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	Newsletter No. 26:

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--Class Notes Archives--
--Editors' Highlights--
--Former Professors and Staff--

--Class Notes Archives--

Links for archives for alumni and professors/staff are listed on this page of the newsletter, under each specific class year. However, if you wish to view the page that lists archives for all class years, please click below.
Note: All Class Notes archives have been moved to the July, 2008 newsletter.

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--Editors' Highlights--

MESSAGES
● From Ludmila Svetlana Alexeieff-Rockwell ('44) "[J'ai] terminé mes Mémoires qui couvrent la periode ou j'étais au lycée francais pendant la guerre...en anglais, et maintenant elles vont être traduites en français. Si l'un d'entre vous connait une petite maison d'edition aux Etats Unis qui risque de s'interesser veuillez avoir la gentilesse de me le communiquer." (See class of 1944 for further details)
● William Rodarmor ('60) has "just landed a small but fun editing project" and seeks help from fellow LFNY alumni. (See Class of 1960 for details)
● Pour les avocats et juristes francophones: Axelle de Borger ('80) vient de créer "une nouvelle organisation regroupant les professions du droit partageant une culturelle juridique francophone." (See class of 1980 for details)

IN THE NEWS
● Christina Hardt ('84) produced, directed, wrote and shot Death in El Valle, an investigation of her grandfather’s political murder in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. (See Class of 1984 for details)
● Dalia Sofer ('90) is the author of the novel The Septembers of Shiraz and an interview with her was published in the New York Times Magazine. (See Class of 1990 for details)

"MUST READ"
● Jenny Skoble ('76) sent us a hilarious parody of our class notes. To read it, go to the Humour section of this newsletter.

BLAST FROM THE PAST
● « Le pessimisme n'empeche pas de donner un coup de pied au malheur. » (Albert Camus, adressant les eleves de 1ere, 2nde, et Philo. au LFNY, le 14 avril, 1946.)

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--Former Professors and Staff--

Nicole Riffel ( Prof. de Chimie/Physique, 1992-98) & Alain-Marc Rieu (Prof. de Philo., 1975-76)

TOP: Cecile Bourlange (Library / Audio-Visual, 1996-05); BOTTOM: Labor Day (2006) at Camp Normandie: far right- Waldemar Kasriel

● Jane Trigere ('67) wrote a touching story about Maia Hellès, the girls’ dance movement/exercise teacher for about 15 years between 1960 until 1975. See Alumni Creative section, or click on link below.)

● Marlise Konort (former Prof. de 10eme, 1949-1955) nous écrit: "Ceci est presque pré-historique! Mon premier emploi, après avoir reçu mon M.A. de Columbia University, était au Lycée - alors à la 95ème rue sous la direction de M. de Fontnouvelle et de M. Brodin. J'y ai enseigné de 1949 à 1955, jusqu'à la naissance de mon fils ainé. Le lycée était petit, intime, et j'en ai gardé le meilleur souvenir. J'enseignais des classes de dixième, de petites classes de dix ou douze élèves, et c'était un vrai plaisir de venir au Lycée tous les matins. Quand mon plus jeune a débuté son éducation, je suis retournée à l'enseignement, et étais "professeur de français" dans une école publique de NJ pendant 33 ans. J'ai toujours aimé enseigner, mais mes meilleurs souvenirs sont ceux du Lycée. Merci, mes anciens élèves! Meilleurs voeux à tous. Marlise Konort (Marlise Ambach, avant 1952)"

● Elie Feuerwerker (former Prof. de SVT) nous écrit: "Elie et Anne Feuerwerker ont la tres grande joie d'annoncer la naissance de leur fils David a New York le 19 novembre 2007."

● Cécile Bourlange (former Librarian for the primary school, 1996-2005) wrote: "I just went to see the Alumni website, and I spent hours going from one link to another! Its priceless to be able to have news from people who shared a very special time in a so particular and multicultural place as the LFNY. Merci d'être un relais aussi précieux!"

● Nicole Riffel (former Prof. de Chimie/Physique, 1992-98):
"C'est aux Etats-Unis que l'on retrouve le plus de Français expatriés, environ 265.000. Rien d'étonnant au regard de la grandeur du pays. Nicole Riffel vit dans le New Jersey. Cela fait 16 ans qu'elle y est installée. A l'époque adolescente, elle avait quitté la région de Cannes avec sa soeur, juste après le baccalauréat pour suivre leur mère qui venait de rencontrer un ingénieur américain. L'adaptation n'a pas été évidente. Et aujourd'hui encore, les amis de Nicole sont surtout des Français expatriés. Nicole Riffel est enseignante en physique/chimie dans l'un des lycées français de New York. Aux Etats-Unis, le système scolaire est différent. Ainsi, les lycéens changent chaque année de matière. Il n'y a pas de système en spirale, comme en France, où l'on construit sur les acquis des années précédentes. New-York, et particulièrement Manhattan, est la ville la plus européenne des Etats-Unis. Il sufit, pour s'en convaincre, d'aller revoir les films de Woody Allen ou de relire Paul Auster. Même si ses attaches sont surtout aux Etats-Unis aujourd'hui, Nicole Riffel se sent avant tout Française." (From Radio France, http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-info/chroniques/expat/index.php?m=3&chro_diff_id=2522)

● Jalila Menasseri (former Prof. de CE, 1996-2005) “is a teacher with an education degree from Education Nationale. She has been involved with theater for more than 20 years. As a student, in Montpellier, she was the co-founder of a theater company ‘le TAUST’ that showcased numerous plays in the city and its surroundings. In 1993, she participated for 2 years in a radio show, broadcast on ‘Radio Clapas’, a famous independent radio station of Montpellier. In 1996, she moved to New York City and worked as a teacher at the Lycée Français de NY for the next 9 years. There, she produced numerous plays with her students (Les Fables de la Fontaine, Tistou les Pouces Verts, La Guerre du Feu, Portraits Dansés...) involving dance and video. In 2005, she left the LFNY and joined the faculty at Language and Laughter Studio, in Brooklyn where she created a French theatre class for kids. The class has been a great success and won two prizes at the festival ‘Première Scène’ held at LFNY, in March 2007. In September 2007, she founded her own theater company for kids: ‘La petite Troupe’ Jalila is currently taking classes at the HB studio.” (From: La Petite Troupe, http://www.lapetitetroupe.com/en/page1.html)

-- MAÏA HELLÈS, by Jane Triger
-- Professors and Staff Archives

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1940-1945

Dorrit (Zucker) Cohn ('42)

● Ludmila Svetlana Alexeieff-Rockwell ('44) nous écrit: "Cher ami: Je voudrais communiquer le fait que j'ai terminé mes Mémoires qui couvrent la periode ou j'étais au lycée francais pendant la guerre. J'ai ecrit ces Mémoires en anglais et maintenant elles vont être traduites en français. Si l'un d'entre vous connait une petite maison d'edition aux Etats Unis qui risque de s'interesser, veuillez avoir la gentilese de me le communiquer.
Le livre 'SNAPSHOT' couvre mon enfançe à Paris, les rencontres avec diverses amis de mes parents, Philippe Soupault, André Malraux, sa femme Clara Goldshmidt Malraux, ensuite l'exode jusqu'au Portugal, l'arrivée à New York, et les diverses rencontres avec Yul Brynner, Alexandre Calder, W.H. Auden, Eugene Jolas, Jacques Schiffrin, Marc Chagall, André Kertesz et bien d'autres."

● Dorrit (Zucker-Hale) Cohn ('42) is the Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. In 1999, the Modern Language Association of America awarded her its seventh annual Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary, honoring her for her book of comparative literary theory, The Distinction of Fiction. Cohn said the book began as a series of essays written for various periodicals. "One was on Freud's case histories, one was on Proust, and I decided that they all fit together. I added some chapters to the essays that I published, and it seems to be considered a real book. I am very pleased about the award, of course," she said. (Source: The Harvard Crimson, http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=98992)

● Juliette (Breffort) Blessing ('45) is Professor Emerita of Modern Foreign Languages at the University of Mary Washington (L.ès L., University of Lille; D.E.S., University of Paris; Diplome de L’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris; Doct. U., University of Dijon)

● Gabrielle Griswold ('44) wrote: "Here is an update on my current life at the continuing care retirement community called Kendal-at-Longwood in Kennett Square, Pa. I arrived here on 16 Nov. 2006, hence just about one year ago, and am absolutely loving the place, which is full of active, vital and interesting residents, and gives one both the privacy and the mental stimulation one needs.
Among the first people I discovered living here when I moved in last fall was Hilda (Beer) Grauman, who was two years ahead of me back in those Lycée days. In addition, I found that her older sister, Lise, and brothers Martin and Jean Beer were also here (Lise, the eldest of the four, has since passed away.) She and I decided immediately that we would start a French table, and we did. It meets once a month, with a turn-out of between eight and sixteen people, and all conversation held there takes place in French. A new Chinese resident due soon to move in is very excited about the opportunity of speaking French here because he went to a French Lycée in Shanghai!
Within the past several months, thanks to the New York lycee's alumni ssociation I have also heard from (and been in e-mail correspondence with) Svetlana Rockwell ('44) Guess that's all for now. Must dash." (Also, click on link below for a poem by Gabrielle-'Full Moon Rising')

-- Vox Poetica interview with Dorrit (Zucker) Cohn
-- 'Full Moon Rising, by Gabrielle Griswold
-- Class Notes Archives: 1940 to 1943
-- Class Notes Archives: 1944
-- Class Notes Archives: 1945

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1946-1950

by Vera (Van der Reis) Krausz ('50)

Bruno de Panafieu ('49) and example of his jewelry creations

● "Bruno de Panafieu ['49], Phd, architecte et sociologue français, est né à Paris le 24 janvier 1932. L’architecture le conduit à la sculpture, au meuble, puis au bijou féminin. La sociologie le conduit chez les danseurs Dogons du Mali, puis à la recherche, dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques français, d’une thérapie de groupe fondée sur l’emploi des masques. Publications:
- Articles dans la revue « Psychologie Médicale » 1982-85-90-94.
- « Le Masque retrouvé », dans « Océanie, le masque au long cours » Ouest France Univ. 1983. Traduction de John Bowlby.
- « Attachement et Perte » PUF 1978 (psychiatrie infantile).
- Ouvrage collectif sur G.I.Gurdjieff. (philosophie) L’Age d’Homme Lausanne 1992.
Membre du Centre de recherches et d’études transdisciplinaires (CIRET) et de la Société francaise de psychopathologie de l’expression et d’art thérapie (SFPE-AT)." (From Artsphere Wordpress, http://artsphere.wordpress.com/)

-- 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

Anka (Anne Muhlstein) Begley ('51)

● Anka (Anne Muhlstein) Begley "was born in Paris in 1935. After completing her studies at the Sorbonne she worked at publishing houses and settled in New York in 1974. Among her books are La Femme Soleil (1976), a study of women at the court of Louis XIV, biographies of Queen Victoria, Baron James de Rothschild and the Regent Queens of France. Her latest book is about Queen Elizabeth, and Mary, Queen of Scots (2004). She is currently working on The Burning of Moscow in 1812. She has twice been awarded the History Prize of the French Academy as well as the prestigious Goncourt Prize for the French edition of Astolphe de Custine." (From: Turtle Point Press, http://www.turtlepoint.com/catalogue/muhlstein-atasteforfreedom.html)

-- Class Notes Archives (1951)

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1952

● Dr. Carl Austin Weiss wrote: "I was at the Lycee from 1942 to 1950, and after la Seconde I left for college and attended Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. and finished in 1954, then to Columbia U Med School. I am semi retired, am an Orthopedic surgeon, live in Westhampton, NY and Florida. Three grown kids in Melrose Mass., Manlius NY, and Durango Colorado. HAVE HEARD nothing about any of my classmates (Rabache, Belton, Weill etc.) for 20 years Anyone can write or call and get an immediate response. Tres sincerement." (Email address available upon request from AALFNY)

● R.D.( "Daniel") Vock wrote: "Cela est devenu une habitude. Quatre camarades de la classe 1952, se rencontrent deux fois par an dans un restau du 15eme arrdt. de Paris pour un déjeuner bien arrosé et bien sympathique. Jeanine Parisier Plottel, Colette Newman Sluys, Loic Gallais et Daniel Vock étaient là en mars. En novembre Jeanine était absente, mais deux autres anciens élèves se sont joint à nous. Nous avons parlé politique, Daniel a raconté la visite du nouveau Lycée guidée par M. Yves Thézé qu'il a eu le plaisir de faire en octobre accompagné de Jeanine. Le chaleureux acceuil que nous ont réservé chacune des classes nous a bien flatté. Ainsi les effectifs dy Lycée sont passé de 250 élèves environ à près de 1150 en 55 ans. Et puis on a parlé voyages et anticipé le 75ème anniversaire du Lycée en 2010, lequel nous donnera l'occasion de nous réunir à New York."

