ALUMNI NOTES

1948
Kurt L. Shell was born in 1920 in Vienna, Austria, and now lives with his second wife in Frankfurt, Germany. Kurt received his Ph.D. in 1955 from Columbia University. He was Professor of political science at S.U.N.Y. Binghamton before accepting an appointment at Frankfurt University. In Binghamton, he sang baritone with the TriCities Opera Company. At Frankfurt University, he was co-founder of the Center for North American Studies and head of the Partnership Program with the University of Southampton, England. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southampton, and is the recipient of the Goethke Plakette of the Hessian Ministry of Culture. His books in German include studies of American conservatism, a comparison of democratic systems, and most recently a brief biography of Harry S. Truman. Kurt has been retired since 1985, and still enjoys mountain walking, traveling, and listening to chamber music.

1951
Irving Perlmutter is a partner with Ullman, Perlmutter & Sklaver. He has been practicing law for almost 47 years, and writes, “General Studies was excellent preparation for Yale Law School and life.”

1952
James I. Nakamura is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Columbia University. He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Japan Economic Seminar at Columbia University for 10 years following his retirement in 1979. He is a lifelong New York sports fan and an avid reader.

1953
Bruce (Robert) Church received his B.F.A. from Columbia University School of Painting and Sculpture in 1953 and his M.F.A. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Bruce now resides in London, where he is a painter specializing in watercolor, oils, and murals. He draws his inspiration from his knowledge of art history and his extensive travels. He has exhibited in the United States, England, Scotland, and Germany.

1954
Valerie Bradt Hymes lives with Don in Edgewater, Maryland, near Annapolis. They are mostly retired but still writing and editing as they were when they met at Columbia in 1952. Valerie attended GS at night, and worked writing class notes, military notes, and obituaries for the Columbia Alumni News. Don was going to Columbia College full-time and working in journalism at night. They worked on a weekly newspaper together and then went in different directions. Both later become involved with radio, television, and the print media. Don’s last full-time job was as a reporter with CNN. Valerie is the coordinator of the Prison Ministry Task Force for the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland (www.sudley.com/prismin). They have three sons and a grandson. Valerie writes, “I will never forget the wonderful education at General Studies.”

1955
Her Excellency Patricia Rawlins Robinson, wife of the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, retired in 1997 from her post as Chair of Women’s World Banking, Limited. Patricia received her M.A. in Economics from Columbia University Graduate Faculties in 1957. She and her husband have two children, David and Ann-Margaret.

1960
William R. Gruver II is a broadcast journalist in Arizona with KF41 (CBS). He is an on-air political commentator, and writes a syndicated newspaper column. William also lectures at two area colleges, advises the American Legion, and serves on the Board of the American Association of Broadcasters.

1961
Robert Chapman is retired, but stays involved with Earth Week activities.
John F. Rooney is a Senior Associate with Robert Dixon Associates.

1963
John Tauranac has hardly left the old neighborhood, but New York is his home and muse. He writes on New York history and architecture. His books include The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark, Elegant New York, and New York From the Air. He also teaches New York history and architecture at N.Y.U.’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where he is an adjunct associate professor. He also designs maps. John was the chief designer of the official New York City subway map in 1979, and his most recent work is Manhattan Block By Block: A Street Atlas, which The New York Times described as offering “just about all the critical information a siteseeker might need – and then some.” The National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded John a commendation for design excellence for his work on the official subway map. He was named a Centennial Historian of the City of New York by the Mayor’s office for his work in history. He lives with his wife, Jane Bevans, and their daughter, Maggie, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

1964
Moshe Gerstenhaber lives in London and Tel Aviv with wife Jenny and daughter Daphna, age 23. Moshe studied economics at Columbia and postgraduate business administration at the London School of Economics. He is the founder of Europe’s largest print, copy, and design franchise, Kall Kwik. Moshe has published over 100 articles and has lectured at many venues, including London Business School, Judge Institute Cambridge, London’s City University, Durham University, and Middlesex University. At present, he is an independent governor of Middlesex University London (with over 20,000 students) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Middlesex University Business School (6,000 students). Moshe’s other interests encompass non-violent communication, working with the Israeli sculptor David Gerstein, classical music, and mountain walking. He is developing a new holistic concept for continuous education via the Internet.

