No. 18
September 12, 2006
Welcome to the eighteenth issue of the Columbia College Class of 1963
eNewsletter.
I trust you have all had an enjoyable summer and are
ready for an exciting fall. If you have any adventures
that you'd like to share with us, and memorialize on these
pages, let me know.
I have posted this issue of our eNewsletter on our new
web site, www.cc63ers.com.
As the College and University work out their plans for
the future of the Columbia online alumni presence, I thought
it prudent to start up an independent, easily controllable
environment. Over the next few years I hope that it will
grow into a rich resource for our class. I am hoping that
a few of you will join me on working on this site (knowing
the talent in this class, I'm counting on it). I'll be
sending out a separate email to all of you in week or
with more information. In the meantime, let me know if
what I have moved there so far (I'm slowly migrating the
archives of this eNewsletter over) seems to be working
correctly. The next step is a nicely designed home page,
and sections for all sorts of goodies. If you want to
see what I have been working on for my prep school's 50th,
take a look at www.pa59ers.com.
I'm collaborating with two classmates from Andover (I'm
the web master), and we've built this site over the summer.
It is just starting to take on a momentum and life of
its own. I know we can do even better for Columbia '63.
Let me know what you think. You an always email me at
pauln@helpauthors.com.
We're starting off this fall with a very large lunch
gathering on Thursday, September 14 at the Columbia Club
(see below). If you can't make that,
I hope to see you at the Homecoming game on Saturday,
September 30 (also below).
If this is your first visit here, I've added a link to
an archives page, which in turn, will link you to the
past
issues of the Class of 1963 eNewsletter.
Table of Contents:
Every Second Thursday of the Month, 12:30
p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Columbia College Club - 15 West 43rd Street, NYC
Please join your classmates for an informal
lunch at the Columbia Club every second Thursday of the
month. It is our hope that these gatherings will renew
old friendships and foster improved relationship with
our class and the College. I hope you can all join us
at the next lunch on Thursday, September 14.
This will be a unique time to meet Derek Wittner '65,
Dean of Alumni Affairs and Development; Susan Birnbaum,
Executive Director, Columbia College Fund; and Karri Brady,
the Columbia College Fund Director recently assigned to
our class. Let me know if you will attend so that we can
reserve a big enough table; RSVP to Paul Neshamkin (pauln@helpauthors.com).
As of Tuesday 9/12/06, the following have indicated that
they will attend:
David Alpern
Steve Barcan
Peter Broido
Paul Gorrin
Bob Heller
Bruce Kaplan
Barry Landau
Paul Neshamkin
Larry Neuman
Tom O’Connor
Barry Reiss
Phil Satow
Herb Soroca
Because of the large size of the gathering,
we will be meeting in the Nassau Room (#405) at 12:30
PM.
Lunch Archives
If you like to see our previous lunches, click
on the dates below:
December
9, 2004
January
13, 2005
February 10, 2005
March 10. 2005
April
14, 2005
May
12, 2005
June
9, 2005
July
14, 2005
September
8, 2005
October 14, 2005
November 9, 2005
December 12, 2005
January 12, 2006
February 9, 2006
March 9, 2006
April 20, 2006
May 11, 2006
June 8, 2006
July 13, 2006
For
information and inquiries call Paul Neshamkin at 201-714-4881
or email at pauln@helpauthors.com.
The Homecoming game is early this year on
September 30 against Princeton. Kickoff is not until 1:30
PM in order to give you lots of time at the pre-game festivities.
I hope you will join me and several other classmates at
the Class of 1963 table at the Pre-game BBQ under the
Big Tent on the baseball field. I'll be looking for you.
For
information and inquiries call Paul Neshamkin at 201-714-4881
or email at pauln@helpauthors.com.
Thank you for the recent flurry of notes in
response for my urgent request in order to beat the deadline
for the November issue of Columbia College Today. I publish
them with minimal editing (just consider me your press
agent).
David Alpern reports he has
signed a third two-year, post-retirement contract with
Newsweek to keep producing and hosting the magazine's
syndicated weekend radio broadcast, Newsweek On Air, now
also a popular “podcast” via the newsweek.com
web site. Indeed, Alpern is both pleased and a bit surprised
to find the show doing so well in the new digital world,
generally among the Top Twenty of all programs rated at
an independent website called podcastbunker.com, which
claims to consider quality of content as well as counting
downloads. “Oh, brave new world!” he's been
heard to say.
Larry Neuman has started
a renewable energy company and recently returned from
a business trip to China. After visiting with his partner
companies in solar energy near Shanghai, he drove 700
kilometers (400 miles) across Inner Mongolia to look at
sites for a wind energy project.
Far from an exotic backwater, Larry found four-lane super
highways connecting the windy, rolling grasslands. “Never
once in 400 miles without a soul in sight, were we out
of cell phone contact - can you say that on the New Jersey
turnpike?”