-- Class Notes Archives (1952)

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1953

Photography by Patrick de Koenigswarter ('53)

● "Philippe Schreiber is a US attorney and business consultant with nearly 35 years experience in the domestic US and international oil industry. Philippe graduated from Columbia University in New York with a Juris Doctor degree and practised law with Coudert Brothers, a large international law firm, in New York and London for several years before becoming Vice President and General Counsel of Weeks Petroleum Limited, an independent international oil company, in the 1970s. He also worked for 18 months as Assistant General Counsel for Boise Cascade Corporation, advising the companies in their international engineering and construction division until the component companies were sold to Halliburton and other purchasers. Since 1979, Philippe has practised law, both independently and as partner and Counsel to a New York law firm (now merged into Alston & Bird) from 1985 to 1998, with his practice emphasising oil and gas matters and other European investment in the United States. Philippe has served on various occasions as the chief executive officer of independent oil and gas companies with direct involvement in oil and gas exploration and production in the United States, including Intrepid Oil Company, a joint venture of America and British companies......Philippe is currently a nonexecutive director of Bill Barrett Corporation, which completed a highly successful IPO in December 2004 and is now publicly traded on the NYSE....."
(From: http://www.unquoted.co.uk/companyinfo/Cap%20Energy%20Ltd.pdf)

-- Class Notes Archives (1953)

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1954

Elizabeth (Reiss) Baecher ('54)

● Elizabeth (Reiss) Baecher wrote: "Salut! [I am] now publicity chair of The Hudson Trail, a proposed 300+ mile hike from NYC to Mount Marcy. Visit me and friends on our blog: hudsontrail.wordpress.com or contact me at coolchatte [at] hotmail.com if looking to volunteer. I also hang out at the Manhattan Bridge Club when in the City. Have yet to discover a Lycee alumnus at the card table."

-- Class Notes Archives (1954)

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1955

● "February 13, 2007: Mrs. Danièle Gorlin Lassner recalls a 1987 visit with Rebbitzen Chaya Mushka Schneerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - Rabbi Menachem M Schneerson of righteous memory. In their meeting, a glimpse of life as a Rebbetzin is revealed." (You Tube video. To see the interview, click on link below)

-- Interview with Danièle (Gorlin) Lassner ( '55)
-- Class Notes Archives (1955)

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1956

-- Class Notes Archives (1956)

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1957

by Danielle Haase-Dubosc ('57)

● “Danielle Haase-Dubosc was brought up in France and the United States and as a result is a bi-lingual person of dual citizenship. After the French lycée, she trained at Barnard College and Columbia University where she received her Ph.D. in Comparative literature. She was an assistant professor in French at Barnard College before returning to France where she became Director of Reid Hall, Columbia University's campus in Paris. She is now Executive Director of Reid Hall, Director of Columbia University's Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall and Associate Provost of her university. Her fields of research are gender relations in the 17th century and the contemporary world. Her latest books, "Ravie et Enlevée" ..... and "Enjeux contemporains du féminisme indien".....deal with the abduction and seduction of women in 17th-century France and Indian feminism, respectively. “ (From University of Florida Paris Reseach Center; http://www.clas.ufl.edu/PRC/events.shtml)

-- Class Notes Archives (1957)

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1958

● Philippe de La Chapelle wrote: "As a managing director of an investment bank, we are interested in speaking with privately owned companies whose owners are exploring the possibility of a sale (partial or total) for any reason, including the very real likelihood that the current very favorable capital gains tax treatment will disappear if a new Administration takes over Washington in '09. HT Capital Advisors can work in any industry, USA or international and of course pays a referral fee on completion of a transaction to any person who introduces us to such a company."

● Dr. Jean-Claude Sureau "is the President and CEO of Radant MEMS, Inc. Under his leadership Radant MEMS was founded. He has more than 43 years of experience in technology and defense industries. In addition, Dr. Sureau has been CEO and president of Radant Technologies Inc. since 1981, during which time Radant Technologies has become a leading manufacturer of advanced Radomes and related electromagnetic devices. Prior to that, Dr. Sureau held leading senior scientific positions at a number of companies including MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Grumman Aerospace, and Wheeler Laboratories/Bell Telephone.
Dr. Sureau is the author of the chapter on "Microwave beacon Antennas" in the second edition of the Antenna Engineering Handbook, (R.C. Johnson, Editor) and contributed to "Significant Phased Array Papers" (R. C. Hansen, Editor) and "Phased Array Antennas" (Oliner and Knittel, Editors). Dr. Sureau received his formal education at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from which he holds a BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Electromagnetics." (http://www.radantmems.com/radantmems/team.html)

-- Class Notes Archives (1958)

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1959

Michael E. Bleier ('59)

● Michael Bleier wrote: “I retired from Mellon Financial Corporation as General Counsel and Executive Vice President, after 14 years as General Counsel. I was with Mellon for almost 25 years. Since my wife informed she did not have a luncheon menu, I joined Reed Smith's Pittsburgh Office as a partner in its Financial Services Group practice. With over 1500 lawyers worldwide and over 300 in London and others in a number of key locations worldwide, including Paris, I thought it would be fun to continue the practice of law. Also, with many junior lawyers, I thought I could bring valuable insights to them and help in a mentoring role. Financial services is constantly evolving and I still look forward to every day at the office.”
Editors' note: Michael has been published several times, icluding:  Co-author, Federal Reserve Board’s staff study "Bank Holding Company Acquisition of Thrift Institutions"  "Commercial Banking as the ‘Line of Commerce’ and the Role of Thrifts," Banking Law Journal  "Operational Risk in Basel II," North Carolina Banking Institute (April 2004)

-- Class Notes Archives (1959)

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1960

Top: William Rodarmor ('60); Bottom: Translated by William

● William Rodarmor wants your French literary recommendations. He has been asked to edit an anthology of French short stories about specific places in France for a book to be called France: A Traveler's Literary Companion. It is part of a series of lively anthologies published by Whereabouts Press in Berkeley, California, that includes Chile, Japan, Australia, Costa Rica, and a dozen more countries and cities.
"I'm both an editor and a translator, so this is a dream job for me," says Rodarmor. He is looking for French short stories or excerpts from novels written in the 20th century, up to 5000 words long. "They can funny, sad or in between," he says, "and be about any part of France except Paris -- I have lots of those already. The stories must be contemporary, and I specifically need more women writers." Send your suggestions to rodarmor222 [at] aol.com.

● Lisa (Freymann) Wassong nous écrit: "Mon fils David a annulé son mariage mais n'a pas pu vendre ou faire quoique ce soit avec la lune de miel, alors je suis partie toute seul en "Mummy-moon" à Joburg et une semaine divine de Safari ! Superbe!!! Joyeux Noel et bonne année."

● Colette (“Sophia” Maluski) Touchon nous écrit: "Depuis 2004 j'ai fait trois séjours au Vietnam en tant qu'infirmière humanitaire (Un initiatique et deux missions). Cette démarche etait pour moi naturelle dans la mesure ou j'ai adopté 3 bébés orphelins pendant la guerre du Vietnam. A présent ils sont épanouis ,heureux dans la vie, et m'ont fait le cadeau de 4 magnifiques petits-enfants!! C'etait à mon tour de revenir pour remerçier le Vietnam de m'avoir donné ces merveilleux enfants.
La première mission, je me suis occupée du dispensaire d'une Ecole pour les enfants des rues,donné des cours d'anglais, de couture, enquetes sociales.
La deuxième mission, c'etait plus "hard" car voulant améliorer la langue si difficile à mettre en pratique, j'ai accepté d'aller vivre dans une Leproserie tenue par les Soeurs de Saint Vincent de Paul Vietnamiennes pour apprendre à soigner les lépreux. Ce fut très dur et n'ai tenue qu'un petit trimestre. Mais l'expérience à été tres positive car j'ai cotoyé des hommes et femmes extraordinaires qui m'ont appris à voir la vie sous un autre angle.
Voilà je suis rentrée il y a un an en France. J'habite en Provence au pied de la montagne du Luberon, un lieu magique ou mes enfants et petits enfants aiment à se retrouver ensemble. Nous allons etre tous reunis pour Noel. Je vous souhaite un Merry Christmas et Happy New Year à tous. Colette Touchon-Maluski (dite Sophia pour les intimes)"

-- Class Notes Archives (1960)

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1961

-- Class Notes Archives (1961)

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1962

TOP: Svetlana (Bielosoub) Caton-Noble ('62); BOTTOM: by Francisco Zapata ('62)

● Svetlana (Bielosoub) Caton-Noble nous écrit: "Grand merci à Roger Liwer ('68) pour la chance de retrouver les amis inoubliables et les beaux souvenirs. J'ai revu Colette (Barbara) Friedlander ('62) lors de ses visites à New York et je rencontre souvent Alda Popa ('63). J'espère revoir un jour Claire Henderson, Madeleine (Barraud) de Bérard et Pierre Sauvage (all '62). Cette année, le 27 Avril 2007 je me suis retrouvée au Lycée avec ma companie de ballet ou plus exactement notre companie de ballet - mon partenaire est un danseur et choreographe d'origine Bulgare. Nous nous consacrons à développer un centre de formation et une companie de danse classique à Long Island, New York. Il est bien possible que nous reviendrons au Lycée ce printemps. Contactez moi, je serai très heureuse. [email address available from AALFNY upon request]

● Francisco Zapata is a professor at El Colegio de México and Director of Sociological Studies. He received the Manuel Rodriguez Lapuente medal, a Social Sciences prize that was awarded to him at the University of Guadalajara’s Center for Social Sciences and Humanities.

● Pierre Sauvage has allowed us to re-print a speech he gave to the Alliance Francaise of Kansas City on November 10, 2007, regarding Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small hamlet in France, which opposed the Vichy government, and saved 5,000 Jews from extermination during World War II. To read it, click on link below.

-- Pourquoi Le Chambon, by Pierre Sauvage ('62)
--Svetlana (Bielosoub) Caton-Noble's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1962)

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1963

Isabelle (Hoog) Naginski ('63)

● Sandra Shaw-Lawrence sent us a touching article she just wrote about her aunt, the artist Bettina Shaw-Lawrence. (See Alumni Creative section of newsletter, or click on link below.)

-- The artist, BETTINA SHAW-LAWRENCE , revealed
-- Class Notes Archives (1963)

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1964

Francois Francisci ('64)

Left to right: Patrick Desplanque, Francois Francisci, Yannick Gillet, Thomas Taylor (deceased), Genevieve Cerisoles, Antoine Co

● Francois Francisci nous écrit: "C'est avec émotion que j'ai parcouru les noms et regardé la photo de classe.....je détiens ces photos [ci-dessus](retrouvées dans une vieille valise plus de 40 ans après !)..... Je vous laisse libre d'en aviser tous les intéressés et de leur transmettre ces photos et vous remercie de bien vouloir solliciter ma réponse de communiquer ou non mon adresse électronique."

-- Class Notes Archives (1964)

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1965

Sandra Haas ('65)

● Tuyet Ha Vinh wrote: "I only spent the first trimester at the Lycée, but it remains a very strong memory, and I would love to hear from former classmates."

-- Class Notes Archives (1965)

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1966

TOP: Philip Engelhardt ('66) & Rene Asper ('66); MIDDLE: Francis Poliat ('66); BOTTOM: Andre Cappon ('66) & Sonia

● Alain Letort wrote: "I recently returned from a four-year tour at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and am now back home in Washington D.C. for a couple of years before setting off on another overseas tour. I always welcome contacts from former classmates."

● "As a Franco-American citizen, Claudia (Bové) Valeani has devoted the past thirty years to the teaching of English and American studies in Parisian Lycees and at the IUFM (Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres de l'Académie de Créteil)" (From www.channertv)

● Diana Henry shared this with us: "Diana Henry a enseigné le français 201 et 202 ce semestre passé à Trinity College, à Hartford. Son exposition de photos intitulée 'Libel' a paru à la galerie Amy Carberry à Springfield, et ses photos ont aussi fait parti de l'exposition célébrant le renouveau du Park Avenue Armory à NYC. D'autres de ses photos, de McGovern, Clinton, Steinem et autres, ont été publiées dans les livres De Bruce Miroff: The Liberals' Moment , et de Edward Kaplan: Spiritual Radical, et dans le programme du Progressive Forum. Elle a été invitée a parler de sa vie et de son oeuvre à Omaha, Nebraska, où elle a présenté plus de 200 de ses photos qu'on peut apercevoir sur son sîte, dianamarahenry.com."

● Jean-Pierre Marchand nous a demandé de repeter son message que nous avions publié dans le dernier bulletin: « Je souhaiterais retrouver Patrice Calmette ('66)..... si un autre ancien a ses coordonnées [SVP de nous contacter]...» Also, click on link below for a poem by Jean-Pierre -'En Passant dans ta Vie'

-- 'En Passant dans ta Vie' by Jean-Pierre Marchand
-- Class Notes Archives (1966)

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1967

TOP: Joan (Wiesen) Lieberman ('67); BOTTOM: 'Encompassing Sukkot - Collected Memories' (Assemblage by Jane Trigere, '67)

● Dominique de Ziegler wrote: "Thanks and congratulations for your unabated dedication to the news letter. 'It keeps them young', as they say.
Speaking of which, the fate that overspills its share of surprises, every now and then, has done it again to me. This time, it is the gift of an unexpected extra chapter that I have been asked to add to my professional life. I was recently offered the direction of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Hôpital Cochin in Paris. Until then, I thought that I was terminally parked in Geneva, left there to rot in the pristine Alpine air through some sort of one way self- decaying process. As I felt that I could not refuse to be Médecin des Hôpitaux and Professeur des Universités, as the title pompously declares, and move over to the big city to boot, I accepted the offer and decided to come to Paris as rapidly as possible. Vive la France! So I'll be officially taking my new job in September 2008, joining many Americans who are flocking to Paris again. Up until now, it was not too common for the University of Paris to call in people from abroad, particularly at the twilight of their lives (yes my dears, that's where we are right now). But since it happened, so be it! And by the way, the star spangled banner is being happily waved all over France these days, from the Elysée Palace on down.
Right now, we're getting ready for the move and the kids, having approved it by unanimous vote, are taking the lead to be first in Paris. We bought a house in the 15th arrondissement (they are getting hard to find in town lately), where we'll be moving in March or April after les travaux."

