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--Editors' Highlights--

MESSAGES:
● Several alumni are looking to hire French-speaking employees. You can see their ads in the Help Wanted part of the Services Offered by Alumni section of this newsletter. (Click on link below to access that page.)

IN THE NEWS:
● H.E. Umberto Plaja is Ambassador of Italy to Kampala, Uganda. (See Class of 1959 for details)
● Author Jonathan Littell ('85), winner of the Goncourt Prize, was granted French citizenship, with a little help from another Lycee alumnus, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin ('71). (See Class of 1985 for details)

BLAST FROM THE PAST
● From 1943 Yearbook: « N'ayant pu, en dépit de recherches laborieuses trouver une seule personne répondant vaguement à ses vues esthétiques, et ne voulant point offenser les gouts de l'humanité, la classe de Philo.Math. se dissocie résolument du projet pueril autant que chimérique de trouver 'la jeune fille idéale' dans l'enceinte du lycée. »
● From 1946 Yearbook: « Félicitations à nos Anciens Francoise Perrier ['42?] et Claude Lebel ['42, deceased] dont le livre La Garde Montante a obtenu le Prix Julien du Breuil. N.B.: Si M. et Mme. Claude Lebel sont les premiers anciens élèves à etre couronnés par l'Académie Francaise, ils ne sont pas les premiers, contrairement à ce que vous pensez peut-etre, qui aient convolé en justes noces. Le premier mariage de deux ex-élèves du Lyçée a été en mai 1943 -- celui de Odette Fluchere et George Temmer....»

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--Former Professors and Staff--

Mme. Helene Schettino (deceased) & Prof. Jean-Francois Genay

Gauthier Willm (top, left) with Michel Chapuis at the historical organ at Dole (Jura)

● Avis de Décès: Mme. Helene Schettino, who was the school's receptionist from 1975 to 1996, passed away in April, 2007.

● Mme Suzette Fabre (Prof., '73 to '76) nous écrit: « J'ai enseigné au Lycée français avec mon mari de la rentrée 73 à Juin 76. Nous étions professeurs de Lettres Modernes et nous avons débarqué à NY, il y a de cela 34 ans, avec notre bébé de 1 mois qui était devenu la mascotte de certaines de nos élèves . C'est avec un grand plaisir que je suis allée sur votre site que je ne connaissais pas. J'ai pu y retrouver mes anciens élèves dont je n'avais pas oublié le nom parce que je regarde toujours avec autant de plaisir et de nostalgie mes "Year Books". Malheureusement, j'ai appris ainsi le décès de certains professeurs ou membres de l'administration et même celui d'une élève .. et cela fait beaucoup de peine. Je suis toujours en contact avec Jacky et Michou Campo-Paysaa, ainsi qu'avec Melle de Villiers avec qui nous échangeons encore nos voeux une fois par an. Fin Octobre, nous serons de passage à NY et nous ne manquerons pas d'aller voir l'emplacement du nouveau lycée. »

● Jane Ross wrote: "Greetings from an Ancien Prof! After having taught English, history and OIB subjects for 30 years at the Lycee (1973-2003), I am now continuing a career in the field of International Education. In 2004 I began work with the French cultural and and education services to create a program that offers instruction in French as a Heritage Language to immigrant students in New York City public schools. The program has expanded over the past two years, reaching students at five schools for new immigrants in New York, and offering curriculum support and research for a network that now includes schools in Boston, Washignton DC, Florida and Louisiana. Students come from many different countries, including Haiti, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinee, Camaroun, Morocco, Algeria and even France! The program was featured recently on a video that aired as part of the City Univerisity of New York's Canape television series. Our website includes much more information: http://facecouncil.org/fhlp/ We would welcome contributions and contacts , and often have openings for internships. We can be contacted at: heritageprogram@facecouncil.org."

● From Gauthier Willm (Director of Studies at LFNY from 1993 to 1999, thereafter Proviseur Adjoint at Lycée Louis Feuillade, Lunel -halfway between Nîmes and Montpellier.) "I'll retire from the Education Nationale in July 2007 and shall eventually come back to my 'first love': playing the organ."
(Editor's note: When we wrote back to M. Gauthier to thank him for his message, we also asked whether it was true that the organ at l'eglise Saint-Eustache in Paris is the largest in France. His response:)
"Almost true: it is the 3d largest organ with its 5 keyboards, 101 stops and 8000 pipes, behind Notre Dame de Paris (107 stops) and Saint Sulpice (102 stops).
N.B. It is not the size of an organ and the amount of stops which are important, it's the sound. St Louis en l'Isle has a fantastic (new) organ built by Bernard Aubertin, there is another great instrument in Notre Dame des Blancs Manteaux and Michel Chapuis is the Titular of the wonderful historic organ at the Chapelle Royale in Versailles. The Lunel Cavaillé-Coll organ with its 22 stops is also classified as a historical instrument; there are some very beautiful instruments in this area, and I usually play on the organ at Anduze which has been damaged by the floods in 2002 and has to be renewed. Congratulations for the great Alumni job"!
He also appealed for donations to a favorite project of his, and said that "the 'Amis de l'orgue du Temple d'Anduze' [click on link below] will be launching in a few days a fund raising campaign for repairing the organ. (Out of the 101,000 needed euros, we are still short of some 15,000.) Tax deductible in France, of course"!

● Ms. Isabelle Thomas (Prof., '89 à '94) nous écrit: « Après NY de 1989 à 1994, j'ai travaillé à Madrid, Colmar, Bischwiller. Mes élèves newyorkais sont devenus trentenaires; de temps en temps, je vais sur le site de l'AALFNY pour y trouver quelques nouvelles. Mes élèves actuels ont entre 15 et 18 ans et sont très différents des premiers, en apparence au moins. Ce serait passionnant de les faire se rencontrer, et pas seulement pour la prof d'histoire - géographie que je suis toujours! Amicalement, Isabelle Thomas »

● De la part de Anne-Marie et Roger Boudeile (Prof.de mathématiques, '72 à '74): « Merci à tous ceux qui contribuent au bon fonctionnement et à l'efficacité de l'association des anciens du LFNY.
J'ai enseigné les mathématiques au lycée français de New-York d'octobre 1972 à juin 1974 et je garde un excellent souvenir des collègues et élèves côtoyés durant ces 2 années en cours, mais aussi sur les terrains de football (soccer), basket ou volley. Mon épouse Anne-Marie et moi, nous étions jeunes mariés en 1972, avons eu le plaisir de revoir quelques anciens en février 2006 à Paris sur l'heureuse initiative d'Andrea Migliuolo ('75) et Jérôme Desforges ('75). Le 17 juillet 2007, Anne-Marie et moi arrivons à New-York pour y passer quelques jours avant de rejoindre des amis dans le Massachusetts, de remonter vers Québec et de repartir de New-York le 31 juillet. Ce serait une grande joie de revoir quelques "anciens" durant ce séjour. »

● Jean-François Genay (former Prof. de 7eme) is Head of the French American International School in Portland, Oregon. "Mr. Genay has been an involved educator for nearly 40 years. He began teaching at the Lycée Français de New York in 1967 and became assistant principal within two years. He also taught at the United Nations International School, and served as the Coordinator of the French Program there. He then moved to become the Head of School at the Lycée International in Michigan. Later he was a teacher and Head of the French Section at the Sunset International High School in Miami, Florida." (http://www.faispdx.org/faisfacts/staff-faculty.asp)

● Yvan Chemama (former Prof. de sciences naturelles) « 49 ans, est Chef du Département Recherche-Innovation-Technologie au sein de la Sous-Direction de l'Action Economique du Conseil Régional Ile-de-France. Il assure le management d'une équipe de 13 personnes et a pour fonction de proposer des orientations stratégiques pour l'action régionale en matière de recherche et d'innovation. Agrégé de Physique et diplômé de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (DEA de physique atomique à Ulm, puis à Saint-Cloud), Yvan CHEMAMA a débuté sa carrière dans l'enseignement (dont 2 ans au lycée français de New-York) puis s'est dirigé vers l'industrie à partir de 1983. Ingénieur puis Directeur de département à la Compagnie Générale d'Informatique (intégrée depuis à IBM Global Services) jusqu'en 1989, il s'oriente ensuite vers le management de l'information : d'abord directeur de pôle à Gemini Consulting France puis consultant indépendant à partir de 1993. En 1998, il rejoint le secteur des biotechnologies en devenant directeur bioinformatique de la société Hybrigenics, et assure en particulier la conception et le développement d'un outil intégré pour l'industrialisation du processus biotechnologique de production de cartes d'interactions protéïne-protéïne. Enfin, après une brève transition comme consultant associé (conseil aux laboratoires pharmaceutiques et sociétés de biotechnologie), Yvan CHEMAMA a intégré le Département Recherche-Innovation-Technologie au Conseil Régional, service dont il assure la direction aujourd'hui. » (From Rencontres AP-HP/Entreprises, Hôpital Saint-Louis, PARIS)

● Odile Degail (former Prof. d'Economie) now owns a Maison d'hôtes called Les Moulins de Vontes, in the Vallée de l'Indre area of France. (For more details, click on link below.)

● For news of former Professors Alain Vuong and Nadia Vuong Mollet click on link below.

-- Mme. Degail's Maison d'hôtes
-- On the Internet: Alain Vuong and Nadia Vuong Mollet
-- Les Amis de l'Orgue du Temple d'Anduze
-- Professors and Staff Archives

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1940-1945

By Claude Lebel (deceased) ('42) and Francoise (Perrier) Lebel ('42?)

● Ludmila Svetlana (Alexeieff) Rockwell ('44) est peintre et ecrivain, et habite le Massachusetts.

● Click on link below, for a poem by Gabrielle Griswold ('44) --The Gypsies' Lament

--The Gypsies' Lament, by Gabrielle Griswold
-- Betsy Jolas' website
-- Class Notes Archives: 1940 to 1943
-- Class Notes Archives: 1944
-- Class Notes Archives: 1945

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1946-1950

TOP: By Aniouta Pitoeff ('47) (Deceased); BOTTOM: Tanaquil (Leclercq) Balanchine ('47) (Deceased 12/31/2000)

By Dr. Robert Gutchen ('50) and others

● Click on link below for a website that tells the story of "the legendary ballerina" Tanaquil (Leclercq) Balanchine ('47) (deceased).