1965
G. Thomas Astarita is retired from Ebasco Services, Inc. He is a member of Hernando Beach Yacht Club, Auxiliary Coast Guard Flotilla #15-A, Homeowners’ Association, and VFW Post 2001, and he is also a patron of performing arts charities.
Ms. Güner Öztuna majored in Comparative Literature and Media at Columbia. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in writing from Johns Hopkins. She is now a professor. She enjoys traveling, skiing, tennis, swimming, and walking. Güner has not been to the United States since graduation, and is interested in exchanging apartments with other GS alumni. Feel free to e-mail her at guneroztuna@hotmail.com or guner.oztuna@marun.edu.tr.
Susan Ellen Mesinai is a full-time consultant to the Foreign Ministry for the Government of Sweden. She works with the official Swedish-Russian working group researching and reconstructing the presence of Raoul Wallenberg in the Soviet Gulag and the circumstances and causes of his death. In Hungary in 1944, Wallenberg saved the lives of at least 20,000, and possibly as many as 100,000, Jews and other minorities who had been targeted and slated to die by the Nazi war machine. One day before the liberation of Auschwitz, Wallenberg was taken from Budapest under military escort, and eyewitness accounts place him in Moscow prisons. Susan also co-founded and now serves as Director of the ARK Project, a grass-roots human-rights organization whose goal is to reunite foreign prisoners from the Stalinist era with their families.

1966
Francis A. Botchway lives in Accra, Ghana, with his spouse, Rahinatu, and children. Francis received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. He taught political science at the City University of New York for eight years and at the University of Cincinnati, where he was Department Chair, for seven years. At the International University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he was also Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Chair of the Political Science Department. While there, he established the M.A. and Ph.D. degree programmes, as well as the M.A. degree programme in Transitional and Regional Studies. He is also the President of the African Institute for the Study of Human Value. In Accra, he was recently installed as a Chief under the Stool name of Nii Okai Ashanmor I of Tunma We of King Ayikushie Ashanmor Dynast of the Ga Royal Stool. He was a presidential aspirant for the National Independence Party in Ghana in 1992, when the country returned to constitutional rule. He can be contacted at bothway@dftcc.africaonline.com.gh.

1967
Marcie Parker, Ph.D., CFLE, is Senior Qualitative Researcher with Optum, the health-information, wellness, prevention, self-care and health-promotion division of United Health Group. Her current responsibilities include writing most of the peer-reviewed articles, attending international conferences, and alerting senior staff to demographic trends, new markets and products, potential partnerships and acquisitions, new legislative and regulatory trends, and enhancements to current services/products. This year, she is Health Care Track Editor for the on-line edition of OnTheInternet, or OTI, the international publication of The Internet Society. OnTheInternet can be read at www.isoc.org/oti/. Marcie has joined the Midwest Ethics Committee Network and has given 14 research presentations at national and international conferences, and published or edited 19 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, monographs, reports, and reviews.
John Rousmaniere writes on American history and sailing. He is currently completing the text of an illustrated history of Columbia University, which will complement Professor Robert McCaughey’s written history. Columbia University Press will publish both books for the 250th anniversary of Columbia University. John has long used the Columbia libraries for various projects, but says that it has been an even greater pleasure to spend time regularly on campus (what in the old days was called “The Green”) and in the Columbiana archives in Low Library, and also to see the late Dean Warner at the University Seminar on Columbia History.

His other recent work includes lengthy histories of the law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell, and The Equitable Life Insurance Company, and a shorter history of the New York Yacht Club’s 44th Street clubhouse (designed by former Columbia architecture student Whitney Warren). Simon & Schuster and W.W. Norton have recently published new editions of his sailing textbook, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, and of Fastnet, Force 10, the story of the 1979 Fastnet storm. He will soon start work on another storm book.

John lives in Stamford, Connecticut, and on Morningside Heights with his wife, Leah Ruth Robinson, who writes medical thrillers based in part on her pre-med studies at GS. Their two sons, graduates of Cornell and Connecticut College, are happily married and employed in the Boston area.

