Class Notes, November/December 2002

Tuesday December 31, 2002 Category: Archives Permanent Link

As 2002 draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on how my study habits have changed since I graduated from Cornell… make that deteriorated. I don’t know about the rest of our classmates, but I can’t sit through an episode of “CSI” without simultaneously reading a magazine and talking on the phone. Although I was focused enough for several Coca-Cola-fueled all-nighters my senior year, I now have trouble committing to an entire issue of Entertainment Weekly. Fortunately, it was a lot easier to concentrate on my studies back in Ithaca where my mobility was limited by snowstorms, steep hills, and guilt.

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Class Notes, September/October 2002

Sunday November 10, 2002 Category: Archives Permanent Link

I’m glad to see some of our classmates submitting their class news on-line. Like newlywed Michael “Shep” Holland, alumni who pay dues through www.alumni.cornell.edu can also send in their updates. Michael reports that he hadn’t had a good reason to write since graduation, but this last year seemed to bring a flood of good news. “Last June I married Eliza Barton, who graduated from the U. of Pennsylvania in 1999 as a nurse-midwife. There were more than a dozen Cornellians in attendance, including Vanessa Jacobs-Lorena, Michael Intravaia, and Prof. Deborah Streeter as a special guest. We went to Hawaii for two weeks for our honeymoon (kayaking and hiking) before returning home to Hartford, CT. “Michael also e-mailed me a few lovely wedding and honeymoon photos that I would include in this column if it were possible. Trust me, they’re very nice. Michael adds that he’s been fortunate enough to return to Cornell almost every semester to guest lecture for Prof. Streeter for the Entrepreneurship Program. “Thanks to her glowing recommendation, I was thrilled to be accepted this week into Duke’s Fuqua School of Business Cross-Continent MBA Program starting later this summer. Looks like six years of slaving away at start-up companies will pay off!”

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Class Notes, July/August 2002

Tuesday September 10, 2002 Category: Archives Permanent Link

There’ve been so few news leaks this month I can’t help wondering if our entire class works for the Bush White House. And tempting though it is not to let facts get in the way of a good story, I guess it would be a tiny bit suspect if suddenly the column was full of news of moves to Tuscan villas, marriages to, say, Jennifer Connelly or Heath Ledger, and collections of giant Lotto prizes. So, please, telephone, telegraph, telegram–send news. Forget scraping the bottom of the barrel–we’re getting so low we can see clear through to the ground. Help!

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Class Notes, May/June 2002

Wednesday July 10, 2002 Category: Archives Permanent Link

It is unseasonably warm and sunny today here in the City by the Bay, which prompts me to wonder how I ever spent four long, cold years Far Above Cayuga’s Waters. Remembering how life really was in “Ithaca, Centrally Isolated” has become quite a stretch, and being a sagacious 27 years of age, things of my hapless college days are now cast in this rose-colored glow. I seriously wonder if this is perspective, maturity, senility, or maybe the perfect combination of all. Write us here at Class Notes, and tell us what you think…

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Class Notes, March/April 2002

Friday May 10, 2002 Category: Archives Permanent Link

I never knew Jennifer Lynn Tzemis during my years as a Cornell undergrad or as a professional in New York City, but it’s obvious to me that she was deeply loved by her family: Stamatios, Nancy, Sophia, and Nicole Tzemis. In late November I received a few announcements, one of which was an invitation to Jennifer’s Mass service on Staten Island on Oct. 20, ‘01. Family and friends from various stages of her life, including her early childhood in Great Kills, Honors Club at New Dorp High School, her dance school, Cornell, and Merrill Lynch, came together to honor her “unique laughter, kindness to others, passion for life, and other personal qualities.” When the September 11 terrorist attacks occurred, Jennifer was a vice president, financial analyst at Fred Alger Management on the 93rd floor of One World Trade Center. Although most of us were not personally affected by the tragedy, I know we’re all thinking about Jennifer, the other Cornellians who lost their lives, and the families of the victims.

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Class Officers

Wednesday April 10, 2002 Category: Class of 96 Permanent Link

Officers are elected to 5-year terms at each reunion. Position descriptions are available in the Class Constitution.

Note that the email addresses below don’t have a real @ sign, so if you cut and paste the address, you may have to retype one. This is an effort to stay one step ahead of the “spambots”.

Presidents

Stephanie Cockerl, smc5cornell.edu

A native New Yorker, Stephanie is an award winning freelance web designer, developer, and web consultant. In addition to being Co-President, she had also served as class webmaster, and is currently CBAA webmaster. Steph has a B. Architecture from Cornell and a MBA in Media Management from Metropolitan College of New York, where she teaches Internet Tips and Tools for Business. Visit her business online at smcockerl studio.

Erica Gantner, elg4cornell.edu

Vice Presidents

Katherine Butler, katherine_butleryahoo.com

Erin Caimano, ees1cornell.edu

Carrie Ermler, cme2cornell.edu

Esther Kang, ehk1cornell.edu

Treasurer

David Feinleib, dfeinleibyahoo.com

Vice President of Fundraising

Erin Caimano (Sullivan)

An engineer GE Silicones, Erin was married in May 2001.