● Robert Gutchen ('50) wrote: "It is exactly sixty years since I attended the Lycee. Now I'm retired from my tenure as Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island. I live with my wife, Sylvia, in New Mexico just outside of Albuquerque. Our house overlooks the Rio Grande Valley and we have an uninterrupted view of the 11,000 feet-high Sandia Mountains. In my retirement I am a portrait painter, belong to an artists' studio, and show my work at various venues. What a life! It couldn't be better. Robert Gutchen (Lycee: 1947-49)"

-- Tanaquil (Leclercq) Balanchine's story
-- Class Notes Archives: 1946
-- Class Notes Archives: 1947
-- Class Notes Archives: 1948
-- Class Notes Archives: 1949
-- Class Notes Archives: 1950

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1951

by Ted (Sanche de Gramont) Morgan ('51)

● Click on link below for news of Ted (Sanche de Gramont) Morgan

-- On the Internet: Ted (Sanche de Gramont) Morgan
-- Class Notes Archives (1951)

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1952

By Dr. Jeanine (Parisier) Plottel ('52) and others

Loïc Gallais ('52), Colette Newman ('52) & Daniel Vock ('52) à Paris le 8 mars 2007

● Daniel Vock nous écrit: « Colette Newman, Loïc Gallais et Daniel Vock Classe 1952 se sont retouvés pour déjeuner le 8 mars dans un bistrot du 15ème arrondissement. Ils ont passé en revue 55 ans d'histoire et d'histoires. Que de souvenirs ils ont brassé et déballé y compris des choses qu'ils ne s'étaient jamais dites quand ils fréquentaient l'établissement de la 95 eme rue ! »

-- Class Notes Archives (1952)

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1953

-- Class Notes Archives (1953)

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1954

by Michel Mendes France ('54) and Gerald Tenenbaum

● Elizabeth (Reiss) Baecher wrote that she "would like to hear from classmates interested in finding as many of our camarades perdus as possible."

● Click on link below for news of Jean-Pierre Cauvin.

-- On the Internet: Jean-Pierre Cauvin ('54)
-- Class Notes Archives (1954)

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1955

-- Class Notes Archives (1955)

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1956

-- Class Notes Archives (1956)

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1957

Gilles Larrain ('57)

● Click on link below for news of Danielle (Dubosc) Haase.

● Click on link below for news of Gilles Larrain.

-- On the Internet: Danielle (Dubosc) Haase
-- On the Internet: Gilles Larrain
-- Class Notes Archives (1957)

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1958

Philippe de La Chapelle ('58)

● Alexander Rossolimo wrote: "In addition to my work in private equity, due diligence and security, I have been busy writing my memoirs. While researching my family genealogy, I discovered interesting information about my ancestors.
I previously knew that some of my forebears can be traced back to the island of Cephalonia, off the west coast of Greece, as far back as 13th century, where the Rossolimo clan owned and controlled vast tracks of land. The startling information I uncovered is that this clan are the descendants of Hughes de Sully, baron and “officer general” from Normandy, in the service of Charles d’Anjou, king of Naples. Hughes commanded the Neapolitan army, which King Charles sent to help the Nicephore empire against the Byzantine emperor Michel Paléologue. In 1281, Hughes was taken prisoner by the Byzantines and imprisoned in Constantinople. Because of his red hair, Hughes de Sully was generally called “the red de Sully”, which in Greek became “Ros Solimo”. From this, the Greeks named his descendants “Rossolimo”. (The source of this genealogical information is the three-volume “Livre d’or de la noblesse ionienne” by Eugène Rizo-Rangabé, Paris 1926)."

● Philippe de La Chapelle "graduated from the Lycee Francais and Columbia College in New York and received a J.D. from Georgetown Law School. From 1966 - 1976, he was U.S. and International Counsel for W. R. Grace & Co.; in 1977, he was recruited to be Assistant General Counsel for Norton Simon. Fluent in French and Spanish, in 1981, he was appointed Director-International for Warner Communications where he designed and directed a worldwide program to streamline the company's infrastructure for 120 subsidiaries in 73 countries. Thereafter, he was appointed Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Mastercard International, participating in that company's international expansion. Prior to joining HT Capital Advisors, Mr. de La Chapelle was Senior Vice President of Warnaco, Inc., a multibillion dollar international apparel company responsible for the legal and human resources departments and streamlining the company’s European activities. At HT Capital, he concentrates on business development of U.S. and offshore corporate finance opportunities." (HT Capital Advisors, http://www.htcapital.com/about/philippe_de_la_chapelle.htm)

-- Class Notes Archives (1958)

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1959

H.E. Umberto Plaja ('59)

● Umberto Plaja is Ambassador of Italy to Kampala. Click on link below for further details.

-- On the Internet: Umberto Plaja
-- Class Notes Archives (1959)

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1960

TOP: By William Rodarmor ('60); BOTTOM: by Lisa (Freymann) Wassong ('60)

● Lisa (Freymann) Wassong wrote: "The three Freymann sisters [Lisa, Sarah-Jane ('59), and Roberta ('61)] celebrated their mother's 100th b'day with a wonderful brunch at my house on May 20. On November 17 my son David Wassong is marrying Abigail Klem. BIG News!!" (Click on link below to see photos of Lisa's party.)

● "Daughter of the late French pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus, Therese Casadesus Rawson received a Ph.D in French Language and Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. She has taught French, French Diction and French Vocal Repertoire at the Curtis Institute of Music for many years. She has studied voice with Wayne Conner and is active as a soloist and chorister in various ensembles and churches. She has created and performs in two small groups: one dedicated to the performance of 19th and 20th century French repertoire, The Belle Epoque Trio, and the recently founded Bach Ad Libitum Ensemble, devoted to the works of that composer. She is also President of the Fontainebleau Associations of which Philippe Entremont is President today and which organizes a summer music program in France." (Federation of Alliances Françaises USA)

-- Lisa (Freymann) Wassong party photos
-- Class Notes Archives (1960)

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1961

● Avis de Décès: Pierre Blanchenay
Anne (Giraud) Lamassiaude ('61) nous a communiqué cette triste nouvelle:
« Notre camarade Pierre Blanchenay ('61) qui a fait parti du lycée pratiquement de la maternelle à la première, s'est éteint le vendredi 1er juin. Je crois que pas un de ses 'classmates' ne sera indifférent à cette triste nouvelle. Il était l'élément fédérateur de la classe, le fondateur du club de théâtre, et un "malade imaginaire" inoubliable. Malheureusement cette fois, la maladie n'était pas imaginaire. Il a fait preuve d'un immense courage et ne s'est jamais départi de son humour, même dans les moments les plus durs. »
(For more remembrances of Pierre by his classmates, please go to the In Memoriam section of this newsletter by clicking on the link below.)

-- In memoriam: Pierre Blanchenay
-- Class Notes Archives (1961)

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1962

Jacques Toselli ('62

● Svetlana (Bielosoub) Caton-Noble wrote: « Un appel télephonique d’une ancienne amie de classe est une surprise incroyable ! Clairs et beaux souvenirs vont à M. Pierre Brodin, Mme Micheline Tison-Braun et M. Kieffer. Grand merci à M. Theze de m’avoir presentée à l’association. A present je m’apprete à retourner au Lycée et presenter un spectable avec ma compagnie de danse classique, Lumiere Ballet! » Click on link below for more news of Sveltlana

-- On the Internet: Svetlana (Bielosoub) Caton-Noble
-- Class Notes Archives (1962)

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1963

TOP: by Isabelle (Hoog) Naginski ('63); BOTTOM: Jackie Tolkowsky ('63)

● « Isabelle Hoog Naginski est professeure à l'Université Tufts près de Boston. Spécialiste de la littérature française et russe du XIXe siècle, elle a publié de nombreux articles dans des revues littéraires françaises et américaines sur George Sand, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Dostoïevski et Tolstoï. Co-fondatrice et co-rédactrice en chef de George Sand Studies, elle a aussi organisé plusieurs numéros spéciaux sur Sand. Elle est l'auteur de deux ouvrages sur Sand : George Sand. L'écriture ou la vie (Honoré Champion éditeur, 1999) et George Sand mythographe (sous presse). Elle prépare actuellement, pour les Œuvres complètes de George Sand aux Editions Champion, deux éditions critiques de Lélia et de Spiridion. » (Le compagnon du tour de France; http://sand-et-compagnonnage.com/HOOG_NAGINSKI.htm)

● Jackie Tolkowsky wrote: "After leaving the Lycée, I continued my education at a pensionnat in Switzerland which had a similar academic program. I also had a great time skiing. Upon my return to New York, after three years in Israel, I opted out of attending Vassar to care for my ailing father.
With my language skills in place, including Italian, German and Hebrew, I sought refuge in one of the only industries that valued language skills: the travel business. I loved chatting up both corporate clients and worldwide vendors and was a successful travel agent until the advent of the internet together with 9/11 impacted what had been a fantastic run. I now help multinational corporations with their real estate relocation needs and operate in the hectic Manhattan residential real estate market."

-- Jackie Tolkowsky's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1963)

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1964

By Genevieve (Cerisoles) Edis ('64)

-- Class Notes Archives (1964)

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1965

TOP: Scott Helt ('65); BOTTOM: Beatrice Tabah ('65)

● Béatrice Tabah est peintre et sculpteur; elle travaille et vit à Troyes. « Exploratrice de l'avenir, entre dimension corporelle et idée spirituelle. Exploratrice de l'avenir, la quête passionnée de l'artiste est, de plus, paradoxale. En effect, la peintre est également Conservatrice......des Musées de Troyes. Alors attention, ses papiers sont à l'oeuvre et, tel un palimpseste, un(e) Béatrice TABAH peut en cacher un(e) autre ! » (http://artactif.fr/indext/tabahb.htm)

● In a review of Elizabeth (Kramon) Harlan's latest book, George Sand, the Yale University Press said: ".....Drawing on archival sources —much of it neglected by Sand’s previous biographers— Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand’s writing and defined her life. Why was Sand’s relationship with her daughter so fraught? Why was a woman so famous for her personal and literary audacity ultimately so conflicted about women’s liberation? In an effort to solve the riddle of Sand’s identity, Harlan examines a latticework of lives that include Solange, Sand’s mother and grandmother, and Sand’s own protagonists, whose stories amplify her own. Elizabeth Harlan is the author of two novels, Footfalls and Watershed. She lives in Paris." (http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300104170)

-- Class Notes Archives (1965)

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1966

TOP: Louise ('Loulou') de La Falaise ('66); BOTTOM: Martine Bruce ('66) (and brother Francois)

● Diana Mara Henry told us that she "was invited to exhibit her photographs and be a panelist at the Organization of American Historians Centennial Conference in Minneapolis in March. A mainstream publisher has asked her to write a memoir of her life in photography, but she is still holding out for a coffee table book of her work, as seen at: http://www.dianamarahenry.com. She also was invited to give the Holocaust Remembrance Day lecture at Springfield College. Her topic was the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, as seen at: http://www.natzweiler-struthof.org. Finally, check out http://www.stampcampaign.org for the campaign to have her photographs of women leaders of the 1970s used on US postage stamps."

● Elizabeth (Loudes) McLaughlin wrote: "I am retiring from Chevron after 25 years and moving out of the San Francisco Bay Area to Sacramento, closer to children and grandchildren. I expect my focus will be different and I will have a chance to reconnect with some of my friends who graduated in 'sizzling 66'."

● Shosh (Susan Bochner) Katz wrote: "I am Shosh Katz, formerly known at the Lycee as Suzy Bochner. I studied there during 1959 - 1961, after which my mother, stepfather and I moved to Jerusalem, Israel. During the six day war I served in the army and finished in 1968 as a sergeant. I haved worked mostly in hotels, and for the last 16 years at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in the Faculty of Medicine. I was in charge for the last eight years of academic promotions at the faculty. I now coordinate other committees of the faculty such as foreign student exchange, research funds, and faculty prizes.
I am married to a hotelier and we have two sons. Boaz (1982) is now entering the school of design for a degree in industrial design and our youngest, Daniel (1988) will enter the army this July. I am sure that very few of you remember me, as I did not graduate with you - but still it is nice to keep in touch."