1968
Madeline Marzano–Lesnevich practices family law. She is in a law partnership with her husband, Walter A. Lesnevich. They have offices in Tenafly, New Jersey, and New York City. Walter is the Secretary of the State Bar Association, and Madeline is the Secretary of the Family Law Section of the Association. They have one grandchild and five children; one of their three children is a senior at Columbia University.

1969
Alvaro Herran–Lima lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Alvaro has his M.A. from Fordham University and retired in 2000 from his job at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) where he was an international economist for 24 years. He also taught undergraduate economics courses at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Alvaro is an avid classical music listener, and enjoys walking and ballroom dancing. Feel free to contact him at alvaro00_2000@yahoo.com.

1970
While at Columbia, Roy Bercaw was the chairman of a committee of students that met with a special committee of the Columbia Trustees in 1968-70. The committee participated in hearings that led to the creation of the University Senate. After graduation, he attended Boston University School of Law. Roy now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he hosts a live news and commentary show, “ENOUGH ROOM,” on Cambridge Community Television. He also produces videos, and lobbies the Cambridge, state, and U.S. legislatures on issues like “Protection of Human Subjects in Experimentation.” He authored a bill by that name in 1998. He has published more than 250 letters, essays, and articles in 21 periodicals. He was accepted for inclusion in the 2001 edition of Who’s Who in America.
Judy Fried received her M.A. from the Sorbonne in 1972. She lives near Paris, France. If you would like to get in touch with her, you may do so at jducray@minitel.net.

1971
Kurt A. Lerps has lived in Brisbane, Australia, since 1971. He received a Master of Letters in Drama from the University of New England. His first love is theater, and he is well-known throughout Southeast Queensland as an actor, director, and adjudicator. Kurt just finished a season as Lenny Ganz in Neil Simon’s farce, “Rumors.” However, this does not pay the bills, so in the daylight hours Kurt is the Human Resources Manager for Queensland X-Ray, a medical-imaging firm that has 44 sites ranging from Brisbane to Cairns. Most nights, however, will find him at a play reading or involved in other forms of the art. He shares his homes with two dogs, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell. Feel free to contact him at klerps@qldxray.com.au.

1972
Dr. Charlotte Rotkin has retired from teaching English at Pace University and from her post as General Editor of Dickens’ Universe Book Series at Peter Lang Publishers. She is currently working on her memoirs and studying theology. Dr. Rotkin received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1980.

1973
Mitzi (Lock) Geffen is living in Beer Sheva, Israel, with her husband, David (not the music producer by the same name) and four children — Noam, 22, Etan, 20, Asher, 18, and Elisheva, 16. Mitzi has her Masters of Education from Lesley College. She has been teaching English and directing musicals in English at a combined junior-senior high school in Beer Sheva for the past 14 years. She is also the coordinator of the junior high English department. Feel free to e-mail her at mizigefn@edu-negev.gov.il.

Daniel D. Stuhlman started a consulting firm to help organizations with knowledge management (i.e., the organization and cataloging of information). He also has a monthly column on library issues and Jewish studies. Please keep in contact with him by looking at his Web site at home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/index.html.

Suzanne Wise is Sales Associate and Marketing Director at Mary Corley Antiques. She is also a health-care consultant. Suzanne has two grown daughters who have graduated from college and are working in Los Angeles and Tucson. She enjoys traveling to Italy, photography, and gardening.

1974
Stevan Urbach received his M.S. in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Planning in 1978. He recently joined the Ives Group as a Senior Architect.

1978
Robert Alpert served for 15 years as a pulpit rabbi following rabbinic ordination in 1983 from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is now in his third year as an instructor of Rabbinic Texts at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School.

1979
After publishing a book, Somewhere Child, and running her own New York City catering business, Bonnie Fare Catering, for 10 years, Bonnie Lee Black decided to join the Peace Corps. She served as a public-health volunteer in the rain forest of Gabon, Central Africa, from 1996 to 1998. She stayed on in Mali, West Africa, to work independently with Malian women artisans. She created “The Patchwork Project” of Sejou, Mali, in which Bonnie taught Malian couturieres how to make patchwork quilts from lively African fabrics and then sell the quilts over the Internet to appreciative quilt lovers living in colder climates. Bonnie left Mali this spring and returned to the United States to work with Pueblo women in Northern New Mexico. However, “The Patchwork Project” continues as a feasible, sustainable development effort. If you would like to commission a charming, one-of-kind quilt, you can contact the women directly at B.P. 526, Sejou, Mali.

