CC/BC Memoirs

                         

                            Undergraduate Student Memoirs and Biographies
                                        of Columbia & Barnard  Colleges

 

 

 

 

1830s

George Templeton Strong CC 1838

The Diary, Vol. I,  eds. Allan Nevins and Benjamin Thomas (1962)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1870s

Brander Matthews

 

 

 

 

1880s

Nicholas Murray Butler CC ‘82

Across the Busy Years, I (1939)

 

Benjamin Cardozo  CC 1888

Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo  (1998)

 

 

 

1890s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virginia Gildersleeve  BC ‘99

Many a Good Crusade (1954)

 

John Erskine  CC 1900

The Memory of Certain Persons (1947)

1900s

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irwin Edman

Philosopher’s Holiday (1938)

 

Carlton J.H. Hayes  CC 1904

Arthur J. Hughes, Carlton J.H. Hayes: Teacher & Historian (PhD 1970)

 

 

 

1910s

 

 

 

Randolph Bourne  CC 1914

Bruce Clayton, Forgotten Prophet; Randolph Bourne  (1984)

 

Joseph Freeman, CC 1919

An American Testament (1936)

 

Lloyd Morris CC ‘14

A Threshold in the Sun (1943)

 

 

 

1920s

Mortimer J. Adler  CC ‘23

Philosopher at Large (1977)

 

Lionel Trilling CC ‘24

Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey (1993)

 

Meyer Schapiro  CC ‘24

 

 

Whittaker Chambers, 1920-23

Sam Tannenhaus, Whittaker Chambers (1997)

 

Margaret Mead  BC ‘26

Blackberry Winter

 

Jacques Barzun

Teacher in America (1945)

 

Eli Ginzberg

Professor of Economics, Emeritus

 

 

 

1930s

 

 

 

James Wechsler

 

 

Carl Schorske  CC ‘36

A Life of Learning (ACLS, 1987)

 

Thomas Merton

Seven-Storey Mountain

 

Theodore De Bary

 

 

Sid Luckman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940s

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jack Kerouac

 

 

   Alan  Ginsberg

 

 

 

 

 

Norman Podhoretz CC 1950

Making It (1967)

 

Carl Hovde

Professor of English, Emeritus

 

 

 

1950s

Michael Sovern  CC ‘52

Currently Professor of Law, CU

 

Gedale  B. Horowitz

Trustee of Barnard College

 

Max Frankel  CC ‘52

Times of My Life (199)

 

Helen Kaplan

Trustee of Barnard College

 

Steven Marcus

Professor of English, CU

 

Mark Kaplan  CC ‘

 

 

Dan Wakefield CC 1955

New York in the Fifties (1992)

 

Robert Gottlieb

 

 

Roone Arledge

 

 

Brian Dennehy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mirella Servodidio  BC ‘

 

 

Iser Woloch  CC’ 60

Currently, Professor of History, CU

 

Joan Birman   BC

Professor of Mathematics

 

Chet Forte  CC ‘57

Basketball All-American

 

Serge Gavronsky CC ‘59

Professor of French, BC

 

Demetrios Caraley CC ‘58

Professor of Political Science, BC

1960s

 

 

 

David Rothman

Professor of History, CU and P&S

 

Patricia Green

Barnard Trustee

 

Jonathan Cole

University Provost

 

Flora Davidson  BC ‘ 

Associate Provost, Barnard

 

Roger Lehecka  CC ‘69

College Alumni Association

 

Lewis Cole  CC ‘68

Professor of Film, School of the Arts

 

David Denby  CC ‘65

Great Books (1996)

 

 

 

 

1970s

 

 

 

Steven Wheatley CC 1975

Historian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1980s

 

 

 

Hannah McCaughey  BC ‘88

Assoc. Art Director, Esquire