● Jean-Pierre Marchand nous écrit: « Je souhaiterais retrouver Patrice Calmette ('66)..... si un autre ancien a ses coordonnées [SVP de nous contacter]...»

● « François et Martine Bruce ont repris le flambeau de leurs parents en 1987. C'est en effet cette année là que sort le premier livre des Nouvelles Aventures d'OSS 117. A nouvelle série, nouveaux patron et visage pour Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath ! Les livres sont agréables à lire. Les auteurs aiment bien parsemer le texte de références littéraires. » (http://www.oss117.org/portrait_frma.html)

--Loulou de la Falaise's website
-- Diana Henry's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1966)

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1967

TOP: by Mira Schor ('67): 'Notebook' (ink on paper, 1989); BOTTOM: by Chris Delgado ('67) and others

● Emmanuel Sala nous écrit: « Après la troisième, j'ai passé mon baccalauréat en Tunisie, et vis depuis près de Paris. J'ai deux enfants adorables, une épouse merveilleuse, travaille dans l'ingénierie informatique, et n'ai encore jamais eu l'occasion de revenir à NY. Un jour peut-être! »

-- Class Notes Archives (1967)

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1968

TOP: Robert Silhol ('68); BOTTOM: Patrice Binet-Decamps ('68)

TOP: By Philippe Velay ('68); BOTTOM: By J.P. Harpignies ('68)

Francoise Kuhn ('68) and her new book

● Dan Morgenstern wrote: "I am so glad I stumbled on this website, seeing names from the past. As for as my story, after Rutgers College, I spent a few years in Brussels at ULB Med School prior to a transfer back to NYC where I got my MD from Albert EInstein. Many years of cardiothoracic, vascular and trauma surgery followed in several states here in the US as well as in Israel. After getting an MBA in Information Technology, I left practice and am presently a consultant in Clinical Transformation (electronic medical records in hospitals) for Accenture. I would love to hear from 'anciens'."

● Marianne (Brugere) Raingeard est vice-présidente au tribunal de grande instance de Nanterre.

● "La Française, Mme Françoise Kuhn, a présenté, dans le cadre de la Foire du livre de San José, la biographie de Walter Ferguson qu'elle a écrite en collaboration avec l'Université d'enseignement à distance (UNED). M. Ferguson
est le plus grand représentant de la musique « calypso » du Costa Rica. Le livre
s'intitule « Walter Ferguson, el rey del calipso »." (Ambassade de France au Costa Rica, http://spip.ambafrance-cr.org/IMG/pdf/H060630.pdf)

● "Francine Egger-Sider (M.L.S., Columbia University; M.A.L.S., International Studies, Graduate Center/CUNY) has been the coordinator of Technical Services at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, since 1989. She has taught both credit courses offered by the Library and has been involved in the assessment of instruction at the institutional level, using rubrics. Currently, she chairs the Steering Committee for Periodic Program Review of the Library, which is part of LaGuardia's College-wide assessment effort. [82] With Jane Devine, she is co-author of two publications on the Invisible Web: "Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in the Academic Library" Journal of Academic Librarianship (2004), and "Google, the Invisible Web, and Librarians: Slaying the Research Goliath" published in the journal Internet Reference Services Quarterly (2005)." (http://www.yorku.ca/wilu2007/programme/speakers.htm)

-- Marc Salz's website
-- Class Notes Archives 1968 (1 of 2 --more recent)
-- Class Notes Archives 1968 (2 of 2 --older)

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1969

Sylvia Dubois ('69)

by Francesca (Francoise) Perrin ('69): Une Danse (Encres, matières sur toile couleur lin)

● Pierre Vittori wrote to tell us that he now lives "one hour from NYC, on the Hudson" and that he "would like to get in touch with anyone from my class." (His email address is available upon request)

● Francis Dumanoir wrote: "Wow! What a time warp. I was on Google when, in a narcissistic moment, I typed my name. I had done this in the past but always used "Frank" as the first name I adopted in Texas. So when I saw the AALFNY entry with my name as "lost" I had to go look. What a flood of memories to see all those names.
I left NY in '67 and finished secondary school in Paris at Louis le Grand (I survived the revolution of '68 - quite an episode). I got my Bac in 1970 and then instead of my parents coming to Paris, we went to Houston (my dad worked for Schlumberger. I got a Masters in EE at Rice University and went right to work for Exxon where I stayed 7 1/2 years. I then joined a Geophysical Service company, Cie Generale de Geophysique, with HQ's in Paris. This allowed for trips to Paris to see my parents who had retired. After 17 years there, I pursued opportunities in two other companies before joining a Geophysical Data Processing company that was in turn acquired by TGS-NOPEC. So much for career.
I was married from '78 to '81 to Cindy. We divorced and she went on to get a doctorate and moved to Florida. I remarried in '82 to Mariam. We have two daughters, Danielle (18) and Katherine (13). Danielle will be going to Texas A&M in the fall to study Engineering (and French which she speaks pretty fluently). We adopted Katherine in 1998 in Russia. She will be starting High School in the fall.
I don't exactly know where this note will end up but I hope to hear from all my classmates I remember so well. It's hard to belive it's been 40 years!
The whole Dumanoir family converged on NY in the summer of '97 when my niece (Julie, Sophie (Dumanoir) Hara's daughter) came to start college in Massachussets. We had a great time and made a pilgrimage to the Lycee on 72nd street to show the kids where we went to school.
So please let me know what you are up to. This would give me great incentive to come up to NY to visit.
I was very sad to hear of Julie Krewer's passing. As all the eulogies noted she was an oustanding individual and someone we all admired. How cruel to lose someone like her. I was in class with her from 6eme on to seconde and always remember her as a role model. J'espere recevoir de vos nouvelles! A bientot, Francis"

● "Gaël Pervilhac - dual French-American citizenship, with a Master Degree in Political Sciences and Finance from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (France) and a Master in International Business and Marketing from Columbia University (New-York), has more than twenty five years of international management positions in major companies and consulting experience..... Consultant since 1992 he is currently based in New York City since July 1998 where he founded EDGE Consulting IntI. and represents a number of French companies in the United States. He works with C.C.A. (Courtois Conseil Associés) a French consulting firm in Paris specialized in consumer goods, the food industry and luxury products with an emphasis in operational management at Corporate level in France and in international. He covered numerous assignments in North America. He also covers independent international projects related to market research, marketing and commercial strategies, strategic planning, business integration, change management and competitive intelligence to develop practical solutions, improve performance and obtain long term business advantage."
(http://www.edgemarkets.com/profiles.htm)

-- Francesca (Francoise) Perrin's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1969)

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1970

TOP: by George Foy ('70); BOTTOM: Rabbi Suzanne Singer ('70)

TOP: Romana Lowe ('70) and daughter; BOTTOM: By Romana Lowe

● Click on link below for news of Ann Malester.

● Joelle (Sirgant) Tisseyre nous écrit: "Bonjour à tous et merci pour ce site. Sur cette année 1970, amical souvenir à SABINE, VLADIMIR et tout particulièrement à VICTOR...de France (tout près de Deauville)"

● "George Foy is a writer and journalist. He has published a number of novels, including Challenge, Asia Rip, and The Shift. He has worked as a commercial fisherman, a vacuum-molding machine operator, and a paralegal in New York City law firms. He has travelled into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with an arms-smuggling caravan, acted on network television, and participated in the creation of a CD-ROM game. He lives with his wife, children, and cat in New York City and Cape Cod." (From SF Site, http://www.sfsite.com/02b/gf75.htm)

● Suzanne Singer wrote: "I moved back to Los Angeles in July of 2007 and am currently engaged in several projects: I serve as Director of the Introduction to Judaism program for the Pacific Southwest Council of the Union for Reform Judaism; I teach several of the Introduction classes; I am directing a project for Hebrew Union College to connect Jewish and Christian seminary students with internships at various social justice organizations; and I am planning an interfaith social justice conference in Los Angeles slated for November of 2007. I moved to LA with my husband who is an actor and has greater opportunities here than he had in the SF Bay Area where we lived for three years while I served as a rabbi at Temple Sinai in Oakland. I also wanted to move back to LA because my two sisters live here and I have many nieces and nephews with whom I like to spend time."

-- On the Internet: Ann Malester
-- More books by George Foy
-- Class Notes Archives (1970)

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1971

TOP: by By Kem (Knapp) Sawyer ('71); BOTTOM: Rafael Rodriguez ('71)

● Click on link below for news of Nathalie Moliavko-Vizotsky .

● Anna Welsing wrote: "I have very fond memories of my class. Hope everyone is fine from those two years."

● Rafael Rodriguez wrote: "Dear Lycee friends, I am still in debt to Roger Liwer ('68) with a sound bite from one of Mr Kieffer's classes, which I promised to send him some time ago and I will. It is from a cassette from those 1970 days that will certainly resurface once I've gone through all my possessions. As in full fledged midlife crisis, I moved back to my family house in Montclair, NJ after 23 years in Manhattan. I had a partner for 10 years in NY but am a single and a confirmed bachelor now, and trying to enjoy the second half of my life, hopefully, with all sorts of projects in addition to my translation business. The move back to our old house from the city can be seen in one of those HGTV programs, called Bought and Sold (some friends joke about it as Butt and Soul!).
I am completing the translation of a diary that my mother wrote in 1934 during the three month period preceding her piano recital at the National Theater in Havana. Working with an editor and the search for a publisher has also kept me busy. Meanwhile my nephew and nieces and godchildren are growing, as your children surely are. One of my godsons got his first job as an international auditor, one niece is graduating for the second time from the Courtland School in London with a thesis on a medieval church in Barcelona (of course!) and my newphew is finishing up at Williams College; he was brought to NY and put up at the Waldorf during some interviews on Wall Street, which he failed, but he is not the type, probably, and seems to be headed for a Long Island Country Club to coach tennis (he was the Massachussets Squash Champion). And the youngest niece is headed for Brown this summer with her F. Scott Fitzgerald award for a short story. Hard to tell kids anything these days, do I begin to sound un peu gaga? A bientot à la prochaine réunion et bonne chance a tous!"

-- On the Internet: Nathalie Moliavko-Vizotsky
-- More books by By Kem (Knapp) Sawyer
-- Class Notes Archives (1971)

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1972

TOP: Donna Zilkha ('72) & Bettina Zilkha ('77); BOTTOM: Translated by Claire Cera ('72)

● Claire Cera wrote: "My translation of "The Great Fire" by Shirley Hazzard for Gallimard is in its third reprint, much to my joy as it is a magnificent novel. All my best to class of '72 alumni!"