Michael de Mello lives with wife, Deborah, and three children, Maria, Joyce, and Carlos, in Estoril, Portugal, where they returned in 1988 after living in New York and London. Michael received his M.B.A. from Columbia University School of Business in 1980. He worked in New York for a bank and a start-up, and now he works in private equity and packaging in Portugal. Michael enjoys snow and water skiing, scuba diving, sports cars of the ’60s, and some tennis. He can be contacted at 100450.3214@compuserve.com.

1980

Bruce Mazer lives in Montreal, Quebec, with his wife Barbara. They have three children, Monty, age 16, Elan, age 13, and Ariel age 10. Bruce is Division Head of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, and is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at McGill University. He is involved in research, and is currently studying the control of IgE antibody production in allergy inflammatory diseases such as asthma. Bruce can be contacted at Bruce.Mazer@mcgill.ca.

1981
Miss Jean Willard Foss is now a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and is a flotilla staff officer in charge of personnel services, including recruitment and assisting new members. She is training at Station Swansboro for Watchstander.

1983
Captain Verlene Cheeseboro retired as a captain after working for 20 years for the N.Y. State Department of Corrections. Verlene now works full-time as the President of Harlem Education and Literary Project [HELP]. HELP is a free tutoring program that has taught studying and learning skills to over 300 children, parents, and others.

1984
Wendy Darby was a double major in History and English and Comparative Literature. She graduated magna cum laude with departmental honors in both majors, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Her two majors drew her to look at how landscape acts as a repository of social, economic, and political history.

She entered Columbia University School of Architecture Preservation and Planning and received her Master of Science in Historic Preservation in 1988, with a concentration in landscape preservation. Her graduate work received the Outstanding Thesis Award. After graduating, she worked as a consultant on various landscape projects. After winning a Fulbright to research landscapes in Western Europe, she took her undergraduate passion into cultural anthropology and completed her Ph.D. at the City University of New York Graduate Center in 1999.

Her illustrated book is published by Berg: Landscape and Identity: Geographies of Nation and Class in England. It is a transdisciplinary work that examines the interplay between landscape and individual and collective identities. Moving between literature, art, theater, and politics, the book explores over a 250-year time frame how landscape functions as a repository of cultural history. In addition, ethnographic fieldwork in the Lake and Peak Districts sheds light on the contemporary manifestation of the politics of access and the relationship between landscape and notions of citizenship.

1985
William Simcoe lives in Finland with his wife Mervi. William received his M.A. from Columbia University Teachers College in 1988, and then he moved to Europe and eventually settled in Helsinki, Finland. His small but key role in helping a language firm of about 20 teachers change into an information service company earned him a partnership in 1995. The firm currently employs over 120 teachers, lecturers and, having long supplied Nokia with management training, has become a virtual subsidiary of Nokia. The Finnish Parliament is also a client, and William has given many lectures to similar institutes and companies on topics of cross-cultural differences, international marketing, and management. He is currently Senior Consultant at PI-Group and the Senior Lecturer and Liaison Officer at Mercuria Business School – International Department.

Kevin (James) Wilkins graduated from GS with a specialization in printmaking. After graduation, he remained in New York City and worked as a graphic designer and art director. In 1990, while on vacation in Berlin, Germany, he became fascinated by the fundamental changes taking place in German society and decided to stay. In the aftermath of the reunification, he continued his career creating advertising and corporate communication for a variety of German clients. In 1996, he had his furniture and belongings brought over on a ship. His work for the formerly socialist public-housing authorities in Berlin’s historic center led him to an intensive study of German and Prussian history, which he continues to pursue. For relaxation, he designs and produces hunting and sporting knives, which he sells worldwide. Kevin can be contacted through either www.wilkins.de or www.wilkins-knives.com.

1986
Fred Axelrod, M.D., is the attending anesthesiologist at Greenwich Hospital. He recently joined a group practice, Greenwich Anesthesiology. Fred married his wife, Susan, 10 years ago on St. Patrick’s Day. They have two boys, Jake, 7 years, and Kyle, 4 years. They live in New York City.