With China's desperate need for energy and the pressure
to make its environment cleaner, green energy is a major
driving force in China. Solar energy is just beginning
to take hold in the US and Larry expects to be shuttling
back and forth very often. He invites anyone who wants
to learn more to contact him at Solar Bridge Inc (lneuman@solar-bridge.com).
Barry Reiss is pleased to announce “that
a film produced by my client, which will be opening this
summer entitled ‘Yellow,’ starring Roselyn
Sanchez (of Without a Trace) just got a rave review from
Variety. The review was based on a ‘preview’
of the film at the HBO NY Latin Film Festival.”
Barry, I hope, by the time we read this, that your client’s
film has been released and had a boffo box office.
Bill Goebel writes, “We
just came back from a ten-day trip to Montreal, Ottawa
and Toronto and are heading to Japan in October. Retirement
is great. Also, my wife and I had a lovely dinner in July
with Cindi and Ira Malter, who are living
in Port Jefferson.”
Frank Sypher writes, "This
summer I have been doing editorial work on a fascinating
catalogue for a forthcoming exhibition at the Stanford
University Libraries, of "Dickens and Show Biz."
The materials in the show are from the collection of Mr.
Bruce Crawford, a distinguished collector of material
on Dickens, and other British and American authors. In
the show, and in the excellent catalogue, he presents
Dickens's many important links to the theater during his
literary career. Also, in later years there have been
countless theatrical adaptations of Dickens stories, as
for movies, TV shows, and Broadway musicals. All this
(and, as the saying goes, much more) is discussed in the
lavishly illustrated catalogue."
Henry R. Black, M.D. was
elected as President-Elect of the American Society of
Hypertension in May, 2006. His two-year term will begin
in 2008. He and his wife, Benita, will be moving back
to New York later this year. He writes that “the
trip from Chicago to Baker Field was simply too far. I
am really looking forward to be able to come to our monthly
luncheons on a regular basis.” Henry, I will be
looking for you at lunch and the games. It’ll be
great to see you.
Phil Satow writes that he
just passed the second anniversary of the founding of
JDS Pharmaceuticals. “Marketing two well-known psychiatric
drugs through a national 50 person sales force. We also
have an important new product for bipolar treatment under
development. The company contributes a fixed percent of
its profit annually to community-based mental health programming.
Proudly, I work with my son Michael CC’88; he is
our President and COO. My daughter Julie CC'96 is currently
the real estate reporter for Crains New York.”
Paul Gorrin added a note
to his RSVP to the September 14 lunch, "By the way,
I've just bought a new office building and am organizing
a multispecialty group practice in a small and under served
rural area in Southern Delaware. The model is a time share,
where docs in the hospital towns come to our office weekly.
There's a a counseling center and we should have a psychiatrist
by next year. It's exciting and professionally gratifying.
This area is the most rapidly growing area in Delaware
(I know there are probably more people on Morningside
Hgts than in our capital. Does anyone know what it is?
Well before we moved here many years ago, I certainly
didn't.) Not surprisingly the multitude of homes and rising
land values threatens farming here and that's what had
made this spot really out of a 1940's America so sweet.
There's still a lot of open land, and beautiful wetlands.
It's a different life from what we knew all those years
ago. My wife, Ann of 26 years, finds it very much like
the northern Vermont town she grew up in. She's county
coordinator for Read Aloud Delaware, a literacy program
for children who don't get read to by their parents. Our
oldest daughter, Ellen (Colby Sawyer, New London, NH,
'04) after a year in Los Angeles and one in NY has come
back to Delaware to pursue a master's in school counseling.
Daniel, our oldest boy (Gettysburg '06) is at the NIH
for a post-baccalaureate traineeship in neuropsychology;
David, our younger son, is starting his second year at
Gettysburg. Emily, our youngest, is a senior at Milford
H.S.
And finally, Barry Austern tells me that
he had problems with the ringer on his cell phone. “Sometimes
I am in a crowd and it is hard to know whose phone it
is ringing. Because of that, I tend to ignore cell phones
and sometimes miss calls. So I sent $2.49 to Cincinnati
Bell and my phone now ‘rings’ with Roar, Lion,
and Roar. It's a melody that does perk up my ears and
I know the phone ringing is mine.” Barry’s
email signature line contained the text, “Deziru
pacon al Jerusalemo; Bonan staton havu viaj amantoj.”
I wrote back to plead my ignorance, and he responded,
“It is Psalm 122:6, ‘Pray for the peace of
Jerusalem. May those who love you prosper.’ Fitting
now, I think. It is a translation into Esperanto. What
more fitting language in which to pray for peace than
that language invented to encourage peace.”
When you send your notes in, please indicate
if you would like to share your email address(or web site)
with your classmates. Always great to hear from you all.
Share your news and views with your classmates. Contact
your Class Correspondent, and let him know what you would
like posted here or in Columbia College Today (CCT).
For
information and inquiries call Paul Neshamkin at 201-714-4881
or email at pauln@helpauthors.com.
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