● Jane Trigère shared this press release with us: "Deerfield, MA. Nov. 15, 2007: Local artist, Jane Trigère, has a showing of her art in a New York City museum. Her collective-collage, called “Encompassing Sukkot-Collected Memories,” is on view until January 31 at Yeshiva University Museum in the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street). (See www.yumuseum.org for more details.) Trigere’s collection of anecdotal Sukkot memories come from all over the world. She searched for and made objects to represent these memoriessometimes literally, but also evocatively. Bound together, these visualized memories form another sort of story. The viewer is an active participant. Can these varied memories encompassed within one frame bring visions of Sukkot to mind? Does it matter or detract from the experience if a few images are unusual or unfamiliar?.......Jane Trigère has lived in Western Massachusetts since 1991. She has worked with her husband Ken Schoen in Schoen Books and was the founding director of Hatikvah Holocaust Education & Research Center in Springfield. She has been active in the arts as a book binder, a graphic artist, a set and costume designer, a calligrapher, a cobbler, an eyeglass frame designer, an embroiderer, a painter, and a textile artist. She is currently collecting stories about ironing for another collective-collage."
Jane also wrote a touching story about Maia Hellès, the girls’ dance movement/exercise teacher for about 15 years between 1960 until 1975. See Alumni Creative section, or click on link below.)

● Mira Schor has a new website. Click on link below to access it.

-- Mira Schor's website
-- MAÏA HELLÈS, by Jane Triger
-- Class Notes Archives (1967)

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1968

TOP: Joshua Cohen ('68) & Roger Liwer ('68) (Paris, August, 2007); BOTTOM: Jean-Christophe Mitterand ('68)

Samer Khanachet ('68)

● Jean-Pierre (J.P.) Harpignies wrote: "I came across Margot Roosevelt (who was in my class in 6eme) recently, after 45 years or so (at a big environmental conference I help organize annually at which she was one of many panelists). She is a noted journalist. She went to Harvard, worked for the Washington Post, then was a Paris correspondent for Time magazine and is now covering energy and environmental issues for the Los Angeles Times and lives in LA. I remembered her because she sat behind me in class and (probably deservedly, bratty 10 year old that I was) hit me on the head quite hard with that massive American History textbook when I made some obnoxious comment about one of the Roosevelts. There's much I have forgotten about my childhood and adolescence, but I guess that jolt on the head helped anchor my memory of her."

● Ivan Varlamoff wrote: “I have worked for 30 years in international sales and marketing – mostly in mineral exploration and now for a company that manufactures geotechnical instruments. My work has taken me and my family to Tehran, Iran, where two of my three sons were born, Belgium and many locations throughout the U.S. I have traveled extensively for business and to many remote sites. I rode by helicopter into the Amazon, floated on a dhow in the Persian Gulf, flew in a small plane into the Artic, and traveled by donkey up the Andes where oxygen bottles were standard fare at the camp.
I am married to the former Susan Jezsik for 33 years and have three grown sons, Pierre, Neil, and Paul who are university graduates and gainfully employed – the biggest accomplishment of our lives. My wife is on the faculty of the University of Georgia where she works promoting their environmental programs. We currently live in metro Atlanta, Georgia. My last years at the Lycée Français were memorable and I am very pleased to reconnect with my former friends and fellow students.”

● Philippe Velay wrote: "Philippe and Lydia Velay are living in Switzerland, Chêne-Bougeries, next to Geneva since 2003. They have been working in a small but efficient NGO, the A.S.E.D. (Association for Aid to Children destituted), carrying out different plans in Albania, Madagascar, Bolivia and southern India."

● Marc Salz wrote: "I have just created a new blogspot called 'the salzmines'. 'The salzmines' was a term my mother(and others) used to describe my father's art dealing business which was in our home in New York on East 76th Street. I do not want this blog site to just be a promotion for my own paintings but also use it for telling a few stories, a few observations about the past and present art worlds. I would also like to make it known when any paintings my father had come up for auction since most of them are know making the trip back to Europe (and beyond) after being bought by a new generation of collectors. I will intersperse these facts with news of my paintings and maybe my brother's (if he feels like it). Here's the site: http://salzmines.blogspot.com/search?q= (Or, click on link below) Hope you enjoy it."

● “Samer Khanachet is President of United Gulf Management, Inc. and the Arab Bankers Association of North America. He has spent over 25 years managing investment banking companies with a focus on developing innovative approaches to matching capital and opportunities between the Middle East and the US. He earned B.S. degrees from MIT in Chemical Engineering and in Management Science, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He worked on the initial development of Kuwait's capital markets and the financing of industrial projects, providing technical, financial, and strategic support through the Industrial Bank of Kuwait. In 1980, Mr. Khanachet joined the Sharjah Group, a Kuwaiti-owned investment company with offices in London and throughout the Arabian Gulf.” (http://www.harvardarabalumni.org/openconference22.php)

● Maria Oppenheim wrote: "I have moved back to a suburb right on the outskirts of Wiesbaden. It’s like a country village – very romantic -you drive through a forest past an inn where you can stop over for a snack. At night it looks like some leftover from a Robin Hood movie. But there is a train station bringing you to Wiesbaden in 15 minutes and there are buses too. There are practically no shops except a bakery, and a butchery which doesn’t interest me as a vegetarian. There is a fitness studio in the former farmhouse I live in. I don’t join in, I just hear the one-two-one-two and get a bad conscience. My horse is in the neighboring village with four others, changing pastures every couple of days in the summer and staying under a plastic roof in winter in a large paddock. We collect the crottin very correctly. Pam doesn’t get enough hay because she’s an old lady now and she doesn’t eat as fast as the others (and she knows when to stop!) I have similar worries with my almost 99 year-old Dad in Nice who doesn’t want to eat; or, let’s say he doesn’t feel hunger or thirst. I’m due there on the 19th and will see for myself. I will fly with my daughter Jessica (29 years old). She just finished her studies (Marketing and Chinese) and will get married to a Chinese fellow in May in Germany, and then again in October in Xian, China. I am learning Chinese now. My other daughter, 'Our Diva' Eve is 31 now. She will join us in Nice for a few days with her boyfriend Thomas, with whom she will be moving in shortly before Christmas. He’s Danish and lives in London. She’s up to more singing now. She is a Madonna look-alike and has just won a best look-alike contest, and will be on the BBC, where she will be competing with all the other look-alikes.
My job situation hasn’t gotten much better but I love what I’m doing. I’d love to sell more, but I might learn Chinese sooner than selling my artwork! I would need a gallerist/art dealer but I don’t know how to get the right contact. I get shy when it comes to those things.
I email Marc Salz every now and then. He put me in contact with a very nice colleague in Mainz – an artist who has shows nearby. So we go to each other’s shows…...I wouldn’t mind a reunion one of these days- when do you think we could organize something?"

● Greg Gould sent us this announcement regarding his Foodolgy venture: "Greetings, Saturday the 15th of December at noon , Joy Am 1550 will broadcast the pilot episode of ‘Foodology’ featuring interviews with Eric Garretson, Director of the Downtown Growers Market Chuck O’Herron-Alix, veggiegrowers.net, and Robin Seydel, Membership Coordinator of LaMontanita Co-Op. Foodology aspires to serve the food and agriculture community by promoting local businesses and introducing them to a wider audience. Eating local and seasonal foods will automatically improve health and well being."

-- Marc Salz's blog
-- 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

André de Nesnera ('69) & Florence (Melzer) Langlois ('69)

TOP: Dr. Maria (Schless) Baer ('69); BOTTOM: Philippe de Champaigne's Ex-Voto of 1662

● Alexandra (Warren) Bonfante wrote: "In February 2007, I completed a master's degree in art history at Columbia University, with a thesis on Philippe de Champaigne's Ex-Voto of 1662. Champaigne made his beautiful, moving, and historically significant painting in gratitude for the miraculous cure of his daughter, a nun at the besieged convent of Port-Royal. The painting, which is in the Louvre, is being restored, and I was given permission to see it in the Louvre's conservation department--a thrilling experience!"

● “February 27, 2007: Maria [Schless] Baer, M.D., a nationally recognized leader in leukemia treatment and research, has been named head of the hematologic malignancies program at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center in Baltimore. Dr. Baer will also join the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She will assume her new duties in April. Dr. Baer, a hematologist and medical oncologist, comes to the University of Maryland from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., where she was appointed chief of the leukemia section in the Department of Medicine in 1998. She was also a professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (formerly the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), professor of oncology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute and associate professor of molecular pharmacology and cancer therapeutics, Roswell Park Graduate Division, University at Buffalo.” (From: University of Maryland Medical Center, http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/maria_baer.htm)

-- Class Notes Archives (1969)

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1970

TOP: Roger Liwer ('68) & Jacques Luben ('70) (Paris, October, 2007); BOTTOM: Patricia Corsini ('70)

Philippe Dauman ('70) (Photo by Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)

● Romana Lowe told us that she is still teaching Spanish and French at Boston University.

● Karin Link wrote that she "was reappointed by the Mayor’s office as a Commissioner on Seattle’s Pike Place Market Historical Commission in early 2007. The Pike Place Market has been listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places since 1971. It was the second National Historic District in Seattle listed on the National Register and is a major local tourist attraction. It was founded in 1907 to allow farmers to sell their produce without the intervention of middlemen, who were often engaged in dishonest business practices. If only they had had a Lycee education, they would have been more honest!! (Please discuss this in a ten page dissertation)."

● For news on William Kristol, click on link below.

● "With his trim dark suits, gold cuff links and erect bearing, Philippe P. Dauman projects a sense of dignity and reserve that some in Hollywood regard as just this side of pompous. One industry insider called him 'the quintessential New York suit.' Dauman, 53, who just finished his first year as chief executive of the entertainment conglomerate Viacom Inc., is such a Manhattanite that he doesn't drive; he never even applied for a license ........Under his mother's firm tutelage, Dauman was well advanced in reading and math by age 6 when his family enrolled him in Lycee Francais, a New York institution that emphasized rigorous, rote instruction of math, science and the classics of French literature and philosophy. It was a mecca for the children of Francophone diplomats as well as for American children whose parents wanted them immersed in French language and culture. In a class behind Dauman was future French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin ['71]. A few classes ahead was romance novelist Danielle Steel ['65]......." (Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2007, by Thomas S. Mulligan; http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dauman7oct07,1,3468781.story?page=2&cset=true&ctrack=1&coll=la-headlines-business)

-- On the Internet: William Kristol
-- Class Notes Archives 1970 (1 of 2 --more recent)
-- Class Notes Archives 1970 (2 of 2 --older)

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1971

TOP: Martine Fougeron de Monès ('71); BOTTOM: By Véronique Blamont ('71)

Tania (Cooper) Patriota ('71) Representative of UNFPA & husband, H.E. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota (Ambassador of Brazil to the U

● The class of '71 held a reunion in NYC in October 2007. For details, click on link below.

● Martine Fougeron wrote: "I am a photographer and will have a solo show in New York city on February 28, 2008 at the Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, # 306 from 6-8 PM. Theme: Tete-a-Tete Series, intimate portraits of adolescent sons who are both at the LFNY." (To access Martine's website, click on link below)

● Véronique Blamont « a publié C’est pas facile de grandir (La Martinière, 1996), Souvenirs de parfums ( Mille et une Nuits, 1998) et Mariée (J.C. Lattès, 1998). Véronique Blamont est journaliste. Elle a travaillé au Nouvel Observateur pendant dix-sept ans. Elle collabore à Maison Française et enseigne au C.F.P.J. » (From: http://www.lepassage-editions.fr/auteurs/blamont.html)

-- October 2007, Class of '71 Reunion in NYC
-- Martine Fougeron's website
-- Class Notes Archives 1971 (2 of 2 --older)
-- Class Notes Archives 1971 (1 of 2 --more recent)

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1972

Top: Nina Schlossman ('72); Bottom: Michele (Singer) Reiner ('72)

Marianne Rosenberg ('72)

● Avis de Décès: Marc Antoine Crespi (See Milestones/In Memoriam section for further details, or click on link below.)

● Stefan Janis wrote: "Recently assisted my mother, Maria, in editing a translation from English into French of a book about her father, actor Gary Cooper."

