The weather blessed us with beautiful sunshine on and around the tents erected on South Lawn to celebrate
the 11th Annual Parade of Classes.
Class of 1962, Columbia College, represented (l.to r.)
Stuart Rosenbluth, Dick Schwartz and Paul Alter
The event is labelled a Parade because each class represented by its alumni carry their
class flag, in front of the Columbia graduates--this year numbering 1026-- all dressed in school colors and seated under their tent--as we the alumni pass by to the beat of ceremonial marching music.
The keynote speaker was screenwriter Dan Futterman CC'89, the Academy Award nominated writer of "Capote." He described how he wrote the first draft lying in bed and sitting in various libraries: Butler, Avery and the East Asian-- at the same time he was recovering from open-heart surgery.
He urged the students to overcome all obstacles, as he successfully did: "You too have now entered an exclusive club. With that privilege you have responsibility...Turn around and give someone else a hand up the stairs and through the door."
Though you may be convinced that your life should follow a certain track, he said, don't, necessarily stick to that one path. "Take the blinders off. Look at the paths available to you... In work, in love--sometimes it's hard to change course."
Video clip of Dan Futterman's humorous opening lines
The keynote speaker was screenwriter Dan Futterman CC'89, the Academy Award nominated writer of "Capote." He described how he wrote the first draft lying in bed and sitting in various libraries: Butler, Avery and the East Asian-- at the same time he was recovering from open-heart surgery.
He urged the students to overcome all obstacles, as he successfully did: "You too have now entered an exclusive club. With that privilege you have responsibility...Turn around and give someone else a hand up the stairs and through the door."
Though you may be convinced that your life should follow a certain track, he said, don't, necessarily stick to that one path. "Take the blinders off. Look at the paths available to you... In work, in love--sometimes it's hard to change course."
Video clip about Futterman's writing the first draft of "Capote"
in various Campus libraries after open-heart surgery
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