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3 Message from the
Dean
Alumni and students benefit
from intergenerational
interaction.
4 Letters to the
Editor
6 Within the Family
7 Around the Quads
The Class of 2013 celebrates
at the Senior Dinner.
14 Roar, Lion, Roar
Baseball, women’s tennis
win Ivy League titles.
Brett Boretti guides Lions to
11th Ivy baseball crown.
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DEPARTMENTS
36 Columbia Forum:
WWII & NYC
No shots were fired in earnest
yet New York City —
and Columbia — played a
significant role in WWII.
By Kenneth T. Jackson,
the Jacques Barzun
Professor in History and
the Social Sciences
42 WWII & Columbia:
A Photo Essay
58 Message from the
CCAA President
The CCAA’s Student
Alumni Committee looks to
identify areas where alumni
can support and enhance
the quality of student life.
59 Bookshelf
Featured: The Tinkerers by
Alec Foege ’88.
Alec Foege ’88
ALUMNI NEWS
61 Obituaries
62 Daniel Hoffman ’47,
’56 GSAS
Phyllis Fletcher ’94
64 Class Notes
Alumni Profiles
WEB EXTRAS
View additional photos of and a video about
Hurricane Sandy’s impact on Scholars’ Academy
View photo albums from Alumni Reunion
Weekend and Dean’s Day 2013
Read more alumni reflections on
Literature Humanities
Read about rower Nikki Bourassa ’13
and her Olympic aspirations
college.columbia.edu/cct
88 Louis Rossetto ’71
96 Michael Caruso ’83
102 Phyllis Fletcher ’94
112 Alumni Corner
M E S S A G E F R O M D E A N J A M E S J . V A L E N T I N I
Alumni and Students Benefit from
Intergenerational Interaction
This spring, at a campus event celebrating
the 75th anniversary of
Literature Humanities, faculty,
students, alumni and parents gathered
in classrooms around campus
to discuss The Odyssey, Euripides,
Montaigne and Jane Austen, and to deliberate the
value of Lit Hum and the Core. Current students
heard about the significance of the Core in former
students’ lives and former students heard how it
has changed — and stayed the same — during the
years since they took it. It was a great opportunity
for intergenerational interaction. And it was just one
example of many such opportunities at the College
each year.
Columbia College alumni and students engage
through internships, mentoring programs, pre-professional
advis ing, scholarship matching and at events. They engage in
formal settings and less formal settings on campus, in workplaces
and in coffee shops around the city and the world. The process
Students engage with alumni at events such as a media panel
at Bloomberg headquarters (above) and through communitybuilding
activities such as the annual Alumni Parade of Classes.
PHOTOS: TOP, PETER FOLEY; BOTTOM; EILEEN BARROSO
PHOTO: EILEEN BARROSO
begins when students are applying to Columbia
— many are interviewed by Alumni Representative
Committee (ARC) volunteers — and continues
through Class Day, when representatives of
each alumni class march in the Alumni Parade of
Classes onto South Lawn to celebrate that year’s
graduates. Such interaction is key to the College
experience: Students see their possible futures
through alumni, and alumni remember their pasts
and what they experienced as students.
In my two years as dean, I have noticed again
and again how passionate students and alumni are
about seeking connections with one another. And
I am committed to creating more opportunities for
such connections. One of my long-term goals for the
College and the Columbia College Alumni Association
is to match every current Columbia College student with a
Columbia College alumni mentor. We will be working on developing
and implementing this mentorship program with the CCAA
and the College’s alumni relations and development staffs. This is
part of my goal of 100 percent alumni engagement in the College
— of encouraging every alumnus/a to be involved in some way
each year. I look forward to updating you on this effort.
The Columbia College experience is a continuum that starts
from the point of being admitted and lasts until you celebrate
the 50th, 65th or even 80th anniversary of your graduation. For
me, there are three stages of Columbia College students: future
student, current student and former student, and as alumni —
former students — you play an important role as mentors, advisers
and inspirations for our current students. In you, our talented
and accomplished alumni, our students see the exciting opportunities
that a Columbia College education can provide.
If you are interested in engaging with our current (and future)
students, I urge you to get involved. Here are a few ways to do so:
n interview prospective students: undergrad.admissions.
columbia.edu/admissions/archandbook/frontpage;
n mentor a student: college.columbia.edu/alumni/
volunteer/mentoring;
n attend an event with students: studentaffairs.columbia.
edu/studentandalumni; and/or
n sponsor an internship, give students career advice or
help them prepare for job interviews: careereducation.
columbia.edu/alumni.
Enjoy the summer. I hope to see you on campus soon!
SUMMER 2013
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