Class Notes, July/August 2001
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Yes, we all saw you—yes, you who are reading this column—doing the funky chicken on the Dunbar’s jukebox just before you danced naked on the tables at the Palms at Reunion. But to find out if the incident in question made it into print, thus dashing your hopes of a presidential bid in 2004 (and something to make you the star of our 10th Reunion ), you’re going to have to bite your fingernails for another two months until the next magazine comes out. We did it just to torture you, specifically. Not really. The reason is that this particular column is being written, because of deadline, in April. So… on to less scandalous topics.
At a birthday party this spring I bumped into Clay Samford, who told me if I put him in the column, as I threatened to, it would be his first appearance. So a rundown of the past five years: he’s graduated from Stanford Law, clerked in Denver , and now is working for the Department of Justice in DC. Fellow ILR grad Derek Shaffer (who’s also a Stanford Law grad) is in DC, too, clerking for Judge Douglas Ginsburg on the US Court of Appeals. Elizabeth Rand writes that she and Becca Schader, a writer-producer at HBO, hosted a “Sopranos” party with a… um… mob of Cornellians on the guest list: Gail Rosenberg, John Tolpa, JD ‘99, Alex Tepper ‘97, Jamie Wiseman, JD ‘99, and Marc Levin ‘95. Liz also says she caught up with Jon Lowenhar on his “NYC appearance.” Liz is a lawyer at Chadbourne & Parke in New York City .
Vivek Puri, ME E ‘97, reports that he’s an MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and going to school with loads of classmates from the Hill. This summer he’s working for McKinsey in London . Speaking of MBAs, Erica Siegel, MPA ‘97, is currently trying to figure out how to survive in a city where having everything in the world delivered is “not” the norm. This summer she’s leaving New York , aka “the City That Never Has to Schlep Its Drycleaning Home,” and the world of venture capital for Philadelphia and Wharton business school.
Wedding Watch: Jennifer Winter married Brian Persico on January 20 in Warwick , NY , with a reception at Florentine Gardens in Rivervale , NJ . Bridesmaids included Erin Hovanec ‘96 and Laura Mammina Nicholson. Other Cornellians present were Laura’s husband Mark ‘94, Rachel Effron, Madlen Kadish, Ella Zalkind, and Kenny ‘99 and Jami Gorman Schultz ‘97. Jen and Brian met in law school at Catholic U. Brian is currently in the Air Force JAG, stationed outside of Raleigh, NC, while Jennifer is racking up the frequent flier miles commuting to DC for her job as a lawyer at Venable part of the week, and telecommuting from the couple’s new home in Raleigh the rest.
Wedding Two: Chizuru Kato married Dr. Tetsuya Nakamoto on Thanksgiving Day 2000 (Nov. 23) at the Palace Hotel in Tokyo . Amy Greenhouse flew in from California for the festivities. Chizuru and her husband now live in Tokyo , and she commutes to Kyoto once a week via bullet trains for her job—teaching English classes at Kyoto Notre Dame Women’s College.
Wedding Three: James Nessel and Dyana Faella, who started dating freshman year, got married on July 14 in Rockland County , NY . Cornellians in attendance included Alexis Farrell, Jessica Kaplan, Raissa Smorol, Nick Goldin, JD ‘99, Carrie Susser, Dan Loewy and new wife Jaimee Schreiber ‘98, Sonya Lee, Scott Goldsmith, JD ‘99, Andrew Rietbergen ‘97, John Rubino ‘95, MHA ‘98, Matthew Ginsburg, Jarett Gibson, Marc Saulsbury, Alli Santacroce ‘97, and Debra Plafker (who received an offer for her new job teaching high school in Scarsdale via cell phone during the wedding festivities).
That’s all the news, fit or otherwise, I’ve got to print. I won’t say write soon… but you’d better!
— Courtney Rubin, Class Correspondent
