"They graduated?! I can't believe it!"
In memory of Kay Lillibridge
What happened to those slackers of yesteryear? Those otaku who slouched down in the front rows of Uris Media Room B or Goldwin Smith D? Where are they now? This page is dedicated to keeping track of those old, great CJAS members and helping them (us) keep track of each other through their (our) old age and fading memories and periods of unemployment.
Someday we'll have enough ex-members to do something cool like start a trust fund with a growth plan devised by all those CS majors in CJAS...enough $$$ for CJAS to kick the SAFC's collective butt! Or maybe we'll be able to start some kind of alumni network so that newly graduated alumni will have contact points all over the place. You know some of us otaku will end up in pretty weird places.
This site contains updated contact information pertaining to the email addresses and/or whereabouts of CJAS's graduated itinerant former members. Feel free to give them an email!
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- Brad Ackerman '00
Email address: bsa3@cornell.edu
Webpage: http://www.facefault.org/bsa3/
Blood Type: O+
After a too-long period of unemployment, I was about to start an MS in chemistry when I got a job with the Man. The benefits package is fairly unique, and even includes a free T-shirt with paid DEFCON admission. :)
Currently, my anime/manga interests include trying to get caught up on the three dozen volumes of Detective Conan on my to-read shelf.
-last updated: 6/20/02
- Peter Birdsall '98, '99
Email address: pfb1@cornell.edu
Blood Type: B-
Through the dotcom mill and out the other side, I am hiding from the real world as a web admin for New York University while working on a Masters in CG for VFX work.
-last updated: 4/23/04
Most memorable moment: Billeting various CJAS field trips to I*CON at my (absolutely *thrilled*) parents' place on Long Island
- Doris Chan '96
Email address: dmc1@cornell.edu
Doris is currently trying to clean her room.
- Mason Chang '96
Email address: mason_chang@merck.com
Mason has escaped from the interminable rounds of schooling and started researching for Merck in Philadelphia, City of Crime. I think as concerned ex-CJASers we should take up a collection to get him a bullet-proof vest.
- Allen Chen '96
Email address: achen@cjas.org
Allen is currently contemplating the meaning of life and hopes to bump into Sam & Max some day at Stuckey's.
- Eddie Chen '99
Email address: echen@cjas.org
-last updated: 2/12/02
- Bobby Chow '01
Email address: bchow@cjas.org
Webpage: http://www.cjas.org/~bchow
Blood Type: A+
Currently doing research in medical imaging at the University of Rochester. Waiting for the economy to turn around. =)
-last updated: 2/20/02
Most memorable moment: On a night that we were showing Nausicaa, we discovered at the meeting that the tape we brought was unsubtitled and then quickly ran to the archive to discover that the club had several copies of Nausicaa ... all unsubbed. Fortunately, the evening was saved by John, who happened to have a subbed copy in his apartment. I think we showed the various extras and trailers from the Cowboy Bebop DVD during the downtime.
- Chris DeVries '95
Email address: devries@donald.phast.umass.edu
Chris is currently astronomating at UMASS Amherst and proof of his continuing existence has been verified. He recently got engaged...congratulations!
- Mark Dudley '92
Email address: dyuken@hotmail.com
Blood Type: A+
I work for Daimler Chrysler doing unix graphic support and pc support. I am also a professional illustrator having done alot of role playing gaming and some comics work. I am a huge anime head,don't much care for the label "otaku". I am even a bigger hip hop head. Thats why I went to school in NY in the first place. Its a long way from Michigan.
Most memorable moment: Going to the little video store past the commons down by Cayuga lake in 89 and finding a copy of bubble gum crisis there. Also seeing Akira and John Woo's the Killer at Uris Auditorium in 90.
-last updated: 3/10/03
- Lawrence Eng '98
Email address: leng@cjas.org
Webpage: http://www.cjas.org/~leng
Blood Type: A+
Law is currently in grad school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (in the department of Science and Technology Studies). As always, he's on the lookout for To-Y merchandise. Sometime after leaving Cornell, he started obsessing over serial experiments lain and various super-secret otaku projects. He got married in July, 2002. CJAS alum James Kao was his best man, and Eddie Chen, Jerry Hsu, and David Welte were his groomsmen.