● Thomas Cerbu is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. He "works on Bysantine, Renaissance, and early modern topics; special interests in the history of scholarhop, especially the reception of Patristic and later Greek authors in the West; 17th-century antiquarianism, episolography, paleography, and editorial practices; the history of early modern science and medicine; further interests in philosophy and literature, allegory and hermeneutics." (From: http://www.uga.edu/~cml/faculty/cerbu.html)

-- Class Notes Archives (1972)

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1973

Jean-Louis Monfraix ('73) & Dana (Sloan) Scanlon ('73)

● Dana (Sloan) Scanlon wrote: "After 10 years of working on the marketing of French trade shows in the US, and managing projects such as USA Pavilions at the Paris Air Show, in 2007, a complete transition into residential real estate. Specialty: assisting French-speaking clients in their relocation to the Washington DC metro area. Married, two teenage daughters (Lycee Rochambeau in Bethesda), one horse and a dog! I have managed an occasional trip to New York for business over the years -- sorry to have missed the reunion at the Yates home. Anyone from class of '73 in the DC area?"

● Martha Solinger wrote: "I am recently divorced with a 12 year old son and live just outside of New York. I have been at Lehman Brothers for nearly 20 years and run the Litigation area of the Law Department there. We love to travel and are going on safari in Africa this summer."

● "Jean-Louis Monfraix bought his first 35mm camera while touring as lead guitarist for the "East Coast Brass" in 1978 and has been photographing his "view of life" ever since. Jean-Louis was born in Lavaur, France, and raised in New York City, where he attended the Lycée Français de New York. His passion for photographing his "view of life" grew out of a boyhood fascination with the beauty of the natural world and the diversity of life on Earth. As a child, he could be seen running around the New York Botanical Gardens with a butterfly net, collecting specimens for his insect collection (and bee stings for his immune system). The name of Jean-Louis' photography business pays homage to his lifelong hero, the famous naturalist Charles Darwin, by quoting from the last sentence of the 1859 classic "On the Origin of Species", in which Darwin wrote: "There is grandeur in this view of life, ...". Indeed, Jean-Louis is a naturalist and biologist himself. He holds a Master's Degree in Zoology from the University of Florida and has taught biology as an adjunct professor at the American University in Washington, D.C., and at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida. Jean-Louis' photographs have appeared on the covers of publications for several multi-organizational national conferences…………" (From: Eastern Market.Net; http://www.easternmarket.net/index.php?id=fe&fe=56)

● “Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and journalist who has written for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Interview, and The Forward. His website, TOMMYWOOD, is the recent first place winner of the LA PRESS CLUB AWARD and the SIMON ROCKOWER AWARD for entertainment criticism/column.” (From TOMMYWOOD, http://www.tommywood.com/index.html)
(To read Tom’s columns, click on link below.)

--Tom Teicholz's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1973)

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1974

TOP: Diane Rivers ('74) & Fabrice Laget ('74); BOTTOM: Alix (Gudefin) Perrachon ('74)

Albertine (‘Tinika’) (Van Der Klaauw) Vialar ('74)

● Avram (“Butch”) Kaplan wrote: "Our eldest daughter Ariella graduated from California State University Northridge with a Bachelor Degree in English Honors. I have begun working on a Mathieu Kassovitz film entitled 'Babylon A.D.' starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh and Melanie Thierry. I will be living in Paris for the balance of the year completing Post Production there."

● De la part de Albertine (‘Tinika’) (Van Der Klaauw) Vialar: "It is fun to read the becomings of classmates and teachers. Well ... (et comme on nous a assez tarabusté pour parler en français dans les locaux du lycée, que je vais continuer dans cette même langue!).
D'abord j'ai été mariée pendant 25 ans avec le frère cadet d'Edith Lavaud, professeur d'espagnol, et de ce mariage nous avons 3 enfants : Matthieu (1977), Saskia (1979) (même prénom que la fille ainée de Daniela Beermann, seule chose que je sais d'elle, malheureusement) et Esther (1987), puis remariée. Une petite anecdote amusante : dans le Gers profond en faisant mes courses dans un hypermarché, je vois un monsieur qui me regarde intensément, moi aussi d'ailleurs, car je me suis dit que je l'avais déjà vu quelque part, mais c'est toujours très difficile de situer le lieu quand on est dans un autre lieu. Et pendant toutes nos courses on s'est regardés de loin et nous devions penser la même chose. Je suis repartie à la voiture avec mes courses un peu déçue de ne pas lui avoir adressé la parole, mais... en rentrant je me suis dit, si il vit quelque part peut-être que c'est à Auch, préfecture du Gers. J'ai pris l'annuaire téléphonique et j'ai cherché à C... puis j'ai trouvé Bernard Cerveaux. Je l'ai appelé et en effet il m'avait reconnu après coup aussi. J'ai eu par la suite des collègues de travail, bien plus jeunes que moi bien sûr, qui l'on eut aussi comme professeur de gymnastique. Voilà pour la petite anecdote.."

● Theresa (Pearse) Eichenwald sent us this inquiry: "Has anybody got any info re Juliette Rouillon, Marie-Aude Nemo, Van Thi Nguyen? They were diplomats' children who left when we were fairly young. I am sure somebody remembers the Rouillons- there were ten of them." (If you have information you'd like to share with Theresa, her email address is available upon request.)

-- Class Notes Archives (1974)

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1975

Marco Elser ('75)

● Patrick Guillemot wrote: "Happily married for almost 20 years now with two children, Joel (16) and Anna-Claire (13). Living in Oakland, Calif., former home of the A's. My years at the Lycee seem so distant- as if they're part of a dream. Has anybody heard from Coco [Pierre Cauvin]? I would like to get hold of him."

● Seth Lewis nous écrit qu'il est "Executive Assistant Manager Food & Beverage à l'InterContinental Paris le Grand, et voyage une bonne partie du temps, en temps que Directeur Regional F&B pour InterContinental."

● Marco Elser is CEO and Partner, Capital Markets, Advicorp PLC. He "joined AdviCorp as a partner in 2002 where he set up its capital markets operation for which he is responsible. From 1994 to 2001, he was head of international market and credit institutions sales for Northeast Securities, New York. In this capacity, his activity consisted of supervising brokerage, sales and trading functions of securities (bonds, convertibles and shares) both for institutional and private clients. He was previously first vice president for Merrill Lynch Capital markets in Rome and London during 1984-1994. Before that he was head of international market sales for Kinetix Measurements, New York from 1981 to 1984. He received a Degree in Economics from Harvard College in 1981. He speaks English, Italian, French and Spanish fluently." (From: http://www.advicorp.com/eng/team/index.html)

-- Class Notes Archives (1975)

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1976

Judy (Kameny) Applebaum ('76)

● "Ivan Auger is a Research Scientist and the Director of the Wadsworth Center's Computational Molecular Biology and Statistics Core Facility. His research interests include sequence analysis, protein structure prediction, and algorithms for Bayesian Bioinformatics." (Wadsworth Center, Center for Bioinformatics, http://www.wadsworth.org/resnres/bioinfo/people.html)

● Jean Baum is a Professor in the Rutgers University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

● "Through drawings and paintings, Daniele Erville gives visual form to the innermost states of being -feeling states, the spirit, life transitions- letting images present themselves through intuitive shapes and colors. Daniele studied art and photography at Clark University, Massachusetts. She attended Maryland Institute, College of Art, in Baltimore, and earned a degree in drawing and painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. Daniele has exhibited in the South of France, New England, and the Bay Area."
(http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/11/18336779.php)

● "Judy Kameny: A trained musician since the age of five, Judy initially honed her listening skills as a concert pianist. After graduate school, she 'stumbled into radio', when a station manager heard her and liked her voice. When she moved back to New York, voice-overs seemed like a natural continuation of what she had been doing. 'I was a teacher for many years before I got into voice work, so I jumped at the chance to do voice-over coaching.' These days, Judy happily juggles life with her husband, her son, coaching, studying foreign languages, playing the piano and contra-dancing." (http://www.edgestudio.com/meet.htm)

-- Class Notes Archives (1976)

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1977

Patricia Lane ('77) & Didier Lozachmeur ('77)

Cedric Noel ('77)

● Patricia Lane nous a annoncé la parution de son article intitulé « Savoir gérer des collaborateurs étrangers » suite à une interview avec le Journal du Management. (Click on link below to read the article)

● Valérie-Luce Rambourg nous écrit: « Je vis et travaille avec ma fille Leela à Paris; je suis séparée de mon mari: c'est la belle vie! Je ne regrette que l'Inde où j'espère retourner bientôt (et Marc, bien sûr...) »

● « Cédric Noël: Comédien au théâtre, à la télévision et au cinéma depuis quelques années, Cédric ne rime pas aussi vite que son ombre mais cela fait longtemps que le démon de la chanson le travaille. Opiniâtre auteur compositeur, ses chansons évoquent une quête de liberté, aspirent à ré enfanter le monde et nous exhortent ici-bas à ne pas manquer le merveilleux bateau ivre de vivre. »
(http://www.quebecpop.com/MenuPrincipal2.htm)
(For his cinema, theatre and television credits, click on link below.)

● An interview with Vanina Holasek was recently published by psychoPEDIA.com. To read it, click on the link below.

-- Patricia Lane's article in Journal du Management
-- Cedric Noel's career milestones
-- On the Internet: Vanina Holasek
-- Class Notes Archives (1977)

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1978

Alain Benzaken ('78) & Roshanara (Akhund) Robin ('78)

TOP: Carla Rosen-Vacher ('78) (left) & Annabelle Cone ('78); BOTTOM: Stephanie Carson-Parker ('78) & family

● Click on link below for news of Eric Jacobsen .

● Annabelle Cone wrote: "I got together with old lycée chums who were passing through New England just a few days apart from each other. First a photo of Carla Rosen-Vacher ('78) and me standing in front of Boston Harbor, June 5th, 2007, when we met up in Boston for the day. We visited the brand new ICA which is an architectural wonder. Two days prior to that, I had gone to the Emma Willard School in Troy, NY, to catch up with Stephanie Carson-Parker ('78) whose daughter Maxime had just completed a post-graduate year there. Also pictured is Stephanie's husband Bruno. Carla was in town for her Harvard (25th) reunion, Stephanie and Bruno were attending their daughter's graduation before driving to Montreal where she will be attending Concordia University."