Secretary

Christina Feile, chirstina.m.feileaexp.com

Vice President and Treasurer of Atlantic Nursery & Garden Shop Inc., a family business celebrating its 75th Anniversary this year (www.atlanticnursery.com). I was an AGEC (now ARME) major at Cornell. Then I spent 5 years in Corporate Financial Exchange Sales in Manhattan and London before returning to the family business in Freeport, Long Island, NY. I am currently pursuing my MBA at NYU in the Part-Time Langone program while working full time and planning my August 14th, 2004 wedding.

Class Correspondents

AlexandraCahill, amc6cornell.edu

Sheryl Magzamen, slmcornell.edu

Sheryl is currently a graduate student in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. In her words, “I think I studied Biology at Cornell, but I was in a Molecular Bio class last year at Cal , and I swear, they might have as well been speaking in Sanskrit.” favorite Cornell memory is hard to choose, but i can tell you the most recent Cornell memory - anyone see someone passed out cold on the Dickson Lawn after the wine tour? yup. that was me.

Courtney Rubin, cbr1cornell.edu

A journalist in London, where she’s currently working for People magazine. Her book The Weight Loss Diaries—based on her columns for Shape magazine—will be published by McGraw-Hill (Contemporary) in June 2004. She was a history major in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Reunion Chairs

Katrina James, kej2cornell.edu

A graduate of the Human Service Studies program in the College of Human Ecology, Katrina is Assistant Director of Admissions and Recruitment at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU. She served as the class president for our first five years out, and is active with the Cornell Black Alumni Association (CBAA).

Lhney Lewis-Steiner, lhneyyahoo.com

An ALS grad, Lhney works at Genentech Inc, in South San Fransisco. She had the good sense to marry Joshua Steiner (Cornell ‘97). They have two cats, and she stays active with Aikido, golf, and travel.

Webmaster

Matthew Heberger, mgh5cornell.edu

An Agricultural and Biological Engineering graduate, Matt spent two years with the Peace Corps as a water and sanitation extension agent in Mali, West Africa. He recently finished an MS in Water Resources Engineering at Tufts University in Boston, and is working in Cambridge for Camp, Dresser, and McKee.

Regional Representatives

Jennifer Lagnado, Long Island, jml1cornell.edu

Jennifer earned her doctoral degree in 2004 from Columbia University and is an Assistant Principal at Lawrence High School on Long Island. In addition, she earned a B.S. and an M.A.T. from Cornell in ‘96 & ‘97. Among her many favorite memories of Cornell are long runs in the plantations and meeting up with friends for lunch at Trillium.

Suzette Posada, Washington, DC, sp11cornell.edu

A 1999 Grad of Villanova Law, Suzette married Edwin Gil in 1998 at the Philadelphia Ice Rink by Mayor Ed Rendell.

Laura Nicholson (Mammina), Washington, DC, ljm7cornell.edu

A 2001 graduate of Georgetown Law, Laura is a Law Associate at Baker Botts LLP in DC. She married Mark Nicholson ‘94 at Sage Chapel in 1999.

Audrey Kleinsmith, Virginia, alk1cornell.edu

James Mallios, New York, jcm1cornell.edu

A 1999 Grad of Fordham Law, James is an Associate at Liddle and Robinson LLP, and a member of the NY City Bar Association Labor and Employment Committee. James has stayed involved with Cornell by interviews admissions candidates for the university. He is also assistant Coach Bronx HS of Science Speech and Debate Team, and a stand up comic.

Josh Vinciguerra, New York, jvinciguerraspecnarc.com

Josh is an Assistant District Attorney in the Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor.

Jason Emerson, New York, jbe1cornell.edu

Jason has worked in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo and NYC since graduating from ALS in 1996 with a BS in ARME. He is a registered securities representative, a uniform securities agent and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Jason worked 4 years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in operational risk consulting. He is currently Director in Global Risk Management group at Instinet, and l lives in the NJ suburbs. His hobbies include rockclimbing, backpacking, biking, skiing and astronomy, and he is a member of CAAAN (Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network)

Michael Santarcangelo, New York, mjs21cornell.edu

Ben Geiger, New York, bdg2cornell.edu

Ben received his BA in Economics with a concentration in International Relations. After spending two years with Merrill Lynch’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group, he went to Freeman Spogli & Co., a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyouts of companies in the consumer-related, direct marketing and distribution industries.

Karen Fabbri (Fadden), Boston

Alex Castro , Seattle (North West US)

Class Notes, January/February 2002

Friday March 01, 2002 Category: Archives Permanent Link

I hope this new year finds you and yours safe and sound. Though you’ve seen Cornell Alumni Magazine post-Sept. 11, this is the first column actually being written since then, so I thought we could pause before our regularly scheduled programming to let you know that our thoughts are with all of our classmates who lost loved ones in the attacks, and with the families and friends of our classmates Balewa Albert Blackman and Jennifer Lynn Tzemis. Jennifer worked for Fred Alger Management in the World Trade Center. Balewa was a junior accountant at Cantor Fitzgerald.

I’m writing this on a post-runner’s high. Dressed in my “United We Run” T-shirt, I ran my third marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon, in October. The marathon includes a loop around the Pentagon. I cried this year as I passed it, and again as a man ran by me dressed in full firefighter gear. As countless American-flag-covered signs waved this year expressed: “Pain is temporary, but pride is forever.”

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