-last updated: 3/10/03
Most memorable moment: Pulling all-nighters working on marathon newsletters
- John David Garza '00
Email address: garza@cjas.org
Webpage: http://www.cjas.org/~garza
Blood Type: O+
John is currently developing server apps and solutions for UTHSCSA Microarray Core in San Antonio, TX.
-last updated: 2/12/02
Most memorable moment: Carrying the projector to and from the meetings, especially during the winter...
- HaVoC '98
Email address: michaelyang@attbi.com
Blood Type: AB+
HaVoC is currently enrolled at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He's in the first year of his Master's of Arts in International Policy Studies. He is also desperately trying to clear immigration for his poor wife who is still in Japan.
-last updated: 9/12/02
Most memorable moment: Graduating?
- Bruce Hahne '93
Email address: hahne@netcom.com
This honorable former President is in Santa Clara somewhere.
- Owen Hsia
Email address: shsia@cjas.org
Blood Type: A+
"CS"
-last updated: 6/20/02
Most memorable moment: first E-board
establishing shot: Great Ivy League School building
interior: small classroom
Pencil-necked geeks sit and chat.
Pan left to see Asian dudes who are obviously engineering and science students. Short Man skips in, dressed in matching sweatpants and sweatshirt, fanny-pack, and light-saber tube on his belt. He's an Asian LUKE SKYWALKER!
Cut to shot of doorway: A great hairy man walks in. He is wearing shorts in the dead of winter, and carries umbrella to ward off the snow.
Increase pace of cuts.
Cue discordant strings, begin crescendo.
jump cut to long-haired freak speaking zealously about anime.
zoom in on the wild eyes. wipe to white.
- Jerry Hsu '97, '96
Email address: jhsu@cjas.org
Famous Quote: "Isn't this the one where Gim dies?"
Jerry is developing plans to finance the CJAS Living Center.
He was BS'96 and MEng'97.
- Tom Jayanama fall '95
Email address: nerv@usa.net
Tom Jayanama, one of CJAS's venerable ojiisans, broke the mold of his generation and actually graduated from Cornell! He has been around long enough to remember stories of CJAS's dark beginnings in the misty annals of history. Ojiisan is currently somewhere in Thailand with his BMW and celphone.
- James Kao '99
Email address: jmk17@cornell.edu
Blood Type: AB+
Since graduating, James has been flying around spreading Java goodness to all the boys and girls.
-last updated: 2/12/02
Most memorable moment: Seeing nobody laugh at the horrific final parody we made...:)
- Lewis Wing Lee '97, '96, '93
Email address: wl15@cornell.edu
Quote from Lewis: "I am a die-hard Cornellian: BS/1993, MEng/1996, MBA/1997. I will be working in Wall Street, trying to make enough dough to support this expensive hobby. If CJAS needs help, let me know."
- Paul Lester '96, '97, '98
Email address: pbl1@cornell.edu
Webpage: http://pbl1.tripod.com/
I'm still in Japan, working with Java, JavaScript, Databases and SQL. I make the tools some people use to make ringtones in Japan and now Europe (Germany, The Netherlands, France and GB) and Korea too (and soon Taiwan if things go well). I love low level programming, music and Tae Kwon Do right now. I'm applying to grad school to do theoretical physics (unifying gravity and QM like probably everyone else). I just finished watching the entire Dragon Ball GT series rerun on SkyPa TV. Favorite manga is now HUNTER X HUNTER. Favorite animes are Chibi Marukochan, Kochi Kame, and Inuyasha. I also watch Conan regularly, its good Japanese practice.
-last updated: 2/20/02
Sadly, we have received word that Kay Lillibridge, one of the two co-founders of CJAS and an entertainment editor for a local news wire in San Francisco, has passed away. Masaki Takai sent an email informing us of the sad news. Our condolences go out to Kay's family and friends. If you are a friend of Kay's and would like more information (i.e. how to contact her family) please feel free to send me an e-mail.
(by her friend Jerry Liu)
-last updated: 12/11/04
- Gregory Marques '98
Email address: gmarques@cjas.org
Blood Type: O+
Pseudo-employed as I seek out a new career as a Game Designer. I'm also one of the few "success stories" as I'm married to CJAS-alum Lillian Olsen.