● Carla Rosen-Vacher wrote: "Annabelle Cone and I managed another successful meet-up in Boston on June 5th (see picture taken at Institute of Contemporary Art on the beautiful waterfront). I was in town for my 25th Harvard College reunion, a fantastic experience, partly thanks to guest speakers President Bill Clinton and Bill Gates - who joked about finally returning for a degree! (honorary doctorates of law). On the work front, I continue to enjoy being at the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg as Commercial and Economic Specialist, foreign service national staff, with the State Department. Dominique survived the ArcelorMittal merger and is thriving as head of capital investment purchasing worldwide - despite a brutal travel schedule. I am holding down the fort at home and looking forward to our move into the newly-renovated part of our farmhouse in July - won't be able to host guests overnight until next year when phase 2 is completed, but at least I can make dinner! Best to all. Carla"

-- On the Internet: Eric Jacobsen
-- Class Notes Archives (1978)

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1979

TOP: by Adam Lindemann ('79); BOTTOM: by Nadine Orenstein ('79)

● Robert Frumkin wrote: "I'm living in Brooklyn with my two boys, Thelonious (9) and Bruno (7) and teaching Reading James Joyce's Ulysses at NYU, and Southerm Writers at St. Francis College. In the interim I have been a model in Taipei, Taiwan, a grape picker at Chateau Lynch-Bages in Pauillac, France, a sommelier at Restaurant Alain Chapel in Mionnay, France, Copy Chief for Food & Wine magazine, and a photographer. For my pictures of Iceland, visit frumkinblog.blogspot.com. For a picture of me with Mia Huyn, [click on link below]"

● "Born in New York City, Adam Lindemann grew up in an art collecting family. He began his own collection with African and Oceanic art and eventually focused on Contemporary Art, specifically work created in the last ten years. An active collector, he has canvassed the world’s art exhibitions, art fairs, galleries and private collections, following the art market boom of the last several years. A radio entrepreneur, his company, Mega Communications, has pioneered Latin radio in several U.S. markets as well as producing Latin music events. In partnership with designer Marc Newson, he is relaunching IKEPOD, a manufacturer of Swiss timepieces....." (From Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Contemporary-Adam-Lindeman/dp/3822849391)

● Ignacio Pérez Caldentey is currently Member of Cabinet,
European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs. Prior to that, he was "...the Deputy Director of FRIDE. Joined the Diplomatic Corps in 1987 and has served in Cameroon, Paraguay, Brussels-NATO, Peru, Argentina and South Africa. Prior to joining FRIDE, Ignacio Pérez Caldentey worked at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, Strasbourg. BA in Law by the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and MA in International Politics by the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His most renowned publications include: “Sudáfrica: un caso de desarme nuclear unilateral” (Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos, 2003); “La necesidad de un concepto estratégico europeo: una revisión del papel de la Unión europea en materia de prevención de conflictos y de gestión de crisis” (Observatorio de Política Exterior Europea, 2001); “La estructura de mandos y cadena de mandos actual” en España en la nueva estructura militar de la OTAN (Antonio Marquina, ed., UNISCI, 1998); “La ampliación de la OTAN y la cuestión rusa” (Instituto de Estudios Internacionales/PUCP, 1996); “El realismo y el final de la guerra fría” (Instituto de Estudios Internacionales/PUCP, 1996)." (FRIDE: Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior, http://www.fride.org/eng/curriculum/showcurriculum.aspx?id=845)

-- Robert Frumkin's blog
-- Class Notes Archives (1979)

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1980

Dr. Jean-Pierre Riou ('80) and Mary Kraus ('80)

Dr. Norah Lincoff ('80) & David Zara ('80)

TOP: Natacha Rajakovic ('80); BOTTOM: Amy Nammack's Jessie and Zack

● Click on link below for news of Gilles Mascarell.

● Dr. Norah Lincoff is on the faculty of the University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She practices Neurology and Ophthalmology at the Jacobs Neurological Institute. Her clinical and research interests include vasculitis, inflammatory eye disease states, optic neuropathies, and neuro-oncology.

● Amy Nammack-Weiss wrote: "Just bought a house in Chapel Hill, NC. Very friendly people, but too many ticks and too much poison ivy! Would love to hear from or see classmates. Photo is of Zack and Jessie and a May Day Celebration at school."

● David Zara shared this with us: " My son Tristan starts 'la petite section' this fall and we are very excited. Both my brother and I graduated from the lycee and it was a great experience.
My wife Laurence was an attorney for Skadden Arps and Clifford Chance in Paris and NY and I am a pilot and a partner in an aviation company named Tradewind Aviation. We have a service that flies to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket from Teterboro and Westchester airports and we also fly to St Barth's and all over the Caribbean. We are also an aircraft charter and management and consulting company and fly all over the world on demand.
We have a 1 year old daughter named Valesca and hope she will attend the lycee as well. I graduated 27 years ago and still count lyceens as my closest friends. The bonds we forged have been lasting and though we have spread all over the world we are still bound by our common experience. I hope my children will feel the same way."

● Natacha Rajakovic wrote: "Hello and Salut to all of you!
A few months ago I decided to move to Brussels, in search of a new - and hopefully better - life. I sold my tiny Paris apartment, for the money got a much bigger one, and spent the last two months coping with the movers, the workers, and boxes, of which a few dozen are still piled up unpacked. Not easy when you have to do it all alone, and with no resettlement package. But I did it, and I will be settled there for good at the end of June.
I would love to know if there are any former 'lycéens' in Belgium, so please don't hesitate to contact me at my new address [available upon request].
I've been blogging for the past year, so if you have nothing better to do and want to read more about my 'tribulations', you can go to [click on link below to access her blog]. I wish everybody a great summer!"

● Pascale (Cirano) Schmidt wrote: "Happy to see so many familiar faces in the directory. Ahh, les années passent!"

-- On the Internet: Gilles Mascarell
-- Dr. Jean-Pierre Riou's website
-- Natacha Rajakovic' blog
-- Class Notes Archives (1980)

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1981

TOP: Alioune Ciss (’81); BOTTOM: Jacques Longerstaey ('81)

by Baret Boisson ('81): "Great American: Rosa Parks"

● ".......Born in Florence, Italy to parents who were both artists, Baret Boisson did not begin painting until she was in her early thirties. Completely self-taught and eschewing the limitations of mechanical and technical formalities, she utilizes a wide range of mediums for her canvases including board, wood, ceramic, and paper. Boisson employs acrylic, watercolors, and gouache for most of her creations, and chooses to paint on flat surfaces, such as a table or floor, in order to further venerate content over technique......." (http://www.baretboisson.com/bio.html) (For more of Baret's art, click on link to her website)

-- Baret Boisson's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1981)

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1982

TOP: Dorka Keehn ('82); BOTTOM: Barbara (Beiso) Marquis ('82)

● "Dorka Keehn has always wanted to change the world, first through politics and more recently through art. And she’s very curious and wants to know what makes people tick. She is an award winning filmmaker, political activist and aspiring jazz singer. Her documentary film “OF CIVIL WRONGS & RIGHTS: The Fred Korematsu Story” won two Emmys in 2001. She is a founder of EMERGE, a leadership training program for Democratic woman across the country who want to run for political office at the local and state levels; and of Women Count, a national nonpartisan media campaign and educational program that mobilized women voters for the 2000 elections. Twice San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed her to the SF Commission on the Status of Women, where she still serves. She was the West Coast Director of Gloria Steinem’s Voters For Choice, the largest non-partisan, independent pro-choice political action committee in the U.S. During years of political burnout, Dorka produced documentaries for television. She has served on innumerable Boards of Directors of women’s, environmental, media and educational organizations." (From Keehn on Art;
http://keehnonart.com/about/index.html)

-- Class Notes Archives (1982)

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1983

Druce Vertes ('83) & Alessandra Guariglia ('83)

● Liz de Nesnera wrote: "As many of you know (as it was published two years ago in this newsletter!) I am the founder of CaregiversCommunity.com, a website dedicated to the proposition that Caregivers deserve to have a life beyond caregiving. (I've been a caregiver for 12+ years...and Maman just turned 90!!!) But, what I'm including today, is that beyond my caregiving duties, I decided to take my own advice and get back to one my other loves: Voice-Over! I have been involved in the voice recording industry for over 15 years, from being a Copywriter & Production Director at a Radio station to working in a Voice-recording studio, and now have been doing voice-over work for about the past 18 months on a consistent basis! I love getting in front of the mic and getting people's messages across...of course in English ET en Français! You can check out my voice-over website [by clicking on the link below]. If any Lycée alum needs voice-work done (phone system, website, corporate narration...whatever!) give me a call or send me an email."

● Géraldine Bergé was the script supervisor for the 2006 movie ‘The Hills Have Eyes’, a “new and exceedingly nasty version of Wes Craven's 1977 cult shocker….”

● "Dr. Alessandra Guariglia is an Associate Professor and Reader in Economics. She joined the University of Nottingham in July 2003. Her research interests are in the areas of applied econometrics and macroeconomics. Currently, the focus of her research is on firms' behavior under imperfect capital markets; the economics of transition in Eastern Europe (including Russia) and China; and the determinants of household saving and consumption decisions. She has published a range of papers including articles in Economica, the Oxford Economic Papers, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, the Econometrics Journal, and the Journal of Banking and Finance." (University of Nottingham, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/staff/details/alessandra_guariglia.htm)

-- Liz de Nesnera's 'Voice Over' website
-- Class Notes Archives (1983)

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1984

Top to bottom: Brigitte Nguyen Xuan Hop ('84), Fruzsina Keehn ('84), Christian Waldvogel ('84)

● "Prior to founding Vinci Capital, Dr. Christian Waldvogel was a Partner with Viventures in Paris. He has also been an Investment Director with Intel Capital as part of the 'founding' team of Intel Capital Europe. Dr. Waldvogel has been actively investing in Europe with a focus on France, Germany and Switzerland. His technical expertise is focused on the telecom, security, broadcasting and semi-conductor industries. Dr. Waldvogel has also occupied management positions in business development and strategic marketing at Intel Corporation in Munich and at the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT) in Paris. Mr. Waldvogel holds a Ph.D. in Cryptography and a Master’s Degree in Telecommunications from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. He also holds a Bachelor of Science and Engineering from Princeton University (US) and a Corporate Finance Seminar Certificate from INSEAD (Paris)." (From: Vinci Capital, http://www.vincicapital.ch/)

● Nadine Pantano Ph.D., is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, University College of London, University of London.

-- Class Notes Archives (1984)

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1985

TOP: Isabelle (Schnieders) Cota ('85); BOTTOM: Marianne (Foeillet) Pujol ('85)

TOP: Ahpaly Coradin ('85); BOTTOM: Mariage civil (23/12/2006): Gabriel ('85) et Emilie Sylla

WEDDINGS/MARIAGES:
● From Gabriel Sylla : "Le 23 décembre nous avons célébré notre mariage civil au Palais de justice de Montréal! Pour celles et ceux qui connaissent la complexité de notre histoire, vous savez à quel point cet événement longuement espéré, est essentiel pour la suite de notre vie en commun au Canada. A force de rêves, de patience et de détermination, de nouveaux horizons s’ouvrent enfin à nous, nous dévoilant la possibilité d’un futur à deux, ICI, au cœur de ce Nouveau Monde que nous apprécions tant."

BIRTHS/NAISSANCES:
● From Ahpaly Coradin: "On October 25, 2006, my wife Sae gave birth to our third child. His name is Sakima Motonari Coradin. The name "Sakima" means "Chief" or "King" in the Lenape tribe of Delware."
● From Jean-Edouard Courcier: "Big news is that Diane was born 3 weeks ago, on 18th May. That makes 3 beautiful daughters, Léonore (2002), Célia (2004) and Diane (2007). Girls, that's what I make! No wonder, I've always seen and positionned myself as a specialist."

