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Class of 1959 “ Don’t – as you graduate – carry away the notion that your education is finished,” wrote President Buell G. Gallagher to the Class of ‘59 as part of his message in Microcosm. The Class of ’59 entered CCNY as its campus experienced a major growth spurt in September, 1955: The new South Campus opened, transforming the College from “a spacious court surrounded by stately buildings of Medieval design,” as described by Mark Twain in 1906, to an eighteen and a half acre tree-spotted patch of greenery in the middle of the bustling metropolis of New York. Lists and affiliations were recurring issues during the Class of ’59's four years, as compulsory membership lists, initiated the term before the class arrived, were required of every student organization, drawing strong protests. Reflecting the tensions of the times, an invitation to Paul Robeson to appear at the annual Academic Freedom Week ceremonies was revoked, as Student Government President Jared Jussim expressed the fear that Robeson’s visit might make the College look bad in the eyes of outsiders. Eleanor Roosevelt subsequently spoke on campus about conformity in Russia, while Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Peoples Rights candidate for the City Council, was banned by President Gallagher on the grounds that she had been convicted under the Smith Act. The campus continued its transformation process. The Morris Raphael Cohen Library opened, and Drill Hall was torn down to make way for the new Tech building. With the cooperation of the Atomic Energy Commission, an atomic reactor was installed under Lewisohn Stadium. The last Friday Night Dance, a College tradition since 1943, took place at the end of the 1957-58 school year. A lack of funds was blamed for its unfortunate demise. Senior year, “Benny the Beaver,” a 5.5 ton sculpture by CCNY alumnus Robert Russin, took up residence behind the Finley Center, facing the new library. A sportscaster named Bill Stern labeled City College, NYU, the University of Chicago and Harvard as “hotbeds of Communism” because they didn’t have football teams (though, in fact, Harvard did have one). His observation was met with laughter by the student body. The Senior Prom was held at Tavern-on-the-Green, and a good time was had by all. The Farewell Ball, which took place just before Commencement, was a smashing success. Then came life after City College, with the hope, again expressed by President Gallagher, that graduates would “continue a life-long self-education,” thereby giving their alma mater “good reason to rejoice.” Class notes are excerpted from the 1959 Microcosm, Editor-in-Chief, Robert Steinberg. 156 Dr. Ruth R. Adams 140 Hepburn Road #8H Clifton, NJ 07012 rra2000@aol.com “ I believe that the most important aspect in my life has been my relationships. My religious education at Har Sinai Temple in Trenton, NJ had a great influence on me. Rabbi Holzberg taught us that “religion is the relationship of person to person, and through that relationship one finds God.” I had wonderful parents, Evelyn and Israel Richmond, who lived this belief and who also helped me to see the necessity of caring about the needs of others. My parents were instrumental in starting the Council of Human Relations in Trenton, NJ during the depression and they helped many people of all races to find jobs. They were active in Zionist causes and raised money for the Youth Aliyah project of Hadassah to rescue children from Germany and relocate them to what was then called Palestine. My sister, Estelle, and her husband, Irving Robinson, carried on this work in the name of our parents. They upheld the same traditions. Both of our children went into “caring/helping” professions. Our daughter, Judith, became a teacher and our son, David, a doctor. My father believed in education and saw to it that I applied to Radcliffe College, which, he was informed, was “the finest college in the land.” That experience gave me a great start. I went on to get my master’s degree at City College of NYC and my Ph.D. at New York University. My Radcliffe College friends are still some of my closest. We write and try to see each other in between reunions. Certainly the most important relationship I formed in college was with my husband, Jim Adams. At the time, he was studying at Harvard Law School and we met and fell in love. When we were first married, we lived in NYC. I was a teacher at the Dalton School and later at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, NY. World War II intervened and I joined Jim at the Navy Language School in Boulder, Colorado. I lived with my parents in Trenton, NJ while Jim was overseas. Our son, David, was born there. Later we moved to Stuyvesant Town in NYC, where our daughter, Judy, was born. Judy is a gifted teacher of young children, who has had a long, successful career on the faculty of Friends Seminary in NYC. She is married to Daniel Anderson, whom she met at Northwestern University and he is a wonderful elementary vocal music teacher as well as an accomplished musician. Their son, Evan received a Business degree from Washington University in St. Louis and is now working as a manager for Allway Tools in the Bronx. Our son, David, has recently relocated and is Professor of Clinical Neurology and Director, Division of General Neurology at the University of Miami Medical School and Hospital. He and his wife, Stephanie, who was a practicing nurse for many years, have two sons - Scott and Keith. Scott graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Communications and is a writer and actor. Keith received his degree in Communications from the University of Miami. He is active in the film industry and also writes screen plays. While teaching at City College, I had the good fortune to have Professor Florence Roswell as my mentor. She inspired me. Dean Bortner chose me to be Associate Dean of the School of 157 Education. Prior to that, I was Chairperson of the Department of Elementary Education, which included Bilingual and Early Childhood