● "Dr. Nina P. Schlossman is experienced in the full spectrum of food and nutrition, from programs and policy to physiological and scientific aspects and market analysis. [She] heads GF&N which provides consulting services on global food and nutrition issues, markets, programs and policy. She directs overall strategy and provides technical assistance, research, evaluation, marketing and training services to private and public sector clients. Dr. Schlossman has worked in Africa, Asia, the Former Soviet Union, South and Central America, and is fluent in English, French, Spanish and German. [She] holds a Doctorate in International Nutrition from the Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a Masters of Science in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism and in International Food and Nutrition Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology." (From Global Food and Nutrition, Inc.; http://www.globalfoodandnutrition.com/ab_staff_2.html)

● "Marianne Rosenberg [is an attorney whose] practice focuses on asset-based finance with a special emphasis on cross-border leasing and project finance. Rosenberg has been widely recognized by business and trade journals for her work, and was named by Airfinance Journal as one of the 50 Airfinance industry “market shapers” over the past two decades, one of only four lawyers worldwide to be so named. Rosenberg spent 18 years at White & Case New York (11 years as a partner) where she was Co-Head of the Equipment and Facility Finance Group, and 5 years at Linklaters New York where she was Managing Partner of the New York office and Co-Head of the Global Asset Finance Group. In 2003 she moved to Thelen Reid & Priest in New York to lead the firm’s internationalization effort. She is a member of the New York State Bar. Although born and raised in New York, Marianne is also a native French speaker with both French and US law degrees. Rosenberg is a member of the Association des Lauréats du Concours General and the Board of Advisors of the Institute of Law and Economics, a joint research and conference center of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania Department of Economics. She has been recognized for her outstanding work in the area of community investment." (From: Gide Loyrette Nouel, http://www.gide.com/front/EN/actualites/communique_details_paris_ny_nouveaux_associes04_05.htm)

-- In Memoriam: Marc Antoine Crespi
-- Class Notes Archives (1972)

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1973

TOP: Eric Gotthelf ('75) & Gloria Tulliu ('73); BOTTOM: Nicole Gotthelf ('73) at the 11.5 mile mark in the Chicago marathon)

● Nicole Gotthelf wrote: "I trained for my first marathon - the Chicago Marathon. Unfortunately they called the race. I had run 16 miles and had to walk the last 2.5 miles to Grant Park. I had a great cheering team - friends from New York and Chicago. The next week I joined friends from New York and completed the Greater Hartford Marathon in 5:55:07, meeting my goal of finishing under 6 hours."

● Dominique (Asper) Reginato wrote: "Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I'll be in New York from the 13th to the 18th of December - a short holiday with my husband. I'll be staying at Hotel Edison, and if anyone would like to have a reunion with an old lycée friend, just give me a call. I'd love to have news from former friends. Other than that, I'm still living in Geneva. My husband Franco, who is a physiotherapeute, has new professional plans for the future: He's studyng to do accupuncture as an extra formation. I'm now retired from music teaching; after 27 years I felt a change was due. So I've also started a new formation in sign language (language for the deaf), the opposite from my former work, but it's fascinating. My two boys are now 23 and 20: one is in actng school and the other in business school, and they are both doing fine. Voila! Hope to hear from old friends. Bye for now."

● From Dominique Noel: "I am now living In Ridgewood N.J. Married with two children, Sophie (12) and Alex (9). My brother Xavier ('76) and I have been in the import and distribution of specialty food for 25 years. I have dinner with Francois Gendron ('73) in Connecticut 3 to 4 times a year. Next dinner will probably be end of January so give use a call."

● Tom Teicholz gave us permission to reprint his very touching letter to the Raoul Wallenberg foundation regarding the relationship between his father and Raoul Wallenberg. Click on link below to read it.

● Francois Gendron wrote: " [Apres le] BAC D '73, je suis allé à McGill (Montreal) ou je visais un 'Bachelor of Science in Biology', mais 4 mois (à peu pres) avant mon diplome, j'ai eu un accident routier tres serieux (12 Decembre '75). Enfin tu le sais probablement! Mes Dadas sont les suivants:
1) M'occuper de ma femme (qui est une grande malade). 2) Enregistrer de la musique (mon equipement est semi-proffessionel). Toutes musiques sont bonnes: Francaise, Rock Classique, Pop, Country, Rhythm & Blues etc... Pas de Rap! Du Hip-Hop oui, mais c'est d'un autre temps! OK, c'est tout l'espace que j'ai, à la prochaine!"

● Penelope (Lloyd) Barratt wrote: "I would like to say hello from England to those in Special III in 1967! We have two sons, one at Bristol University UK and one at Oxford, and I send best wishes to those who might remember me. I trust that you too will have a very happy Christmas and that 2008 will be a good year for you and your family."

● Jonathan Gregg informed us that he "is a musician and freelance editor in New York City. You can see and hear some of what he's been up to [at his website - click on link below]"

-- About Raoul Wallenberg and Bruce Teicholz, by Tom Teicholz ('73)
-- Jonathan Gregg's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1973)

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1974

TOP: Francine (Benzaken) Glick ('74); BOTTOM (left to right): Diane Rivers ('74), Alexandra Lichine ('75), Vannessa (Kelmans) Ka

● Daniella (Beerman) Blyth wrote: "I came across the Alumni site of the Lycee quite by accident and thought it would be a nice opportunity to catch up on news and get in touch with the past again.
Just to let you know what happened to me since then, a quick bio. When I graduated from the Lycee, I spent a year studying history at McGill University and then moved back to Europe, to London, and did a degree at the London School of Economics (LSE). After graduating from the LSE, I married an Englishman and we had two daughters (Saskia, now 29 years old and living and working in London) and Sucilla (24, living and working in Vienna). My family and I moved around the United Kingdom and spent a year in Norway. In 1983 I divorced and moved with my daughters, to Vienna, Austria. I have kept my married name which is Daniela Blyth. I began working for the United Nations, and am still here, still working for the UN.
Over the past 30 years, I have traveled extensively and two years ago did a life changing tour of East Africa, back packing my way through the bush most of the time. It was an unforgettable experience. In the course of our tour, we spent 3 weeks in Tanzania. I fell in love with Tanzania, and now return regularly. Since then, I am heavily involved in helping out orphans in the region of Arusha (the 3rd largest city in Tanzania), and my daughters and I are funding three projects and doing some private fund raising among friends.
That, in a nutshell, is what happened to me. I would love to hear what happened to my other classmates of the year 1974. If anyone wishes to get in touch, I would be delighted to take up old threads again. Please feel free to give my email address to all those who knew me. I am also attaching a picture, evidence that the years have left their traces."

● Peter Basch wrote: "Wow. Long story. I've just had my 7th wedding anniversary, to Ellen Sandler, the author of The TV Writer's Workbook, and a TV writer of many years. She's spending several hours a week picketing now. I have two stepchildren, one a senior at the University of Puget Sound,
and the other living and going to school in San Francisco. I am writing a tech/gadget column for LA2DAY.com, a Los Angeles lifestyle website. I am also writing plays for the Ensemble Studio Theatre (LA). For a living, I manage an eBay store called iSold It. The weather's great and life is sweet!"

● Caroline Danois-Maricq ('82) informed us that her "brother Etienne Danois-Maricq, is living in Madrid with his wife and daughter. He is an engineer, worked for Schlumberger, and now is a counselor."

● Kathryn (Deane) Krantz is president of the fashion-trend-watching Tobe Report.

-- Class Notes Archives (1974)

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1975

Jean-Marc Jacot ('75)

● Viviane de Milly wrote: "I am currently residing in New York City and have been working for the NYC Administration for Children's Services for the past 11 years. Over the years I have held several administrative positions (in Community Planning, parent/youth/foster parent advocacy) and am currently the Director of Quality Assurance for all of foster care in NYC. My experience in child welfare has been extremely rewarding in that I have had the opportunity to meet and work alongside some of the most talented, passionate and hard working people in NYC. With this work comes the challenges of working very long hours, and the responsibility of trying to improve the lives of children and families iinvolved with the child welfare system. If anyone is interested, my next move will probably be selling Margueritas (spelling??) on the beach; it's mindless, and seems relaxing. I have to find the right beach so if anyone has any ideas, please do share.
I have two lovely daughters, ages 29 and 25. My eldest, Aliane, is an actress and dancer living in Los Angeles. My youngest, Elodie, just finished her Masters degree at the London School of Economics and is currently working (one block away from me) at the NYC Housing Preservation and Development).
I have stayed in touch with a few people from the Lycee (Catherine Treboux ('75), Marina Baudoin ('75), Nicholas Haimo ('76), Patricia Karkoch ('75)) and through the Lycee Reunion had the wonderful opportunity to meet up with many people I hadn't seen in a very long time. Unfortunately we have all lost touch again, but the post reunion attempts at staying in touch were fun while they lasted.
My biggest news at this time is my upcoming trip to Ghana. I will be working with a friend of mine who has an NGO focused on reproductive health. The organization also has an education and micro credit component. I am on the board of this organization and have been involved in some fund-raiding events here in NYC. If anyone is ever interested in attending please send me your contact information. If anyone has travelled to this area (and Togo) please share the "must see" places I shouldn't miss.
Well that's my life in a nutshell. I am excited to read what everyone else is up to these days and if possible, try to get together again soon. Happy Holidays to all!"

● Claude Chaouloff wrote: "Nothing major to report here other than I bought an apartment recently on the East side, which just happens to be across the street from the Lycee! Would love to hear from any '75 grads."

● "Paris, France (May 2007): Lisiane Droal has joined Ipsos as Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources, in charge of all aspects of human resources, including recruitment, compensation and benefits, development and training, and performance management. Based in Paris, she is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Ipsos Management Board. Lisiane who has 23 years of experience in HR management, came to Ipsos from AOL Time Warner where she was VP, Organization Development and Employee Communications, responsible for defining development, training and internal communications strategies across Europe for optimum resource deployment. She previously worked with Apple Europe and Netscape as Europe HR Director. When Netscape was acquired by AOL, she joined the Group as Senior Director, Human Resources Europe and Asia." (From Ipsos News Center; http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=3518)

--Jean-Marc Jacot's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1975)

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1976

TOP: Eric Petermann ('76); BOTTOM: Maria Blacque-Belair ('76) & Jean-Marc-Jacot ('75) (Paris, October 2007)

● The class of '76 held a reunion in NYC in September 2007. For details, click on link below.

● In response to the invitation to the September 29th class of '76 reunion in NYC, Eric Petermann wrote: "What a surprise to read all those names of people, some of which I've forgotten, some whom I've known since 1964 or 1965, like Marc Jensen whom I saw last January, or Nicky Haimo and Alexandra (Giurgiu) Piol- whom I haven't seen since '76 or even earlier than that (wow: I thought Claude Falchier had simply vanished). Is Judith Appelbaum actually Judy Kameny who is also one of my "early years" classmates (even before the Beatles were singing Yesterday)? All of this brings back some memories and we have reached that age where we start looking back.
I've recently moved to Nouméa, New Caledonia, in the south Pacific -and it is just so far away from everywhere that despite being tempted with catching up on all these people who share that cosmopolitan and multidimensional view of the world that LFNY education brought us, it is just too long of a trip - I should say voyage - to come and meet you all. So to be forgiven herewith a recent picture of me chatting with a skipper who is attempting an around the world record with his brand new trimaran."

● Jenny Skoble also wrote about that reunion: "J'ai voyagé de Los Angeles à New York pour participer à la reunion chez Alexandra Giurgiu Piol. C'etait vraiment un voyage dans le temps, parce que, en plus, Alexandra habite la meme maison à coté du Lycée (ou, je devrais dire, à coté d'ou etait le lycée) ou on a passé bien d'apres-midis ensemble." Jenny also sent us a hilarious parody of our class notes. To read it, click on link below.

● Isabelle (Baudry) McDonald wrote: "I had the pleasure of seeing both Emmanual Jaeger and Frederica Adelman this summer. Emmanuel is a succesful violinist and conductor in Paris. He is headed to Shang Hai to perform with the Shang Hai symphony orchestra on Nov. 25th, 2007. He has two children-- Jeremy, age 13 and Sonia age 15. He would love to come to the next class reunion especially if it is in Paris. This is something we all talked about at our most recent get together at Alexandra Giurgiu- Piol's house. These years have flown by!"

● Beatrice Gassie nous écrit: "Bonjour à tous, merci pour les informations des anciens, cela fait chaud au coeur d'avoir des nouvelles...Depuis que j'ai découvert le site, je souhaite vivement retrouver mes anciennes connaissances. Après des études de langue, je suis partie travailler en Grande Bretagne et en Allemagne. J'ai repris des études et maintenant je travaille dans le secteur social. J'ai séjourné à Pau, en Dordogne et maintenant je suis installée à Toulouse. J'ai une fille de 16 ans, Annabel, qui voudrait bien découvrir les endroits fréquentés par sa mère et ses anciennes relations !
J'attends de vos nouvelles et surtout de vous retrouver, pour ceux qui se rappellent de la petite Française de l'époque ( mes parents sont basques et landais )....à très bientôt....amicalement, Béatrice"

● Maria Blacque-Belair provides legal orientation and psycho-social support at RIF Asylum Help, an organization whose mission is to "help refugees fleeing war, persecution and torture, start a new life in New York..." Click on link below to access her website, which was designed by her classmate and good friend Michel Lepeltier ('76).