-last updated: 3/10/03
Most memorable moment: Watching Mononoke Hime fresh from presses on an apartment wall with a not-quite-contraband former GSD projector.
- Kathy Moon '02
Email address: KRMYN@aol.com, krm9@cornell.edu
Blood Type: O+
Currently living at home, working at a Friar Tuck bookstore while searching for an engineering job. Not many leads, but in the meantime I get three free magazines a week! If you happen to be in the area, check out the RPI anime/scifi club with meetings Monday and Thursday nights.
-last updated: 3/20/03
Most memorable moment: The first publicity event I attended on West campus, where Jay (I think) showed "Slayers" and then forgot to pass out the handouts with the regular meeting times. I didn't find the club itself until after his next showing.
- Dan Moren '02
Email address: dmoren@mac.com
Webpage: http://www.doombot.com/dan/
Blood Type: B+
Right now I'm working doing tech support and web development for the Harvard Humanitarian Project on Conflict Research. Other than that, I'm working on writing and other creative projects in my free time.
-last updated: 3/10/03
Most memorable moment: Showing the CJAS Parody that I directed at the Spring Marathon in 2002. The appreciation of the audience blew me away, and I'll always remember how much fun I had making it.
- Matt Opel '93
Email address: mro93001@uconnvm.uconn.edu
After Matt's youthful days at CJAS came to an end, he became a grad student in botany at the University of Connecticut, and founded UCJAS (The UConn Japanese Animation Society). Matt's current research interests center on quantifying the amount of Eva goods he can fit into his room.
- Jeremiah Palmer '98
Email address: jcp10@cornell.edu
I work for Motorola in Austin Texas making computer chips. Oh yeah, I'm also jumping on the laserdisc bandwagon just a few years too late =)
- Jae Shin '01
Email address: js138@cornell.edu
Blood Type: A+
After graduating, I taught English in Japan for a year and a half then came back to the States to work for Square-Enix as a game tester. Now I'm a masters student with the Entertainment Technology Center, at Carnegie Mellon and hoping to get into the animation industry when I graduate.
-last updated: 12/28/04
Most memorable moment: Walking into GS100 for the first time, and looking at all the heads staring at the big glowing screen.
Oh, and chalking on the sidewalks of North and West campus.
- Matthew C. Sontum '00
Email address: silentbobus@yahoo.com
Webpage: http://www.cjas.org
Blood Type: A+
I am actively recruiting for a small[ish] video game design studio. Specifically next weekend. Be There Or Be _Somewhere Else_
-last updated: 5/14/03
Most memorable moment: Trying to get the eBoard to shell out approx $50 to pay for color advertising. Eventually deciding to pay for said advertising with 'discretionary' funds. Taking discretionary funds out of my own pocket. Realizing I'd written the book on corporate finance 2001. Graduating with Honors.
- Kevin Sung '97
Email address: gabriel_archon@hotmail.com
Last I heard Big Kev was working on a CJAS yearbook in NYC. In his free time he's a y2k consultant.
- Masaki Takai '91
Email address: mtakai@ix.netcom.com
Instead of watching whacked out characters do incredibly violent and invasive things to each other on screen, I now am able to perform incredibly violent and invasive things on my patients as a resident doctor. Hey, who said that watching anime doesn't lead to anything!
- Sheng-Te Tsao '92
Email address: stsao@atitech.ca
Proud member of CJAS since Day 2 (I missed the first meeting). Still have fond memories of those days watching Anime at Masaki's Apartment till 2:00AM.
Currently a Software Engineer working on OpenGL drivers for ATI Technologies up there in the frozen Northland known as Canada.
- Brian Williams '00
Email address: bwilliam@cjas.org
Blood Type: O+
-last updated: 8/3/03
Most memorable moment: Riding in the trunk of James Kao's car.
- James Yang '98
Email address: jty2@cornell.edu
Blood Type: O+
"Dreamcast! Dreamcast! Dreamcast!"
-last updated: 2/20/02
Webmaster: Lawrence Eng
Original page design and first Webmaster: Doris Chan