Class Notes, November/December 1996
Tuesday December 31, 1996 Category: Archives Permanent Link
Usually around this time of the year for us, the sun slips below the horizon, and we don’t see sunlight until, well, Slope Day. Not so in Atlanta, where the ‘p’ word is Pepsi, and not prelims, and I am really trying to keep “y’all” out of my vernacular. Although I am a mite far from home and the Hill, there are a bunch of “Sixers” who have migrated South for grad school. Gabe Rozengarten and Raj Vaishnani are pursuing their master’s degrees in public health at Emory U. Alison Nodvin is at Emory U. law school and, once in a while, can be cajoled to close her contracts text, and show us around her native Atlanta. Joanne Koch is a computer consultant for the Keane Co., and Amy Johnston and Greg Juceam will be putting their TCAB and other acquired skills to work for Harvey Hotels.
Other members of out class decided that packing away their parkas and sporting the shorts and shades was far better than traying down Libe Slope. Ben Rubin now calls North Carolina home, and recently started to work on his PhD in neurobiology at Duke. Gautam Bhave is at Baylor U. in Texas, pursuing his MD/PhD, Kelly Chung is in Arizona,working for the Motorola Corp., and James Edwards-Reich has gone West Coast, working for Peat Marwick in Los Angeles. Some have even traveled great distances for a little sun. Samantha Klein, Eytan Szmuilowicz, and Class Archives Keeper David Dunkin are in Israel, on Project Otzma, volunteering around the country for the next year. Ilana Preuss, after spending the summer running the home base of the Young Judea youth program,is researching environmental issues for consultants to the Israeli Government.
There are, of course, cities where there are so many Cornellians, you blink your eyes, and you think that you’re back on campus. Those dealing with the Ts, the accents, and a gloating BU hockey team are Alison Conlin, who is pursuing her MPH degree at Boston U. Ali was there to cheer on the Big Red at the Cornell-Harvard soccer game on the Crimson’s turf in September. Also at BU are Ellen Schiffer, Sheryl Kamholz, and V. J. “Vita” Craine, who in three years, should all have JD after their names, and Lauren Kalter, working as the new Hillel director. Across the Charles, Seth Schneider and Matt Smith can’t seem to get enough engineering, and working on their master’s degrees at MIT. After a leisurely summer in Europe, Mukang Cho is in the first year at Harvard law school, and Jean Laflin is ‘double fisting’-studying education and communications-also at Harvard. Daniella Ballou is working in Boston as an operations research consultant for (TK).
The future of health care seems to be in good hands. Chris DiMaio and Mike Logue have started the MD program at SUNY, Buffalo, Christina Sun is studying at SUNY Downstate medical school, Maria Pimentel is at Johns Hopkins, pursuing a nursing degree, Howie Kramer is in his first year at Temple medical school, Alex Gershenhorn is studying medicine at Ohio State, and Rob Humphreys is in Poughkeepsie, NY, handling physical examinations for a pediatrics practice. “The finger pricks can be challenging,” he writes. In a few years, we might be sitting on a gurney, and have one of these people examine us. A far cry from orgo lab and late nights counting fruit flies, right guys?
And, by the way, if you ever need a lawyer… Brian Waldbaum is studying law at Cardozo in New York City, Lori Marino has gone to rival U. of Pennsylvania for her JD, Ben Farber is a short trip away from Ithaca at Albany law school, Jean M. Lam is working as a legal assistant at Skadden Arps in NYC (she’s got her own business card, office, and everything!), Dave Pospischil is at St. John’s law school, and in that big bastion o’ law in the Beltway, Robin M.Smith and David Greenberger are first year law students at Georgetown.
We here at “Class Notes” are happy to report on our first wedding! Wendy Meredith and Greg Hunter ‘98 were married on June 2, ‘96, in what was a beautiful ceremony on campus. Making a quick change from caps and gowns to lavender dresses were bridesmaids Elizabeth Bard, Joanna Citron, and Maya Holmes. The couple honeymooned in Disneyworld, and now live in Dryden, NY.
And here goes the obligatory advertising shtick…1) Stay involved! Alumni Associations hold bar nights and happy hours in major cities around the country. These are a great way to meet other Cornellians, network (which you can never get enough of), and even meet other Sixers who you didn’t know on the Hill. It seems trudging around campus in two feet of snow, late nights in Mann, and whining about prelims gives you an instant connection to Cornellians everywhere. 2) Write us! If you are just sitting home, looking for a job, if you are halfway around the world, if I didn’t mention that you too are in law school or med school, drop us a line, give us a holler, send those sparks flying over the Internet. This column is for you, and about you, and works the best when we don’t have to think of all this creative jargon, and can write about your activities, musings, or even some good old reminiscing.
—Sheryl Magzamen, Class Columnist