-- Maria Blacque-Belair's website
-- Class Notes (Parody), by Jenny Skoble ('76)
-- October 2007, Class of '76 Reunion in NYC
-- Class Notes Archives (1976)

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1977

TOP: Pascal Blacque-Belair ('77); MIDDLE: Michele Migliuolo ('77); BOTTOM: Beatrix (Peponnet-Morlot ) Fougeron ('77) and childr

● Beatrix (Peponnet-Morlot ) Fougeron nous écrit: "Bonjour, ce n'est que très recemment que j'ai découvert le site du Lycée Français de New York. Et quel bonheur de retrouver des noms qui ne m'étaient pas inconnus.
Je suis la fille de Françoise Peponnet que certains d'entre vous auront eu comme professeur en maternelle. J'ai moi-même été élève en maternelle avec Mlle Loret, puis en 11ème avec mlle Bazini,et pour finir en 10eme avec Mlle Dejean de 1964 à juin 1967.
En rentrant en France, nous nous sommes installés à Paris où j'ai fait toutes mes études. Sans être supersticieuse, il semblerait que le chiffre 8 me porte bonheur. En effet, j'ai eu mon bac en 1978 (eh oui, j'ai redoublé une classe), je me suis mariée en 1988, et notre première fille est arrivée en 1998.
J'ai travaillé pendant 10 ans dans un établissement financier. De 1992 à 1994, nous avons habité en Angleterre, car mon mari travaillait alors pour le channel tunnel. En 1996, il travaillait à Abhu Dhabi. De sept 97 à sept 98, nous sommes retournés en Angleterre, dans la banlieue Londonienne. Sept 99 nous étions à 60km au nord de Londres, pour enfin atterrir en Ecosse, à Inverness, pour une periode de 6 mois.
De retour en France en Juin 2000, nous nous sommes installés à Versailles, avec nos 2 filles, que nous avons adoptées en Bulgarie, Ombeline 10 ans et demi et Mathilde 7 ans et demi. Alors, que certaines de mes amies sont presque 'grand-mere', moi, pour ma part, je nage en pleine grammaire française du niveau CM2
(7e) et de niveau CE1 (10eme). Peu importe, nos deux filles sont notre plus grande joie et c'est avec elles que nous fêterons l'année prochaine nos 20 ans de mariage !!
Un grand merci à ceux qui s'occupent de l'association des anciens élèves."

● “Dr. Michele Migliuolo joined the PLSG as an EIR in October 2006 after working briefly as an Executive Associate. Michele (pronounced Mee-kay-lay) brings significant research and consulting experience as well as capital funding experience in high-technology and life sciences companies. His previous industry experience includes positions at Seagate Technology, Sr. Director of Research and Vice President at Firefly Technologies and Founder and CEO of Verimetra, Inc., a startup manufacturer of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) biomedical devices and sensors. Michele holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Physics from the University of Rochester, and a Laurea in Fisica and Baccalaureat in Natural Sciences from the University of Rome.” (From Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, http://www.plsg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=239&Itemid=44)

● "With a Dutch mother and a British father, Sandrine (Tézé) Limal grew up in the US and came to France at age 17. After the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), she joined Bain in London where she worked for two years before going to Insead. She then went to Bain in Boston while her husband went to Harvard Business school. She worked full time with Bain in London after her 1st child (after a 9 month leave), 4/5 time after her second and took two years out after her third. She was promoted to Managing Partner in 1996: she was on a three day schedule at the time." (From: European Professional Women’s Network – Paris, http://www.parispwn.net/lunches/p_ev_teze.html)
For more details on Sandrine, click on link below.

-- On the Internet: Sandrine (Tézé) Limal
-- Class Notes Archives (1977)

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1978

TOP: Geoffrey Knauth ('78); BOTTOM: Jonathan Feldman ('78)

TOP: by Riccardo Guariglia ('78); BOTTOM: Greg Dale & family

● Riccardo Guariglia informed us that he written a book --Correspondencia Real, Rio de Janeiro-Napoli (1844) "that was recently published by 'Thesaurus Editora' of Brasilia (bilingual edition, in Italian and Portuguese)."

● Greg Dale wrote: "Our daughter, Maya, has just turned two, and is the center of our lives. She's just starting to put sentences together, and even though she understands both English and Japanese, her little phrases are decidedly leaning towards the latter. The only French I can manage to pass on is when I sing "Frere Jacques" to her. We have taken her to Paris, though, and plan to visit often, so maybe she'll pick it up by osmosis.
Work-wise things are going great. I just directed an original Japanese play at a famous, 1600-seat theater in Nagoya, and had the honor of being the first foreign director ever in its 110-year history. Happily, the play was a big success. In June, I'll be starring in my first major role here at the New National Theater, the equivalent of Broadway. Most of my lines are in Japanese and English, with a smattering of German. I hate to admit it, but my polyglot experience at the Lycée really has come in handy.
I've also finally landed a literary agent, of sorts, in Hollywood, and hopefully he'll be able to sell my handful of screenplays. In the meantime, anyone out there who knows Nicole Kidman's dog-walker or Nathan Lane's masseuse and can get my script to them, your help is greatly appreciated.
Just want to let Alain Benzaken ('78) know that I'd love to hear from him. I tried to send several emails to him and they all bounced back."

● Brigitte (Puillandre) Quesnel nous écrit: "Je vis à Rueil Malmaison dans la région parisienne depuis le mois de Septembre. J'ai déménagé à de nombreuses reprises suite aux différentes mutations de mon mari. Je suis mariée depuis 27 ans avec Lucien qui est cadre dans une société d'auteurs. Nous avons deux filles: Victoria, 22ans, étudiante en art dramatique à Lille et Elisabeth, 18 ans, qui est en hypokhâgne au lycée Montaigne à Bordeaux. Après l'université, j'ai enseigné l'anglais quelques années mais j'ai arrêté à la naissance de mes filles et je l'ai jamais regretté. Je serai ravie de retrouver d'anciens camarades, peut-être à l'occasion du 30ème anniversaire de notre promo."

● Carla (Rosen) Vacher wrote: "This past summer, we finally moved into the first renovated part of our landmark farmhouse in the Moselle region of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, so will be happily celebrating Christmas at home! (unfortunately guest quarters are not up and running until sometime next year, as those who have survived such projects will well understand.) On the volunteer front, in addition to my work as elected secretary of the Harvard Club of Luxembourg and coordinator for the newly-launched Wharton Club, I became involved in local civic action as part of a planning committee for our village."

● Rabbi Jonathan Feldman is Associate Director of Manhattan Jewish Experience. "A native New Yorker, Jonathan attended Cornell University and completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at New York University. He received rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. He enjoys exploring Central Park and its zoo with his wife Shifra and four young children..... Jonathan is known for his open smile, warm manner and readiness to answer any and all of your questions." (http://www.jewishexperience.org/aboutus.html)

● Claude Cernuschi is Professor and Assistant Chair, Art History, at Boston College, Fine Arts Department. He is the author of these books: “Not an Illustration, but the Equivalent”: A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997), Jackson Pollock: Meaning and Significance (Harper Collins, 1992), and Jackson Pollock: "Psychoanalytic" Drawings (Duke University Press, 1992). For more news on Claude, click on link below.

-- Claude Cernuschi's website
-- Class Notes Archives 1978 (1 of 2 --more recent)
-- Class Notes Archives 1978 (2 of 2 --older)

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1979

TOP: Tatiana Ceccatto ('79); MIDDLE: Jerome Bonnifay ('79); BOTTOM: Michel Gelobter ('79)

● For news on Jerome Bonnifay, click on link below.

● Michel Gelobter is President of Redefining Progress, a leading public policy think tank dedicated to smart economics. His "prior experience includes professorships at U.C. Berkeley, Rutgers and Columbia University; co-founding the Community-University Consortium for Regional Environmental Justice (CUCREJ) as well as several grassroots environmental justice networks; a Congressional Black Caucus Fellowship with the U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee; and serving as Director of Environmental Quality for the City of New York. He presently serves on the boards of the Natural Resources Defense Council; Ceres; Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment; the Budget and Fiscal Policy Education Steering Committee; the Telluride Association; the Environmental Leadership Program Advisory Committee; Next Generation; and Redefining Progress." (From: Redefining Progress, http://www.rprogress.org/about_us/meet_our_staff.htm)

-- Jerome Bonnifay ('79)

-- Class Notes Archives (1979)

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1980

Susan Schwenger ('80) & Hani Morgan ('80)

TOP: Amy Nammack's ('80) children (far right) meet Dr. Jane Goodall; BOTTOM: Axelle de Borger ('80)

Hillary Ray ('80)

● Hillary Ray wrote: "Hello everyone, it has been another busy year. Rose was born on 11 October, 2006 so she is now just over a year old. She is still not a great sleeper so it has been a bit of a struggle for her parents but she is doing well.
Here are some pictures from Ella's 4th birthday party. Mark (wearing batman t-shirt) and I (dressed in pink with wings, I am the assistant fairy) decorated the house to resemble a rainforest, as it was raining outside and we could not go to the park as planned. Look out for the paper tress and sun!! I had the kids put stickers of birds, butterflies and dinosaurs on the trees. It was a lot of fun. Also notice the handmade decorations: butterflies, cookies and popcorn garlands. Sean just had his 6th birthday 2 days ago. We had a science party and again had lots of fun in the park. Luckily for you I do not have the pictures back yet-- yes I am shooting with film again as I prefer the resolution.
Apologies to you all for being such a poor correspondent, it has been a challenging year, as they say!! Rose only started sleeping through a month ago, and I went back to work on a three-day a week basis in May. Wishing everyone a very happy holiday, thank you Roger for keeping the newsletter going and all your efforts. Hoping to see some of you in 2008. I would love to hear from others and how their year has been. Bisous, Hillary"

● "Anjali Maazel earned a French Baccalaureate from the Lycee Francais de New York, then received her BA in Romance Languages & Literature from Princeton University. She has lived for many years in France, but has also had homes in Brazil, Germany, and Italy. She has been a language teacher for 11 years and speaks English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish." (http://www.hoftiaei.com/profiles.php)

● Hani Morgan wrote: "I moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi a few years ago where I work as an assistant professor of education. I would enjoy hearing from my old classmates."

● Axelle de Borger est ancienne avocate au Barreau de Paris, ancienne déléguée générale de l’Association Française des Juristes d’Entreprise, auteur de nombreux articles pour la presse juridique et diplômée de l’Université Paris II-Assas et du MBA de Sciences Po Paris. Elle nous écrit qu'elle a créé "une nouvelle organisation regroupant les professions du droit partageant une culturelle juridique francophone -- Organisation des Juristes d’Affaires Francophones (OJAF), organisation internationale non gouvernementale ayant son siège à Paris. L’OJAF s’adresse à tous les professionnels du droit des affaires (avocats, juristes d’entreprise, notaires, magistrats, universitaires, etc.) ayant en commun une même culture juridique et exerçant leurs activités au sein de l’espace francophone (68 pays membres de l’OIF). L’OJAF, lieu d’échange et de réflexion, a mis en place un outil informatique permettant à ces professionnels de débattre en ligne de questions juridiques les plus variées (voir les débats). Mais l’OJAF c’est aussi un regard porté sur le monde du droit et la francophonie par diverses personnalités (voir les vidéos). C’est également pour les adhérents une plus grande visibilité professionnelle à travers l’espace francophone : publications de leurs écrits, annuaire professionnel, actualité des associations nationales, etc." (To access the OJAF website, click on link below.)

● Donatella Lorch wrote: "In addition to three step kids: Madeline (15), Nicholas (13) and Alexander (10), my husband John (who works at the World Bank) and I have added one of our own: Lucas (2 1/2)."

● The News & Observer reported on 10/17/2007 that Amy (Nammack) Weiss' son "Zack Weiss put on a red polka-dot bow tie and a brown wool blazer, just a bit too long for his 9-year-old frame. The McDougle Elementary School student spent weeks planning for Tuesday night, when he and other fourth-graders would meet Jane Goodall, the primatologist who made profound discoveries about chimpanzee behavior...." Amy sent us a picture of the event (above) and wrote: "The boy in the bowtie and the little girl in front of him are my two kids, Zack and Jessie. Because of our involvement in a local Roots & Shoots group, we got to meet Dr. Jane Goodall at Duke University."

-- Axelle de Borger's OJAF website
-- Class Notes Archives 1980 (1 of 2 --more recent)
-- Class Notes Archives 1980 (2 of 2 --older)

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1981

TOP: Sophie Lukashok ('81); MIDDLE: Bernard Harcourt ('81); BOTTOM: Ghislaine (Carson-Parker) Desbois' ('81) children

● Baret Boisson wrote: "I live in Los Angeles and would be delighted to hear from any of my classmates. I love the Rosa Parks painting that you used [in your previous newsletter] and would be delighted for you to use it or any others; I'm submitting a great review of my work from an art critic named Peter Frank." (To read the review and to see more of Baret's art, click on link below.)

● Ghislaine (Carson-Parker) Desbois wrote: "I'm still living in Paris, working for Total in Communications for the Gas & Power branch. My eldest daughter Juliette, now 18, successfully passed her Bac S, mention AB and is in 1st year at l'ESCE ( Ecole Sup. Commerce Extérieur) in Paris. My second daughter Maylis, 16 is in 1ère ES and my son Bertrand, 12 in 5 ème both at Institution St Dominique in Neuilly.
I'm glad to say I'm still in touch with some of my classmates : Béatrice Gairin- Callens -with a daughter of 12, living in Rueil Malmaison, Ziad Tadmoury- working for Global FMI in Paris and with two children, and Jean-Philippe Bruneel-also working for Total but as a finance director in the Abu Dhabi office, and also with two kids. Not to mention Marc Fontanet, my almost neighbour at Suresnes who I run into from time to time at the boulangerie. I've completely lost track of Charles Biba and his wife: if any of you have some news, please feedback."

● “Dr. Sophie Lukashok received her medical education at the State University of New York at Buffalo and her residency training in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, where she was Chief Resident. She received her fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. She joins our practice after working for eight and a half years as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.” (From The Atlanta Aid Group; http://www.atlantaidgroup.com/bios/lukashok.asp)

● Bernard Harcourt is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago and author of the recently published Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (University of Chicago Press 2007). For a full description of his works and career, click on the Wikipedia link below.

-- Bernard Harcourt in Wikipedia
-- Books by Bernard Harcourt
-- Review and examples of Baret Boisson's art
-- Class Notes Archives (1981)

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1982

Roger de Montebello ('82)

Caroline Danois-Maricq ('82) and one of her paintings

● For news on Roger de Montebello, click on link below.

● Caroline Danois-Maricq wrote: "My name is Caroline Danois-Maricq. Belgian, vietnamese of origine. Adopted by Belgian parents. I left the Lycée in 1975 or '76. I remember names such as Marc Zeitoun, Micha Zabotin, Robert Mouton, Elisabeth Van Bockstael, Lisa Bialkin, Jean-Paul Morreau, etc.
My father worked for Unicef, so we have travelled a lot. After New-York, we went to Thaïland, after Abidjan. Since then, I live in Belgium.
I have a master degree in family therapy and sexuality. Now I'm looking forward to find time to do a doctorate. But time flies and responsibilities eat one's up. My daughter is 17 years old, and next year will be entering a university for biochemical studies. I wonder where she got those qualities, for I'm far from being able to understand anything about that.
My husband, a journalist, and I have two guest-houses in the Belgian Ardennes. It was an old townhouse and village school which we have renovated in four years. You can see the pix at www.alacourderecre.eu.
Painting and writing are still my passion: 'Pas de fatalité' is a poetry book edited at the Dossiers d'Aquitaine, and paintings have been exhibited in different countries. You can see pix of them www.carolinedanois.com [or, click on link below]. I'm preparing two exhibitions in Madrid and France. Actually, I'm working on different psychological programs on post trauma, family secrets, adoption case studies, and grief works. Otherwise, my husband and I are developing different artistical events at our guesthouses.
My brother Etienne ('74), nine years elder and who graduated from the Lycée, is living in Madrid with his wife and daughter. He is an engineer, worked for Schlumberger and now is counselor.
I would be very glad to have news from anyone who had shared school time with me."

● André Castaybert is a senior associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department and is resident in the New York Office of Proskauer Rose LLP. In his practice in state and federal courts and in arbitration, as a trial and appellate advocate, André has gained broad experience in commercial litigation. Most recently, his work has focused on insurance, including financial guaranty and credit risk insurance in the context of asset backed securitizations, and employment practices liability insurance (EPLI).....
As a member of Proskauer’s Non-Compete and Trade Secrets Practice Group, André counsels employers and executive employees and litigates employee movement, fiduciary duty and other trade secrets cases. André has litigated and counseled clients regarding non competition and trade secret matters in New York, New Jersey, and Texas. Clients that Andre has counseled in the non-compete and trade secrets area include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cadbury Adams USA LLC, McKinsey & Company, UPS, Waste Services, Inc. and Zebco Holding, Inc., among others......
André, who in fluent in French, has worked extensively with several of Proskauer’s French clients, including Sanofi, SEITA and Compagnie des Machines Bull.....
André has worked on a wide variety of substantive matters in litigation including commercial contracts; pharmaceutical, toy, and fashion design licensing; director and officer liability, business property insurance; securities; broker-dealer; bankruptcy; labor litigation; banking; accountant and legal malpractice liability; tax; letters of credit; business crimes; commercial leases; and product liability.........
André is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and served as Secretary and a member of the Committee on Professional Discipline and Secretary for the International Law Committee. He is admitted in the Eastern District and Southern District of the U.S. District Court of New York and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.......
André is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Columbia College, Columbia University. André is a native of Queens, New York, and now lives in Larchmont, New York with his wife and two sons." (From: : Proskauer Rose LLP, http://www.proskauer.com/lawyers_at_proskauer/atty_data/0167)

-- On the Internet: Roger de Montebello
-- Caroline Danois-Maricq's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1982)

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1983

TOP: Kim Brice ('83); MIDDLE: by Kim Brice and others; BOTTOM: Jules Antoine Goffre ('83)

● Jérôme Pineau wrote: "Well I'm still married to Veronique Harbin (we met in 1982 at the Lycee and have been together ever since -- she's class of '83 as well) and we're now living in Irvine, CA (yes, next to those lovely recent fires). We moved from the east coast in 2002. I'm a software architect and she's a financial controller."

● Paola (Tettamanzi) Buckley wrote: "I live in Dallas, Texas with my husband Jim and our five children. I am a Lecturer in French and Italian at Southern Methodist University and would love to hear from my former classmates! If you're ever in the Lone Star State, please contact me at [email address available upon request] and we'll fire up the grill! See y'all soon, ya hear!"

● Jules Antoine Goffre: “Leader of the European Supply Management practice at A.T. Kearney. Jules has held this position at A.T. Kearney since 2002, and has led, managed and executed numerous strategic sourcing and procurement transformation projects, resulting in time-to-market, cost reduction and service level improvement for clients across a number of industries. Jules Goffre speaks regularly at conferences and is a frequent author on the topics of procurement organisation, risk management and value-based sourcing. Together with Tom Slaight, also of A.T. Kearney, he is co-author of chapter six in the 7th edition of the Supply Management Handbook, published by the Institute for Supply Management, entitled, “Strategic Sourcing: Where did it come from? What has it accomplished? Where is it going?” He is also the founding member of A.T. Kearney’s CPO Club. The CPO Club was founded in May 2004, the objective being to develop a forum for building a unique and powerful group of European thought leaders in procurement and supply chain management.” (From: European Leaders In Procurement Blog, http://blog.europeanleaders.net/jules-goffre-at-kearney/)

-- Class Notes Archives (1983)

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1984

Christina Hardt ('84) and her documentary

Sebastien Lordonnois ('84)

● Halimatou Youssoufou wrote: "I live in Abidjan with my husband, Daniel and our three children: Tamibé Eliakim (12 years), Salamatou (9 years), and Iahlii Oumarou (5 years). For those who knew my father, I would like to let you know he passed away on october 24th 2007 in Abidjan after a long battle with kidney cancer. I am a gynaecologist and I practice in many clinics in Abidjan."

● "Christina Hardt is an award winning photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles....[She] produced, directed, wrote and shot Death in El Valle, an investigation of her grandfather’s political murder in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.....In 1995, [she] received a Distinguished Achievement Award from The Educational Press Association of America for ‘Poverty in America’. In 1994, she received a Merit Award in Journalism from the Society of Publication Designers for ‘Condition Critical: America's Health Care System in Crisis.’....[She] was raised in NYC by her mother and grandmother, Spanish exiles who fled the Franco dictatorship. She studied at the Lycée Français de NY where she graduated with a Baccalaureate in Philosophy and Mathematics. She then attended Connecticut College where she earned a B.A. with Honors in English and Theater. Hardt also attended the School of Visual Arts." (From: http://www.cmhardt.com/about/biography.htm)
Click on links below for Christina’s website, and for her film’s website.

- Christina Hardt’s website
- Muerte en El Valle website
-- Class Notes Archives (1984)

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1985

TOP: Pierre Oury ('85) and daughter Jacqueline; MIDDLE: James Lasry ('85); BOTTOM: Nicolas Manset ('85)

● Click on link below for a video, submitted by Fabrice Griffoulière-Frere , of class scenes in 1983 or 1984. (Also, see his message below for further details.)

● Pierre Oury nous écrit: "Je vous soumets les nouvelles suivantes:
- Naissance de notre premier enfant en Nov 06, Jacqueline OURY (photo ci-jointe).
- Comme Lieutenant Colonel dans la USAF, j’ai complété une année d’études au Collège Interaméricain de Défense, institution sous l’Organisation des Etats Américains (OEA), à Washington DC. Cette école a comme anciens élèves plusieurs chefs d’état d’Amérique Latine, dont Michelle Bachelet, Présidente du Chili."

● James Lasry wrote: “I live in Gibraltar where I work as a lawyer setting up hedge funds and trusts. I am married with two children. I would be happy to receive any contact from LFNY alumni who are travelling to Gibraltar or the south of Spain.”

● Nicolas Manset wrote: "Bumped into the website on a rainy Parisian afternoon in December 2007! I live in Paris with my wife of 11 years, Marianne, who has her own dental practice in Paris, and our two children, Arthur born in 1998 and Zoé born in 2000. I run the french office of Russell Reynolds Associates, a global executive search and assessment firm, where I have been a partner for some years now. It would be great to hear from old friends. I was particularly happy to see that Gaby Sylla, Ahpaly Coradin, Stephane Bailby and Isa Schnieders (all '85) are doing well. If any of you are in Paris some time, drop an email or call!"

● Nathalie (Pochat) Richard ('88) nous écrit que "son frere, Thierry Pochat habite à New York et est Policier avec le NYPD."

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

● Fabrice Griffoulière-Frere wrote: "Bonjour tout le monde! I've been following the LFNY newsletter for some time now, and have really enjoyed keeping-up with my old school buddies throughout the years. As for myself, I stayed in New york after the Lycée graduation, finding it quasi impossible to leave this insane city. I've been working in publishing for about 15 years now. In the last 8 years I was able to launch and develop a national magazine called "CITY", published out of NYC. It's a lifestyle Luxury magazine with a focus on Design, food, fashion and travel. If you haven't seen it, please visit our website at http://www.city-magazine.com.
Recently, I stumbled on a small film reel that I had shot at the Lycée back in 1983 or 1984. I couldn't resist transferring it to video so that I could share it with some of you. It certainly wont win any oscar or film awards, but it may take you down memory lane.
In it, you might recognize Jonathan Littel ('85) hanging from a tree and who just last year won the "Grand Prix de L'académie Francaise" for his book titled "Les Bienveillantes". You might also recognize Daniel Prieto-Castro('85) , AKA Daniel Lorca, and fellow band member Matthew Caws ('85) from the band Nada Surf. They released a new album last year called "the weight is a gift", which I highly recommend. Some of you might recall a band in the Lycée days called "The Cost of Living", our first foray into the music scene, with classmate Stéphane Dehais ('85) and our English teacher Patrick Thouron. It's really great to see that Daniel and Matthew kept their music ambitions going through the years, and that they have had such great success with it. On a similar music note, you might also recognize Alain (Nkossi) Konda ('86), who also followed the music trail, and also met great success worldwide.
There are more quick glimpses at our friends from back then in the video. My best wishes to all of you, et bonne continuation! The video clip can be viewed on my site (which is undergoing a major revamp) at: http://www.planetfab.com/pages_video/Lycee.html [or click on link below]

-- A walk down memory lane (video), courtesy of Fabrice Griffoulière-Frere
- 'Tears', by Gabin Langue Tsobgny
- Class Notes Archives (1985)

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1986

TOP, Left to right: Gloria Tulliu ('73), Letitia Orti ('86), Alessandra Gagliardi ('86); MIDDLE: Myriam Tekaia ('86); BOTTOM: J

● Click on link below for news of Myriam Tekaia

● Click on link below for news of Nicholas Blechman

● Euan Rellie wrote that he " is still managing Business Development Asia LLC, which he co-founded in 1996. The company now employs 55 professionals doing investment banking and M&A advisory work in New York, London, Bahrain, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, and Tokyo. He continues also as Chairman of Lucy Sykes New York, his wife’s children’s clothing company. Euan and Lucy live in the Meatpacking District, and spend weekends in Bridgehampton, with their sons Heathcliff (4) and Titus (8 months)."

● Judith (Hoenig) Adelson wrote that she and her husband, Seth, welcomed a baby girl, Hannah Vered, on Sunday, August 19th. Hannah was named after Judy's mother in a formal name ceremony performed at Temple Israel in Great Neck, NY.

-- Myriam Tekaia's website
-- On the Internet: Nicholas Blechman
-- Class Notes Archives (1986)

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1987

TOP: Stefanie (Jelonek) Fay ('87) & family; MIDDLE: Sandrine-Aïcha Karam's ('87) daughter Juliana Laïla; BOTTOM: Mark Shashoua

TOP: Christine (Oury) Foucher ('87) & family; BOTTOM Christine & brother Pierre Oury ('85)

● The class of '87 held a reunion in NYC in August 2007, and in Paris in September 2007. For details, click on links below.

● BIRTHS/NAISSANCES: From Sandrine-Aïcha Karam: "Maman d’une petite fille Juliana Laïla née le 6 mai 2007, son papa et moi sommes les plus heureux. C’est le portrait craché de son père. Ci-joint une photo d’elle à 3 mois."

● Christine (Oury) Foucher wrote: "My family moved to the Bay Area in August and is settling in. It is just beautiful here! I am director of communications for a software company located in downtown San Francisco and am working with a great group of people. My husband’s job transferred from Denver, and the kids are attending the Lycée Francais La Pérouse, a sister school of the LFNY. I am bummed to have missed our reunions, but hope we can make it an annual gathering (Nick and Micheline – are you up to it??!). I would have loved to reconnect with the group and hope we will have more opportunities in the future. Looks like everyone had a great time! Look me up if you are ever in San Fran!"

● Sophie Gest wrote: "I left Morocco and I'm back in France for the next months... until I probably move to the US next!"

● Nathalie (de Svastich) Clark wrote: "While living and working in New York for the past decade, it is through the fantastic 20 year reunion organized this past August by Nicholas Meltzer ('87) and Micheline Dugue ('87), that I have reconnected with even more '87 alumns. I have been married eight years to Scott, a Kiwi, and barely survived the French victory over the All Blacks during the last Rugby World Cup! We have a very funny little Caroline who keeps us on our toes and regularly out of breath as she gets ready to turn 2!!! I wish everyone the best for 2008 and the holidays."

● Hortense Porcher wrote: "I'm not married but have an adorable boy named Hippolyte, aged almost 4 years."

● "Mark Shashoua, Chief Executive. Mark was one of the founding members of ITE in the early 1990s. He was Managing Director of ITE from 1995 to 1998 and then Chief Executive Officer until September 1999. He was responsible for the development of ITE’s international sales force from 50 people in 1994 to over 300 sales people in 17 countries worldwide. In the same period, sales grew from £8 million to £36 million. Mark’s management and leadership skills were conclusively proven by ITE’s continued profit growth in 1998 and 1999 under his stewardship, in spite of the unavoidable disruptions associated with flotation on the London Stock Exchange in March 1998 and the unexpected financial crisis in Russia in August 1998. Mark, with his father Roger, was awarded the ‘European Dynamic Entrepreneur’ in 1998 for his achievements at ITE by ‘Europe’s 500, the Association for Dynamic Entrepreneurs.’ He co-founded Expomedia Group and as the Chief Executive is responsible for the overall day to day running of the Company." (From EXPOMEDIA GROUP PLC; http://www.expomediagroup.com/client/index.aspx?page=12)

- Class of 1987 reunion in NYC
- Class of 1987 reunion in Paris
-- Class Notes Archives (1987)

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1988

Florence (Nida) Minard ('88) & Amaury de Barros Conti ('88)

Khalil Houri, Adil Karam, Gersende Rambourg & Florence Nida

● Hooray for the Class of 1988, soon to celebrate its 20th Anniversary! Marie-Christine Lowenstein wrote in asking about a reunion. We are pleased to say that the ball is now rolling. Anyone interested in helping should write in and let us know.

● Elsa (Basanisi) Bolard wrote: "Hello everyone! Such good memories of everyone, so much time since then. I live in Paris, got married in '98 and I'm the happiest mother of Chiara (7 1/2), Sixtine (6) and Leo (2 1/2). After the Lycée, I studied international relations and economics and finally graduated from HEC in '93. I am now Head of Business Intelligence at France Telecom. I would love to see all of you again, maybe in 2008 for our 20 year anniversary of the Bac?"

● Marie-Christine Loewenstein wrote: "Hello 1988 classmates! Do you realize that we have almost reached 20 years since our graduation day? Isn't that unbelievable? Unfortunately we are a bit late to organize a big retrouvailles class reunion but we should nevertheless think of doing such thing 'one day'. In the meantime, we are lucky enough to have the Alumni Association which does a great job, but also "Facebook". Don't forget it! Alors....à vos ordinateurs les amis et à nos retrouvailles prochainement!"

● Nathalie (Pochat) Richard nous écrit qu'elle "habite au Connecticut avec som mari et ont une fille (Megan) de 9 ans. Nathalie est Directrice des Ressources Humaines pour une Biotech dans la region de New Haven. Son frere, Thierry Pochat ('85), habite à New York et est Policier avec le NYPD."

● Samantha Sherman wrote: "I left Cahill Gordon & Rendel LLP in July. After a month of hiking, surfing and whitewater rafting out west, I returned to New York and joined Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP where I am an associate."

● “Amaury de Barros Conti, born in 1970, joined Austin, Calvert & Flavin, Inc. in 2004 as the firm’s Head Trader. Mr. Conti brings over five years of institutional trading experience from a San Antonio based mutual fund company. Prior to that he was a trading assistant with Banque National de Paris in New York City. Mr. Conti received his undergraduate degree in Aviation Technology/Management from the Florida Institute of Technology and his Master of Business Administration degree in Financial Management from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Conti holds a Series 7 license and is an Affiliate of the Market Technicians Association. He is originally from Belgium.” (From Austin, Calvert & Flavin, Inc.; http://www.auscal.com/html/acf_team.html#Amaury)

-- Class Notes Archives (1988)

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1989

TOP: Iman El-Banhawy ('89); BOTTOM: Photo by Bibi Eng ('89): From 'Photo essay: Kish Island'

● Benoît Malraison nous écrit: "Heureux de rejoindre la communauté des anciens du lycée. Voici donc le Flash Back de mes 17 dernières années:
- études supérieures entre Paris et Oxford en finance
- VSNE pour Danone aux US
- 2 ans chez Danone à Nantes
- 5 ans chez Michael Page à Paris
- 4 ans chez Dun & Bradstreet à Paris
Marié en 1996, à une corse, Laetitia, 1 garçon Louis (6 ans) et
une fille Angèle (2ans et demi. Une passion qui n'a pas changée: la voile, j'ai participé, entre autre, à une course transatlantique en 2003 et nous avons eu la chance de la gagner! Je serais très heureux de reprendre contact avec un certain nombre d'entre vous. Je suis toujours en contact avec Coralie '90, Alix '92, Flavie '89'. Merci pour ce site très riche."

● "Born in the early seventies, Bibi Eng has lived in New York City, Tehran, Baltimore, Hamburg, and Santiago de Chile. She attained her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University, and her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School. Having received informal art and design training during the course of her life, Bibi has engaged in professional photography since 1996. Currently, her work is represented by SLP Stock and Bruce Coleman USA." (http://www.iranian.com/Arts/2003/January/Kish/index.html) To access Bibi's travel Photography website, click on link below.

-- Bibi Eng's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1989)

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1990

TOP: Valerie Colas ('90); BOTTOM: Dalia Sofer ('90)

Nick Weber's ('90) family (Christmas, 2007)

● Valerie Colas-Ohrstrom wrote: "How thrilling to read about old friends like Nick Weber, Rachel Viain, Anne Lowenstein and David Damiba! Congratulations to all of you for your babies and other wonderful accomplishments. I am still in New York, married a fantastic man named Wright Ohrstrom, and we now have two sons, Augustus"Auguste", 20 months old, and Tristan, now five months old. They are both learning French, of course. I've taken a break from work, but am busy being a member of the Board of Directors of the Yellowstone Park Foundation - a good excuse to spend more time in Montana. What else? I've become a pretty good fly-fisherman in the last five years - -maybe I'll show off and send in a picture of my 70 lb tarpon. hmmmm..."

● Dalia Sofer is the author of the recently released novel The Septembers of Shiraz, which, in addition to the United States, is being translated and published in eleven countries, including France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Brazil, the UK, and Hungary. She has been a contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered, Poets & Writers magazine, the National Poetry Almanac of the Academy of American Poets, and The New York Sun. Essays by Ms. Sofer are included in the anthologies Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism and France, a Love Story. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, has been a resident at Yaddo, and in 2007 was the first recipient of the Sirenland Fellowship, given each year to an unpublished author to attend the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. Born in Iran, she fled at the age of ten to the United States with her family. She lives in New York City. (For further details, and an interview in the New York Times magazine, click on link below)

● Nick Weber wrote: "Everything is well in the Weber household. Nick ('90) is still at Goldman Sachs in London and currently heads up a large internal hedge fund (European Special Situations Group). Nick was promoted to Partner in 2006. Robyn is busier than ever and has made tons of friends in Surrey where we live. The kids are great and growing incredibly fast. Stephanie and Taylor are 6 years old (they turn 7 in January). Stephanie is into gymnastics and horse riding. Taylor is into soccer and basketball. Cole is 5 years old and the happiest boy in the world. He loves science and numbers (math!) and is learning to play the piano. Cole is also heavily involved with soccer and is learning to play golf (he likes to drive the golf cart). Owen, our youngest, just turned 2 last week and is a very big boy. He runs after his brother and sisters no end. He has recently started expressing himself with words (sort of) and he is developing his own little personality. We are happy in our little village of Walton on the Hill in Surrey. Dad's commute into London is tough but it is really great to be in the countryside for the kids. We will be spending the Christmas holidays in Atlanta, GA and Charleston, SC this year. We wish everyone health, happiness and best wishes for 2008."

-- On the Internet: Dalia Sofer
-- Class Notes Archives (1990)

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1991

Florence Peyrelongue ('91) & Jeantet Fields ('91)

Nicolas Savouré ('91)

● Alejandro Muñoz-Ledo wrote: "Hi to everybody! I'm glad everybody is doing great. We should really think about organizing some sort of reunion. I was in contact a couple of years ago with Marina Treves, Jean Marc Ariano, Carine Salvy, and Francoise Plusquellec. After more than 14 years working for the Mexican government, I finally came back to the U.S. and established my own business (AXIS CGM) helping mexican companies trade in the US. I am based in Houston TX. Saludos!"

● Jean-Philippe Lamarcade is an engineer working for EDF in Thailand. He wrote: "If any other alumni live in Thailand, I propose to organise an informal meeting for all of us."

● Nlandu N’guayila wrote: "Hi all. I recognized practically all the names of my classmates. I don't know if anyone remembers me. (The big black guy who loved running). I am glad to read about you guys. It has been years since I left the US and the Lycee in 1985. I have since been to Congo and Poland and back to Congo. It would be great to read from such good friends like Sonia Marcus, Vivian Holtzman, Roger Mashihi, just to name a few (any way, I remember you all, trust me).All the best to all and God bless."

● Joanna Hawa wrote: "It's so good to see all the names again!! I have to admit I have forgotten a few. Nevertheless it's good to know what everybody is up to. I am still in the advertising field at Impact BBDO. My daughter is now 13 and so much more taller than me!! I still live in Beirut despite all the political tension. I hope everybody is doing well. I really hope to see all of you again someday... Keep in touch."

● Nicolas Savouré is Managing Partner of Cross Border Employment Solutions. To access his website, click on link below.

-- Nicolas Savouré's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1991)

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1992

Top to Bottom: Daniela (Zubritski) Chobor ('92); Alexandre Bouchet ('92); Sophie Raven ('92)

● BIRTHS/NAISSANCES: From Frederic Guarino: "My wife and I welcomed our son Maxime in August and are overjoyed!"

● Oumou (Niaré) Samake wrote: "Hi. I'd really like to have news from my classmates of 1986-1988. Particularily Isabelle Sajous, Du Nguyen, whose mother was our math teacher and others who'll recognize me."

● “Dr. Daniela (Zubritski) Chobor is a graduate of NYU College of Dentistry. She attended College of the Holy Cross for her undergraduate studies. She is a member of the American Dental Association, the New York Dental Society, the Suffolk County Dental Society, and the American Dental Education Association. “ (From Manhattan Dental Arts.net; http://www.manhattandentalarts.net/)

● Câline Yamakawa wrote: "After several years living in Boston, New York and London, I am now settled in Paris where I’ve started a project management business specialized in classical music (www.ferudar.com -click on link below). Just this past week I coordinated a piano festival in Lille with the Orchestre national de Lille. Spread over three days we host over thirty pianists in twenty plus concerts, recitals, and conferences. Otherwise I also work as a fundraising consultant for nonprofits throughout French-speaking European countries. My parents are now retired in the South of France, in the Provence."

● “Attorney Sophie C. Raven graduated with distinction from Barnard College, Columbia University, and received her J.D. from New York Law School in 2004. She was awarded the Public Service Fellowship Award upon graduation. Ms. Raven is admitted to practice law in Connecticut. While attending law school, Ms. Raven researched and drafted articles on contemporary issues of international finance and trade for The International Review, the bi-annual newsletter of the New York Law School Center for International Law. Ms. Raven joined the firm in March 2005, where she is concentrating on employment-related nonimmigrant and immigrant visas. Sophie is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Her background is international as she is a French/American dual national, and has lived and worked in France and in Japan. Ms. Raven is fluent in French and proficient in Spanish and Japanese.” (From: Law Offices of Richard S. Goldstein, P.C.; http://www.goldsteinvisa.com/staff.html)

-- Caline Yamakawa's website
-- Class Notes Archives (1992)

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1993

From top to bottom: Guillaume Duthoo ('93), Elena Villegas ('93), Gabriel Villegas ('93)

TOP: Cécile Doo Kingué ('93); BOTTOM: Maxime Hibon ('93)

● “Cécile Doo Kingué is a founding member of the band DIBONDOKO, ‘the sound of Montreal’s cultural diversity in motion…..It's the sizzling and playful guitars of Cécile Doo-Kingué and Jordan Lerner-Ellis dancing through Cameroon and Russia via New York and Toronto.’ ” (From MySpaceMusic; http://myspace.com/dibondoko)

● Marine (Nouaille) Lesur wrote: "Hi guys: SOO good to hear from you all, and sooo funny to see all the pictures! Lamees, Jessica, Farida, Alexandra, Helene ... so many cool trick or treatings! I am still living in Miami and am working for Cartier ...Enjoying life and 3 & 6 years old daughters. Would love to hear from you. If you stop by give me a call at [telephone number available upon request from AALFNY]. I had lunch with Cecile Doo Kingue a few months ago. It was fun to catch up. She was on her way to Arnaud Desbiez's wedding!"

● Maxime Hibon wrote: "I just wanted to pass along the news release of my new job for your newsletter content! I often see, by the way, Bertrand Montagner who was my teacher in Première and is now working as Director of Human Resources for a pharmaceutical company. Sometimes I bump into Emilie Bouhet ('92) who just started working at Lacoste. The LFNY remains some of the best years so far!" The press release he sent us said:
"Havas Media has announced the launch of Celebrities Consulting, a specialist unit aiming to offer a higher level of access to celebrities in the world of advertising, events, licensing, goodwill and corporate branding. Celebrities Consulting will be managed by Maxime Hibon, who will take the role of executive director at the new venture. Hibon will manage the group's links with key players in the world of fashion, music, cinema and sports. He started his career at Paradigm Talent Agency, moving to talent management agency William Morris and then to Wilhelmina Artist Management and the Marilyn Agency. Since the start of 2006, he has worked as an independent consultant for communications agencies....Hibon said: "Although this concept represents a new offering within agencies, the creation of Celebrities Consulting within our group is extremely logical. By centralising this process we can offer our clients and networks a service that is both simplified and more sympathetic to the sector."
The new division will collaborate internally within Havas Media, particularly Havas Sports and Havas Entertainment, as well as service the needs of all of the group's agencies including the Euro RSCG global network. It will also operate independently within the market as a brand...."

-- Class Notes Archives (1993)

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1994

Oksan Bozkir ('94) and husband Cem Mirap

Top: Vanessa der Calousdian ('94) and husband Pierce Crosbie; Middle & Bottom: Alexandra (Morbelli) Laverty ('94) with husban

● [Oksan (Bozkir) Mirap wrote: "On August 10th, 2007 Cem Mirap and I were married in Istanbul, Turkey."

● Vanessa der Calousdian and Pierce Crosbie celebrated their marriage on September 22nd, 2007. The wedding, held at the Larchmont Country Club, was attended by guests from NY, France and Canada, including Isabelle Sajous (’94) who was a bridesmaid. Other anciens were also in attendance: Alexandre Gomez-Trochez ('94), Valerie Darguste ('94), Aline Attiyeh ('94), and Alessandra Gagliardi (’86) all had a memorable time toasting the wonderful couple.

● Camille Hottlet wrote that she "lives in Paris and works as a trilingual translator for the international law firm, Gide Loyrette Nouel / vit à Paris et travaille au sein du cabinet d'avocats international, Gide Loyrette Nouel, en tant que traductrice trilingue."

-- Class Notes Archives (1994)

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1995

TOP: Alexis Le Marie ('95); BOTTOM: Emilie Jagut ('95)

● Arielle Fenig wrote: "I have a year and a half left in my residency training in anesthesiology at St. Luke's Roosevelt in NYC. I would love to hear from any of my old friends!"

● “Associate Alexis le Marie joined Cinven in 2005 and is a member of the Business and financial services team. Previously, he worked at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in London. Prior to this, Alexis was at Goldman Sachs for two years, where he worked on a number of transactions in the Healthcare sector. Alexis is a graduate of the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris.” (http://www.cinven.com/teammember.asp?PageID=32&TeamMemberID=47)

-- Class Notes Archives (1995)

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1996

Top to bottom: Aurelie Garrau ('96); Marie Candylaftis ('96); Thimothée Fraisse avec epouse Marie-Laure

● Aurélie Garrau wrote: "After I had my BAC, I went to Paris for my jewelry studies during 4 years. After I came back to Bordeaux, my home town, and then I finished my studies for one more year. I worked during one year for a jewelry firm in Bordeax as a jewelry-setter. Now I have my own company, and work alone. It's been 5 years. I'm doing well and setting stones for the jewelers. In my personal life, not much: I almost got married, but I ran away before!!! For now I'm on my own, with no kids."

-- Class Notes Archives (1996)

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1997

Top to Bottom: Alexandra Brunais ('97), Celine Delacroix ('97), Damien Huze ('97)

Nicolas Mazuranic ('97) & Ebru Buluc ('97)

● Nicolas Mazuranic wrote: "Hi, it’s been a long time since I left New York, 20 years ago to move back to Geneva in Switzerland. I did all my studies there and completed an MS in Business Administration at the HEC Geneva in 2002. I started working at L’Oréal as a Product Manager. Three years later, this job brought me to Paris to work as a Global Project Manager. Finally, I just moved back to New York after 20 years, to work as a Senior Manager of Global Marketing for Redken (another L’Oréal-owned brand). It’s very exciting to be back in New York. I contacted Thomas Hernandez ('97) in Paris but we didn’t get a chance to see each other before I left. And now, I’m trying to get back in touch with Vérane (de Marffy Mantuano) Grange ('97) and Eléonore Marchand ('97) and should be seeing them soon."

● “Damien Huze has been designing for the web since 1999. He specializes in creating stylish web interfaces, melding usability and effective content presentation. Damien has a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the F.A.U. School Of Business, and is a self-taught web designer and developer who advocates simplicity.” (FROM: Wake Interactive, http://www.wakeinteractive.com/team)

-- Class Notes Archives (1997)

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1998

Top to bottom: Julia Lutzke ('98); Gregoire De Monicault ('98); Dara Darguste ('98)

● Paul de Montmorin wrote: "Since April, Paul de Montmorin lives in Dubai (UAE) with his wife, Paula, and his daughter, Sofia (nine months old), where he works in Capital Markets for NBD Investment Bank. Get in touch with me if you come through the Middle East!"

-- Class Notes Archives (1998)

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1999

From top to bottom: Nicolas Kepel ('99), Mailys Suncic ('99), Sékou Coulibaly ('99), Stephanie Chétrit ('99)

-- Class Notes Archives (1999)

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2000

Kloe Korby ('00) & Gerard Ouedraogo ('00)

Camille Mauger ('00) & Edouard Langlois ('00)

-- Class Notes Archives (2000)

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2001

Yves Adechi ('01) & Laetitia Hervé ('01)

Victor de Matha ('01) and examples of his illustrations

● Victor de Matha wrote: "I'm still in New York, working and studying. Maybe I'll leave soon, or not. I'm currently getting a Master in Art Marketing. I show my illustration work on my web site: www.victordematha.com [or click on link below] Go check it out."

-- Victor de Matha's website
-- Class Notes Archives (2001)

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2002

Sibile Morency ('02) & Antonio Gurrea-Nozaleda ('02)

From top to bottom: Julia Martellozo ('02); Youssouf Coulibaly ('02); Daria Vlasova ('02)

● Ana Ortiz is the new Alumni Class Representative for the class of 2002.

● Pauline Austry nous écrit: "Et bien, en ce qui me concerne, mon cursus après le LFNY a été un peu mouvementé. J'ai d'abord fait ma 2nd et une partie de ma 1ère au lycée Français de Belgique, à Bruxelles, puis la fin de ma 1ère et ma terminale à Paris, au lycée Jean-Baptitse Say. J'ai ensuite poursuivi mes études en faisant 2 ans d'école préparatoire aux concours d'école de commerce au lycée Janson de Sailly à Paris. J'ai réussi à intégrer Euromed-Marseille (nouveau nom de l'ESC Marseille) où je suis actuellement en dernière année, aprés avoir fait une année de césure l'an dernier pendant laquelle j'ai effectué 2 stages, un de 7 mois à Londres chez Frenger International, société privée specailisée dans les fusions acquisitions entre la France et les UK, et mon second chez BNPP AM (BNP Paribas Asset Management, la branche de BNPP qui s'occupe de la gestion d'actif). Je compte finir ma scolarité en partant 6 mois en université partenaire à Florence de février à juillet. En espèrant que tout va bien au LFNY !"

-- Class Notes Archives (2002)

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2003

TOP: Flavia Masson ('03); BOTTOM: Emmanuel Crouy ('03)

● “Flavia Masson was born and raised in New York City. She went to the Lycée Français de New York and The Dwight School. She graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Visual Arts. Growing up, she shared her time between New York, France and Italy. Flavia has been studying acting since the age of 7 at The Neighborhood Playhouse School, The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and The Gene Frankel Theatre Workshop, where she was taught by the legendary Gene Frankel.....Her father, Charles Masson (’73), owns New York City's prestigious culinary establishment, La Grenouille, where many stars, artists and writers are known to dine.” (From IMDb.com; http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2304651/bio)

-- Class Notes Archives (2003)

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2004

TOP: Jean-Edouard Silva ('04); BOTTOM: Augustin Sayer ('04)

● Jean-Edouard Silva is "a 21-year-old film student hoping to be a successful writer/director." Visit his website by clicking on link below.

● Lucas Lo Iacono wrote: "I am currently residing in New York after having graduated from McGill with BA. I majored in International Development studies and minored in Economics. It has been a month now that I started working for a Venture Capital Advisory firm (Strategic Ventures and Research, www.svrglobal.com) located in Long Island city. At the same time I am working for a wine store (Court Square Wine and Spirits, www.courtsquarewine.com), located on the ground floor of the firm. The wine store has been open for eight months and deals with individual customer sales as well as corporate sales. I work between the two as they are both run by the same owner and because it gives me the opportunity to work in a diverse environment."

-- Jean-Edouard Silva's website
- Class Notes Archives (2004)

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2005

From top to bottom: Joanna Busby, Tom Faure, Justine Goy, Richard Marquetty (all '05)

-- Class Notes Archives (2005)

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2006

From top to bottom: Violette Masco, Jared Grossman, Pauline Bonavita (all '06)

● Mathieu Dunoyer told us that he “will attend the Manhattan School of Music in the fall of 2007 [to obtain a] Bachelor of music in classical piano.”

● Chase-Lyn Sage wrote: "I will be graduating top of my class from the Swedish Institute on January 28th. I will also be passing the NY state boards on January 24th. That's it for now! :)"

-- Class Notes Archives (2006)

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2007

Photos by Adrian Landon '07 (see message below for explanation)

Irene Domenjoz ('07) & Maximilien D'Andigne

● For news from Chase-Lyn Sage , see class notes for 2006, above.

● Adrian Landon wrote: "Hey everyone, it's Adrian from San Francisco. How are you? Hope all is going well, hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. I came back to New York for Thanksgiving for three days but unfortunatly didn't get to see anyone; I just chilled with my mum, bro, girlfriend and dog. It was great, my mum cooked up a excellent feast and I ate enough chocolate to cover my face up in pimples for a week. :) hihihihi, silly me. And I'm not gay from living in San Francisco if that's what you're thinkin'.
College is fun -- I watch so many movies that I don't like them anymore, It's super noisy to live in a dorm, theres a really loud obnoXIOUS f#*%^er who lives right across the hall from me, babbling all night. My neighbor smokes pot with a bunch of people in the little bathroom we share, lots of people smoke a lot of pot here, drink a lot, people just go on all night giggling and laughing, it makes me wonder. At night, when there are no cars, we ride down the hills on skateboards, risking our lives, awesomeness though, the speeeeeeeed, the sensation, the bus ride back up; the intense math I experienced at the Lycee is slowly fading away as I spend most of my time building things, making water pumps, ping pong ball launchers, balsa wood bridges (mine held 65 pounds). I'm layed back, in the Lycee I felt like I was smarter than most people. Here I know I am smarter than most people. Haha, cocky bastard. No, but seriously, this school only accepts those with the money, they do not check SAT scores at all, and lots of the kids here are just dumb. But that's not why I'm here though. The stuff is relatively easy, it's really fun sometimes, and I know for a fact that I am the one working the least out of everyone from the Lycee, but let me assure you that I didn't know about it, and that if I choose to continue this major, I might go to a more challenging and serious school. But I like San Fran. It's funny, I call the place I work in the 'testosterone factory', 'cause there are mostly guys and they're all here for the cars. It's fun though, it's chill. Learn the word 'hella', it's hella chill, nutella is hella good. New SAT word. I express my sophistication to the others in my dorm by drinking tea and listening to classical music, hahaha, and speaking French, cursing in French, and some of the ladies really love it.
Here are some pictures of me, the pirate was for halloween, my dad came and it was great; he dressed as a monk, the jack sparrow joker was this random night, ten other people went for the joker look, entering for a contest for the new batman movie. Best group picture wins. We didn't win, but we looked pretty bad ass. Here is my teapot project, I got a C- on it but I think it's cool. It all started with a couple of designs, then after selecting one, a foam model was constructed, a model split in half down the middle. then I cast a sheet of acrylic over each half to make a mold, a one use only mold though. After removing the foam model from the mold, which means destroying the foam model, I poured instant cast into the model, which is two materials that you mix together, very toxic, and that acts like a liquid clay thay dries in half an hour. So my teapot ended up like a big block of clay-like material. After glueing the two halves together, sanding it down, sharpening the edges, I had to paint it, color by color, with a spray gun. It turned out nice, I wanted it to look like a rock that burst out of the ground from an earthquake or something, and give it lava like colors, as if it was lava in the process of drying. I also added little chunks of silver paint to mimic metal or crystals.
I really miss all of you and hope to be able to see you during the Christmas break in New York, if you'll be there. I'm coming back on the 22nd of December for 5 weeks. Love, Adrian"

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