● Click on link below, for a poem by Gabin Langue Tsobgny -- 'Reussir'

● Ahpaly Coradin also wrote: "Last year, I returned to the practice of law, this time as principal of my own law firm, Ahpaly Coradin P.A. We are a boutique corporate, commercial and real estate practice serving clients nationally and internationally. Our website is [click on link below]. If you or anyone you know has need of legal advice for a business or an investment, we would like to hear from you or them."

● Isabelle (Schnieders) Cota is the admissions and student affairs director at HEC Paris. Click on the link below to read her interview with Business Week.

● On March 12, 2007 the International Herald Tribune reported: "The American novelist Jonathan Littell, whose best-selling, 900-page World War II opus was written in French, has been granted French nationality. Because he does not live in France, two applications by Littell were rejected before Les Bienveillantes, or The Kindly Ones, was published last August and went on to win the Goncourt Prize, the most prestigious French literary award. But after Littell met with Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin ['71], the authorities used an article of the nationality code allowing them to grant citizenship to French speakers whose 'meritorious actions contribute to the glory of France.' "

● Jean-Edouard Courcier also wrote: "My wife Astrid and I are living in Zürich (the best city in the world as far as quality of life is concerned, according to Mercer Consulting). I work for FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), and Astrid works for Rolex."

- Isabelle (Schnieders) Cota's interview with Business Week
- Ahpaly Coradin's website
- 'Reussir', by Gabin Langue Tsobgny
- Class Notes Archives (1985)

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1986

Alessandra Gagliardi ('86) & Dr. Lance Brown ('86)

The Rellie babies, Heathcliff and Titus

● Judith (Hoenig) Adelson and her husband Seth wrote: "We're excited to announce that we're expecting and Judy's due date is around August 16, 2007. We have decided that we don't want to know the sex! But we're enjoying everyone's predictions. We began by referring to it as 'Peanut' but have now moved onto 'Mango' which seems more appropriate given Judy's size but may need to upgrade to 'Cantaloupe' soon."

● Euan Rellie wrote: "Still living in the Far West Village with my wife Lucy Sykes Rellie. Just celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary, on May 4th, 2007. Our second child, Titus Jasper Jack Icarus Rellie was born at St Vincent's Hospital, March 21st, 2007.
Lucy continues to design and sell beautiful high-end children's clothes at Bergdorf Goodman, Best & Co, Scoop etc, and online at www.lucysykes.com. I am the Chairman of her company.
I have spent the last eleven years co-founding and building Business Development Asia LLC. BDA advises Western multinationals and PE firms on mergers and acquisitions in Asia, and vice versa. We now employ 50 professionals in eight offices. All the hard work is beginning to pay off, and we have a booming client list. I attach a photograph of Heathcliff, aged 3 1/2, and Titus, aged 1 month, sleeping in April 2007."

● Selcan Kirca shared this with us: "I currently live in Istanbul, Turkey with my 4 year old daughter Jasmine Papadopoulos. We recently got divorced with her father who lives in Athens. I am now teaching at the Université de Galatasaray (The only french and very prestigious University in Turkey). I teach Français Juridique and Judicial English to Senior students at the Faculty of Law. I lost my father two years ago and it as been quite an ordeal for me and my whole family but life goes on and I hope that everyone is fine. I miss you all and if you ever pass by Istanbul don't forget to call me! My computer crashed yesterday so I will try to send you a picture of myself as soon as I get my notebook back!"

● Astrid (Martheleur) Lyons wrote: "Got married on 11th December 2005. Had a son, Noah Hubble Lyons, on 3rd December 2007. Started my own consulting business so that I could be at home as much as possible to raise Noah.
Loving life!"

● "Dr. Lance Brown is currently the director of Dermatologic Surgery at The Skin Institute of New York and is a Clinical Instructor of Dermatology at New York University School of Medicine. After graduating from college at New York University College of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Brown remained at New York University to persue his medical degree, where he was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He subsequently completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Yale University and continued his medical training in Dermatology at the University of Miami Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, where he excelled in skin cancer surgery, and was given the University's Departmental award for "Excellence in Skin Surgery". Dr. Brown also specializes in a variety of cosmetic dermatologic procedures, including the enhancement of fine lines and wrinkles with the use of collagen, permanent implants and Botox injections." (http://www.theskininstituteofny.com/lance.html)

-- Class Notes Archives (1986)

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1987

TOP: Yolande Amiot Priso ('87); BOTTOM: Gilles Coccoli ('87)

Christine Foucher Oury ('87) & family

● Click on link below for news of Noga Arikha.

● Armelle Bonvarlet wrote: "Hello, Just a few words for classmates of 1987: I'm still living in Paris, after 10 years working with IBM EMEA, and currently 3 years with Microsoft EMEA. Looking forward hearing from you!"

● Lancelot Gambis wrote: " Hey guys. It was really nice to find out what people are doing. I'm still in New York, although I moved three months ago to New Jersey (Bloomfield). I finally have a separate office, and storage room, which is a new concept for me after living 25 years in NYC --and a backyard! My wife (Patricia) and I have been married for six months, and I have a four year-old (Nicolas) from a previous marriage. I run a real estate website (www.abodesabroad.com) and also help out with Patricia's online clothing business (gambis.com). I've stayed in touch with the old gang: Liz Rottenberg and Jesse Littel. Also, Aicha who I saw a year ago in Paris. And I keep in email contact with Stephane Barbe. I was roomates with Alain Frank in the 90's but I've lost track. I think he lives in Philly and works for the Museum there. Feel free to contact me at [email available upon request]. A plus."

● Carole (Gourlaouen) Baudry wrote: « BRAVO !! Je suis ravie d'avoir pris connaissance de l'existence de cette association ! Je suis mariée, 2 enfants (Corentin, garçon de 4 ans et Margot petite fille de 7 mois) et j' habite à Tahiti en Polynésie Francaise depuis 6 ans. Je travaille à l'office des Postes et Télécommunications en tant que directeur des ressources humaines.
J'espère venir à la réunion qui se prépare, le 3 aout à NY. Je remercie Stéphanie Mulot qui m'a permise de découvrir cette association. See you soon, I hope. »

● From Christine Foucher Oury: "I’m still in Colorado but will find out very soon if we’ll be relocating to San Francisco for my job. My husband Joel is consulting right now so he can move easily. We’re pretty excited. There’s the Lycee Francais there too (Lycee La Perouse), so we will definitely enroll our kids. After that it may be back East or France, and if we go any further west we might end up in Australia! My kids are getting big, Mathieu is 8 and Alexandre is almost 4. Time flies. I can hardly believe we’ll be marking our 20th high school reunion! (I still have that blue T-Shirt with all our names and Class of 1987 written on it!!) I’m really looking forward to catching up with Lycee classmates. Hope everyone is doing well!"

-- On the Internet: Noga Arikha
-- Class Notes Archives (1987)

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1988

TOP: Jean-Francois Barsoum ('88); BOTTOM: Benoit Barthe ('88)

TOP: Shawn Fields ('88) and family; BOTTOM: Abstract ceiling fixtures by Stephane Pagani ('88) at the Clodagh showroom

● Aymen Bourjini wrote: "Hello everyone. I keep such fond memories of everyone and the times I have spent in the lycee. I often think of all the friends I've had during those years. I am still living in Manhattan for most of the year. I have lost touch of so many of you guys...Wow, how time goes by quickly....I am finally engaged and hoping to get married."

● From Shawn Fields: "After two and a half years in London, I moved back to NY in September just in time for the birth of my second child, Milo Jack, who was born on December 8th. He joined big sister Marina Cecilia who turns 2 on June 13th. I keep in touch with a number of Lycee grads including Valerie Picard, Samantha Sherman, Tamara Benveniste and Alexander Marin. My brother Ian (class of 1992) and his wife Chelsey are just about to welcome their first child in July."

● "Designer Stéphane Pagani is founder and creative director of PaganiStudio, a lighting fixture design studio based in New York. Pagani designs contemporary lighting collections and exclusive custom lighting fixtures for high end residential and commercial projects.......Stéphane Pagani is originally from St. Paul de Vence, France and was university educated in the United States. Stéphane's architectural background has given him an appreciation for site specific projects. Using light and occasionally movement, Stéphane designs to create an emotion that suits the space and its intended function." (http://www.paganistudio.com/pages/about.html)

-- Class Notes Archives (1988)

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1989

Sebastien Revault D’Allones ('89)

● Paul Denamiel wrote that he is "married to Lisa Turk, three children, Jean-Baptiste, Justine and Jacqueline."

● Nicolas Giauque "joined Farallon® in 1998 and is now a partner and portfolio manager of Noonday Asset Management LLP. Prior to joining Farallon®, Mr. Giauque worked in the investment banking and asset management divisions of Goldman Sachs for four years in Hong Kong and Singapore. Mr. Giauque graduated with a master's degree in Management from Hautes Etudes Commerciales." (http://www.noonday.com/bios_nicolas_giauque.html)

-- Class Notes Archives (1989)

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1990

TOP: by Eurydice (Capo-Chichi) Reinert ('90); BOTTOM: Laure (Hernandez) Geffros ('90)

« L’auteur Eurydice Capo-Chichi, épouse Reinert, écrit depuis l’âge de 14 ans, et a publié entre autres, un recueil de poèmes intitulé « l’Oeil », en avril 2005. Cet écrit spirituel est le fruit d’une réflexion de longue haleine qui émane de la volonté de l’auteur de témoigner de la richesse que lui apporte la vie spirituelle au quotidien. Elle ose se livrer à travers cet ouvrage dans le but d’apporter un message porteur d’espérance aux autres, au regard de tout ce qui l’enrichit au cœur de sa pratique de la foi et qui se traduit de façon empirique et palpable. Ce livre a été conçu, par conséquent, de façon à le rendre accessible au grand nombre, dans une démarche de sincérité et de simplicité. » (From: http://www.euryuniverse.com/essais.htm)

-- Class Notes Archives (1990)

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1991

Catherine Connelly ('91)

BIRTHS/NAISSANCES:
● Moya (Anchisi) Dawson wrote: "My husband Jonathan and I are delighted to announce the birth of our second son, Tommaso, on January 22nd 2007 - a little brother for Harry. Luckily, the best tip I ever received about having two kids was that chaos is acceptable!! Despite the mini tornado in our house we are all well and happy. I will be returning to work this September, always as a paeditrician in London."

● Marcel Agueros wrote: " I moved back to NYC this fall to start a post-doc in the astronomy department at Columbia. Probably my most active
connection to the Lycee right now is Annie Vanrenterghem, our former math teacher in 3eme, whom I see on a semi-regular basis. I was in touch with Sonia Marcus for a little while last year while she was at Ohio State, but she seems to have disappeared... and I owe Vanina Holasek's gallery a visit."

● Click on link below for news of Alejandro Munoz-Ledo.

-- On the Internet: Alejandro Munoz-Ledo
-- Class Notes Archives (1991)

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1992

TOP: Caline Yamakawa ('92); BOTTOM: Tania Urvois ('92)

BIRTHS/NAISSANCES:
● Johann Le Calvez wrote: "My partner, Delphine, gave birth to our lovely first child, Antonin, on the 21st of March 2007. What a lovely change in life! Un petit breton né à Londres!"
● Elodie Vial a donné naissance à son troisième enfant --une petite fille qui s'appelle Othilie, née le 14 octobre 2006.