Bryan Dickson met his wife, Nobuko, while at Columbia. They now live in Tokyo, Japan, with their son, Tymon, age 8, and their daughter, Marina, age 5. Bryan received his M.B.A. from George Washington University in 1990, and has been working in Tokyo since. Currently, he is the Manager of Strategic Planning at Pfizer Pharmaceutical.

Perry W. Kwok is an Associate at Uscher, Quiat, Uscher & Russo. She writes that she, Rosa, and Corey celebrated the addition of Maya to the family.

1987
Taru Oksman-Ison lives in London, England, with her husband Ted and daughter Marika. Taru has utilized her academic background and Russian specialization throughout her career. After leaving the Harriman Institute program, Taru worked for a number of years with a U.S. corporation that was investing in Russia in the early stages of market development in that region. For the last six years, Taru has focused on executive head hunting among Russian professionals in financial services, particularly in investment banking. Taru is currently a director of a specialist search firm and still runs into old Columbia alumni in her travels in and out of Russia. You can contact her at taru@principalsearch.com.

1988
Henry Adapon is a practicing neuroradiologist in Manila, Philippines, and has taken time off to train to be an interventional neuroradiologist at University of California Los Angles. His wife, Mary Ann, and his children, Benny, age 3, and Isabelle, age 2, are presently in the Philippines, but will soon join him in Los Angeles.

1989
Nancy Beavan immigrated to New Zealand in 1994, and now lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She has just completed her Ph.D. thesis with the University of Canterbury’s Department of Zoology. She works as a staff scientist at the Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory, which is a Crown Research Institute of the New Zealand government. GS alumni passing through the South Pacific should contact her at n.beavan@gns.cri.nz.

Charlie Kalech lives in Jerusalem, Israel, with his wife, Alexis Silverman, GS ’91, and their son, Shemer, age 2. Charlie has been the director and proprietor of a Web-site design studio since 1994. J-Town Productions Ltd. can be found at www.j-town.co.il. Charlie is also a faculty member at Educom, where he teaches Web design. Charlie and Alexis are active members of the Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel. They invite their former classmates to visit when traveling to Israel. They can be contacted at charlex@j-town.co.il. Their family Web site is located at www.j-town.co.il/silvermankalech.

Ken Tarbous has been working as a copy editor at the Home News Tribune in Gannett, New Jersey, since June 2000. The Home News Tribune is a daily newspaper with a circulation of about 70,000.

1991
Giles B. Bloodworth has lived in Hamburg, Germany, for the past 10 years. He started an international trading company specializing in selling bulk raw materials for various global companies. He currently has offices in Hamburg, Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam, Taipei, Manila, and Hong Kong. Giles has “seen the world on a business account,” which he says is the best way to do it. He enjoys traveling, tennis, horseback riding, and wine collecting. You can contact him at Gilesbunn@hotmail.com.

Kate Mellor Gibson lives in Poole, Dorset, England, with her husband Rob Gibson and stepdaughter Katy Gibson, age 17. Kate moved to the U.K. in 1996 and entered the M.B.A. program at The Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, where she was a member of Pembroke College. Before finishing her M.B.A., Kate met Rob Gibson, and they were married in April 1999. In November 1998, she and Rob purchased his partner’s interests in their sailing school in Poole, and Kate and Rob have been running it since. Their company is Sail UK Yachting & Racing. Highlights of the last two years of business include racing one of their yachts across the Atlantic, to St. Lucia, and competing in Cowes Week. Due to Kate’s efforts, their flagship is raced on behalf of UNICEF, and helps raise the profile of the charity in England. Kate is also a member of the Junior League, and continues her work with them on a domestic violence project in London called “Silent Witness.”

sook Tan lives in Marine Terrace, Singapore, with his family. He graduated from GS with a B.A. in Economics, and spent three years in Shandong Province, China, as Director of the Singapore-Shandong Business Council. The Council is a special body formed by the governments of Singapore and Shandong to promote bilateral economic cooperation. He is currently a senior manager with the Media Corporation of Singapore, where he also
serves as an executive assistant to the Group CEO. Sook also enjoys singing, movies, and sports in his free time. His love for the stage sees him take up many social engagements as an emcee or singer on a part-time basis. He can be contacted at tansook@mediacorp.com.sg.

