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READER COMMENTARY: Pay tribute to founders of Pachanga
Letters to the Editor | 3/31/09
Posted online at 6:51 PM EST on 3/30/09
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In response to your article "The legend of Pachanga" (March 24 issue): To shed some light and provide some credits, Pachanga first happened in the deep winter of 1997 in a Ridgewood apartment. It started as a house party at the suite of Manuel Costescu '99, Michael Winer '98 and Christos Stergiou '99, who were members of the board of the International Club at the time. I was the first DJ.
It first became an official, open-to-everyone and funded party in 1998. It went on to become bigger and bigger since then. Five different I-Club boards ran it during my tenure as DJ from 1998 to 2001. Then DJ Endri T took over for the next few years.
Forgive me for not recalling all the names of all the board members who contributed and helped in the founding of Pachanga, but credit should at least go to: Winer, Costescu, Stergiou, Monika Todor '00, Ricci Wolman '00, Brita Gaffey '01, Yonca Heyse '02, Naama Laufer '03, Eleni Tsolakis '03 and Gustavo Gyske '03.
Also thanks to Kabir Kumar, who received his master's from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management in 2003. As a treasurer, Kumar believed in what would later become legacy and handily funded the project.
-Alex Mizan '00
It first became an official, open-to-everyone and funded party in 1998. It went on to become bigger and bigger since then. Five different I-Club boards ran it during my tenure as DJ from 1998 to 2001. Then DJ Endri T took over for the next few years.
Forgive me for not recalling all the names of all the board members who contributed and helped in the founding of Pachanga, but credit should at least go to: Winer, Costescu, Stergiou, Monika Todor '00, Ricci Wolman '00, Brita Gaffey '01, Yonca Heyse '02, Naama Laufer '03, Eleni Tsolakis '03 and Gustavo Gyske '03.
Also thanks to Kabir Kumar, who received his master's from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management in 2003. As a treasurer, Kumar believed in what would later become legacy and handily funded the project.
-Alex Mizan '00
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