● Shawn Fields ('88) told us that her "brother Ian Fields and his wife Chelsey are just about to welcome their first child in July."

● Johann Le Calvez also wrote: "I now live in London with my partner Delphine and my son Antonin where I work for the BBC. I was appointed Content Producer at BBC Languages to project manage their brand new video-based French learning project called "Ma France", which launched in July 2006. I'm still working on new contents for BBC Languages and for the development of my own website called French in a Click."

● Stan Wojewodzki wrote: "I have recently created the W GROUP of FIne Wine Estates, Sarl, the first pan european alliance of fine wineries. With currently a dozen properties spread between France, Italy and Spain, and a combined annual production of over 5 million bottles, our group stands as a TRUE alternative for buyers looking for rational purchasing solutions.
Our portfolio of clients under this new structure comes from Central & South America, India and the Asia Pacific rim."

● « Pascaline (Allez) de Mesmay, Professeur: Diplômée du second cycle de l’Ecole du Louvre,titulaire d’une maîtrise d’histoire de l’art, chargée de TD à l’Ecole du Louvre depuis 5 ans et conférencière au sein d’Artémuses, Pascaline deMesmay a rejoint l’équipe de Christie’s Education en tant que professeur en septembre 2005. » (http://www.christies.com/education/pdfs/paris_prospectus.pdf)

-- Class Notes Archives (1992)

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1993

Top to bottom: Lamees Al Ashtal ('93); Luca Annone ('93); Gregory Gineys ('93)

Top: Thomas Laffont ('93); Bottom: Sophie (Louvel) Schmitt ('93)

● Thomas Laffont wrote: "I attended Yale and graduated in 1997 with degrees in computer science and economics. After Yale I moved to Los Angeles and started as an agent trainee in the mailroom of Creative Artists Agency. I got promoted to a desk a year letter and worked as an assistant for another three years before being promoted to agent. I worked in the Motion Picture Talent group representing actors and actresses for film and television. In August 2003 I moved to New York and left CAA to join my brother at a hedge fund he started, Coatue Management. Coatue is a long/short equity fund focused on technology, media, and telecom companies worldwide. I am responsible for our investments in semiconductor and digital consumer companies. I got married in September of last year and my wife and I live in Tribeca."

● Olivier Bardet wrote: "Hola, My wife Serena and I have moved to Madrid and we have had our first child, Matteo, a month ago. We were two weeks ago at Etienne Bernard's wedding to Anne France who is no other than Olivier Plusquellec's cousin!! Scott is doing fine in Geneva and has two kids."

● Adélaïde Sylvie Ntsama shared this with us: "I spent one year at the LFNY in 5ème (with the 1993 promotion). After New York I went back to Cameroon with my family. I now live in Paris (since 2001) and it is a great pleasure to have news of all my classmates whom I have never forgotten. Thank you for this wonderful website."

● Sophie (Louvel) Schmitt wrote: "Hi everyone! I have many fond memories of the Lycee and keep in touch with Elena Villegas, Stephanie Benzaquen and Caroline Bazin. I currently live in Boston with my husband and 6 month old daughter. If any of you are living around here, or will be passing by, please let me know."

● "Lamees Al Ashtal is a Senior Consultant with The Zygos Partnership. She specialises in executive appointments in the consumer and media sectors. Lamees previously worked in Heidrick & Struggles, a London-based Middle East Practice, focusing on executive appointments in the consumer and financial services sectors. She also worked in the Higher Education and European Consumer Practices. Lamees researched history and law at Harvard Law School and Wellesley College and has a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia College and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. She speaks English, French, Arabic, Spanish and Assyrian fluently, as well as basic German." (The Zygos Partnership; http://www.zygos.com/profiles/la.htm)

● Luca Annone works in Beijing, China. His bio at his firm’s website says that he “graduated in Political Sciences at the University of Turin in 2000. He worked for two years in a consulting firm in Turin where he dealt with intellectual property issues. He is fluent in Italian, French and English.” (Birindelli & Associati; http://www.bea-law.com/eng/lawyers_china_asia.html)

● "Paris, 19 April 2006 - David Schilansky joined Ipsen as Investor Relations Officer, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, Claire Giraut. Based in Paris, David will be Ipsen’s contact point for all financial analysts and investors. He will prepare and coordinate Ipsen’s communication with the financial markets and will overlook our compliance with Stock-Exchange regulations. Prior to joining Ipsen, David spent three years at UBS, in Mergers & Acquisitions, and three years at Thomson as Investor Relations’ Officer. David is a post graduate of Imperial College London." (http://investors.ipsen.com/fichiers/fckeditor/File/PR_DavidSchilansky%20EN.pdf)

-- Class Notes Archives (1993)

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1994

TOP: Valerie Darguste ('94); BOTTOM: Clotilde Giraud Hullin ('94)

Malvina and Peggy Roudey's NGO project

● Peggy Roudey wrote: "My sister Malvina Roudey ('94) and I were students in 1992-93 at the NYC Lycee. Malvina is currently living in South Africa, while I have moved back from Dubai to St Paul de Vence in France.
Both of us, along with her partner, have founded an NGO call the KRAAL TODDLERS and we are seekings funds to rebuild the primary school located in the Wild Coast, South Africa. Malvina and her companion have been putting their own money being 50% of the revenues from earning from the backpackers and donations into helping the kids of the village, providing them with vitamins, a meal and basic schooling. The school is based in the rural wild Coast area of South Africa where there is no running water, no electricity and the nearest road or town is 80KM away.
This project needs active fundraising, and they need international help. If everyone of us would tell at least one other person, perhaps that would be a good start for this project to get the exposure and help it deserves." (For more details on this project, click on the link below.)

- Kraal Toddlers NPO
- Class Notes Archives (1994)

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1995

TOP: Rony Mashihi ('95); BOTTOM: By Gwenaelle Gobe ('95)

● Gwenaëlle Gobé told us that she "is an Illustrator and Film Director. She lives in Los Angeles. She recently graduated CalArts with an MFA in Experimental Animation." (You can see her work by clicking on the link to her website, below.)

● Elvyr Missinhoun wrote: "Hello, everybody, it's been such a long time, 13 years now, and it feels great to hear from you all. I'm still in touch with Claire Le Pichon, Catherine Gaillochet and that is about it. After I left the LFNY, I returned to Cotonou where I got my Bac, then to the university, where I studied Civilizations and Literature. In 1998 I took two years to work, at a radio station, then at a private television station. For my maitrise I studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated in 2001. Then, I took a year off, to have a baby. My daughter was born on July 26, 2006 in Paris: her name is Sènalidé, my beloved princess. In 2002 I went back to school and studied at the l'institut supérieur d'interprétaion and traduction in Paris, where I saw regularly Catherine Gaillochet. Then I decided to go back to Benin, where I have been living for the past two years. Six months ago I started working with UNHCR (United Nation's high commission for refugees).
I would love to hear from you guys-- I mean Pauline Ladsous, Dorothy McAuliffe, Florence, Jérémy Regnier, Arielle Fenig. I was really sad to hear that Bianca died. I hope to hear from you guys soon....love...Elvyr"

● Delphine (Teynier) Smaine wrote: "I married Thierry Smaine on July 22, 2006. We have been living in Maisons Laffitte (78) for a year and a half now, where we have bought a nice appartement. We both have pleasant jobs near Paris."

● Alexandre Mazuranic shared this with us: "Hello everyone, I just discovered the alumni website of the LFNY; what a great way to reconnect. It brings me back quite a few years ago... Like for everyone, it was a shock to learn about Bianca Pujol's accident. And then it was really nice to read about Dorothy McAuliffe's family. About me? After the LFNY, I came back to Geneva (Switzerland) where I passed my "Bac" (or "Maturité" like we call it in Switzerland) and my law degree in 2000. I worked in Frankfurt (Germany) for six months before returning to Geneva to follow my two years traineeship as a lawyer. I qualified as a lawyer in 2003 and worked two and a half more years in the litigation area. Now I am currently ending a one year Master of laws (LL.M.) programm in International Business Law in London and will be heading back to Geneva in September to work in the international arbitration department of one of the top Swiss law firms."

-- Gwenaëlle Gobé's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1995)

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1996

Julian Casablancas ('96); Celine Ottria ('96)

● "Communiqué APAX PARTNERS: Loys Martin a passé quatre ans en banque d’investissement chez Lehman Brothers à Londres. Il a participé à de nombreuses opérations de financement et fusions-acquisitions en Europe, principalement dans les secteurs des nouvelles technologies et de l’électronique grand public. Loys Martin est diplômé de l’ESSEC." (http://www.actusnews.com/communique.php?ID=ACTUS-0-8761)

-- Class Notes Archives (1996)

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1997

Anthony Nazar de Jaucourt ('97) and Marie (Raoul-Duval) Vaslin ('97)

Cecile and Thomas Hernandez ('97)

● Vérane (de Marffy Mantuano) Grange wrote: "It has been quite the adventure since I graduated from LFNY in 1997. I first attended the MBA Institute in Paris France where I received a bachelor's of art in International Marketing. Then I completed a DESS at Sciences Po in Paris for 2 years in Market Research and Marketing. I met my future husband and we moved to NY. For 4 years, I have been working for l'Oreal USA as a Global Product Manager on the Maybelline brand. I got married on September 4th, 2004 and I am expecting a baby for the beginning of May. It's a boy and I hope he will attend LFNY!"

● Sareh Javaheri Saatchi wrote: "I am currently working for Harry Winston, in NYC, as the Retail Operations Manager for the US and Europe."

● Thomas Hernandez shared this with us:"Hello everyone, it's been a while since I wanted to post some news after seeing so many of you post some updates! I left LFNY after my 7eme to go back to France (that was.... 17 years ago!!). A quick look back: I went through high school at Lycée Louis le Grand in Paris, completed BS and MS degrees at Arizona State University, and I'm now a software engineer at Amazon.com. This job brought me to Seattle, WA where I stayed for 2+ years. I recently moved from the US back to France, still working for Amazon. I now work in Paris and live in Compiegne, with my wife Cécile.
Unfortunately I lost contact with all of my good friends (Carlos, Vladimir, Eleonore, Federica, Verane -- I shouldn't have started listing names, now I'm forgetting some) but I'd love to get back in touch. I hope you're all doing well. As for myself, I'll try not to wait another 17 years before posting another update... Take care."

-- Thomas Hernandez' website
-- Class Notes Archives (1997)

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1998

Pierre-Alain Parfond ('98) & Natalie Agueros ('98)

● Julia Lutzke wrote: "Hey! 2006 was an amazing year for me as far as my career is concerned. I just got on the sub list for the Broadway show "Hairspray" and I am also a new member of a small orchestra that plays only on period instruments (Baroque) called the American Classical Orchestra. They play in New York and in Connecticut. The Orchestra of St Lukes got to play a concert at Carnegie Hall which was organized by Paul McCartney. I was lucky to be part of that because we played his new classical orchestral pieces and we got to work with him extensively. This concert was to promote his new Classical album which came out recently. I have been in contact with Nermine El Sissi this year. She just got the job as a math professor at a college in Washington D.C. Hope all is well with everyone and keep me posted."