1992
Over the last 10 years, Thierry Senechal has become involved in environmental and natural resource damage disputes in Africa and the Persian Gulf. Between 1992 and 1995, he worked within the private practice of a U.N. commissioner on the resolution of environmental and economic disputes. He received his M.S.C. in financial economics from the London Business School in 1995. Since 1998, as a First Officer with the U.N. Security Council (U.N.S.C.), he has managed the evaluation of environmental and natural resource damage claims stemming from the Gulf War. Most recently, he conducted missions to the Gulf region (Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia) and learned a great deal about many countries and cultures. He still enjoys the stimulation of working with people from different backgrounds who bring their own perspectives to matters of common interest, and finds that the U.N. is a great place in that respect. Thierry now has two daughters, Jeanne and Clémence, and his wife, Marie, just completed her Ph.D. dissertation in law at Université de Paris (Panthéon-Assas) on “Judging Judges.”

1993
Sebastian Ficht lives in Frankfurt, Germany. After graduating from Columbia, Sebastian worked for a couple of years in finance in both London and Frankfurt before completing an M.B.A. in Boston. He now works in the Frankurt office of J.P. Morgan. He misses Columbia and New York, and comes back to visit as often as possible! He enjoys running, skiing, golf, and travel. He wishes everyone the best of luck! Sebastian can be contacted at sficht@aol.com.

1997
Rebecca Anne Weiss, JTS/GS '97, received her Juris Doctor from New York Law School. She served as President of the Jewish Law Student Association and as President of the Uncontested Divorce Clinic. In addition, she was the recipient of a New York Law School Public Interest Fellowship for the summer of 2000. Finally, Rebecca served as a mediator at several courts in Manhattan. Next year, she will pursue a Masters in Public Administration.

1998
Gabriela Simon-Cereijido received an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from Columbia University Teachers College in October 2000. Gabriela is currently working with children with disabilities at a preschool in Manhattan.

2000
Alexander Turcic went to Zurich, Switzerland, after graduating from GS, and has since been working at a Swiss investment company. He enjoys hanging out with his friends. Feel free to contact Alex at 206@columbia.edu.

In Memoriam
Dr. Bernard H. Harmon, GS ’42, OP’49, died December 14, 2000. In World War II, Bernard served as a transport commander on Army troop ships in the Asiatic Pacific Theater, which included Alaska, China, Korea, and Japan. He practiced optometry in Catskill for 20 years prior to his retirement in 1970. Bernard is survived by his wife of 50 years, the former Patricia Kennedy, and his son, Thomas.

Kenneth B. Lewars, GS ’46, died September 1, 2000, at Blake Memorial Hospital in Bradenton, Florida. He was buried at Arlington Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Kenneth received his M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia in 1947.

Florynce “Flo” R. Kennedy died on February 11, 2001. She was 84. Recognizable everywhere in cowboy hat and pink sunglasses, Flo was one of the first black women to graduate from Columbia Law. She was a lawyer and political activist whose flamboyant attire and sometimes outrageous comments drew attention to her fierce struggle for civil rights and feminism. She fought in the courts and on the streets for abortion rights, represented Black Panthers, and was a founding member of the National Women’s Political Caucus. A memorial service for Flo was held on Sunday, February 11, at Saint Peter’s “The Jazz Church” at Lexington and 54th Street. Flo received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1951. You can learn more about Flo’s life in her autobiography, Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times.

Nancy S.C. Dawson, GS ’51, died on January 24, 2001, in New York City. She was an editor for two well-known writers, Ilka Chase and Herman Wouk (CC ’34). In addition, she served on the board of the East Side House Settlement located in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx. Her husband, Dr. R. Burk Dawson, M.D., died in 1989. She is survived by her son John, CC ’82. Donations in her memory may be made to The Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery, Alabama. Nancy received her M.A. in English from Columbia University in 1957.

Kathryn Linden, GS ’53, died in August, 2000. Now Dean of Continuing Education and Special Programs, Frank Wolf, worked with Kathryn in his roles as both Associate Dean of GS as well as Acting Dean of GS, and remembers her well. “Kathryn was an amazing person. Though in the years I knew her she appeared to be frail, in fact, she was a very strong and assertive person behind a facade of gentle femininity.