Updated Letter

Rewrite!!

The rough news about rising junior WR Anthony Johnson is out there right now. I don’t really think there’s much to say about this except we hope the young man is able to straighten everything out.

Don’t forget to post your name and school year/affiliation if you support our call for a special halftime ceremony honoring our student veterans.

I am intrigued by some calls to eliminate all mention of the negative incidents that led me and others to call for this tribute for our veterans… and I have to agree.

A revamped version of the letter is below:


Dear President Bollinger, Dr. Murphy, and Chairman Campbell:


We the undersigned are concerned alumni, students and parents of students at Columbia University. We write today in favor of honoring all of Columbia’s student armed forces veterans at halftime of a football game this coming fall.

We believe these veteran-scholars represent the best of both the Columbia community and our country. We also believe that the vast majority of Columbia’s student athletes and fans support our veterans wholeheartedly.

Columbia has a grand history of honorable contributions to American military history. That history includes the volunteerism and heroism of Alexander Hamilton, Dwight Eisenhower, William Donovan, and Philip Kearney, just to name a few.

We believe the best way to honor these extraordinary student veterans would be to hold a halftime ceremony singling them out in front of thousands of cheering fans.

Whatever we can do to make such a ceremony happen we are prepared to offer. Just ask.

Respectfully,

Greg Abbruzzese '91 C

Nicolás S. Barragán '13 C

Richard Berger ’57 C

Curtis Chen ’82 SEAS

Ralph DeBernardo ’09 C

William O. Flick Jr. ’87 C

Steve Greenberg '73 C

Karl Groth

Carl Henriquez '60 C, '64 P&S

Rebecca Hiner '09 GS

Donald Jensen '73 C

Barry Kelner '73 C

Bob Kent '92 C

Bob Levine ’58 C

Thomas Long ’74 C

Eric Lorber '06 C

Cassidy Lutjean '07 C

Brian & Renée McClain

John McClelland ’11 GS

Jacob Novak ’92 C

John F. O’Connor ’67 C

Kiernan O’Connor ’92 C

Charles Sergis ’55 C

Gene Straub '49 C , '50 SEAS

Richard Szathmary '67 C

Dorian Tergis ’74 C, ’78 P&S

Bohdan Vitvitsky ’79 GSAS, ’85 LAW

Jewell K. Waldbaum

Stan Waldbaum ’62 C, ’65 LAW

Jeff Wasserstein ’93 GS, ’96 LAW

Sam Williams