● Click on link below for news of Jonathan Alpeyrie.

● Jean Nicolas Pestieau wrote that he recently obtained his PhD in mathematics, having graduated this past May from Stony Brook University, in Long Island.

-- On the Internet: Jonathan Alpeyrie
-- Class Notes Archives (1998)

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1999

TOP: Jennifer Cazenave ('99); MIDDLE: Ghassene Jerandi ('99); BOTTOM: Tahina Timothée & Joëlle Tahindro

● Luke Hornblower told us that he has been "working as a Client Service Associate at Western Asset Management Company in Pasadena, California since February of 2006. The company manages fixed income primarily for institutional clients."

● Oliver Shearer wrote: "It's nice to see that things have moved on since I graduated in 1999. Stopped by the Lycee a year ago, the new Lycee. When I look at the building at 93rd street every now and then I wonder why I didn't enjoy myself more while I was there. It's such a beautiful building, but I guess I was too busy worrying about what I had to do at school, which was a shame.
Anyway, I am now at NYU, at the Paul McGhee Division. I am finishing my bachelor of arts there because I had stopped going to school for five years after having gone to Clark University for two. School has never been easy for me but it's going well now and I'm happy with what I am doing as an Art History major.
I have worked in art restoration, more precisely paper restoration (posters), and that is what I plan to do for a living once I graduate from school. Before I make a living from it though, I plan to go to France or Italy to a specialized school to get very good at it.
I am first and foremost an artist though (drawing, sculpture), studying the human body, in other words, i am not really interested in anything abstract, in any case, not as much as I used to be.
That's all I can tell you for now...Oliver"

● "Jennifer Cazenave is a second-year Ph.D. student in French and Comparative Literary Studies, received her BA from Bard College in 2002. Her research is concerned with Post-World War II France, specifically in regards to the relation between language, silence, and memory. She is very interested in comparing cultural models of remembrance and the cultural means by which collective memory is established. She also writes and publishes poetry in French and in English." (From Department of French and Italian, Northwestern University, http://www.frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu/gradstudents/index.html)
She is "originally from Bordeaux, and has lived in both France and the United States. For a time, she was the American correspondent for the political journal Détresse et Ingérence. Jennifer graduated from Bard College in 2002, where she began experimenting with texts written in both French and English. She is currently working on a long text in French entitled Les Maladies de la Peau. She hopes to publish this text along with its translation in the Spring. 'Une Vie de Fuite Intime' is a work-in-progress. Her poem, 'III. Geographie, Une Terre Ecrite' was recently published in Matter." (From: entelechyjournal.com; http://www.entelechyjournal.com/a_life_of_intimate_fleeing.htm)
For some poetry by Jennifer, click on the link below.

● Joëlle Tahindro wrote: "Greetings all, I hope this note finds the lycée community, past and present, well. Some of my lycée friends would be quite surprised to discover that I am writing to update, as I prefer to remain under the radar, however I would like share some news about my wonderful classmates, and a little about myself.
As always, I remain extremely close with Christine Phillpotts and Tahina Timothee. Christine has made me (and her family) terribly proud by being accepted into Harvard Business School for the fall of '07, and will certainly graduate at the top of her class as usual! (she’s going to hate me for saying that). Christine has already acquired her CFA, with little effort I must say, and will be leaving her position at JP Morgan Chase to pursue her MBA.
Tahina is getting married this August to Rafael O. Perez, who is not a lycée alum, but who she met in high school while we were in the lycée. Christine and I are two of the Maids of Honor (out of 11 bridesmaids!), while Yves-Moliere Jean-Louis and Robert Rodney (lycée alums) will be two of the 11 groomsmen. Tahina is presently a tenured teacher at an elementary school in New Jersey, and is also the recipient of the selective KIPP Fisher Fellowship, which allows her to open her own charter school from the ground up; from choosing the building and location, to designing the curriculum! Tahina is an alumna of Teach For America.
Over the past year two years, I have been able to reconnect with Martine Gren, who owns and manages, along with her husband and chef, Alex Urena, the popular restaurant “Urena”, where I have had the pleasure of dining on several occasions. Urena has been voted as one of the “Top 10 Newcomers” for 2007 by Zagat at number 3. Martine and Alex have a lovely little girl, Gisele, who is just as cute as a button.
Additionally, I have reconnected with Laura Mamelok, and we try to meet every now and then despite our busy schedules. I even ventured out to Brooklyn recently to visit her in her new neighborhood! Laura works in publishing presently.
Furthermore, I keep in touch occasionally (through “Facebook”) with Nancy Pena, former surveillante when I was a student, and who I also replaced as a surveillante myself in 2000, during her leave of absence. She appears to be doing well and as perky as ever.
My older sibling, Daniela, a lycée alum as well, is presently residing in Paris, where I visited her this past February. She is working for Club Med (corporate), and finishing her Masters degree at ESCP-EAP European School of Management.
Also this past February, I had a housewarming bash in my new apartment, which lasted into the wee hours, attended by, among many others, Jamil Laraqui, Robert Rodney and Yves-Moliere Jean-Louis, (who I had not seen in almost 10 years!). I also try to keep in touch with Eric LeCalvez, Hichem Kerma, and Herve Horner.
Recently, after browsing through the LFNYalmuni.org website, under “services offered by alumni”, I was able to find the services of Gloria Tulliu ('73), DVM. As a result, my mother brought one of my two dogs, Lola, to her clinic, and received wonderful service and attention. Metroville Animal Clinic may very well become our new veterinarian clinic!
As for what I jokingly call, "random lycée sightings", I often see Mme Pointelet (3eme groupe English teacher?) in the old lycée neighborhood (95eme), as I wait for the M96 bus after work. Also saw Mme Carton (former kindergarten teacher?) chatting with another former elementary school teacher whose name escapes me, also on the M96 bus. Briefly saw Mr. Giacalone (former surveillant) a couple of months back, once again in the old neighborhood, and caught a flash of Alexander Kaufman ('99), who I have not seen in more than 10 years, exiting the 6 train.
Finally about me: I currently work at Mount Sinai Hospital within the psychiatry department. I graduated from Fordham Graduate School of Social Service in 2005, with a Masters in social work. During graduate school, I interned at Sinai, within psychiatry, and was hired shortly after graduation. I am a licensed Social Worker, practicing with children, adolescents and their families. I wear many hats within the outpatient psychiatry clinic, working as a psychotherapist on site and in the field, participating in clinical research and facilitating multiple-family groups.
I would love to hear from other class of '99 classmates, including those that left in elementary and high school. That’s all for now!
All the best to the lycée community, Joëlle Tahindro ('99)."

-- Poetry by Jennifer Cazenave
-- Class Notes Archives (1999)

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2000

TOP: Alain Lemithe ('00); BOTTOM: Guillaume Fillebeen ('00)

TOP: Laura Gerchik ('00); BOTTOM: Amelie Cesar ('00)

● "Despite the fact that Oberlin alumni have fared splendidly in the corporate world, some liberal arts students and recent grads are convinced that the business world is off limits; they assume recruiters will bypass a job applicant without some type of business major.............Among them was graduating senior Evelyne White-D’Amico, who planned initially to major in environmental studies and harp performance, but then developed an interest in public policy that led her to David Cleeton’s class in financial management. (She’d heard it was a practical class that taught about calculating a mortgage and handling student loans.) After connecting with an alum at one of the New York networking events, she successfully pursued a job as an analyst at Bear Stearns. Although some of her friends don’t quite understand her attraction to investment banking—or know what it is—most applaud both her ambition and the fact that a program was developed to help her succeed." (Oberlin Alumni Magazine, http://www.oberlin.edu/alummag/summer2004/feat_wallstreet_05.html)

-- Class Notes Archives (2000)

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2001

Isaline Duminil ('01) & Emmanuel Poupelle ('01)

● Click on link below for news of Michelle Boisson.

-- Michelle Boisson's website
-- Class Notes Archives (2001)

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2002

Top to bottom: Alicia Benwaiche ('02), Clemence Repoux ('02), Thierno Achy ('02)

● Alyosha Smolarski wrote: "I graduated from McGill University in 2006 in Physiology and took a year off to work in San Diego, CA at a pharmaceutical company. I am now back in Montreal preparing admission to medical school for the fall of 2008. I am interested in pursuing a career in the health sciences which will enable me to combine allopathic and more alternative kinds of practices."

-- Class Notes Archives (2002)

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2003

Top to bottom: Laetitia Vaval ('03), Jennifer Jochem ('03), Alejandro Taylor Escribano ('03)

● Maxime Renard wrote: "Hello everybody, it has been a long time since I've had news from people from the lycée but I'd like to thank everyone from this website for making it possible for us to get in touch again and even see each other. For my personal info, well, I finished my little business school in Lyon a few months ago (in 2007). I had the choice to continue and try to attend a major school in the US or Canada but for now I've chosen to work a little, because I'm just better in a company than in a class. Anyway I'm right now in an intership (so I can have my diploma) in a bank in Paris called Dexia where I'm a financial analyst in public finance. Everything is going really well and I hope to continue in my career hopefully if I can in NY very very soon. I'd like to finish by saying hello to everybody and I hope to see you all very soon in Paris, New York or anywhere.. who knows..."

-- Class Notes Archives (2003)

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2004

Top to bottom: Timothee Neron-Bancel ('04), Michelle Ceran ('04), Marie Laure Dubois ('04)

● Daphné Paret nous écrit: « Je suis en France depuis 7 ans actuellement étudiante à l'école EFET à Paris. Je suis photographe en freelance. Je souhaiterai pouvoir participer à des reunions des anciens éleves du lycée français qui ont demenagé en France. » (Click on link below to access her website)

● "Timothee Neron-Bancel was born in Lyon, France. At the age of 6, he moved to England and three years later to the United States. He lives in Westchester, north of New York City. He passed the french baccalaureat at the Lycee Francais de NY and is a Junior studying Environmental and Resource Economics. He loves to fly-fish and spend time outdoors hiking and swimming in the gorges. He listens to a lot of music, especially trance, house but also french rap, rock... pretty much everything except country! He goes back to France every summer to be with my family and friends and always has a great time, going out to clubs, eating great food and traveling across Europe. He has many favorite movies like City of God, La Haine and Edukators. He looks forward to living with everyone in the Language House this year and sharing his love for everything international." (From Cornell University - Language House Native Speakers; http://www.alicecookhouse.cornell.edu/people/languagehousenativespeakers.html)

- Daphne Paret's website
- Class Notes Archives (2004)

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2005

Top to bottom: Aude Moriani ('05), Christopher Brunet ('05), Nayla Boulad ('05)

● Justine Goy is the Alumni Association's Class Representative for the Class of 2005.

-- Class Notes Archives (2005)

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2006

Top to bottom: Alexia de Cockborne ('06), Antoine Longuet ('06), Alexander Jares ('06)

-- Class Notes Archives (2006)

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