Programs as well as some courses in Special Education and School Psychology. I was active in the Education Alumni Association and was awarded a plaque and recognition for my work by my colleagues and by the CCNY Alumni Association. While I was Chairperson, we received a number of grants, such as The Right to Read and several others in Bilingual Education. During my tenure, Professor Lillian Weber established The Workshop Center for Early Childhood Education. This center had international prestige. Professor Gilbert Voyat of the Psychology Department was a frequent contributor. He was a student of the distinguished epistemologist and author, Jean Piaget, whom we had the good fortune to meet at a meeting of the Piaget Society. Jim and I built our home on Long Beach Island, New Jersey in 1968 and moved down permanently in 1982 when I retired from City College and Jim retired as Regional Counsel for the Navy Office of the General Counsel in the Northeast region. I found I did not enjoy retirement, so I became a School Psychologist, Learning Consultant, and Guidance Counselor for many years at the schools on LBI and the mainland. We loved our lives on LBI and had many friends and activities to keep us busy: AAUW, the Jewish Community Center, and social groups such as my retiree friends and my Healthy Bones Group. Our children and grandchildren enjoyed many summers at our home in Beach Haven. During these years we traveled a great deal. On one trip to Israel I had the opportunity to see a Youth Aliyah village. After many years, when Jim had a bad fall, broke his hip, and was having difficulty navigating in our two-level home, it was time to move on. We sold our home and moved to Clifton, NJ to be nearer our children. We are now living in Country Club Towers in a beautiful, spacious apartment which Judy and Dan found and set up for us. When we first walked in, everything was in place as though we had lived there for many years. It is a short distance from their home in Bloomfield. As soon as I was settled in Clifton, I became a member of the Sequoia Program at the YMHA and attend lectures, discussions, shows, concerts, and luncheons with my new friends. I also enjoy services at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield where Judy and Dan are members, and Judy sings in the choir.” In closing, I would like to say that my years at City College will never be forgotten. At the time when I was a student, the master’s degree was free and I received a splendid education! I would love to hear from colleagues and former students. 158 Mrs. Rose Anderson 14 The Rise Woodbury, NY 11797 516-367-9684 R ose Camille Anderson (née De Cicco) majored in Mathematics, earning her BS degree from CCNY’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. At City, she was a member of the Newman Club and the Education Society. She is a retired Math teacher who worked in the New York City school system. She is the widow of Henry Joseph Anderson, who was an actuary and fellow CCNY alumnus. Rose’s fondest CCNY memories: “The time I met my future husband at the Newman Club and also our times together at Shepard Hall.” Rose has four children: Carl and Joseph, both medical doctors; Sally, a social worker; and Michael, an investment banker. She also has 7 grandchildren. Mr. George Appel 304 Midland Avenue St. Louis, MO 63043 g-appel@juno.com “ I grew up in the North Bronx on Commonwealth Avenue and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City. While attending CCNY, I belonged to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). After graduating CCNY in 1959, I married in 1965 and moved to Lindenhurst, Long Island. I joined the Babylon Masonic Lodge #793 (Long Island, New York) and then eventually joined the Bridgeton Masonic Lodge #80 after moving to St. Louis, Missouri. I am married for 43 years to my wife, Jeanne, and we have 5 children: Pamela, Jennifer, Laura, Carl, and Erica. Our four lovely grandchildren are: Ian, Sarah, Katie, and Anna. My Hobby since I was a young boy was building model airplanes and flying U-Control airplanes and then eventually Remote Control (RC). I have worked at Grumman Aircraft in New York and then McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft and Boeing, in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1999, I retired from McDonnell-Douglas/Boeing Aircraft. I am a current member of the Boeing Aircraft Phantom Flyers RC Club and the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA).” Mrs. Carolyn Sanders Bacher 56 Cypress Place Newtown, PA 18940 (215) 860-3565 / carojoel@comcast.net “ I was 16 when I entered CCNY, a girl from a three-room apartment in the Bronx, just beginning to bloom. My parents were first generation Americans, intelligent, cultured and self-educated. They had grown up in poverty, my father raised in an orphanage. We were thrilled that I had the opportunity to attend CCNY as a full-time student. I changed majors twice, so I experienced the math and science track, the social science track, and graduated with a B.S in Education. It was practical for the daughter of a great depression family to become a teacher. There was an attitude among some professors, especially my biology professor that girls should not be taking up space at CCNY. Girls would end up “only as housewives” whereas the boys, who were not admitted to CCNY because a girl took their space, would have been a “credit to society”. The challenge of disproving this sexist attitude and making use of my wonderful free education remained in the back of my mind as a motivating factor. My intellect blossomed at CCNY. Never had I been surrounded by so many intelligent, thinking people. I loved the classes and the cafeteria conversations. I felt totally alive, though overworked. I felt like a member of the elite. My friends and I would make a better world. My most life changing experience was meeting my husband at CCNY. We have been married 51 years; have 2 children and 5 grandchildren. I began my career as a first grade teacher in a very poor area of Manhattan. I was horrified by the racism, lack of health care, accidental injuries, physical abuse, poor housing, rats, and lack of supervision these children experienced in their every day lives. “A rat bit my baby brother last night.” “My cousin got hit by a car.” “Every day on my way to school a man tries to get me to go into the basement with him.” I felt a calling to go into social work. In 1971 I returned to school and earned a Masters of Social Work at Rutgers University. I had a fulfilling and successful career in social work for the next 35 years. I completed a two year training program in Family Therapy, enhancing my skills. My present certifications include New Jersey Licensed Clinical Social Worker, ACSW, Permanently Certified School Social Worker, and Diplomate in Clinical Social Work. As a school social worker I came in contact with many of the problems of society; disabilities, drug abuse, family problems, poverty, suicide, death, mental illness, etc. I was chosen to work on a pilot project with families where there were persistent school problems. This project involved training social workers and psychologists to work with these families in a new way. Meanwhile, I had a private practice in family therapy. 160 I worked as a field instructor for graduate students in social work for Rutgers, Yeshiva University, University of Pennsylvania and Widener University. I taught social work at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work, and counseling techniques for graduate students at Trenton State University. I was chosen to participate in tri-state symposium on the state of school social work, which resulted in a published paper. Additionally, two of my school social work papers were published in social work journals. I was an active leader in the New Jersey Association of School Social Workers. In 1987 I became a program administrator and clinical supervisor at a child welfare agency. I was promoted to Director of Operations, and in that position grew the agency from 6 programs to 43 programs. My responsibilities included grant writing, program development and implementation, program evaluation, agency accreditation, interfacing with the state, training of staff, clinical supervision, and general problem solving. I became known as an expert in foster care and adoption. I was chosen to become a member of the Child Welfare League of America National Adoption Standards Committee, and the New Jersey Adoption Services Advisory Council. I presented papers statewide and nationally on Public-Private Partnerships in Child Welfare, and was chosen as a trainer for staff and parents on issues concerning adoption and parenting. In 1994 I developed, implemented and supervised an agency international adoption program. My social work view became global. The highlight of my career was forming families with children from around the world who would have spent their lives in orphanages, had it not been for our work. Our families still keep in touch, and it is such a pleasure to see the children grow and flourish as Americans. I officially retired in 2003, although I still work sporadically as a consultant and clinical supervisor. After retirement I became certified as an ethics trainer, and have provided ethics training to child welfare and mental health agencies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In retirement I have been doing what I love. I take classical piano lessons and piano master classes, sing folk music with my husband, meet friends for lunch, read, and play with my grandchildren. I raised my two children and am raising my two grandsons. It is an honor to raise children. It has been a good life.” 161 Hon. Harold Bauman 45 Delaware Ave. Liberty, NY 12754 “ Having grown up in the Bronx, I attended the Bronx High School of Science (aka CCNY Prep). I chose to attend CCNY because my family could ill afford tuition at other schools. In addition to financial considerations, I chose CCNY because of its renowned Engineering School. While attending CCNY I was on the Freshman basketball team as well as the Varsity basketball team for three years. The most significant honor I received was a diploma at graduation. In retrospect, Professors David Polansky and Nat Holman (who were my basketball coaches) made the greatest impression on me and helped instill values that served me well to this day. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1959, I earned a master’s from CCNY in 1964. While working as an engineer I was involved in the Apollo 11 Lunar landing and the F-14 Supersonic fighter. As an engineer I was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was also published in their periodicals. From 1967 through 1971 I attended Law School and thereafter have served as a trial attorney specializing in products liability cases. As an attorney I am past president of the Sullivan County Bar Association, a past member of the House of Delegates to the New York State Bar Association, and a Fellow in the New York Bar Foundation. In 2003 I was elected a Village Justice and am a member of the New York State Magistrates Association. The turning point in my life was meeting and marrying my wife, Lori Baum. We have two children. My son and daughter are attorneys in Los Angeles and Houston respectively. Each child has enhanced the Bauman family with two grandchildren. In retrospect, my fondest memories of college life center around my teammates, my coaches, and games that I played more than 50 years ago.” 162 Dr. Phoebe Lee Bauman 12508 Stable House Court Potomac, MD 20854 bauman@erols.com P hoebe Hillman Bauman majored in elementary education, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from CCNY's School of Education. At City, she was Vice President of the Education Society and a member of the History Society and Sis Parks. She was elected to Kappa Delta Pi and received the Tremain Scholarship and the YWHA Scholarship. Upon graduation, she took a position as an elementary school teacher in the Washington, D.C. Public Schools. She earned her Master of Arts in Education from George Washington University (1962). After two years, she took a position as an elementary school teacher in Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools. She took leave from her teaching position to raise a family. She returned to education, first at a private school and then with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) where she specialized in programming for gifted and talented children. While with MCPS, she received a PhD in Education Supervision and Administration from the University of Maryland (1987). Her career at MCPS progressed from program coordination and development to school administration. She retired as a public school administrator in 2001. She and her husband, Alvin, reside in Potomac, MD. They have three children and five grandchildren. She enjoys spending time with her family, participating in many cultural events, and traveling with her husband of 51 years. She is especially proud of having visited all 50 States and many foreign countries. Dr. Bauman still values the excellent education she received at CCNY and has fond memories of the outstanding faculty, beautiful campus, and her fellow students. If you have a copy of Microcosm, 1959, you can find Dr. Bauman in the group photo on page 9. She is seated lower left, facing the camera. 163 Mr. Simon B. Bennett 6351 Brampton Court Alexandria, VA 22304 (703) 751-5621 / simon@bennettconsult.com “ I was born in Paris, and grew up in France for 7 years, in Haiti for 2 years, in Cuba for 5 years and the rest in NYC. Graduated from Seward Park HS in Manhattan. I chose CCNY because of no tuition charges. Started college at night as I had to work for a living. After four years of service in the U.S. Air Force, enrolled again in City College in 1956 to finish my BSEE degree. After CCNY graduation in 1959, I received the degree of MSEE from NYU in 1961, while working at Bell Telephone Labs in NJ. I am or have been a member of IEEE, AIAA, and SSPI (Society of Satellite Professionals) My entire career has been devoted to commercial communications satellites, starting with the first one, TELSTAR, built by Bell Labs for AT&T. I then was recruited in 1963 by COMSAT Corporation, shortly after its creation. Similarly I was sought out by INTELSAT in 1973 as one of its very early employees. I participated in the specification, design, testing and on-orbit operation of these companies' satellites and ground stations until my retirement from INTELSAT in 1992. I then continued to do consulting for clients from all over the world. I have three children and six grandchildren. All reside in Israel except my youngest daughter who is in California. I love to do photography and hunting for morel mushrooms in the woods. I always enjoyed my time at CCNY and made many good friends there.” 164 Mr. Burton M. Bernstein 626 Carlo Drive Goleta, CA 93117-1748 BURTINS@COX.NET “ I grew up in Washington Heights and graduated from Jamaica High after my parents moved to Queens. I started City in 54 as an engineering student but switched my major to Pre law which delayed my graduation by 6 months. I participated in Student Government as Secretary, but the highlight of my City College years were my activities in the debating society. I was captain of the debate team and president of the society. The experience significantly prepared me for a career in both business and law. I received the Kelly debate medal at graduation. I relocated from N.Y. in 1965 to California and affiliated with a small insurance company called |Sovereign Life. In 1968 the company moved from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara where I still reside with my wife Judy (a Queens College graduate). We have two daughters and 4 grandchildren. I retired in 1995 as Vice President of the claims department after obtaining a law degree in 1988. I am currently in business for myself, working as a consultant and expert witness for attorneys involved in insurance cases . This is a new career for me and it takes me around the country handling cases from Alaska to Florida. Because this work is completed on a part time basis it allows me time to travel the world and to date I have visited more than 70 countries. I remain eternally indebted to CCNY for the opportunity to obtain a truly fine education that was not available to me on any other basis. The friends and knowledge I acquired at City have enabled me to achieve a degree of success that was beyond my very modest expectations. I regret I will not be able to attend the ’59 class reunion, but my thanks and best wishes are with you all.” 165 Mr. Harold Brown 13335 Purple Finch Circle Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202 hbrown20@tampabay.rr.com H arold Brown majored in Accounting, earning his B.B.A. degree from the Business School. He was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He later attended the General Electric-Financial Management Program (FMP) in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1970. He was Financial Manager at General Electric from 1968 to 1986; stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, Inc. from 1986 to 1989; and Financial Consultant at Moors & Cabot, Inc. in Boston from 1989 to 2002. He continued as a Financial Consultant in Sarasota, Florida from 2002 to 2008, and is now semiretired. His past memberships include ASALH (Association for Study of African American Life and History), 2002-2008; and Howard Club of Southwest Florida, Inc., 2005-2008. His wife is Dr. Brenda B. Brown, CCNY Class of 1961; his children are Gordon A. Brown and Bruce A. Brown. He has three grandchildren. Ms. Carol (Schechter) Buchalter CBMB@ATT.NET C arol Buchalter majored in Industrial Psychology, taking a BBA degree from the CCNY’s Business School. She earned her MSc degree from the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, now a part of Long Island University, in 1972. She is the co-founder of Parker Laboratories, Inc., a New Jersey manufacturer of medical supplies. She has three children and lives in New York. 166 Ms. Rosalie Calabrese (Hochman) 700 Columbus Avenue, #16D New York, NY 10025-6680 (212) 663-6620 / remgt@yahoo.com R osalie Calabrese (née Rosalie Sue Hochman) received a BA in English from the school of Liberal Arts. She married Anthony (Tony) Calabrese a year after they graduated; they divorced ten years later. Tony died in 1966, and their only child, a son, died in 2007. Rosalie has one grandchild, Katharine Antonia Calabrese, age 12. Rosalie has been a management consultant for the arts since 1983. From 1962-1994 she was also a member of the administrative staff of American Composers Alliance (ACA) where for several years she held the dual title of General Manager and Executive Director. In addition to her business experience, Rosalie Calabrese writes poetry and short stories as well as books and lyrics for musicals. Her poems have appeared in anthologies published by Random House, Center Street/Hachette, and Quill Books, among other presses, along with magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan and Poetry New Zealand to Jewish Currents and Poetica. Rosalie has also given readings of her poems and stories throughout the United States. She has been co-host of St. Agnes Poetry Unit, coordinator of The Poetry Collective of The Writer’s Voice at The West Side Y, and a proof reader for the literary journal, And Then. Several of Rosalie’s poems have been set to music, Yellow Cabs alone by three different composers. In theatre she has worked on production teams for shows in New York and elsewhere. Along with composer-director Anthony Calabrese, she has owned and operated a national touring company, a repertory company, and a summer stock company. Their musical Not In Earnest, based on Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” was seen most recently in Los Angeles. Rosalie herself has directed a cabaret act and tryout performances of a new play. She has also served as assistant to a theatrical agent, a Broadway producer, a press agent, and a news editor. Rosalie’s professional affiliations include membership or associate membership in The Dramatist’s Guild, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), PEN, and several poetry societies. She has served on the Board of Directors of American Composers Orchestra, First Avenue Ensemble, Joan Miller Dance Players, Downtown Music Productions, Golden Fleece Ltd., and The Aviva Players. She has been a member of the Music Advisory Committee of The Estate Project For Artists With AIDS. She has acted as Music Advisor to the Phyllis Rose Dance Company and was an advisor for the first edition of Who’s Who in Entertainment. Her own biography appears in various versions of Who’s Who, and she is listed in the Poets & Writers publication, A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. 167 Ms. Elaine Leah Camhi (Burstiner) 30 Round Hill Road Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 “ I grew up in the Bronx, graduated from Evander Childs and chose City College because my sister-in-law had gone there and it was coed. I became a business librarian, earned a master’s at Queens College, enjoyed employment at a leading accounting firm and a leading sales and marketing publication. I am married to a City College graduate and privileged to have raised our son in this great metropolitan area. City College was a special time in my life, a time of much learning, coffee drinking, laughter and the meeting of people that I will forever cherish.” 168 Dr. Charles Cintron 40 Whalen Road Randolph Center, VT 05061 B orn on December 25, 1936, to immigrant parents from Puerto Rico, Charles Cintron was schooled in the public school system in New York City and raised in the south-east Bronx. He attended Benjamin Franklin High School and graduated from City College in 1959 with a BS in Biology. He married soon after graduation. Charles subsequently attended the University of Colorado for an MS in Zoology. He returned to the east coast to attend Yale University for two years in the Botany Department. He left without a degree and took a position in the Physiology Department at the Medical School. In 1965 he attended the University of Connecticut and obtained a PhD in Cell Biology in 1970. He then moved on to a faculty position at the Retina Foundation (now called The Schepens Eye Research Institute) and Harvard Medical School. With his federal and private funding he conducted biomedical research in corneal wound healing resulting in numerous publications in peer reviewed journals and honors. He retired in 1999. He moved to Vermont and attended the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, VT. He obtained an Associate’s degree in Culinary Arts and started a business (Cocina Juanita) preparing vegetarian Puerto Rican entrees, sold at local food coops. After five years, he retired again. “In the course of my cooking career I worked in a restaurant, food co-op, bread baking business, school cafeteria, and farm stand. I’m currently cooking for friends and family and enjoying my retirement on my beautiful 84 acres in central Vermont. I have been married twice and have two children. “My fondest memory is buying salted pretzels as I went from one class to another. The vendor would call out: ‘Get your cerebral salts here.’” 169 Joyce Zaretsky Clateman 140 E 81st Street New York, NY 10028-1805 (212) 988-9409 / joyceclateman@gmail.com “ I grew up in the Bronx and attended Walton High School. I chose City College because of its diverse student body and reputation for academic excellence – and, it was free. I was a member of The Musical Comedy Society, Dramsoc, and “Sis Gibbs” House Plan. I planned to be an actress. I remember Professor Pennington, an elegant gentleman who inspired me to speak clearly and think about helping others to overcome speech problems. A turning point in my life came the next year, when I was a counselor at a summer camp. I was directing and appearing as “Anna” in “The King and I.” The younger sister of one of the children in the show begged to be in the show, too. She had had cleft palate surgery but refused to do her speech therapy exercises. She was difficult to understand. I told her that she could be in the show only if she improved her speech. She worked hard and was in the show! I realized how worthwhile it was to have helped that little girl. In 1962, I received an M.A. in Speech Pathology and Rehabilitation from Teachers College, Columbia. I worked in personnel, public relations, and as a Speech Improvement Teacher for the NYC Board of Ed and at a private school. In 1964, I married Saul Clateman, a Brooklyn-born lawyer and real-estate investment broker and moved to Manhattan. We love to travel and have been fortunate enough to have been many places a young girl from the Bronx sang about in “Far Away Places.” Remember that song? We skied and biked and still snorkel and hike. We have two sons. Andrew is completing his M.F.A. in acting and is engaged to Josine, his high school sweetheart. Peter is a lawyer in Moscow and married to Lena, from Kazakhstan. They presented us with our first grandchild, a girl, in March. Nahkonyetstoe. For 25 years, I read on “In Touch,” a radio station for the blind and I recorded over 25 books for The Jewish Guild for the Blind. I ran an accent-reduction clinic at Mount Sinai Medical Center, worked with a literacy group and have been honored for my volunteer work. I performed with “The Open Book,” an acting group, and have been active on committees at my temple and at a J.C.C. in Connecticut, where we have a second home. We attend the theater, concerts, the ballet and love New York City. I enjoy photography, arts and crafts, trying to learn Spanish and Russian, and fast-walking around the reservoir in Central Park. I take an aerobic dance class and have been doing Yoga since it was regarded as “weird.” Two of my fondest memories of City College: performing condensed highlights from Shakespeare in front of hundreds of engineering students, all male, to give them a sample of “liberal arts culture” – and meeting Barbara Y. T., ’60 who has been a dear friend since we met in French class and did homework together while listening to Johnny Mathis and Perry Como…Ah…Thank you, City College.” Mr. Robert A. Cohen One Horizon Road 1420 Fort Lee, NJ 07024 (201) 224-8882 / BOBCHH@AOL.COM R obert A. Cohen majored in Insurance, earning his BBA degree from CCNY’s Business School. As a student, he was Vice President of the Class of 1959, a member of House Plan (Jolson ’58), and a member of the Wrestling Team. He worked for 35 years on Wall Street, retiring in 1998 as Senior Vice President at Tucker Anthony Inc. His previous positions included Principal at LF Rothchild Unterberg Towbin (1982-1993) and Vice President at Bache & Co. (1967-1978). He is currently an active member of the Baruch College Reunion Committee. He and his wife, Joan, have two children, Scott Cohen and Jodi Carter, and 5 grandchildren. His fondest CCNY memory: “Being honored at graduation while on a pass from the U.S. Army.” 171 Mrs. Iris Gooze Cook 7 Devonshire Court Plainview, NY 11803 (516) 433-2266 / ircook@yahoo.com “ I loved City College! I had graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and most of my friends went on to private schools, so I arrived at City not knowing anyone, somewhat timid and insecure. But, at City I suddenly felt at home. The chaotic House Plan organizing somehow worked and from it Sis Compton ’59 emerged - we stayed together for four years - and I had a new group of wonderful friends. We had “our” table at the South Campus cafeteria and any day at any time there would be someone from the House Plan plus friends of friends, boyfriends, etc. I met my future husband, Michael Cook ’57, at a House Plan party and he became an honorary member of Sis Compton. I majored in English, minored in Ed and became an English teacher. Does anyone remember Professor Burt who taught Shakespeare? He seemed very “British” to us. He would walk into the classroom as the bell rang, lecture for the allotted time, never once looking at the mass of students in front of him and walk out, practically in mid-sentence when the bell rang. I taught in New York City public schools for a number of years while my husband, Michael, went to law school. Once he was established we did the usual thing and moved to the suburbs. During the 70's I started looking to return to work and had a variety of part-time jobs. I was an educational researcher for a CUNY professor for a time and a Title One reading teacher at a teenage drug treatment center. Then, on an impulse, I registered at C.W. Post for a Master’s in Library Science. Sometimes, you stumble into the best possible thing for you. I had a wonderful career, a career I loved, as a high school librarian in the Syosset, Long Island school system and retired in 2004. Michael and I had two children and four grandchildren. Our daughter, Julie Schuster, is an attorney for Pitney Bowes, and our son, Steven Adam Cook, is a Senior Fellow for the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations. Michael and I traveled extensively over the years, raised wonderful children, enjoyed our grandchildren and had dear close friends. So while I have no awards to announce these were our rewards. Sadly, Michael died in 2008, barely missing our 50th anniversary. Now, I’m still traveling, spending time with the children, grandchildren and friends, going to the theatre, playing bridge and reading. I’m thrilled to be here at our 50th reunion.” 172 Mr. Gerald C. Crane 46 Gentry Drive Englewood, NJ 07631 (201) 871 7865 (home) / (201) 658-9449 (office) craneccf@aol.com “ I was born in the Bronx. I attended Morris High School. I was accepted at NYU, but could not afford the tuition. I was a member of Scabbard & Blade. I was designated a Distinguished Military Graduate. The professors that had the greatest impact on my life were Pennington of the Speech Department and Col. Brookhart of the Military Science Department. I received my MA from NYU specializing in Legal History. My community organizations include the Englewood Public Library (President for two years), a member of the board of the Defining Moment Foundation and The Cross Creek Association. My post-CCNY awards include: Time-Life Award for Direct Mail, Bonds for Israel Leadership Award, and The NJ Legislative Award for his work with the Englewood Public Library. My publications include: Law Library Fund Raising: A Primer (Granville Press 1982) and Project Editor for Law and Television in the 80s (Oceana Press 1981). The highlights of my career included being appointed by President Carter to The President’s Committee for the Handicapped, and leading a team of NYU Law Professors to the Middle East to develop a series of programs between Israel and its Arab neighbors after the peace treaty was signed between Israel and Egypt. The project was coordinated with the Reagan White House. I also participated in drafting legislation establishing the New York State Department for the Handicapped. In addition, being promoted to the rank of Captain in the USAR. I am married to Beverly Weiss ’61. We have four children and nine grandchildren. The turning point in my life was being named an Assistant Dean for External Affairs for NYU Law. My hobbies include reading and listening to Old Time Radio Programs. My fondest memories at CCNY involve my time with the R.O.T.C.” 173 Dr. Stan B.B. Dawkins sbdi@nyu.edu D r. Stan B. B. Dawkins began his secondary school studies at Bodmin College in Jamaica, West Indies, 1947-49, and earned his diploma from Haaren High School in 1951. He completed his BS degree at CCNY in 1959, his DDS degree at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) in 1963, did post-graduate prosthodontics work at NYU, 19701974; and was an MSD Fellow at NYUCD in 1979. He has held a range of faculty positions at NYUCD from 1968 forward, including Assistant Professor (1989-1996) and Associate Professor (1996-present). He has also served as Director of the Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) at NYUCD. At CCNY, Dr. Dawkins won the Ben Wallach Memorial Award, the Pincus Sober Award, and the John D. Lasak Award, and he was elected into the City College Hall of Fame in 1976. His professional honors and memberships include: Omicron Kappa Upsilon (President - 1996; Vice President - 1994); Fellow, The American College of Dentists, 1991-present; The American College of Prosthodontics, 1990-present; and The New York Academy of Dentistry, 1984-present, among many others. He was also a co-investigator in numerous research activities at NYUCD, and served on a range of faculty boards and committees. His other activities include serving as an Alternate Head Judge at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta; as Head Horizontal Jump Judge for the New York Relays (1989-present); Head Judge, Horizontal Jumps at the Millrose Games, 1989-present); Head Judge, Horizontal Jumps and Chief Judge, Long and Triple Jumps at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. “I have so many fond memories of my days at CCNY that it is quite difficult to isolate any single one because as soon as I do, my thoughts become clouded with so many others. My experiences with Professor Farquhar in comparative anatomy are very much alive and I can still hear his booming voice across the laboratory proclaiming “now here’s a man__________ etc.” in the middle of a dissection. Track workouts with Ralph Taylor, George Best and Josue Delgado were physically tough but never a drudgery and left me with a clear mind and firm resolve. I truly loved Lewisohn Stadium. I loved running up and down the steps and the odd “D” shaped track that confused many opponents. Kicking a soccer ball into the very heart of a ROTC formation when they were late relinquishing the field gave me perverse joy and trying to learn to play lacrosse by banging the ball off the wall and then trying in vain to retrieve it are still very pleasant reflections.” My first ever outdoor concert was at Lewisohn while I was in High School.” 174 Mr. Joseph J. DePaolo 16 Chester Avenue Stewart Manor, NY 11530 “ I attended Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem, NY. After being discharged from the Army, I attended Bernard M. Baruch School of Business Administration on 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue in NYC under the GI Bill. I attended evening classes as I worked in order to pay tuition, which was eventually reimbursed under the GI Bill as I did maintain an A average. I graduated in six years, which according to Florence Marks, Ass’t. Dean of Students at that time, was well below average. I chose CCNY because it had an excellent reputation and the transportation was convenient. I didn’t have the luxury of joining clubs and associations as I had to work, but I did win an essay contest in 1960, “Imports - Their Contribution to the American Economy”, and won a trip to Venezuela, all expenses paid. What a treat that was! International Finance was the most significant class to me. In 1964 I wrote a thesis for the Graduate School of Business Administration, NYU MBA, Bankers Acceptances-Dollar Exchange, which was later accepted by the FRBNY for their library. In 1977 (evening session) I received the Advanced Professional Certificate from GBA at NYU. My career started at The Bank of America. I then joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and became a Senior Bank Examiner. In 1968 I joined Chemical Bank and retired in 1992 as a Vice President. I then returned to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a Supervising Examiner, finally retiring from there in 1998. During my career some of my most rewarding experiences were special assignments for the Division of Examinations at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, and overseas, conducting foreign department seminars, Inter-Agency School for Bank Examiners in Washington, DC, and lecturing at Correspondent Bank seminars on “Edge Acts”. Over the years I’ve been active in various clubs and organizations, the most significant ones being The Boys Club of America, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, and being President of The Holy Name Society at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in NYC. I’ve always enjoyed all sports, but my biggest enjoyment in life has been my three sons, William, Joseph, Jr. and David, and now their lovely wives and our grandchildren.” 175 Carl L. DeVito, Ph.D. devito@math.arizona.edu “ I grew up in the East New York section of Brooklyn and attended Franklyn K. Lane high school. I wasn't very sure of what I wanted to do with my future and entered the engineering program at CCNY because that seemed to offer classes that interested me. The atmosphere at CCNY then was exciting and a little intimidating, but there was a sense of camaraderie, a sense that we were involved in an intellectual adventure. I especially remember professor Yohannan (English), professor Errante (Italian), and professors H.J.Cohen and Fritz Steinhardt (mathematics). With their encouragement I went on to graduate school and earned a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from Northwestern University. I have been active in mathematical research and have written three books. My career took me to many universities and colleges and I learned to appreciate, more and more, just what an excellent education I received at City College. This education changed my life as it did for so many others. My grandparents were Italian peasants, one worked in a sulphur mine, had no education and no opportunities. I had City College and the college gave me the basis for a rewarding profession. There were a great number of fraternities active when I was at City College. I joined Alpha Phi Delta and I am still in touch with many of my college brothers.” 176 Miss Rosalie P. Ditta 249 Classon Avenue, Apt. 40 Brooklyn, NY 11205 (718) 636-4760 R osalie Ditta graduated with a BBA degree in Secretarial Studies at the Business School. She was a member of House Plan, the Education Club, and the Newman Club, where she was on the jewelry committee. She later earned her Master of Arts degree in Business Education at New York University (1970). She is semi-retired as a professional teacher. She has worked for the New York Board of Education and in Higher Education, as well as a professional instructor for NYC private schools. She is currently a member of the National Association for Female Executives and was previously a member of the Business Education Association, the National Education Association, and the United Federation of Teachers. Current community affiliations include The Rosary Society, the local Roman Catholic Church, and The Tenant Council; past organizations include The Explorers: Subsidiary of Boy Scouts of America with young men and women, where she was Co-Leader and Secretary; Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, as Volunteer Teacher; and Girl Scouts of America, Volunteer. She published a magazine article for the Newman Club and had an art exhibit for a neighborhood agency. She had a 3.9 G.P.A. at Career Blazers Learning Center in June of 2000; at Bushwick High School, she was a member of both Senior Arista and Junior Arista. She has a goddaughter, Joanne E. Ditta-Steffens. Her fondest CCNY memories: “1st dance at House Plan; Newman Club social and religious events; Education Society meetings; classes with Profs. Adams, Ranhand, Scharf, and Baver; convocation with Eleanor Roosevelt.” 177 Mr. William D. Douglass 541 Highland Court @ Waterways Moriches, NY 11955 (631) 874-9429 W illiam D. Douglass earned his BSCE degree from CCNY’s School of Engineering. While a student, he served as president of ASCE and as president of Chi Epsilon. His fondest memories include, along with his great teachers/professors, his daily subway round trips from Flatlands, Brooklyn to CCNY, four hours a day of subway and trolley. Following graduation, he attended the Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute, studying Foundation Design, 1960-1962. He spent some forty years in the Building Construction field, which included building hospitals, office buildings, hotels, and stadiums. He retired from full-time work in 1999, working part-time thereafter for Douglass Construction Consulting Corporation, an “S” corporation. He spent 31 years as Vice President, Territory General Manager for Turner Construction Company and six years as Vice President, Corporate Chief Estimator for Kajima Construction Services, in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Texas and Georgia. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Waterways Homeowners Associations and also for Summit at Gore Mountain Homeowners Association, and a member of the Planning Board for Farmingdale Village. He and his wife Barbara have been married for 49 years. They have four children (Cynthia, William A., Kristen, and Stephen) and nine grandchildren. Ms. Rhoda Dryer rhodak3@optonline.net R hoda Dryer, née Katroser, majored in Education/Psychology, earning her BSEd degree from CCNY’s School of Education. She was a member of Sis Abbe ’59. She graduated from Brooklyn Law School in June 1966 and was admitted to the practice of law in NY state in December 1966. She has been practicing Immigration and Nationality Law for 39 years and was President of the NY Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (1983-1984). She was a founding member of the Westchester Women Bar Association and is still practicing principally Immigration Law at 271 North Ave, Suite 1115, New Rochelle, NY 10801 (914-636-5657). She is the widow of the late Howard Dryer, and has one daughter, Jennifer Gail Dryer. She writes in April that she also has one grandchild on the way. Fondest CCNY memories: House Plan activities and Psychology courses with Professor Stahl. 178 Mrs. Hanna (Lichtenfeld) Dubin hannadubin@verizon.net H anna Lichtenfeld Dubin majored in music at City College. She was born in Bayshore, Long Island, and moved to New York City in 1944, living on the Upper West Side. She attended the High School of the Performing Arts, where she was a dance major for two years and a music major for two years. She chose City College because it was not costly and it was nearby. As part of the music department on South Campus, she studied with Professor Fritz Jahoda, sang in the chorus, and performed piano. