasstrom Marketing Company,
now in its fourth year, is expand¬
ing rapidly.

Stan Fishel has been awarded
the Gold Medal of the National
Interfraternity Conference.
According to the news release,

"This recognition is based on dis¬
tinguished service to youth,
devoted service to the fraternity
movement and the promotion of
sound educational attainment."
Previous recipients include for¬
mer University of Nebraska presi¬
dent Ronald W. Roskens,
clergyman Dr. Norman Vincent
Peale, and President Ronald
Reagan.

Carl Hyatt, son of Edna and
Judson Hyatt, "has been honored
recently by a series of one-man
shows of his photographs. These
have included a showing at Har¬
vard's Fogg Museum and cur¬
rently at the Hatfield Gallery,
Manchester, Vt."

Dick Giles writes that he has
been living in Londonderry,
Ireland, and "has been far from
New York for many years."

We regret to report the deaths
of Bill Golub's wife, Bobbe, and
George Charen's wife, Claire.
Members of the class extend their
sympathy to Bill and George and
their families.

Meyer Sutter

510 E. Harrison Street
Long Beach, N.Y. 11561

Mordecai Bauman crowns a dis¬
tinguished career in music and
the theater as executive producer
of a television documentary. The
Stations of Bach, shown nationally
on PBS in May. The film presents
a portrait of Bach through his
music and his relationship to the
social, political, and esthetic
forces affecting the Germany in
which he lived. Kirk Browning
directed, with James Buswell the
host/violin soloist.

Robert Adams writes from
Santa Fe: "You asked if anyone
remembers David Cook. Indeed I
do, and far more vividly than
most of the smooth suburban
types who made up so much of
our class. Dave was a bold and
vivid spokesman for a point of
view which—after experiencing a
couple of cycles of the Greed Gen¬
erations—I wish more people
shared today. Having supposed
for many years that he died in
Spain, I was impressed (if not sur¬
prised) to learn that he remains
alive and active in China. I have
written to him in Beijing to
express admiration as well as
interest in his current doings. I
hope others will do the same."

John Goodner, M.D. was medi¬
cal director of the American Stock
Exchange. Now retired, he serves
on the Alumni Secondary Schools
Committee.

Henry Janowitz, M.D., clinical
professor of medicine emeritus at
the Mount Sinai School of Medi¬
cine, is still practicing gastroen¬
terology. He wrote Your Gut

Feelings, published in 1988.

Sid Barnes of Kissimmee, Fla.,
is practicing rest and recreation
while recovering from heart sur¬
gery: very best wishes!

A1 Hall, Columbus, Ohio,
recently retired as executive direc¬
tor of the Materials Technology
Institute of the Chemical Process
Industries. He and his wife Lydia
now enjoy boat travel. Their last
trip was a tour of the Baltic.

Rosanna and Ken Bennett of
Weston, Mass., celebrated their
53rd wedding anniversary in Sep¬
tember. Ken, retired from college
teaching, is now a dealer and
appraiser of American art.

Aren't you proud to be a class¬
mate of such scintillating charac¬
ters ... even if you don't remember
them all?

Paul V. Nyden

P.O.Box 205
Hillsdale, N.Y. 12529
Thomas E. Cone, Jr., who alsp
graduated from P&S in 1939,
recently retired from the Chil¬
dren's Hospital, Boston. He con¬
tinues his teaching in retirement
at the Harvard Institute of
Learning.

Simeon H. F. Goldstein

recently received the William C.
Beller Award of the Bronx County
Historical Society for his excel¬
lence and achievement. Simeon
played a major role in the found¬
ing of the society 34 years ago and
has remained active with it since
its founding.

Walter E. Schaap

86-63 Clio Street
Hollis, N.Y. 11423
Merci for all the news this time.
Let's see what's keeping us '37
gaffers busy these days.

Study: Adrian Beill and his wife
studied drama, Spanish, and art
appreciation at an Elderhostel.

Travel: Although retired as a
senior officer at Citibank, Carl
Desch is still kept on the travel
diet by his diverse directorships.
Carl also does community work
for the Red Cross of Greater N.Y.

Baseball: A devoted Mets fan for
years, Winston Hart switched to
the Minnesota Twins. Reason?
Their training camp is next door
to his and Eunice's new home in
Fort Myers, Fla.

Authorship: Dick Hess crowned
seven years' work with the publi¬
cation of a major history of
Somers, N. Y., his home. Dick, a
Sons of the Revolution bigwig,
holds a record worthy of Guin¬
ness: he has been happily married
to two Barnard girls.

Anniversaries: George Jansen
and Marian celebrated their 50th.

Accents: Harold Jesurun hap¬
pily recalls college chats with John

Kluge, often enigmatic because of
Harold's.Spanish accent (which
he still has) and Kluge's German
accent (long since gone).

Information, Please: Gene Kalil,
recovered from heart surgery,
boasts that he has an 18-year-old
body, but admits he doesn't know
what to do with it. Larry Guss-
man and Vincent Marchese
couldn't help Gene when they
met recently.

Art Awards: Dave Markham's
wife Sara was named Outstand¬
ing Woman in Art by the YWCA
for her work in nurturing the
Richmond Children's Museum.

Economics: Thanks to a
Fulbright Senior Lectureship
Award, Don O'Connell spent a
semester lecturing in Mexico City
on microeconomic theory, entre¬
preneurship and privatization.

Politics: Fred Salinger and
Ellenor are devoted Democrats,
and working hard for the Great
Huachuca Democratic Club in
Arizona.

Eateries: Vincent Sardi may
regain the famous theater district
restaurant he sold in 1986, because
the buyer hasn't kept up the
payments.

Grammies: Some parental puff¬
ery from your correspondent:
Walter Schaap's son Philip
recently won a Grammy for his
liner notes on a Charlie Parker
album [see page 46].

Peter J. Guthorn

825 Rathjen Road
Brielle, N.J. 08730
The Homecoming game with Yale
was attended (and enjoyed) by
Len Luhby, Helen and Ed Kloth,
Bob Friou, Paul Taub, and John
Crymble.

President Len Luhby met with
Seymour Trevas, Bob Friou, Seon
Bonan, and John Crymble in
November at the Alumni Office in
Hamilton Hall to plan for the class
reunion at Arden House next
May. A busy and interesting pro¬
gram is promised.

A College Fund phonothon
drew Len Luhby and John Crym¬
ble to participate in early
November.

Carlyle S. Smith of Lawrence,
Kan., was awarded the J. C. Har¬
rington Medal by the Society for
Historical Archeology at Tucson
in January for contributions in the
field of historical archeology.

Alan D. Kandel of Southfield,
Mich, will act as an archivist in the
production of the second volume
of the History of the Detroit Jewish
Community. He has also become a
member of the "bypass" club.

Russ Zeininger of Mar Vista,
Calif, (former basketball manager
and crew coxswain) assists Greek
students in obtaining scholar¬
ships at U.S. universities.

Dave Mautner represented the
aviation industry newsletter
Speednews at the Vancouver air
show, visiting the cockpit of the
giant six-jet Russian transport,
the Antonov 225. Dave's wife
Connie exhibited her batik paint¬
ings at the Laguna Beach "Art-a-
Fair."

I had told George Freimarck of
our visit to the Bastogne war
memorial last year. He wrote back
that he had taken part in the bat¬
tle. When he revisited the little
Chateau Barcanelle some 20 years
later, he accidentally encountered
the gamekeeper who he had last
seen during the retreat saying/e
reste ici. He recognized George
immediately with ah, mon capi-
taine, greeted him and his wife
warmly, and treated them to
drinks, hospitality, and an ele¬
gant lunch.

George Freimarck was called
upon to deliver a graveside
eulogy for John Anspacher's wife
Ellinor, who died on December 3.
John and George and their wives
had a long association in the State
Department and the U.S. Infor¬
mation Agency. John had been
erroneously reported deceased in
our 1963 class directory.

Stan Leggett has become
chairman of the board of Stanton
Leggett and Associates, an educa¬
tional consulting firm in Larch-
mont, N.Y.

Ken Roe recently chaired the
Engineering School's fund dinner,
attended by John Crymble and
"Bob" Booth, who was honored
as "Volunteer of the Decade."

George Rahilly and Bill Hance
are heavily involved in land con¬
servation efforts, George in
Stowe, Vt., and Bill on Nantucket.

John Wilson, of Mayfield
Heights, Ohio, would like to hear
more about past sports teams,
including track, cross-country,
rowing, etc., as well as football.

Walter Roath of Dallas con¬
tinues his enthusiasm for his
adopted city, the state of Texas,
and anything pertaining to them.
He is a frequent visitor to his
North Padre Island home where
he reports great shrimping,
flounder fishing, and hurricane
dodging.

Sarah and Len Luhby recently
returned from a trip to Israel.

Robert E. Lewis

464 Main Street, #218
Port Washington, N.Y.
11050

Columbia's legendary quarter¬
back, Sid Luckman, received one
of this year's John Jay Awards in
Chicago.

Isaac Asimov was recently hon¬
ored on the 40th anniversary of
his first novel. His total output is
now up to 465 books on all man-

Irving L. Schwartz '39, dean emer¬
itus of the Graduate School of Biolog¬
ical Sciences at the Mount Sinai
School of Medicine, was honored with
a special two-day symposium, "Biol¬
ogy and Medicine into the 21st Cen¬
tury," held at the medical center in
New York last November. Among the
participants were Etienne-Emile
Baulieu, developer of the French abor¬
tion pill RU486; James D. Watson,
Nobel laureate and director of the Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory; and
Arnold S. Reiman, editor of the New
England Journal of Medicine and
Columbia trustee.

Dr. Schwartz was one of the first to
analyze the three-dimensional struc¬
tures of molecules in solution; he has
also researched secretory processes
and the metabolism of lipids. Associ¬
ated with such institutions as the
Rockefeller Institute and the Brook-
haven National Laboratory, he has
been with Mount Sinai for 25 years
and was the first chairman of its Phys¬
iology and Biophysics Department.
He is currently Lamport Distin¬
guished Professor and Director of the
Center of Polypeptide and Membrane
Research.

A Sponsor of the John Jay Associ¬
ates, Dr. Schwartz lives in Manhat¬
tan with his wife, Felice.

ner of subjects—and still
counting.

A1 Sommers and Bob Lewis

were recipients of the 1989 Dean's
Pin, awarded by the College
Alumni Association for service to
Columbia College.

A number of our classmates
have recently announced their
retirements, including Dick
Fremon, now in Hackettstown,
N.J., Jim Welles, still active in the
New York area, Joseph
Schmidlein, enjoying Hilton
Head, S.C., and Alvaro Carreras,
in Dunwoody, Ga., after 38 years
with Coca-Cola.

Victor Wouk is reported recover¬
ing from a bypass operation.

P^ge Buckley writes that his

daughter Bess is now a Ph.D. can¬
didate at Columbia's Teachers
College.

Bernie Schutz is heading up an
effort to enhance our class gift to
Columbia. For those of you who
have not already given gener¬
ously, it is not too late to have your
gift count toward the Class of 1939
Summer Research Fund.

Ellis Gardner

131 Long Neck Point
Road

Darien, Conn. 06820
H. W. "Hi" Farwell, upon retiring
from active teaching at the Uni¬
versity of Southern Colorado in
1984, was awarded the rank of
professor emeritus, and then the
fun began. In the past few years
he has been, among other things,
keynote speaker at the annual
convention of the American Insti¬
tute of Parliamentarians. The
speech was so good it was pub¬
lished in the Congressional Record.
In the summer of 1988 he was
given an award by the Interna¬
tional Platform Association. His
book, The Majority Rules, has
received wide acceptance. The
foregoing are only the highlights
of a brilliant career that has fol-
lo.wed a brilliant career. Inciden¬
tally, he and Martha are planning
to be at our 50th.

Alan Kattelle and his wife
Natalie are enjoying retirement
and pursuing his interest in the
history of photography. They are,
at this writing, in Bangkok attend¬
ing the International Conference
on Evolution and Trends of Pho¬
tography and participating in the
opening there of the Museum of
Imaging Technology at
Chulalongkorn University.

Ed White writes that he is cur¬
rently serving as chairman of the
American Society for Testing and
Materials Committee D2 on
Petroleum Products and Lubri¬
cants. He is still active working at
the Navy's Taylor Research
Center.

We have all heard various mem¬
bers of the College administration
tell us how much improved is the
caliber of those now applying for
admission. Albon Man, who is a
member of the Alumni Secondary
Schools Committee for Rockland
County, writes that he is
impressed with those he now
interviews. He says, "The school
is attracting unusually bright and
well-rounded young men and
women."

This column recently carried
the news that Ed Rice had written
a biography of Captain Sir Rich¬
ard Francis Burton. Ed writes that
the book is being published by
Scribner's. Ed's energies also
extend to photography: about 15

of his photographs from his work
in the Middle East and West Asia
were recently on display at the
Hagen-Stubbings Gallery in
Bridgehampton. Ed is another
member of our class who has truly
"made it."

And this column would not be
complete without relating
another achievement of Bill Fein-
berg. His name seems to appear
in every issue. This time it is for
having been awarded the New
York State Bar Association's 1990
Gold Medal Award for "distin¬
guished service in the law."
Among all the nice things they
said about him at the ceremonial
dinner, the following stands out:
"Wilfred Feinberg is the kind of
jurist the founding fathers must
have had in mind when they
bestowed life tenure on federal
judges."

Arthur Friedman

Box 625

Merrick, N.Y. 11566

Ray Raimondi writes, "Since you
gave my address, I should explain
why I am here (at the Orange
County Home and Infirmary). On
November 12,1986,1 was mugged
by two young men while walking
on a street in Middletown, N.Y. I
was on my way to see a King Lear
movie at the Orange County
Community College, where I had
been teaching English since 1951.
My muggers used a rock to frac¬
ture my skill from ear to ear. I also
had a fractured ankle and a bro¬
ken finger. After the hospital, I
went to a rehab center where I
practiced walking five days a
week plus receiving occupational
therapy." Ray, we all wish you the
very best and trust that you will be
well enough to participate in the
50th class reunion in 1991. Good
luck! Ray can be reached at the
Orange County Home & Infirm¬
ary, Box 59, Goshen, N.Y. 10924.

Robert E. Friedman '73, son of
Cynthia ('44 Barnard) and Arthur
Friedman, was married to Esther
Silver on March 3. In attendance
were Leonard Friedman '36 and
his son Phillip'63.

Bill Franks writes that since
1985 he has been an overseas
chemical consultant with seven
trips to different parts of the
world. Wife Allene Adams (Bar¬
nard) is happy about the 15
grandchildren.

John R. Lyons, now retired,
writes from Florida, "Always felt
that Joe Coffee did a fine job when
at the University and was not
really appreciated."

Stan Grean retired from teach¬
ing philosophy and religion at
Ohio University in June, 1989, but
is still working on related
projects.

Columbia College Today

Chronicler of board rooms
and living rooms

Charles Saxon '40, the New
Yorker cartoonist who died in
1988, left his artistic estate to
Columbia University; 75 of the
nearly 2,000 works in the
bequest (added to by his widow,
Nancy) will be displayed in the
Rare Book and Manuscript
Library of Butler through June.
Mr. Saxon was a fine arts major
and Jester editor at the College,
then served as an Army Air
Corps pilot during the war, lead¬
ing bombing missions over Ger¬
many. Afterwards he became an
editor at Dell; he joined The New
Yorker in 1956, remaining until
his death. Though his work
often appeared in Fortune, News¬
week, Sports Illustrated and other
magazines, as well as in ad cam¬
paigns for Bankers Trust, Chivas

Regal, IBM and other corpora¬
tions, he was most at home in
The New Yorker, to which he con¬
tributed 725 drawings and 92
covers.

Mr. Saxon did not exaggerate
so much as capture in a few bold
strokes the smooth paunches,
beige boardrooms, green lawns
and corseted wives of white
men in grey suits; his people
were often silly, but human and
complex, responsible and well-
meaning, modest despite their
mild boasting, and grateful for
their blessings. The Butler
Library exhibit of drawings,
watercolors and sketchbooks,
which includes unpublished
work, is open to the public from
9 to 4:45, Monday through Fri¬
day, through June 29. j ^

Dr. Robert E. Herlands reports:
"Am celebrating a continuous 45-
year association with Columbia
Dental School at Stamford,
Conn."

Maria and Jack Beaudouin are
establishing a Florida residence,
and are saving their energy and
are looking forward to our Fabu¬
lous Fiftieth reunion. Fred Behr,
also from Florida, has the same

comment.

Two members of the Class had a
mid-September reunion in the
Cascade Mountains when Monty
Throop and his wife Barrie flew
from Westport, Mass, to pay a
visit to Jim Goodsell and his wife
Dee in Twisp, Wash. (pop. 800).
Jim is retired from the Foreign
Service and Monty from IBM (I've
Been Moved!)

Joseph P. Peters was called out
of retirement to present papers on
strategic planning and manage¬
ment at the XIXth Assembly of
European Association of Hospital
Administrators in Pamplona,
Spain.

Our very good and talented
friend and Arden House musical
"life of the party" Dr. Alan Gold¬
berg (and Muriel) retired on Octo¬
ber 15,1989 from practicing
medicine. They will settle on the
west coast of Florida. Alan hopes
to attend our 49th annual class
reunion at Arden House this fall.

Among those attending our
48th reunion at Arden House
were Helen and Fred Abdoo,
Peggy and Bill Batiuchok, Con¬
nie and Semmes Clarke, Mar¬
garet and Joe Coffee, Hermaine
and Charles Cohen, Fanny and
Ted de Bary, Suzanne and Bob
Dettmer, Ann and Jim Dick,
Cynthia and Arthur Friedman,
Irene and Steve Fromer, Ruth and
Stan Gotliffe, Rhoda and Dick
Greenwald, Lavita and Saul
Haskel, Peggy and Jack Keating,
Judy and Harry Mellins, Alice
and Jack Mullins, Marilyn and
Bob Quittmeyer, Lucille and
Gilbert Shanus, Teri and Leonard
Shayne, Herb Spiselmanand
Judy Sagon, Dorothy and Phil
Van Kirk, Betty and Art
Weinstock, Edith and Dave West-
ermann and Allyn and Bob
Zucker.

Our notable guests were Col¬
lege Dean and Mrs. Jack Green¬
berg '45. The Dean made an
interesting Saturday luncheon
speech. Ted de Bary gave an
enjoyable talk Saturday afternoon
about a recent trip to China.

We regret to advise that Harold
A. Sweeney passed away in May
1989; Dr. Bertram Salwen in
December 1989. Bert was profes¬
sor of anthropology at New York
University. Both our classmates
will be greatly missed.

Herbert Mark

197 Hartsdale Avenue
White Plains, N.Y.
10606

Perhaps some of you have more
free time these days because I
have received more letters and
notes of your doings than I can
handle in this issue.

Semi-retirement was reported
by Dave Harrison and Art
Albohn. It was great to hear from
Art Wellington, also semi-retired,
who divides his time between
upstate New York, Maine and
Arizona.

I met Judge Len Garth waiting
for a train in Philadelphia and
thoroughly enjoyed an unexpect¬
edly stimulating train trip back to
New York.

The word from Florida is that
Jean and Sandy Black, Paul ('41)
and Betty Hauck, Ernie Garbe,
Betty and Vic Zaro, Marian and
Hank McMaster, and Ellen and
Clarence Eich all visited with each
other at various times this past
winter. Their comments focused
on our 50th Reunion, and all
wished that CCT would appear
more often.

Francesco Cordasco, although
retired, plans to continue teach¬
ing and writing. Two of his works,
scholarly studies of immigration
to the United States, have been
published recently.

Martin Meyerson, president
emeritus of the University of
Pennsylvania, received the Order
of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver
Star, from the Japanese govern¬
ment for his "contributions to the
regional reconstruction of Japan
and to the education of Japanese
academic researchers."

Alan Dodge (formerly
Deutsch) has "recovered nicely"
from a stroke and is anxious to
hear from alumni who have had
similar experiences.

Dr. Armand Mascia remains
active in his specialty of pedi¬
atrics, serving on the faculties of
two medical schools.

I recently completed a term as
president of the New York State
affiliate of the American Heart
Association, and am looking for¬
ward to retirement from my pres¬
ent position at the end of the year,
but intend to stay busy.

I have your requests for infor¬
mation about our 50th Reunion.
There is no shortage of interest
and even a few offers to work. I
am in touch with the Alumni
Office for guidelines. When I
receive an answer I'll be in touch
with each of you.

John Pearson

5 Walden Lane
Ormond Beach, Fla.
32074

After living in the San Diego area
for many years, Edna and Kem
Young have picked up their golf
clubs and moved to Wilmington,
N.C. They report enjoying the
change of seasons and the chal¬
lenge of new golf courses.

One of our more contented
classmates is Roger Sammon. He
writes: "Enjoying retirement at
2300 feet up in the Blue Ridge
Mountains. After being a (com¬
pany) president or general man¬
ager since 1952,1 find that I no
longer need tension in my life."

The Gould Boathouse has been
renamed the Eugene H. Remmer
Boathouse, in honor of our late
classmate. Connie Maniatty
reports that more than 100 class¬
mates and friends attended the

naming ceremony.

Charley Cole has retired as
executive director of the Ohio
Humanities Council. Under his
guidance, the Council funded
more than 1,200 humanities proj¬
ects, distributing over $5 million
in grants. Before the 13-year
Council stint, Charley served as
president of Wilson College in
Pennsylvania. He lives in Bexley,
Ohio.

Richard Skalak, professor of
bioengineering at the University
of California, San Diego, was
awarded the 1989 Pouseuielle
Gold Medal by the International
Society of Biorheology at an inter¬
national congress held in France.
He was cited for his "outstanding
contributions to theoretical bio¬
mechanics and modeling of capil¬
lary blood flow."

Stan Wyatt still swings a mean
brush, recently executing a por¬
trait of Bill Bringham, president of
the Sigma Chi Corporation. The
portrait was unveiled at a retire¬
ment dinner at Sardi's Restaurant
in Manhattan. Stan is a fellow
Sigma Chi, as is restaurateur Vin¬
cent Sardi '37, who also has been
immortalized by busy Stan.

C. Eric Carlson writes that he
has been elected to the San Diego
chapter of Lambda Alpha Inter¬
national, honorary land econom¬
ics society, and was re-elected as a
special advisor to the Caribbean
Association of Housing Finance
Institutions. He resides in Rancho
Santa Fe, Calif.

Gordon Billipp would like to
locate Louis J. Bostelmann,
whose last known address,
according to Billipp, was in Red¬
ding Ridge, Conn. If you have any
information, please contact this
correspondent.

Walter Wager

200 West 79th Street
New York, N.Y. 10024

Clarence W. Sickles

321 Washington Street
Hackettstown, N.J.
07840

The plan of selecting '45 gradu¬
ates to honor in this column has
brought a response from Martin
H. Zwerling, who has been prac¬
ticing medicine in Aiken, S.C., as
an ear, nose, throat and allergy
specialist for the past 15 years
after having an office in Bay
Shore, L.I., for 26years. Martin
reports good health and hopes to
be like his father. Dr. Samuel, who
practiced until the age of 86. Son
Dr. Charles, also a Columbian,
practices ophthalmology in
Goldsboro, N.C. Thanks for writ¬
ing, Martin.

Sheldon E. Isakoff of Chadds
Ford, Pa., reports his election as

president of the American Insti¬
tute of Chemical Engineers for the
1990 one-year term. Congratula¬
tions, Sheldon.

In February I attended a recep¬
tion at the "21" Club in New York
to hear chairman Philip L. Mil-
stein '71 describe the John Jay
Associates' support of the educa¬
tional mission of the College, with
additional comments by our own
'45er, Dean Jack Greenberg. It
was interesting to meet students
who are beneficiaries of the pro¬
gram. For $500, you can help a
needy student receive the excel¬
lent education you and I experi¬
enced at the College.

I was honored to learn that I had
been chosen by the Columbia Col¬
lege Alumni Association to be a
1990 recipient of the Dean's Pin for
my service to Columbia College. I
accept this award with thoughts
of our class and the many worthy
fields of endeavor our Columbia
education made it possible for us
to pursue.

The Columbia College Reunion
Weekend, June 1-3, promises to
be excellent with time for "remi¬
niscing, feasting, dancing, get¬
ting reacquainted, making new
friends, attending seminars and
having fun." We are hoping for a
great turnout by our class.

Recalling college days, I
remember submitting a paper to
Professor Mark Van Doren for his
Shakespeare class. I noted the
similarities of Julius Caesar and
Jesus' crucifixion: Caesar was
betrayed by Brutus and Jesus by
Judas; Caesar's wife had a dream
that Caesar was stabbed with
"three and thirty wounds," and 33
was the age when Jesus died; and
when Caesar came to the mar¬
ketplace when he was killed, it
was the ninth hour, and Jesus
died at the ninth hour. But I over¬
looked the most obvious sim¬
ilarity, which Professor Van
Doren wrote on my paper: "J.C.
and J.C."

Our '45 honorees this time are:
Dr. Nicholas Antoszyk, Jr. of
Amityville, N.Y. and Dr. Otto F.
Apel, Jr. of Lucasville, Ohio. Let
us hear from you; we are inter¬
ested in what you are doing.

Henry S. Coleman

P.O.Box 1283
New Canaan, Conn.
06840

Wonders upon wonders—the
post office box yielded a bit of mail
from our class.

Irv Shirr recently retired as
president of the Atlas Door Corp.,
which is now a subsidiary of
Masco Industries. Irv spent 42
years in the overhead rolling door
business and admits he enjoyed
almost all of it. He and his wife,
Anne, have the usual travel plans

which surround his continued
attempts to improve his golf
game. Irv joins many of us who
miss the "irregular" but fun class
luncheons (where are you, Carlo
Celia?).

Although your class secretary
may occasionally use this space to
brag about his grandchildren, he
cannot match the publicity fire¬
power of Dick Heffner, who men¬
tioned his new grandson at least
twice on Open Mind. Alexander
Benjamin Heffner, Dick's first
grandchild, was born in
November.

Dave Kelton from Bloomfield
Hills, Mich., sent "regards to
Grandpa Coleman from Grandpa
Kelton." How about some statis¬
tics, Dave?

Fritz Stern received the Gradu¬
ate Faculties Alumni Award for
Excellence in November. Fritz has
been teaching at Columbia since
1953. He was named Seth Low
Professor of History in 1967. He
served as Provost of the Univer¬
sity from 1980 to 1983 and acting
provost from September '87 to
February '88. Last term he was a
visiting scholar at the Russell Sage
Foundation, working on a book
on two eminent German scien¬
tists, Fritz Haber and Albert Ein¬
stein, and their relations with
German society.

Howard Clifford reported in
from Death Valley, where he is
training sled dogs for the Alaska
races. He states that the runners
move beautifully over the sand,
but that he has had to shave the
dogs because of the heat.

Howard received his first con¬
tribution toward his Columbia
Memoirs from Gordon Mathes
down in Memphis. Howard
passed along some of Gordon's
memories: "I started Columbia
College in the fall of 1942.1 trav¬
eled by train from Memphis to
New York by way of Chicago to
meet upperclassman Bill Drenner
'44.1 was conned out of $10 in
Chicago by a man who offered to
buy cartons of cigarettes for me
wholesale and I was to sell them
in New York for a profit. I didn't
smoke—gave him $10 and he dis¬
appeared with my money. I
learned early and was never
clipped in New York except for the
long taxi ride from Grand Central
to Morningside Heights.

"I lived on the third floor of
Livingston. One night, I took a
shower and was walking back to
my room with only a towel on
when I noticed men and women
sitting on the floor in the hall.
There had been an air raid, I
hadn't heard the siren, and every¬
one in the Lion's Den had been
sent to my floor for safety."

More of Gordon's memoirs next
issue. Gordon wants a copy of

Howard's when they are
printed—he will be first on the
list. I hope a few other classmates
will share their memoirs with
Howard. Just send them to the
class secretary and I will send
them to our class historian, wher¬
ever he may be.

George W. Cooper

P.O.Box 1311
Stamford, Conn. 06904

Is this, then, the darkness before
the dawn? Are we to see the light
at the end of the tunnel—to casu¬
ally mix the metaphor—before
our 45th anniversary two years
hence? If there are any news items
lurking in the shadows, let them
reveal themselves and suffer the
blinding light of the printed page!

Apart from another notice
about Dan Hoffman's prize-win¬
ning book of poetry, we have
received but one communication
since the last issue. A good one, to
be sure, but standing in lonely
isolation, unsupported by coun¬
terparts from other classmates.
The note is from Allan Temko, yet
another of our gifts to the literary
world. Allan writes that he and
wife Becky spent most of last Sep¬
tember in France (lucky fellow),
working on the revised edition of
his book, Notre Dame of Paris, to be
published this year by Norton.
Allan tells us that Paris was won¬
derful, not surprisingly, espe¬
cially Professor I. M. Pei's
improvements to the Louvre.
Allan then uses the same super¬
lative to describe his sojourns in
Burgundy and Provence. Upon
his return, it was back to being
architecture critic of The San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle where his major
effort is to "keep it (the city, that
is) decent." At the Chronicle, Allan
reports, he sees a lot of its superb
science editor, David Perlman '39.
Birds of a feather (genus: Alma
Mater) do stick together regard¬
less of habitat. As this goes to
press, we just learned that Allan
won a 1990 Pulitzer Prize. Details
to come.

That's all, folks, unless you start
those cards and letters coming
again.

John F. O'Connor

171 East 84th Street
New York, N.Y. 10028

Joseph B. Russell

180 Cabrini Boulevard,
Apt. 21

New York, N.Y. 10033

The first Class of 1949 Cham¬
berlain Scholarship has been
awarded to Rosalind Dear, who
came to the U.S. from Barbados in
November 1988 and completed
her senior year at George W.
Wingate H.S. in Brooklyn. She

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has not yet decided on a College
major. Our class president writes
that she will, as the first benefi¬
ciary of our efforts, always be dear
to our hearts. (I hope the pun was
unintended.)

Speaking of presidents, George
Cook has announced his retire¬
ment from active law practice and
from the firm of Hunton & Wil¬
liams, both as of March 31,1990,
after a long and successful career
in both corporate and private
practice. Perhaps more important
is that his wife, Edith, has
recovered wonderfully from knee
replacement surgery, thus mak¬
ing it possible for them to catch up
on a great many things they were
unable to do when she was
restricted by her arthritic knee.

We wish them long life and great
joy.

Henry Darlington, Jr. writes
that when he received the Winter
1990 issue of this magazine, with
our good-looking Dean promi¬
nently pictured, he read more
carefully and enjoyed reading
about 1949. It appears that Jack
Greenberg and he served in the
Navy together, and he notes that
the College is indeed lucky to
have a person of his caliber as its
Dean.

Arthur Feder writes, "I very
much enjoyed the description of
the Reunion in the Winter issue of
CCT. However, I was quite disap¬
pointed not to see any mention of
the Class's fund-raising achieve¬
ment, which set a record for all
reunion classes. I do think the
Class as a whole deserved some
public recognition for this
achievement." Art, I'm grateful
for the reminder.

Art has been a partner for many
years in the New York law firm of
Fried, Frank et al. A tax lawyer of
note, he has been elected to chair
the 3,100-member Tax Section of
the N. Y. State Bar Association, the
largest voluntary state bar asso¬
ciation in the nation. He is also a
member of the American Law
Institute and the International
Fiscal Association. Does he pre¬
pare his own tax returns too?

A proxy fight for control of the
board of Xtra Corporation was
won in mid-March by a group of
dissident investors headed by
Robert Gintel, who many of you
may recall addressed one of our
reunion groups on investments
last spring. He is the principal
owner of Gintel & Co., a Green¬
wich, Conn.-based investment
firm which has followed the trans¬
portation and equipment leasing
business (which includes Xtra) for
the past 20 years.

Gene Straube learned so much
on the Columbia Alumni trip to
study the whales along the Baja
California coast and in the Sea of

Myron Winick '51, M.D., has been
appointed president of University of
Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical
School. Previously he was Professor of
Pediatrics and Robert R. Williams
Professor of Nutrition at Columbia
P&S, where he had long directed the
Institute of Human Nutrition and the
Center for Nutrition, Genetics and
Human Development. An interna¬
tionally known researcher, teacher,
author and editor, Dr. Winick has been
honored by the March of Dimes Birth
Defects Foundation, the American
Institute of Nutrition and other
organizations.

Cortez in February 1989 that he
signed on for the 25 February-4
March 1990 alumni cruise to study
the greenhouse effect in the
Leeward Islands. How many of
you recall hearing about the
"greenhouse effect" for the first
time—ever—from Professor Wal¬
lace Broecker at a Dean's Day at
least ten years ago?

The above represents what has
been sent in to me and to CCT,
plus what I have caught in the
newspapers, since my last report.
I suspect that more has been hap¬
pening to and about us. If you let
me know. I'll see that it gets
printed. Warm regards to all.

Mario Palmieri

33 Lakeview Avenue
West

Peekskill, N.Y. 10566

What a class! What a group! The
response to the reunion commit¬
tee's request for biographies, pho¬
tos and data for the 40th reunion
directory was great by any meas¬
ure, and by our class's standards
was phenomenal. I've gotta tell
ya—it was by far the strongest
show of affinity we've shown in
our 44 years as a group.

Thirty-three percent of the
known surviving class members
(140 individuals) completed and
returned the questionnaire; the
responses provided the basis for a

class profile that will be part of the
reunion directory. One hundred
eleven people (26 percent of the
class) submitted a biography or
commentary for inclusion in the
directory, and 61 people (15 per¬
cent) sent us a photo.

All the indications, based on
comments by classmates as the
biographies come in, are that 40
will be a big one for '50.

Richard N. Priest

Bryan, Cave,
McPheeters &
McRoberts
500 North Broadway
St. Louis, Mo. 63102
By way of getting us all up to date:
John Renouard dropped us a note
pointing out that he retired from
McGraw-Hill back in 1985; his
daughter, Jacqueline, married a
Dr. Stewart Chipman last Septem¬
ber and his son, John, Jr., gradu¬
ated from Hobart College in 1988
and since then has been a lieuten¬
ant in the U.S. Marine Corps.

John lives in Garden City, N.Y.

Don Holden of Irvington, N.Y.
announced that he has finally
escaped from the book publishing
business and is now gainfully
unemployed—devoting his full
time to painting and writing.

Conrad H. Massa was
appointed dean of academic
affairs of Princeton Theological
Seminary in Princeton, N.J.

Robert E. Kandel

Craftsweld
26-26 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City, N.Y.
11101

A sizable number of us may not
agree with Ed Haase about his
idea of fun and retirement. He
says that he enjoys being "an itin¬
erant do-it-yourselfer," designing
and building, solo, from the foun¬
dation up, four houses in four
states from Maine to Georgia—
"one for each season."

Charlie Jacobs continues the
pursuit of his second career (at his
first love—the newspaper). He is
the newly appointed editor of The
New Jersey Focus. It is that state's
largest publication, with a weekly
circulation of some 948,000. Go
get 'em, Charlie!

Richard Broun, director of the
Office of Environment and
Energy at HUD, was one of a
small group of senior government
officials honored by President
Bush last September. Richard
received a 1989 Meritorious Presi¬
dential Rank Award (try saying
that quickly, ten times). The pres¬
tigious recognition included a
$10,000 award.

Dave Braun continues to prac¬
tice law in Los Angeles (one of

Denis Andreuzzi '53 has been
elected president and chief operating
officer of Witco Corporation, a manu¬
facturer of specialty chemical and
petroleum products and engineered
materials. A Fortune-500 multina¬
tional company headquartered in New
York City, Witco has annual sales of
$1.6 billion. Mr. Andreuzzi has
logged more than 33 years with the
firm in a variety of staff and line posi¬
tions, and has served as a director
since 1984. He is a board member of
the National Petroleum Refiners
Association and is active on the Car¬
dinal's Committee for the Laity and at
St. Pius X Church in Scarsdale,

N.Y., whereheand his family reside.

these days he'll get it right). He is
now "of counsel" with the
recently formed Silverberg, Katz,
Thompson & Braun... a firm that
emphasizes transactional repre¬
sentation in the entertainment
industry (try saying that quickly,
even once!).

Lew Robins

89 Sturges Highway
Westport, Conn. 06880

Howard Falberg

25 Coley Drive
Weston, Conn. 06883
I received a very nice note from
Ben Kaplan '55, who was a room¬
mate of our own Dick Nesti. Ben
writes, "He was a dear friend and
a delightful character." Ben obvi¬
ously has the fondest memories of
Dick, and will be contributing
towards a scholarship in Dick's
honor. If you would like to con¬
tribute to this fund, please contact
the alumni office.

Meanwhile, Ted Spiegel, our
class's eminent photojournalist, is
working on his 14th book, to be
published later this year.

Sheldon Licht writes that he is
working as an individual practi¬
tioner in architecture and urban
planning, with the majority of his

David Wise '51,

writer of espionage fact and fiction:

Notes from underground

D escribed by the Washington Post
as "gentle of manner and linear
of thought," David Wise has a tempera¬
ment well suited to his career—unrav¬
elling the "Tolkien-like underground"
of espionage and intelligence.

"He hates to share information until
he's absolutely certain of it," says his
friend Richard Wald '52. "He's a very
cautious man. He'd have made a won¬
derful spy—absolutely. He loves to
keep things secret."

"David Wise knows more about the
CIA," investigative reporter Seymour
Hersh has said, "than many of the peo-

work in rehabilitation and preser¬
vation.

Bill Saperstein enjoyed our
35th reunion immensely, but
adds, "Even more exciting was
attending the October 8 Home¬
coming game that we won against
Princeton, and seeing my son, Jeff
'92, playing in the Columbia band
at the game."

In the category of "Seen
Around the Country and the
World," Arnold Tolkin provided
a Columbia pennant to the Grand
Hotel Esplanade in Berlin, so that
when raising a glass on high in
Berlin's version of the "Lion's
Den," we can feel more at home.

On a more local note, has any¬
one else noticed polo shirts in the
L.L. Bean catalogue being listed
as "Columbia Blue and White?"

Please let me know what is hap¬
pening in your life, because I
know that our classmates would
be interested in knowing.

Gerald Sherwin

181 East 73rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10021

At the time of this writing, plans
for our 35th reunion had almost
reached completion. The efforts
of the wonderful steering com¬
mittee from the Greater New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
and Pennsylvania area and from
across the country (hello, Jeff
Broido) and the Office of Alumni
Affairs and Development prom¬
ised to make this reunion even
better than all our previous five-
year encounters.

Planned activities included a
cocktail reception Friday at Wien
Hall (formerly Johnson Hall), spe¬
cial class speakers Saturday morn¬
ing followed by lunch at the
Faculty House; and on Saturday
evening, cocktails and dinner on
the 15th floor of the School of
International Affairs—it's like
being at the fabulous two-star
Butler Terrace (well, almost).

Responses to our confidential
class survey were overwhelming.
More than 160 classmates took the
time to fill out the questionnaire.
Thanks to Bob Brown, Donald
Laufer, Alfred Gollomp, Steve
Bernstein, Robert Kushner, Gor¬
don Kaye from Albany, and the
venerable William Langston from
Piedmont, Calif., for pulling this
together. Results will appear as
part of the class directory which
will be distributed at the reunion.

While we are "tipping our hat"
(or some other cliche), A1 Mom-
jian in Philadelphia and Jim Phe¬
lan in New York deserve a great
deal of credit for co-chairing the
fund drive, which, it is under¬
stood, will exceed our expecta¬
tions. For those who have not yet

given to the College, it is never
too late.

While we were planning the
35th, a couple of lost classmates
resurfaced, with the help of
Edward Siegel and Paul Zimmer¬
man. Ed searched out Herbert
Vore, who is living in Danville,
Calif. Herb works as an explora¬
tion supervisor for Chevron in
north and central Africa. Accord¬
ing to "Dr. Z" (as he is affection¬
ately known at Sports Illustrated
and ESPN), Alfred Ginepra is liv¬
ing in Santa Monica, Calif., and
works as an "agent for the CIA,
doing undercover duty in the
Venice Beach area" (the core cur¬
riculum strikes again).

We're still looking for other
"missing" guys: do you know the
whereabouts of: Abraham Ash-
kenasi, Edwin Kronfeld, Henry
Nathan, Edward Sacks and
Robert Potts. Sad to report that in
the search for classmates we
haven't heard from, we learned
that Peter Heagney passed on sev¬
eral years ago.

As usual, the Class had the
largest turnout by far at Dean's
Day, which has become the annual
event on campus. Attendees who
were "talking up" the reunion and
anything else that came to mind
were, from Long Island: Larry
Balfus, Steve Bernstein, the
Julius Browns, Gene Heller (wel¬
come back!). Jay Joseph (of
course), Herman Okean, and the
familiar Charles Solomon; from
Manhattan: Bob Brown, Ben
Kaplan (who resurfaces from
time to time). Herb Silver, Roger
Stern, and your faithful corre¬
spondent; Brooklyn's Alfred
Gollomp; from New Jersey: Donn
Coffee, Bob Pearlman, and Sher¬
man Stark. Upstate New York vis¬
itors included Jules Leni and Bob
Kushner; Herb Cooper (who
we'll talk about later on) came
from Massachusetts; Washington
D.C. sent Lew Mendelson; Gerry
Tikoff, was a surprise guest from
Richmond; and of course, Arnold
Schwartz represented Connecti¬
cut.

Other news to report: espied at
one of Columbia's home basket¬
ball games this winter was Donn
Coffee, still recuperating from his
surgery. Donn and wife Toni
recently moved to a new home in
Red Bank, N.J. (Remember Count
Basie's song.)

Ferdie Setaro, Haddonfield,
N.J., is the managing director of
TLE Consultants and has been
elected organization develop¬
ment and training officer for the
Vanguard Group of investment
companies. (Didn't Ferdie do this
in the Army?) Reliable sources tell
us that Berish Strauch, living with
family in New Rochelle, N.Y., has
been appointed chairman of plas¬

tic and reconstructive surgery at
Albert Einstein College of Medi¬
cine and Montefiore Medical Cen¬
ter. Berish has been a member of
the Einstein faculty for 21 years.
Richard Bloomenstein, still prac¬
ticing plastic surgery in New
Jersey, recently returned from
Casper, Wyo., where among
other events he attended was his
wife's showing of stitched tapes¬

tries.

Other hot information that flew
across this desk: another New Jer¬
seyan (or ite?), Stuart Kaback, our
patent expert, of the Exxon Infor¬
mation and Office Systems Divi¬
sion, was just promoted to
scientific advisor, in recognition
of his outstanding contributions
in information research and anal¬
ysis. Stuart has been a driving

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pie who have spent a lifetime working
there."

After covering U.S. intelligence ef¬
forts for nearly three decades and writ¬
ing 10 books in the process, Mr. Wise
offers a sour assessment: "Somehow,
all too often, the train has gone off the
rail." Covert operations in particular,
though only a small part of intelligence
work, have tainted the record. "It's
hard to think of any world-shaking suc¬
cess that's made any difference. What
stands out more is the record of fail¬
ures."

By his definition, "failure" includes
such endeavors as the CIA-sponsored
coup that overthrew Mossadegh and
brought back the Shah of Iran in 1953.

"It seemed like a great thing, but in time
the Shah's dictatorship and the corrup¬
tion of his government led to the hos¬
tage crisis and the overthrow of the
government, the replacement of the
CIA man, if you will, with the Ayatol¬
lah—God help us—and then the
whole turmoil that we're still facing
with the hostages."

Despite his criticisms, Mr. Wise is
convinced that we need such bodies as
the CIA and the National Security
Agency, but he feels that their existence
in a free society poses a fundamental
dilemma.

"How do you make secret agencies—
with all the potential for abuses that
they entail—compatible with their
democratic system? I've found no easy
answer to that question, even now," he
says. "Whereas the British, the French
—and obviously the Soviets—are able
to keep their intelligence operations
under wraps, it's harder to do under
our system with the First Amendment,
a very strong tradition of press free¬
dom, and no Official Secrets Act."

✓/TAT hen I was a kid growing up in
V V New York," Mr. Wise reflects,
sitting in his small but airy office on
Connecticut Avenue in Washington, "I
was certainly aware of my Columbia

connections." His brother, William, is
Class of '46 and his late father, the Hon.
Raymond Wise '16, was the ACLU law¬
yer who represented Spectator editor
Reed Harris '32 during the famed im¬
broglio over Mr. Harris's expulsion.
From 1950 to 1951, David Wise himself
was editor-in-chief of Spectator, where
his staff included such future journal¬
istic notables as Dick Wald, Max Fran-
kel, and Lawrence Grossman.

Mr. Wise was also the campus corre¬
spondent for the New York Herald Trib¬
une, which he joined after graduation.
He eventually covered the 1960 presi¬
dential campaign, served as White
House correspondent during the Ken¬
nedy administration, and was Wash¬
ington bureau chief for three years until
the Trib folded in 1966.

Dick Wald, now senior vice presi¬
dent at ABC News, was managing edi¬
tor of the Herald Tribune in New York
when Mr. Wise was in Washington.

"He was a very important Washington
reporter who, when he wasn't [report¬
ing], ran just about the best Washing¬
ton bureau. He knew the territory, he
knew the people, and he reported
straight down the line. Nobody was
ever able to nail him on accuracy."

Mr. Wise's first book was The U-2 Inci¬
dent, a 1962 collaboration with Thomas
B. Ross of the Chicago Sun-Times. After
its publication, the two reporters de¬
cided to delve more deeply into the
field of surveillance, and the result was
The Invisible Government. A number-
one bestseller in 1964, it was the first
full-length examination of U.S. intel¬
ligence operations, and it caused a flap
even before its release. Convinced that
the book was a threat to national secu¬
rity, CIA director John McCone unsuc¬
cessfully tried to convince the publish¬
er, Bennett Cerf '20 of Random House,
to sell him the entire first print run.

If The Invisible Government did not
bring down the republic, the book did
increase public knowledge of its clan¬
destine activities. At the very least, Mr.

Wise says, there is now a lot more infor¬
mation available—some of it from
unlikely sources.

"The same Presidents who denounce
the press for writing about national
security and intelligence issues, with¬
out exception I think, leave the White
House [and] negotiate a fat deal with a
New York publisher to sell us those
same secrets between hard covers at
$24.95. So what's going on here? When
I write about national security secrets
that's bad and when the President sells
them in a bookstore that's good?"

Mr. Wise's latest book is The Spy Who
Got Away (1988), the story of Edward
Lee Howard, the first CIA agent to de¬
fect to the Soviet Union. In something
of a reportorial coup, Mr. Wise collected
30 hours of interviews in Hungary with
Howard, and he remains the only re¬
porter to have spoken with the defector.

M r. Wise's three spy novels have re¬
quired almost as much research
as his nonfiction. For The Samarkand
Dimension, he visited the title city, in
the Soviet Union; for a salmon-fishing
scene in The Children's Game, he went to
Canada and did some salmon fishing
himself.

Although writing novels is "great
fun," it also affords him the opportu¬
nity to reflect seriously on the spy busi¬
ness. In this passage from The Children's
Game, a disillusioned ex-CIA agent,
William Danner, says:

Secrecy is the end of intelligence ... Not
the means. It's taken me a very long time
to understand that... Espionage is like
the games we play as children ... With
secret hideaways or a secret club. The club
was not necessarily better than anywhere
else, but it excluded the other kids. That's
what defined it, made it important. The
nonmembers.

"I think it would be hard to get a lot of
people in intelligence to admit that,"
says the author.

Thomas Vinciguerra '85

force behind improvements
which have revolutionized the
retrieval of patent information.

Walter Flanagan writes from
Danvers, Mass., that he still keeps
in touch with Dick Carr. The ex¬
footballer is quite happy golfing
every day in Florida. Another of
Walt's neighbors is Herb Cooper,
practicing gastroenterology at
Salem Hospital. Herb is active in

teaching programs with Massa¬
chusetts General Hospital and in
the running of Salem Hospital.
Walt wishes all well but regrets
not being able to attend the
reunion. Word from Chuck Gar¬
rison, Valley Cottage, N.Y., is that
business commitments will also
keep him apart from his beloved
classmates in June.

Bob Sparrow is recuperating at

his Flushing, N. Y. home after
having a kidney transplant for his
daughter, who is performing like
a trouper after that ordeal. Bob
hopes to recover quickly, get back
to the office, and resume his
almost professional handball and
tennis activities. Ex Forest Hills-
ite Ted Baker of Kennebunkport,
Maine, is now on the board of
trustees at Unity College, up

north (or is it "down east"), and is
doing quite well with his life,
thank you.

At last the 35th is upon us. If
you can make it, enjoy, mingle,
talk to a classmate or two. If you
can't attend, the 40th reunion is
right behind and coming fast.

See you in June. Much love and
happiness to all!

Victor Levin
Hollenberg Solomon
Ross & Belsky
585 Stewart Avenue
Garden City, N. Y. 11530

All of us should be pleased to
know that our endowment has
permitted us to support two Class
of 1956 scholars this year. Dean
Jack Greenberg advised me that
Risa Diemond, a freshman with a
strong Columbia background, has
joined Marianne Slivkova, origi¬
nally from Czechoslovakia and
more lately from California. We
wish them both well.

I was saddened to have to
report in my last column the death
of Michael Rosenthal. Mimi has
advised us that a scholarship has
been established in his memory at
the University of Texas at Austin.

Newt Frohlich has written
from Israel that St. Martin's Press
is publishing his historical novel
1492 . The book has been eight
years in the making, involved
extensive travel, and comes out
on the eve of the 500th anniver¬
sary of the discovery of America.
Newt's writing has taken priority
over his lawyering. His daughter,
Nina, is at Yale and son Jim is at
Stanford. Newt can be found at
Cape Cod practically every
summer.

Harold V. Schorr, a dentist in
New Jersey who is not active in
fund raising for the College, sent
me an enthusiastic plea for all
members of the Class of '56, most
of whom are turning 56 this year,
to contribute to the Fund. We are
in Columbia's debt.

Jerry Sturman, chairman and
CEO of The Career Development
Team, has written and published
If You Knew Who You Were... You
Could Be Who You Are! which is
being used by the Columbia
Graduate School of Business in its
career planning courses.

Peter Mayer is CEO of Penguin
Books International, dividing his
time between London and New
York.

Ugo F. Ippolito writes from
Atlanta that he is practicing
law with the firm of Glass,
McCullough, Sherrill & Harrold.
His son Charles graduated from
the College two years ago.

Richard G. Capen, Jr., who
recently retired as publisher of
The Miami Herald, has been serv¬
ing as vice-chairman of Knight-
Ridder, Inc., based in Miami. Dick
made the Herald an important
national newspaper during his
tenure. Five Pulitzers were won.
He continues to write an occa¬
sional column for the paper.

Robert Siroty writes from
Dover, N.J., that he is practicing
hematology and internal medi¬
cine. His son David is assistant
director of sports information at

Roald Hoffmann '58 has been
chosen to receive the 1990 Priestley
Medal of the American Chemical Soci¬
ety, the nation's highest honor in the
field. Dr. Hoffmann, who is John A.
Newman Professor of Physical Science
at Cornell, was chosen for his contri¬
butions over the length of his career, in
particular his formulation of rules for
the conservation of orbital symmetry
in chemical reactions, first published
in 1965. He shared the 1981 Nobel
Prize in chemistry with Kenichi
Fukui, a physicist at Kyoto Univer¬
sity, for some of the same work. In
1989, he received Columbia's
Kohnstamm Prize in Industrial
Chemistry. Dr. Hoffmann recently
hosted The World of Chemistry, a
26-part series of television programs,
scheduled to appear on public and .
cable stations in 1991.

Seton Hall, his daughter Beth is a
fourth-year medical student, and
daughter Hedy is a junior at Syr¬
acuse where she has run into our
classmate and vice-chancellor of
Syracuse University, Gershon
Vincow.

Allan B. Deering writes from
Riverside, Conn., that he is vice¬
president/management informa¬
tion services at PepsiCo, in Pur¬
chase, N.Y.

Alan S. Brody was recently
appointed portfolio manager
with Advest Managed Port Folio
Service. Alan was also appointed
five-year chair for the classes of
1956 through 1960 of the Columbia
College Fund. His daughter, Jan¬
ice '87, is in her first year of a
Ph.D. program in clinical psy¬
chology at Berkeley.

Steve Easton is president of
Financial Packaging Corporation,
a full-service real estate firm in
New York. Steve has a son who is
expected to graduate from Horace
Mann in the Class of 2001 and
Columbia in 2005.

Alan N. Miller, M.D., who
continues to be very active with
the Class, is taking alumni
humanities courses, which he
finds fascinating.

Finally, and perhaps a sign of
the times, W. Monroe Atkinson
advises that he has retired.
Though he was asked to continue
under the new corporate umbrella
of Henkel Corp., moving from
New Jersey to Pennsylvania, he
opted to retire. Anybody
envious?

Kenneth Bodenstein

Duff & Phelps
2029 Century Park East
Suite 880

Los Angeles, Calif.
90067

Barry Dickman

Esanu Katsky Korins &
Siger

500 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10036

Edward C. Mendrzycki

Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett

425 Lexington Avenue,
Rm. 1916

New York, N.Y. 10017

Ira Jolles was elected senior vice
president and general counsel of
General Public Utilities Corpora¬
tion and executive vice president
of the company's subsidiary, GPU
Service Corp., effective January 1,
1990. GPU is a registered electric
utility holding company with
three operating subsidiaries:
Jersey Central Power & Light Co.,
Pennsylvania Electric Co., and
Metropolitan Edison Co.

Harvey Leifert wrote that he
did not go to Brussels after his
tour with the United States Infor¬
mation Service, but instead was
assigned to open USIS in Wind¬
hoek, Namibia. Harvey has since
received the USIS superior honor
award for "outstanding creativity
and perseverance in quickly
establishing the post as visible,
credible proof of the United States
commitment to Namibian
independence."

David Rosand, Professor of Art
History at Columbia and chair¬
man of the Art Humanities pro¬
gram, recently wrote two books:
The Meaning of the the Mark:
Leonardo and Titian (The Franklin
D. Murphy Lectures, published
by the Spencer Museum of Art,
University of Kansas), and Places
of Delight: The Pastoral Language,
which accompanied an exhibition
at the National Gallery of Art and
the Phillips Collection in Wash¬
ington, D.C.

Dr. Joel B. Solomon has been
promoted to clinical professor of

medicine, Boston University
School of Medicine.

David Farmer

The American
Federation of Arts
41 East 65th Street
New York, N.Y. 10021

The first order of business is to
point out the change of address
above for your correspondent,
who has moved from lotusland to
the real world again. I began my
new position as director of exhibi¬
tions for the American Federation
of Arts in January.

The Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion has
conferred the degree of Doctor of
Divinity, honoris causa, on Rabbi
Albert S. Axelrad, chaplain at
Brandeis University.

Ian Reiss was elected president
of the medical staff of the South
Miami Hospital, where he is a vas¬
cular surgeon.

L. Steven Zwerling, associate
dean at NYU's School of Continu¬
ing Education, recently presented
his views on the importance of
maturity in the educational proc¬
ess in a full-page column that
appeared in a special section of
The New York Post.

Michael Hausig

I 3534 Interlachen Road

U Augusta, Ga. 30907

Ira Black, M.D., a pioneer in the
study of brain hormones, molecu¬
lar signals, and genes, has been
named professor and chairman of
a new initiative in neuroscience at
the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School.
Ira's studies include the molecular
bases of brain growth and learn¬
ing and abnormalities underlying
degenerative neurologic diseases.

Richard Harbus is professor of
law at Touro College of Law, Hun¬
tington, N.Y. Living in Manhat¬
tan, he is a reverse commuter. His
wife Phyllis is a medical writer
and editor, son Jonathan is an
actuary, and daughter Alexandra
a student at Washington
University.

A1 Kirsch spent 1989 as chair of
the American Chemical Society's
Division of the History of Chemis¬
try. He has also taken up fencing
(epee) and competed in the World
Master's Games in Denmark. A1
won a match and finished 42nd
overall in a field that included
Olympic medalists. A1 lives in
Brookline, Mass.

Allan J. Schwartz was appoint¬
ed statistical editor for The Journal
of American College Health. This
appointment complements other
responsibilities as ad hoc reviewer
for a number of j ournals in medi-

Columbia College Today

Archie S. Robinson '60, managing
partner of the law firm of Robinson &
Wood in San Jose, Calif, is currently
president of the Defense Research
Institute, the nation's largest associa¬
tion of defense trial lawyers engaged
in civil litigation. A graduate of Stan¬
ford Law School, Mr. Robinson is also
active in church and community
organizations in Saratoga, Calif.,
where he and his wife, Susan, have
raised four children. The former
Columbia baseball standout has
become a respectable enough golfer to
have competed in the Bing Crosby
(now AT&T) Invitational for the past
nineyears.

cine, psychology, and psycho¬
therapy. A1 lives in Rochester,
N.Y.

G. Phillip Smith recently won
a national competition for design
of a new airport terminal building
for East Hampton, N.Y. His firm.
Smith and Thompson Architects
of New York and East Hampton,
was selected from 102 entries
across the country. Additionally,
the firm received a design award
this past summer for a residence
built in East Hampton.

Melvin I. Urofsky will be
William Pinckney Harrison Visit¬
ing Professor of History at the
College of William & Mary for
1990-91. Mel and his family iive in
Richmond, Va.

Allen Breslow of Bethpage,

N. Y., has withdrawn as partner of
his Manhattan law firm and has
become of counsel to Kaufman,
Frank, Naness, Schneider &
Rosensweig, a Long Island firm
which specializes in representing
management in labor relations
matters.

Eugene F. Milone completed
two books this year: Infrared
Extinction and Standardization in
the Lectures in Physics series; and
Challenges of Astronomy: Hands-on
Experiments for the Sky and Labora¬

tory. The latter was co-authored
with W. Schlosser and Th.

Schmidt-Kaler. Gene is professor
of physics at the University of
Calgary.

David Wilson writes: "Twenty-
nine years later, I truly appreciate
the full value of Columbia Col¬
lege's liberal education. I only
wish I could convince my kids to
apply to a college in the middle of
New York City!" Dave is assigned
to the U.S. Mission to the E.E.C.
and lives in Brussels.

Ed Pressman

3305211th Street
Bayside, N.Y. 11361

Accolades keep coming for Ken¬
neth Cooper, who is not only
director of the Baroque Orchestra
at the Manhattan School of Music,
but has served as the guest con¬
ductor of both the Ohio Chamber
Orchestra and the Northwest
Chamber Orchestra in 1989. A
concert by the Ohio chamber
group was particularly reward¬
ing, as it received a glowing
review by the music critic of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. To quote
directly, "With Cooper's inspired
and informed leadership, the con¬
cert glowed with charm and bril¬
liance from beginning to end."

Dr. Frank Grady is president of
North American Eye Centers in
Lake Jackson, Texas, where he
also resides. The company
includes a two-operating-room
surgi-center. He has recently
developed a nationwide company
structured to deliver the most
advanced eye care in the nation.
Frank received his pilot's license
recently, and uses this avocation
to fly to Mexico where he does
voluntary eye surgery in conjunc¬
tion with the Rotary Club of
Juarez. Frank and his wife Donna
became the proud parents of a
baby boy on February 16,1988. In
addition to baby Eric, the Gradys
have two other boys: Jonathan
and Brent. Frank is actively
involved in many organizations.

A partial list includes the Ameri¬
can Academy of Ophthalmology,
American College of Surgeons,
Texas Ophthalmological Society,
Texas Medical Association, and
the American Society of Cataract
and Refractive Surgery.

Our man in West Germany,
John Golembe, traveled to Korea
and Japan in October '89, repre¬
senting the University of Mary¬
land's overseas programs. A
highlight of his trip was a "won¬
derful" visit with his freshman
roommate, Tomoyuki Fukasawa
and his wife Ryoko. They had not
seen each other since 1967. John
has also represented Columbia at
"College Night" at Heidelberg
American High School.

Congratulations to Robert Hill

III on the birth of his two grand¬
daughters, Sara and Michelle.
How time flies when you're hav¬
ing fun. Robert is vice president/
operations for Shilay Associates of
Wantagh, N.Y. As a hobby, he col¬
lects firearms as well as coins,
stamps, and antique clocks ..He
lives with his wife, Elizabeth, in
Cayuga, N.Y. All three of his chil¬
dren, son Robert IV and daugh¬
ters Beth and Barbara, are well
into their life careers.

Sidney P. Kadish

215 Dorset Road
Waban, Mass. 02168

Many classmates have written in
this winter. Without further ado,
here is the news:

George Dailey writes that on
June 1,1989, he left a position as
staff director to Congressman
Charles B. Rangel to become a law
partner in the firm of Neill,
Mullenholz & Shaw, and a senior
vice president in its lobbying affil¬
iate, Neill and Co., which repre¬
sents the following governments:
Egypt, Guinea, Kenya, Morocco
and Jamaica. I have sent George's
business card on to the People's
Republic of Massachusetts in pur¬
suit of favored nation status.

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Barry Landau reports that he is
associate clinical professor of psy¬
chiatry at George Washington
University Medical Center, and
associate teaching analyst at the
Baltimore-Washington Institute
for Psychoanalysis. Barry is mar¬
ried to Sara, with two children:
Rebecca, 21, and Joe, 16.

Alexis Levitin has been pro¬
moted to full professor in the Eng¬
lish department of the State
University of New York at Platts¬
burgh. The SUNY news release
cites Alex's achievements in trans¬
lating poetry and prose: he won
the Columbia University Transla¬
tion Center's Van de Bovenkamp-
Armand C. Erpf Translation
Award in 1984, and the Betty Col-
laday Award from the Quarterly
Review of Literature in 1987. He
recently concluded a six-week
bilingual reading tour of the U.S.
and Canada with Brazilian poet
Eugenio de Andrade.

Harry Lesch writes from Los
Gatos, Calif., that he competed in
the lightweight single sculls event
in the U.S. Masters Nationals in
Oakland, Calif., in August. Later,
in October, he presented a paper
on grief reactions at the World
Congress of Psychiatry in Athens.
Harry reports minor damage to
his home in the Santa Cruz moun¬
tains following the World Series
quake. Now he is enrolled in
"Carpentry for Shrinks." Harry
has a firm grip on his grief reac¬
tions, it seems.

Chet Osborn reports that he is
practicing cardiovascular surgery
in Ohio. His oldest daughter is at
Ohio State studying genetic engi¬
neering, while the younger
daughter is at Barnard in Russian
studies. Chet remains active
shooting pool, skiing, scuba div¬
ing and motorcycling.

Richard Rasala modestly
reports that he is currently direc¬
tor of undergraduate studies in
the College of Computer Science
at Northeastern University in
Boston.

Alan Wilensky proudly notes
that his daughter Ann is a mem¬
ber of the Class of 1992, attending
the College in New York while he
remains on Mercer Island, Wash.,
where he is associate professor of
neurosurgery and medicine (neu¬
rology) at the Regional Epilepsy
Center at the University of
Washington.

Finally, your humble corre¬
spondent feels obliged to report
that in a gesture of welcome to
spring, and in a desperate attempt
to "hold fast to the spirit of youth,"

I purchased a set of Rollerblades.
Anticipating neurosurgery, grief
control, and all the other services
listed above, I wish you a hearty
summer!

Gary Schonwald

Tenzer, Greenblatt,
Fallon & Kaplan
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10174

Leonard B. Pack

300 Riverside Drive,
Apt. 10A

New York, N.Y. 10025

Joel Berger has been on the execu¬
tive staff of the New York City
Corporation Counsel since Octo¬
ber 1988, after 11 years at the
NAACP Legal Defense and Edu¬
cational Fund, Inc. (seven of them
under the directorship of Jack
Greenberg '45, now Dean of the
College). Joel and his wife still live
on Riverside Drive near Colum¬
bia. Their son. Max, is two years
old.

George H. Bonsall is an attor¬
ney and criminal court judge liv¬
ing in Phoenix.

Michael L. Cook is co-chairing
our class's 25th reunion fund
drive with A. G. Rosen. Mike
writes, "We hope every classmate
gives whatever he can afford to
help meet our five-year reunion
goal of $1.25 million (payable over
five years). It's our turn now to
give something meaningful back
to the College so that it can con¬
tinue to attract talented students
on a need-blind basis."

Andy Fisher writes that he
resigned March 30 from the NBC
Radio Network after seven years

my Warr

Remember Archie Roberts '65? As a senior, the Lion quarterback was named
EC AC Player of the Year and earned All-America honors in the spring as .
Columbia's shortstop. Following medical school, he played professional football
with the Cleveland Browns and the Miami Dolphins. Today, Dr. Roberts is
director of cardiac surgery at Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital and clinical
professor of surgery at Thomas Jefferson Medical Center in Philadelphia. He
developed cardioplegia, an innovative way of delivering cold blood to the heart
during open-heart surgery. In addition to his many honors—including Colum¬
bia College's John Jay Award in 1987—he recently received the NCAA's Silver
Anniversary award, joining Roger Staubach, DickButkus, Brig Owens, Paul
Bucha and Dr. Donald Baxter. The award is given to former college athletes who
have gone on to distinguished careers in the 25 years since they graduated.

there. Since traveling with his
wife ("the New U.S. Scots-Gaelic
Singing Champion!") in Ireland
and England, Andy has been
working as a television writer at
Channel 5, New York, NBC News
(TV) and as an adjunct at the
School of Journalism, working for
Professor Ivan Weissman '64.

Says Andy, "One of these days.

I'll find steady work!"

Rodney Gott lives in Palm
Springs, Calif., where he is cur¬
rently a vice president at Dean
Witter Reynolds. He is a member
of the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the United States.

Leonard Pack became a partner
in the New York law firm of Berger
& Steingut on March 1,1990, prac¬
ticing corporate, securities and
entertainment law. Previously he
served as senior vice president
and general counsel of Orion
Pictures.

Robert Pantell, M.D. is associ¬
ate professor of pediatrics at the
University of California, San
Francisco, and serves as an associ¬
ate editor of The American Journal of
Health Promotion.

Gordon Risk, M.D., lives in

Topeka, and is in his third year as
president of the American Civil
Liberties Union of Kansas.

Steven Steinig was appointed
senior vice president and chief
actuary in charge of the corporate
actuarial department of New York
Life Insurance Co. on October 24,
1989. He and his wife, Renee,
have two daughters and live in
Dix Hills, N.Y.

Martin H. Stryker of Jericho,

N. Y., was appointed vice presi¬
dent, scientific affairs, of Melville
Biologies Division of The New
York Blood Center.

Finally, I will let Brian
Wangsgard speak for himself: "In
January 19891 parlayed my
Columbia education into five con¬
secutive wins on the TV game
show 'Jeopardy!' and collected
over $62,000. In November I par¬
ticipated in the 'Jeopardy $100,000
Tournament of Champions' and
progressed to the finals, where
two younger, faster (but certainly
not better educated) players fin¬
ished ahead of me. Not bad for an
old coot from '65. My four kids
wonder how such a genius can

run out of gas on the family vaca¬
tion. Oh, well!"

Don't forget: our Class's 25th
Reunion is coming on June 1-3.
See you there!

Bruce La Carrubba

42 Trinity Street
Newton, N.J. 07860

Ken Haydock

1117 Marquette Ave.
South Apt. 1801
Minneapolis, Minn.
55403

In the "You're OK, mea culpa"
Department, we have a request
from editor Jamie Katz '72. He
notes that this column made refer¬
ence last issue to Roger Lehecka,
longtime Dean of Students at the
College, as "Dean of Students for
Life." Apparently, there is now a
pro-life (anti-abortion) group on
campus called "Students for Life."
While editor Katz concedes we
were "probably thinking more of
Papa Doc Duvalier than, say,
Phyllis Schlafly," he asks for "a
word of clarification." So, we wish
to apologize for the choice of lan¬
guage that might create the mis-
impression that Roger is dean of
the Students for Life group. Nor
were we comparing Roger to Papa
Doc, but rather to the noted Ugan¬
dan statesman, Idi Amin Dada
and President for Life. (We also
hope our third sentence, above,
won't create confusion as to the
position on abortion taken by
N.O.W.)

From Minneapolis, your corre¬
spondent notes that his real job
was eliminated in January as part
of the downsizing of First Bank
System by 1,700 employees. Any¬
one want a resume? From Nor¬
folk, Va., we learn of a longer
period of tenure: Norman Stocker
is a Marine lieutenant colonel
who joined the Corps back in June
1967. He recently participated in a
combat-readiness exercise at New
Orleans Naval Air Station.

From Belmont, Calif., George
Leonard writes, "My wife is from
Beijing and I've taught in a college
one mile from Tienanmen. I'm
amazed that the American press
has written off the Chinese rebels
[so] quickly... China is quiet, not
subdued."

From Milwaukee, Bruce Pin-
dyck announces that, after 21
years of marriage, on September
17,1989, his wife and he had their
third child: Blake Michael Law¬
rence Pindyck.

From Winthrop, Maine, Bill
Nave reports his selection as
Maine Teacher of the Year for 1990.
Bill founded the River Valley
School four years ago; 70 percent
of its students, who enter as drop-

Anthony F. Janson '65, an author¬
ity on French 19th-century painting
and Dutch Baroque art, became chief
curator of the North Carolina
Museum of Art last September. The
museum, which boasts half a million
visitors a year, has a strong collection
of Old Masters and 19th-century
American art. It also has about 40
acres of "now fairly barren" grounds,
according to Dr. Janson, some of
which will be devoted to site-specific
temporary artworks to be commis¬
sioned for the museum's new "Art +
Landscape" project. Dr. Janson, a for¬
mer professor of art history at SUNY-
Buffalo and the College of Charleston
in South Carolina, previously served
as curator of Northern European
paintings at the Ringling Museum of
Art in Sarasota, Fla., and as senior
curator of the Indianapolis Museum of
Art from 1978 to 1984. He is the editor
of revised editions of A History of
Art, a standard college text by his
father, the late H. W. Janson.

outs, now go on to a post-second-
ary education!

Bridgeport resident Bill Crouch
has published his sixth book. Phi
Beta Pogo, while his "regular job"
is with General Business Enve¬
lope in Hartford.

And Tom Werman in Los Ange¬
les is on a half-year hiatus from
producing hard rock records to
develop a production company.
Tom says he sees David Zapp and
family regularly.

Ken Tomecki

2983 Brighton Road
Shaker Heights, Ohio
44120

Unlike its predecessors, this col¬
umn simply reports the facts—
boring, but safe, and not very
amusing. C'est la vie.

Believe it, Ripley. Phil Arbolino
wrote to announce proudly that
his son Jamie enrolled at the Col¬
lege (Class of '93) and continued

Columbia College Today

Poetry: Rachel Hadas

Teaching the Iliad

Teaching the text, I feel

the little hairs along my forearms rise

and shield my eyes

against the nimble letters on the page.

They spell a man

who weeps and weeps alone

for his brief golden age.

Presently the line where sea meets sky
fills with silhouetted men. An army
deployed behind him comes between
margin and horizon like a screen
on which hexameters drum down like rain.

The Bright Child

A child's incessant questioning of names,
customs, appearance, history, how things work
(Why is that called a culvert? Why do people
have gravestones when animals don't?

What is music made of?)

abstracts the would-be answerer's attention,

who, though well-meaning and omniscient,

can only choose a single strand to trace

and so leaves hanging

all other objects of this urgent quest.

These cool September mornings, gemmed with mist,

cobwebs glint on the lawn

tiny and scattered. Or are they all one?

Rachel Hadas, associate professor of English at Rutgers University in
Newark, has published four books of poetry and a critical study of
Robert Frost and George Seferis. Her forthcoming book, Living in
Time, will be issued this fall by Rutgers University Press. A longtime
resident of Morningside Heights, she is the daughter of the late
Columbia scholar Moses Hadas; her husband is the composer George
Edwards, an associate professor of music at Columbia. "Teaching the
Iliad" is reprinted with permission from Pass It On, ©1989 Princeton
University Press. "The Bright Child" and "An Old Song" are parts I
and IV from an uncollected sequence, "Four Poems at the End of
Summer ."

An Old Song

Monotonous, old-fashioned, sentimental:

I used to feel a little bit ashamed

at twenty of so simplemindedly

responding to the cycle of the seasons

as what gave rise to poems

that sang the passage of each one in turn:

poems of fall and winter, poems of summer and spring.

I corld no more grow tired of this house,
each creaking board, each corner's angled light,
than I could tire of weather, trees, the ocean,
of eating, breathing, sleeping next to you—
occasions, every one of them, of praise
since poetry began. Yet in this lifespan
parts of our earth are beginning to disappear.

Knowledge is left, but dark with elegy.

Late, late we turn to rinsing out the waters
it's crystal clear (belatedly) we never
could tire of. Nor does one tire of memory.

But memory is what comes after,

is never enough, needs poetry to help it,

and even so takes wings the more you want it.

I love you. You and I are vanishing.

Idolatrous at forty, unashamed,

I call out names and praise

to catch and hold what slowly

and not so slowly moves past mortal reach.

Poem and praise wear down to catalogue.

Call it a trellis for our imperfections

to climb on, twine on, finding their own shape,
assuredly impermanent and marred.

Autumn's already rampant in the garden's
tangle of endings I can never tire of
more than I could of me, our son, or you.

Where elegy and reclamation meet,
there is the ground for immemorial song.

the tradition set by his grand¬
father, Jack '42.

Jeff Kurnit is still an assistant
professor at Queensborough
Community College, where he
teaches remedial writing and
basic skills to college students.

Steve Mamikonian and his
wife, Marie, live in Carol Stream,
Ill., where he is a partner with R. J.
Carroll Co., personnel
consultants.

John Odell, a four-time Emmy
recipient, still lives in San Fran¬
cisco where he edits, reports, and
writes for the ABC-owned TV
affiliate. He is the newly elected
president of the North California
chapter of the National Academy

of Television Arts and Sciences.

Glen Reeves, still on special
assignment with the Air Force, is
now commander of a small medi¬
cal clinic in the Netherlands.

Nat Semple received his second
liver transplant last year and later
resumed work as vice president
and secretary of the Center for
Economic Development, a busi¬
ness/academic "think tank" in
Washington, D.C. He and his
wife Patty have two sons: Nat Jr.,
10, and Carter, 5.

After several years in banking
and later as associate hospital
administrator/CFO for University
Hospital, Boston, Peter van Etten
recently accepted the position of

deputy chancellor for manage¬
ment and finance at UMass Medi¬
cal Center in Worcester.

That's it, guys. Sayonara. But—
do your share; remember the Col¬
lege Fund.

Michael Oberman

Kramer, Levin, Nessen,
Kamin & Frankel
919 Third Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022

Jeffrey Schwartz is currently on
sabbatical as a fellow at the Ameri¬
can Museum of Natural History.
His first book. The Red Ape
(Houghton Mifflin, 1987), has

been listed in Random House's
recent Reader's Catalog. Orangutan
Biology (Oxford University Press,
1988), a volume he edited, has
been reviewed favorably in Science
magazine. Jeff is currently writing
a text on human skeletal analysis
for Oxford University Press and a
trade book, on digging up bones,
for Henry Holt.

John Herbert writes that he
continues in the practice of medi¬
cine, while his wife, Sandra, is
entering her last year of law
school. "We feel like a real live
'Cosby family.'"

Peter Prodis is an antique con¬
servator; he was profiled in the
January 29 issue of the New York

Glenn Switkes '72,

documentary filmmaker:

Amazon rescue project

T here's a transient feel to the
Oakland, Calif, apartment of
Glenn Switkes '72. He rarely has a
chance to settle in. On the wall are sou¬
venirs from his frequent trips to the
Amazon: a rainbow-colored hammock,
Indian spears and feather artifacts, a
poster announcing a rubber tappers'
meeting. At 4:45 tomorrow morning,
he'll fly to Los Angeles for another
fundraiser for the Amazonia Film Pro¬
ject, to which he is now devoting his life
and talent.

Mr. Switkes' latest film is Amazonia:
Voices from the Rainforest. Five years in
the making, the documentary is sched¬
uled for September release and even¬
tual broadcast on PBS. The actual
filming, in some of the remotest areas
of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru,
took 15 months. "The principal reason
it's taking so long is funding," Mr.
Switkes says. "You run up against this
huge expense right at the end of the
project, just to get the film in and out of
the lab, and to get it released." Ama¬
zonia is sponsored, though not funded,
by the nonprofit Film Arts Foundation
of San Francisco.

Mr. Switkes' cause—preserving the
remnants of the Amazon rain forest—
is one to which many Americans have
only recently awakened.

In 1981, long before global warming
and the greenhouse effect became
household words, he made his first trip
to South America. Travelling with the
Colombian anthropologist Rosaines
"Monti" Aguirre, Mr. Switkes spent a
month in an Indian village in the heart
of the Amazon rain forest. Not long
afterwards, they married. Although
divorced now, they remain friends, and
are collaborating on Amazonia.

That initial trip blossomed into the
Amazonia Project, a multi-media pro¬
gram which aims to educate the public
about the importance of saving the rain
forest, home to half of the world's plant

and animal species—a massive slice of
our biohistory literally going up in
smoke as increasing numbers of land¬
less settlers slash and burn their way
into the Amazon interior. While the
oxygen-giving trees are destroyed, the
byproducts of their combustion hover
in the atmosphere, contributing to the
greenhouse effect.

//'NT ative people have found ways to

1 \ live with the forest and sustain
it for over one thousand years," Mr.
Switkes observes, "whereas we are
managing to destroy it in a single gen¬
eration." If the forest dies, the native
Indian cultures will die too, he
believes. Others whose livelihood also
depends on the forest—such as the
rubber-tappers and the Brazil-nut
gatherers—find their fate allied with
the Indians.

"The ecological question cannot be
isolated from the social and economic
reality of the region," he says. "Brazil
may have the most inequitable distri¬
bution of wealth of any democratic
country of the world. That's an impor¬
tant factor to consider when you're try¬
ing to understand why so many
farmers are looking for land in the
Amazon."

In his view, a formidable coalition is
contributing to the region's destruc¬
tion: the oil industry; mining concerns;
the Brazilian military, which regards
the settlement of the Amazon basin as a
geopolitical necessity; the Brazilian
government, which buys social peace
with promises of farmland in the inte¬
rior; the governments of other Amazon
nations eager to exploit the area's vast
potential; and international agencies
which have encouraged large-scale
engineering projects like dams and
roads, giving rise to an influential con¬
struction industry hungry for new
business.

This drama of hardy local people

holding out against the powerful inter¬
ests from the Eastern seaboard sounds
like the stuff of a Hollywood western.
Indeed, Mr. Switkes sees many paral¬
lels between Amazonia and the old
American frontier, as contemporary
Brazil enacts its own version of Man¬
ifest Destiny.

G lenn Switkes edited the school
newspaper at James Madison
High School in Brooklyn before enter¬
ing Columbia College in 1968. A history
major whose favorite teachers included
Jim Shenton '49, Dwight Miner '26, and
Andrew Sarris '51, Mr. Switkes says, "I
also used to enjoy using the pass-fail
option to explore truly different sub¬
jects, like Nepalese culture, or Mar¬
garet Mead's anthropology course." He
was active with WKCR radio, where he
became a play-by-play announcer and
sports director.

"I was never a jock, only a sports
fan," Mr. Switkes says. "Given the kind
of chaotic nature of the University at
that time, with all the demonstrations
and riots and all that, sports offered
essentially the one way that people
came together. Particularly at basket¬
ball games there'd be people from
every section of the political
community."

After graduation in 1972, he took
what he calls a "trip of discovery"
through Nepal to Burma and Laos. He
eventually attended journalism school
at Berkeley. While writing his thesis on
development in downtown Oakland, a
friend engaged him to help film a pil¬
grimage by Hopi elders to the White
House to present President Carter with
evidence of an illegal government coal
mining lease on tribal land.

This encounter led to the produc¬
tion, by Mr. Switkes and two others, of
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice
Area?, an hour-long documentary
shown on PBS and abroad, which won
the CINE Golden Eagle Award and an
Oscar for best student documentary
from the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences. An expose of the
energy industry. Four Corners is a tale of
government deceit, massive environ¬
mental poisoning, and threats to some
of America's most cherished scenic
preserves.

Columbia College Today

On location: Co-producers Monti Aguirre and Glenn Switkes '72 at the
filming of Amazonia: Voices from the Rainforest in Brazil in 1988.

Later came Bayou by the Bay, a video
on Cajuns and Creoles in the Bay Area,
which received the University of Cali¬
fornia's Eisner Award; The Cracking of
Glen Canyon Dam, co-produced by the
Earth First organization; and a stint as
cinematographer on the Greenpeace
ship. Rainbow Warrior. Mr. Switkes'
most important project to date, how¬
ever, is Amazonia.

M any Americans prematurely

regard the Amazon rain forest as
a lost cause, he feels. "I don't have this
pessimism. That's why I do this kind of
work."

Noting the growing international
support for preservation, Mr. Switkes
speaks with enthusiasm about the
resourcefulness and increasing sophis¬
tication of the Indians and rubber tap¬
pers in their fight for survival. One
recent example was the successful pas¬
sage of legislation setting aside sixteen
areas in the Amazon basin as "extrac¬
tive reserves" for continued rubber
cultivation.

"There are a lot of reasons to be opti¬
mistic when you see the visionary
work, the creativity of the people who
live along the river," he says.

Tom Lochner '72 a

Tom Lochner '72 is a freelance writer based in
New York City, and El Cerrito, Calif.

Observer. Peter has restored works
from museums, auctioneers,
antique dealers and insurance
companies, as well as members of
the general public.

Stephen Bodian wrote to cor¬
rect our last column. Stephan left
the vocation of a Zen monk in 1981
to venture forth into the "ordi¬
nary world." He currently lives in
Berkeley, Calif, with his wife and
two stepchildren and edits a
nationally distributed magazine
on meditation, holistic health and
Eastern spirituality entitled Yoga
Journal. A book of his interviews
will be published in the spring of
1991 by Crossing Press, entitled
Men and Women of the Spirit.

Peter N. Stevens

12 West 96th Street,
Apt. 2A

New York, N.Y. 10025

Jim Shaw

139 North 22nd Street
Philadelphia, Pa. 19103
Timothy De Baets continues "to
practice entertainment law,
mostly in the film and theater
industries. I still get a thrill seeing
my name listed in Playbill as legal
counsel to the publication." I get a
thrill out of seeing my name in
Playbill, too. I make sure to bring a
pen to every performance.

David Gelfand is "professor of
law and director of advocacy pro¬
gram at Tulane Law School, New
Orleans. Author of treatises on
Constitutional law, municipal
finance, and British politics. Lead
voting rights consultant for New
York City Charter Revision Com¬
mission. Litigator of numerous
civil rights and civil liberties cases
in Supreme Court and Courts of
Appeals." David was also a
Fulbright lecturer in Japan, 1987.

For another view of voting
rights in New York, see 558 F.
Supp. 265, on motion relating to
private defendants, by a certain
Philadelphia/New York lawyer.

Kenneth Heisler is a general
surgeon practicing on Cape Cod
in Falmouth, Mass. He and wife
Kristen (nee Kenny, Barnard '70)
have children Matina, 11, and
Kenneth, Jr. (K2), 2Vi.

Roger Rosenstein is a hand sur¬
geon in Bergen County, N.J. He
and his wife, Rima Kopelman,
M.D., a rheumatologist at P&S,
have three daughters: Melissa
(11), Hilary (8), Aliza (2 Vi). I
assume that if Kenneth Heisler, Jr.
and Aliza Rosenstein get together
for a play-date, they will drink
apple juice and practice surgery.

Michael Kusin writes, "I have
withdrawn from my corporate
office practice and am now
engaged as a federal prosecutor. I

have become a courtroom junkie
and have never had so much fun
as a lawyer. My new office address
is: U.S. Court House, 515 Rusk,
Room 3000, Houston, Texas
77002,(713)229-2600."

Arthur Smith: "After just com¬
pleting a year as an assistant U.S.
Attorney (federal prosecutor).
Northern District of Illinois, and
turning 40,1 will be returning to
New York to compete in the NYC
Marathon." And after you com¬
plete that, we know of a corporate
practice slot in Houston that
might be available.

Robert Mayer, associate profes¬
sor and chair of the department of
family and consumer studies at
the University of Utah, has pub¬
lished The Consumer Movement:
Guardians of the Marketplace
(Boston, Twayne/G.K. Hall, 1989).

"News Flash: Lions Win Cham¬
pionship! On 10-28-89, the
Crestmoor Park Lions (a/k/a
Columbia Lions of the future)
won the Denver City soccer
championship for third grade
boys. The Lions were coached by
Howard Selinger and were cap¬
tained by Gil Selinger, Class of
2003. Roar, Lion, Roar!"

Len Renery is an "admissions
rep for technical institute in
northern California. Also high
school soccer coach and over-the-
hill player. Would love to hear
from Omar Chamma, teammate
at Columbia. Married with two
kids. Enjoying California." Len,
Omar just might be masquerad¬
ing as Gil Selinger.

But seriously, folks, congratula¬
tions to all.

Paul Appelbaum

100 Berkshire Road
Newton, Mass. 02160
We have a series of impressive
success stories to report this
issue. From The New York Times
comes word that J. Emilio Car¬
rillo has just been appointed
president of the New York City
Health and Hospitals Corpora¬
tion. In announcing his appoint¬
ment, Mayor Dinkins said that
Emilio "has demonstrated a com¬
mitment to healing, a commit¬
ment to serving, and a
commitment to caring." I am sure
that everyone in the class joins me
in wishing Emilio the best of luck
in his new, challenging position.

Calvin Hudson sent along the
good news that he has been
appointed assistant to the chair¬
man and CEO of the Hartford
Insurance Group. He was recently
named one of America's "best and
brightest young businessmen" by
Dollars and Sense magazine.

John Dawson, who you will
recall is professor of chemistry at
the University of South Carolina,

NYC Health and Hospitals Corp.

J. Emilio Carillo '72 has been ap¬
pointed by Mayor David Dinkins as
president of the New York City Health
and Hospitals Corporation. He over¬
sees a system that has 10,250 beds, 11
acute-care hospitals and more than 40
clinics, as well as an annual budget of
$2.7billion and 51,000employees. In
human terms, the organization often
serves as family doctor to the poor, and
Dr. Carillo, who is a specialist in pri¬
mary health care and social epidemiol¬
ogy, has pledged to give top priority to
improving their health care.

Dr. Carillo emigrated from Cuba
when he was 10 years old; while a
student in the College, he was a ten¬
ant organizer and a community activ¬
ist. He graduated from Harvard
Medical School in 1976 and earned a
master's from the Harvard School of
Public Health in 1981. Formerly an
instructor at both schools, he wel¬
comes the return to New York: "Eight¬
een years at Harvard is enough.
iNo mas!"

spent the spring 1989 term on sab¬
batical at MIT, where he enjoyed
seeing a lot of Rick Danheiser,
who is a chemistry prof there.
John was named a fellow of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science.

While we are detailing accom¬
plishments, we should not omit
mention of Jamie Katz's debut as a
stadium announcer during the
last Columbia football season at
Baker Field. His microphone
mania traces back to 'KCR, and
continued through ten years as a
jazz producer at WBAI-FM in
New York. May he soon be the
voice of the Ivy League champs!

One of the most impressive and
touching stories of success comes
from Michael Reynolds, who
says "Hi! Didn't graduate. Dis¬
covered I had schizophrenia.
While fighting this brain disorder,
I became a Christian, obtained a
degree from Boise State, and was
called by God to be a missionary.

I've received some training with
Youth With a Mission and have
been in Belize, Mexico, Hong
Kong, China, Tibet, and Colom¬
bia. I'm now training
missionaries."

There are some pleasant per¬
sonal notes to report. Rick Val-
liere announces the birth last fall
of his second child, Richard
William. Daughter Margaret has
just turned 5. And Lee Davies
tells us that daughter Shelby, age
21 (months, that is), has followed
in the Columbia-Barnard tradi¬
tion established by her parents
and older sister Jocelyn by enter¬
ing the Barnard Toddler Develop¬
ment Center, Class of '90.

Gerard Papa has won vindica¬
tion in civil court four years after
the terrifying incident in which
he and a companion were shot at
and beaten by plainclothes police
officers in what the police later
termed a case of mistaken iden¬
tity. On March 7, a Brooklyn jury
awarded $76 million to Gerard
and to James Rampersant—the
largest personal injury award in
the state's history. The city is
expected to appeal the judgment.

Gerard, also a Columbia Law
graduate, was already well known
for his leadership of the Flames
Youth Organization, an interracial
basketball league based in Brook¬
lyn's Bensonhurst section. His
case drew coverage in The New
York Times, on 60 Minutes and else¬
where; a book and movie are now
under discussion. And to cap it
off, he was the guest of honor at
the annual Columbia Law Review
dinner on April 7.

M. Barry Etra

326 McKinley Avenue
New Haven, Conn.
06515

The effervescent (ever-present?)
Barry Kelner has joined Piper Jaf-
fray Trust Co. in Minneapolis as
VP for personal trust administra¬
tion. He would be happy to hear
from any of us who have $lm or so
to be professionally managed.
Barry is also president of the
Columbia Club of Minneapolis;
the highlight of their year last year
was an outing to a Twins game,
with a private visit afterwards
with Gene Larkin '84.

Philip Moss has been made a
partner at Arthur Andersen in
Chicago; he consults in database
marketing, retailing and distribu¬
tion. Phil and wife Susan live in
Wilmette, Ill., with their sons Ben
and Dan.

Assorted shorts: Jon Strongin
and wife Ellen Seely had their sec¬
ond child, Matthew, in July 1989.
Howard Gould's firm, Doland
and Gould, celebrated its tenth
anniversary with a large "do" at

A Grammy for Phil Schaap

Twenty years to the month after
he joined WKCR as a freshman
radio producer, Phil Schaap '73
received a Grammy Award from
the National Association of Re¬
cording Arts and Sciences at the
group's nationally televised
award ceremonies in Los Ange¬
les on February 21. He was hon¬
ored for his liner notes for Bird:
The Complete Charlie Parker on
Verve, a boxed set of ten compact
discs covering the late alto saxo¬
phonist's recordings for Verve
Records from 1946 to 1954.

A jazz historian, teacher,
archivist and audio engineer,

Mr. Schaap remains a major
presence on New York radio,
thanks to such longstanding
WKCR programs as "Traditions
in Swing" each Saturday eve¬
ning, and "Bird Flight," a 70-
minute show devoted to Charlie
Parker each weekday morning.
Mr. Schaap's learned commen¬
taries on jazz recordings and
personalities, embellished by an
almost terrifying recall of musi¬
cal minutiae, have educated a
generation of listeners; he has
also supervised many of the sta¬
tion's exhaustive music festivals
and birthday broadcasts, and
the Friday-night "Live from

the West End Gate" sessions.
Among his current projects out¬
side of radio are Lady Day: The
Complete Billie Holiday on Verve,
an eight-CD anthology due this
fall; and The Complete Dean Bene-
detti Recordings of Charlie Parker, a
ten-LP Mosaic Records collec¬
tion of live Parker performances
once presumed lost, which Mr.
Schaap has termed "the most
difficult discographical and
engineering job of my life." He
hopes to see it issued in time for
Bird's 70th birthday in August.

In "a last vestige of adolescent
rebellion," as he later called it,
Mr. Schaap donned a purple
bow-tie for the formal Grammy
presentation. Afterwards, dur¬
ing a time-out from jitterbug-
ging to the Count Basie Orches¬
tra at the Biltmore, he gave the
tie to an admiring member of
the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Re¬
capping the week's events to a
friend a few days later, Mr.
Schaap said jubilantly, "I win a
Grammy, and the Columbia
basketball team beats Penn at
the Palestra— these things can
only happen about once every
twenty years."

J.C.K.

Columbia College Today

the Magic Castle in Hollywood.
Bill Miller married Ellen Sontag
on April 29,1989, and notes the
concurrent acquisition of Line
Diamant '43 as honorary uncle-
by-marriage. Maimon Schwarz-
schild is at New York Law School
for 1989-90 as a visiting professor.
Eric Holder should be married to
Sharon Malone (P&S '88) by the
time you read this. Ray Forsythe
has formed P&F Communications
after ten years as executive VP
and general manager of England
& Co. in marketing/public rela¬
tions. Ray and son Pierce
Christopher, 15, live in Manhat¬
tan. Steven Smith pronounces
himself "alive and well;" he and
wife Susan and daughters Marian
and Alison live in Albany, N. Y.

Finally, also in the alive-and-
well category (sic), Stephanie
Ross is married, living in D. C.,
and consultant in employee bene¬
fits. Granted, she was not an offi¬
cial member of our class, but she
was close; she did graduate with
us. Steph sends her best to
everyone.

Later.

Fred Bremer

532 West 111th Street
New York, N.Y. 10025

George Robinson

282 Cabrini Blvd., #4D
New York, N.Y. 10040

Since the last time I occupied this
space, another Heights landmark
has disappeared: The Green Tree
is no more—a Hunan-Szechuan
restaurant has sprung up in its
place.

As usual with any Columbia
class, lawyers seem to predomi¬
nate. Richard L. Mattiaccio, who
is living in the city with his wife
Mary Kate McKenna and son,
Michael, is a partner in the firm of
Pavia & Harcourt. Robert
Schneider recently spoke at a
seminar on "Tax-Exempt Bonds
for Tax-Exempt Institutions" in
White Plains. Gerard Keating is a
trial lawyer in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Farther north, Terence J. Cloney
is a partner in the Chicago firm of
Gardner, Carton & Douglas.
Terence returned to the States
about a year ago after six years in
Hong Kong and Singapore, and is
now living in North Barrington,
Ill., with his wife and children.

Jonathan Birkhahn, who
shares with your humble corre¬
spondent the distinction of grad¬
uating from Lawrence H.S. in
1971, has landed back in Morn-
ingside Heights with his wife
Alexis and their four-year- old
daughter. "I can still pick up sand¬
wiches at Mama Joy's for a quick
dinner," he confides. Jon heads

up legal and business affairs for
King World, the distributors of
Wheel of Fortune and The Oprah
Winfrey Show.

Rand Hoffman is another attor¬
ney with both feet planted firmly
in show biz; he was named senior
VP of business affairs for Poly¬
gram Records just after the first of
the year. He's working out of their
New York offices.

Sometimes I am shocked to find
that I am not the only non- lawyer
in the class. Mitchell E. Mailman
is a VP and director of construc¬
tion with a New York-based
development firm, Eichner Prop¬
erties. Mitch also races ocean¬
going sailing yachts, is a tourna¬
ment platform tennis player,
gourmet cook and oenophile.
Amidst all this, he has even found
time to guest lecture at the School
of Architecture, coming in from
Stamford, Conn., to do so.

Robert Lucy may have the tast¬
iest occupation of any member of
the class: he is president of Del
Rey Avocado Co. Robert and his
wife Susan have finally decided—
after living there for 15 years—
that California is really home.
More specifically, they live with
their three children in Fallbrook,
north of San Diego. Next time
you're eating guacamole, think of
Bob.

Finally, I have a little news of
my own to add: I just signed a
contract with Dell to co-author a
book on the worst teams in base¬
ball history, to be published in
1991. All you 1899 Cleveland Spi¬
ders fans out there drop me a line.

David Merzel

3152 North Millbrook
Suite D

Fresno, Calif. 93703
Michael Bowman, still "in tran¬
sit," writes us now from Central
Asia: "After spending some time
in a Kurdish village in the moun¬
tains near Mt. Ararat in Turkey, I
traveled overland to Iraq, a coun¬
try to which I have taken an
extreme dislike. It's almost worth
writing about! Have also visited
Haiti this year and may journey
through Central America soon. I
really should be seeking employ¬
ment." (I wonder if Michael wants
some help carrying his bags; he
really doesn't want regular em¬
ployment, does he?)

Mark C. Joseph of San Fran¬
cisco works for the Bank of Nova
Scotia in the Independent Power
Group. Congratulations are in
order on his recent marriage to
Laura Allen, who works as a plan¬
ner for AC Transit.

Paul F. Dubner, M.D., Pitts¬
burgh, has been married for 11
years and is the proud papa of
Seth, 6, and Mimi, 3. He is a pedi-

Jeffrey A. Landers '76 has become a
leading commercial real estate broker
for Japanese companies in the New
York area, thanks to his combination
of language ability and professional
experience. Landers Commercial Real
Estate, Inc ., his new brokerage firm,
opened offices in Manhattan and
White Plains, N. Y. last year and soon
announced lease closings for a number
of firms locating in Westchester
County, including Hitachi Computer
Products (America), Sugai Chemical
Corporation, Citizen Watch, and the
trading company of C. Itoh. Mr.
Landers has worked in real estate for
16 years and learned Japanese on his
own over the last few years. He lives
in Bayside, N. Y. with his wife and
daughter.

atrician practicing in Pittsburgh
and is trying to find out what Stu
Miller is up to.

Daniel S. Gottlieb of Bain-
bridge Island, Wash., and his
wife, Marilynn, recently had their
second child, Rebecca Lucinda.
Despite the protests of two-year-
old Gwendolyn ("Don't like new
baby, Mommy, put it back!") they
are keeping her anyway. Congrat¬
ulations. Daniel is the newly
elected chairman of the Seattle-
King County Bar Association
Young Lawyer Division for
1989-90.

Ignaccio Navarrete, Ph.D., is
the proud father of son number
two, Paul Robert, born in January,
1990. Dr. Navarrete is an assistant
professor of Spanish at the Uni¬
versity of California, Berkeley.

Ross Kennedy Smith, Winston-
Salem, N.C., is the debate coach
at Wake Forest University.

Sam L. Teichman, M.D., a 1980
graduate of P&S, finished a cardi¬
ology fellowship at the Monte-
fiore Medical Center/Albert Ein¬
stein College of Medicine before
movifig to California, where he is
director of cardiovascular clinical
affairs for Genentech, Inc. His
responsibilities include directing

clinical research and educational
programs. Sam is recently mar¬
ried, living in San Francisco, and
"loving it."

It was good to hear from more
'76ers. Until next time, keep those
cards and letters coming.

Jeffrey Gross

11 Grace Avenue
Suite 201

Great Neck, N.Y. 11021

Several classmates have been
elected partners at prestigious
New York law firms. Lawrence A.
Bauer was elected partner at
Brown & Wood, One World Trade
Center. Litigation attorneys Ste¬
phen Caley and William A.
Escobar are two of ten new part¬
ners at Kelley Drye & Warren, the
international law firm. Stephen
specializes in toxic torts and prod¬
ucts liability and William concen¬
trates on fraud and anti-trust law.

Charlee Myers sends greetings
from northern New Mexico,
where he is a partner in Sunshine
Enterprises. His partnership
engages in ranch management,
reforestation and wool produc¬
tion. He and wife Susan jointly
manage a 5,000-acre ranch on
which they intend to reintroduce
the American bison.

From buffalo chips in the
Southwest to chocolate chips in
the Middle Atlantic, we go to Dr.
Michael Katzman of Hershey, Pa.
From his faculty position at Penn
State University near Choco-
latetown, Michael is engaged in
research of retrovirus replication.
Another medical researcher is Dr.
David J. Prezant, an assistant pro¬
fessor of medicine at Montefiore
Medical Center and Albert Ein¬
stein College of Medicine in the
Bronx. Dr. Prezant received a two-
year grant-in-aid from the New
York Lung Association to support
research related to the prevention
and control of lung disease.
Meanwhile, fellow physician Dr.
Michael A. Meyer completed a
program in neurology at the Mayo
Clinic, and is starting a P.E.T.
brain scanning fellowship at the
University of Pennsylvania.

Our graduating class included
nightclub and cafe aficionado
David Andrusia. As mentioned
elsewhere in this magazine, John
Wiley & Sons published his book
Europe Hot and Hip: A Trendsetter's
Guide. His work in progress is a
travelogue on American hot spots
and trends.

Elsewhere in the world, Kevin
R. Daly, a candidate for an M.F. A.
in drama at Florida State Univer¬
sity, was, at last word, planning to
spend a month studying theater
at the Moscow Art Theater in the
Soviet Union.

Matthew Nemerson

35 Huntington Street
New Haven, Conn.
06511

Classmates are moving ahead in
the world of culture, from the
high arts to those with mass
appeal: Carl Strehlke is now an
adjunct curator at the Philadel¬
phia Museum of Art after work¬
ing at the Metropolitan Museum.
He recently spent time in Florence
working on a catalogue for the
museum.

Our own Joseph Giovannelli,
who organized and steered our
tenth reunion and has been doing
most of the fund-raising for the
class, is now the Assistant Vice
President/Budget in the Arts and
Sciences at Columbia. Proof that if
you can get money from our
crowd you should be running the
University.

If you enjoyed the operetta The
Pirates of Penzance and you're look¬
ing for an excuse to see Australia,
Henry Aronson is working on
something for you. Fresh from
several Broadway successes as a
choreographer, including work
on The Prince of Central Park,

Henry is working on a Pirates-
based ballet for the Sydney Ballet
Company. He lives in Brooklyn.

Finally, Stuart Kricun reports
from Hollywood where he is
senior production counsel for
MGM/UA. He works on series
such as thirtysomething and is
active in the Southern California
Alumni Association.

From the Met to Michael Sted-
man, now that's what Humanities
was all about!

Entrepreneur-of-the-Column
nod goes to Stuart Kreitman,
from Palo Alto, Calif., who
recently started his own software
engineering company. Stuart
writes that his wife Gloria is sales
manager for a high-tech firm.
They have two children. Max, 3,
and Margaux, five months.

Medical roundup finds Philip
Muench down the road from me
working in the physics of radia¬
tion at Yale. He and wife Kathryn
had their first child, Patricia
Marie, last August.

"I love it here... working and
living on the beach, literally,"
writes Harry Stulbach, who is fin¬
ishing a fellowship in radiology at
Mount Sinai in Miami Beach.
Harry notes that Ira Steinmetz
had a son last summer. We'll have
to wait for more details.

Lion lawyers: Happy news
again from Miami, where Joe
Constant notes that he is the
father of twin one-year-old girls,
Allisa Rebecca and Sarah Anne.

Marc Bogatin writes to advise
us that "after having worked for
eight years at a law firm specializ¬

ing in white-collar criminal
defense," he has opened his own
practice in New York concentrat¬
ing on the same. Now what
would Columbia grads need a
white-collar criminal lawyer for?
Just in case, now you know.

From Morristown comes word
that old friend Joel M. Rosen has
made partner at the prestigious
New Jersey firm of Pitney,

Hardin, Kipp & Szuch. And such
is an occasion to say congratz.

Writing for my own account,
Marian and I are delighted to
announce the birth of our own
daughter, Elana Cecile Nemer-
son,61bs.,4oz.,on March 1,1990.
Finally, something to match those
back to back all-nighters putting
out Sundial... but this is a daily
edition, not twice a month.

Hope to hear from more of you
soon.

Lyle Steele

511 East 73rd Street,
Apt. 7

New York, N.Y. 10021

Mark A. Demitrack, M.D. is, by
his own description, shrinking
heads of all shapes and sizes as a
member of the faculty of the Uni¬
versity of Michigan. He and his
wife, Lucy Bossom, manage a
couple of dogs named Caileagh
and Remy.

Richard A. Cooper lives in
Westbury, N.Y. His articles have
appeared in The Humanist;
Humanist Century; San Francisco
Review of Books; The Pragmatist;
Providence Journalist; The Washing¬
ton Times; New York City Tribune
and many other publications. His
"Argentina at the Crossroads: Will
it Choose Liberty?" is scheduled
to appear in the December issue
of The Freeman.

David Andrusia '77 recently published Europe Hot and Hip (John Wiley &
Sons, $10.95 paper), a travel guide to the major cities of Europe focusing on
inexpensive places to eat, sleep, shop, and be entertained after dark. It is not
meant to replace Michelin or Baedeker; the author advises in his preface, "If
you're really interested in the court of Louis XVI or a blow-by-blow description of
the Pieta, you'll go to a university library and read the experts." His hip tips
include: "Don't dress weird" in Istanbul; "the range and quality of gay bars in
Madrid does not equal Europe's best"; the Cotton Club in Glasgow caters to a
"young, currently acid-crazy crowd."

Andrew Coulter lives in Santa
Cruz, Calif., where he is sales
manager of O'Neill, Inc., a man-
ufacurer of wetsuits.

David Friedman, M.D., is com¬
pleting his neuroradiology
fellowship training at the Neuro¬
logical Institute of New York. His
wife, Elizabeth, is a pediatrician at
Babies' Hospital.

Ralph Keen lives in Chicago
and will soon begin a visiting
assistant professorship at the Uni¬
versity of Iowa.

Michael Mandel, M.D., is
director of pulmonary and critical
care medicine at the Geisinger
Wyoming Valley Medical Center
in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He and his
wife Barbara are the proud new
parents of Emily Louisa.

Philip G. Schawillie lives in
East Rochester, N.Y. He and his
wife Janice had their first child,
Colin Thomas, in January of '89.
He's swaddled the babe in Colum¬
bia Blue and sings "Roar, Lion,
Roar" as a lullaby.

Craig Lesser

160 West End Avenue

New York, N.Y. 10023

As this was being written, our
10th anniversary celebration on
campus over the June 1-3 week¬
end was fast approaching. All
indications were that it would be a
fabulous, fun-filled event. More
on the festivities in the next issue.

In the meantime, Neil Gersony
writes from Plymount, Vt., where
he is professor and program
director of "A Vermont Inquiry,"
whose philosophy is to make aca¬
demics fascinating and appealing
to the general adult public.

I recently spoke to Tom Murray,
who is a doctor in St. Louis spe¬
cializing in rehabilitation medi¬
cine. Tom is engaged to be
married and plans to attend the
reunion.

Doc Thompson called from
Austin, Texas, where he is practic¬
ing law.

Your correspondent almost
missed his deadline for the first
time, due to a hectic work sched¬
ule. I am currently a marketing
manager at Revlon. In addition to
Mitchum and Lady Mitchum anti-
perspirant products, and the Col-
orsilk and Frost & Glow hair-col¬
oring products I've been working
on, I have been in on the launch of
an exciting new product: "No
Sweat" anti-perspirant and deo¬
dorant, with an encapsulated,
time-release deodorant. I know
you'll look for it in your stores.

I hope my next column includes
information on the hundreds of
members of the class of 1980 who
attended the June reunion.

Be sure to keep in touch!

Columbia College Today

Ed Klees

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison
1285 Avenue of the
Americas

New York, N.Y. 10019

Gil Atzman is a portfolio manager
with United Services Funds in
San Antonio. Michael Bernstein
is a resident in medicine at Albert
Einstein in New York.

Enrique Berumen married
Laura Samaniego on September
29,1989. Enrique and Laura live in
San Jose, Calif., where Enrique is
a branch manager for Norwest
Financial.

Kenneth Brown just completed
a judicial clerkship with Chief
Judge Robert D. Potter of the
Western District of North Car¬
olina, the judge who has presided
over the trial of that great religious
felon, Jim Bakker. Ken is now with
the firm of Lord, Day & Lord, Bar¬
rett Smith in New York and is liv¬
ing in Massapequa, N.Y.

Harvey D. Cotton left the office
of the Attorney General of Massa¬
chusetts and now is assistant gen¬
eral counsel with the Harvard
Community Health Plan. Harvey
and his wife (Cathy Schwartz,
Barnard '83) have a baby son, Ben¬
jamin.

Bryan Davis is an associate at
the law firm of Alston & Bird in
Atlanta, where he concentrates
on mergers and acquisitions and
securities work.

Kevin J. Fay left the Traveller's
real estate division to become a
principal in the recently formed
Patrick Property Company in Sal¬
isbury, N.C. Kevin reports that
his company's "initial thrust will
be the development of low-to-
moderate income housing in the
Piedmont region of North Car¬
olina under various government
programs." Kevin and his wife,
Sharon, are expecting their sec¬
ond child in April.

Daniel C. Ginsberg, M.D., fin¬
ished his residency in internal
medicine and is now chief of
internal medicine at Yokota Air
Base near Tokyo.

William E. Goldberg and his
wife, Mara, are parents of a son,
Nikolas Hyman, born on Novem¬
ber 12, 1989.

William B. Grogan, Jr. is a vice
president at McCann-Erickson in
Manhattan, where he supervises
the Coca-Cola account. Bill and
his wife, Cynthia, are expecting a
second child in April.

Alan H. Lessoff passed his doc¬
toral defense on November 21 for
his Ph.D. in history from Johns
Hopkins. Alan is planning to
spend some time with his wife in
Europe teaching or with a govern¬
ment agency.

Jordan A. Negrin graduated
from the Sackler School of Medi¬

cine at Tel Aviv University in 1985
and is a resident in nuclear medi¬
cine at the University of Connecti¬
cut Health Center in Farmington.

Peter Schmaus, M.D., is mar¬
ried and is a partner in a sports
medicine practice in Paramus,

N.J.

Stephen Schneider graduated
in June 1989 from UCLA with a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Ste¬
phen is now a post-doctoral fel¬
low in behavioral medicine at the
Kaiser Permanente Hospital in
Los Angeles.

Robert Passloff

505 East 79th Street
New York, N.Y. 10021
Andrew Cytroen is engaged to
marry Anda Ansons (Barnard '83)
this summer at Columbia's St.
Paul's Chapel. Anda is a health
care administrator at P&S and is
pursuing a master's at Columbia's
School of Public Health. Andy is
an assistant media director at
Ogilvy & Mather in New York. He
notes that Robert Bensko, Jr.
"recently tied the knot to his
sweetheart Janna in Tampa (not so
coincidentally on the same week¬
end the Stones were in town)."
Furthermore, Andrew reports
Scott Woerner will be married to
Betty by the time this issue goes to
print.

As long as we are on the topic of
marriage, Erik Friedlander mar¬
ried Lynn Shapiro in New York on
June 25,1989. Eric is a cellist and
his wife is a modern dancer/cho¬
reographer. They live in Soho.

Eric informed us of two more
weddings: Elpidio Villarreal
married Carolina Bird in October,
1989. Both are attorneys in Chi¬
cago. Christian Merkling mar¬
ried Helet Herholdt in South
Africa last year; they are also both
lawyers. Christian is with the
Office of Development Affairs in
Pretoria.

George Mostoller notes that he
has long hair now and has been
"assisting his wife" Anne, who
should have a baby by now.

As far as we know, John Yin is
not married. John completed his
Ph.D. in biochemical engineering
in June, 1988 with a study of "A
Bio-mimetic Cadmium Adsor¬
bent: Design, Synthesis and
Characterization." His patents are
still pending. John is now in West
Germany, where he was awarded
an Alexander von Humboldt
Research Fellowship to apply
molecular evolutionary concepts
to biochemical engineering. John
notes that he is "regularly pum-
meled" at his table tennis club.
Maybe he will improve after some
more research into molecular evo¬
lution?

Fred Geiger is a professional

singer, and was recently featured
on Royal Caribbean's Cruise
Line's Song of Norway, which
sailed the southern Caribbean.
He is in San Juan, working on a
new album.

Karl Olson is a foreign service
officer in the Bureau of Consular
Affairs in the State Department in
Washington. Jonathan Sweet is
working at a French investment
bank in New York.

Andrew Botti

130 Elgin Street
Newton Centre, Mass.
02159

Mark F. Lulka reports that at pre¬
sent he is defending the skies of
America out of Griffiss Air Force
Base in Rome, N.Y. Mark is an Air
Force lieutenant who was pre¬
viously stationed in Sacramento,
Calif.

Dr. Peter Fumo tells me that he
will be an emergency room
attending physician at Pennsylva¬
nia Hospital in Philly, and then
will begin his fellowship in
nephrology at the University of
Pennsylvania.

Jordon Shapiro is currently
running a self-assertiveness
workshop in Fresno, Calif., and is
a counselor at Danny Ainge's bas¬
ketball camp.

Ramon Edgar Parsons and his

wife Constance Vasilas Parsons
had their first child in November,
a son, Richard Elias—6 lbs., 10 oz!

Philip Rubin is now a third-
year resident in family practice
living in Gainesville, Fla. Philip
and Pamela Wexler (Barnard '83)
have been married for over five
years now, and although they
have no kids, they enjoy their
three cats.

David R. Lyle is pursuing a
general law practice in D.C. He
reports that Rob Lucero married
last November, and sends greet¬
ings from classmates Kevin Bank
and Chris Rankin.

David Harrison is graduating
from Columbia Business School
this year.

Peter Burgi and wife Mary (Bar¬
nard '83) are the proud parents of
Julia Claire, their first child. Peter
is a doctoral candidate at the Uni¬
versity of Chicago.

Frank Koumantaris received
his M. A. in architecture from
Yale.

Drew Velting started a clinical
psychology Ph.D. program at
Stony Brook.

Marcia and Dwight Powery
now have a baby girl named
Evelyn Regina. Marcia is Barnard
'83.

Brian C. Lazarow is working
for GTE in its human factors
group. He has an M.S. in applied
psychology.

Dave Goggins reports that after
receiving his MBA from Colum¬
bia last spring, he joined the Wall
Street firm of Brown Bros. Har-
riman & Co. as an associate in the
global fixed income management
group.

Tracy Klestadt married Stacy
Ellen Bush (Cornell '84). He is cur¬
rently an attorney specializing in
bankruptcy law at LeBoeuf,

Lamb, Leiby & MacRae in New
York.

Jim Wangsness

35 East 10th Street,

Apt. 3D

New York, N.Y. 10003
David Kahan writes that he mar¬
ried his neighbor, Ruth Leah
Michelson, and that he will finish
aJ.D. at Yale in June.

Carr D'Angelo married Susan
Avallone and both headed off to
Los Angeles to be involved in
media and entertainment. Carr is
a story analyst for Universal Pic¬
tures where he evaluates movie
scripts.

Brent Giddens graduated from
U. S. C. Law School in 1987 and has
been a management labor attor¬
ney at Pettit & Martin ever since.

Jeff Diamond has been busy
with work and with his wife—
they have two children. Jeff is a
VP at Credit Suisse First Boston in
their Tokyo office.

Finally, Tom Willcox moved to
Harrisburg, Pa., where he is dep¬
uty attorney general for the anti¬
trust division.

As always, if you have a spare
moment, send me a line. Addi¬
tionally, I can assist in providing
addresses for lost classmates. I
hope 1990 is a good year for all!

Richard Froehlich

7 Irene Lane North
Plainview, N.Y. 11803

Christopher Dwyer

6501 Wayne Avenue,

Philadelphia, Pa. 19119
Andre Boudousquie is at UCLA
Business School, where he is
doing "missionary work"—
bringing squash to the surfers
and mountain bikers.

"Boston is no match for the Big
Apple!" exclaims John Chachas,
who is finishing up at Harvard
Business School and plans to
return to investment banking in
New York. In October, John will
marry Diane Dougherty (Barnard
'84), who works at Capital Cities/
ABC.

A letter arrived from Michael
Corbin in La Serena, Chile, where
he is completing a Ph.D. thesis in
astronomy at the Observatorio

Interamericano de Cerro Tololo,
high in the Andes Mountains.
Mike is collecting data on quasars
and hopes to finish his thesis
this year.

Back from three years in Rome
is Frank Genco. Frank worked as
an English instructor and as asso¬
ciate editor of a daily English-lan¬
guage newsletter. Frank is now in
Buffalo, N. Y., looking for a job in
journalism.

Erik Goluboff, finishing his
fourth year at Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine, was married
in December to Nicole Belson '87.
Nicole is in her third year at
Columbia Law.

Michael Gutleber works as a
computer programmer/analyst in
New York and says he enjoys
writing songs on the side.

While working for the lobbying
sector of a Washington, D.C. law
firm, Peter McLaughlin is attend¬
ing Georgetown Law School
at night.

We hear that Jack Merrick grad¬
uated from USC Law Center and
is now at Jones, Day, Reavis &
Pogue in Los Angeles. He also has
married Aimee Cain, a Los Ange¬
les model(!).

Dan Pomerantz let us know
that he is to graduate from Har¬
vard Med in June, after which he
will come back to NYC for a resi¬
dency in primary care internal
medicine at Bellevue.

Freddy Ramos writes that he
wound up studies at Michigan
Law School in May 1989 and is
clerking for a New Jersey Appel¬
late Division judge. He is engaged
to Michigan classmate Julia Drits.

News from Norcross, Ga.—
Steven Ross was named director
of marketing of Intersoft Systems,
a computer software company.

Druce ("with a 'D'") Vertes is
working as a research analyst at
Salomon Brothers and has had his
name misspelled in "numerous
national publications."

Elizabeth Schwartz
64 Willett Street
Albany, N.Y. 12210

George Gianfrancisco

328 West 77th St.,

Apt. 8

New York, N.Y. 10024

The warm air of spring brought
with it a friendly letter from Leslie
Gittess. The former tennis star is
now finishing her second year at
Georgetown Law and will be back
in New York this summer to work
for Hughes, Hubbard & Reed.
David Stoll is also among the
rank and file of future attorneys.
He is in his second year at Yale
Law with Danny Alter and Dina
Warner. Good luck in your quest
to keep the scales of justice

balanced.

Several of our classmates have
gravitated to New England.
Jonathan Burstein is in his second
year at Harvard Med while Roger
Neustadt is working for the
Boston law firm of Reimer &
Bronstein. The two are trying to
institute CPR training for fresh¬
men at Harvard.

And congratulations are in
order for several others. Michael
Ness recently graduated from the
naval OCS in Rhode Island.
Jonathan Raskas was admitted to
Northwestern's Kellogg School of
Business. Former basketball cap¬
tain Doug Woods is now taking
on the role of athletic academic
coordinator for Duquesne Univer¬
sity. Good luck, fellows.

Columbia is well represented
on the West Coast also. Timothy
Rood is preparing to attend archi¬
tecture school. His recent Bay
Area-Columbia reunion
unearthed a host of Light Blue
alumni like Kirk Woerner.

Lindsay Dunckel survived a
year in L. A. putting out a news¬
letter on foster care. Now she's
back East working with emotion¬
ally disturbed boys in Dobbs
Ferry, N.Y.

Finally, Paige Sinkler left me
this urgent message: Lauren
Clineburg, please contact her at
2026 Chestnut St., 3R, in Philly.
Paige was returning to England in
April, but hopefully the mail can
be forwarded.

Have a lovely spring and a won¬
derful summer.

Alix Pustilnik

1175 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10128

In the spring, it was easy to be
nostalgic for the steps and those
days when our time outside
wasn't restricted to an hour at
lunch. But it's been almost a year,
and things change. Many thanks
to all of you who have written or
called, but there is one thing for
you to know. This column func¬
tions on what is commonly
referred to as a deadline, which
means I sometimes hear from you
after the issue of CCT has gone to
press. So if your item isn't in the
column, it doesn't mean I'm igno¬
ring you. And Tony Vinals is
most anxious for all of you to
know he has been elected presi¬
dent of his class at Yale Medical
School.

In other news, Mark Siegel
writes to say he is enjoying
Georgetown Med and is to be
married to Shana Schiffman (Bar¬
nard '89) this August. Other mar¬
riage news abounds: Karen Segal
is to be married this summer;
Sharon Spodak and Dave Gor¬
don are engaged; Sandra Monaco

and Paul Surette were married in
August of 1989, and are living in
New Jersey; Patty Ryan, who is
working at Bankers Trust, is also
living in New Jersey—with Sarah
Russel, who is working at Com¬
merzbank—and is to be married
to Shep Long in 1991.

Lisa Landau has left Drexel—
with a few thousand others—and
is now to be found at Bear Stearns;
Barbara Rosenthal is now at Caffe
Strada, a gourmet coffee com¬
pany, doing their financial plan¬
ning; Marci Lobel is working in
L. A. this summer, but will be back
at NYU Law in the fall; Joanne Ooi
and David Winter are heading to
law school in the fall; Liz
Waksman says she is living it up at
Yale Law but can still be found on
the steps come the weekend;
Rachelle Tunik is studying law at
the University of San Francisco,
and would love to hear from
Columbians headed West; H.
Freed Panitch is at Ohio State Uni¬
versity Law School, and writes
that Allon Friedman is at the Sor-
bonne in Paris, and that the two of
them are planning to track down
Kevin Juro in Nebraska this sum¬
mer. He also says hello to Jon
Lupkin, who is to be married
shortly.

Mike Riedel is the managing
editor and critic for Theater Week

magazine; Michael Jung is
enrolled in a special program at
the University of Cambridge in
international relations; Chris
Della Pietra is enjoying his first
year at Fordham Law along with
Peter Schnur and Phil Corsello,
and Roger Rubin is writing for
New York Newsday.

Well, that's about it. I hope this
year has been good to everybody,
and I look forward to hearing
from and seeing other '89ers
soon.

Ijeoma Acholonu

c/o CCT

100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027
Well guys, this is it. We are all
heading off in different direc¬
tions, some of us in more than one
direction. Now wait!... Before
you zoom out of here I have one
thing to remind you about: KEEP
IN TOUCH! We would like to hear
how everyone is doing. Also for
those of you who will really be
entering the real world and get¬
ting your own apartments, please
keep us updated as to where you
are.

Yahoo! We're outta here!

Class Notes Editor: Phyllis T. Katz

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November 2-11,1990

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guided tour that includes a five-day cruise down the Nile
and four days in Cairo.

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Letters

(continued from page 5)

lege credits (at institutions other than
Columbia) were briefly granted for
attending the lectures of Timothy
Leary, Eldridge Cleaver, and other
prophets of my day. Those who wish to
listen to such people or whoever is in
vogue today should certainly have the
chance to do so. But will they displace
Sophocles, Descartes, or Hobbes? I
think not.

Western Civilization, luckily, does
not hang in the balance of what hap¬
pens to the core curriculum at Colum¬
bia. People will Continue to study it,
question its values, argue about them,
gain enlightenment, understanding,
and perhaps even a bit of wisdom from
them, and add something of their own
experience to the brew. The question is
whether Columbia will participate in
this activity or join the mindless clamor
for fashionable "relevance."

If Columbia College has any unique
purpose among American colleges,
and I think it does, it is to provide a
place where folks like Vico and
Leonardo will not just be tolerated, but
will thrive. This has nothing to do with
ideological rigidity or schoolboy nostal¬
gia. It is simply the courage to make a
judgment call knowing it might be
thought unfashionable by yahoos.

I am astonished that the College can¬
not find faculty who like to take part in
the core curriculum. Why has the Col¬
lege allowed itself to appoint faculty
who are, by their own admission, "out
of their depth" in the core curriculum?
Proposals have apparently been made
to trim the curriculum to suit the lim¬
ited capabilities of some of the faculty.
By the same logic, we should give up
teaching reading and mathematics in
grade schools if teachers are incompe¬
tent in those subjects. Wouldn't it be
better to recruit faculty members with a
keen interest in Western civilization
and humanities who do not feel they
have to apologize for that?

Let us remind ourselves of the differ¬
ence between education and indoc¬
trination. Indoctrination tries to tell us
what to think; true education shows us
how to think. The classic texts happen
to be very good springboards for
thought and imagination, regardless of
what "lessons" they teach. For me,
even 25 years later, their interest grows
continually (though I am a business¬
man and not a scholar). It would be

most unfortunate for current and
future students if they were deprived
of the unique educational experience
that Columbia provides. Columbia Col¬
lege does this important job far better
than the competition, and I hope it will
continue this work with renewed vigor.

Peter D. Miller '67
Tokyo, Japan

Money talks

I am in total agreement with Ira Gott¬
lieb '77 in his letter in the Winter issue.
Giving Frank Lorenzo a John Jay Award
is, in my view, disgusting. Dis-gusf-ing!
And I'm willing to join his crusade to
hold back my pennies until that deci¬

sion is reversed.

And if the response to the above is,
"Would you approve of an alum with¬
holding contributions because of an
award to some hero of the left?" the
answer is, "Sure, they've got that right.
It's a question of degree."

On the other hand, once the decision
was made, cancelling the dinner under
pressure set a lousy precedent. It was a
mess from start to finish.

In any case, CCT continues to be one
of the liveliest and most stimulating
magazines I get—as witnessed by the
fires you kindle in the Letters columns.

Bernard Weisberger '43
Chatham, N.Y. Q

The Lion's Den

An open forum for opinion, humor and philosophy.

Letter from a troglodyte

In the olden days before coeducation , Columbia men
were less than noble in reason or infinite in faculty.

by Frederic D. Schwarz '82

A s letters from deans and fund-raisers never fail to point out,
today's College men and women are infinitely superior to
their predecessors — morally, physically, and intellectually. But
there are still a few unreconstructed souls, holdouts from the
pre-1983 era, who fail to see the improvement. For example, the
author of the following letter, which recently turned up in the
University mailroom:

Dear John Jay,

A bunch of us early-eighties alumni were sitting around
drinking domestic beer the other night, and after we got tired
of watching videotaped hockey fights, the conversation
turned to our alma mater.

"Yup, the place has really changed a lot," said Jim (a
pseudonym; his real name is Steve). "They got dames now
and everything. There's grass on South Field"—Andy
paused while opening his fifth Rolling Rock to gasp in
shock—"plus the new house system."

"Yeah, that's a brilliant idea: professors in the dormito¬
ries," said Dave, extracting a cigarette from under the sleeve
of his Iron Maiden T-shirt. "I think any grown-up who would
voluntarily live with five hundred college kids should not be
allowed to walk the streets, much less teach our nation's
youth."

At this point Mike, who had been engrossed in the home
shopping club on cable TV, suddenly looked up and said,
"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him
enslaved by another's might."

We all stared at him.

"Sorry, I know that has nothing to do with what you were
discussing," he said, "but CCT won't print this unless we
quote something from the Lit Hum reading list. It was by that
Socrates guy, from Oedipus in Corona."

"No, no, it's Aristotle," said Andy. "From the Symposium,
my favorite book. These guys are sitting around drinking,
and..."

"You're wrong," said Mike. "Aristotle wrote plays about
birds and bees and stuff."

"Dirty books?" said Dave, perking up.

Jim cleared his throat. "As I was saying, even socially the
College has improved. What with coeducation..."

"Yeah, right. Nowadays any guy who brushes his teeth
and puts on a clean shirt will have women all over him," said
Dave, flipping through his bound volume of vintage Hustler
magazines.

Frederic D. Schwarz '82, a one-time Jester writer and unindicted co¬
conspirator of the Columbia Marching Band, is now assistant editor of
American Heritage.

"Interestingly enough, today's students don't think in
those terms," explained Jim. "One guy told me that now they
respect women as people, instead of treating them as
objects, and they strive to establish a mutually satisfying
relationship based on shared interests and values." Every¬
one looked at him slack-jawed. "Or something like that," he
added.

"So now you can be embarrassed, ignored and humiliated
by your own classmates. Big deal," snorted Dave.

Jim continued, "You know, someone once told me that
New York is the only city where people come back after
twenty years and complain that the neighborhood has
improved."

"I know what you mean," said Mike. "Harvard's graduate
school sent me a brochure saying that Harvard Square was
'the ice cream capital of the world'—as if they were proud of
it or something. But now there's a damn Sedutto next to
Tom's Restaurant."

"And a Mrs. Fields' cookie joint across the street," I added.

"Look, you guys keep missing the point," said Jim.
"Change can be for the better. Why, the College is getting so
many applications that none of us would get in if we applied
today."

"A sobering thought," hiccupped Andy.

"Yet even after these improvements, much remains to be
done," Jim continued. "Building renovation, for example,
will require at least $200 million over the next five years, and
the University estimates..."

W ell, we figured out pretty quick that he was a mole for
the John Jay Associates. Asking us over to buy Tupper-
ware was just a clever ruse. But it was getting late, and we all
wanted to make it home in time to watch Robin Byrd's inter¬
view with Sukhreet Gabel. So everybody kicked in.

Andy offered to buy a keg for the next faculty smoker,

Mike said that every tenth brick he lays next week will be for
Alma Mater, and Dave pledged tomorrow's entire collection
of cans and bottles. I offered a month's salary, after deduct¬
ing for rent, food, subway fare, and of course the New York
Post. I'm sure that my $16.75 couldn't go to a better group of
kids. We're all proud to have set an example that everyone
can point to—whenever they need to show how much
things have improved at Columbia.

Yours,

A Member of the Class of Eighty-Something
P.S. Don't cash that check for a couple of weeks, okay? Q

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Fall 1990

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16 Fear and frustration in Colombia:

The other side of the narco-war

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20 Taking Daffy seriously:

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24 The legendary Sid Luckman '39

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56 The Student Angle: Rich Hahn '91
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An old canard

Professor Wm. Theodore de Bary's arti¬
cle, "Asian Classics and the Human¬
ities" [Spring/Summer 1990], contains a
number of thoughtful and penetrating
observations. I enthusiastically
applaud his comments on the place of
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lum—as well as his splendid work over
the years on the Oriental Studies
program.

Unfortunately, though, the article is
marred by an approving reference to an
old canard that should have been put
on the shelf long ago. Referring to the
Analects of Confucius, Professor de
Bary comments, "If one stopped there
and went no further... one would get
only an archaic, fossilized view of Con¬
fucianism. In the West it would be like
reading the Old Testament without the
New." Shades of Arnold Toynbee!

Once again, a leading scholar has
suggested that there is something
"archaic" or "fossilized" about the
Hebrew Scriptures, and that they can¬
not be understood without the New
Testament. In fact, the "Old" Testa¬
ment—particularly in the original lan¬
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original sequence—stands quite well
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vision of a world where "everyone shall
sit under his own vine and fig tree, and
there shall be none to make him
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dhist Sutras.

I am sorry to see this point missed by
Professor de Bary, from whom I
learned so much about China, India
and Japan, and whom I have always
considered to be one of Columbia's
finest teachers. I hope, in any event,
that the Oriental Colloquium now
includes the Hebrew Scriptures—and
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the Babylonian Talmud and the writ¬
ings of Maimonides as well. All of
them, surely, are among the "great
books of the East."

Peter Strachan '55
Tenafly, N.J.

Correcting the record

I hope it is not ungracious of me to
respond to your nice account of my life
at Columbia ["The Freedom of the
Scholar," Spring/Summer CCT] by
offering two minor but not insignificant
corrections. First, as an undergraduate
I was a member but not the president of
Nacoms. That distinction belongs to
Joseph Coffee, who was also president
of the Class of '41 and remains to this
day one of its outstanding leaders. Sec¬
ond, reference is made to Fanny Brett
de Bary, Barnard '43 as my "wife of
more than half a century." It's true that
we first met at a Brooks tea dance in
September, 1939, but it was not until
June of 1942 that Fanny came out from
Barnard to marry me in Boulder, Colo.,
where I was in naval training. We do
look forward to celebrating our fiftieth
anniversary soon and hope to be
rejoined by many of our classmates.

Wm. Theodore de Bary '41
Special Service Professor
Kent Hall

Abandon nerdship

The description of the Rabi Scholars in
the Spring/Summer 1990 issue of CCT
was exciting and uplifting until the last
four lines.

You've condemned all future Schol¬
ars to "nerdship." How sad.

Albert D. Anderson '48, M.D.
Clinical Professor of
Rehabilitation Medicine
Columbia University-
Harlem Hospital Center

There is a postscript to those last four lines,
in which we quoted a scientist who once
remarked, during a discussion of fiction, "If
it never happened, why do you want to read
about it?"

It turns out that the literary doubter later
became a born-again humanist. Jessica
Raimi, who wrote the Rabi Scholarship
piece, notes, "A few years after making that
remark, he was known to carry books of
poetry in his car, which he would read while
stopped at red lights ."—Editor

Ivy indignities

When the 400 members of my fresh¬
man class were gathered for orientation
lectures, no less a person than Dean
Hawkes addressed us.

"Gentlemen," he said, "You are ac¬
customed to very high marks in your
high school careers. Otherwise you
would not be here. But," he continued,
"do not be disappointed if you do not
get them here. You can be very proud if
you earn a B, for a Columbia B is equiv¬
alent any day to a Harvard A."

These remarks I have used with con¬
siderable effect through the years
when I was able to put to flight assorted
Harvard lawyers and Harvard Business
School types who became entangled in
my business enterprises.

But my son Richard (College '70) has
this most distressing story to tell me.

At a Harvard basketball encounter the
Crimson rooters throughout the game
yelled "Harvard rejects" at both the
team and the Lion rooters.

"I trust you crossed the court and ad¬
ministered swift justice," I told my son.

"We couldn't," he said. "There was
too much truth in what they were
saying."

Since my class won the Rose Bowl,
the Lions defeating Stanford 7-0,1
have watched the gradual degeneration
of the athletic program. But to hear the
scholarship standards have gone to hell
along with it is too much to bear.

My grandson, Hayes, someday may
enter the College. Can anyone give me
a ray of hope that he will be spared
these indignities?

Ed Hobbie '34
Burke, Va.

You should hear what they're yelling about
Yale .—Editor

Ancient sports trivia

I appreciated Lawrence Eno's letter
about Cornel Wilde in the Spring/Sum¬
mer 1990 issue.

My own pet peeves are the endless
articles about Lou Gehrig and about the
Rose Bowl game. To my mind these
articles constitute ancient sports trivia
that could hardly be worthy of the
space they have been given.

Although I have several varsity let¬
ters, I prefer to see athletics relegated to
their proper, secondary role. What I
want most from alumni publications is
to know what the College and Univer¬
sity are doing to advance our under¬
standing of the natural order and our
proper place in it.

Fortunately, these articles are an
exception— CCT is an excellent publi¬
cation that I appreciate greatly.

Bob Jacobs '63
Olympia, Wash.

Democracy in action

Concerning Tom Vinciguerra's piece in
the Winter 1990 issue, "The University
Senate: Advice and dissent":

Leafing through any of the various
bulletins, pamphlets, "pencil books"
and catalogues describing the won¬
drous paradise that is Columbia Uni¬
versity, one is bound to cross the
phrase "the Columbia Community"
several times.

In my four years working on the
Undergraduate Dormitory Council,
the Columbia College Student Council
and the University Senate, I attended
literally hundreds of meetings in which
students struggled with the mantle of
building a "community." The underly¬
ing assumption was that we lived in a
sort of mini-society, one in which there
were identifiable customs, traditions, a
culture, and of course, a government.
We tried to build a community, and we
were serious about democracy.

In Columbia College this was fairly
successful. The administration and
Student Council made decisions in sep¬
arate spheres, with the Council retain¬
ing a large measure of control over
matters concerning student activities
and student life. They worked together
when they needed to, and there was a
general feeling of cooperation and
respect.

In sharp contrast, the University
Senate, with a mandate to set broad
university policy, proved to be an
incredible instrument of obstruction.

If this were a governing body in any
real community, that community
would be branded as oligarchical, pos¬
sibly totalitarian.

The faculty are the largest group in
the Senate. Two years ago, students
tried to recruit progressive faculty
members to run for the Senate. We

Correction

A listing in the Bookshelf section of the
Spring/Summer 1990 issue incorrectly
identified Robert I. Friedman, author of
The False Prophet, as a member of the
Class of 1969; he is not a College alum¬
nus. The well-known writer and editor
Robert Friedman '69 uses no middle
initial.

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were repeatedly told that, since the
Senate has no real power (there are no
budgeting or enforcement mechanisms
in place), then these faculty members
had nothing to gain and everything to
lose by joining. One professor told me,
"If I oppose the administration, first, no
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how do you think that will affect me
when I'm applying for a special leave or
asking to get my office painted?"

My experience, not surprisingly, was
that the faculty representation on the
Senate was significantly to the "right"
of the faculty at large. Their contribu¬
tion was generally limited (though
there were exceptions) to drafting
farewell resolutions to departing
administrators and toadying to the
President in committee meetings.

The singular faculty/administration
legislative measure in my two years on
the Senate regarded changing the
Rules of University Conduct. The
measure, drafted in part by President
Sovern, came in the winter of 1987-8.
The second of the anti-racism block¬
ades had occurred the previous spring,
and the resolution was shepherded
through the Senate in time to quash
any further disruptions.

Among other things, the new rules
meant an automatic suspension for any
student who blockades any entrance
(even if there's another one open) to
any University building. First offense.
That's where the totalitarianism comes
in. In the community outside the gates,
if one disrupts a government function,
they don't kick you out of the country.

These rule changes were passed
despite the pleading of over 1,000 sig¬
natures on a petition (gathered in less
than 48 hours) to wait until public hear¬
ings could be held to discuss the issue
fully. The amendments themselves
totalled some 16 pages and had been
released publicly only days before. The
Senate passed the amendments with a
rider agreeing to hold hearings after
the fact.

During the two years when I was a
member, countless student measures
were bottled up or killed in the execu¬
tive committee before they could reach
the Senate floor.

The Senate's failure as a governing
body that represents the whole Univer¬
sity is surpassed only by its incredible
lack of potential as a forum for discus¬
sion. Robert's Rules of Order and the
parliamentary structure are designed
as specific tools for use in a process of

decision-making, not for frank and
relaxed discussion. The formalized and
complex rules make many participants
uncomfortable, especially students
and newcomers. No one who is not a
senator is allowed to speak.

As a result, many meetings run for
less than 15 minutes. Faculty senators
sleep (really!) during debates. Students
stutter through weak exhortations. The
President whispers to the Chairperson
of the Executive Committee. The
Chairperson whispers back.

It should be noted that the discussion
which impressed Mr. Vinciguerra so
much took place after the Senate meet¬
ing that day. The students had already
stormed out because the Senate had
refused even to hold a discussion of
their resolution during the regular
course of the meeting.

Mr. Vinciguerra's article gamely tried
to find a bright side to the Senate. But
the fact remains (despite President
Sovern's assertion that we have already
resolved those "core problems"), that
there is still significant dissension
among students and junior faculty
with regard to many of Columbia's pri¬
orities. We still have almost no repre¬
sentation from the African-American
community on the tenured faculty. We
have practically no Puerto Rican or
Dominican students in Columbia Col¬
lege, despite their overwhelming rep¬
resentation in our immediate commu¬
nity. We are still totally isolated from
our surrounding Harlem and Morn-
ingside Heights residents.

President Sovern, those core prob¬
lems still remain. The difference today
is that the Senate exists to channel and
mute progressive activity at Columbia.
And when that fails, the new Rules of
Conduct are there to make sure that no
one interferes with the ability of a few
old, white, rich men to make and
implement the policies that perpetuate
these core problems. Down with the
Senate. Up with the Columbia
Community.

Tom Kamber '89

New York, N.Y

Remembering Columbia patriots

During the past year I was given the
privilege of working in the libraries of
Columbia University, and I'm grateful
for this. I'm working on a book about
Thomas Merton, Class of '37, and his
classmates—by which I mean, those in
the Classes of '36 to '40.1 scrutinized
the Jester, the Review and the Spectator,

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and I came away with this; that the sin¬
gle most important political issue on
campus in the year 1936 to '40 was the
anti-war movement; that movement
could consistently turn out the largest
number of students for demonstrations.

But, in the spring of 1940 France did
fall, the retreat from Dunkirk did take
place and the Battle of Britain started
and carried over the summer. And the
U.S. Congress passed legislation for
conscription and Columbia men were
drafted—and volunteered—and,
especially after the U.S. entered the
war, Columbia men fell in battle.

I went through the Alumni News in
Low Library, with the generous assist¬
ance of Hollee Haswell, and I came up
with this sum of those who served and
those who fell: 9,400 served and 140
fell.

Then I looked around your campus
to find the war memorial but found
none, not a single inscription on stone
or wood or metal. And I ask this, if you
please—is this a political statement,
given the anti-war fervor of the 1930's?

At the risk of seeming churlish and
making invidious comparisons, let me
point out that other universities have
war memorials. Cornell, for example,
has an imposing one; the brother of
Tom Merton, John Paul Merton (Sgt.

J.P. Merton RCAF), is memorialized
there. Cornell did not have the vig¬
orous anti-war movement in either the
First or Second Wars, nor, indeed, were
they very political at all. Is there a
connection?

John Stanley

New York, N.Y.

Guerrilla theater

With his "There goes Columbia again"
[Letters, Winter 1990], Stewart Reuter
lays a bum rap on the Columbia admin¬
istration. He ruefully recalls a "Uriah
Heep imitation... of a previous Col¬
lege dean who refused to take any
action when the SDS disrupted the
annual meeting of the alumni held in
conjunction with Dean's Day."

No College personnel were in¬
volved. Presiding over the event which
Mr. Reuter attended, I was the person
responsible for not summoning either
campus or city police, when guerrilla
theater erupted on the McMillin The¬
ater stage during the final 1969 alumni
plenum.

Was it free speech or social disrup¬
tion? My gamble was that the tiny

group of dissenting Columbia and Bar¬
nard students (one of whose husbands
was already in jail) would quickly venti¬
late their grievances and leave, rather
than suffer the continuing profundities
of the convocation.

And so it came to pass—in less than
five minutes. There were no arrests or
broken heads, although one 250-
pound sweatsuited alumnus had to be
physically restrained from clambering
up on the stage and punching out the
undernourished demonstrators—most
of whom have by now undoubtedly be¬
come respectable junk bond dealers.

No one wants to disagree with Mr.
Reuter that "giving in to the bullies of
the world has never led to peace." But
how to call your shots? There are bull¬
ies on all sides. Frank Lorenzo? Profes¬
sor Griff? Anything else new on
Morningside?

Lincoln Diamant '43
Ossining, N.Y.

Exactitude

In response to the letter from the Hon.
Theodore Diamond in the Spring/
Summer CCT, I believe the phrase he
refers to, from stanza two of "Stand,
Columbia," is, " Thron'd upon the hill
where heroes fought for liberty and
died."

In any case, it's a nostalgia trip of a
positive nature to dredge up these
memories! F. W. DeVries’49

Chadds Ford, Pa.

Carpe diem

In the course of my research into the
core curriculum, I found, in the collec¬
tion of the papers of John J. Coss, the
following lyrics, which will answer the
question of a reader who wrote to you
earlier this summer. The sheet that con¬
tained these lyrics also had the lyrics to
many Columbia songs, including some
long-forgotten drinking songs. The
sheet can be found in the John J. Coss
Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript
Library, Box number 5.

The middle verse of "Sans Souci" is
as follows:

Out on life's stormy sea,

All of us soon may be
Far, far away.

Still hold your glasses high,

Here's to youth while it's nigh,

Though we to-morrow die,

This is to-day.

Though we to-morrow die,

This is to-day.

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Campus bulletins

• Green Light: The University has
received the final go-ahead to build
a $37.5 million biomedical research
center on the site of the Audubon
Ballroom at Broadway and 165th
Street, where Malcolm X was
assassinated in 1965. The approval
was one of the last actions taken by
the New York City Board of Estimate
before being dissolved.

The decision capped eight years
of fits and starts over the project,
which stalled most recently when
Manhattan Borough President Ruth
W. Messinger vetoed $8.1 million in
funds from the Port Authority that
had been designated for the center.
Ms. Messinger had said that the pro¬
ject lacked "a complete, fiscally
responsible proposal that justifies
and protects the substantial public
investment being made." She also
wanted to preserve the entire ball¬
room, which many feel should be
kept intact as a memorial to the slain
African-American leader.

Ms. Messinger later withdrew her
veto as part of a compromise: the
research center will retain about 55
percent of the original 1912 structure
and will include a community
health facility. Community-based
job-placement and training pro¬
grams will also be established as
part of the project.

• On the Mend: College Dean Jack
Greenberg '45 is back on his feet
after having been laid low by an
amoebic infection that kept him out
of work from April until July. He fell
ill with what was first believed to be
hepatitis; a sonogram later revealed
an eight-inch abcess in his liver that
had been caused by an amoeba.
Dean Greenberg suffered from
extreme fatigue and lost 30 pounds,
but he has since regained most of his

Maestro: Mstislav Rostropovich, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, received the
University's 1990 Ditson Conductor's Award for contributions to the advancement of American music.
The award was presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on September 13 by Professor of
Music George Edwards, who cited Mr. Rostropovich's achievements as a cellist, pianist, conductor, and
human rights activist. Previous Ditson Award winners include Leopold Stokowksi, Gunther Schuller,
and Leonard Slatkin.

strength and weight. During his
convalescence, he spent six weeks
in Mount Sinai Hospital, where Col¬
lege alumni on the staff were among
his visitors. One did his best to spur
Dean Greenberg's recovery by mak¬
ing a $1,000 contribution to the
College.

The dean's spirits were also lifted
by a favorable review of his gourmet
cookbook by none other than the
French Chef herself, Julia Child.
Writing in the Harvard Law School
Bulletin, Mrs. Child praised Dean
Cuisine: The Liberated Man's Guide to
Fine Cooking (written with former
Harvard Law School dean James

Vorenberg) as offering a "surpris¬
ingly wide range of preparations"
and added—to the possible chagrin
of feminists—"The male approach
to cookery, in my observation, is
much freer, faster, more daring, and
more casual than the female." When
asked if he was ready for a book tour,
the dean deadpannned, "It could
work in very well with a recruiting
trip for the College."

• Columbia White Paper: The Uni¬
versity will redouble its recycling
effort this fall, when a committee of
students and administrators starts a
campus-wide program of resource

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Columbia College Today

recovery, waste reduction and
increased use of recycled and
recyclable products.

Columbia offices will be required
to dispose of white paper in desig¬
nated white wastebaskets, and con¬
tainers will be furnished to dorms
and dining halls for cans and bottles
with deposit value. Bins for news¬
paper, already provided in dorms,
will be added elsewhere. The tradi¬
tional green local mail envelopes
and yellow legal pads will be
replaced with white versions, and
high-quality recycled paper will be
available for stationery.

Revenue from the white paper
effort will fund the recycling pro¬
gram; cans and bottles will go to the
We Can organization, which
redeems them to support New York
City's homeless.

• College Appointments: Deborah
Pointer has been named Director of
Financial Aid, succeeding Deborah
Doane, who had served in the Col¬
lege administration for six years.

Ms. Pointer, previously Director of
Admissions for the School of Engi¬
neering and Applied Science, holds
degrees from the State University of
New York. ... Kathleen McDermott
has joined the College as Assistant
Dean of Students and will be the
dean-in-residence for Hartley and
Wallach Halls, where she will over¬
see the first features of a "house
system." Dean McDermott, who
holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from
Berkeley, was most recently a re¬
search fellow at the University of
Wales and a professor at Middle-
bury College. ... Kevin Matthews
'80 is now Executive Director of Co¬
lumbia's Double Discovery Center.
Mr. Matthews, a member of the
D.D.C. administration since 1985
and former head of its nationally
recognized Upward Bound pro¬
gram, replaced Glenn Hopkins '78,
who resigned in March.... Earlier
this year, the College appointed
Marjorie Elizabeth Long as Director
of Budget Operations, a new posi¬
tion. Ms. Long holds degrees from
Columbia and Baruch College, and
was previously with the University's
Office of Internal Audit.

• New Veep: Gerald Lowrey has
been named Deputy Vice President
for Campus Life, in charge of phys¬

ical education and athletics, the Earl
Hall Center and St. Paul's Chapel,
the international student office, the
Columbia Scholastic Press Associa¬
tion, and the student affairs office.
Mr. Lowrey arrived from Emory
University in Atlanta, where he was
associate dean for campus life and
director of athletics and recreation.
He succeeds Mary K. Giannini,
who replaced Mary Murphy on an
interim basis and has now returned
to her duties as Executive Director of
the Center for Career Services.

• Named: Gordon P. Eaton, the geol¬
ogist and president of Iowa State
University, has been appointed
Director of Columbia's Lamont-

Doherty Geological Observatory. A
scientist and administrator with the
U.S. Geological Survey for 14 years
and former provost of Texas A&M
University, Mr. Eaton will assume
his duties at the internationally
renowned observatory on Novem¬
ber 1; he succeeds C. Barry Raleigh,
who left a year ago to become dean
of the University of Hawaii's new
oceanographic and earth science
division in Honolulu. Mr. Eaton is
the second university president to
join Columbia in the past year:
Meyer Feldberg, Dean of the Gradu¬
ate School of Business, had been
president of the Illinois Institute of
Technology.

Breaking the ice: The 780 members of Columbia College's Class of1994 arrived on campus with their
counterparts from the Engineering School and Barnard the week before Labor Day. In addition to an
intensive schedule of lectures, convocations, parties, volleyball games and walking tours, some found
time to practice the age-old art of conversation.

JESSICA RAIMI

"Selective excellence"
fells Library School

Last year, it was two academic depart¬
ments—geography and linguistics.

This year, it was one of the University's
oldest and most respected divisions,
the School of Library Service: casualties
all of the painful and ongoing review
process known as selective excellence.

On June 4, the Trustees voted to close
the Library School over the next two
years. The decision, which came over
objections voiced on and off campus,
represented the first time since the
School of Pharmacy was jettisoned in
1976 that an entire division has been
cut. The Library School's four tenured
faculty members, including Dean
Robert Wedgeworth, have been told
that they will be offered new jobs when
the school closes in 1992, and all cur¬
rently enrolled students will be allowed
to complete their degrees.

As outlined in Strategies of Renewal,
the 1987 report of the Presidential Com¬
mission on the Future of the University,
selective excellence is a sort of academic
triage, based on the principle that the
University "should be prepared to in¬
vest in programs that have established
their superiority in fact or in promise
and to terminate weak or moribund
programs." The concept had also been
proposed in 1979, when the Marcus
Commission called for Columbia to "do
only what it can do superlatively."

President Michael I. Sovern '53 had
hinted last year that budget considera¬
tions might force the application of se¬
lective excellence. "We expect a difficult
time for the next two years," he said at a
College faculty meeting, "not a time for
wanton butchery, but for disciplined
choices and foregone pleasures."

This year. Library Service became a
foregone pleasure. "In considering
choices for future academic invest¬
ment, the University's academic lead¬
ers—deans, vice presidents and
distinguished scholars—say that the
school is not at the core of their intellec¬
tual concerns," said Provost Jonathan
R. Cole '64 in the University's official
announcement on June 5. Later, in an
interview, he explained, "Knowledge is
growing too rapidly for any university
in the world to cover all areas, new and
old." However, he emphasized, "It is
absolutely not the case that the Univer¬
sity is retrenching. It is growing and
continues to grow."

The School of Library Service was

founded in 1887 by Melvil Dewey, the
devisor of the Dewey Decimal System.

It is the oldest such institution in the
country, and despite its small size (13
faculty members, 250 full- and part-
time students), it is considered pre¬
eminent by many. Columbia is the only
major private university still training
professional librarians; since the clos¬
ing of library schools at Emory, Vander¬
bilt, the University of Southern Califor¬
nia and elsewhere, the field has been
dominated by public institutions,
largely subsidized by tax revenues.

In 1983, a faculty review committee
recommended that the school embrace
such new disciplines as information
science—the theory and philosophy of
information—and information man¬
agement, which is concerned with
technological approaches to documen¬
tation. According to Roger S. Bagnall,
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences, information science "is
the liveliest area in terms of where the
work is going on, nationally and inter¬
nationally, and any school concerned
with the management of libraries
should move in that direction."

Last year, the provost appointed a
new review committee to assess prog¬
ress on the 1983 recommendations.

With plans being formulated for the
renovation of Butler Library, where the
school is housed, such a review had
become even more pressing.

In January the committee, headed by

Dean Bagnall, issued its report. The
panel gave the school high marks in
general, describing two of its programs
—Rare Books and Special Collections,
and Conservation and Preservation—
as "unique" and stating that its library
"is generally regarded as the finest in
the country, perhaps in the world." It
acknowledged that the school had
expanded its master's degree program
from 36 to 48 points and credited Dean
Wedgeworth with introducing "a great
improvement in morale and sense of
community in the School."

But the panel also noted that for the
most part, the school had retained its
emphasis on professional education
and had not moved decisively toward
information science. Robert Wedge¬
worth, who has been dean of the school
for five years, later commented, "We
did exactly what the University asked
us to do. I received no specific instruc¬
tions, other than to come here, revital¬
ize the program, and push it to the
top."

Dean Wedgeworth and other Library
Service faculty also feel that informa¬
tion science is not a subject unto itself.
"Information Science and Systems" is
offered as a major in the school, and
according to associate professor Jessica
Gordon, "It is a profoundly interdisci¬
plinary field. It has in it components of
overlapping disciplines, ranging from
the sociology of communication and
cognitive psychology, all the way

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Columbia College Today

through certain aspects of computer
science. It's pretty thoroughly inte¬
grated into all aspects of the
curriculum."

When the Bagnall Committee report
was released in April, it was as an ap¬
pendix to a later report from the
provost. Dr. Cole's report framed the
issue in a series of sharp questions: "To
what extent is professional education,
in the absence of a strong scholarly ori¬
entation, an appropriate undertaking
for research universities? Do private 2
universities have a social obligation to 2
train professionals? What should pro- &
fessional schools contribute to the in- £
tellectual life of a university? Should ^
they be subsidized financially?" Else- <j
where in the report, he concluded, "If f
the School of Library Service is to con- 3
tinue at Columbia, the University must H
be prepared to invest additional §

resources." x

The Trustees' decision came in spite gj

signed the highest priority," the pro¬
vost warned in his report. Citing the
University's commitment to "new
fields of intellectual activity," he stated,
"The success of these investments is
measured not only by the benefits to
individual departments or programs—
such as biochemistry and computer
science—but also in the academic divi¬
dends that are shared by the entire Uni¬
versity. We have made decisions to re¬
build some fields, as we did in astron¬
omy, and we have decided to withdraw
from others, as we did in linguistics
and geography." Maintaining or
enhancing the Library School, he has
suggested, could only come at the cost
of greater priorities.

The Arts and Sciences, of which
Columbia College is a major part, has
been identified as one of those prior¬
ities. "It is clearly the core of the uni¬
versity in that without the Arts and
Sciences, there is no university," said
Martin Meisel, Vice President for Arts
and Sciences. "Without a law school, a
business school, a journalism school,
you can still have a university. But the
Arts and Sciences connects to every¬
thing."

Professor Meisel also said, "The Arts
and Sciences is going to cost more than
it generates"—which requires it to
draw resources from elsewhere—"and
I don't see why not. After all, that is
where knowledge is created."

Prominent among these costs is the

of vigorous opposition—from the Uni¬
versity Senate, which affirmed the
school's high standing and "important
educational function" at Columbia, and
from Dean Wedgeworth and his fac¬
ulty, which issued a strongly worded
29-page report in its own defense.

Dissent came from off campus as
well, in the pages of the Chronicle of
Higher Education, where several library
professionals put forth the school's
merits and potential. In a joint letter to
the Chronicle, Brooklyn congressman
Major R. Owens and Patricia W. Berger,
president of the American Library
Association, argued that Columbia is a
tax-exempt institution with an obliga¬
tion to serve the city and the nation,
and criticized the "view of the univer¬
sity as an elitist, inward-looking insti¬
tution, one concerned primarily with
its perceived stature." The rationaliza¬
tions for closing the Library School,
they wrote, "are more appropriate for a
statement to the board of directors of an
insolvent savings and loan association
than for a statement to an academic
community."

But by stressing that its goal is to
strengthen Columbia as a whole, the
administration has been casting its
rationale in academic terms. To survive
and flourish. Low Library has argued,
the University must inevitably make
hard choices in allocating its limited
resources.

"The failure to make choices will
erode the quality of all academic pro¬
grams, even those that have been as-

recruitment and retention of a super¬
lative faculty, especially in light of the
current and future wave of retirements.
"We have to compete for the greatest
faculty in the world. That competition
is becoming more intense and more
costly," Dr. Cole told CCT.

Although the decision to close Li¬
brary Service did not "weigh dollars
against academic purposes," in the
provost's words, finances are clearly a
consideration. The library school's
budget of $2.2 million is the smallest of
any Columbia division, according to
Alfonsina Rechichi, Director of Plan¬
ning and Fiscal Analysis, but it receives
the largest subsidy of any professional
school on the Morningside campus.
There has been some argument over
the University's accounting for com¬
mon costs, but the central administra¬
tion is holding firm.

"In effect," said Dr. Cole, "it's being
subsidized by the rest of the Univer¬
sity." In his report on the school, he
noted, "At Columbia, the financial in¬
dependence of professional schools is a
well-established principle" that became
general policy in 1982. "The School of
Library Service has been an exception
to thi9 policy for some time."

Physical space is possibly an even
hotter issue. According to the adminis¬
tration, the rooms that the school occu¬
pies on the fifth floor of Butler Library
must be given over to study and re¬
search facilities for the Arts and Sci¬
ences, including the College, as part of
the building's planned $60 million ren¬
ovation. Library Service faculty
respond that their school takes up only
five percent of Butler's total area. The
provost's office calculates a higher fig¬
ure. The differing computations point
up the increasingly contentious at¬
tempts to stake out turf on Columbia's
tightly confined urban campus.

For his part. Dean Wedgeworth has
argued that taking the Library School
out of Butler—whose original design
specifically included the school—
would not solve the University's library
problems in the long run. In a memo to
the Trustees' Educational Policy Com¬
mittee and the Senate Education Com¬
mittee, he wrote, "The central issue is
not what we will do about [the School of
Library Service] but how can we begin
to address the needs of the [Columbia
University Libraries] developed during
the years when our peer institutions
generally both built new undergradu¬
ate libraries and expanded their main

research facilities for the housing of
their growing collections, research and
consultation space for faculty and stu¬
dents, and new technological
capabilities."

The Trustees have authorized a
search to relocate the entire school, or
some of its units, at another institution.
Such action would not be unpreceden¬
ted; two years after it was founded.
Library Service left Columbia and
spent the next 37 years in Albany as the
New York State Library School. So far
there have been no offers to take the
school, but President Sovern hopes
that it will continue to exist in one form
or another.

"The important resources here for
the library profession can be preserved
and enhanced elsewhere," he said.
"Indeed, consolidation with another
strong program could create the best
library school in the world. And a suc¬
cessful combination could offer a mod¬
el to America's 3,500 colleges and
universities, whose uncoordinated
growth has given rise to overlapping
efforts in many fields."

TV. andJ.C.K.

A1 Paul steps down
after 30 years at CU

A1 Paul, who has seen both the heights
and the valleys as Columbia's Director
of Physical Education and Intercollegi¬
ate Athletics for the past 17 years, an¬
nounced in August that he will retire
from the University no later than the
end of the current academic year.

During Mr. Paul's tenure, the Univer¬
sity established the Barnard-Columbia
Athletic Consortium and rebuilt much
of the aging Baker Field complex, in¬
cluding the new Lawrence A. Wien
Stadium and the Columbia Soccer Sta¬
dium. The men's fencing team won the
NCAA championship three years in a
row; the men's soccer team won eight
Ivy titles in a row; men's tennis, swim¬
ming and wrestling rose from obscur¬
ity to success over several seasons, and
baseball and cross-country enjoyed the
only championships in their history.
Mr. Paul also presided over a tremen¬
dous growth in intramural, club and
recreational athletics on campus, and
earned a reputation as an unbending
enforcer of both the spirit and letter of
Ivy and NCAA regulations. He re¬
cruited a remarkable group of coaches,
including, to name a few. Dieter Ficken

in soccer, George Kolombotavitch and
Aladar Kogler in fencing, Ron Russo in
wrestling, and Jack Rohan '53, in his
return as basketball coach. Connie S.
Manniatty '43, chairman of the Presi¬
dent's University Advisory Committee
on Athletics at Columbia, praised Mr.
Paul for running "an extraordinarily
good program with devotion, consci¬
entiousness and meticulousness, and
with intense loyalty to the University."

Yet, to many Columbia partisans,
and at times, to Mr. Paul himself, the
high points of his career were oversha¬
dowed by the well-publicized agonies
of football, the school's most visible
program. At the height of the team's
disastrous 44-game losing streak,
which ended in 1988, the criticism of
Mr. Paul was loud and persistent. As a
former football player and coach him¬
self, it was particularly hard to bear.

A native of Baltimore, Mr. Paul was
an outstanding athlete at Western
Maryland University, and was lured
from Hofstra to the Columbia staff in
1960 as an assistant football coach
under Buff Donelli. In the following
season, the Lions shared the Ivy cham¬
pionship for the first and only time
since the league's round-robin sched¬
ule was formalized in 1956.

In 1968 he became Assistant Director
of Athletics and the next year Associate
Director. He was named to the top post

Athletic Director Al Paul

in 1974. He is the senior athletic director
in the Ivy League.

"I expect to consider my future plans
very carefully over the next year," com¬
mented Mr. Paul, who is 64. "I certainly
do not consider 'permanent retire¬
ment' one of my options."

A search committee is being formed

to nominate his successor. r „ „

y.c.A.

Looking like a million:
Hamilton is renovated

Even the best linoleum wears out even¬
tually. The dark red floors of Hamilton
Hall's classrooms, scuffed by millions of
student footsteps since they were laid in
1907, went to their reward this past sum¬
mer, and were replaced with off-white
vinyl tile with beige flecks, a small part of
the $3.2 mill ion renovation of the Col¬
lege's principal classroom and adminis¬
tration building.

The project was funded by a $2.6 mil¬
lion low-interest loan from the Depart¬
ment of Education, a $250,000 matching
gift from the Astor Foundation desig¬
nated for the renovation of the class¬
rooms, and $490,000 in other University
debt, part of which fulfilled the match¬
ing provision.

The work on Hamilton, which in¬
cludes a new heating and cooling system
and refurbished classrooms and public
areas, was begun in the summer of 1988,
but was interrupted when the College
ran out of money for the project. Thus,
for two years, the hallway outside the
College's Alumni Office in Hamilton's
basement had no ceiling, and visitors
gasped in awe at the tangle of serious
pipes, some of them sealed with quilted
aluminum foil and string, running over
their heads, and at the flimsy wooden
scaffolding that appeared to support the
whole building.

The new climate control system, more
efficient and easier to maintain than the
old one, replaces both the steam radi¬
ators and the room air conditioners
retrofitted into so many campus win¬
dows. According to the season, steam
(to heat water) or chilled water is piped
from the University's powerhouse
though the campus circulatory system to
each building's machine room, from
which water lines lead to each room's
fan-coil unit. This is a console containing
a long row of metal fins with a large
surface area, the capillaries of the sys¬
tem, into which the hot or cold water
flows, while a fan blows out the air thus

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Professor Maristella de P. torch and the late Professor Edgar R. torch '28

heated or cooled. Each room has a tem¬
perature control; there is also an overrid¬
ing energy management system.

The cooling system must wait for com¬
pletion of the University's new power¬
house and other campus projects, but
the heat will be on by mid-October. The
old steam radiators, rumored to have
miniature Cuban rhythm sections
trapped inside them, will never more be
heard in Hamilton.

More visible improvements have been
made to classrooms and public areas.

The classrooms have been repainted off-
white and the wood moldings and win¬
dow frames have been stained. The
rooms with the oldest lighting have new,
energy-efficient fluorescents. The hall¬
ways and lobby have been painted in
various restrained colors, and the cor¬
ridors above ground have received new
globe lighting fixtures in the style of the
original furnishings. A new bathroom,
accessible to wheelchairs, has been
added on the third floor.

College administrators dream of fur¬
ther improvements. Architects' plans for
reconfiguring the offices in Hamilton
have been on file for several years, and a
goal of $10 million is contemplated as
part of the University's forthcoming cap¬
ital campaign.

Hamilton Hall was the last building
designed for Columbia by Charles Follen
McKim of McKim, Mead and White.
Completed in 1907, it is eligible for land¬
mark status and comes under federal
and state historic preservation require¬
ments, and the renovations restore the
building to its approximate appearance
when new. Ironically, this also means
that most of its classrooms (excluding
some in the fourth floor wings, which
were added later) cannot be furnished
with movable chairs that could be
arranged in clusters for seminar-style
classes mandated by the core curricu¬
lum, initiated a dozen years after Hamil¬
ton Hall opened. Instead, the cast-iron
and wood fixed-tablet arm chairs bolted
to the floor have received new wooden
seats, arms and backs.

The requirements have permitted
some 10 percent of the chairs to be recast
with left-handed tablets. Provost
Jonathan Cole '64, himself a southpaw,
suggested this, having heard complaints
during his weekly lunches with stu¬
dents. But, says Pamela Paddock, who
directs the construction project, "There's
nothing we can do in the historic preser¬
vation requirements for 6'6" guys."

JR-

In Memoriam

The College recently mourned the
deaths of two distinguished scholars.

Edgar R. Lorch '28, Adrain Professor
Emeritus of Mathematics and former
chairman of the mathematics depart¬
ment, died on March 5 in Manhattan.
He was 82.

Professor Lorch's pioneering work in
modern mathematics theory included
research in the algebraization of mathe¬
matical analysis and its translation into
geometrical language. He was the
author of Spectral Theory (1962), Pre¬
calculus (1973), and Mathematics at
Columbia (1990).

Dr. Lorch was born in Switzerland
and graduated from the College summa
cum laude; he received his Ph.D. at
Columbia in 1933 and began teaching
two years later. A former scientific
adviser to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff,
he was chairman of the University
Seminars on Computers, Man and

Society, and co-founded the Center for
International Scholarly Exchange at
Barnard-Columbia with his wife. Pro¬
fessor of Italian Maristella de Panizza
Lorch.

Larkin H. Farinholt, Professor of
Chemistry and Director of Columbia's
chemical laboratories from 1947 to 1960,
died in Baltimore on July 12 at the age of
84.

A Rhodes scholar. Dr. Farinholt
received his Ph.D. from Oxford in 1931
and taught at Washington and Lee
before coming to Columbia in 1947. He
participated in the Antarctic Treaty
Conference and, during the McCarthy
period, vigorously defended scientists
whose loyalty had been questioned.

From 1951 to 1952 he took a leave of
absence to serve as a science attache
with the U.S. Embassy in London; he
also served as deputy science advisor
to the U.S. Secretary of State from 1958
to 1960.

In Lumine Tuo: Faculty research and honors

• Summit: Koji Nakanishi, the Cen¬
tennial Frofessor of Chemistry, has
been given the Japan Academy's
Imperial Award, the highest honor
that a Japanese scholar can receive.
Dr. Nakanishi accepted the award in
June from Emperor Akihito in
Tokyo.

Dr. Nakanishi, an internationally
recognized organic chemist, special¬
izes in the development of tech¬
niques to isolate certain biologically
produced chemicals that are difficult
to study because they exist in min¬
ute quantities. He has published
more than 500 papers and has col¬
laborated on or edited seven books.

• Guggenheim Fellows: Four of the
143 scholars chosen in 1990 to
receive fellowships for a year's con¬
tinuous work from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
are College faculty.

The scholars and their projects are
Vidya Dehejia, Associate Professor
of Art History and Archaeology: dis¬
course in early Buddhist art;

Andrew Delbanco, Professor of
English and Comparative Liter¬
ature: representations of evil in
American culture; Michael F.
Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Pro¬
fessor of Jewish History: an intellec¬
tual biography of the young
Vladimir Jabotinsky; and Gauri Vis-
wanathan. Assistant Professor of
English and Comparative Liter¬
ature: conversion and cultural
change in British colonialism.

• Honored: Professor of History
Istvan Deak was elected to the Hun¬
garian Academy of Sciences in
Budapest last May. He was one of
two scholars chosen in the philoso¬
phy and history section. Professor
Deak noted happily that all of the
members elected this time were
expatriate Hungarians, a reflection
of what he called "the dramatic
changes in my former homeland."

Professor Deak teaches the ad¬
vanced College course in European
politics and society since 1919. His
latest book is Beyond Nationalism: A
Social and Political History of the
Habsburg Officer Corps: 1848-1918,
published by Oxford University
Press.

Koji Nakanishi

• Older Than You Thought:
Columbia geologists studying
ancient coral reefs near Barbados
have challenged the accuracy of car¬
bon-14 dating, the most widely used
method of calculating the age of
ancient objects. Carbon-14 dating,
which measures the traces of a natu¬
ral isotope with a known decay rate,
has been used for decades by
archaeologists, anthropologists and
earth scientists. The Columbia team
used a new, highly reliable method
called thorium-barium dating to
study fossil corals, and found that
ages were significantly older than
carbon-14 readings of the same spec¬
imens. The finding may lead to dra¬
matic revisions in the dating of such
phenomena as the migration of
early human populations, the
occurrence of ice ages and sea-level
changes, and the appearance of
plant and animal species.

The researchers— Edouard Bard,
Richard Fairbanks, Bruno Hamelin
and Alan Zindler of Columbia's
Lamont-Doherty Geological Obser¬
vatory—shared their findings at a
joint convention of the American
Geophysical Union and the Miner-
alogical Society of America in Bal¬
timore on June 1.

• Street Smart: Neighborhood Tokyo,
by Associate Professor of Anthro¬
pology Theodore C. Bestor, has
received an Arisawa Memorial
Award from the American Associa¬
tion of University Presses for schol¬
arship on Japanese culture. Profes¬

Michael F. Stanislawski

sor Bestor's study is an ethnography
of daily life and community ties in a
typical Tokyo district. The author is
former program director for Jap¬
anese and Korean studies at the
Social Sciences Research Council.

• Service: Rabbi Michael Plaley,
director of the Earl Hall Center,
received the Minnie Nathanson
Award for Exceptional Service to
College Students from the B'nai
B'rith Hillel/Jewish Association for
College Youth on June 12. The asso¬
ciation works to strengthen the
identity of Jewish students at New
York area colleges by encouraging
participation in Judaic traditions
and lifestyles.

Rabbi Paley, who previously
served as the Jewish chaplain at
Dartmouth, received the William
Haber Award for Hillel Programs of
Quality in 1986 and was the found¬
ing executive director of the Edgar
M. Bronfman Youth Fellowships in
Israel in 1987.

• Degeneration: Two University
scientists have identified defective
genes in roundworms that cause
mature, functioning nerve cells to
die. The research, conducted by
Associate Professor of Biological Sci¬
ences Martin Chalfie and post-doc¬
toral fellow Eve Wolinsky, offers an
animal model for the study of neu-
rodegenerative diseases like Hun¬
tington's, Lou Gehrig's, and
Alzheimer's diseases, in which such
late-occuring nerve cell death takes

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place. Ultimately, the research may
lead to the identification of similar
human genes and possibly to new
diagnostics and drugs for the
diseases.

The scientists' findings were
reported in the May 31 issue of
Nature.

• Molecular Pathways: Using an
ultra-high vacuum system and other
sophisticated equipment, Columbia
chemists are using metal surfaces to
study the precise pathways taken by
molecules during short-lived inter¬
mediate stages of chemical
reactions.

Assistant Professor Brian E. Bent
led a team that studied the reactions
of hydrocarbon chains attached to
copper surfaces. In one reaction,
which can produce various hydro¬
carbon gases and is commonly used
in refining gasoline, the chemists
found that, contrary to expectation,
the second carbon atom of the chain
was always the most reactive, no
matter how many atoms of carbon
were in the chain, although other

carbon atoms were nearer the cop¬
per surface, which catalyzes the
reaction. The vacuum device, which
produces a pressure a trillion times
lower than our atmosphere, is used
to remove oxygen that would other¬
wise react with the metal surfaces.

The research team, which pre¬
sented its findings at the national
meeting of the American Chemical
Society on April 25 in Boston,
included graduate students Chao-
Ming Chiang and Cynthia Jenks,
and Laura Smoliar '90, who is now a
graduate student in chemistry at the
University of California at Berkeley.

• Compendium: A four-volume
Encyclopedia of African American Cul¬
ture and History from 1619 to the pre¬
sent is being created at Columbia
University under the auspices of its
Center for American Culture Stud¬
ies. Charles V. Hamilton, the Wal¬
lace S. Sayre Professor of Govern¬
ment, is editor for the project, and
Jack Salzman, the center's director,
is associate editor.

The encyclopedia will be de¬

signed for the general public as
well as college and high school stu¬
dents, and will be published by
Macmillan Publishing Company.
The eight members of the editorial
board, and their areas of expertise,
are: Marcellus Blount of Columbia,
literature; Raelinda Brown of the
University of California at Irvine,
music; Margo Jefferson of N. Y.U.,
entertainment; Kenneth R. Man¬
ning of M. I. T., history of science
and technology; Albert J. Raboteau
of Princeton, religion; Jeffrey T.
Sammons of N.Y.U., sports; Mar¬
garet Washington of Cornell, his¬
tory; and Beryl J. Wright of the
Newark Museum, visual arts.

"The encyclopedia will provide
the bedrock of basic factual informa¬
tion following in a tradition envi¬
sioned by W.E.B. DuBois—an
encyclopedia of Africans and the
diaspora," commented Professor
Hamilton. "I'm honored that our
institution has taken up this project
and the challenge that Dr. DuBois
gave."

Joseph P. DiMaggio, LL. D., was feted at Commencement this year, along with Barnard trustee chairman Helene L. Kaplan (right), Professor Milton
Handler '24 and four other honorary degree recipients. The Yankee Clipper's grace and decency were cited as an inspiration to millions.

Fear and frustration in Colombia:
The other side of the narco-war

The cocaine trade is only part of the problem for a society in a state of moral decomposition.

by Jimmy Weiskopf '63

F rom his 26th-story apartment in
downtown Bogota, Ian looks
down over the barrio La Paz through a
pair of high-powered binoculars. Ian is
an English photojournalist and La Paz
is a neighborhoood of red brick houses
that have invaded the foothills of the
big mountain wall that forms the east¬
ern boundary of the city.

"Do you know," he says, in his super¬
limey accent, "that I saw the first mur¬
der of the year. Three o'clock in the
morning. New Year's Day, right...
there. Have a look yourself." And so.

while his wife serves tea and my kids
play with Ian's pet rabbits, we spend
the afternoon looking through the bin¬
oculars as Ian tells me about the killing,
extortion, and police and gang brutal¬
ity that he sees through his window.
He's a nice guy, but the visit leaves me
with a bad taste, a feeling that for the
many people, Colombians or foreign¬
ers, who are not directly touched by the
violence here, the current narco-war is
a kind of spectator sport. Not that I
blame them. In a country where 99 per¬
cent of murders go unpunished, a culti¬

vated indifference to injustice is a
simple reflex of survival. As Enrique
Santos Calderon, the editor of Bogota's
El Tiempo newspaper, points out, the
mood at the moment is one of "fear,
anger and frustration."

Outwardly, Bogota is one of the calm¬
est cities I have known, and foreign
visitors who arrive here expecting

Above: Government troops in front of
Colombia's Palace of Justice, seat of the country's
Supreme Court, during the November 1985
attack of the leftist M-19 guerrilla faction.

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The violence in Colombia is about land, oil ,
cattle, bananas, emeralds and gold as well
as cocaine.

Beirut are pleasantly surprised to find
that offices, shops and factories are
working normally, that there is a boom
in the construction of homes, office
buildings and commercial centers, that
restaurants and discotheques are full of
apparently carefree customers. In¬
deed, on a typical Bogota day, when the
sun is shining, the weather crisp, and
the street full of some of South Amer¬
ica's most elegant, exotic and beautiful
women, the war seems remote. Never¬
theless, the signs that something is not
quite right are there—in the way your
bags are searched upon entering public
buildings, in the unexpected roadblock
as you leave for the countryside on a
Sunday morning, in the army patrol
that suddenly appears in an otherwise
peaceful downtown street.

Politics permeates every conversa¬
tion, but faced with the hopelessness of
achieving peace, most people bury
themselves in private concerns. The
rumba reigns as the situation worsens,
and friends gather to sort out the coun¬
try's problems over a bottle of aguar¬
diente, but by morning all that remains
of their hopes is a hangover and more
bad news on the television. As the in¬
discriminate violence mounts up, it be¬
comes harder and harder to convince
oneself that the current crisis is, like a
car accident or plane crash, something
that only happens to other people.

I remember the time when I visited a
friend's apartment in my neighbor¬
hood one evening, and the TV news
presented the massacre of 25 workers
on a banana plantation in Uraba. It hit
me as I came in: a shot of a woman
leaning against the doorpost of a farm¬
house, weeping, then pausing, and
then sobbing uncontrollably again;
then, a row of coffins spread out neatly
in the adjoining farmyard; finally, some
khaki-clad soldiers marching along a
road lined by rich tropical vegetation.
The fadeout to a deodorant commercial
brought me back to the other reality, of
our daily lives in the city, and made it
seem that the murders had occurred in
another country—El Salvador, perhaps
—and had nothing to do with us. I
noticed that no one in the apartment
paid much attention to the news. My
friend's daughter carried on studying
for her high school exams, and I joined
my friend in his room, where we lis¬
tened to rock music.

It grieves me to write about all this
because I love the country and have

spent years trying to correct the many
stereotypes that exist about Colombia
in the rest of the world. After ten years
of full-time residence, during which
my family and I have become so Co-
lombianized that we seldom speak
English, I cannot imagine living else¬
where. But I sometimes wonder what
kind of future my children will face in a
society where judges get murdered for
sentencing criminals and journalists
for writing about them. And beggars
for being defenseless, and homosex¬
uals for menacing a certain type of psy¬
chotic mentality.

On an average day in Colombia, two
policemen are killed and there are three
kidnappings—ransom and extortion
now constitute a multimillion-dollar in¬
dustry. There is a massacre (more than
five victims) weekly and the number of
journalists killed during the past few
years must be a world record. Thou¬
sands of ordinary people have been
gunned down, tortured, or forced into
hiding or exile because they have re¬
fused to be bullied by armed extremists
or were thought to be antisocial ele¬
ments of which the country needs to be
"cleansed." A nonviolent left-wing
party, which won five percent of the
votes in the previous elections, has
been rendered powerless because of
the systematic elimination of 1,300 of
its leaders. Three presidential candi¬
dates have been killed, another badly
wounded, and the number of judges,
prosecutors, senators, congressmen,
mayors and government officials mur¬
dered recently runs into the hundreds.

Some of the remoter parts of the
countryside have been virtually taken
over by private armies, while in others,
conflicts between the army and the
guerrillas and the extreme right have
been so acute that many thousands of
campesinos caught in the cross fire have
fled rather than remain on their farms.
There are marginal neighborhoods in
Medellin which are ruled by teenage
gangs or death squads.

The case of the parents who were
murdered for exposing corruption in a
school P.T. A. is not untypical. Indeed,
the moral decomposition of Colombia
is so extreme and the use of "private

justice" so widespread that the coun¬
try's present crisis presages what may
be the final world war—not a nuclear
holocaust but an old-fashioned Dark
Ages breakdown of authority, a war of
all against all. Some of the signs are
already there, in the bankers who get
away with multimillion-dollar frauds,
in the murder of the head of a national
park, in the releasing of known assas¬
sins for "lack of proof," in the murder
and torture of priests and an arch¬
bishop. Even the football champion¬
ship was suspended because disgrun¬
tled bettors murdered a referee.

T he cocaine trade isn't so much a
cause of the present crisis as an
accelerating factor in a process of social
deterioration which has its roots in the
brutalities of the Spanish conquest, in
the anarchy of the War of Indepen¬
dence and Colombia's long series of
civil wars, the rapid urbanization of the
past forty years, the unresolved contra¬
dictions of its somewhat artificial two-
party system, its widespread corrup¬
tion, and many other factors. Looking
back now, it is hard to see how the pres¬
ent chaos could have been avoided,
given the pressure of so much easy
money on a relatively poor and politi¬
cally immature country that needed
hard cash. Was the morality of the Eng¬
lish any loftier when they forced the
sale of opium upon China?

How many people realize that in 1984
Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder (now in a
U.S. prison) and other drug barons met
with a former president of Colombia
and offered to pay the country's foreign
debt in return for an amnesty that
would have allowed the government to
channel cocaine profits into industrial
development? The proposal was never
followed up, but coming as it did at a
time when the Belisario government
was on the point of concluding an
amnesty with guerrillas, it demon¬
strates that as recently as a few years
ago there existed a political climate
which might have avoided much of the
subsequent violence.

Since that time, the chances of a
negotiated peace have become ever
more remote. The government is now

at war with both the guerrillas and the
"mafia"—as the drug cartel is known in
Colombia. Meanwhile, the mafia itself,
which had entered into a strategic alli¬
ance with the left in the early 80's, has
both turned rightward and divided into
feuding factions. In the past few years,
increasingly militant cattle ranchers,
landowners, industrialists and other
members of the elite, who have suf¬
fered from extortion and kidnapping at
the hands of the guerrillas, have cre¬
ated new armed fronts with the help of
the mafia. These are made up of paid
assassins, foreign mercenary advisers
and private armies of campesinos who
have become disenchanted with the
guerrillas—and they have waged all-
out war upon left-wing groups or any¬
one thought to be sympathetic to them.
The guerrillas have committed atroci¬
ties as well, and it appears that both left
and right have spawned a militant hard
core which is often beyond the control
of their nominal leaders. Mass graves
have been discovered on a number of
mafia-owned properties, and literally
hundreds of campesinos have disap¬
peared without trace.

D espite the terrible violence of the
past few years, the idea of nego¬
tiating with subversive groups has
never been abandoned in Colombia.
Just this year the M-19 guerrilla move¬
ment—which had launched an attack
on the Justice Palace in 1985 which
resulted in the death of 11 high court
judges—became the first such group to
surrender its weapons and become a
legal political party. Moreover, when
former President Barco's sister-in-law
and the son of his top adviser were
kidnapped recently, the unofficial
negotiations which led to their release
brought forth an offer (by two former
presidents and a Roman Catholic car¬
dinal) of a "less rigorous treatment" of
the mafia in return for their abandoning
the cocaine trade—a gesture which, in
turn, led the mafia to acknowledge the
"victory" of the government.

Of course, many people doubt the
sincerity of the mafia's peace overtures,
since they have alternated with bomb
attacks and the killing of policemen,
but three of the candidates in the recent
presidential elections supported the
key demand of the mafia—the ending
of extradition—and said that its peace
proposals shouldn't be discarded until
they had been really tested.

The attitude of these "soft-liners"

reflects the widespread skepticism in
Colombia about an international cru¬
sade against the cocaine traffic. There is
a growing feeling that the decriminal¬
ization of the trade may be the only way
to take it out of the hands of criminals.
They argue that the issue is an eco¬
nomic one and that it is unrealistic to
expect Colombia to stop selling cocaine
as long as its raw material exports do
not receive a fair international price,
foreign debt payments cripple its econ¬
omy and the U.S. restricts the import of
manufactured goods. Presidential can¬
didate Alvaro Gomez has said that the
legalization of cocaine in the consum¬
ing countries is the only way to reduce
the political power of the mafia in
Colombia.

M any Colombians are also resent¬
ful that their country gets blamed
for a trade in which most profits remain
in foreign hands. According to a book
recently written by a Colombian dealer,
A Narco Confesses and Accuses, the ini¬
tiative for opening up overseas markets
was taken by foreigners who came to
Colombia and sought out local collab¬
orators; Carlos Lehder himself says that
South American traffickers are a crea¬
ture of North American demand. It is
naive to think that a small number of
Colombians, with few contacts in the
consuming countries, could have erect¬
ed such an expensive and sophisticated
distribution network on their own.

The true cost of the basic material—
coca leaves—is so low that the peasants

Victims: A policeman examines the remains of some of the seven people who were killed when a bus
exploded in the north ofBogotd in October, 1989. According to mayor Andres Pastrana, the blast was
caused by mechanical failure, but police are still investigating whether a bomb was involved.

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of Bolivia, Peru and Colombia who
grow them would probably earn more
from coffee—if overseas prices were
higher. For the rest, the chemicals used
to process cocaine, the helicopters,
planes and boats used to transport it,
and the profits made by a whole chain
of middlemen in the consuming coun¬
tries account for a good part of the final
street price—a fact admitted to by the
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency itself
—and all represent a capital deficit for
the producing nations. Possibly the
most profitable of all is the sale of arms
to the mafia, to the army and police of
the producing nations, and to the sub¬
versive groups which have come into
being as a result of the present crisis.

T he violence in Colombia is about
land, oil, cattle, bananas, emeralds,
gold and other resources as well as co¬
caine. The victims of this other violence
command little sympathy in the devel¬
oped countries, whose only apparent
interest in Colombia is to use it as a
scapegoat for their own drug problem.
The disorder in the banana region of
the Gulf of Uraba, for example, gets
little international press attention, even
though the violence there has been as
grisly as anything in Medellin. The
"dirty war" which we are witnessing
now in Colombia is an extension of
what has already happened in other
Latin American countries, namely, an
attempt by a variety of armed extrem¬
ists to smash direct opposition and
reduce the rest of the population to in¬
difference. In the long run the effect
will be the same as elsewhere: the si¬
lencing or exile of those who protest
injustices, the mass of the country ter¬
rorized and impotent, the middle class
with its head stuck in the sand, and an
oligarchy with foreign bank accounts
and a minimal commitment to its native
country.

The coke trade could not be eradi¬
cated by military means without caus¬
ing a full-scale civil war that would
seriously diminish civil liberties and
eliminate a broad band of dissident
opinions. For those who take the stable
democratic traditions of the developed
countries for granted, the idea of a
truce with armed enemies seems crazy,
but many Colombians now believe it
may be the only way to stop the blood¬
shed. Furthermore, they argue that
extradition is an affront to the country's
sovereignty and that, if it has any valid¬
ity at all, it should work both ways and

Evert the football cham¬
pionship was suspended
because disgruntled bettors
murdered a referee.

Colombia should have the right to
extradite drug dealers from the con¬
suming countries as well as foreign
mercenaries and arms dealers.

The recent Cartagena summit dem¬
onstrated the skepticism of Colombia,
Bolivia and Peru about the elimination
of coca production as long as U.S. pol¬
icies discriminate against their econo¬
mies. At the same time, the extreme
security measures at the summit, the
lack of U.S. guarantees on coffee and
import quotas, and the stepping up of
U.S. aerial and naval surveillance of
Colombia provoked fears that the drug
war is a pretext for increased inter¬
ference in Colombia's internal affairs.

That a compromise with the mafia
can even be considered by respectable
political figures indicates that the atti¬

tudes of those directly affected by the
narco-war are quite different from
those who would like to direct it from
afar. Such a truce would probably have
to include the guerrillas, the paramili¬
taries and other illegal armed groups.
Given the polarization of the present
conflicts, it is unlikely that peace would
be lasting.

But the soft-liners believe that such
an agreement might localize the fight¬
ing until something better comes
along. In any case, they reason, the
alternative would be far worse, namely
an all-out war, with the tacit or outright
participation of foreign governments,
to eliminate the cocaine trade. The
likely result, they say, would be the
final polarization of what is now a
many-sided conflict, a second Viet¬
nam, which would spread across Co¬
lombia's borders. As Enrique Santos
Calderon has said, "The blood which
has been spilled is the result of a war
which does not depend, finally, upon
our own country, but is the product of a
dirty, multimillion-dollar, multina¬
tional business that originates and is
supported beyond the frontiers of our
nation."

About the author: Jimmy Weiskopf'63, a former Kellett Fellow, is a freelance journalist
and translator living in Bogota, Colombia. His work has recently appeared in National
Development, America Economia, Time, ElTiempoaraf other publications.

Taking Daffy seriously:

The Hollywood cartoon as Art

Created as popular entertainment , consigned to children's television,
the Hollywood cartoon was more than cats chasing mice.

by Jessica Raimi

Above: Daffy doesn't realize
that Thelma is possessed
by an evil spirit in The
Duxorcist, Daffy's first
theatrical short in 20 years.
© 1987 by Warner Bros. Inc.

rt is serious business, and abstract ex¬
pressionism is no laughing matter,"
said one artist in 1973. Any visitor to a modern
art museum knows that a gallery of Pollocks or
Rothkos is as serious as a church, the silence
broken only by footsteps and the tinny whis¬
per of a recorded tour.

The same values of line, form, color and pat¬
tern that animate the unfunny world of abstract
expressionism can also be found in the ani¬
mated cartoon. But here the formal qualities
may be adulterated with character, setting,
plot, music, and (lest this add up to opera)
comedy—to the point where the viewer might
forget that he's in the presence of art.

The Hollywood cartoon, invented to serve as
a lagniappe in a program that might include a
newsreel, a travelogue or short subject, and a
feature or two, enjoyed a golden age from
roughly 1925 to 1955. While the New York
painters were moving to the beat of expression¬
ism, surrealism and abstract expressionism,
the artists of the Hollywood cartoon—notably
the Disney animators, and the Warner Brothers
directors Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng, Tex
Avery and Chuck Jones—were also redefining

drawing and painting, but with West Coast in¬
gredients: the influence of the movie comedi¬
ans, and the technology of movies themselves.

To appreciate the graphic elements of the
Hollywood cartoons, one must forgive them
their origins as popular culture, something the
Whitney Museum of American Art managed
to do a decade ago when it engaged Greg Ford
'71, a critic and historian of the medium, to cur¬
ate a lavish retrospective of the art of the Dis¬
ney animators. The exhibit included sketches,
pencil roughs, cels (the paintings on acetate—
celluloid, in the early days—that are photo¬
graphed to make the film), storyboards, pup¬
pet models and vintage equipment, as well as
films.

It was "a very brave show," recalls the art
critic Arthur Danto, Johnsonian Professor of
Philosophy. "I was overwhelmed by the genius
of those animators—like Renaissance masters.
What an astonishing bestowal of gifts those
guys had!" But, he says, "I think it'll take some
kind of aesthetic revolution to have people con¬
sider something both funny and art. People
want art to be edifying, like church—it's not
useful, so it better be serious."

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The animators. Professor Danto says, had "a
classical task—to draw motion convincingly.
Until animation, people implied movement
but couldn't draw motion. The technology
wasn't there." Animation, therefore, "was a
new moment in the history of draftsmanship.
Leonardo would have loved to do something
like that. He draws water coming out of spouts,
and horses moving across a field." Certainly da
Vinci was the kind of fellow who might have
rigged up an animation stand in the garage, as
Walt Disney did.

L ike most theatrical productions, the Holly¬
wood cartoons required the collaboration
of dozens of people, from the writers and di¬
rectors who came up with the ideas, to the
animators (it could take as long as 15 years to
become a senior animator at Disney), assistant
animators, in-betweeners, inkers, painters,
cameramen, composers, musicians, sound ef¬
fects men and actors. A fully animated cartoon
requires 12 to 24 different frames of film per
second. A six-minute cartoon contains more
than 5,000 frames, each one consisting of one
or more cels photographed over a background
painting—a mountain of draftsmanship. For
maximum economy, the film is frequently
planned frame by frame before it is drawn,
with the music recorded first and the visuals
scored to it.

The technique of synchronizing sound and
image—invented for the first widely seen
sound cartoon, Disney's 1928 Steamboat Willie —
is accomplished by timing a metronome beat to
multiples of Vm of a second. It gives the ani¬
mated film one of its principal virtues: the
power to render music visually. It is the power
of dance, and the Hollywood cartoon charac¬
ters do a good deal of dancing, with the perfect
musicality of Maya Plisetskaya or Gregory
Hines—Betty Boop's sinuous bumps and
grinds; Bugs and Daffy's soft-shoe routines
when they are called upon to be vaudeville
entertainers; the ballet of the hippopotami in
Fantasia.

From this late-century vantage point, it is
easier to argue that the Hollywood cartoons are
Art. But at the time they were made, they were
not thought of as art, nor were the feature films
they accompanied. Although Walt Disney
made one bid for artistic respectability with
Fantasia , using music by Beethoven, Tchaikov¬
sky and Stravinsky, the film was unpopular
when first released in 1940, and Disney did not
attempt to be highbrow again. He later lost in¬
terest altogether in animation, preferring to
exercise his passion for total creative control
first in live-action films and ultimately in build¬
ing an artificial world. (Fantasia found its best
audience in the late 60's, when it came to be
appreciated as psychedelic kitsch; Disney did
not live to know that.)

For their part, the Warners' artists had no
high-art pretensions, and choreographed to
popular music, as did Max and Dave Fleischer,
who created Betty Boop and Popeye. (They
worked in New York, but competed with the
Hollywood studios for their audience and em¬
ployed some of the same artists.)

The Fleischers gave Cab Calloway's voice
and dancing to the character of a ghost in two
Betty Boop cartoons. At Warners', Freleng's
Clean Pastures featured caricatures of Louis
Armstrong, Fats Waller and other black artists,
and Clampett's Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs,
made five years after Disney's 1937 feature,
knocked the four corners off Disney's fairy
tale. Carl Stalling's scores for Warners' are
filled with musical puns using the names of
popular tunes, of which he knew hundreds,
having been a movie-house organist during
the silent era. When Bugs Bunny was turned
loose on the classical composers—Liszt in
Rhapsody Rabbit, Rossini in Rabbit of Seville and
Wagner in What's Opera, Doc? —it was as much
to bury them as praise them.

"People want art
to be edifying,
like church —
it's not useful,
so it better be
serious."

—Professor
Arthur Danto

W hen the cinema started losing its audi¬
ence to television during the 1950's, the
studios found cartoon shorts uneconomical to
produce—by the time Disney stopped making
them in the 1950's, his cost for a seven-minute
cartoon had grown to $100,000. When MGM
closed its division in 1957, William Hanna and
Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry,
turned to the less expensive limited animation,
which contains many fewer drawings and con¬
sequently less movement, creating the Flint-
stones and Yogi Bear for television. Warner
Brothers closed their animation division in
1963. Much of the existing oeuvre was relegated
to television, where Popeye, Bugs and the rest
have since provided generations of parents
with hours of Saturday morning sleep.

But the cartoon artists had not made their
movies especially for children, as is evident
from Betty Boop's sexual adventures, or the
grotesque punishments Avery's creatures suf¬
fer, such as drinking a potion that makes them
grow thousands of times larger (King-Size Ca¬
nary), or the psychological violence depicted
by Jones, which reached its ultimate expression
in the Road Runner cartoons, where the coyote
is the victim of nothing but his own obsession.

Nor were they making movies particularly
for adults. Chuck Jones, who created the Road
Runner and directed the best-known versions
of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, recalls in his
autobiography, Chuck Amuck, "We were not
allowed to preview our films, nor thankfully
were there any such idiocies as demographics
or Nielsen ratings. Just like Chaplin, Keaton,
and Lloyd before us... we made pictures for
ourselves, believing with childlike innocence

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Greg Ford '71:

Bringing the neurotic duck out of retirement

G reg Ford has worked for twenty years to
get the Hollywood cartoons taken seri¬
ously. The curator of the 1981 Disney exhibit at
the Whitney programmer of cartoon festivals at
the Museum of Modern Art and other venues
(including the Thalia, the now-defunct revival
house that nourished several generations of Co¬
lumbia film enthusiasts), he knows the Warners'
catalog as well as anyone. The director Chuck
Jones has for years referred questions about
what gag occurred in which of his hundreds of
cartoons to Mr. Ford.

"Greg is among the first wave of animation
scholars who documented what up to then had
not been known—who made the films, when,
how, which were the good ones, why," says
Leonard Maltin, film correspondent for televi¬
sion's Entertainment Tonight and author of Of Mice
and Magic: A History of American Animated Car¬
toons. The cartoon festival Mr. Ford programmed
at the New York Cultural Center in 1974 was,
says Mr. Maltin, "groundbreaking—he man¬
aged to find prints of films that hadn't been put
onto a screen in years, and abstracted from them
themes and directorial styles."

Lately, Mr. Ford has turned from studying
cartoons to making them, writing and directing
for Warner Brothers. With Terry Lennon, a for¬
mer Warners' animator, he has made compila¬
tions—scenes from old cartoons strung together
with new footage—such as Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle
of the Music Video Stars and Bugs Bunny's Wild
World of Sports, for television and theater. In con¬
nection with Bugs's semicentennial this year, he
has also worked on commercials and television

Greg Ford created the first Daffy Duck cartoons in twenty
years, in collaboration with Terry Lennon at Warner Broth¬
ers, which had stopped making theatrical cartoon shorts in
the 1960's. "A generation of animators was skipped," says
Mr. Ford, who used a few old-timers and many young ani¬
mators for his films. "In the80's, it was common to see
someone 180 years old working next to someone who's
three."

specials, and written lines for a Bugs doll to say
when a string in his neck was pulled. "A low
point in my life," says Mr. Ford. "We tried to
throw in some odd ones just to see if we could
get away with it. I'm glad it's over."

Most recently, he persuaded Warner Brothers
to produce several new Daffy Duck cartoons,
the first in twenty years. One new production,
Night of the Living Duck, a six-minute theatrical
short, opened the New York Film Festival in 1988.

Mr. Ford describes Night, which was not wide¬
ly distributed, with affection. It begins with
Daffy in his bedroom, reading a horror comic.
"He turns ahead to find out what happens at the
end, and it says, 'Continued in next issue.' He
goes crazy looking for the next issue—then a
clock lands on his head and it turns into dream
sequence. He's pushed onstage in a nightclub
for old movie monsters. The cartoon becomes
completely silent. Daffy says, 'Gee, tough audi¬
ence,' but then he can't speak—so he sprays Eau
de Torme into his mouth." Then, in Mel Torme's
voice. Daffy sings a ballad called "Monsters Lead
Such Interesting Lives." Mr. Ford wrote the lyr¬
ics and persuaded Mr. Torme to record the song,
though it put Mr. Ford in the unenviable posi¬
tion of having to sing on a demo for the Velvet
Fog. (In the cartoon Daffy's speaking voice be¬
longs to Mel Blanc, in one of his last perform¬
ances before his death in 1989.)

During production, there was controversy
over the nightclub scene, says Mr. Ford. "There's
a character from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in
the audience, and he takes the chainsaw and
carves up his dinner with it, while Daffy sings,
'They suck your brains, they eat your remains,
they slice you up with little forks and knives...'
The studio sort of objected to it. It set a bad ex¬
ample for kids—as though kids had chainsaws
at the dinner table! But this is a good example of
how to use censorship to your advantage. We
flashed a title under it saying, 'Kids: Don't try
this at home.'"

G rowing up in Rochester, N.Y., Mr. Ford
began making cartoons in the fourth
grade, producing Mr. Goody's Car Ride, Mr.
Goody on the Moon and other titles, which he
drew on paper and shot in 8mm. He also drew
flip-books, which he does to this day. In high
school, he spent much of his time watching
movies on television, seeing classic films at
area colleges, and working as a movie usher.

He was reading Cahiers du Cinema and Film
Comment and trying to write film criticism. He
also managed to edit the literary maga¬
zine and sing in the glee club.

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that if we laughed at and with each other, others
perhaps would follow."

A s a critic and curator, Greg Ford has long
argued that serious attention should be
paid to the Hollywood cartoonists. (Mr. Ford's
career is detailed in the accompanying article.)
Prior to the Disney show at the Whitney, he
programmed a series of cartoon festivals at the
Museum of Modern Art in the late 70's, and has
presented many other festivals at other venues.

He prefers the Warners' oeuvre to Disney's,
partly because he is intrigued by the theatrical
convention of self-consciousness. The Warn¬
ers' characters were often aware that they were
in a cartoon, as in Jones's Duck Amuck, in which
an unseen animator torments Daffy by dress¬
ing him as a farmer and then giving him a back¬
ground of the North Pole, turning off the
sound, even erasing him. The animator, of
course, turns out to be Bugs.

"Warners' traded on a shared awareness
with the audience," he says. "They incorpo¬
rated pop culture of their own time, and the
cartoons age better. Disney presents a closed
world. He was self-consciously mythological,
so his cartoons dated themselves, though that's
the opposite of what he was trying to do. I like
Disney's stuff until the strike, although the
animation was technically better afterwards."
(Disney's workers struck for two months in
1941, at a time when the studio had just moved
to larger quarters and begun to change from a
workshop into a factory.) "In the earlier films
you can see the struggle with the medium. Not
coincidentally, Warners' cartoons became ex¬
tremely interesting right after the Disney
strike."

Warners' was a salon des refuses in more ways
than one, says Mr. Ford: At the Disney studio,
"It's an Aryan world after all—he didn't hire
blacks or Jews or women." Women did work in
Disney's shop but almost exclusively as inkers
and painters, and the Jewish artists went to
Warners': producer Leon Schlesinger, director
Friz Freleng, and Mel Blanc, who did the voices
of all the Warners' characters except Elmer
Fudd. "Daffy's sort of Yiddish," says Mr. Ford,
"though Sylvester is gentile. Daffy's definitely
a schlemiel-type duck."

Walt Disney, at least in the early days, was
attentive to every detail of cartoon production
—his animators hid their unfinished work
when they went home, for he was known to
have retrieved drawings from the wastebasket
and cautioned the artists to quit throwing out
the good stuff—and while he encouraged crea¬
tivity, all his productions bore his name and
sensibility.

Things were quite opposite in the heyday of
"Termite Terrace," as the animators called War¬
ners' cartoon division. Chuck Jones writes that

Harry Warner once took the cartoonists to
lunch, where he "set the tone of our day in
court by observing that he had no idea where
our cartoon division was, and added, 'The only
thing I know is that we make Mickey Mouse.'
We were proud to hear that and assured him
that we would continue to keep Mickey at the
top of his popularity."

The cartoonists were just as glad to be left
alone, and they had the durable revenge of art:
they borrowed the lisp and the "absolute belief
that the world owed him a living" of their pro¬
ducer, Leon Schlesinger, for Daffy Duck.

Chuck Jones asserts that, far from being angry
when he saw the first Daffy cartoon—the ani¬
mators had already written their resignations
—Schlesinger exclaimed, "Jeethus Christh,
that's a funny voithe! Where'd you get that
voithe?"

As Disney grew famous, he left behind the
cruelties of the youthful Mickey Mouse, who
pulled the tails and hammered the teeth of
higher mammals to use them as musical instru¬
ments in Steamboat Willie, and became ever
more sentimental. In the last great success of
his film career, he changed the Mary Poppins
of P. L. Travers's novels, a cold and unsympa¬
thetic governess with supernatural connec¬
tions, into a pillar of sugar.

Chuck Jones, creator of the Sisyphean Coy¬
ote and the agent of his eternal torment, the
Road Runner, was inspired by a favorite aphor¬
ism of his father's: "The truth is tart, the false is
sweet." Bugs and Daffy, who began life under
Tex Avery's pencil as mere wild and crazy ani¬
mals, became icons of popular culture. Jones
says the resourceful, debonair Bugs was every¬
thing Jones longed to be; Daffy, he writes, "gal¬
lantly and publicly represents all the character
traits that the rest of us try to keep subdued....
I know of no great lasting comedian who was
not a loser."

"We don't
consider Mark
Twain less
significant
because he is
humorous."

—Professor
Richard
Brilliant

T oday, the classic Hollywood cartoons are
old enough to have developed a patina,
and are welcomed into the halls that house
Picasso and Pollock. They have been redis¬
covered to be funny, to be meant for adults,
and to be superior to the limited animation of
The Smurfs.

The cartoons are being taken seriously not
only by critics, but by money people. Original
Disney and Warners' production cels, which
the studios formerly discarded or re-used, rou¬
tinely sell for $500 or more in galleries, and one
private seller claims to have received $450,000
for a Mickey Mouse cel from the 1936 Orphans'
Picnic. New cels (called "hand-painted, lim¬
ited-edition re-creations" in the business) are
being produced to further tap the market.
Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng, the only two
classical-era Warners' directors still alive, now
sign autographs at their gallery openings.

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The legendary Sid Luckman '39

Columbia Sid was the Joe Montana of his age , and the triggerman for a football revolution.

by Jacqueline Dutton

I n the 1940's, professional football
players weren't multimillion dollar
corporations. There were no Disney
World or Diet Coke commercials and
no rap videos. But Chicago Bears quar¬
terback Sid Luckman was as pre-emi¬
nent in the game then as Joe Montana is
now. Luckman led his team to four
National Football League champion¬
ships, as Montana has done for the San
Francisco '49ers in the last decade. And
Luckman threw five touchdown passes
in a championship game, a feat un¬
equalled until Montana matched it in
the 1990 Super Bowl.

The 73-year-old Flail of Famer has a
unique place in football history: it was
Luckman who helped revolutionize
the sport by skillfully executing a com¬
plex offensive concept called the T-for-
mation, which elevated both the posi¬
tion of quarterback and the passing
attack itself to football's center stage.
Today, every high school, college and
professional team uses some variant of
the T, which was first developed in the

Jacqueline Dutton, formerly Associate
Editor of Columbia College Today, is
now a student at N. Y. U. Business School.

1930's by University of Chicago coach
and Bears assistant Clark Shaughnessy,
and the immortal Bears coach and
owner, George Halas.

"Sid Luckman was the most intel¬
ligent quarterback in football history,"
said Eddie Gold, a longtime Chicago
Sun-Times football writer who as a boy
watched Luckman play. "It took a
whole bunch of playbooks to learn the
complete T-formation system. Halas
scouted everywhere and determined
Columbia's Luckman the best of the lot.
Under Luckman, the Bears became a
powerhouse."

Before the 1940's, football was a
slower, harder-grinding, lower-scoring
and more predictable game, partly be¬
cause of the single-wing offensive for¬
mation that all teams used then. In the
single wing, the quarterback was not
the relatively unsoiled field general we
see today, but was instead down in the
trenches, running, blocking, punting
and playing defense as well as passing.
He stood several yards behind the cen¬
ter to receive the snap, and then he or
another back typically ran with it, fol¬
lowing a small phalanx of blockers.

The T-formation quarterback, on the

other hand, must be a master deceiver,
with excellent timing and footwork. In
the basic T, he stands right behind the
offensive line, with the other backs
lined up three across behind him (in
effect crossing the T), and he takes the
ball right from the center's hand. He
can then turn and execute a series of
maneuvers that are at least partly hid¬
den from the defense: he can hand the
ball off or shovel it to any of the backs
behind him—or pretend to. The crucial
second of spinning and faking can
freeze the defense, and open up oppor¬
tunities for the passing game.

I n a 1965 column celebrating Luck-
man's election to the Pro Football
Hall of Fame, New York Times sports-
writer Arthur Daley pointed out that
the Chicago team had been studying
versions of the T before they drafted
the six-foot, 195-pound Columbia star.
"But it was Luckman who gave the T
such thunderous impact," Daley
wrote. "Here was the ball-handler
supreme, the artist who masked the
shattering thrusts of an extraordinary
covey of swift, rip-snorting ground-
gainers. And Sid threw passes, long

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and short, to receivers who could catch
anything."

On December 8,1940, nearly 50 years
ago, the Bears gave a devastating dem¬
onstration of the T in their historic 73-0
rout of the Washington Redskins in the
NFL championship game. A few weeks
later, an undefeated Stanford team
coached by Clark Shaughnessy, Halas's
former assistant, used the T to defeat
Nebraska in the Rose Bowl. "All over
the country coaches gasped in awe,"
Daley wrote, "almost as if they had just
been afforded a glimpse of the Prom¬
ised Land. There was a landslide rush
to theT."

Paul Zimmerman '56, senior pro foot¬
ball writer for Sports Illustrated maga¬
zine, says that even in the modern age
of the superstar quarterback, Luckman
has few rivals for all-around skill and
finesse. "When I saw him on the films
last year, I was impressed with the time
patterns, the fades and his throwing
and hitting a guy on the break, which
requires great technique. But he was
also a tough guy and a good defensive
player—you'd see him in there busting
up plays, too. He was agile and gifted,
and he kept it together on two sides of
the game."

How does Luckman compare
with today's quarterbacks? "Sid is
probably tougher than Dan Marino,
but not as agile or nifty as Montana,"
says Zimmerman. "He's maybe more of
a Boomer Esiason type: he's tough and
also a good athlete, gifted in all aspects
of the game. But Luckman was also a
good leader, like Ron Jaworski."

L uckman wasn't the only great pass¬
ing quarterback of his day. His
arch-rival for the top honors was
Slingin' Sammy Baugh of the Washing¬
ton Redskins, whom Luckman has
always admired. The two played
against each other on the league's two
best teams, went head to head in three
NFL title games and between them
held most of the passing records.

Early in the 1943 season, Baugh
threw a record six touchdown passes in
one game. A few weeks later, the Bears
came to New York to play the Giants,
and Luckman, who was about to enter
the Merchant Marine, was honored in
pre-game ceremonies at the Polo
Grounds. Before his hometown fans,
Luckman rose to the occasion.

(Above, left): Luckman romps for a 16-yard gain
against the Redskins in the 1943 NFL champion¬
ship game at Wrigley Field. The Bears won 42-21.

He completed 23 of 30 passes that
afternoon against a tough pass de¬
fense, and by the end of the third
quarter had thrown five for touch¬
downs, including one on 4th-and-20.
With the score 42-7, Bears coaches sat
Luckman down, but his teammates
and fans howled; after all, it was his
day.

When he came back on the field,
Luckman tied Baugh's record with a
three-yard scoring strike. On the Bears'
next possession, Luckman threw a 40-
yard bomb to Hampton Pool, who
wrestled the ball from two Giants at the
three, then staggered across the goal
line. Luckman remembers this play as
the greatest thrill of his life. Adrian
Burk, George Blanda, Y. A. Tittle and
Joe Capp have since tied his record of
seven touchdown passes in a game, but
no one has broken it.

A few weeks later, Luckman faced

Baugh again, in the 1943 championship
game.

Early in the game, Baugh punted to
Luckman and then raced downfield to
make the tackle on his hard-charging
rival. Luckman's knee caught Baugh
flush on the head and knocked the
Redskin star out cold. The Bears quar¬
terback went on to throw five touch¬
down passes that afternoon, setting the
championship game record that Mon¬
tana tied in last January's Super Bowl.

Luckman could also run, punt, block
and tackle, and bounce back after end¬
less beatings (including a ferocious hit
from Cornell's Brud Holland that frac¬
tured two ribs); his nose was broken
three times at Columbia, five more
times before he left the pros.

The most intimidating player Luck¬
man ever encountered was the legend¬
ary Bronco Nagurski. "He is the only
300-pound man who weighed 250,"

Luckman once told sportswriter Jimmy
Cannon. "He wasn't like a man. He was
something else, bigger, a 33 waist and a
49 chest. He was devastating, Bronk
was a Roman gladiator, not a football
player."

W ithin that violent world. Luck-
man was known as a self-
effacing, respectful and popular team
leader who would make a special point
of getting to know the third-string play¬
ers. But it was the strong passing arm,
pinpoint accuracy and quick footwork
he developed under Lou Little, Colum¬
bia's celebrated coach from 1930 to 1956,
that prepared Luckman for his profes¬
sional success. Coach Little became a
father figure to him, a lifelong
influence.

Luckman had attracted national at¬
tention and dozens of college scholar¬
ship offers while leading Brooklyn's
Erasmus Hall High School to two New
York City championships. (In 1976, he
was named by the Boys' Athletic
League as the city's greatest native foot¬
ball player.) But the Columbia coach, in
their first encounter, made an unfor¬
gettable impression.

"I had never met anyone in my life
who had such a tremendous effect on
me," Luckman said. "There was some¬
thing about him, his stature, his dress
and those pinched glasses like Roose¬
velt's. ... I felt my life and my destiny
was to go to not only a school where I
would play football, but a marvelous
academic school."

Coach Little, for his part, returned
the compliment. "The first time I saw
him," he later said, "he had class writ¬
ten all over him."

Columbia's absence of athletic schol¬
arships did not deter Luckman, who
was willing to work his way through
school. When his family's trucking
business was falling apart. Little found
him a variety of odd jobs, from chauf-
feuring Mrs. Little and babysitting for
alumni to washing dishes at Zeta Beta
Tau. Luckman believes the sacrifice was
worth it, but adds that other talented
players typically didn't.

A diligent but struggling student,
Luckman sat his freshman year out in
favor of the books. The delay cost his
football skills little. During the next
three seasons (1936-38) Columbia
teams managed only a 10-14-2 record,
against big-time football schools like
Michigan and Stanford, but Luckman
became a national sensation. In Octo¬

ber 1938, after he led the Lions to a 20-18
upset of Army, the College senior's
gritty, smiling face was on the cover of
Life magazine, with a headline pro¬
claiming on every newsstand: "Best
Passer." At the end of the season, he
was named second-team All-America.

His statistics show him to be Colum¬
bia's first full-fledged passer on a mod¬
ern scale: 20 TD passes in 24 games,
about 100 passing yards per game, 180
completions in 376 attempts, for a .479
average. And when he wasn't throw¬
ing, he seemed to be doing everything
else: playing defense (he averaged
more than 56 minutes playing time per
game in his junior year), carrying the
ball (102 times as a senior, 4.2 yards per
carry) and punting (40.1 yards per kick
as a senior).

"He wasn't fast, but was strong and
had a great arm," said fellow Hall-of-
Famer Cliff Montgomery '35, a college
All-America who quarterbacked three
Lions teams to a 22-3-2 record and the
1934 Rose Bowl victory. "If he had had
my team at Columbia, he'd have led a
great, great team."

Luckman was technically a run-or-
throw tailback, not a quarterback, at
Columbia, a team which had never
used the T. "But George Halas, who
happened to watch Columbia playing
Syracuse at Baker Field one Saturday,
saw a strong possibility for me at the
quarterback position with the Bears,"
Luckman recalls. Halas was also im¬
pressed by the Columbia senior's ma¬
turity and leadership, and chose
Luckman in the first round.

H e had come a long way from kick¬
ing tin cans in the streets of Flat-
bush, but Luckman had serious doubts
about a pro career. Even after Halas
made him an offer, he turned it down,
taking instead a job he landed with the
help of the University. Halas persisted.
In July, after Luckman had married his
boyhood sweetheart, Estelle, and set¬
tled into an apartment in Brooklyn,
Halas asked to have dinner in New
York with the Luckmans. He promised
Mrs. Luckman that her husband would
have a great career in the NFL, and
finally, Mr. Luckman agreed to join up.

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Halas did not renege on his promise.
Luckman brought Chicago four World
Championships, in 1940, '41, '43 and
'46. The Monsters of the Midway were
as dominant a club as the Green Bay
Packers in the 60's, the Pittsburgh Steel-
ers in the 70's, and the San Francisco
'49ers in the 80's. During one stretch
between 1941 and 1943, the Bears won
24 consecutive regular-season games.
Their only loss during that span was in
the 1942 title game—to Baugh's Red¬
skins, 14-6. Luckman also compiled a
catalog of individual awards: All-
League quarterback from 1941 to 1945
and in 1947; Most Valuable Player, 1946;
World Championship MVP, 1943; Pro
Football Hall of Fame, 1965.

After the '43 championship, Luck¬
man served as an ensign in the Mer¬
chant Marine. He returned to play until
1950, and remained a Bears assistant
coach and advisor until 1970. But foot¬
ball hasn't been his whole life. In 1946,
he became a partner in Cellu-Craft Inc.,
a food packaging concern which is now
a division of Alusuisse. His career as a
business executive has been enormous¬
ly successful; today he continues to
oversee sales to the the firm's top cli¬
ents: Kraft, Quaker Oats, Frito-Lay,
Hershey, Borden, Nabisco and Keebler.
He does charitable work for the Heart
Association, the Boys Club Founda¬
tion, and the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith, and he set up the Estelle
Luckman Memorial Foundation for
cancer research after the death of his
wife.

N ow the memories of his glorious
career are tucked into a corner of a
32nd-floor apartment on Chicago's
Lake Shore Drive, overlooking Lake
Michigan. The surprisingly formal
spread—dominated by crystal chande¬
liers, antique furniture, original paint¬
ings, sculptures, and a long breakfast
table against a padded bench—is
decorated in subtle shades of orange.
Among his most prized mementos are
letters from George and Barbara Bush
thanking him for his generosity to the
Republican party, and one from
George Halas, dated 1983: "I love you
with all my heart. My boy, my pride in
you has no bounds. You were the con¬
summate player. Remember our word
'Now'? Every time I said it, you'd bring
me another championship." Glancing
past the huge 1938 All-America trophy
and Pro Football Hall of Fame bust of
himself, Luckman points to an in¬

Lou Little's boys: Sid Luckman (right) joined a pantheon of Columbia football greats who returned to
honor their mentor at a Baker Field ceremony in 1978. The others, from left: Gene Rossides '49,

Cliff Montgomery '34, Coach Little, and Al Barabas '36.

scribed color photo of quarterback Jim
McMahon (now a Philadelphia Eagle),
who led the Bears to victory in the 1986
Super Bowl. Another cherished object:
Columbia College's 1990 John Jay
Award for distinguished professional
achievement.

The items on the shelves bring back
memories of his most important
moments. One was the Giants-Bears
game at the Polo Grounds in 1939, his
rookie year. His family was there, along
with a sizable Columbia contingent
that included Dean Herbert E. Hawkes.

"Coach Little was there and some of
the boys I played with were there,"
Luckman recalls. "Because fans didn't
have access to televised games like they
do now. Coach Halas would always
start the player who would live in the
respective city. I played halfback—
learning that position was gearing me
to be quarterback. The Giants were
winning 16-0 when Coach Halas put his
arms around me and said, 'Son, would
you like to be quarterback?' That was
the single most emotional feeling I ever
had—I had played in the World Cham¬
pionships and all that—I was never so
nervous as I was then, in front of all my
friends and the Dean of the College."
Luckman went in at quarterback and
engineered two long touchdown pass
plays, but the Bears fell just short, 16-14.

"The next year was the start of our
dynasty," Luckman continues. "After

the season was over, we were riding
home to New York and settling up our
pay with Coach Halas, who held all this
trump in his hands: he was coach, gen¬
eral manager and owner. My salary was
$5,000 and I was the highest paid Bear. I
asked him for a $1,000 bonus. He
reached into his pocket—he always
carried an envelope for taking notes—
and said, 'Sid Luckman, in the first
Green Bay game, you threw an inter¬
ception, in the second game...'" There
followed a list of Luckman's mistakes
over the course of the season. The
bonus turned out to be $250. Luckman
went on, "Later I received a letter from
him: 'If you come to Chicago at the first
of June and study all the plays a few
weeks ahead of time. I'll pay you the
other $750.'"

Part of Luckman's success, in football
and business alike, may lie in never for¬
getting a favor. To Columbia, he feels he
owes a lot: "My years as a football
player were the most exciting, most
marvelous years, and years that have
made my life one of satisfaction and
anticipation, accomplishments and
challenges," he says. "It really all
started with Columbia, Lou Little, his
coaching, and always having the Uni¬
versity's support. And to this very day,
Columbia will always mean a fulfill¬
ment of all those dreams."

Talk
of the
Alumni

1989 John Jay awards:
Not too late to celebrate

"Wasn't this worth waiting for?" Dean
of Students Roger Lehecka '67 asked
the throng at the conclusion of the John
Jay Award Dinner, before leading a cho¬
rus of "Sans Souci." The benefit dinner
dance, originally scheduled for March
1989, was cancelled six days ahead of
time when a strike of Eastern Airlines
workers fueled protests against the
award's being given to Frank Lorenzo
'61. Mr. Lorenzo headed Continental
Airlines Holdings (formerly Texas Air),
Eastern's parent company, until
August, when he agreed to sell his
stake to the Scandinavian Airline Sys¬
tem and retire from the airline business
for the next seven years.

But on June 12 Mr. Lorenzo at last
shared the dais with three of the other
alumni being honored: Wm. Theodore
de Bary '41, Orientalist, author, editor
and former provost; Melvin Schwartz
'53, Nobel laureate in physics; and Law¬
rence E. Walsh '32, lawyer, Iran-Contra
special prosecutor and former trustee.
Two other award winners, film director
Brian De Palma '62 and advertising
executive Allen Rosenshine '59, were
honored in absentia.

Some 250 people attended the black-
tie affair, held in the Celeste Bartos
Forum of the New York Public Library.
A chamber group from the Peter
Duchin orchestra provided back¬
ground music and, later, dancing, with
renditions of jazz standards and early
Beatles songs. (One listener sadly con¬
cluded that some of the Beatles tunes
were standards too.)

Outside on Forty-Second Street, a
couple of hundred demonstrators in
support of the still-striking machinists'
union stood behind police lines carry¬
ing "Don't Fly Continental" placards
and wearing anti-Lorenzo T-shirts. A
light blue banner proclaimed the sup¬
port of District 65 of the United Auto

Workers, the union to which Columbia
clerical workers belong. Orations
denouncing Mr. Lorenzo as a union-
buster issued from a sound truck.

As the guests scraped the last of
chocolate and raspberry coulis from
their plates. College Dean Jack Green¬

berg '45, making his first public
appearance in months since being
stricken with an amoebic infection,
thanked the alumni for helping make
his first year in office "an extremely
happy one." He mentioned some inno¬
vations of his deanship: the forthcom-

Harold Brown '45 to receive Hamilton Medal

Harold Brown '45, the former Secre¬
tary of Defense and president of Cal
Tech, has been chosen to receive the
1990 Alexander Hamilton Medal,
the College Alumni Association's
highest honor. The presentation will
be made at the traditional dinner in
Low Rotunda on November 27.

Dr. Brown has been chairman of
the Foreign Policy Institute of The
Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies
since 1984. The author of Thinking
About National Security: Defense and
Foreign Policy in a Dangerous World
(1983), and editor of The Strategic
Defense Initiative: Shield or Snare?
(1987), he is a consultant to many
corporations and a director of IBM,
CBS, Cummins Engine Company,
and other firms.

Dr. Brown received the Ph.D. in
physics from Columbia in 1949. In
1952 he became an assistant to the
physicist Edward Teller at the Uni¬
versity of California's Radiation Lab¬
oratory at Livermore, where he
helped to develop the hydrogen

bomb and the Polaris missile, origi¬
nated the Project Plowshare plan for
peaceful uses of atomic energy, and
ultimately served as director. A
member of the President's Science
Advisory Committee, he was a dele¬
gate to the SALT talks beginning in
1969.

In 1961 he became Director of
Defense Research and Engineering,
and in 1965, at the start of the Ameri¬
can involvement in Vietnam, was
appointed Secretary of the Air
Force. In 1969 he became president
of the California Institute of Tech¬
nology, returning to public life in
1977 as Secretary of Defense, a posi¬
tion he held until 1981. That year, he
received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom.

Previous Hamilton medalists
include Dean Harry Carman, Dis¬
trict Attorney Frank S. Hogan '24,
historian Allen Nevins, publisher
Robert Giroux '36, attorney and U.S.
intelligence chief William J. "Wild
Bill" Donovan '05, and author Her¬
man Wouk '34.

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ing residential house system, a human
rights curriculum, development of an
"extended core" of non-Western stud¬
ies, and a festival of College poets.

Dean Lehecka presented the awards,
beginning with Wm. Theodore de
Bary, Special Service Professor, whose
citation noted the many roles he has
taken at Columbia: chairman of one of
the country's first and finest depart¬
ments of East Asian Languages and
Cultures; Provost; Director of the
Heyman Center for the Humanities;
Chairman of the Commission on the
Core Curriculum, and John Mitchell
Mason Professor of the University.

Accepting the award, the professor
remarked, "In Taipei and in Singapore,
where rather ironically I lecture on
Confucianism to Chinese audiences in
universities and on TV, I am often
introduced as 'Mr. ABC,' meaning the
American-Born Confucius. The Chi¬
nese seem to be delighted at this
incongruity, which is even greater than
they think. Little do they realize that for
me ABC means the alphabet starts with
C for Columbia." He added, "The ulti¬
mate test of Confucian loyalty consists
in staying to the bitter end of a losing
Columbia football game played in cold
heavy rain."

Dean Lehecka then read the citation
for Brian De Palma, director of Carrie,
Obsession, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, and
The Untouchables, commenting that the
director had "found that the Bronx
wasn't a very congenial place to film
Bonfire of the Vanities. " (Citizen groups
have protested his current project, a

film of the novel by Tom Wolfe, object¬
ing to Wolfe's depiction of that
borough.)

Mr. Lorenzo's long-delayed award
celebrated him as one who had "done
things other managers dream of but
dare not try... Your fortunes are front¬
page news." When he acquired Texas
Air in 1971, the citation noted, it was
nicknamed "Teeter-Totter Airlines,"
and has since grown to be the largest
airline in the free world. Mr. Lorenzo
has served on the College's Board of
Visitors and chaired his class's 25th
reunion, the first in the College's his¬
tory to exceed a million dollars in anni¬
versary gifts.

In his acceptance Mr. Lorenzo said,
"In 1794, when John Jay came back to
this side of the Atlantic after having
negotiated a treaty with Great Britain,
he was met by very angry people who
put on some very unattractive demon¬
strations." That treaty, he said, "was
essential for the colony to be able to
survive and for the federal republic to
continue. But it was not very popular
coming to agreement with Great Britain
in those days. There were marching
mobs, there were torchlight proces¬
sions, there were hangings of Jay in
effigy... Sounds familiar."

But, he continued, "Jay bore his con¬
demnation stoically. To a friend at the
time, Henry Lee, he wrote, 'The treaty
is as it is and the time will certainly
come when it will be very universally
evaluated... In the meantime, I must
do as many others have done before
me, that is, regretting the depravity of

some and the ignorance of a much
greater number, bear with composure
and fortitude the effects of each.'
Tonight I thank you for, as John Jay
would have said, your candid and
enlightened minds."

The citation for Allen Rosenshine,
chairman and chief executive officer of
BBDO Worldwide, described him as
"the hero of the creative side" in adver¬
tising, adding, "In the 1980's, you made
Madison Avenue megamergers as well
as Pepsi 'the choice of the next genera¬
tion.'" Mr. Rosenshine, who was in
Europe that night, had received his
award at a luncheon at the Lotos Club
two weeks before.

Mel Schwartz, who taught at Colum¬
bia from 1958 to 1966, shared the 1988
Nobel Prize in physics for work he did
in the 1960's at Columbia with Leon
Lederman and Jack Steinberger. He
now heads Digital Pathways, a com¬
pany he founded, which makes data
network access control equipment. Dr.
Schwartz called Columbia "the great
outstanding place to study physics...
much like Holland was in the arts in the
1600's." (See profile, page 48).

The last to be honored was Lawrence
E. Walsh, much in the news last year as
independent counsel in the Iran-Con¬
tra investigation. A past president of
the New York and American Bar asso¬
ciations, ambassador to the Paris peace
talks on Vietnam, and for 20 years a
partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell in
New York, he is now of counsel to
Crowe & Dunlevy of Oklahoma City.

Mr. Walsh recalled his years at the
College and Law School—the spring of
1929 when the crew "not only won at
Poughkeepsie but won every regatta
that spring.... Of course a lot of child¬
ish things went on, like class rushes,
and cane sprees and tug-of-wars and
dinner week, where classes tried to
capture the officers of other classes—
you folks probably wouldn't believe it
now, but that was what college was
before the Depression."

Fund-raising for Columbia was sim¬
pler in those days, he reflected: Nicho¬
las Murray Butler had only to go down
to Wall Street to see George Baker at the
First National Bank—"He told George
what he needed, and either George
gave him the check or said he would
raise it.... But then the Depression
came along. It was a very bitter period.
Kids would be in school one month
thinking they were in very good shape,
and the next month they might be

John Jay Dinner chairman Joe O’Donnell '64

broke, they might not even be there.
And most of us worked our way
through school."

But, he said, there was "another
aspect of the alumni relationship which
I didn't fully appreciate then. During
the Depression, it was surprising that
the alumni came back to the campus.
They weren't in a position to make the
generous contributions that have been
made since the war, but they did it with
their time and with their individual
relationships with the students. Frank
Hogan [Class of '24] was an example. I
never would have gotten out of the rut
if it hadn't been for Frank. We were
trying to keep a fraternity from going
broke—one day we'd have coal, one
day we wouldn't. We'd take cold show¬
ers to feel warmer when we came out.
But Frank was trying to pull that thing
together, and it was through him that I
came to know Governor Dewey and
most everything else happened to me."
Mr. Walsh was deputy assistant to
Thomas E. Dewey, then Manhattan dis¬
trict attorney, and later of counsel to
him as governor of New York State.

Thus, concluded Mr. Walsh, he was
grateful for the opportunities he had
had to serve Columbia. "And this mag¬
nificent university, of which the heart is
the College, and where the affection
that wells up in us is centered on the
College and spreads to the Univer¬
sity—it's such a wonderful thing, and
to hear that it's even going to be more
wonderful and make an even greater
contribution makes it all worthwhile to
come here tonight. And to receive this
award is just the dessert on the meal."

J.R.

Baltic networking

The collapse of the Soviet empire has
had repercussions on College Walk:
Columbia has now forged educational
links with the Baltic republic of Estonia.
This term, an Estonian student, Kristel
Kalissaar, has enrolled in the College as
a freshman. And under the leadership
of Jenik Radon '67 and Dean of Stu¬
dents Roger Lehecka '67, nine under¬
graduates took part in summer
internship programs in Riga and Tal-
inn, the capital city, to "provide service
and learn what is going on in that part
of the world," according to Dean
Lehecka. Where possible, students
were placed in situations related to
their career interests: a pre-medical
student worked in a hospital, and a

Estonian leader Marju Lauristin

Spectator staff member served in a gov¬
ernment publications office. The pro¬
gram is the first of its kind, according to
Mr. Radon, a New York lawyer who
recently established a U.S.-Estonian
Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Radon was also instrumental in
arranging a special May event for the
John Jay Associates: a lecture by Marju
Lauristin, a leader of the Estonian Pop¬
ular Front and Deputy Speaker of the
Estonian Supreme Soviet. Ms. Lau¬
ristin reviewed the history of the Esto¬
nian independence movement and
said that for perestroika to truly live up
to its meaning—which is "restructur¬
ing"—Eastern bloc political systems
would have to be altered as radically as
the economic ones. "This process has
begun, and it cannot be stopped, even
if it is not very comfortable."

Not wishing to omit any detail of the
burgeoning Columbia-Estonia relation¬
ship, Mr. Radon points out that Paul
Luedig '77 oversaw the student intern¬
ship program on-site in Estonia, lives
Toomas '76 is in charge of Radio Free
Europe's Estonian desk, and Alan Trei
'54 is the head of a new sister-city pro¬
gram between Wilmington, Del. and
Talinn. Additionally, Hugh Lawson '91
recently visited Estonia as part of a
Rockefeller Brothers Fund project to
explore possible openings for U.S.
nonprofit organizations in the Baltic.
And Estonian general counsel Ernst
Jaakason, Mr. Radon notes, is a gradu¬
ate of Columbia Business School.

T.V.

New awards created
for undergraduates

"Most awards and subsidies are based
on financial need, as well as scholarship.
That means that excellent people who
don't need the money may not be re¬
warded." With this in mind, and a
$105,000 gift in hand, the legendary
Columbia law professor and public ser¬
vant Milton Handler '24 recently estab¬
lished an innovative series of awards for
College students.

The Handler Prizes for Scholastic
Excellence will be given each year to a
select few undergraduates with the best
academic records in specific courses and
disciplines, and for the best essays in
Contemporary Civilization and Litera¬
ture Humanities classes. Prizes will also
be awarded for the best academic record
overall. Each prize is $2,000 cash; the
award to the College senior with the best
academic record will be $5,000.

"I wanted to reward excellence in
scholarship, pure and simple," said Mr.
Handler, who helped draft the G.I. Bill
after World War II. "I wanted to do some¬
thing as a stimulus for students to work
hard, looking eventually for these peo¬
ple to become important members of our
society, based on their talent."

Professor Handler and his wife,
Miriam, held a reception for the 1990
recipients in their Park Avenue apart¬
ment on May 14. The winners, who had
just completed their first year in the Col¬
lege, were Russell Gold, Rachel
Gleeson, Suzanne Krivo, Gage
McWeeny, Alethea Morrison, and
Adam Lupu Sax.

Professor Handler himself was hon¬
ored two days later when he received an
honorary Doctor of Laws degree at
Commencement.

Alumni Bulletins

• Errata: The College Alumni Office
has announced corrections to its report
on the 38th College Fund:

Robert E. Lewis '39 and Spencer
McGrady '39 were omitted from the list
of members of the Dean's Circle of the
John Jay Associates;

David J. Margolis '63, Bernard
Schutz '39 and Dr. and Mrs. Robert
Bernot '55, P'92 were omitted from the
list of Sponsors of the John Jay
Associates;

Wayne A. Cypen '72 was omitted
from the list of Fellows;

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Donald J. Rapson '51 should have
been listed as a Fellow rather than as a
Member;

Peter C. Budeiri '74 was omitted
from the list of Members;

A gift from Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L.
Fogel (Friends) in memory of Anthony
Cottone, the father of Philip S. Cottone
'61, was erroneously listed as in mem¬
ory of Anthony F. Cottone '80;

A gift from Hyman Simon (Friend)
in honor of Frederick E. Lane '28, M.D.
was erroneously listed as in memory of
Dr. Lane;

A gift from Julius Cohn III (Friend)
in memory of Arthur A. Snyder '20 was
erroneously listed as in memory of
Judge Robert T. Snyder '51.

The College Alumni Office regrets
these errors.

• Anniversary: The Federalist Paper,
Columbia's weekly student newspaper,
will celebrate its fifth year of publica¬
tion this fall with a cocktail party on
campus after the Homecoming game
on October 27.*The former chairman of
the paper's editorial board, Eric Prager
'90, said there would also be an awards
presentation for alumni and friends
who have helped the publication. D.
Keith Mano '63 will be among the
speakers.

The paper, which began as a monthly
in the autumn of 1986, has since
become a campus institution, accord¬
ing to Mr. Prager. "An amazing thing
happened last fall. A class of under¬
graduates joined a student body that
had not known a Columbia campus
without The Fed ." Further information
on the event can be gleaned from Juliet
Moyna '91 at (212) 854-1654.

• Medalists: Six College alumni were '
among the 10 who received the Alumni
Federation Medal, the University's
highest alumni honor, at the Federa¬
tion's 92nd annual luncheon last May 16
in Low rotunda. The recipients are
George J. Ames '37, limited partner of
Lazard Freres & Co. and chairman of
the College's Board of Visitors; Elliot J.
Brebner '53, a professional consulting
programmer formerly with Unisys and
a leader in alumni affairs and admis¬
sions work in Minnesota; Thomas L.
Chrystie '55, former chairman of Mer¬
rill Lynch Capital Markets and past
University Trustee; James L. Dough¬
erty '42, president of Parker-Dougherty
Publishing Co. and a 30-year veteran of
alumni affairs in Houston; Daniel D.

Mark your calendar...

Homecoming: Columbia vs. Princeton

October 27

Boston Dean's Day

November 18

Alexander Hamilton Medal Dinner

November 27

San Francisco Dean's Day

December 8

Los Angeles Dean's Day

December 9

South Florida Dean's Day

January 19

John Jay Awards Dinner

March 21

Chicago Dean's Day

March 23

Dean's Day

April 13

Columbia College Alumni Association

Annual Dinner and Meeting

May 9

Class of 1941 Reunion at Arden House

May 10-12

Reunion Weekend
for Classes Ending in 1 and 6

May 31-June 2

For more information please call or write to

Ilene Markay-Hallack, 100 Hamilton Hall, Columbia College,

New York, N.Y. 10027, (212) 854-5533.

Epstein '53, director of the Senior Pros-
thodontic Elective Program at the
School of Dental and Oral Surgery and
president of the school's alumni asso¬
ciation; and Roger C. Guarino '51, a
business consultant who has been a
leader in the Society of Columbia Grad¬
uates and the Engineering School
Alumni Association.

• Beantown Is Deantown: Following
the success of the California Dean's
Days last year, the Alumni Office has
added more regional Dean's Days to
the annual program of lectures by
Columbia faculty. Featured speakers
will include political scientists Gregory
Gause and Roger Hilsman, anthropol¬
ogist Don Melnick, historian Carol
Gluck, and physicist David Helfand.

The regional Dean's Days will be in
Boston on November 18, San Francisco
on December 8, Los Angeles on
December 9, South Florida (location to
be announced) on January 19, and Chi¬
cago on March 23.

Further information will be mailed to
alumni in their respective regions.
Other inquiries may be addressed to

Ilene Markay-Hallack of the College
Alumni Office, 100 Hamilton Hall, New
York, N.Y. 10027, (212) 854-5533.

• Tennis and Touch Dancing: The
Young Alumni of Columbia College,
known by their hirsute acronym,

YACC, are sponsoring a full program
this year for graduates in the classes of
1980 through 1990. The fall schedule
began with an outing to the U.S. Open
tennis championships in September,
and the annual post-game bash at
Baker Field's Remmer Boathouse was
set for October 6.

Invitations will soon be sent for
YACC's most ambitious event yet—the
first Annual Winter Benefit, a formal
dance in Low Rotunda on Saturday, De¬
cember 1 in support of the College's
financial aid program.

Matt White '89 recently succeeded
Renny Smith '89 as the Alumni Affairs
and Development officer coordinating
fund raising and events for young
alumni.

For details, call the program's hotline
at (212) 854-YACC. „

Bookshelf

Armand Hammer ['19]: The Untold
Story by Steven Weinberg. An unauthor¬
ized biography of the chairman of Occi¬
dental Petroleum, citizen-diplomat and
art collector (Little, Brown, $22.95).

Shakespeare: The Four Romances by

Robert M. Adams '35. A critical study of
the last four plays: Pericles, Cymbeline, The
Winter's Tale and The Tempest (W. W. Nor¬
ton, $19.95).

A Deed of Death: The Story Behind the
Unsolved Murder of Hollywood Direc¬
tor William Desmond Taylor by Robert
Giroux '36. A true story of unrequited
love, drug addiction and death in the
early days of the movie industry (Knopf,
$19.95).

Making Peace with the Planet by Barry
Commoner '37. "The human attack on the
ecosphere has instigated an ecological
counterattack. The two worlds are at
war," maintains the environmental activ¬
ist in his latest assessment of the earth
(Pantheon, $19.95).

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The
Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage
to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra,
and Brought the Arabian Nights to the
West by Edward Rice '40. The first com¬
plete biography of the British spy,
explorer and adventurer (Scribner's,

$35).

A New Science: The Breakdown of
Connections and the Birth of Sociology

by Bruce Mazlish '44. The discipline of
sociology was created in response to the
industrial revolution, which substituted
monetary for community relations, the
author argues (Oxford University Press,
$35).

Sams in a Dry Season by Ivan Gold '53. In
this novel, a writer makes a comeback
after a twenty-year descent into alco¬
holism (Houghton Mifflin, $19.95).

Confederate Florida: The Road to
Olustee by William H. Nulty '54. A reas¬
sessment of the 1864 Union incursion
into East Florida (University of Alabama
Press, $27.95).

Texas Blues & Other Poems by Jim Line-
barger '56. "What's wrong with you, Walt

Chickazoola! That was the "blood-curdling" cry used by Pittsburgh Pirates Hall-of-Famer Jake
Beckley (above) to rattle opposing pitchers during his playing days around the turn of the century,
according to The Ballplayers, edited by Mike Shatzkin (William Morrow, $39.95), a mountainous
baseball encyclopedia containing more than 5,000 biographical entries from Hank Aaron to Dutch
Zwilling. The game's mythical figures, like Babe Ruth, are covered in long essays; journeymen like
George Gill are dispatched in a ruthless sentence or two: "In May 1939, Gill was one of six Detroit
players sent to the Browns in a trade for legendary hurler Bobo Newsom. He then went 1-12 for the
worst Browns team in history ." The project's editorial dugout included a roster of Columbia College
alumni: Stephen Holtje '83, the managing editor and New YorkMets specialist, whose many contribu¬
tions include the entry for Lou Gehrig '25; associate editor Shep Long '89, who specialized in the Red
Sox, stadiums and annnouncers; Frederic Schwarz '82, the in-house copy editor and New York Yankees
expert; Michael B. Ackerman '84, who researched many of the obscure older players; Ken Cohen '85,
who worked mostly on current major leaguers; and Steven Greenfield '83, the resident Philadelphia
Phillies scholar.

Whitman,/all that yea-saying and such?/
Nobody ever be rude to you?/Try to stare
you completely down?" (Point Riders
Press, $5 paper).

The Good Policeman by Jerome Charyn
'59. In this procedural, a New York
police commissioner encounters a 12-
year-old murderer (Mysterious Press,
$18.95).

The Examined Life: Philosophical Med¬
itations by Robert Nozick '59. Essays on
large subjects, including love, happi¬

ness, dying, value and meaning, the¬
ology and philosophy (Simon and
Schuster, $21.95).

Memoirs of Raymond Aron translated
by George Holoch '60. The autobiography
of the French sociologist and political
commentator, a schoolmate and intellec¬
tual combatant of Sartre (Holmes &
Meier, $45).

Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and
Relatives by Harvey E. Goldberg '61. A
history of the Libyan Jewish community

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of the past two centuries (Chicago Uni¬
versity Press, $39.95, $15.95 paper).

Still Water: Prose Poems by Art Garfunkel
'62. "Microscopic organisms/alter their
behavior/when a scientist is watching./
Everything waits to be noticed :/a tree
falling with no one there,/the full poten¬
tial of a love affair, /twenty-eight geese in
sudden flight..." (E. P. Dutton, $15.95).

The Nurturing Neighborhood: The
Brownsville Boys Club and Jewish
Community in Urban America, 1940-
1990 by Gerald Sorin '62. A historian and
club alumnus tells the story of the orga¬
nization, which was founded in a Jewish
neighborhood in Brooklyn to keep boys
out of trouble; it evolved into a mutual-
aid society and community in micro¬
cosm (New York University Press, $35).

Chesapeake Country by Eugene L. Meyer
'64, with photographs by Lucian
Niemeyer. A writer for The Washington Post
contemplates the history, wildlife, plan¬
tations and watermen of Chesapeake
Bay. With 196 color photographs
(Abbeville, $35).

The Big Something by Ron Padgett '64.
Poems and short prose pieces about
Woody Woodpecker and other existen¬
tialists. (The Figures, Great Barrington,
Mass., $7.50 paper).

The Fossil Factory: A Kid's Guide to
Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring
Evolution, and Finding Fossils by Niles
['65], Gregory, and Douglas Eldredge. The
curator of invertebrates at the American
Museum of Natural History and his
sons have assembled a cheerful com¬
pendium of prehistory and projects,
based on the premise that scientific
observation begins with going outside
and looking around (Addison-Wesley,
$8.95 paper).

Ambiguous Relations: Kin, Class, and
Conflict Among Komachi Pastoralists

by Daniel Bradburd '67. An ethnography
of a group of nomadic shepherds in
Iran (Smithsonian, $29.95).

Phi Beta Pogo by Walt Kelly, edited by
Mrs. Walt Kelly and Bill Crouch, Jr. '67.

"In Kelly's pastoral, as in the classical
and renaissance varieties, the rustics
use their elaborately stylized language
to speak about sophisticatedly urban
issues," notes Professor of English
Edward Mendelson in this collection of
work by Walt Kelly, with historical and
critical essays on the eternal opossum
(Fireside Books, $10.95 paper).

Charisma by Charles Lindholm '68. An
anthropologist considers evil leaders—
Hitler, Charles Manson, Jim Jones—
and their followers (Basil Blackwell,
$29.95).

Commonplaces: Community Ideology
and Identity in American Culture by

David M. Hummon '69. How people
think about cities, suburbs and small
towns (State University of New York
Press, $49.50, $26.95 paper).

Louise Brooks by Barry Paris '69. A
biography of the film actress who once
said, "The career of an actor is the most
degrading of all enslavements," and
who walked away from her own career
at the height of her fame, when the
talkies were new (Knopf, $24.95).

Operation Memory by David Lehman
'70. Recent work by a prize-winning
poet (Princeton University Press,
$17.50, $9.95 paper).

Once Five Years Pass by Federico Garcia
Lorca, translated by William B. Logan '75
and Angel Gil Orrios. A new, bilingual
edition of Lorca's favorite of his plays,
reconstituted from interviews with
members of the amateur theater group
that was to have performed it in 1936
under the author's direction (Station
Hill Press, $24.95).

Issues in the Developmental
Approach to Mental Retardation

edited by Roger M. Hodapp 77, Jacob A.
Burack and Edward Zigler. A number of
psychologists examine recent theories
and practices concerning work with the
mentally retarded (Cambridge Univer¬
sity Press, $44.50).

Testimony: Contemporary Writers
Make the Holocaust Personal edited by
David Rosenberg. Essays tracing the long
shadows of the Nazi era, with contribu¬
tions by Herbert Gold '46, Phillip
Lopate '64, David Shapiro '68 and
David Lehman 70 (Times Books,
$24.95).

The Official NBA Basketball Encyclo¬
pedia edited by Zander Hollander and
Alex Sachare '71. An authoritative com¬
pendium of records, rules, draft picks,
player stats and other raw data for
casual fans and connoisseurs alike (Vil-
lard Books, $29.95).

Elvis My Dad: The Unauthorized
Biography of Lisa Marie Presley by

David Adler '84 and Ernest Andrews.
When she was seven, the authors
report, the King's only child asked,

"Daddy, why did you shoot the TV?"
Elvis, embarrassed, replied, "Aw,
honey, there was something on it that
Daddy didn't like." (St. Martin's, $3.95
paper).

Great Tales of Madness and the Ma¬
cabre compiled by Charles Ardai '91.
Stories by old masters—Poe, Bierce,
Conan Doyle—and contemporaries—
Stephen King, Avram Davidson,

Nancy Kress (Galahad Books, $9.98).

The Camel and the Wheel by Richard
W. Bulliet, Professor of History. A
reissue of the 1975 work by the director
of Columbia's Middle East Institute
examining how and why the ship of the
desert replaced the wheeled vehicle
throughout the Moslem world over a
thousand years ago (Columbia Univer¬
sity Press, $15.50).

Encounters and Reflections: Art in the
Historical Present by Arthur C. Danto,
Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy.
Recent essays on artists, mostly 20th-
century, from Courbet and Degas,
through Warhol and Stella, to David
Salle and Cindy Sherman (Farrar,

Straus & Giroux, $22.95).

Constitutionalism, Democracy, and
Foreign Affairs by Louis Henkin, Special
Service Professor. Essays on the rela¬
tion between constitutional rights at
home and abroad (Columbia Univer¬
sity Press, $25).

Modernity and the Text edited by
Andreas Huyssen, Professor of German,
and David Bathrick. Scholarly reassess¬
ments of German and Austrian literary
modernism in light of current discus¬
sions of modernity and postmodernity
(Columbia University Press, $30).

Russianness: In Honor of Rufus
Mathewson, 1918-1978 with an intro¬
duction by Robert L. Belknap, Professor
of Slavic Languages. Essays by Peter
Pouncey, Karl-Ludwig Selig, Richard
Kuhns, and other former colleagues of
the widely admired scholar who taught
Russian literature at Columbia for 30
years (Ardis Publishers, $29.50).

The Verbal and the Visual: Essays in
Honor of William Sebastian Heck-
scher edited by Karl-Ludwig Selig, Pro¬
fessor Emeritus of Spanish and Portu¬
guese, and Elizabeth Sears. A festschrift
for the distinguished art historian and
intellectual descendant of Erwin Panof-
sky (Italica Press, New York, $45). Q

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Columbiana

Alfred Thayer Mahan:

The patron saint of American naval power

I t is no small irony that one of the
pre-eminent theoreticians of naval
warfare was so poor a sailor that the sea
itself sickened him and he could barely
handle a ship to save his life. That was
Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan,
Class of 1858, and the book that made
his reputation was The Influence of Sea
Power Upon History, 1660-1783, a work
so important that the London Times
compared its author to Copernicus and
Adam Smith. Last April, in celebration
of the one hundredth anniversary of
the volume's publication, the Naval
War College in Newport, R.I. held a
two-day symposium to review the
legacy of Mahan. The papers presented
—among them studies of Mahan's
influence in the United States, Japan,
Germany, and Latin America—testi¬
fied to the role that he played in shap¬
ing the military growth and foreign
policy of this century.

Mahan was born at West Point, N. Y.
in 1840 and spent two years in the Col¬
lege, time enough for him to achieve
proficiency in German and join the
Philolexian Society. He then trans¬
ferred to Annapolis, where he received
advanced standing and thus escaped
the traditional hazing of "plebes." He
made few friends at the Academy, as
would be the case for the rest of his life.
("I cannot remember the time that I ever
cared for two persons," he once re¬
marked.) Arrogant, aloof, and dissatis¬
fied with conventional naval wisdom,
he realized that what he wanted to be
was an historian. After a quarter of a
century of undistinguished military
service, notable mainly for his attempts
to avoid sea duty, Mahan became a
teacher at (and eventually president of)
the Naval War College, where he
worked up the lectures that would
form the basis of his seminal book.

Drawing upon more than a century
of the military, diplomatic, and com¬
mercial histories of the major European
nations (England, the Netherlands,
France, and Spain), Mahan proposed
that "command of the sea"—the ability
of a country to use its navy to promote
trade, engage in combat, and secure
colonies—was responsible, more than

any other factor, for determining
national power and prosperity. As his
prime example, Mahan looked to Eng¬
land, whose empire and consequent
power far outstripped those of its
rivals—all because the English under¬
stood the value of sea power and had
responded by building the world's
greatest navy.

"The due use and control of the sea is
but one link in the chain of exchange by
which wealth accumulates," he wrote,
"but it is the central link, which lays
under contribution other nations for

the benefit of the one holding it, and
which, history seems to assert, most
surely of all gathers to itself riches."
Indeed, Mahan argued, the course of
history itself could be gauged by com¬
mand of the sea. The notion was not
original with him, but more than any
single person, he popularized and
came to be synonymous with it.

M ahan's doctrine proved highly
popular in a United States that
was in the process of closing its conti¬
nental frontiers and reaching for

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empire overseas, and he did his best to
convince the populace that his latter-
day version of Manifest Destiny was
historically inevitable—especially
since this country fulfilled his six "Gen¬
eral Conditions Affecting Sea Power":
Geographical Position, Physical Con¬
formation, Extent of Territory, Number
of Population, National Character, and
Character of the Government. Clearly,
in light of its size, resources, and
national character, the United States
was poised for greatness. "Whether
they will or no," Mahan wrote in 1897,
"Americans must begin to look
outward."

In the course of his advocacy, Mahan
received the powerful support of The¬
odore Roosevelt. As Assistant Secre¬
tary of the Navy and later as President,
he consulted with Mahan frequently
on naval policy and sought to publicize
his ideas, forging the admiral's rumina¬
tions into the reality of the Great White
Fleet. "There is no question that you
stand head and shoulders above the
rest of us!" he wrote Mahan in 1897.
When, in 1901, Mahan announced that
his latest book would be his "swan
song," Roosevelt wrote back, "For
Heaven's sake, my dear Captain, do not
talk about your activities ending! We
must rely upon you as one of the fore¬
most educators of public thought, and I
trust for many years to come."

By the time Mahan died in 1914, hav¬

ing embellished his thesis with scores
of popular-magazine articles and some
20 books, he had largely accomplished
his goal: With colonies and trade flour¬
ishing in the Pacific and the Caribbean,
and with a fleet second only to Great
Britain's, the country was ready to
abandon its traditional isolationism.
Nor was Mahan's authority restricted to
these shores: The Influence of Sea Power
was read the world over and translated
into six languages. The British espe¬
cially lauded its author, presenting him
in due course to Queen Victoria.

Mahan also met Germany's leaders,
and according to Columbia historian
Henry Graff, "Kaiser Wilhelm said that
Mahan on sea power was in every
wardroom of every vessel in the Impe¬
rial German Navy."

century after their prime, Mahan's
works have not aged well. Such
technological advances as radar, sub¬
marines, and airplanes have rendered
much of his tactical thinking obsolete.
Even during his lifetime, he thought
that the same tactics that worked in the
Age of Sail could automatically be
applied to the Age of Steam. Mahan
was also an unabashed imperialist who
believed firmly in the white man's bur¬
den. "Our shibboleths of self govern¬
ment, and the consent of the governed,
are not of universal application," he
wrote. "Races, like men, have a child¬

hood in which they are not fit for one or
the other."

Not one of Mahan's books, not even
his masterwork, is currently required
reading at Annapolis. "Most scholars
would argue that he was a product of
his age—that he is a useful example of
what people thought in the 1890's, but
that what he said was neither shat-
teringly original nor particularly time¬
less," said Professor Craig Symonds,
chairman of the U.S. Naval Academy's
history department. "The Mahanian
notion that you can defeat the enemy
fleet and command the sea as a private
highway is as dead as a doornail."

However, insofar as "command of
the sea" translates into the use of the
world's oceans for trade and communi¬
cation, Mahan's vision has become so
much a part of the international scene
that it is impossible to imagine the
United States, or any leading nation,
operating without it. "Mahan's doc¬
trine is now embedded in the American
consciousness," said Professor Graff.
"In all the talk of arms control, no one
has touched the navies. Those are sac¬
rosanct." Thus, in writing one of the
most influential books of the nine¬
teenth century, Alfred Thayer Mahan
gave a glimpse of the global thinking
that would mark the twentieth.

Thomas Vinciguerra '85

Carry a big stick: Alfred Thayer Mahan was one of three College alumni who represented the United States at the First Hague Conference in 1899. Leading
the delegates in this cartoon is chairman Andrew White, former president of Cornell University; he is followed by Columbia College President Seth Low 70,
U.S. minister to the Netherlands Stanford Newel, army captain William Crozier, and Mahan. Bringing up the rear is the delegation's secretary, George
Frederick William Holls '78.

Obituaries

1917

George N. Kates, linguist and
author. Westerly, R.I., on March

23,1990.

1920

Morton Freund, advertising exec¬
utive, New York, N. Y., on Febru¬
ary 6,1990. Mr. Freund had his
own agency that specialized in
men's wear advertising; it later
merged with Lawrence C. Gum-
binner Associates, of which he
became executive vice president.

1921

Clarence D. O'Connor, retired
educator, New York, N. Y., on
June 29,1990. Mr. O'Connor spe¬
cialized in the teaching of the
deaf, and from 1931 to 1967 he
worked at the Lexington School
for the Deaf in Jackson Heights,
Queens, spending over 30 years
there as superintendent. He
helped develop the Reger-O'Con-
nor hearing aid for group train¬
ing, which enabled pupils to hear
their voices as well as the voices of
other students and their teachers.
He also promoted the use of
closed-captioned film. Mr.
O'Connor was president of the
Alexander Graham Bell Associa¬
tion for the Deaf from 1945 to 1957.

1923

Charles A. Loreto, retired judge,
Eastland, Texas, on July 1,1990. A
1925 graduate of the Law School,
Justice Loreto served 12 years on
the Municipal Court and 15 years
on the New York State Supreme
Court in Manhattan and the
Bronx. Among the cases on which
he ruled were an evaluation of pri¬
vate property used to build the
World Trade Center, and the deci¬
sion on whether the major league
baseball reserve clause consti¬
tuted a monopoly. His memoirs,
published in 1985, were titled In
the Name of Justice—With Compas¬
sion in Judging.

1925

Peter E. Lynch, retired fireman,
Port Charlotte, Fla., on March 24,
1990. Mr. Lynch was fire marshal
of Nassau County (N.Y.) from
1958 until he retired in 1970. His
career dated back to 1921, when he
became a member of Roslyn's Res¬
cue Hook & Ladder Co. #1. Dur¬
ing his 32 years of service with the
Nassau County Fire Commission,
Mr. Lynch brought fire safety

Thomas M. Macioce '39

requirements and programs,
which have since been adopted as
law, to schools, hospitals, the¬
aters, and other public buildings.
He also established stringent reg¬
ulations for the handling and stor¬
age of bulk flammable liquids.
Franklin E. Vilas, retired utilities
executive, Southport, Conn., on
June 22,1990. Mr. Vilas was with
Con Edison for many years, serv¬
ing as director of community rela¬
tions and assistant to the presi¬
dent for public relations.

Paul Winkopp, retired entertainer
and educator, Deerfield Beach,
Fla., on April 4,1990. Mr. Win¬
kopp was active in vaudeville,
dancing and playing the piano as
part of an act called Cunningham
and Bennet. He also wrote a radio
show, "Peep and Snoop." Mr.
Winkopp later had a career in
education, serving as principal of
P.S. 18, in the Bronx, and as an
associate professor at Hunter
College.

1927

Kenneth H. Abernathy, retired
attorney, Shawnee, Okla., on July

4,1990. Mr. Abernathy had a 46-
year career as a civil attorney in
Shawnee, where he was one of
the town's leading trial lawyers.
Active in church and civic work,
he was a Presbyterian Church
elder and was associated with the
local chamber of commerce for
many years.

1928

Bryce R. Kemp, bookseller, Phila¬
delphia, Pa., on February 4,1990.
Mr. Kemp specialized in scholarly
literary criticism. He was an active
member of the Religious Society
of Friends.

Edgar R. Lorch, retired professor.
New York, N.Y., on March 5,

1990. Dr. Lorch, a pioneer in the
development of modern mathe¬
matics theory, was Adrain Profes¬
sor Emeritus of Mathematics at

Columbia (see "In Memoriam,"
page 13).

Edward W. Mammen, retired
educator. Great Neck, N.Y., on
April 1,1990. Dr. Mammen
received his Ph.D. from Columbia
in 1945 and was for many years a
professor of speech at area col¬
leges. He co-authored the Voice
and Speech Handbook (1955) and
also wrote several children's
books.

1929

Irving Sarot, retired surgeon.
West Hampton Beach, N.Y., on
April 23,1990. A1932 graduate of
Columbia P&S, Dr. Sarot special¬
ized in thoracic and cardiac sur¬
gery. He was affiliated with
several area hospitals and also
had a private practice in Manhat¬
tan. As a major in World War II,
he headed an Army field hopsital,
took part in the invasion of Nor¬
mandy, and aided in the liberation
of Buchenwald.

1930

Frederick C. Happel, retired
manufacturing executive. Winter
Park, Fla., on November 13,1989.

1931

Edwin G. Kolsch, Holmes Beach,
Fla., on May 30,1989.

Leon M. Prince, retired research
chemist, Larchmont, N.Y., on
May 5,1990. Mr. Prince special¬
ized in microemulsions, the study
of the chemical reaction of oil and
water. He worked on the Manhat¬
tan Project in World War II and
was a researcher for Lever Broth¬
ers in Edgewater, N.J., until he
retired in 1975.

1932

Arthur Neumaier, physician,
Iowa City, Iowa, on June 26,1988.
Dr. Neumaier was chief of staff of
Municipal Hospital in Glencoe,
Minn., and had a private practice

in that city until 1970. He then
joined the staff of the Veterans
Administration Hospital in Tuc¬
son and, later, in Iowa City.

1933

Adrian Brodey, dermatologist,
Lawrence, N.Y., on May 11,1990.
Dr. Brodey had practiced in Law¬
rence since 1947 and was director
of dermatology at several Long
Island hospitals. He was a lieuten¬
ant colonel in the Army Medical
Corps in World War II. Dr. Brodey
was a fellow of the John Jay
Associates.

John Dixon, retired physician.
Union City, Ohio, on December
19,1988. Dr. Dixon had practices
in Garden City, N.Y. and Dryden,
N. Y„ from 1941 to 1955. Later he
was medical director at the Kate
Macy Ladd Convalescent Home
in Far Hills, N. J. for a number of
years.

1935

Richard Egler Fredricks, market¬
ing executive. Highland Falls,
N.Y., on January 12,1990. Active
in the Varsity Show, Blue Key,
Theta Psi and the Nacoms, Mr.
Fredricks had a career in advertis¬
ing and public relations; the cli¬
ents of his Manhattan firm
included Kodak and 3M. During
World War II, he served as a lieu¬
tenant in the Army Corps of
Engineers.

1936

Stephen B. Yohalem, retired phy¬
sician, New York, N. Y., on May

13,1990. An endocrinologist
whose research led to the wide¬
spread use of 1-131, the radioactive
isotope of iodine, in the treatment
of thyroid disorders. Dr. Yohalem
was an attending physician at
Mount Sinai Medical Center and a
professor of clinical medicine at
New York Medical College. He
also supervised house staff at
Doctors Hospital. A graduate of
N.Y.U. Medical School, he served
in the Army Medical Corps dur¬
ing World War II as commander of
the School of Tropical Medicine in
New Guinea, and as chief of med¬
icine at the 248th General Hospital
in Manila. He was a John Jay
Associate.

1938

Harry W. Kennedy, retired
C.P.A., Morristown, N.J., on
March 10,1990. An accountant for
many years with Arthur Ander¬
sen & Co., Mr. Kennedy was sec¬
retary and treasurer of the West
German engineering firm of
Dyckerhoff & Widmann when he
retired. He served as an Air Force
officer in North Africa and Italy
during World War II. Mr. Ken-

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nedy was a fellow of the John Jay
Associates.

1939

Thomas M. Macioce, lawyer,
business executive, alumni
leader, Brookville, N.Y., on
August 3,1990. A former Lion
basketball captain, Columbia Law
graduate and World War II naval
officer, Mr. Macioce was chairman
and chief executive of the Allied
Stores Corporation from 1972
until 1987, when the $4 billion
department store chain was
acquired by the Campeau Corpo¬
ration of Canada. A senior partner
in the law firm of Shea & Gould,
he was a director of several corpo¬
rations, including Manufacturers
Hanover, Capital Cities/ABC, and
Penn Central, and a trustee of
Columbia, St. John's and Adelphi
Universities. Mr. Macioce was
prominent in Roman Catholic
activities; he served as president
of the Inner-City Scholarship
Fund of the New York Arch¬
diocese, and was a Knight of
Malta. A past president of the Col¬
lege Alumni Association, he was
named chairman of the Campaign
for Columbia in 1982 and received
the College's Alexander Hamilton
Medal two years later. Gifts from
friends and associates created a
professorship at Columbia Law
School in his honor, as well as a
scholarship fund in the College.

1941

John H. Keating, Jr., retired phy¬
sician, Red Bank, N.J., on August
2,1990. Dr. Keating, a specialist in
internal medicine and cardiology,
was an attending physician at St.
Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center
in New York. He was a 1943 grad¬
uate of Columbia P&S, where he
was Assistant Clinical Professor of
Medicine until he retired in 1978.

1942

George H. Sumner, retired public
health engineer, Boynton Beach,
Fla., on February 7,1990. Mr.
Sumner was a former deputy
commissioner of health of Nassau
County, N.Y., where he lived for
many years. He was a lieutenant
with the Sanitary Corps during
World War II.

1943

Richard B. Bernstein, chemistry
professor, Santa Monica, Calif.,
on July 8,1990. An award-win¬
ning scientist and former chair¬
man of the Columbia chemistry
department. Professor Bernstein
worked on the Manhattan Project
as a student in the College. His
work in molecular beam scatter¬
ing earned him the National
Medal of Science in 1989. A pro¬
fessor of chemistry at UCLA, he

was a member of the National
Academy of Sciences and initiated
the academy's first study of the
impact of chlorofluorocarbons on
the Earth's ozone layer. Professor
Bernstein was a former board
member of the Columbia College
Alumni Association.

Rudolph von Abele, retired liter¬
ature professor and author, Wash¬
ington, D.C., on February 6,1989.
A wide-ranging intellect and
energetic teaching style marked
Professor von Abele's four-decade
career at The American Univer¬
sity, where he taught courses on
James Joyce, detective fiction, the
European novel, and poetry. His
Columbia Ph.D. thesis in Ameri¬
can history, a biography of Con¬
federate vice president Alexander
Stephens, was published by
Alfred A. Knopf; he later pub¬
lished a study of Hawthorne, two
novels, and a collection of poetry.
A scholarship fund has been
established in his name by The
American University.

1944

Thomas N. Walthier, mining
exploration manager. High¬
lands Ranch, Colo., on Febru¬
ary 7,1990. An internationally
respected mineral explorer and
economic geologist, Mr. Walthier
discovered iron ore in Labrador,
zinc in New York, copper in Ari¬
zona, and gold in a half-dozen
sites on two continents. Working
for Bear Creek Mining, Occiden¬
tal Minerals, and St. Joe Minerals
(later Bond Gold International,
from which he retired as vice
president two months before his
death), Mr. Walthier was known
as a skilled analyst of the econom¬
ics of mineral extraction. He
earned his Ph.D. at Columbia,
taught geology at Brown, and
worked as a staff geologist for the
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
before becoming a mining indus¬
try executive. Geologists and
engineers working under his
direction patented several inven¬
tions for deep ocean mineral
sampling.

1946

Sidney S. Prince, chemical engi¬
neer, White Plains, N.Y., on
March 5,1990. Mr. Prince was
director of plant facilities at the
Robert Yaeger Health Center in
Pomona, N.Y. for 16 years. Pre¬
viously, he was chief engineer for
the U.S. Vitamin and Pharmaceu¬
ticals Corporation, in Yonkers,
N.Y. Mr. Prince was active in local
civic, musical and gardening
associations.

1950

David L. Kayser, retired engineer,
Yarmouth, Maine, on February 11,

Robert R. Brookhart '59

1990. Mr. Kayser was a senior
research engineer with Union
Carbide in Tarrytown, N.Y.

1955

Robert G. Roxby, lawyer. New
York, N.Y., on October 21,1989.
Richard S. Sherman, bank execu¬
tive, Kendall Park, N.J., on March
2,1988. Mr. Sherman was an
assistant vice president and trust
administrator with U.S. Trust in
New York. A past president of the
South Brunswick (N.J.) Board of
Education, he hosted the televi¬
sion program "Conversation,"
and was chairman of the South
Brunswick Cable Commission.

1957

Michael Pleshette, dentist. Tea-
neck, N.J., on May 3,1989. Dr.
Pleshette earned his D.D.S. from
the University of Pennsylvania
and did graduate work at Boston
University. He maintained a pri¬
vate practice in Queens and spe¬
cialized in endodontics, which he
taught at NYU and Columbia.

1959

Robert R. Brookhart, archivist,
Washington, D.C., on May 7,

1990. Mr. Brookhart was assistant
to the Archivist of the United
States in Washington. A Colum¬
bia administrator from 1964 to
1975, he served as Assistant Direc¬
tor of Admissions at the College,
Associate Dean of the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, and
as Associate Provost.

1961

Michael J. Clemens, political sci¬
entist, San Francisco, Calif., on
March 20,1990. Mr. Clemens was
director of the Social Science Divi¬
sion of the College of San Mateo,
where he taught courses in politi¬
cal science and civil liberties, and
was a dance critic for the Berkeley
Gazette and for the Daily Cal.

1981

Nicholas Bache, teacher, Kent,
Conn., on January 27,1990. Mr.
Bache was an English teacher,
wrestling coach and dorm master
at the Kent School in Connecticut.

1984

Gary T. Baker, writer. New York,
N.Y., on July 3,1989. Mr. Baker
was editor of LAN (Local Area Net¬
work), a New York-based com¬
puter magazine, until shortly
before his death from AIDS. A
novelist and short story writer, as
an undergraduate he won the Phi-
lolexian and Philolexian Centen¬
nial prizes for fiction.

1993

Vasilia Vasiliadis, student.
Union, N. J., on June 26,1990.

Miss Vasiliadis died of leukemia
shortly after completing her
freshman year. At the College,
she belonged to the Greek-Ameri-
can Society and the Undergradu¬
ate Dormitory Council of
Schapiro Hall.

Obituaries Editor:
Thomas ]. Vinciguerra '85

Class

Notes

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100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

Dr. Ralph R. Stewart '11, the
noted taxonomist and authority
on plants of South Asia, cele¬
brated his 100th birthday on April
15. "The news of my centenary got
around," he writes, "and the Uni¬
versity of Michigan Herbarium
notified me that their 1990 Annual
Report would be in my honor and
that they would like me to prepare
a biography. To add to this, the St.
Louis Botanical Garden, one of
the best in the U. S., was having a
symposium for 100 botanists, and
they have written their signatures
on three cards which I have
received, with some kind words."
Dr. Stewart remains active despite
his years; he recently attended a
conference of the Department of
Botany at Karachi University in
Pakistan.

William Stecker writes from
Hallandale, Fla., "I was in the
Class of 18, but I received my B.S.
in 1917 as part of the program
leading to my engineering degree
in 1920.

"I retired from Con Edison in
1965 as general sales manager. I'll
be 92 on November 30, am active
in my town of Hallandale, Fla.

"I'm curious to know if there
are any graduates from my 1920
Engineering class surviving."

Leon F. Hoffman

67-25 Clyde Street
Forest Hills, N.Y. 11375

We recently had the pleasure of
hearing from Rev. H. Norman
Sibley, who lives with his wife,
Peg, in North Eastham, Mass, on
Cape Cod. Rev. Sibley met his
wife while they headed their
respective religious groups at
Columbia and Barnard; they were
married in 1923 and had a daugh¬
ter and two sons. While at the
College, Rev. Sibley studied
chemistry, intending to be a medi¬
cal missionary in China, where he
was born. Dean Hawkes, he
writes, "knew that my abilities
were not in the sciences at all and
had me change to a different sub¬
ject. I thought this was a remark-

Class Notes Editor: Phyllis T. Katz

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On June 24, the city honored publishing magnate George T. Delacorte '13 on the occasion of his 97th birthday and the
25th anniversary of the Delacorte Clock in the Central Park Zoo. Commissioner of Parks & Recreation Betsy Gotbaum
(left, with Mr. Delacorte and his wife, Valerie) presented him with a proclamation from Mayor David Dinkins, and the
Bowling Green Association, a parks support group, also gave Mr. Delacorte its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mr. Delacorte, the founder of Dell Publishing, has given many gifts to the city, including the Delacorte Theatre, the Alice
in Wonderland statue, and the City Hall Fountain. For the June presentation, the Parks Department arranged for the
Delacorte Clock's carillon bells to play "Happy Birthday ."

able insight on his part." Rev.
Sibley went on to receive graduate
degrees from Union Theological
Seminary and Teachers College,
served as pastor of three
churches, including the Univer¬
sity Heights Presbyterian Church
at 181st Street in the Bronx, and
formed what later became the
National Council of Churches.

Please write and let us know
what you have been doing.

Michael G. Mulinos

42 Marian Terrace
Easton, Md. 21601

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100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

Henry Miller

1052 N. Jamestown
Road, Apt. F
Decatur, Ga. 30033

Dr. Herman Slass, 2441 Calle
Sonora, Apt. 34B in Laguna Hills,
Calif., has written to us in New
York (I am in New Hampshire
right now), curious to see if there
is some possibility of getting help
in getting to alumni meetings in
his Orange County area, since he
has no car. He is 90 years old and
would enjoy seeing classmates
and other alumni. We hope some
kind alumnus will volunteer to
get Herman to meetings!

Joseph W. Spiselman

873 East 26th Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210
On May 10,1990, at its annual din¬
ner, the College Alumni Associa¬
tion awarded the President's Cup
to our Ben Edelman for his many
years of service to his classmates
and the alumni. In his remarks,
Ben summarized his career and
re-acknowledged his debt to the
College for his training on a full
scholarship, which explained in
part his dedication to helping
build the College Fund for others
to benefit. He noted that other
classmates left their estates, after
providing for their dependents,
to the College. He is planning
likewise and urges others to do
the same to make Columbia a vital
part of our society and produce
alumni dedicated to the same
resolve. A sustained round of
applause followed his talk.

Milton Handler, Professor
Emeritus of the Law School, was
awarded the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws at the 1990 Com¬
mencement. In part, his citation
read, "For your peerless contribu¬
tions to the law, to higher educa¬
tion, and to the betterment of our
society, Columbia University is
proud to confer upon you the de¬
gree of Doctor of Laws." Milton,
our class congratulates you, and
perforce, itself!

Ray Porte in Palm Beach, Fla., is
getting around, but his vision is

impaired and getting worse.

Marcy Cowan of Brooklyn,

N. Y., writes that for many law¬
yers as they get older, the law of
diminishing returns becomes a
large factor. Clients fade away by
moving to other climes, or a
higher clime. He recalls with nos¬
talgia Jim Anderson, who always
had Columbia, and its special
fund to help youngsters, in his
mind.

A further note from Doug Judd
in San Francisco, written in De¬
cember, 1989. He had not been
well since the previous April, but
was bound to get to our 65th reun¬
ion, which he did. But it caught
up with him a week thereafter! He
was hospitalized; to use his words
—"Saw innumerable doctors,
none of which did me any good;
their bills equalled the national
debt, and I lost 25 lbs. I aban¬
doned all doctors and shall
recover by myself. My appetite
has returned and the dull ache
around my middle is lessening."

Ben Edelman spoke by phone
to Ben Erger in Sun City, Ariz. He
sounded fine and perky. He is still
active and very proud of his age—
89—and his present health.

Walter Irving, by phone to
Binghamton, N.Y., is also 89 years
old, retired as a librarian, and
now retired as city historian. He
remains active in the community;
takes care of his own affairs; and is
making provisions for the College

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in his planned giving program.

Both Ben Erger and Walter Irv¬
ing bring to mind a question: who
are the oldest '24ers? It would be
nice if some of you who are 88 or
89, or hopefully older, would
drop me a line (a postcard will do)
so that it could be noted in this
column.

One last note: a Mr. Sam Tan-
nenhaus is writing a biography of
Whittaker Chambers, a contro¬
versial classmate of yore. He
would appreciate it if anyone with
memories of the man, good or
bad, would write to him at 105
Katonah Avenue, Katonah, N. Y.
10536. He will gladly answer any
questions you will have about his
project, and greatly welcome any
information you can give.

Julius P. Witmark

215 East 79th Street, 9B
New York, N.Y. 10021

Yes, we did it: had our 65th reun¬
ion on Saturday, June 2 in the Fac¬
ulty Room of Low Memorial
Library. All enjoyed it, and when
we say all, we mean it! With us
were Kathleen and John Balet,

Bill Block, Pauline and Harold
Brown, C. Bruner-Smith, Charlie
Flood, Mrs. Mortimor Gordon
(Sydnee); Mrs. Hazen Hardy
(Isabelle) and daughter; Ruth and
Milt Levitt, Helen Lynn, Marion

Lillard, Isabelle and Milt Mound,
Rosabelle and Anoch Lewert,
Mary Theobold and grandson.
Jack Ware and son, and Julie Wit-
mark and Ruth Bandler. Our
guests were former College Dean
Robert Pollack '61 and his wife,
Amy; Associate Dean Kathryn
Yatrakis (pinch-hitting for the
then-ailing Dean Jack Greenberg
'45); and Jamie Katz '72, editor of
CCT for 15 years.

After cocktails and lunch,
chairman Julie Witmark greeted
the speakers, classmates and
guests, and called for a moment of
silence in memory of those no
longer with us. He then called on
president Milt Levitt to welcome
those assembled. Next was for¬
mer Dean Pollack, who spoke
about some of the accomplish¬
ments of his seven years leading
the College: keeping the College
small and, in 1983, admitting the
first coed class. Associate Dean
Yatrakis sent regrets from ailing
Dean Greenberg, and described
the successful gourmet dinners
he had hosted which have done
much to encourage a greater
sense of community among the
faculty. Jamie Katz followed and
commented on what he termed
"the timelessness of the College's
mission and values." He said,
"Like the work of a farmer who
plants and nurtures the seeds and

Forever in lights: On March 27, Broadway's 46th Street Theatre was
rechristened the Richard Rodgers, after the Class of '23's legendary composer of
such Broadway hits as Pal Joey, Oklahoma, South Pacific, and The King
and I. Among the celebrities to attend the lunchtime tribute were Celeste Holm
and George Hearn, as well as Debby Boone and Rosemary Clooney, shown above
flanking Dorothy Rodgers, widow of the composer. Parts of the theatre have been
given over to the Richard Rodgers Gallery, a display of programs, pictures, sheet
music, and windowcards drawn from the more than 60 scores that Mr. Rodgers
wrote, many of them in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II '16 and Lorenz
Hart 18.

blooms of each successive har¬
vest, the work of education is
perennial. Students are the pre¬
cious harvest of our fields here—
students we take in at the end of
their childhood and issue four
years later as adult citizens." He
added, "The Class of 1925 was the
greatest harvest of Columbia's
long history." In closing, he read
from a letter addressed to our
class in 1925 by then-University
President Nicholas Murray Butler,
which prophesied the role we
might play as we entered a world
ravaged by World War I and its
aftermath. It said, in part, "Mem¬
bers of the Class of 1925 will be
active and important centers of
influence in the private and public
life of this nation for a half-cen¬
tury to come. It will be their op¬
portunity to face these difficult
conditions, and to endeavor to
deal with them in a spirit of large
intelligence, of high idealism and
of practical sagacity. The torch
that has been carried in the hands
of the fathers is soon to be passed,
all aflame, into the hands of their
children who are the youth of to¬
day. That the Class of 1925 will
seize this torch, will keep it alight
and will use it for high and fine
purposes is my confident belief."

Last but not least, president
emeritus Arthur Jansen, (and I be¬
lieve I am right when I say the

classmate who did most to hold
our class together when we
needed it most), made the first
announcement regarding monies
collected for our 65th reunion
fund: $50,000 from the Hugoton
Foundation, on whose board he
serves; $950,000 from the estate of
the late Henry English, ear¬
marked for construction; the Law¬
rence A. Wien Foundation added
another $10,000. In all, we are
happy to report that our 65th
anniversary gift to the College
totaled $1,021,497. We have given
$10,000 to A1 Paul, Director of Ath¬
letics, to refurbish our Lou Gehrig
Lounge and buy a new piano.

Kudos to Dr. Peter Pazzaglini
and his fine staff for their great
help and cooperation, without
which we couldn't have pulled
this off.

In closing, Julie Witmark read
his adaptation of "September
Song," which Walter Huston sang
so beautifully in Knickerbocker Hol¬
iday. It was the suggestion of some
classmates that it be included in
this report.

For Our 65th Reunion

'Tis a long, long time from May to

December.

Yet, here are a few things I'm sure

you'll remember.

I'm sure you'll remember theyear '21,

When we gathered here for learning
and fun.

The days when we called all the
'Sophs' Meany,

'Cause they made us all wear that
little black beany.

Those memorable days when our team
didn’t yield,

So long ago those, on dear old South
Field!

'Tho we lost a few games, what did it
matter?

In the year '29, we won the Pough¬
keepsie Regatta.

And speaking of victory, we made the
bells toll.

'Twas the year '34 when we won the
Rose Bowl.

Let's remember our classmate we all
knew so well:

Intercollegiate Diving Champ, Walter
Krissel.

And we're proud of our classmate,

Lou Gehrig by name,

Whose uniform hangs in the great
Hall of Fame.

Now let's look forward to '91

where, God willing, we meet for more
memories and fun.

Yes, the days dwindle down to a pre¬
cious few,

November, December —

'Tis my greatest wish, friends, that
these days that are few,

Yes, precious days I spend with you.

God bless you all.

Robert W. Rowen

1510 West Ariana,

Box 60

Lakeland, Fla. 33803

There are 110 members in the
Class, 12 of whom are John Jays,
but I have heard from only ten of
our classmates.

Janet and Harry Schaller cele¬
brated their 60th wedding anni¬
versary. Harry is chairman of the
First National Bank of Storm
Lake, Iowa, and winters in
Naples, Fla., near me.

William Behrens of Whiting,
N.J., celebrated 60 years in the
Lutheran Church. He serves part-
time in Camden, N.J.

Otie Rawalt and Gus von Gro-
schwitz attended a Dean's recep¬
tion in April. Otie and Roberta are
in the Berkshires until October.

Hugh Kelly reported that Kay
died on March 10th from cancer.
We will miss Kay. They have five
living children: four sons, three
who took graduate degrees at Co¬
lumbia (and one who took a de¬
gree in business at NYU because
Columbia didn't offer that pro¬
gram at night) and one daughter.
Sister Agnes, an Ursuline nun
who is now completing studies
for a second M. A. (this one in
social work; her first was in Eng¬
lish). Kay had an M. A. Hugh has
three great-grandchildren: two

girls and one boy. His address is
Box 218, Stone Ridge, N. Y. 12484.

Gus von Groschwitz, our class
treasurer, will soon be heading up
the phonathon and he promises
to pass along for the class news
anything he learns, so tell him
what you are doing.

Sal Gambino and Rose are OK,
taking it easy and looking for
news in Columbia College Today.

Trudy and Bob Rowen are
spending three weeks in British
Columbia in August. Both are
well and enjoying retirement in
Lakeland.

Rod Wiley summers in Lewis¬
ton, Mich., returning to Auburn,
Ala. in the winter. Adelaide is ill.
They have two children, five
grandchildren and four great-
grandsons.

I need some word from you.
There are only 110 of us left. How
are you? And the family? Whom
have you heard from, or seen? I
want to tell our classmates that
you are alive, even if you are in a
rest home. We want to read about
you in class notes, not in the obit¬
uary section. Write to me and I
will report it in the next CCT. Best
regards to all.

John G. Peatman

Research Consultants,
Inc.

83 East Avenue
Norwalk, Conn. 06851
We are happy to hear from our
class president. Bill Treiber, who
writes:

"I have had the pleasure in re¬
cent years of attending the annual
Dean's receptions for representa¬
tives of the donors and the recip¬
ients of College scholarships.
Through the Class of 1927 Schol¬
arship Fund, the Class has helped
able young persons to obtain a
Columbia education.

"Some donors have specified
conditions for eligibility to receive
their scholarships. Our Class and
most other donors leave to the
College full discretion in making
the awards.

"Each year two students have
been recipients of our Class Schol¬
arships—generally a man and a
woman. Initially a scholarship is
awarded to a freshman. After a
year it may be continued for that
person, or it may go to another
person, e.g., an incoming fresh¬
man.

"Meeting and talking with the
recipients has been a stimulating
experience. Before coming to
Columbia, they have demon¬
strated broad interests, high
achievement and well-rounded
careers. They have continued in a
similar pattern at Columbia. They
appear much more knowledgable
and concerned than we were six

decades ago about social and eco¬
nomic matters. They are much
better informed on national and
international affairs. They enjoy
life, but are very serious about
their careers and the world."

Of the nearly 150 surviving
members of our class, only 14 are
John Jay Associates. The need-
blind admissions policy of our
College deserves more. I am sure
some of you who are not John Jays
can afford $500 a year to support
the College. Please consider it.

Jerome Brody

39-48 47th Street
Long Island City, N.Y.
11104

On June 23 we all gathered again
at the home of Fred Lane for our
annual spring get-together. Those
who attended had a good time.

It's too bad that some were not
able to join us because of other
personal business.

An executive board meeting
will soon take place to plan for the
coming year. Stay tuned. If there
is anything you would like us to
circulate, just let me know.

Joseph W. Burns

127 Oxford Road
New Rochelle, N.Y.
10804

Are you bored with your retire¬
ment? Are you seeking some
pleasant and enjoyable activities
for your free time? Then, here is
something to consider. I invite all
retired alumni in Westchester
County to try something I have
found very enjoyable.

Last year a friend suggested I
joined the "Old Guard of White
Plains," which meets every Tues¬
day morning from 10 a.m. till
noon in the YMCA on Mamaro-
neck Avenue. Its members are
retired business and professional
men, and more than 100 attend
each meeting. The atmosphere is
informal, congenial, and the rela¬
tionship of the men is like that of a
fraternity.

At my first meeting, members
introduced themselves and, with¬
in a few minutes, had signed me
up for bowling and golf. When
the meeting began, the president
said, "Now we shall all rise and
pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America, and
then sing 'America the Beauti¬
ful.'" I said to myself, "I like this!"
After we sat down, the president
announced, "We shall now hear
our chaplain of the day." It is the
practice to have some member
read a nonsectarian prayer at each
meeting. I immediately decided
to join—these are my kind of
men. The policy is to have mem¬
bers bring guests to a few meet¬

ings to get acquainted with the
members. If a guest decides to
join, he must apply and be inter¬
viewed by a membership commit¬
tee, and approved at a full
meeting.

Weekly meetings feature one-
hour programs on a variety of
subjects, sometimes including a
movie or slides taken by a mem¬
ber to illustrate his talk. We have
an occasional music program—a
concert pianist or vocal group.
After each meeting, more than
half the men stay for lunch and
bridge. There are monthly lunch/
bridge gatherings at a country or
beach club at which the wives join
us.

The Guard organizes outings
which have recently included
tours of the Metropolitan Opera
and the American Museum of
Natural History, and trips to art
museums, dinner theaters, Bel¬
mont race track, and a West Point
football game. We have monthly
golf outings to mountain resorts,
and many, many others.

The bowling league runs from
October till April on Monday af¬
ternoons; golf tournaments are
held at Rockland State Park on
Monday mornings from April till
September, and lawn bowling is
played in Scarsdale every Friday
morning from April to September.

There is no age limit: the tennis
doubles players range from 60 (a
retired FBI man) to 82. The lawn
bowling team has two players 89
years old, and one who is 91 (and
he is also great at bridge).

While I address this invitation
to the class of 1929,1 shall be
happy to take any Westchester
alumnus to a meeting as my
guest. If you are interested,
phone me at (914) 632-8329.

Please note that while I am sin¬
cere in my enthusiasm for the Old
Guard, I doubt I would have writ¬
ten about it in this space had I had
anything else to write about. The
point is that since our 60th reun¬
ion in June, 1989, not one member
of the class has sent me a note
which I could put in this column. I
am not egotistic, and write about
myself only because nobody in
our class sends me any informa¬
tion about his activities or those of
his family members.

While no classmate sent any
news. The New York Times reported
that our beloved Irv Sarot died of
a heart attack on April 23,1990.

Harrison H. Johnson

50 Duke Drive
Paramus, N.J. 07652
A very important event on June
1-3 was the 60th reunion of our
class on campus. Those attending
included Charles Ballon, Prescott
Blatterman, Jr., Bonnie and Fred-

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erick Block, Mary and Schroeder
Boulton, Ellen and Adolph D.
Casciano, William C. French,

Lydia and Bernard Friedlander,
Leslie R. Hansel, Hilda and Har¬
rison H. Johnson, Harriet and A.
Alexander Katz, Doris and Lionel
Kaufman, Ruth and Theodore
Lidz, Helen and William T. Mat¬
thews, Jinx and Gerard P. Meyer,
Edith and Saul Parker, Dorothy
and William B. Sanford, Eleanor
and Sigmund Timberg, Dorothea
and Felix Vann, and William Y.
Pryor.

Harriet and Alex Katz flew in
from Phoenix and traded gossip
with Bill Sanford about their days
in Poughkeepsie training with the
crew. Other classmates also trav¬
eled long distances. Doris and
Lionel Kaufman came in from
Sarasota, Fla. But the farthest
traveled were Bonnie and Fred
Block, who flew in from Hawaii
and were still feeling the jet lag.

Many classmates wrote that
they regretted not being able to at¬
tend. Among them were Dan Mc¬
Carthy, Ed Friedlander, Felix
Dworak and William P. Hewitt
from Oaxaca, Mexico. Fred Read
had recent surgery and could not
make it. George Wright was not
well and David O. Sargent had
three heart attacks which pre¬
vented him from attending.

Hubert H. Margolies said he was
not well enough. Jacob I. Karro
was on medication recovering
from a stroke.

The alumni office had arranged
interesting events for us. Dean of
Students Roger Lehecka '67 met
with us after breakfast and re¬
ported on the state of the College
and the beneficial effects of being
coeducational. The College is now
an exciting and vibrant place. The
entering class is now 54 percent
women and that has attracted a
finer group of men. The dean an¬
swered questions on various as¬
pects of the core curriculum, ath¬
letics, admissions standards, and
said that 90 percent of the student
body now lived on campus. The
school is one of the few colleges
still with a need-blind admissions
policy. New science courses for
"poets" are being introduced to
keep up with the need for an edu¬
cation that includes familiarity
with the scientific and electronic
culture of the future.

The main activity was the ex¬
change of gossip with old friends
about our college days and the
present state of affairs in the
world. What a difference 60 years
make. When we lived in the
dorms no one locked doors. Now
there is security and double locks.
Still, we are better off than some
in Eastern Europe and China.

The program included various
activities. A tour of the campus for

those who had been away many
years, tennis and swimming for
the fit ones, bars and food for
those with healthy livers. Hilda
and Dee opted for a three-hour
bus tour to see the architecture of
the Big Apple. There were inter¬
esting and timely lectures by Prof.
Jim Shenton '49 on recent events
in Europe and their effect on the
U.S. and the world. Dr. Norman
Ramsey '35 spoke about time and
the physical universe; and Prof.
Madeline Zelin talked about
events in Tienanmen Square and
their influence in the rest of the
country. She was in Chengdu at
the time and could witness the
reaction of the Chinese.

On Sunday after breakfast and
a parade of all reunion classes, we
had a farewell barbecue under the
tent with Western music. Many
exhibited their dancing prowess,
or what remained from younger
days.

A number of upperclassmen
were assigned to chaperone our
group, so from them we received
a first-hand report on the atmos¬
phere in the College. We felt pam¬
pered by so much attention. Even
our suitcases were handled by
them. We are grateful for the good
cheer from Peggy Quisenberry,
Sam Trotesky '91, Ann Giarantano
'91, and Michael Klebnikov '76 of
the Alumni Office, who contrib¬
uted so much to make the reunion
such an enjoyable affair.

Chaplain (Col.) Matthew H.
Imrie's questionnaire arrived too
late to be included in the reunion
directory, but we enjoyed his in¬
teresting biography. In 1944 he
volunteered for army chaplain
and served in the Panama Canal
Zone, Pacific theater, Los Alamos,
Europe, Korea and the Pentagon.
Among the military decorations
he received are the Legion of
Merit and the Bronze Star. After
25 years he retired and is now liv¬
ing in Newton, Pa.

T. J. Reilly

Box 766

Ridgewood, N.J. 07451

Our only report this time came
from Dr. Ed Martinson in Madi¬
son, Conn.: "After winning the
local and regional spelling bee
sponsored by the Connecticut De¬
partment on Aging, I went on to
win the State Senior Citizens
Spelling Championship at the
Governor's Mansion in Hartford
last December. It was a lot of fun
and took me back seventy years.
An intergenerational spelling bee
is next on the agenda." Atta boy,
Ed, show up them young upstarts
and please report back. Maybe we
can have a Dr. Ed's spelling bee
and Kilgore's Dance Hoedown
(John's, not Joe's, who remarried

about a year ago) at Reunion time,
along with other events. Sugges¬
tions?

Lack of feedback makes a guy
feel lonesome and unloved, like
that washing machine repairman.
So, hope to see you all at Home¬
coming, 1990 (this scheduled to
appear beforehand) and trust that
Joe Moukad (President forever,
the "I's" have it— not the "A's")
will hear from you regarding a
get-together (hate the appellation
others use) he is planning for 1991.
From anonymous:

"And now/once more again/off
to the woods/with bow and
arrow/and two sticks of wood/to
start the fire/perhaps, find a cave/
cozy and warm/with luck, a lady
bear/who can cook/think of the
bliss/when raspberries ripen."

From not really anonymous:
"And now/once more again/if
tired of such crap/send a note/
with any news/interesting or not/
anything welcome/if not profane."

And also: Once more again/be
advised that/there are but/15-20
years left to remit/after which/no
more raspberries.

Lloyd G. Seidman

180 West End Avenue,
28-M

New York, N.Y. 10023

If it weren't for such faithful and
interesting correspondents as
Jules Waldman, who knows if it
would be possible to continue
these class notes at all? Jules for¬
tunately took the time to write all
the way from Caracas, Venezuela,
where he is the eminent editor
emeritus and publisher of the
only English-language daily in
town, more or less as follows: "I
am fairly O.K. and hope to be
around for our 60th reunion in
1992 to which I will surely go!...
Hope you enjoy your Elderhostel
experience in France." (Thanks,
Jules, I certainly did. It was a mar¬
velously interesting trip which
included a week each of study in
Strasbourg, Rheims and Paris,
where we spent half our time in
the museums and the other half
being wined and dined by our
Parisian relatives—dozens of
them! C'etait vraiment formidable!)

Then Jules goes on to say, "I'm
trying to persuade my good wife
Agnes to go to Europe with or
without me for a while (our
daughter lives in England)—hope
I succeed... See you soon. Best
regards to all the guys."

Now doesn't that inspire you?
Don't leave it all to Jules! Sit down
right this minute and drop me a
line to let all your classmates
know what's with you and how
you're spending your time. And
incidentally, keep that 60th reun¬
ion firmly in mind. It will be upon

us sooner than you think.

Sad to say, among the missing
at that auspicious event will be
classmate Henry Wiggins, whose
obituary appeared inThe New York
Times in June. You no doubt recall
that Henry was our class valedic¬
torian. He joined the staff of Co¬
lumbia University Press soon
after Commencement, ultimately
becoming its assistant director
and retiring three years ago.
Henry was also an editorial execu¬
tive of the Columbia Lippincott Ga¬
zetteer of the World and of three edi¬
tions of The Columbia Encyclopedia.

Hey, if you haven't signed up
(and sent your check) for Home¬
coming Day at the Columbia-
Princeton football game, for good¬
ness' sake get with it! Just ask any
of your classmates who made it to
last year's Homecoming what a
great time we had. Or check back
in the Winter 1990 and Spring-
Summer 1990 editions of CCT for
our description of the happy
event. (Yes, it took two sets of 1932
class notes to tell all we did there.)
So be sure not to miss this year's
version. Call the Alumni Office
today while you think of it. We'll
be looking for you on October
27th.

AlBeaujean

40 Claire Avenue
New Rochelle, N.Y.
10804

Received the following over the
past quarter:

Larry Eno writes with sad
news: Adrian Brodey died on
May 11. Adrian was an enthusi¬
astic member of the class and he
truly loved the College.

Also received this item from Dr.
David W. Fassett: "Pleased to hear
that the Class of 1933 Scholarship
Fund is now in use. I made a do¬
nation to it but heard nothing
more about it. Reg Call and I
shared rooms in the corner of
Hartley looking down on the
entrance of Hamilton Hall. It was
a pleasant time."

Your correspondent has sur¬
vived the summer heat thus far
and plans to take a trip this fall to
the wilds of Vermont with our
French friends to see the foliage.
Wish us luck.

Lawrence W. Golde
27 Beacon Hill Road
Port Washington, N.Y.
11050

Our class luncheon at the Prince¬
ton Club on February 13,1990 was
attended by Fon Boardman, Bob
Baker, Larry Golde, Bill Golub,
Jud Hyatt, Herb Jacoby, Howie
Klein, Evald Gasstrom, Phil
Roen and John Leonardo. All but
Baker and Hyatt made it to our

spring luncheon on April 16.

Dr. Hy Bickerman, who spe¬
cializes in diseases of the lungs,
was honored by Doctors' Hospital
in New York, which inscribed his
name on a respiratory laboratory
in a wing at the hospital.

The New York Times of Sunday,
May 13 contained an article de¬
scribing the work done by Gas-
strom Marketing Company, an
organization founded by Evald
Gasstrom about four years ago.
The company has established a
network of sheltered workshops
which employ handicapped
workers. It provides a link be¬
tween social service agencies and
industry. The workshops are lo¬
cated in the tri-state area with
skills ranging from the assembly
of ball point pens to blister pack¬
aging.

Mike Sutter

510 E. Harrison Street
Long Beach, N.Y. 11561

John Murray, a retired civil engi¬
neer specializing in hydroelectric
power, regrets he couldn't attend
the reunion. His brother, Ken,
was in the class of 1932.

Leonard Schreiber received the
Alumnus of the Year award of the
Columbia Alumni Club of Fair-
field County, Conn. He also re¬
ceived a Dean's Award at a
College dinner at the Kellogg
Conference Center on campus.
No question, he'll have to enlarge
his trophy room.

Another request for David
Cook's address reminded me that
we have a classmate. The Most
Honorable Dr. Abdul Sherper, in
Kabul, Afghanistan. Anyone
passing through, please make in¬
quiries.

Paul V. Nyden

P.O.Box 205
Hillsdale, N.Y. 12529
Bill Michelsen, Winter Park, Fla.,
was a 1990 national regional final¬
ist for the Outstanding Volunteer
program from the Seminole
County schools. He has been a
volunteer in ESOL (English for
Speakers of Other Languages) for
several years, providing indi¬
vidual instruction to students in
local secondary schools to help
them carry on regular classwork
in the subject. He and his wife,
Agnes, attended the special
awards ceremony at Disney World
on May 4.

Walter E. Schaap

86-63 Clio Street
Hollis, N.Y. 11423
Each year, Columbia turns hun¬
dreds of young provincials into
citizens of the world, thanks to a
gifted faculty on campus and a

great city all around it. Many '37
men owe most of their metamor¬
phosis to their C.C.-A instructor,
Shepard Bancroft Clough, who
died on June 7 at 88 years of age.

Shep Clough not only taught us
about the interrelationship be¬
tween political, economic, social,
and cultural history in every age,
he taught us about living in the
depressed 1930's.

I remember one morning in
1933 when Shep tossed away the
scheduled lesson, and spent the
hour talking about which wine
should accompany each course.
Even though this benighted
Brooklynite never became a Che¬
valier du Taste-vin, Shep opened
up new worlds beyond Passover
Manischewitz for me on that day.

My memory isn't what it was,
but I remember that Bob Barnes
was in that class, as were Irby
Stephens, Murray Bloom, Fred
Meyers (does anyone know what
became of Fred?) and, I believe,

Ed Kovar, Ben Johnson, the
sprinter, Manny Sanders and
Tom Scherman.

All of us were proud to be part
of Clough's Toughs. In the C.C.
softball league, we murdered
such rivals as Gutmann's Guz¬
zlers and Carey's Canaries, usu¬
ally with our prof pitching.

Once a year, Shep would lead
us to a downtown restaurant, and
introduce us to strange ethnic
dishes like lasagna and sukiyaki.

It was Shep Clough who later
steered me to the best historians
at the Sorbonne. He shaped the
career that would have been
mine, had it not been for the out¬
break of war in Europe in 1939,
and for my Greetings from Uncle
Sam in 1942.

Shepard Clough went on to in¬
ternational fame as one of the
world's most distinguished eco¬
nomic historians. But for the
Class of '37, he will be best re¬
membered as the young instruc¬
tor who was our friend, and who
taught us about civilized living.

Peter J. Guthorn

825 Rathjen Road
Brielle, N.J. 08730

Len Luhby was good enough to
supply the following report on
our spring reunion:

"The class held its 52nd reunion
May 25-28,1990 at Arden House
in Harriman, N.Y. Twenty-four
classmates attended, most with a
spouse or guest. The three-day
event was highlighted by infor¬
mative round-robin chats, lec¬
tures, and discourses by members
of the class, their spouses and a
top-flight panel of faculty mem¬
bers. Most appreciated was the
opportunity to see each other
again to gab and joke about past
or current interests around the

dinner table, the tennis court and
the Saturday night dance and
cocktails.

"Senta Raizen, director of the
National Center for Improving
Science Education in Washington,
and wife of A1 Raizen, spoke Fri¬
day night on the problems of sci¬
ence education in pre-college stu¬
dents in the U.S. George Rahilly,
now a retired orthopedic sur¬
geon, gave a fascinating review of
his long-time hobby building
model subway cars, originally us¬
ing wood from fracture splints
and tongue depressors. The cars
are frequently exhibited at
museums including that of the
N.Y. Metropolitan Transit Au¬
thority in Brooklyn.

"Participants at the reunion in¬
cluded Nancy and Bob Blanc,
John Bateman, Tod and Weldon
(Bob) Booth, Marian and Herb
Carlin, Alenda and John Crym-
ble, Juan de Zengotita, Ruth and
Cornelius Fitzgerald, Mary and
George Freimarck, Betty and Bob
Friou, Geer and Ernie Geiger,
Marge and Bill Hance, Helen and
Ed Kloth, Len Luhby, Betty and
Ed Menaker, Janice and Hank
Ozimek, Marjorie and John
Osnato, Lillian and Howie
Podell, George Rahilly, Senta
and A1 Raizen, Sophie and Bill
Ross, Helen and Dick Stett, Paul
Taub, Doris and Seymour Trevas,
and Helen and Jim Zullo.

"On Saturday afternoon, Jim
McMenamin, Dean of College Re¬
lations, spoke on current admis¬
sions policies and their effect on
the composition of the student
body. In recent years the student
body, with the help of many inter¬
ested alumni, has become more
representative of the nation as a
whole, including its great ethnic
diversity. This and other factors,
including greater financial contri¬
butions from a broader spectrum
of alumni, have immeasurably
strengthened the College scene.
A1 Paul, Director of Athletics, and
his wife, Anita, who were guests
of the class at lunch, spoke on new
developments in intercollegiate
athletics. His address drew much
heated discussion. Following his
talk, motion picture highlights of
two memorable Columbia Col¬
lege football games were shown:
the 1934 Rose Bowl and the 1947
Army upset. John Bateman acted
as moderator. His discussion was
itself memorable and drew enthu¬
siastic approbation.

"On Sunday morning. Dean of
Students Roger Lehecka ad¬
dressed the class on the state of
the College. Among the interest¬
ing new innovations to improve
the academic and student-life as¬
pects was the plan to introduce a
house system along the lines of
those at Princeton and Yale. Pro¬
fessor Alan Lynch, assistant di-

Donal E. J. MacNamara '39 was

awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws
degree at the June graduation cere¬
monies of August Vollmer Univer¬
sity, a California institution
specializing in post-graduate educa¬
tion for criminal justice professionals.
Mr. MacNamara is Emeritus Distin¬
guished Professor of Criminal Justice
at the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice and the Graduate School of the
City University of New York. He has
served in administrative and advisory
capacities to many law enforcement
agencies and has taught at a number of
institutions, including Israel's Bar
Ilan University and the University of
Melbourne in Australia. The author
of a dozen books and many articles and
surveys, he is a past president of the
American Society of Criminology and
is former editor-in-chief of Crimi¬
nology: An Interdisciplinary
Journal.

rector of the Harriman Institute,
then presented a stimulating talk
on the recent political changes in
eastern Europe and Russia and
their significance for the U.S. On
Sunday evening, Paul Taub pre¬
sented a description of the Elder-
hostel programs as interesting
and inexpensive vacations.

"At the class business meeting,
the new officers elected were:
President, Len Luhby; vice presi¬
dent, Bob Friou; class correspon¬
dent, Pete Guthorn; treasurer,

Paul Taub. John Bateman was
elected honorary vice president
by acclamation. Seymour Trevas,
who resigned as treasurer, was
given a vote of thanks for his work
during the past two years. The
group then voted to thank Len
Luhby with special approbation
for his work in arranging the re¬
union."

Bob Hopkins was one of the
Columbia-Cornell Committee
that sponsored a very successful
Ivy League picnic at Naples, Fla,
on April 28. He and Jean were in
California, and then headed
north for a New England summer.

Stuart Hale Kirkland died

Columbia College Today

April 20 in Richmond, Va. A
member of the Class of '38 and of
the School of Business, he was a
member of Phi Gamma Delta. He
had retired as a vice president of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. He served in the Coast Guard
during the war, graduating from
the Coast Guard Academy in
New London. He attained the
rank of captain and commanded a
refueling tanker in the North
Atlantic and the Bering Sea. He
resided in Southport, N.C., with
his family.

Condolences are also extended
to the following classmates,
whose spouses recently passed
away: John Anspacher upon the
death of Ellinor; Bill Maggipinto
upon the death of Elizabeth; and
Paul Taub upon the death of Elsie.

Robert E. Lewis

464 Main Street, #218
Port Washington, N. Y.
11050

Bob Senkier, after a 30-year
career in university administra¬
tion as a business school dean at
Columbia, Seton Hall, and Ford-
ham, is now in semi-retirement as
a consultant with the Leila Y.
Mathers Foundation. The foun¬
dation supports basic medical re¬
search. Recently, Bob obtained a
$10,000 summer research grant
for Columbia College.

Seth Neugroschl

1349 Lexington Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10128

Our 50th Reunion, held on cam¬
pus on June 1-3, was a smashing
success, perhaps the best our
class has ever had. That was the
clear consensus of the 72 class¬
mates in attendance who, with
wives and other guests, num¬
bered 130 celebrants.

Wearing my planning commit¬
tee hat, my deepest thanks to the
committee and all those class¬
mates, speakers and Alumni
Office staff who made this success
possible:

To Class President Ellis
Gardner who, attending with his
wife, Betty, displayed a dazzling
recall of classmates' names and
lives as he graciously hosted Sat¬
urday lunch and two dinners be¬
fore turning over the presidency
to Lawson Bernstein on Saturday
evening. I join Lawson in paying
tribute, on behalf of the class, to
Ellis for his many years of dedi¬
cated class leadship, and to Betty
for her ongoing support;

To Dean of Students Roger
Lehecka '67 and Professor Ted de
Bary '41, and the Honorable Don¬
ald Bowman Kursch, acting am¬
bassador to Hungary and
economics minister designate to
our embassy in Bonn. Their

speeches, on the history of the
College's core curriculum,
Tienanmen Square and after, and
Hungary and the emergence of
democracy in Eastern Europe,
supported our theme and trig¬
gered considerable discussion;

To Eleanor and Don Kursch for
arranging for their son's weekend
trip back to the U.S. to speak to
us, in the midst of a very busy
schedule;

To Isabel and Hector Dowd.
Hector, our newly elected execu¬
tive v.p. who, together with Law-
son, is so effectively co-chairing
our class fund.

One of many catch-up chats I
had was with Meg and Matt
Elbow. He has just retired as pro¬
fessor of history at SUNY-Albany.
However, it took a note from
Albon Man to inform me of the
1990 excellence award given him
by his university.

Beyond all else, our coming
together and sharing activities,
milestones and ideas was the
highlight of the reunion for many
of us. So, please keep me posted!
Your old and new class friends
will enjoy sharing your news.
Subsequent class columns will
contain the updates I didn't have
room for in this reunion report.

Our five new regional v.p.'s—
Don Kursch, New York; Charlie
Webster, San Francisco; Russ
Tandy, Hobe Sound, Fla.; Stan
Temko, Washington, D.C., and
Danny Edelman, Chicago, are in
place to build class camaraderie
and unity, so enhanced at our
50th.

Let's keep in touch!

Arthur S. Friedman

Box 625

Merrick, N.Y. 11566
We were very distressed to learn
that our own Jack Keating passed
away on August 3. Among those
attending his funeral were Fred
Abdoo, Joe Coffee, Fanny and
Ted de Bary, Suzanne and Bob
Dettmer, and Connie and
Semmes Clarke.

Ying-Shih Yu, professor of
East Asian studies at Princeton,
recently wrote these words to Ted
de Bary on his 70th birthday:
"Long ago, Hu Shih shattered the
Three Confucian Bonds, once for
all./Now it is Ted de Bary who has
ascended Confucius' Hall./In sev¬
enty years, the world has experi-
enced/Many changes, as ever./But
the Majestic Hudson River flows
forever."

During a recent trip to Hong
Kong, Arthur Friedman was
greeted with a gracious welcome
from the president of the Hong
Kong Columbia Alumni Club,
Edith Shih (perhaps a relation to
Hu Shih?). There is also a very

active Hong Kong Ivy League
Group. Both meet and celebrate
very often, renewing and main¬
taining their college relationships.
Perhaps we should hold one of
our annual reunions there!

Please remember that for our
49th reunion this year, we are
meeting at Arden House in Har-
riman, N.Y. from October 19-21.
Bob Dettmer, '41 President, will
welcome your calls at (914) 698-
4588. We look forward to being
with all of our classmates on the
19th of October.

Herbert Mark

197 Hartsdale Avenue
White Plains, N.Y.
10606

A number of you have written
asking about plans for our 50th
Reunion. I have been in touch
with the Alumni Office and our
president, Ed Kalaidjian. Ordi¬
narily, the 50th is held over a
spring weekend at Arden House.
Otherwise, there is very little to
report at this time, but serious
planning should begin in the
remaining months of this year.

What are your thoughts about
this? We are anxious to have
them. Depending on your re¬
sponse, a detailed questionnaire
may go out later in the year.

We need committee members
—people willing to give time.
How about some of you recent re¬
tirees sharing your free time with
your classmates? Several class¬
mates have already volunteered.

John Pearson

5 Walden Lane
Ormond Beach, Fla.
32074

Walter Wager

200 West 79th Street
New York, N.Y. 10024

Dr. Robert Mclnerney, the noted
Pittsfield, Mass., internist, has re¬
tired from the practice of medi¬
cine in good health and fine
spirits. His full plate will include
ongoing studies at a local
university.

Mort Lindsey, Merv Griffin En¬
terprises' gifted director of music
operations (a.k.a. the Brahms of
Burbank) remains vibrant and
busy, supervising tuneful aspects
of several game shows plus music
at The Beverly Hilton Hotel (B.
Hills) and Resorts International
(Atlantic City). In addition to
leading his swinging big band at
the birthday gala of a kid from the
Class of 1919, Dr. Armand Ham¬
mer, Dr. Lindsey composed the
theme for the latest Griffin game
show. Monopoly.

Little, Brown plans to publish

How to Buy Stocks by Louis Engle
and Henry R. Hecht in 1991.

The International Executive
Service Corps reports that Evelyn
and Everett Roach have returned
to their Stamford, Conn., villa
from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where
Everett served with distinction as
a savvy volunteer consultant to
Computec, S.A. An engineer and
management wizard, he is the re¬
tired director of operations, AT&T
(Western Electric).

In addition to his stimulating
prose in Palo Alto's daily Peninsula
Times Tribune, Leonard Koppett is
contributing a weekly sports col¬
umn to the West Coast edition of
The New York Times, whose staff he
graced for many years.

Dr. Joshua Lederberg, the
Nobel laureate in genetics who
recently retired from the presi¬
dency of Rockefeller University to
focus on research, has been elec¬
ted a trustee of the new National
Museum of Health & Medicine
Foundation.

Walter Wager contributed an
article on "Moscow First Class" to
the July issue of Performing Arts.

William Rumage is a member
of the board of governors of the
American College of Surgeons,
representing the Southeastern
Surgical Congress.

John Spitznagel is president of
the American Association of Med¬
ical School Microbiology Chair¬
men.

Clarence W. Sickles
321 Washington Street
Hackettstown, N.J.

07840

The 45th reunion of the Columbia
College Class of '45 was a howling
success with a perfectly planned
weekend providing pleasure,
stimulation and some College
nostalgia from Friday to Sunday
afternoons, June 1-3.

Student class leaders Katina
Pearl '92 and Carl Marci '91 were
assigned to guide us through the
weekend and did it well with
charm and aplomb.

The "us" were thirteen '45ers,
ten having their ladies with them:
Jerome W. Heller and Joan; Julian
B. Hyman and Elaine; Sheldon
Isakoff and Anita; William Mac-
Clarence and Toni; Herbert Mar-
goshes; V. Peter Mastrorocco and
Ruth; Lester Rosenthal and Carol;
Albert Rothman; Harold Samel-
son and Bernice; Martin Shul-
man; Michael J. Ucci and Barbara;
Howard L. Wilson and Diane,
and myself and Jean. Regrettably,
our own '45 Columbia College
Dean Jack Greenberg could not be
present for health reasons, but re¬
ports indicate that he is recovering
well.

The reunion started with regis-

One of the year's mega-movie hits is Die Hard 2, based on the novel 58 Minutes by Walter Wager '44 (above, with cigar).
Budgeted at $40 million, this sequel to the 1988 original is the story of terrorists who try to seize an airport, only to be
undone by Detective John McClane (played by Bruce Willis, above, with gun).

Reading from a carefully prepared statement, Mr. Wager said, "My novel, which is only partially autobiographical, has
a modest 100 corpses. This fast-paced picture delivers more than three times as many, with imagination, thrills, and a lot of
noise. 1 wish that George Nobbe, the man who tried to teach me writing at Columbia, could see it."

Mr. Wager, one of the fastest one-fingered typists in the East, is the author of more than a dozen espionage thrillers, two
of which —Telefon and Viper Three— have also been made into movies. A freelance publicist, former director of public
relations for ASCAP, and dapper man-about-town, he has been an editor at the United Nations and at Playbill. He is a
graduate of Harvard Law School but has not sued anybody lately.

In turning Mr. Wager's handiwork into a Die Hard sequel, screenwriter Steven de Souza made some major changes.

"All the characters and methodology are different ," he told The New York Times. "It's the usual Hollywood ax murder of
a novel ." Though pleased with the result, Mr. Wager agrees. "Steven de Souza has blood on his hands, cash in his bank
account, and a twinkle in his eye."

tration at John Jay Hall where we
were given blue "Columbia Col¬
lege 1945 Alumni" T-shirts and
"Columbia College, Anniversary
Weekend" duffel bags. After a
delicious Saturday breakfast, a
tour of Baker Field and the use of
Dodge Gym were on the sched¬
ule. Our class luncheon was fol¬
lowed by three afternoon lectures
and our class dinner with popular
Professor James P. Shenton '49 as
our guest and speaker. A special
performance of the 1990 Varsity
Show at the Miller Theater on
Broadway ended the day for most
of us.

The class parade on Sunday
morning went from the Van Am
Quad to Miller Theater for a con¬
vocation and address. It was good
to march to the tunes of "Roar,
Lion, Roar," and "Who Owns
New York?" The big weekend
closed with a country-Western
"Farewell BBQ" at the main tent
on South Field where we also had
a New Orleans Mardi Gras Party
with Southern seafood, a charm¬
ing female roving magician and a
swing band for dancing on Friday
night.

I should mention our election of
class officers. President is V. Peter
Mastrorocco, and Herbert Mar-
goshes is secretary-treasurer. Bar¬
bara Ucci and Diane Wilson are
class correspondents if and when
their services are needed.

At the reunion, I learned that

the New York Civil Liberties
Union Foundation honored Jack
Greenberg, a winner of the 1990
Fiorina Lasker Civil Liberties
Award, at a luncheon at the New
York Harvard Club in April.

Sheldon Isakoff ended 39 years
of service at Du Pont where he
used his Columbia Ph.D. in
chemical engineering to become
the director of Engineering Re¬
search and Development. Last
year, Sheldon became president
of the prestigious American Insti¬
tute of Chemical Engineers. As an
avid orchid grower with his wife,
Anita, Sheldon looks forward to
this hobby in his Chadds Ford
home in Pennsylvania and visits
to his lawyer son Peter and his
wife and children in Washington,
D.C.

'45ers, stay healthy and plan
early for our 50th reunion week¬
end in 1995!

Henry S. Coleman

P.O.Box 1283
New Canaan, Conn.
06840

The poor old mailbox has been
empty this past quarter with the
exception of the alumni question¬
naire for our 45th reunion next
June 1991. Otherwise known as
the Medicare Reunion, this looks
as if it will be the first class get-
together since the 40th. (Where
are you. Carlo Celia?) At any rate,
I hope that all classmates will fill in

the questionnaire and submit it
immediately to provide more am¬
munition for this great column.

Fortunately our old friend
Howard Clifford has come to my
assistance again. Howard, by the
way, has moved to San Luigi,
Calif., where he has a place on the
beach and is training otters for the
1991 Animal Olympics. Howard
sent me some more of the great
reminiscences of Gordon Mathes
from Memphis. Gordon writes:
"As a civilian I lived in Livingston
Hall and waited tables in The
Lion's Den. One customer came
in every night, ordered a (free)
cup of hot water, brought his own
tea bag and never left a tip. My
best income was selling hot dogs
and Cokes at Baker Field at the
football games. The year after we
beat Army, I was at P&S and went
down to join the marching band
to get to the game at West Point. I
went to the practice a week before
the game. 'Who are you?' the
band director shouted, stopping
the rehearsal. 'I am a Columbia
student and am entitled to go to
the game Saturday,' I replied. 'We
are going to Carnegie Hall,' he
said, 'This is the concert band.
Pack your clarinet and go down
the hall to the Marching Band.'
Humiliated, I did so, marched on
the field at West Point and was
told not to come back next week.

"My advisor told me I should
join either the Army or Navy Re¬
serve. 'Which one are you join¬

ing?' I asked. 'The Army,' he re¬
plied. 'OK, then. I'll join the
Navy.' His unit shipped out the
next semester and I was in the
V-12 unit from July '43 till July '44.
One of my '42 roommates, Ralph
Hess, joined the Army Air Force
after three of us went to see a
movie about a B-17, The Mary Ann,
at the Nemo Theater. The next day
we all went down to enlist in the
Air Force, but only Ralph passed
the physical. Ralph later flew mis¬
sions over Europe. Breck Camp¬
bell later got into the Navy Air
Force and got his wings just as the
war was over. I spent the summer
of '44 on active duty as a hospital
corpsman at Brooklyn Navy Hos-
| pital, then went to P&S that fall. I
5 served in the Navy as a doctor
from 1951 to 1953 during the
Korean conflict."

That's all of Gordon's reminis¬
cences we have time for this ses¬
sion. Howard and I wish that
more of you would join in remem¬
bering the "good old years" and
drop either one of us a line.

George W. Cooper

P.O.Box 1311
Stamford, Conn. 06904

Our last column was principally
devoted to a report on the com¬
ings and goings of Allan Temko.
We could hardly realize how time¬
ly that account would be. Shortly
after, Allan won a Pulitzer Prize
for his writings on architecture.
The Class Notes Editor managed
to squeeze in mention of this well-
deserved honor at the end of the
column before it was "put to bed"
and there is a longer note on the
subject in this very issue. What
the editor could not add were the
congratulations of your corre¬
spondent and all his classmates
who well remember Allan despite
the mists of passing years.

Only one other contribution to
this issue's column, a long letter
from our good friend and more-
regular-than-most correspon¬
dent, Ed Gold, with some good
news about himself and some sad
news about a classmate. In Ed's
own words, only slightly con¬
densed, "A1 (Alfred H.) Green¬
berg passed away this spring. A1
followed a writing career and
wound up a magazine editor the
last 25 years of his life. At Colum¬
bia, A1 was active in American
Youth for Democracy which was
proud to be radical left, during the
time I was editor of Spec and a
member of the Student Board...
[A] half dozen years after gradua¬
tion. .. I was an editor at Fairchild
Publications, in need of an assis¬
tant editor. Personnel told me
they had a real winner... [Al] was
petrified, positive I would rule
him out on political grounds. I
told him I didn't give a damn

Columbia College Today

Allan Temko '47, architecture critic:

His eyes on the campus

T he latest honor to be bestowed on
Allan Temko, the renowned archi¬
tecture critic of the San Francisco Chroni¬
cle, is the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in criticism.
For those who know Mr. Temko, the
choice was obvious—on several
counts.

"He's probably one of the greatest
critics of our time, not only because he's
sensitive to architecture as an art, but
also because he has a great sense of
history," said Eugene Santomasso, an
adjunct associate professor at the
Architecture School. "His writing is
very clear, too—he doesn't get bogged
down in jargon. Most architecture criti¬
cism is unintelligible, but he gets it
right on the button."

One other reason may be the passion
that Mr. Temko brings to bear on his
subjects, including Alma Mater: He has
called the Columbia campus "a tri¬
umph of urban design, one which was
half a century ahead of its time," but he
has also vociferously denounced the
mediocrity of some of its later
structures.

It was only natural that after he
picked up his prize at a luncheon in
Low Rotunda on May 21, he celebrated
with a brief tour of the campus. He
didn't get to see everything, but he had
something to say about everything he
did see.

// T sn't this a swell building?" Mr.

JL Temko asked rhetorically as he
surveyed the sumptuous interior of St.
Paul's Chapel. "People say it's imitative
architecture, but it's really a tremen¬
dous piece of art." He recalled a stu¬
dent production, appropriately
enough, of Murder in the Cathedral that
was staged there.

As he passed Avery Hall, Mr. Temko
complimented its architecture library,
calling it one of the best in the United
States. But then he caught sight of the
red tiles of the Fairchild Center for the
Life Sciences, designed by the distin¬
guished modern architect Romaldo
Giurgola, and much admired by some
critics. "Stupid," adjudged Mr. Temko.
"That is disgraceful."

His chagrin mounted as he turned
left at Uris Hall, home of the Business
School. Although many people are
pleased by the addition of the build¬
ing's new facade, Mr. Temko is still
upset by the fact that Uris exists at all.
"It's all out of character."

Mr. Temko expressed similar dismay
some years ago in his commentary "A
Brilliant Plan Gone Awry?" in the Fall
1962 issue of Columbia College Today.
Then, as now, he praised the original
McKim, Mead and White vision. It was
his barbs about such modern structures
as the Engineering School, Carman
(then New Hall), and Ferris Booth Hall,
however, that caused some discomfi¬
ture for CCT's editor, George Keller '51.

"There seemed to be some idea at
the time that an alumni magazine
shouldn't criticize its own college and
its architecture," Mr. Keller recalled.
"Raising these issues was regarded as
heresy." Although many alumni wel¬
comed Mr. Temko's candor, some com¬
plained that CCT did not appreciate the
architectural constraints of an urban
setting, and others were dismayed by
the oblique criticism of some important
benefactors, including builder Percy
Uris '20: At one point, Mr. Temko said,
"No one can claim that Mr. Uris... has
ever erected a single structure of archi¬
tectural distinction." In the end, Mr.
Keller survived the backlash. "It was
kind of a standoff, and I had my fingers
rapped a little bit."

A llan Temko did postgraduate work
at the Sorbonne and Berkeley and
has taught at both institutions, as well
as at Stanford. He has written his col¬
umn for the Chronicle since 1961 and was
West Coast editor of Architectural Forum
for several years. The recipient of fel¬
lowships from the Guggenheim Foun¬
dation and the NEA, he is the author of
the classic Notre-Dame of Paris (1955), a
revised edition of which will soon be
released by W. W. Norton, and Eero
Saarinen (1961), the standard work on
the Finnish architect. Among his hon¬
ors are the 1985 Silver Spur Award of
the San Francisco Planning and Urban
Renewal Association and the 1988

Lifetime Professional Achievement
Award of the Society of Professional
Journalists.

Of the Chronicle work that won him
his Pulitzer, Mr. Temko is particularly
proud of articles which argued against
"unworthy proposals to chop up" the
local Presidio army base, which will be
ceded to the National Park Service by
1995. "The magnificent old base de¬
serves an equally magnificent new
use," he wrote, possibly as a center for
environmental studies. No specific
decisions have been made, but Mr.
Temko reports that the complex will be
kept intact. "It will not be changed into
a series of macrame knitting parlors."

He also wrote in praise of San Fran¬
cisco's new Delancey Street halfway-
house complex, which was built almost
entirely by its tenants at a substantial
savings over professional construction
costs. "I'm not an art-for-art's sake
critic. If I owe anything to Columbia, it
is that it taught me about buildings as
broader social designs." Mr. Temko has
been active in environmental politics
and has led the fight against large-scale
highway construction in San Francisco.
He has also been an advisor to Presi¬
dent Kennedy and California Governor
Edmund G. Brown.

The father of two, he is a confirmed
Californian who lives in Berkeley but
retains some of his Eastern tastes. "It
was a big thing for him when Brooks
Brothers opened a store in San Fran-

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Allan Temko '47

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cisco," said his friend, wit-at-
large Walter Wager '44. Mr.
Temko leaves East Coast living
to his brother, Stanley '40, a law¬
yer and Columbia trustee in
Washington, D.C.

With his wife, Elizabeth, the
critic posed for some pictures in
front of Alma Mater, and then
he crossed College Walk to
Hamilton. In his mind's eye,
he saw College Dean Herbert
Hawkes looking out of his office
door, overseeing his charges as
they entered for classes. "He'd
come rushing out and shake me
and say 'Wake up!'"

At one point, Mr. Temko told
Dean Hawkes that he had been
considering joining the Army.
The dean replied, "No, sir, you
shall not. I've been thinking of
you, and you need a room of

your own. The only way you
will get that is as an officer in the
Navy." And that was where Mr.
Temko spent the war years.

Mr. Temko passed the Van
Am tennis courts, where as a
freshman he had swung a racket
with some distinction. Last on
the impromptu walk around the
quads was Wallach Hall, known
as Livingston when Mr. Temko
lived there. He was aghast to
discover the changes that had
been wrought since a fire gutted
the lobby in 1976: the lounge
was now partitioned, its col¬
umns were encased in new
wood panels, and the fireplace
was blocked up. "It was noble,"
Mr. Temko said of the old
lounge. "Now it's like some
motel in Indiana."

Thomas Vinciguerra '85

about his politics as long as he did
the job professionally. He turned
out to be a terrific writer, later got
his own editorship at Fairchild,
then went to bigger and better
things elsewhere. His politics in
later life were more poignant than
radical; his family suggested con¬
tributions to Peace Now [the
Arab-Israeli Peace Coalition] in
his name. We had, in the end,
found a common political cause."

Ed goes on to report that he is
still in his "old slot" as manager of
Fairfield Books & Visuals, after 25
years "on the same beat." He is ac¬
tively engaged in the work of the
executive committee of Commu¬
nity Board Two in Manhattan and
on the advisory commission for
the High School for the Humani¬
ties.

John F. O'Connor

171 East 84th Street
New York, N.Y. 10028
Charles L. Ballard has retired
from a career in operations and
industrial traffic management. He
is professor emeritus of transpor¬
tation at Hudson Valley Commu¬
nity College. Also, he has been
Past Master of Grange #949 and
#40. His son, Charles, is working
with the Rensselaer County High¬
way Department. He lives with
his wife, Bobbi, in Poestenkill,
N.Y., and sends regards to his
classmates.

I arrived home one night last
winter to find a large, heavy pack¬
age. When opened, it turned out
to be an old army sleeping bag
which I had lent Claude "CB"
Cornu for his then-upcoming trip
to the Cape in the summer of 1948.

The Cornus reside in Wilmington,
Del., and have two sons, Mike
and Craig. In retirement they
travel extensively.

Daniel Hoffman notes, "I will
again contribute to Columbia Col¬
lege when it either 1) gives up in¬
tercollegiate football, 2) gets a
representative, competitive team,
or 3) schedules down to play other
schools who maintain high aca¬
demic standards."

Eric Reed Johnson, currently
residing with wife, Lillian, in
Santa Ana Heights, Calif., has
three children: David, Lisa and
Heidi. Eric has a writing and con¬
sulting service and does not plan
to retire.

After many years of silence,
Tony Komninos has reappeared.
He is director of medical services
in Morris County, N.J. Tony has
one daughter and two sons. His
older son, Arthur, has two chil¬
dren. When not at work, Tony
plays a 10-handicap golf. He is
considering retiring in 1991.

Marshall Mascott is "phasing
out and handing over," working
half-time until retiring at the end
of 1990. That will mark the 20th
year of founding Berlitz Publish¬
ing for Macmillan, and develop¬
ing an extensive travel guide
program in ten basic languages.
His son, Christopher, is a neu¬
rosurgeon at McGill in Montreal.
Marshall and Katherine will con¬
tinue living in Switzerland.

Bob Mellins, professor of pedi¬
atrics at P&S, is currently chairing
a committee of six of the country's
medical centers that are studying
the pulmonary and cardiac com¬
plications of childhood AIDS,

funded by the National Institutes
of Health. His work with inner-
city asthmatic children in the
Bronx continues.

News from Ed Bergson and
Lazarus Macior arrived a bit late
and will be covered in the next
column. Meanwhile, please drop
me a line, if you can spare the
time.

Joseph B. Russell

180 Cabrini Boulevard,
Apt. 21

New York, N.Y. 10033

Although Clyde McDannald '48
wrote to tell me that '49er Henry
Darlington was, on June 10, mar¬
rying Carla Barrett-Brown and
that I could find the details in The
New York Times, my research skills
must have abandoned me. I never
did see the report. In the good
faith hope that it is true neverthe¬
less, I am sure the Class joins me
in wishing them both much joy
together.

It was a distinct pleasure to see
Edgar Housepian and Marvin
Lipman at the Commencement
exercises in May, Ed suitably
robed, hooded and capped in his
customary role representing P&S,
and Marv (with Naomi, of course)
celebrating a family event. When
one looks for exemplars of the
best in the medical profession, the
Class of '49 is not too bad a place to
begin.

Did you know that chemical en¬
gineers could sing? Take a look at
Ed DeVries' letter to the editor in
this issue and see if you can recall
the melodies!

That's all I've got for now... lots
of interesting things are going on
out there among you... drop me a
note and I'll be glad to pass the
word.

Mario Palmieri

33 Lakeview Avenue
West

Peekskill, N.Y. 10566

It was a memorable weekend. Our
40th reunion was the greatest
we've ever had, not only because
of the quality of the event (the
Alumni Office must be given
credit for a great job) but also
because of the size of the turnout.
Exactly 50 members of the Class of
'50, many with wives and at least
one with children, attended. By
far the largest assemblage of '50
classmates since graduation.

Those who made it were:
Joachim Adamczyk, Budd Apple-
ton, John Arents, Hector Battag¬
lia, Peter Buchband, Thomas
Buckley, Joel Burstein, John
Crandall, James Devaney, Renato
Di Stefano, Norman Dorsen,
Walter Douglas, Frank Dugan,
John Ellison, Donald Finelli,
James Garofalo, Ashbel Green,

"If you are a kind person and want to
know what to expect when enlighten¬
ment strikes and why it comes to you,
with or without psychedelic help, this
is for you," wrote Thaddeus Golas
'48 in The Lazy Man's Guide to
Enlightenment, which has sold
some600,000copiessincel972. "I
never set out to seek personal enlight¬
enment, I was just interested in the
idea," says Mr. Golas, who conceived
the book while living in a commune in
San Francisco in the late 60's. "I was
never interested in the politics of that
time, but I thought psychedelics were
a movement. 1 thought the book would
give us a language in which we could
talk about psychedelic experiences. 1
was very surprised when it became
popular with the general public. To me
that's a testament to its validity. So
much of the counterculture disap¬
peared — it's a miracle the book sur¬
vived. " The book, in a Bantam edition
since 1980, has also appeared in Ger¬
man, Dutch, French, Spanish and
Japanese editions, and selections read
by the author were issued as an Audio
Renaissance cassette in 1988. Mr.
Golas never aspired to be a guru, has
formed no organizations and has no
groups of followers. He has had vari¬
ous jobs in publishing, starting as a
printer's apprentice in his teens, and
is now retired ("though I live the way 1
always have") in Florida. He has com¬
pleted another book, Love and Pain.

John Hart, Gilbert Hermann,
James Horton, Carl Hovde, The¬
odore Karchuta, Joseph Kassel,
Jerome Kaye, John Kelleher,
Robert Kennedy, Leonard Klieg-
man, Joseph Koerner, Irving
Kushner, Leon Landsman, Glenn
Lubash, Donald Marquardt,
Hugh McCauley, Joseph Mehan,
Desmond Nunan, James Ospen-
son, Mario Palmieri, Harry
Pauley, Kevin Prendergast, Ber¬
nard Prudhomme, Warner Pyne,
John Rosenberg, Raymond Scal-
ettar, Alois Schmitt, Thomas
Sebring, Robert Siegel, Richard
Siewert, Norman Skinner,

Columbia College Today

Roberto Socas, Leon Van
Bellingham.

This list is based on the reunion
committee's reconstruction of the
attendance records. If we've over¬
looked anyone, please let me
know and I'll catch up to you in
the next edition of class notes.

Other good news: your class
received special mention at the
general convocation on the last
day of the reunion, as the class
with the greatest increase in the
number of John Jay donors for
1990. Our class's total gifts and
pledges to the Columbia College
Fund amounted to an impressive
$111,475 for our reunion year.
Good show!

Now to current news of class¬
mates. The New York Times Book
Review gave an approving nod to
Gerald Weissmann's latest liter¬
ary effort, The Doctor With Two
Heads. It is, said The Times, "a book
that introduces us to a new way of
thinking about the connections
between art and medicine."

John Hollander received the
Poetry Society of America's Mel¬
ville Cane Award for his poetry
collection. Harp Lake. He is the
author of 14 books of poetry as
well as several books of criticism
and juvenilia.

Richard N. Priest

Bryan, Cave,
McPheeters &
McRoberts
500 North Broadway
St. Louis, Mo. 63102

Not too much to report at the
moment except that plans are well
under way for our 40th reunion in
1991.1 don't know about the rest
of you, but I'm much too young to
be celebrating a 40th reunion. To
get everything up to date for the
reunion, I would like to encour¬
age all of you to supply the infor¬
mation requested by the alumni
office, so that we can get a good
reading on everybody in the class.

The following is what I do have,
starting with Richard Howard,
who was asked to be this year's
judge by the Poetry Society of
America in awarding the Melville
Cane Award. Interestingly
enough, Richard selected John
Hollander '50 as the winner of the
prize, named for a member of the
Class of'00.

Heard from George Zimbel
who, as he says, is "still and ever
will be a freelance documentary
photographer." George and his
family moved to Canada in 1971
and have lived in Montreal since
1980. He has had a number of
exhibitions and has photographs
in the collections of the Museum
of Modern Art, the International
Center of Photography, the Mu¬
seum of Quebec and the Cana¬
dian Museum of Contemporary

Norman Dorsen '50 is stepping
down this fall as president of the
American Civil Liberties Union, a
position he has held since 1976. Dur¬
ing his tenure, the ACLU expanded its
program and membership, despite
such controversial stands as support¬
ing the right of American Nazis to
march through the Chicago suburb of
Skokie in 1977, which reportedly cost
the ACLU 10,000 members. The
Stokes Professor of Law at N.Y.U.and
director of the school's Arthur Garfield
Hays Civil Liberties Program, Mr.
Dorsen has participated in many key
Supreme Court cases, arguing for the
legal rights of minorities, women,
children, and other victims of discrim¬
ination. He co-authored the brief in
the landmark abortion case Roe v.
Wade and wrote amicus briefs in such
cases as Gideon v. Wainwright and
U.S. v. Nixon (the secret tapes case).
Among the highlights of his ACLU
term was the 1987 effort to defeat the
nomination of Robert H. Bork to the
high court, a stance attacked by then-
candidate George Bush in the 1988
presidential campaign.

Photography. His work is on per¬
manent display at the Galerie Art
45 in Montreal and the Jane Cor-
kin Gallery in Toronto.

Robert E. Kandel

Craftsweld
26-26 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City, N.Y.
11101

Because of the lead time involved
in getting this column to print
and, ultimately, to you, we are late
in reporting the death of Gerry
Cozzi earlier this year. We send
out belated condolences to his
family.

Our class prez. Bob Adelman,
called to say that he and Renee en¬
joy retirement on Amelia Island,
Fla. Aside from attending a board
meeting now and then. Bob alter¬
nates between tennis and golf
which he plays "sometimes well
and sometimes badly."

Frank Carbonara has also
retired. He served his students
well as an extremely dedicated
high school English teacher. He
decided to leave on an upbeat
note after a very good year with
happy memories and a positive
feeling. Frank, we wish you and
Fran many more happy memories
ahead.

Jack Ripperger wrote from
Grand Rapids, Mich., that his son
Matthew will be starting Colum¬
bia this fall as a member of the
Class of 1994. Matt hopes to be ac¬
tive on the football and baseball
teams.

A. Alan Friedberg has been
named chairman of the Loews
Theater Management Company,
a unit of Columbia Pictures Enter¬
tainment. Alan has been in the
business for more than 30 years
and is a past president of the
National Association of Theater
Owners.

Fred Becker has been elected
corresponding academician of the
Royal Academy of Physical and
National Sciences of Spain. This
honor was, in part, recognition of
his career-long work regarding
chemicals and resulting cancers.
He is currently v.p. of research
and scientific director of the
Tumor Institute at the M.D. An¬
derson Cancer Center of the Uni¬
versity of Texas. Before moving to
Houston, Fred was professor of
pathology at the NYU School of
Medicine and director of pathol¬
ogy and laboratories at Bellevue
Hospital.

I take great pride in announcing
that my wife, Evelyn, was award¬
ed her Master of Arts degree this
May. Her master's thesis art show,
an exhibit of paintings and her
unique mixed-media "memory
boxes," was highly acclaimed. I
tip my hat to Ev not only for get¬
ting a graduate degree while
holding down a full-time position
(head of the art department at a
small private school), but also for
her 4.0 grade point average.

Lew Robins

89 Sturges Highway
Westport, Conn. 06880
Were you in Mark Van Doren's
class the day he movingly read
aloud one of Ivan Gold's short
stories, and then commented that
Ivan's work was an example of the
best writing he had ever seen at
Columbia? On September 21,
Houghton Mifflin published
Ivan's newest novel, Sams in a Dry
Season. Publishers' Weekly called it
"quite without self-pity," and
noted that it "marks the welcome
and moving return of a highly tal¬
ented writer." It is the story of an
alcoholic writer who fights his
way back to sobriety, and it

prompted Philip Roth to com¬
ment, "This is a brave, open book,
harsh, dogged, and relentless; a
confession bursting through in
the contours of a novel, convinc¬
ingly truthful and inventively
written."

Over the years, Ivan's been
teaching creative writing as well
as an occasional literature course
at Boston University, the Univ. of
Massachusetts, and M.I.T. In 1968
he married Vera Cochran, from
Kentucky; they have one son who
will be graduating from the Bos¬
ton Latin School next year.

The Class of '53 is blessed with
another gifted author, humorist
Ralph Schoenstein. In Novem¬
ber, Ralph's 16th book. You Can't
Be Serious—Writing and Living
American Humor, will be published
by St. Martin's Press. Steve Allen
calls this novel about the literary
adventures and misadventures of
a humor writer "the funniest I've
read in ages."

There are passages about Co¬
lumbia in Ralph's novel, and he
pays special tribute to Mark Van
Doren, Professor Krutch, and the
golden age of the Columbia Eng¬
lish department. While Mark Van
Doren was Ralph's inspiration,
Ernie Chambers and WKCR are
really responsible for Ralph's
Writing and Living American Hu¬
mor. Here's the story: As the man¬
ager of WKCR in 1952, Ernie
Chambers held a radio writing
contest and enticed Sam Goody to
donate a $50 prize for the winner.
Ralph, who was heading toward
law school, entered and won.
Over the years, Ralph has written
16 funny books, including his
satirical best-seller. The I-Hate-
Preppies Handbook. Recently, he
collaborated with Bill Cosby on
the runaway best-seller.

Fatherhood.

Being a writer may lead to a
fascinating, fabled life. Barry
Schweid is the chief diplomatic
writer for the Associated Press.
You're likely to hear his commen¬
tary four or five times a week on
National Public Radio and, when¬
ever there is a foreign affairs
crisis, Barry frequently appears
on television to explain the signif¬
icance of unfolding events. His
articles have appeared in The
Economist and The Nation.

Working for the AP for the last
thirty years, he's traveled to more
than 70 countries; he was with
Kissinger as the Secretary of State
conducted shuttle diplomacy in
the Middle East; he's been to
China with Kissinger and Vance;
he went to Russia with Nixon on
his last trip before resigning. Re¬
cently, he's been traveling with
Secretary Baker and the President
on Air Force One. Barry occasion¬
ally runs into classmates in unu-

Melvin Schwartz '53, physicist and entrepreneur:

From the Heights to the Valley

W hen he was a student at Bronx
Science, Mel Schwartz recalls,
"I had a one-track mind. I knew exactly
what I wanted to study, I knew where I
wanted to study it."

He received the Ph.D. from Colum¬
bia in 1957, and two years later began
the work for which he would share the
1988 Nobel Prize in physics with two
Columbia colleagues. Jack Steinberger
and Leon Lederman. Using neutrinos
—subatomic particles without measur¬
able mass that pass unaffected through
matter at or close to the speed of light—
they were the first to study the weak
nuclear force at high energies. They
created the first man-made beam of
neutrinos, which they filtered through
a 40-foot wall of steel recycled from
scrapped warships. They discovered
that there were at least two varieties of
neutrino, an observation that has since
led to an accepted theory of all matter
as constructed of pairs of elementary
particles. Neutrino physics has since
become a distinct branch of experimen¬
tal high-energy physics.

In his speech of acceptance for the
College's John Jay Award last June 12
(see story, page 28), Dr. Schwartz
recalled that during his 17 years at
Columbia, "There were six indepen¬
dent Nobel Prize pieces of physics
done in that one department, in six dif¬
ferent fields. In large measure it was the
result of one individual, 1.1. Rabi. He
was the burr under everybody's sad¬
dle." Dr. Rabi, who won the Nobel
Prize in 1944, was often credited with
bringing modern atomic physics to
Columbia, where he worked for more
than 60 years.

Dr. Schwartz credited other influ¬
ences—another Columbia Nobelist, T.
D. Lee, "the fellow who asked the ques¬
tion that ended up with this prize: how
you can investigate the so-called weak
interactions at high energies;" and his
thesis advisor, Jack Steinberger: "He'd
show up from Nevis [Laboratories]
where he'd been all night long, un¬
shaven and half asleep, and start to
teach this class that he hadn't prepared
for. Anybody else would say it's the
worst class he ever took at the College

—I thought it was one of the best. Be¬
cause here was a guy who was really
doing physics. He was alive. He in¬
spired me to get into particle physics."

His later career, he said, was influ¬
enced by another physicist, Polykarp
Kusch, "in a very strange way. One day
after I'd finished this experiment here,
with five thousand tons of steel and
what have you, he came into my office
and said, 'Mel, I'll give you some
advice you're not going to listen to. Get
out of physics.'

"I said, 'Get out of physics? You're
kidding. I just did this nice experiment.

"He said, 'The trouble is, Mel, from
here on it's all downhill.' He wasn't
entirely joking. What he was telling me
was that you reach a point in life where
you've done as well as you're going to
do in that field. He suggested I go to
law school, but I kind of laughed.

"But years later, when I began to feel
that maybe I had done the best work I
ever could do in the field I was in, I
went out and poked myself into the
entrepreneurial community in Silicon
Valley and I saw around me a new
industrial revolution. Suddenly apple
orchards were being transformed into
places where semiconductors were
being developed."

Dr. Schwartz left Columbia for Stan¬
ford in 1966. In 1970 he founded Digital
Pathways, which makes data network
access control equipment, and in 1979

A s an undergraduate. Dr. Schwartz
would have been glad to get
advice about the world of work. To
remedy that deficit for others, he gave
$20,000 to the College to fund the
Alumni Host Program, inaugurated
this year, to allow alumni in various
walks of life to meet with small groups
of students to answer questions about
careers in law, medicine, banking, pol¬
itics, architecture and other fields.

In business. Dr. Schwartz said at the
John Jay dinner, "I made just about
every dumb mistake you can make, the
dumbest of which was: Years ago, I had
a very interesting kid in my class. He'd
asked me if he could sit in and learn a
little physics, and in the spring of 1975
he came around and said, 'Mel, I hear
you have a company on the side. I'd
like to ask you some advice. I'm start¬
ing a company, and I have some ideas
for building computers for the masses,
for the home.'

" 'What's the name of your company?'
"'Apple Computer.'

"I said, 'Well, firstly, it's a dumb
name, and secondly, who needs it?'
That was Steve Jobs, and he's done a lot
better than I have, lemrUe tell ya!"

Dr. Schwartz helped Mr. Jobs finance
his first hundred computers—"I still
have a cancelled check in my drawer"—
but he does not repine. "The fundamen¬
tal thing is the notion of entrepreneur-
ship. If you see something you'd really
like to do, well, go ahead and do it. And
don't let somebody else tell you what to
do, but figure out a way to learn how to
do it yourself. Because the world really
needs entrepreneurial spirit."

he retired from teaching.

Jessica Raimi

Mel Schwartz shares the Nobel news at home in San Francisco with his wife Marilyn (left) and daughter
Betty (right) on October 19,1988.

Columbia College Today

sual places and under out-of-the-
ordinary circumstances. For
example, several years ago, Barry
was on a trip with the Secretary
of State when their plane landed
in Crete. As the Secretary de¬
scended from the plane, he was
greeted by an American in uni¬
form, General Stanley G. Maratos
of the United States Air Force. Un¬
believably, Stanley, along with
Barry and Judah Berger, had all
joined the Air Force ROTC as
undergraduates. Twenty-five
years later, Stanley was wearing
gold braid and was the Com¬
mander of U. S. forces on Crete, n

while Barry was the eyes and ears o
of the world, traveling with our ]jj
chief executive. !§

^ A Howard Falberg

^2-1. 25 Coley Drive

Weston, Conn. 06883

It is summertime while I am writ¬
ing these notes and I hope that the
living is getting easier for most of
our classmates.

We received notice that Dr.
George Goldstein, who is cur¬
rently vice president-corporate
medical relations of Sterling Drug
Co., recently announced that he
was taking early retirement after
15 years with the company. I
know that several members of our
class have been able to devote
themselves to other than what
their careers have called for since
graduating from college or gradu¬
ate school, while many others are
in the process of thinking about
what a change would entail. It
would be interesting to compare
notes from among our classmates.

Jim Burger, on the other hand,
is going strong with Procter &
Gamble after joining the company
33 years ago. He reports that he is
just back from Hilton Head, S.C.,
where his family held a joyful
reunion. Jim remains active in the
Columbia Alumni Club of Cincin¬
nati and extends an invitation to
all alumni who either reside in the
greater Cincinnati area or are vis¬
iting that fair city to join other
Columbians every third Wednes¬
day of the month for luncheon at
the Queen City Club.

Please let me hear from you
regarding your activities. See you
in the fall!

Gerald Sherwin

181 East 73rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10021

"What a weekend!" "I couldn't
believe the time I had." "The lec¬
tures were great." "I'm glad I
made it." "When's the next get-
together?" These are not quotes
from a Club Med ad. These are
some of the comments from our
classmates who came to the 35th
reunion on campus, June 1-3.

Charles V. Freiman '54 was

appointed director of the Engineering
Foundation in April. The foundation,
a consortium of civil, mining, metal¬
lurgical, petroleum, mechanical, elec¬
trical, electronic and chemical
engineers founded in 1914, awards
research initiation grants for new pro¬
fessors and holds interdisciplinary
conferences. Dr. Freiman, a computer
scientist and research administrator,
received his Eng. Sc. D. from the
School of Engineering in 1961. He
spent almost 30 years with IBM in
various positions, most recently as
secretary of the firm's Academy of
Technology in Armonk, N.Y.,a semi-
autonomous group of senior technical
staff; a highlight of his career was
managing IBM's Computer Science
Institute in Tokyo from 1985 to 1987.
Dr. Freiman lives in Pleasantville,

N. Y., where he has served as chair¬
man of the United Fund, and as vice-
chairman of the Interfaith Committee
on Housing for the Elderly. Last year
he served on the Engineering School's
select committee on undergraduate
curriculum review.

From the cocktail party Friday
evening to the lectures by our
own Rabbi Harold Kushner and
Dr. Gerald Pomper Saturday
morning, to the special class
luncheon and the cocktail recep¬
tion/dinner Saturday evening, to
the brunch on Sunday, with late
nights at the 'Plex, the Varsity
Show, West End Gate, and on and
on, it was unanimous that all 64
classmates couldn't wait for the
next reunion.

True to form, our class had the
largest turnout for an "off" reun¬
ion year (non-50th or 25th)... 64
classmates and 125 people in total.
There was so much good feeling
engendered by the lectures Satur¬
day morning—by now everyone
should have received copies of
Hal Kushner's and Gerry
Pomper's speeches. The only
thing we didn't send was the
wonderful repartee between the
speakers and the audience during

the question-and-answer session
after the talks. As Demosthenes
said, "You had to be there!"

Although the majority of class¬
mates were from the greater New
York area, there was ample repre¬
sentation from other parts of the
country. Starting out west (Cali¬
fornia) there were Jeff Broido
from La Jolla and Aaron Preiser
from Thousand Oaks, and Lake-
wood, Colorado's own Harvey
Solomon. Moving east, the ven¬
erable Tom Chrystie from Wyom¬
ing (and New Jersey), Jim Berick
of Cleveland fame, and David
Sulman from Madison, Wise. We
also saw Owings Mills, Mary¬
land's pride, Jerome Plasse, and
from Washington, D.C., Lew
Mendelson made the festivities,
as did Aaron Hamburger from
Wilmington, Del. From Pennsyl¬
vania were Dave Stevens and
Abbott Leban of Philadelphia,
Ivan Leigh of West Chester, and
the Albert Momjians of Hunting¬
don Valley. Massachusetts repre¬
sentatives included Bob Banz,
Harold Kushner, and Don
Pugatch. Coming from upstate
New York was Rochester's big
Dan Hovey.

As usual, a heavy contingent
made it across the Hudson River
from New Jersey: Dom Grasso,
Allen Hyman, Stuart Kaback, A1
Martz, Bob Pearlman, Gerry
Pomper, Mort Rennert, Ferdie
Setaro, Donn Coffee (doing
nicely, thank you) and Marv
Winell. Long Islanders who
made an appearance were Larry
Balfus, Steve Bernstein, Melvin
Holden, Milt Merritt, Hal Rosen¬
thal, Bob Schiff, and Charles
Solomon. From the great borough
of Queens came Jim Gherardi
and Bob Sparrow. Dick Kuhn
ventured on the ferry from Staten
Island, Westchesterites who were
there included Herb Cohen, Alan
Hoffman, Bob Kushner and
Berish Strauch. Barry Pariser
took time out from his painting in
Newburgh to be with us.

Rocklanders Martin Dubner,
Bill Epstein, and Jay Novins were
there. We can't forget Brooklyn's
delegation of Alfred Gollomp
and the hearty Manhattan crew:
Jack Armstrong, Bob Bernot,

Herb Gardner, Ed Ettinger, Jim
Phelan, Anthony Viscusi, Paul
Frank, Lee Townsend, Bob
Brown, Roland Plottel, Ezra
Levin, Don Laufer, George
Gruen, Roger Stern, Ronald
Spitz, Herb Silver, Ed Siegel, and
your indentured correspondent.
Thanks go to the terrific reunion
steering committee and the
Alumni Affairs and Development
Office and special kudos to A1
Momjian and Jim Phelan for
helping the class achieve its fund
goal of over $500,000. Class direc¬
tories were sent to all. If there are

any changes in address, phone
numbers, or if you know the
whereabouts of any of the "lost
classmates," let your correspon¬
dent know what is happening.

We received other news from
around the globe: Sam Astra-
chan, living in Gordes, France,
comes back to the States each win¬
ter to teach French at Wayne State
University. His latest novel, Mal-
aparte in Jassy ,was published last
year and is available at major
bookstores. We heard from the
old Rhode Island Red, George
Gudger, who is living in Cen-
tereach, L.I., and is the owner of
"Postage Stamps for Collectors."
Martin Molloy, who lives in Palo
Alto, Calif., and is senior program
manager of basic energy sciences
for the Department of Energy,
would like to call to everyone's at¬
tention—"Set the Record
Straight"—a minor correction
from the 1985 reunion directory
(he gets a lot of mail, folks): Marty
was THE Apollo Program scien¬
tist at NASA-HQ in charge of
lunar surface and orbital payloads
for three Apollo scientific mis¬
sions. (Duly noted!) Francis Cat-
terson, with Citibank as senior
vice president in Singapore, con¬
tinues to be Citibank's service risk
manager in the Asia/Pacific re¬
gion. Word from Ed Francel, who
is marketing research manager for
CIBA Vision Corp. in Atlanta, is
that he is looking forward to "tui¬
tion freedom" as his youngest
graduates from college. Our Rich¬
ard Ravitch makes the news once
again. Richard has joined the
Blackstone Group, an investment
boutique, as a general partner.
Richard will focus mainly on re¬
structuring over-leveraged com¬
panies—"of which there may be
many in the nineties." Since run¬
ning for New York Mayor in 1989,
he has been writing, teaching at
NYU, and seeking new opportu¬
nities in business.

To keep the momentum going,
we're starting to plan special class
events for the coming year. The
first major get-together will be at
the Homecoming game, October
27 against Princeton at Baker
Field. Enjoy a day in the sun,
under the tent, see some class¬
mates, breathe the air.

Everyone will be kept posted as
to what is happening. A newslet¬
ter will be in your mailbox soon.

Much love to all, everywhere.

Victor Levin
Hollenberg Solomon
Ross & Belsky
585 Stewart Avenue
Garden City, N.Y. 11530

Ira Silverman with his partner,
Brian Ross, broke the story for
NBC News of the British sting
operation which prevented 40

U.S.-made nuclear triggers from
being smuggled to Iraq. Ira and
Brian are known as "Batman and
Robin" at NBC News and have
won virtually every award except
for the Peabody. Perhaps soon.

Ralph S. Kaslick served as
dean of the College of Dental
Medicine at Fairleigh Dickinson
University for 12 years and is cur¬
rently director of dentistry at
Goldwater Memorial Hospital,
NYU Medical Center, Roosevelt
Island, New York. He is vice pres¬
ident of the medical staff at Gold-
water and its representative to the
Council of Medical Staffs of the
NYC Health and Hospitals Cor¬
poration. He is also clinical pro¬
fessor of periodontics at NYU
College of Dentistry. Ralph in¬
quires whether his son, Andrew,
is the youngest child in our class.
He is due to graduate from the
Dalton School in 2003. Any
takers?

Ken Bodenstein

Duff & Phelps
2029 Century Park East,
Suite 880

Los Angeles, Calif.
90067

I sadly report that Susan Sims
Bodenstein, my dear wife of thirty
years, passed away suddenly on
April 29,1990. Her memory will
live with us always. A special
fund in her name has been estab¬
lished at the Epilepsy Society of
Los Angeles, 3900 Wilshire Blvd.,
90010.

Art Baron reports from Getz-
ville, N. Y. (Buffalo), where he is
vice president for research and
development at Atochem, the re¬
sult of the merger of M&T Chemi¬
cals and Penn wait. Erik Eybye is a
compensation executive at Ato-
chem's headquarters in Philly.

David Reifsnyder is practicing
internal and tropical medicine in
Clearwater, Fla. He's been mar¬
ried for eight years to Nelida and
they spend their free time togeth¬
er enjoying tennis, scuba diving,
traveling, and their five children
(and grandchildren) from pre¬
vious marriages.

Doris and Marty Fisher spend
their time racing back and forth
between Columbia—watching
their son Mike '92 play J. V. basket¬
ball—and Yale—watching their
youngest, Louis, row for the Yale
freshmen. I hope Marty passed
on only his finest rowing
attributes.

Captain Sal Salibello is still fly¬
ing the giant airbus for Pan Am
and specializing in aviation law in
Bernardsville, N.J. when on the
ground.

Paul Frommer was elected to
the National Board of the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society. He and
Liz are still trying to keep up with

their four children: Joshua, 12,
Alexander,9, and twins, Sam and
Leah, 6.

Carl Margolis is practicing
medicine in Rockville, Md., and
teaching at George Washington
and Georgetown medical schools.
His son Robert is a Yale junior.
Also in the family. Maxwell, 3,
and Ian, 1.

Dr. George Beliak is building
"the little red school house" at the
Grand Street Settlement in New
York, and is a big fan of New York
City Schools Chancellor Joseph
Fernandez.

Sue and Dick Guiton are Co¬
lumbia's St. Paul, Minn., cheer¬
leaders. Dick practices internal
medicine and Sue owns and oper¬
ates a videography company.

Harry Siegmund leaves his
CPA firm in Hawaii to run the
NYC Marathon on November 4.
This is his third participation—in
1988 and 1989 he and his sons Paul
and Bill completed the race side
by side. Harry shattered the four-
hour barrier in last year's Hono¬
lulu marathon and is optimistic
about doing it again in New York.

Barry Dickman

Esanu Katsky Korins &
Siger

605 Third Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10158

It is with deepest regret that we
report the death of Richard J.
Maher on October 13,1989. Dick,
who was also a graduate of the
Harvard Business and Law
schools, was a private investor in
Boston.

Congratulations to Marshall
Front on his selection as one of
this year's recipients of the John
Jay Award. Marsh, an executive
vice president of the investment
firm of Stein Roe & Farnham, Inc.,
has been active in the College
Fund since our senior year, and
has served both as a director of the
fund and as its chairman. As his
classmates know, his indefatiga¬
ble efforts have been the main rea¬
son why '58 is usually among the
leaders of all classes in numbers of
contributors and dollars given.

Broadway Bound: Toby and
Bernie Nussbaum made their
show business debuts by produc¬
ing the revival of Estelle Parsons'
one-woman show, Miss Marga-
rida's Way, at the Helen Hayes the- <
ater. Incidentally, Bernie is now
serving as a director of the College
Alumni Association.

'58's many authors have been
busy lately. The most recent liter¬
ary effort from Neil Harris, who
is now the chairman of the history
department at the University of
Chicago, is the co-authorship of
The Masterworks of Louis Comfort

Tiffany, a study of the life and art of
the famous glass craftsman.

Ed Feige, who is a professor of
economics at the University of
Wisconsin, is the co-author of The
Underground Economies. Part of a
speech Ed gave at Moscow Uni¬
versity appeared on the editorial
page of The Wall Street Journal
under the title, "A Socialism with
Private Property." It analyzed the
economic outlook for the Soviet
Union and its former satellites
now that the Iron Curtain is rust¬
ing away.

Yet another rave review for a
translation by Joachim Neugro-
schel, this time for his "accom¬
plished" work on Franz Werfel's
unfinished novel, Celia.

Mort Halperin continues to
commute among three areas of
expertise: civil liberties, nuclear
policy and how the government
should be run. Mort's latest pieces
on the op-ed page of The New York
Times, entitled "U.S. Nuclear
Strategy in Disarray," and "A Five-
Year Plan to Cut the Deficit," ar¬
gued that in light of the Soviet
collapse, we should repeal
Gramm-Rudman, kill the MX
missile, B-2 bomber and Star
Wars, and reap the benefits of the
resulting peace dividend.

The newest products from the
prolific poet-musician, John
Giorno, and his Giorno Poetry
Systems, include videos entitled
"Old Habits Die Hard" and "Gang
of Souls," and a record, "Like a
Girl, I Want You to Keep Com¬
ing." Others appearing on these
works include poet Allen Gins¬
berg '48, author William Bur¬
roughs, and rock singers Tom
Waits, Debbie Harry and David
Byrne.

Attending the Univ. of Miami
Estate Planning Institute, your
reporter ran into Mel Lechner.

The former accountant, executive
and NYC budget director is now a
financial consultant based in Boca
Raton, with clients all across the
country.

Shelly Raab was a member of a
panel discussion at the City Bar
Association entitled "Corporate
Takeovers—Ethics and the Law,"
moderated by Fred W. Friendly.
Also on the panel were a number
of well-known players in the take¬
over game, including T. Boone
Pickens.

Proving once again that '58 re¬
mains on the cutting edge of prog¬
ress, Loren Wittner has become a
partner in the large Chicago law
firm of Winston & Strawn. Al¬
though Loren is a Harvard law
graduate and has previously been
in practice, he has spent the last
decade or so as executive v.p. of
Daniel J. Edelman, Inc., helping
build it into one of the country's
largest public relations firms.

Loren's hiring is regarded as a
sign of Winston & Strawn's plans
to market its legal services
aggressively.

Bryan Isacks, the William and
Katharine Snee Professor of Geol¬
ogy at Cornell, reports that he was
recently remarried, to Marjorie Z.
Olds, Ithaca's first woman City
Court judge, and that their six
children range in age from 10 to
30. Bryan was planning a visit to
his College roommate. Bill Lee, a
surgeon in San Francisco, who
has been a major force behind
massive homeless relief programs
there.

Ed Mendizycki

Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett

425 Lexington Avenue,
Rm. 1916

New York, N.Y. 10017

J. David Farmer

The American
Federation of Arts
41 East 65th Street
New York, N.Y. 10021
Last June's 30th reunion on cam¬
pus was a lively affair, providing a
good crowd of classmates with
the chance to learn news of inter¬
vening years and renew acquain¬
tances. Some class news that
didn't arrive in time for the event:

Claudio Marzollo has been a
sculptor for the past 20 years,
after a start at a business career. "I
have fun doing what I do but I am
not rich," he says. He lives in Cold
Spring, N.Y. with his wife and
two teenaged sons.

Stephen Cooper reports almost
three decades of life in the legal
profession, most of it with the
same firm: Weil, Gotshal & Man¬
ges. He is a partner (since 1973)
and a specialist in corporate fi¬
nance and securities law. His wife
is, he says, a well-known legal
scholar, specializing in the fields
of bankruptcy law and feminist
jurisprudence. Their eight-year-
old son has not yet declared his
legal interest.

New Hyde Park, N.Y. hand sur¬
geon Thomas J. Palmieri has been
elected to a one-year term as pres¬
ident of the New York Society for
Surgery of the Hand. He is cur¬
rently head of hand surgery at the
Long Island Jewish Medical
Center.

"American Playhouse" on PBS
was the vehicle for a March tele¬
cast of Terrence McNally's
drama, Andre's Mother. The play
began as a short (eight-minute)
work which was then commis¬
sioned for expansion by "Ameri¬
can Playhouse." A number of
classmates reported seeing it and
described it as very effective and
moving. The New York Times
agreed in its review.

Columbia College Today

Alumni Sons and Daughters

Forty-nine members of the Class of 1994 and six new transfer students are children of College alumni.

Children

Janet Balis
Chevy Chase, Md.
Elizabeth Berke
Fremont, Calif.

Jay Berman
Sands Point, N.Y.
Adam Brothers
Fairfield, Conn.
Michael Cervieri
Dover, Mass.

Allison Chang
Honolulu, Hawaii
Francesca Contiguglia
Denver, Colo.

Rachel Dewoskin
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Andrea Engelman
Longmeadow, Mass.
Doug Feinberg
New York, N.Y.

Eric Fensterstock
Katonah, N.Y.

Melissa Freidenreich
Allendale, N.J.

Alison Gang
Escondido, Calif.

Ari Gorlin
Silver Spring, Md.
Ariel Greenberg
Merrick, N.Y.

Philip Greenspan
Great Neck, N.Y.
Rafael Grunschlag
Walnut Creek, Calif.
Evelyn Hale
Newburyport, Mass.
Alexandra Hankin
Westport, Conn.
Thomas Jorgensen
Shaker Heights, Ohio
Jonathan J. Kaplan
New York, N.Y.
Jonathan S. Katz
Falmouth, Maine
Aaron Katzel
Rochester, N.Y.

Joel Kornberg
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
David Kraft
Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Rachel Lebowitz
Brookline, Mass.
Gabriel Levy
Mill Valley, Calif.

^Deceased

Fathers

Steven Balis '62
David Berke '65
David Berman '51
David Brothers '62
John Cervieri '52
Irving Chang '60
Robert

Contiguglia '63
Kenneth
Dewoskin '65
Richard
Engelman '59
Gerald
Feinberg '53
Jerry

Fensterstock '64
Jerome

Freidenreich '57
Michael Gang '59

Jacques Gorlin '65

Abraham
Greenberg '65
Irwin

Greenspan '59
Dov

Grunschlag '63
Robert B.

Hale '23*

Edwin Hankin '58

Thomas
Jorgensen '64
Carl Kaplan '59

Saul Katz '63

Lester Katzel '65

Elliot

Kornberg '64
Robert Kraft '63

Elliot Lebowitz '61

Mark I. Levy '67

Candice Loeffler
Potomac, Md.

Eliza Lowen
Alexandria, Va.

Naomi Meckler
New York, N.Y.

Leah Millheiser
Miami, Fla.

Mildred Niss
New York, N.Y
Miranda Pinckert
Upper Nyack, N.Y.
Cara Rachelefsky
Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Shanelle Rein
Herndon, Va.

Samuel Rhinelander
Somerville, Mass.
Matthew Ripperger
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Rachel Rodin
Chevy Chase, Md.
Alexander Rosenstein
Deephaven, Minn.
Susannah Rosenstock
Philadelphia, Pa.
Debra Rothstein
Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.
Sharyn Sakuda
Honolulu, Hawaii

Robert Loeffler '63
Beal Lowen '66
Alan Meckler '67
Peter

Millheiser '57
James Niss '65

Robert
Pinckert '52
Gary

Rachelefsky '63
Richard Rein '73

Charles

Rhinelander '65
John Ripperger '52

Richard Rodin '60

Martin

Rosenstein '64
Jeffrey

Rosenstock '64
Jerald

Rothstein '67
Paul Sakuda '58

Mark Salzberg
Great Neck, N.Y.
Brett Walter
Anchorage, Alaska
Jonathan Weglein
Brookline, Mass.
Mikael Wolfe
Eugene, Ore.
Catherine Yatrakis
Brooklyn, N.Y.
James Ziefert
Maplewood, N.J.
Eric Zuckerman
Washington, D.C.

Transfers:

Thomas S. Bloom

South Orange, N.J.
Melissa Dallal
New York, N.Y.
Peter Hovde
New York, N.Y.
Abigail Leab
Washington, Conn.
Benjamin Sacks
Savannah, Ga.
Robert Speyer
New York, N.Y.

Barry Salzberg '63

Karl Walter '53

Ernst Weglein '56

Alan Wolfe '65

Peter Yatrakis '62

William
Ziefert '58
Alan

Zuckerman '57

Cyrus Bloom '47
George Dallal '54
Carl Hovde '50
Daniel Leab '57
Stephen Sacks '65
Jerry Speyer '62

Hawaiian loyalists: Two generations of the Sakuda and Chang families of Honolulu recently posed for
this Columbia College fathers-and-daughters photo. In the front row: current students Sharyn Sakuda
'94, Allison S. Y. Chang '94, and Kimi Sakuda '92. The proud dads are (from left): business executive
Paul Sakuda '58, attorney T. Irving Chang '60, and physician David H. Sakuda '60.

A letter from Joseph A.
Giacalone resurfaced after your
correspondent's move to New
York. He tells us that after 20 years
in the dean's office of the St. John's
Business School, he has returned
to the faculty.

Classmates in New York (and
perhaps even elsewhere) are
watching the gubernatorial race
here with considerable interest
because of the lively candidacy of
Herbert London, running on the
Conservative ticket. With three
articulate and clever candidates,
the debates and exchanges have
already created interesting quotes.

Michael Hausig

3534 Interlachen Road
Augusta, Ga. 30907

Jose A. Cabranes was principal
speaker at the University of New
Haven's spring commencement
exercises. Jose also received an
honorary doctorate of law from
Trinity College in May. He is U.S.
District Judge for the District of
Connecticut, having been ap¬
pointed to the post in 1979.

Arthur L. Wisot, M.D.'s book,
New Options for Fertility — A Guide
to In-Vitro Fertilization and Other
Assisted Reproduction Methods, co¬
authored with Dr. David Mel-
drum, was released to publication
in May. Art's experience has in¬
cluded a stint as consumer medi¬
cal reporter for Channel 9 in Los
Angeles, and for the past six years
he has been host of Lifetime Medi¬
cal Television's Physician's Journal
Update and Obstetrics and Gynecol¬
ogy Update. He practices obstetrics
and gynecology in Torrance,

Calif., is on the staff of the South
Bay Hospital IVF Center in Re¬
dondo Beach, and is an associate
clinical professor in obstetrics and
gynecology at the UCLA School of
Medicine.

Ed Pressman

3305 211th Street
Bayside, N.Y. 11361

Congratulations to Joe Nozzolio,
whose daughter Jane was married
on June 3. Jane, the oldest of three
Nozzolio children, is a graduate of
Cornell and is employed by Oak-
hill Sportswear. Beth graduated
from the Fashion Institute of
Technology and works with
David Warren Co., a ladies' dress
manufacturer. Matthew is still in
high school and is looking at vari¬
ous colleges, including Columbia.
He is captain of his school golf
team, president of the Port Ches¬
ter, N.Y., H.S. Band, and is a
National Merit semifinalist.
Another Nozzolio would be just
right for Columbia.

Joe had been with Aetna Insur¬
ance for 17 years, either as a
branch or regional manager. For

Robert W. Federspiel '61, a 24-year
veteran of the Federal Bureau of Inves¬
tigation, has been named corporate
security officer for Nationwide Insur¬
ance in Columbus, Ohio. A former
captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and
an outstanding pass receiver during
his Columbia football days, Mr.
Federspiel spent most of his FBI career
in Columbus, working as both an
investigator and administrator. He
and his wife Gail have three children.

the last two years, he has been
employed by the American Inter¬
national Group. He has also
served three terms on the Port
Chester-Rye School Board, two
terms as its president. Joe has
been happily married to his wife,
Anne, for 28 years. She works as a
special ed teacher for southern
Westchester boces, and partici¬
pates in conferences and research
programs on the subject.

After 21 years in public service,
Warren Lasko has served as exec¬
utive vice president of Mortgage
Bankers Association of America
since 1985. Being in the public sec¬
tor, however, is in Warren's blood.
He recently worked with Senator
Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) in pass¬
ing "broad new housing legisla¬
tion." He also directly sponsored
a home in Washington, D.C. for
12 homeless pregnant women.
Warren has two daughters: Karen
graduated in June, 1989 from the
University of St. Andrews, Scot¬
land; Erika just completed her
freshman year at Columbia.

Phil Orlick lives in New York
and trains prospective profes¬
sional singers in "vocal control
and songstyling." He works pri¬
marily in jazz, rhythm and blues,
and top-40, and works with his
students to find them performing
situations. Phil has worked as a
volunteer counseling and moder¬
ating rap groups that serve gay
men, bisexuals and lesbians. The
organization is called Identity
House.

Sidney P. Kadish

215 Dorset Road
Waban, Mass. 02168

As the new academic year begins,
many classmates have sons and
daughters beginning college,
some at Columbia. Best of luck to
all.

Kenneth Robbins writes that
he is a psychiatrist in private prac¬
tice in Alexandria, Va., teaching at
Walter Reed Army Medical Cen¬
ter. He shares his practice with his
wife Joyce, a psychiatric social
worker and a Teachers College
graduate. Their son Peter is a
sophomore at Columbia, while
younger brother Michael is in
high school. Ken and Joyce re¬
cently hosted the Columbia Club
of Washington, serving Indian
cuisine and displaying Indian
artifacts from their extensive per¬
sonal collection. Next spring, an
exhibit entitled "Maharajahs,
Nawabs, and Other Princes Be¬
yond Number: From the Robbins
Collection" will be shown at the
Gandhi Memorial Center in
Washington. Ken attributes his
interest in things Indian to his
Columbia days, when he man¬
aged to complete half of the Ori¬
ental Civilization course.

Joseph Greco was named chief
of ophthalmology at Salem Hospi¬
tal in Salem, Mass. Joe attended
the College of Medicine and Den¬
tistry of New Jersey, then did an
eye residency at Manhattan Eye,
Ear, and Throat Hospital. He lives
in Topsfield, Mass., with his wife
and two children. As Salem is
known for its witches, Joe invites
inquiries regarding the ophthal-
mological diagnosis of those spe¬
cial North Shore denizens.

Peter Zimroth has become a
senior partner in the New York
office of the law firm of Arnold &
Porter. Peter was formerly corpo¬
ration counsel of the City of New
York. He was involved in drafting
legislation reforming campaign
finance practices. He has argued
before the U.S. Supreme Court
regarding the NYC Board of Esti¬
mate and Private Clubs bill. Re¬
cently he sued the U.S. Census
Bureau over the issue of under¬
counting minorities. Peter at¬
tended Yale Law School where he
was editor of the Yale Law Journal.
He then clerked forjudge Bar-
zelon, U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia, and later
clerked for U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Abe Fortas. He has also
been an assistant U.S. Attorney
for the Southern District of New
York, and a professor at NYU Law
School. Peter has written a book:
Perversions of Justice.

Victor Margolin writes that he
is associate professor of design
history at the University of Illinois
in Chicago. He co-founded a jour¬

nal called Design Issues in 1983, a
collection of essays from which
has been published as Design
Discourse. He has just been
appointed chairman of the De¬
partment of the Histories of Ar¬
chitecture and Art at UIC. In that
capacity, he just completed nego¬
tiating a cultural exchange pro¬
gram with the USSR Artists
Union which will include exhibi¬
tions as well as faculty and stu¬
dent exchange. Victor ends his
letter with a personal note whose
message touches us all: "Those
who knew me in my glorious days
of editing the Jester will now see
what a serious guy I have turned
out to be."

Gary Schonwald

Tenzer, Greenblatt,
Fallon & Kaplan
405 Lexington Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10174

Your honorable scribe has little to
report this time, reflecting per¬
haps a dry period following the
floodgate of information that coin¬
cided with our reunion. Please
put pen to paper with appropriate
updates.

Charles J. Danek, M.D., lives
and practices in Traverse City,
Mich. He was recently elected to
the Board of Governors of the
Univ. of Michigan Medical Center
Alumni Society.

William Gussman recently
traveled to Gabon to attend a
Schweitzer Fellowship meeting.

Beril Lapson reports that he
greatly enjoyed the reunion and is
looking forward to the next one.
(Why do you want to age, Beril?)

Richard Cahn writes to advise
that the report of his death in our
reunion coverage was greatly
overexaggerated. He is alive and
well in Brooklyn, where he is ac¬
tive as a freelance flutist, pianist
and composer in both classical
and folk genres. He has written
music for the theater and the bal¬
let, and has done song settings of
two poems by Kenneth Koch.

Steven B. Rosenfeld, a partner
in the law firm of Paui, Weiss, Rif-
kind, Wharton & Garrison in
New York, has been elected presi¬
dent of the Legal Aid Society
there.

Paul Zeitlin lives in Los Ange¬
les where he reports full recovery
from a heart attack and bypass
surgery that kept him from our
reunion.

Michael Wimpfheimer reports
that his son has completed his
first year at Columbia Law School.

Howard Levine, M.D., writes
from Brookline, Mass., that he is
the editor of and a contributor to a
new book. Adult Psychoanalysis
and Childhood Sexual Abuse.

Gene Meyer, who has been
reporting for the Washington Post

Columbia College Today

for many, many years, is the
author of Chesapeake Country, a
221-page tome with substantial
photos to go with the text. Gene
has been named the 1991 James
Thurber Journalist-in-Residence
at the Ohio State Journalism
School, which involves teaching
part-time at the school, acting as a
writing coach at the Columbus Dis¬
patch, and working on his own
writing. He and wife Sandy also
found time to visit Ed Waller and
wife Judy during a recent NEA
convention in Florida.

Leonard B. Pack

300 Riverside Drive,
Apt. 10A

New York, N.Y. 10025

Well, our 25th Reunion is now his¬
tory. It was a remarkable week¬
end. One lasting impression is the
paradox of time. We graduated 25
years ago, but we entered Colum¬
bia 29 years ago. Many of us have
children who are older now than
we were then, yet the memories of
our days at Columbia seem so
fresh, so vivid.

I am pleased to report to those
classmates who did not attend
that those of us who showed up (a
self-selected group, to be sure)
and our wives and companions
look terrific: healthy, active,
vibrant and articulate people. An
event like this makes you step out
of your everyday life and become
reflective. Many people spoke
about their Columbia experience
and the impact it had on their lives
in the most extraordinary terms.
On the other hand, lest you think
the weekend was overly serious,
many classmates soon reverted to
their undergraduate form and
happily showed how it is possi¬
ble, regardless of chronological
age, to remain akin to a posterior
portion of the anatomy.

Thanks to classmate Brian Fix
for hosting a welcoming cocktail
party in his townhouse on Friday
night, and to Peter Rutter (and all
the astute and penetrating ques¬
tioners) for his Saturday morning
presentation on his book. Sex in
the Forbidden Zone, and to Profes¬
sor Michael Rosenthal for his en¬
terprise and wit at Saturday's
lunch, where he read some hilari¬
ous and occasionally surprising
Spectator articles on campus life
from 25 years ago. Thanks, too, to
Arthur Sederbaum for compiling
the fascinating collection of auto¬
biographies and photographs that
so many classmates generously
provided. What a diverse and fas¬
cinating bunch we are! But thanks
most of all to Michael Cook for his
diligent chairing of our class's 25th
Reunion fund drive, and to Jim
Siegel, our class president, for
holding the reunion steering
committee together and organiz-

A research team headed by Dr.

Dennis J. Selkoe '65 has detected a
distinctive protein linked to
Alzheimer's disease outside the brain
for the first time, providing knowl¬
edge that may ultimately lead to a
treatment. As reported in the Septem¬
ber 21,1989 issue o/Nature, the team
found deposits of the protein—called
beta-amyloid—in the skin, bloodves¬
sels, and intestines of Alzheimer's
patients. The study suggests that a
form of the beta-amyloid protein is
produced outside the brain and then
deposited there via the bloodstream.

“It doesn't make sense anymore to
think of this only as a brain-produced
molecule," said Dr. Selkoe, "since the
brain isn't in the habit of producing
molecules that are exported to the skin
or the intestine." Furthermore, these
peripheral tissues can be readily biop-
siedfrom living Alzheimer patients, a
procedure which is not possible in the
brain. Early detection of beta-amyloid
protein, which has not yet been con¬
firmed, could prove useful in estab¬
lishing a diagnosis of Alzheimer's.
This discovery also suggests that pre¬
venting the delivery of beta-amyloid
protein to the brain could constitute a
first step in treating the progression of
the disease.

Dr. Selkoe is the co-director of the
Center for Neurologic Diseases at
Brigham and Women's Hospital, a
teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medi¬
cal School, where he is also an associ¬
ate professor. The author of
approximately 100 scientific articles
and reviews, he is a former member of
the Massachusetts Governor's Com¬
mittee on Alzheimer's Disease. His
most recent honor is the five-year
Bristol- Myers Squibb Unrestricted
Neuroscience Research Grant.

ing and mobilizing an effective
volunteer force for planning the
reunion and assuring the greatest
possible turnout among our class¬
mates.

I hope to open following issues
of this column to your comments
on the reunion: Please drop me a
line.

Stuart Berkman

24 Mooregate Square,
N.W.

Atlanta, Ga. 30327

[Editor's note: It is with regret that we
bid farewell to Bruce LaCarrubba,
the phantom correspondent for 1966,
whose incredibly busy life kept him
from filing columns for most issues of
the past few years, despite the best of
intentions. While chatting with class¬
mate Stu Berkman, we wondered if
he might not agree to spell Bruce as
correspondent; he graciously agreed.
Bruce took the news with customary
grace and wit, asking only that a fare¬
well paragraph that he would compose
immediately be published in this
issue. We hope to receive that note
someday soon. In the meantime, Stu's
inaugural column appears below, and
we trust that classmates will keep a
steady supply of news items heading
toward Atlanta. Many thanks to Stu
and to Bruce, who is the only corre¬
spondent to ever have descended on
the CCT office with a secretary pre¬
pared to transcribe, as he dictated it, a
120-line reunion column, one hour
before deadline. That alone might land
him in the CCT Hall of Fame.]

As our class is approaching its
quarter-century mark, we have
been hearing some good news
from our classmates.

Steve Cooper is senior vice
president and general counsel of
Electrolux Corporation, which
underwent a management-led
leveraged buyout in 1987. Now in
Atlanta, Steve is living among the
battlefields he heard about from
Jim Shenton 25 years ago. Steve is
also president of the Columbia
Club of Atlanta, and his son. Bob
'91, will graduate at the same time
as the 25th reunion of our class.
Steve's wife, Maxine, is a graduate
of Teachers College.

Barnert Hospital, Paterson,

N.J., has appointed Fred Lang as
president/CEO.

Ed Kabak has been named vice
president, legal, of Grolier Inc., a
leading publisher of encyclope¬
dias, children's books, and other
educational products in Danbury,
Conn. Ed also received his law
degree from Columbia.

SUNY College at Oneonta has
named Walter vom Saal to the
vice presidency for academic af¬
fairs. He is responsible for almost
300 full-time faculty and over 100
academic programs. He had pre¬
viously served as associate vice-
president for academic affairs at
Millersville University in Lancas¬
ter, Pa.

Robert Merton, one of the
country's leading researchers in
finance, has been named the
George Fisher Baker Professor of
Business Administration at Har¬
vard Business School. Author of
numerous articles and books, he
has also served as president of the

American Finance Association.

He lives in Chestnut Hill, Mass.,
with his wife, June, and three
children.

Having recently retired from
the U.S. Navy as a commander,
Lawrence Nelson has settled with
his wife. Sue, and three children,
in Arlington, Va.

Dr. John Schwartz was chair¬
man of the U.S. Psychiatric and
Mental Health Congress recently.
After the College, he went on to
NYU medical school and com¬
pleted his residency in psychiatry
at Bellevue and University Hospi¬
tal, NYU. His works have been
published in many psychiatric
publications.

From Beirut, Robert Conway
writes that he has returned to
work for another year with the
Lebanese Army. He had been
there in 1983-84, while working
with the U.N. He observes that
the "continuing political crisis is
interesting here when seen 'up
close and personal,' but in most
other respects life goes on and the
work is both challenging and re¬
warding." He married his wife,
Joni, an Air Force lieutenant colo¬
nel, three years ago.

Edward Fink was named Dis¬
tinguished Scholar-Teacher of the
University of Maryland's faculty.
He is a professor in the depart¬
ment of communication arts and
theater. Ed and his family live in
Silver Spring, Md.

Many Lives, Many Masters is
about the experiences of Dr. Brian
Weiss with past-life regression
therapy. From Miami, he writes
that the book is "odd stuff from a
conservative academic, but all
true."

Living in Greenwich Village,
Sylvain Cappell informs us that
he was awarded a Guggenheim
Foundation fellowship for the aca¬
demic year 1989-90. He is a profes¬
sor of mathematics at NYU. He
and his wife, Amy Hoffmann
Cappell (Barnard '68) have four
children. Sylvain has a Ph.D. in
math from Princeton, having
done research work in topology.

Your new correspondent,
Stuart Berkman, is once again liv¬
ing in Atlanta, for the third time
since joining the Coca-Cola Com¬
pany upon graduation from Co¬
lumbia Business School. Over the
years, I have been stationed in
Paramaribo, Surinam; Rio de
Janeiro; Izmir, Turkey; and Lon¬
don. In the course of such travels,
I married my wife, Gilda, in her
native Rio de Janeiro, and we had
our daughter, Sacha, in Essen,
West Germany.

I am eager to hear from you,
1966 classmates, and will make
every effort to print your news on
these pages. Please write directly
tome, in Atlanta.

Challenging the political and social conservatism of the last decade, a group of
intellectuals led by Paul Starr '70 has begun publishing The American
Prospect, which is being billed as "A Journal for the Liberal Imagination."
Mr. Starr, a sociologist at Princeton University and winner of the 1984 Pulitzer
Prize in general nonfiction for The Social Transformation of American
Medicine, is co-editor of the journal; the board of sponsors includes John
Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Fritz Stern '46.

Among the themes that the journal will reflect, Mr. Starr said, are "economic
justice" and the conviction that faith in the government and "civic remedy" need
not arouse skepticism. Although some analysts doubt that pure liberalism is
poised for a comeback, Mr. Starr said he is not concerned if his venture is out of
step with the climate of the times. "We are saying what we believe needs to be
done," he averred. The Prospect's battle to define liberalism has already begun;
an article by co-editor Robert Ku ttner, titled "The Poverty of Neoliberalism,"
attacks the political philosophy advocated by Charles Peters '49, editor of The
Washington Monthly, as "just the sort of politically innocent liberalism [ that]
conservatives eat for lunch."

Asked if he thought that the dreaded "L-word" would find more adherents
these days than it did in the Reagan era, Mr. Starr laughed. "I don't know that
there's going to be a Bush era. Already that's assuming a great deal."

Ken Haydock

1500 Chicago Avenue
#417

Evanston, Ill. 60201
Only a few notes this time, but
fun ones. Greetings to Ms. Caro¬
lyn Jean Costa, newborn daugh¬
ter of Joan and Bob Costa.
(Carolyn, write when you have a
chance.) Among those who have
been doing some writing is Tom
Hauser. Not content to rest on his
laurels as author of the book on
which the 1982 movie Missing was
based (Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spa-
cek), he is also the author of Final
Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl,
now being shot in the USSR and
California as a movie in which Jon
Voigt will star.

Your correspondent (note the
new address) has relocated to be¬
come a vice president at The First
National Bank of Chicago, where
Kent Hall has been in overdraft
for some time (a little misunder¬
standing about the relative value
of U.S. dollars and Hong Kong
dollars). The move notwithstand¬
ing, we have heard twice recently
from Ken Richstad, who writes
very short letters ("r" and "s"
mainly). He resides in the Pal¬
metto State and (for 15 years) in
the married state.

James C. Peterson, once a Wall
Street banker (23 Wall c'est Mor¬
gan, n'est-ce pas?) moved to
France with wife Alice and their
two children for a while. While
his family now lives in Montreal
(to which he commutes week¬
ends), he now lives in New York
(weekdays), selling West Coast
software to East Coast banks.

He'd like to reassemble the
Druids, the Walkers and other
Columbia rock-and-roll groups of
our era for a College Walk reunion
concert! His fax number is (212)
541-3810, for those interested.

On the inevitable medical
front, professor and gastroente¬
rologist Gordon ("Tex") Klein
was elected to the U.S. Pharmaco-
peial Convention this spring
(beating an M.D. from Harvard,
as icing on the cake). His daugh¬
ter, Adrienne, will be two in Octo¬
ber, he reports; he brazenly in¬
cluded on hiS note a cryptic repre¬
sentation of the Sons of Knicker¬
bocker's secret sign. And M.D.
and fellow of the American Psy¬
chiatric Association Les Schwartz
recently became the medical
director of New Castle, Dela¬
ware's Meadow Wood Hospital,
an inpatient psychiatric facility
"designed exclusively for adoles¬
cents" (the news release said)
and, it is to be hoped, their psy¬
chiatrists.

Tired of seeing others' names in
this column? Write in and we'll
get you tired of seeing your name
here. No life event too small to be

writ large, nor too large to be
included.

Ken Tomecki

2983 Brighton Road
Shaker Heights, Ohio
44120

Cleveland is a possible site for the
25th anniversary reunion. Can
anyone attend? If so, let me know.

Leo Furcht, M.D., professor of
cancer biology and director of the
biomedical engineering center at
the University of Minnesota, is
the newly appointed head of the
department of laboratory medi¬
cine and pathology at the univer¬
sity. A transplanted New Yorker
who moved to Minneapolis after
medical school, he never looked
back. Cellular adhesion is the
focal point of his research, which
has yielded over 120 publications.
Is a deanship next?

Steve Mamikonian recently
joined the consulting firm of Ben¬
ton, Schneider & Associates,
Lisle, Ill., as principal, outplace¬
ment consulting.

Peter Tomecki begins high
school this fall. Unbelievable.

Remember the College Fund.

Michael Oberman

Kramer, Levin, Nessen,
Kamin & Frankel
919 Third Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022
The mailbag was empty as the
deadline approached, but then
one announcement card reached
me. Joe Materna has joined the
firm of Shapiro, Shiff, Beilly,
Rosenberg & Fox as head of its
Trusts and Estates Department.
Joe's new partnership puts him
closer to home, which will give
him extra time to spend as our
class president. In particular, Joe
advises that he continues the ef¬
fort to complete a class newsletter.

I hope to have more to report
the next time. Please send me
your news.

Peter N. Stevens

12 West 96th Street,

Apt. 2A

New York, N.Y. 10025

A quick recap of our 20th reunion
is appropriate. Although the turn¬
out was somewhat disappointing
(perhaps 100 including spouses),
the weekend was an unquestiona¬
ble success. The College (to my
surprise and delight) went all out.
The facilities, food, entertain¬
ment, programs and activities
were all first-rate. Special high¬
lights for our class included a wel¬
coming cocktail party at Mark
Pruzansky's beautiful Park Ave¬
nue home, a pre-luncheon talk by
old and new basketball coach Jack

Rohan '53, and dinner-time
speeches by our class politicians,
A1 Scardino (Mayor Dinkins's
press secretary) and Dan Feld¬
man (New York State Assembly-
man). Special thanks to Art
Kokot, Jacob Worenklein, and
Steve Schwartz for all their help in
putting together such a successful
weekend. On a personal note, the
highlight for me, apart from the
dance competition between Phil
Russotti and Dennis Graham at
the champagne gala in Wollman,
was that the reunion provided me
with a chance to make some old
acquaintances into new friends.

In a nutshell, the consensus was
that the reunion was both mean¬
ingful ("heavy") and lots of fun.

From the mail bag, David
Lehman's work The Perfect Murder:
A Study in Detection was nomi¬
nated for an Edgar Allan Poe

award by the Mystery Writers of
America. Michael Passow
recently participated in the Amer¬
ican Meteorological Society's an¬
nual meeting. He is developing
new pre-college programs in
weather and climate education on
a national basis. James Kunen,
formerly Mr. Strawberry State¬
ment and now an associate editor
at People magazine, was the cata¬
lyst in establishing a scholarship
fund (The Donald White Memo¬
rial Scholarship Fund) to enable
economically disadvantaged stu¬
dents from New York to attend
the University of North Carolina.
Donald White was a 17-year-old
from New York who was shot and
killed in a random attack after his
senior year in high school, before
he had the opportunity to attend
North Carolina. On a lighter note,
Mike Bradley, who was reported

Columbia College Today

among the missing in our class
directory, called to report that he
is alive and well. He lives in Nor¬
ton, Mass., with his wife, Becky,
and their three sons. Mike re¬
cently scaled Mt. Whitney.

Although the George
Steinbrenner story has captured
the headlines in New York, an
equally important sports succes¬
sion will occur at Columbia in
light of A1 Paul's decision to retire
in June 1991.1 predict that both the
Yankees and Lions teams will
improve.

Jim Shaw

139 North 22nd Street
Philadelphia, Pa. 19103

Some comments from early 1991
reunion questionnaires:

Nicholas Alexiou: "Stayed at
Columbia for a Ph.D. in classical
languages, getting two graduate
degrees, until necessity brought
me, like so many of my genera¬
tion, to the business world. So, in
the last ten years I have become a
securities analyst, a father (twice),
a suburbanite, and a computer
enthusiast."

Louis Baker "wrote third book
for McGraw-Hill on computers:
More C Tools for Scientists & Engi¬
neers."

John Kuhn Blemaier: "... ap¬
peared on TV, lectured on three
continents, authored 16 published
articles, and beat a radar speeding
ticket, but nothing has given me
as much satisfaction as delivering
the baccalaureate address to the
graduating class at Flintridge Prep
in California, where I had experi¬
enced adolescent pleasures and
pains way back in the 60's."

James Boggan: "Proud to greet
my daughter" born in October,
1989. He is also a neurosurgeon
and associate professor at the Uni¬
versity of California at Davis.

Leo Calderella is editor of a
large-circulation national medi¬
cine, health and fitness magazine,
as well as a frequent lecturer and
feature writer for his local news¬
paper.

Terrence Cohen writes, "Busily
engaged in the solo practice of car¬
diology, having recently moved to
a new and larger office. Connie
and I have been happily married
for two years. While I miss the
excitement of New York and
Columbia, it is wonderful having
none of the snow, filth, taxes, etc.,
that I left behind. The Palm Beach
area is really not that rural, and
most of the amenities are here. I
still dabble in computers when I
get a chance."

Alan Cooper has just been
appointed director of the Hebrew
Union College Graduate School.

Daniel Crowley "recently
moved to Minneapolis to head the
internal audit function for Grand

Metropolitan's food sector, which
includes Pillsbury, Burger King,
Alpo and Haagen-Dazs, amongst
others."

Tom Flynn has "opened a pri¬
vate practice of oral and maxillofa¬
cial surgery in Hartford."

Ed Kaniewski writes, "I was
elected chairman of the Rochelle
Park, N.J. planning board for my
third term. I was promoted to
director of real estate for A&P
supermarkets where I am respon¬
sible for advertising a $250 million
real estate development program,
the 'highest and best use' of a
B.A. in classical Greek."

Edward King: "Working on my
M.P.H. in occupational medicine
and hoping to become board
certified."

Thomas Kovach has "accepted a
position to chair the department
of German and Russian at the
University of Alabama," and ex¬
pected to move to Tuscaloosa in
the summer of 1990.

Alan Kuntze lives in what he
calls "one of the truly magical bio¬
regions of the U.S.—'Ish River
Country,'" and adds, "My law
practice is about as 'alternative' as
it gets—Indian Law [for the Swi-
nomish Indian Tribal Commu¬
nity]. When not working, Libby
and I love to kayak, backpack and
bicycle this beautiful region."

Arvin Levine writes: "After i3
years in Silicon Valley, we spent a
year working and living in Israel
and then returned to the East
Coast and now live in New Jersey."

Doug MacKay reports: "Get¬
ting a kick out of writing a weekly
column on life in Douglaston
(N. Y.) for the Little Neck Ledger
and the Bayside Times. My wife
Maureen and I have added a son
[born November 1989] to two
daughters, age 9 and 4."

Paul Appelbaum

100 Berkshire Road
Newtonville, Mass.
02160

Our notes have an international
flavor this month. Rich Swan and
his wife, Suzanne, returned from
a two-year grand tour of Europe
last spring in time to see their
daughter, Avril, graduate from
U.C. Berkeley. Rich returns as
construction chemicals sales man¬
ager for the Burke Co. of San
Mateo, Calif., the world's largest
concrete construction supply or¬
ganization. Rich enjoys skiing,
backpacking, ancient archeologi¬
cal sites, and good quality con¬
crete work. Now that he's back in
the States, he's looking forward to
hearing from some of his old
buddies.

Headed outbound is John Sef-
cik, new manager of Packard
CTA, a joint venture of General
Motors' Packard Electric Division

and Carthage and Travaglini Ltd.,
that will produce automotive
power and signal distribution sys¬
tems in Ararat, Victoria, Austra¬
lia. John has worked for Packard
since graduation from Columbia,
most recently as superintendent
of its materials management sys¬
tems. He will have full opera¬
tional responsibility for Packard
CTA's existing business and pro¬
jected expansion.

George Nikitovich demon¬
strates that one can stay on the
Upper West Side and still have an
international career. George, an
international investment banker,
and his wife, Liane Short, cele¬
brated the arrival of their daugh¬
ter, Nicole, on March 20. Staying
close to home, we have two more
pieces of good news. Jamie Katz,
distinguished editor and journal¬
ist, was recently elected to the ex¬
ecutive board of the Ethical-
Fieldston Alumni Association.

And your correspondent, Paul
Appelbaum, was proud to receive
the 1990 Isaac Ray Award of the
American Psychiatric Association
for "outstanding contributions to
the forensic psychiatry and the
psychiatric aspects of jurispru¬
dence."

Let's have your good news for
the next issue.

M. Barry Etra

326 McKinley Avenue
New Haven, Conn.
06515

Greetings and salutations—so
many of you wrote in that I was
forced to improve. Here are some
classmates we've barely (rarely?)
heard from:

Cus Carabelli sends regards to
Saul Smolar '78; he's an orthodon¬
tist practicing in Croton-on-Hud-
son, N. Y. Harry Nevus is a der¬
matologist on the Lower East
Side. Ford Rainier is in Seattle
selling kraft paper for Weyerhaus-
er; he and wife Grace have one
son. Larry Marder left his job
with Exxon after the Valdez inci¬
dent; he now works in the Gulf for
Shell. Larry and Alma recently
celebrated their 15th anniversary.
John Siegel had a book of his
poems. Flights of Fancy, published
by Y.N. Press in May. Allen Chaj
and Clancy Darrow (brother of
Peter '72) have started their own
law firm in Alexandria, Va. Eric
Larouge runs a shipbuilding con¬
cern in Wisconsin; he and wife
Maria Kramer were noted paci¬
fists in West Germany.

Finally, Mark Farkas left his job
shooting ad copy for P.S. Associ¬
ates in Chicago; several positions
later, he is back once again at the
Rockefeller Institute.

Class notes are like Doritos—
keep sending them in; we'll make
more. Crunch!

Ronald Mason Jr. '74 has been
named senior vice president and gen¬
eral counsel at Tulane University in
New Orleans. A1977graduate of
Columbia Law School, Mr. Mason
joined Tulane's legal staff in 1982 and
was named general counsel five years
later. In addition to supervising the
university's legal affairs and race and
gender enrichment programs, he is
now responsible for government rela¬
tions, physical plant, security, per¬
sonnel, administrative services,
auxiliary enterprises, internal audit¬
ing and risk management. Mr. Mason
is a leader in local civic groups,
including the Metropolitan Area
Committee, the New Orleans chapter
of the NAACP, and Planned Parent¬
hood of Louisiana. Earlier this year he
received a grant from the Ford Foun¬
dation to bring together university
leaders in the South to increase aware¬
ness of institutionalized racism. "You
can't grow up in America and not
have racism in you in ways that none
of us fully understand until we take
the time to understand," Mr. Mason
observes. Attending a seminar such as
the one at Tulane "forces you to deal
with your own racism without having
the built-in defense mechanisms at
your disposal," he says. "It deals with
a gut issue at the gut level ."

The father of two children (with
another due in February), Mr. Mason
is married to Belinda DeCuir, of
Lafayette, La. "That's Cajun coun¬
try, " he notes proudly.

Fred Bremer

532 West 111th Street
New York, N.Y. 10025

You may have noticed something
unusual about the last column: its
absence. In the time-honored
"the-dog-ate-my-homework" tra¬
dition, I have an excuse. I got
married.

Yes, after years of being able to
meet scores of CCT deadlines, the
pre-nuptial neurotic state, com¬
bined with caterers and clergy,
crowded out class notes.

It won't surprise many to learn
that it was a Columbia wedding:

on campus at St. Paul's Chapel
with classmate Jeff Rosecan as
best man and many classmates in
attendance. Peter Zegarelli de¬
cided it couldn't be a real Colum¬
bia wedding unless the reception
had a pizza delivered from V&T.
Next time, Peter, hold the
anchovies.

While it sometimes seems that
everyone in the class is a doctor or
a lawyer. I've recently been hear¬
ing a lot from (and about) the for¬
mer English majors. For instance,
while traveling recently to the
Ann Arbor area, I was able to
meet up with Bryan Berry. For¬
merly a writer for Iron Age maga¬
zine, he has returned to school to
finish a Ph. D. in English at the
University of Michigan. He asks
fellow classmates to help find
news on Les Bryan (last heard
from in Italy where he was teach¬
ing English).

While reporting all of the Bryan
news, I should pass on that a
press release about Brian Berkey
crossed my desk. It seems that our
Connecticut carpenter has pub¬
lished his first novel. The Keys to
Tulsa. The Atlantic Monthly Press
calls it a "gritty, hugely ambitious
novel." Where do you think he
got the material for a book about a
student "well entrenched in
sleaze of his own making which
has brought him to the point of
almost no return"? Sounds like
Carman Hall to me.

A book of a very different
nature was written by Steven
Kaplan. Steve is a civil litigation
attorney in Hartford, Conn., but
for the past ten years he has been
helping a severely handicapped
woman write her autobiography, I
Raise My Eyes to Say Yes. Some may
remember that before being a law¬
yer, Steve worked as a teacher of
emotionally disturbed children.

I heard from yet another writer,
Clifton Wellman. He is a science
writer and consultant to the
Smithsonian Institution. Among
his many interests is the scientific
study of paranormal phenomena,
which he pursues as a member of
the Center for the Study of Sci¬
ence Anomalies.

On a sad note, I received a letter
from the family of Richard Cob-
ler. It has been ten years since
Richard was lost at sea while trav¬
eling to Tahiti on doctoral re¬
search in marine geochemistry.
After years of investigation, the
family has been forced to accept
his death at age 27.

That's all the news for now. If
you have anything to report on
yourself or other classmates,
please drop me a line or call me at
work: (212) 236-5170.

George Robinson

282CabriniBlvd., #4D
New York, N.Y. 10040

David Merzel

3152 North Millbrook
Suite D

Fresno, Calif. 93703

Mark C. Abbott, New York City,
is using his considerable com¬
puter skills outside of work when
he performs on his own midi/
synth electronic music synthe¬
sizer. Mark has been married to
Christine Thibodeau, Barnard '80,
since 1985.

Michael Gilbride of Brooklyn,
N.Y., is putting all his "free" time
to good use. In addition to teach¬
ing junior high school, he is work¬
ing on a second master's degree
(in education), has raised money
by participating in the AIDS walk,
and has been elected to the vestry
of St. Philip's Episcopal Church.
Now that is being productive!

That's all the news from '76ers
for this issue. Please write and let
us know how you are doing. A lot
has changed since graduation!

Jeffrey Gross
11 Grace Avenue
Suite 201

Great Neck, N.Y. 11021

We pay respects at this time to
three exceptional people who met
untimely deaths: our esteemed
classmates Adam Remez and
Peter Lovi, and our 1973 freshman
dean, Louis Grant. Adam was a
high-level real estate executive
with Silverstein Properties in
New York during the boom years,
and an award-winning College
annual fund chairman. Peter, a
part-time professional musician,
had become a senior scientist in
the environmental services divi¬
sion of a leading national solid
and hazardous waste consulting
firm. Dean Grant was a popular
and personable administrator
during our early days. All three
had diverse professional and per¬
sonal achievements. Our con¬
dolences to their survivors.

Kevin Kehoe has joined the
Decatur, Ill., law office of Popkin,
Stern & Owen, a general practice
firm with 61 attorneys. Kevin, a
litigator, had most recently been
senior associate counsel for the
United Mine Workers of America.
He was formerly an attorney for
the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation in Washington, D.C.

One of the nation's pre-eminent
law firms, Debevoise & Plimpton,
announced that Joseph P.

Moodhe became one of its 87 part¬
ners as of July 1. A member of the
firm's litigation department,
Joseph concentrates on securities
and product liability litigation.

Paul Phillips '78 is now director of
orchestra and chamber music at
Brown University and assistant con¬
ductor of the Rhode Island Philhar¬
monic Orchestra. Last December, he
appeared as guest conductor with the
San Francisco Symphony and in Feb¬
ruary he made his Carnegie Hall
debut conducting the Brown Univer¬
sity Orchestra in performance with
the Dave Brubeck Quartet; the sold-
out benefit concert helped support
Brown's scholarship fund and music
department. Mr. Phillips has con¬
ducted many orchestras in the U.S.
and Europe, including the Frankfurt
Opera, the Netherlands Radio Cham¬
ber Orchestra and Radio Choir, and
the Greensboro, Dallas, Detroit,
Columbus and Spokane symphony
orchestras. He is married to the
soprano Kathryne Jennings and lives
in Cranston, R.I.

and has authored several schol¬
arly articles subsequent to his
clerking for a federal judge in
Manhattan and joining the firm.

A former New York City Coun¬
cil President, Carol Bellamy, re¬
tained Jon Lukomnik as a cam¬
paign consultant in February.
Insiders believe that the former
press secretary for ex-City Comp¬
troller Harrison Goldin is prepar¬
ing his latest candidate for a politi¬
cal contest for New York State
Comptroller.

Best regards to all.

Matthew Nemerson
35 Huntington Street
New Haven, Conn.
06511

Lyle Steele

511 East 73rd St., Suite 7
New York, N.Y. 10021

James Elliot Brandt has been
named a partner in the law firm of
Latham & Watkins in New York.
He specializes in commercial and
securities litigation as well as cred¬
itors' rights.

Jefferson G. Burnett has been
named vice president for inde¬
pendent schools of the Council
for Advancement and Support of
Education, in Washington, D.C.

Harlan Greenman, a partner in
the New York law firm of McDer¬
mott, Will & Emery, is pleased to
announce the birth of his daugh¬
ter, Catherine Stephanie, on
November 27,1989.

Byron O. Magafas has been
named director of labor relations
of Wetterau Inc., the nation's
third-largest food wholesaler,
located in St. Louis.

Craig Lesser

160 West End Avenue

New York, N.Y. 10023

[Editor’s note: The following reunion
report was filed by Keith Krasney.]
The tenth reunion of the Class
of 1980 was held from Friday to
Sunday, June 1-3,1990. Despite
the low turnout, the weekend was
a lot of fun. From the Mardi Gras
dinner party Friday night on
South Field (it now has green
grass!) to the Baker Field barbecue
Saturday afternoon, to the lec¬
tures later that afternoon (Prof.
Shenton was in fine form speak¬
ing on "After the Cold War"), to
cocktails and dinner Saturday
evening, followed by the Varsity
Show, the Speakeasy in Wollman
Auditorium with the Lester Lanin
orchestra, and the convocation
and barbecue on Sunday, there
was a lot to enjoy. Where were all
of you? You were missed! The fol¬
lowing classmates did show:

Mary Lee and Jeffrey Benson
with daughter Rebecca (they live
in Stamford, Conn., where Jef¬
frey is a computer consultant);
Gregory Breen (special assistant
to the deputy director. Parking
Violations Bureau, City of New
York); Emanuel Chris (an
M.D. living in Brookline, Mass.);
Charles Emery (a psychologist at
Duke University who is married
and was expecting his first child
within days of the reunion); Ste¬
ven Gendler and his wife Sally
(Steve is with Real Estate Invest¬
ment Strategies, Inc. in Philadel¬
phia after a stint in Houston and
New York [who does not yearn to
return here?]);James Gerkis (a
lawyer at Milbank, Tweed, Had¬
ley & McCloy in New York); Pam¬
ela and Van Gothner (he works at
the English investment banking
firm of Kleinworst Benson, Ltd.,
specializing in middle-market
mergers and acquisitions, and
they live in Brooklyn); Tom Hoge
(from Princeton, N.J.); James
Lolis (also an M. D., living in
Flushing, N.Y.); Carlos Lopez
(another M.D.—there were a lot
of pre-meds, right?—living in
Brooklyn); David Maloof (a law-

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yer at Owens & Davis, in New
York); Elliot Schachner (a lawyer
at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman,
also in New York); David Silvag-
gio (from Euclid, Ohio); David
Steiner (clerking for Judge Rest-
ani of the U.S. Court of Interna¬
tional Trade in New York); Josh
Stolow (from Tulsa, Okla.); Ariel
Teitel (an M.D. living in New
York); Martin "Doc" Thompson
—who is an assistant county
attorney (prosecutor) in Austin,
Texas (I never knew he had a
name other than "Doc"); Julie and
Aron Wahrman (from Philadel¬
phia) and David Walker (from
New York).

I apologize for any omissions
from the list of classmates,
spouses or significant others who
attended (but you did not write
down your name for me at the
class dinner!). I also wish that I
could remember everyone's place
of employment, but alas, the
memory loses its sharpness with
advancing age. Everyone in the
Class of '80 who attended the
reunion or whose absence was felt
now has an excuse to write to this
column and provide additional
information. We all hate to write
in, but love to read about others.
So please contribute and give the
rest of us the fun of reading about
what you are up to.

I want to take this opportunity
to thank Jim McMenamin, Dean
of College Relations, and every¬
one at the Alumni Office and the
College for a wonderful weekend.
Special kudos to Renny Smith '89
of the Alumni Office and three
College students who were as¬
signed as hosts of our class: James
Burtson, Jodi Williams and Julie
Levy.

Some neighborhood notes: It
has changed dramatically. One
sorry point: the Green Tree Hun¬
garian restaurant (not the pastry
shop) has closed its doors. The
West End Cafe, now called the
West End Gate, has been reno¬
vated by new owners and looks
quite trendy. The Mill Luncheon¬
ette and Amir's are still there (al¬
though Amir's has expanded).
Chock Full O' Nuts is now a noo¬
dle shop and the little card shop
on 116th Street is now a Federal
Express office.

Our next reunion is in five
years. Before that, let's get to¬
gether at Homecoming on Octo¬
ber 27 when we play Princeton at
Baker Field. I am filling in as cor¬
respondent (a/k/a class gossip col¬
umnist) for Craig Lesser, to
whom you should continue to
send news at the address heading
this column. I, Keith Krasney, am
a lawyer at Thacher Proffitt &
Wood in New York and live near
the old neighborhood at 250 West
94th Street.

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I

The election of Barack Obama '83 last February as the first black president of
the Harvard Law Review commanded wide attention in the press. However, he
emphasized to a reporter, "It is important that stories like mine aren't used to say
that everything is okay for blacks. You have to remember that for every one of me
there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who
don't get a chance." Mr. Obama spent four years after college heading a
community development program on Chicago's South Side before enrolling in
law school. Born in Hawaii—his late father, Barack Obama Sr., was a Kenyan
finance minister and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropolo¬
gist — Mr. Obama was largely raised in Los Angeles and Indonesia. In inter¬
views with the Harvard Law Record, law review members said it was Mr.
Obama's combination of "outstanding legal scholarship and experience as a
community organizer, in addition to his inclusive leadership style, that distin¬
guished him from the crowded field of candidates" for the editorship, to which he
must devote about 60 hours a week.

Ed Klees

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison
1285 Avenue of the
Americas

New York, N.Y. 10019

Robert W. Passloff

505 East 79th Street
New York, N.Y. 10021

Richard Viest has been working
in publishing since graduation.

He will be attending Brooklyn
Law in September and hopes to
pursue a career in entertainment
law. Richard extends his best
wishes to all those in the classes of
'82 and '83 with whom he had
such good times.

Bob Kemp completed a two-
year judicial clerkship with the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sev¬
enth Circuit in Chicago. While
serving as a law clerk, he studied
part-time at the Univ. of Chicago
for an MBA in international busi¬
ness and marketing, and at the
John Marshall Law School in Chi¬
cago where he received an LL.M.
in intellectual property law. Hav¬
ing received a very impressive
group of degrees. Bob started "my

first real job" in January, 1990, at
William Brinks Olds Hofer Gilson
& Lione. This firm is well known
in the field of intellectual property
law. Bob will practice in all aspects
of intellectual property, with an
emphasis on litigation.

Evan Charkes is engaged to be
married to Pamela Antell '91 in
May, 1991. Evan is currently an
associate in the litigation depart¬
ment of the New York law firm,
Spengler Carlson Gubar Brodsky
& Frischling.

David Santangelo and his wife,
June Ryerson, Barnard '83, have
been living in London since July,
1985. They work for Credit Suisse
First Boston, where they trade
and sell fixed income securities.
The Santangelos enjoy living in
Europe and have traveled exten¬
sively. They get back to the U.S.
two or three times a year to spend
time at their beachhouse in Man-
tolking, N.J., visit Columbia, and
catch up with American sports.

Ken Gruber worked in the
shmatte business, got a master's
from Cornell's School of Hotel
Administration, and traveled
through the world. He married
and moved to Toronto, where he
works for an ad agency. His wife.

Becky, wanted to warn Fred
Schwarz that his new shower cur¬
tain liner will eventually show
stains. Her solution is to buy a
machine-washable curtain. She
hopes Woolworth's sells them.

K. E. Pearse agrees that machine
washing is the answer and recom¬
mends using "this great shower
curtain recipe" which he shares
"only with my closest friends."
He uses baking soda, vinegar,
"and a little laundry detergent
thrown in for good measure."
However, watch out for holes if
you have a "mean agitator" and
use this technique.

Andrew Botti

130 Elgin Street
Newton Centre, Mass.
02159

Jim Wangsness

Columbia College Today
100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

Joseph Bernstein received his
M.D. in May from Cornell and
also finished an M.S. in math at
Harvard in June. Starting this
summer, Joe will serve his intern¬
ship and residency at the Univer¬
sity of Pennsylvania Hospital
Center for the next five years.

Returning to Columbia Busi¬
ness School are Drew Scopelliti,
Bill Reggio and Jim Wangsness.
All three continue to work, but
participate through the Master's
Degree program for executives.
Drew and Bill both work for Co¬
lumbia, Drew as an assistant di¬
rector of College admissions and
Bill as director of the National
Alumni Program at UDAR. Jim
continues at J. P. Morgan.

Once again, please write if you
have any good news.

Richard Froehlich

245 East 37th Street,
Apt. 6E

New York, N.Y. 10016

Christopher Dwyer

6501 Wayne Avenue,
#2

Philadelphia, Pa. 19119

Elizabeth Schwartz

362 Country Way
Needham, Mass. 02192

Hello! Thanks to all who wrote me
letters.

After a few years in the work¬
place, several people are heading
back to graduate school. After
"three years of figuring it all out,"
Richard Simonds is planning to
start law school at New York Uni¬
versity this fall. Marya Pollack is
applying to medical school for the
fall of 1991, and is now a research

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assistant at the Columbia School
of Public Health on a project stud¬
ying osteoporosis. Martha Du-
Ruz is doing endocrinology
research at the Seattle Veterans
Hospital and plans to start med
school in the fall.

Jon Shankman is happily set¬
tled in New York where he is
"making a lot of money and dating
a really good-looking girl" and
spends time "wondering if any¬
one at Columbia remembers who
I was." In his spare time, he is
getting a joint master's in public
health and in business adminis¬
tration at Columbia. He hopes to
work on geriatric issues.

I'm going for my master's in
public health at Boston University
and plan to be a medical writer.

I talked to Jonathan Wald the
other day; he is producer of the

noon news at WBZ-TV in Boston.
He ran into Frances McLaughlin
recently while buying ties in
Brooks Brothers. She taught Eng¬
lish and art history at Phillips
Exeter Academy in New Hamp¬
shire in 1989-90, and plans to be
there again this year.

John Erlich is a research associ¬
ate at Bay Area Economics, an ur¬
ban economics consulting firm in
Berkeley, Calif.

Back in New York City, Herbert
Block is an assistant to Mayor
David Dinkins. Shelly Friedland
is production manager of People's
Symphony Concerts, planning
performances for low-income au¬
diences. Laurie Gershon is in the
development department at the
New York City Opera, and Cathy
Webster is resident director at Bar¬
nard. Joseph C. Feuer is at Colum¬

bia's School of International
Affairs and did an internship this
summer at the American Foreign
Council. He was deputy issues
director for Rep. Joseph Kennedy
(D-Mass) in 1988.

Paul Grandpierre is pursuing
Ph.D. studies in theoretical chem¬
istry at Cambridge, and recently
ran into Brendan Mernin there,
still wearing an Ultimate shirt and
being a poet in Paris, teaching
English to live.

Keep writing!

George Gianfrancisco

Columbia College Today
100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

Wedding bells are ringing this
summer. David Putelo wed his
longtime sweetheart Sue Padjan

in mid-August. Congratulations.

Jennifer Hirsh says hello from
Zaire where she is working for the
Peace Corps. She'll be back home
next May.

Aaron Gleckman will be start¬
ing med school at UMass in the
fall. Good luck!

Laurence Davis will be starting
a doctoral program at Oxford after
spending two years on the legisla¬
tive staff of Senator Jay Rockefeller
(D-W.Va.).

Kathryn Schneider is at Colum¬
bia Law and will edit its presti¬
gious Business Law Review.
Afterwards, look for her at the
offices of Chadbourne & Park,
where she summered this year.

And finally, Joyce Sun will be
attending either Duke or George¬
town Law School. Congratula¬
tions, Joyce.

Columbia College Today

by Rich Hahn '91

Rich Hahn is a College senior from Yardley, Pa. An English major, he began
publishing his cartoons last year in Upstart, the Barnard Bulletin and the
Columbia Daily Spectator, in which these two efforts first appeared. Among
his favorite cartoonists are WinsorMcCay, Jules Feiffer, andR. Crumb.

Alix Pustilnik

1175 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10128

Ijeoma Acholonu

Columbia College Today
100 Hamilton Hall
New York, N.Y. 10027

Hello, everyone. How did the
summer go? The consensus
seems to be that it went by pretty
fast. I hope the summer was en¬
joyable despite its seeming brev¬
ity. Despite the fact that very few
people wrote in to me, I still have
some news to tell you.

We have our fair share of future
doctors and lawyers, as with our
past College classes. In medical
school, we have Greg Palega and
Jose Ramirez at Cornell, Jeff
Comuniello and Shirley Dorf at

SUNY-Downstate, Stan McCloy,
Jr. at Ohio State, Libby Dalaman-
gas (a New Jersey resident) at
NewJersey-Newark, Karen Mc¬
Leod at Stony Brook, Ralph Maxy
at NYU, and Jerry Godfrey at
Dartmouth.

The list of future lawyers is
equally impressive. Alex Arias,
Melissa Raciti, and Tina Passala-
ris, close friends since freshman
year, are at Columbia Law School
along with Regina Ciccone. Fran¬
cis Phillip and Eric Mingo are at
Harvard. Katarina Antos is at
New York Law School, and Tracey
Silverman is at Michigan.

To break the montage of law¬
yers and doctors are those who
have joined the work force right
here in New York. Chris Young is
working for Chase Manhattan
Bank at One Chase Plaza, while

his roommate Nick Baughn is at
Paine Webber. Fred Erker is a legal
assistant at Shearman Sterling.
Coopers and Lybrand has added
Danny Reichert to its list of em¬
ployees. Ann Hayes is a paralegal
in the appeals division of the
Manhattan District Attorney's
Office. Jackie Kim is a program
associate for the Carnegie Council
on Ethics and International Af-
fairs-Asian Programs. Dolores
Darcy is continuing at Grutman
Greene and Hymphrey. Dianne
Morse is working at National
Westminster Bank, and Gina Fat-
tore is a development assistant in
the major gifts and planned giv¬
ing department of the New York
Public Library at Fifth Avenue and
40th Street.

This by no means encompasses
the list for any of these categories.

I hope to complete it in future edi¬
tions—with your help, of course
(hint, hint). Please write in and
tell us what's happening, espe¬
cially those of you who have
chosen professions not men¬
tioned above. I am attending
Columbia Medical School, but
unfortunately by the deadline
date for this column I still did not
know where I would be living.

Please continue writing to the
above address. I will get your
letters.

Congratulations to everyone on
your achievements, acceptances
and jobs. Special congratulations
to Julie Bibb on being awarded a
Fulbright and to Joanna Picciotto,
our valedictorian, on receiving
the Albert Asher Green Memorial
Prize. Best of luck to those still out
there looking. Bye-bye for now! a

Ford

(continued from page 22)

At Columbia, he majored in English,
studying film criticism with Andrew
Sarris '51, and began reviewing new re¬
leases for the International Motion Pic¬
ture Exhibitor, a trade paper. At the end
of his junior year, he won a fellowship
to the American Film Institute in Holly¬
wood, where he began studying the
Warners' cartoons.

When he returned to Columbia in
1972, he was writing for Rolling Stone
and other publications, and never got
around to amassing his final credits to
graduate. ("I think I was just short in
phys. ed.," he says. "Can I get a diplo¬
ma for being in this article?")

No one wanted to publish his writing
on cartoons, so, he says, "I started do¬
ing shows to have something to attach
all these program notes to." A break
came in 1974 when, after Lincoln Cen¬
ter had run a Disney festival, the New
York Cultural Center engaged him to
program a four-week festival of Warn¬
ers', Disney and Fleischer cartoons—

"I emphasized the anti-Disney
movement."

Mr. Ford was no fan of the cute-little-
animals aesthetic fostered by Disney in
his later years, and chose work far from
the spirit of Disneyland, such as Dis¬
ney's own Der Fuehrer's Face and other
World War II propaganda, Robert
Clampett's hallucinatory Tin Pan Alley
Cats, and Chuck Jones's One Froggy Eve¬
ning, in which an immortal singing,
dancing frog dashes a man's dreams of
avarice by refusing to perform in pub¬
lic. The festival dispelled any notion of
the cartoons being just for children,
and drew crowds and critical favor.

Mr. Ford began submitting cartoon
scripts to Warner Brothers, but it was to
be ten years before any were accepted.
During that time he worked as a film
historian and programmer for various
museums and New York art cinemas.

In 1978 he brought a program of Tex
Avery cartoons to Yugoslavia and the
Soviet Union, where he addressed gov¬
ernment-sponsored assemblies of film¬
makers who had heard of Avery but
never seen the work.

"It went over really well," he recalls,
"but in Moscow at one point they asked
me to discuss Avery and Einstein. I
thought the translator made a mistake
—they had to mean Eisenstein—but
they meant Einstein. They had this the¬
ory about the post-nuclear Tex Avery—

they saw King-Size Canary as a postwar
territorial conflict, these two bloated
monsters, the cat and the mouse, tak¬
ing over the world. At first I thought
they were crazy. I knew Avery and he
just made cartoons. But then I looked at
it again—it was made in 1947—and
they were right! The canary was proba¬
bly Germany."

M r. Ford's current projects include
a theatrical short called Blooper
Bunny ("It's going to look like outtakes
from another show, which you can fig¬
ure out from what you see—like Rosen-
crantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, " he
says), and a television short. Invasion of

the Bunny Snatchers, an hommage to Don
Siegel and Hanna-Barbera, in which
Bugs's colleagues are taken over by lim¬
ited animation. For Warner Records, he
collaborated with Hal Willner, who pro¬
duces the skit music for Saturday Night
Live, on a just-released album of Carl
Stalling's cartoon soundtracks. "Stall¬
ing was really twisted—amazing," says
Mr. Ford. "Some say he was avant-
garde but really, he let the animation
take him places that weren't musically
'correct.' He thought nothing of having
a 60-piece orchestra going full blast and
then stopping for one flute."

Mr. Ford admires many live-action
directors, such as Luis Bunuel, Howard
Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Jean Renoir and
Spike Lee. But, he says, "Animation
seems more real to me than most live-
action. The most amazing thing about
animation is it never really gets off pa¬
per—when you shoot it, it's just follow¬
ing numbers. You draw one frame at a
time but you end up with stuff that
looks totally spontaneous and off the
top of your head. And no matter how
representational it is, it's still an abstrac¬
tion. That's the contradiction of classi¬
cal cartooning." j g

Daffy

(continued from page 23)

And Warner Brothers itself, having
decades ago abandoned the fully ani¬
mated short, is cautiously welcoming it
back, and has produced several new
theatrical shorts, including Box Office
Bunny, Bugs's first such effort in 26
years, and several new Daffy Duck
shorts. Bugs's semicentennial this year
is being celebrated with television spe¬
cials, videos, and merchandise from
Bugs wristwatches to a Road Runner
microwavable chicken sandwich. The
studio has engaged Steven Spielberg,
whose hit movie Who Framed Roger Rab¬
bit? combined live action and anima¬
tion, to produce a new television series
called Tiny Toons, featuring new char¬
acters with names like Buster Bunny
and Calamity Coyote, whose adven¬
tures will allegedly be in the spirit of
the old Looney Tunes, but less violent
—if a gunshot singeing the eyeballs of a
fictional duck constitutes violence.

T he distinctions between high and
low art are constantly changing,
says the Columbia art historian Richard
Brilliant. "The notion of high art comes

out of the 18th century, with the dis¬
tinctions between the major arts—
painting, sculpture, architecture—and
the minor, decorative arts. The concep¬
tion of the value of what used to be
called folk art has been transformed in
the last generation, certainly since the
1950's and 60's. So the old criteria that
allowed people to establish a hierarchy
among the arts have lost their
foundations."

"Today most art is serious," he says.
"But we don't consider Mark Twain less
significant because he is humorous.

The issue is whether the work is meant
to be taken seriously, and can it be
taken seriously by people who look at
it. I think one of the noblest human per¬
ceptions is humor—it allows someone
to have an objective view of himself or
herself. Humor is hard to achieve. Most
things that try to be funny aren't."

The great jazz trumpet player Dizzy
Gillespie—who is not above playing for
laughs—is reputed to have once been
asked, after finishing an energetic be¬
bop set, whether he ever longed to play
serious music. Dizzy replied, "What do
you think we were doing up there—
kidding?" Q

Columbia College Today

Letters

(continued from page 7)

As a senior, I will surely try to live by
these words; alumni, rest assured, my
glass will be held high.

David Kaufman '91

Scarsdale, N.Y.

The storms of time

The letter from Richard Brookhiser
[Winter 1990] to which you gave the
heading "Offensive Anthems" re¬
minded me of an episode along the
lines of the Yale Glee Club's with "Die
Wacht am Rhein" that I experienced
with our Columbia anthem in post¬
war Switzerland. By good luck I was
with my knowledgeable classmate
George Freimarck at the time and
under his tutelage eluded any con¬
siderable embarrassment.

I had entered the Foreign Service in
1941. George had been inducted into
the Army and (like our commander-in-
chief in the European theater) had had
to fight on the soil of his ancestors'
homeland and against its forces. After
serving in the occupation of Germany,
he joined the State Department and
later its Foreign Service. In 19571 was
appointed a member of the U.S. gov¬
ernment delegation to the International
Labor Conference, which is held every
June in Geneva. George turned out to
be the officer in charge of our Bern
embassy's public affairs program and
by good fortune came to Geneva to
chair a meeting of his staff assigned to
the U.S. consulates in Switzerland.

He invited me to join him and the
staff, with their wives, one evening for
dinner at the Cafe Bavaria. I accepted
gladly. Ten of us sat at a table in a typi¬
cal south German restaurant with a
typical Bavarian menu that listed excel¬
lent food, wine, and beer. The rest¬
aurant was well patronized but spa¬
cious, and there was plenty of room
between tables. We enjoyed ourselves.
George's lieutenants and their wives
were young. We began to sing tradi¬
tional American songs, among them
a strong mixture of college songs.

Of course, George and I had to in¬

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troduce "Roar, Lion, Roar," "Stand Up
and Cheer," "Who Owns New York?"
and one or two other Columbia songs. I
suggested to him that we lead in
"Mother stayed on rock eternal..." He
answered in effect: "Later; not until
we're ready to stop."

Then George explained: Close be¬
hind our restaurant ran a long, high
escarpment, roughly paralleling the
Rhone River and Lake Geneva. The
crest of that escarpment is French ter¬
ritory and, George enlightened us, had
been included in occupied France. The
Nazis had girded the clifftops with
great, menacing guns that pointed
down on Geneva, counseling its citi¬
zens to prudence. This had gravely of¬
fended the Swiss. The music of "Moth¬
er stayed ..." George continued, was
also the music of "Deutschland Uber
Alles." By the time we came to "Stand,
Columbia ...," he was sure, we would
be asked by the management to cease
and desist. So, we should postpone our
rendition of "Alma Mater" until we
were ready to leave.

George's scenario proved 100 percent
accurate. Well before we had been able
to exhort our university to stand and
through the storms of time abide, the
manager was at our table. He explained
most civilly—though we had been
singing a large part of an hour. I'm
sure—that the establishment had no
music license. Therefore, he had to ask
us not to sing. Our songs had been
lovely, he stressed, and a pleasurable
experience for everyone present.

George added information that fasci¬
nated me as a Columbian. The tune of
our Alma Mater had served not only for
"Deutschland Uber Alles" but also for
the Austro-Hungarian imperial
anthem. It was a borrowing by Franz
Joseph Haydn of an old Croatian mel¬
ody, and he had woven it into his
famous "Emperor Quartet" of 1797.

But, George underlined, Columbia had
adapted and adopted the Haydn music
almost half a century before it had been
taken over by Bismarck's empire of
1871. Further, in the late 18th century
the Episcopal Church had used the
Haydn melody for one of its hymns, as
the Catholic Church had done later.
And, George pointed out with a certain
acerb pleasure that for me echoed
teachings of that great Columbia au¬
thority of our day on the subject of
nationalism, Professor (and later war¬
time Ambassador to Spain) Carlton J.

(continued on page 63)

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Letters

(continued from page 61)

H. Hayes, the original verse of
"Deutschland Uber Alles" was a demo¬
cratic, revolutionary poem written in
1840 by the German romantic Hoff¬
mann von Fallersleben.

My classmates of 1938 will not be sur¬
prised by George's command of such
bits, however arcane, of Columbiana.

In college we expected that sort of thing
from George. But that evening at the
Cafe Bavaria, he also gave his col¬
leagues (both the young officers pres¬
ent and me, who had preceded him
into the Foreign Service by almost a
decade) a vivid and paradigmatic
example of how a Foreign Service
Officer should learn and interpret the
country of his assignment.

Juan de Zengotita '38

Duxbury, Mass.

Kansas curriculum

This excerpt from Avis Carlson's Small
World Long Gone: A Family Record of an
Era, describing the author's feeling of
achievement in getting her eighth-
grade diploma in a small town in Kansas
in 1907, maybe of interest. It appeared
in the Wall Street Journal many years
ago. I tried to read it to every Columbia
class. I expect that it impressed and
doubtless embarrassed them.

Each of my parents taught in such a
one-room school in Nebraska before
1910. When I was born, my father was a
county superintendent of schools.

At that point in the history of Kansas
education the county superintendents
had a rite known as the County Eighth
Grade Examination, which was, I think,
the sole standardized achievement test in
the whole state system. I took the test
four months before my twelfth birthday
and passed. . ..

Recently, I ran into the questions
which qualified me for my eighth-grade
diploma. The questions on that examina¬
tion in that primitive, one-room school
taught by a young person who never
attended a high school positively daze
me.

The "orthography" quiz... asked us to
spell 20 words, including abbreviated,
obscene, elucidation, assassination, and ani¬
mosity. ... Two of arithmetic's ten ques¬
tions asked us to find the interest on an 8
percent note for $900 running 2 years, 2
months, 6 days; and also to reduce 3
pecks, 5 quarts, 1 pint to bushels. In read¬
ing we were required to tell what we
knew of the writings of Thomas Jefferson,
and for another of the ten questions to
indicate the pronunciation and give the

meanings of the following words: zenith,
deviated, colosseum, misconception, pan¬
egyric, Spartan, talisman, eyrie, triton,
crypt....

Among geography's ten were these
two: "Name two countries producing
large quantities of wheat, two of cotton,
two of coal, two of tea." "Name three
important rivers of the U.S., three of
Europe, three of Asia, three of South
America, and three of Africa."

As one of physiology's ten we were...
asked to "write 200 words on the evil
effects of alcoholic beverages"! Another
directed us to define Boards of Health and
tell what their duties were.

In grammar's ten were two directing us
to "analyze and diagram": "There is a tide
in the affairs of men, which taken at the
flood, leads on to fortune." And then to
parse tide, which, taken, leads.. . .

In history we were to "give a brief
account of the colleges, printing and
religion in the colonies prior to the Ameri¬
can Revolution," to "name the principal
campaigns and military leaders of the
Civil War," to "name the principal politi¬
cal questions which have been advocated
since the Civil War and the party which
advocated each."

Looking back on those yellowed lists of
questions... I am somewhat awed....
When my family took me on an overnight
trip to the county seat (20 miles away!) the
evening ceremony of diploma-bestowal
seemed to me a blaze of lights and glory.

C. Lowell Harriss

Professor Emeritus of Economics

Bronxville, N.Y.

(continued)

Letters

(continued)

Healing and understanding

As a member of the John Jay Associates,
it is with considerable regret and sad¬
ness that I will refrain from contribut¬
ing to the Columbia College Fund this
year. What Dean Jack Greenberg
described, in his address on Dean's
Day, as a "minor bump" in referring to
Professor Griff's campus appearance
was anything but that to my sen¬
sibilities. I am outraged to think that
funds that I and others have generously
contributed over the years have gone to
support campus groups such as the
Black Students Organization that invite
ignorant bigots to spew forth their
venom in a Columbia University
setting.

President James Laney of Emory
University, in his op-ed article in The
New York Times, had no trouble dealing
with Griff and his ilk when he said that
a university must not be value-neutral;
educators are by definition professors
of value. Free speech does not include
bullying and epithets.

This year I will donate the money
heretofore reserved for Columbia Col¬
lege to the Simon Wiesenthal Center
instead. This organization recognizes
that in this climate of growing intol¬
erance and racial unrest on America's
campuses, we need the sounds of heal¬
ing and understanding, not hatred and
divisiveness.

Charles Solomon '55, D.D.S.

Roslyn Harbor, N.Y.

Editor's note: As CCT reported ("A Rap
'Professor' Splits the Campus," Spring/
Summer 1990), Dean Greenberg called for a
campus boycott of Mr. Griffin's appearance,
hundreds of students protested the per¬
former's anti-Semitic and homophobic state¬
ments, and the student Board of Managers
withdrew its $1,000 allocation for Black
History Month programs.

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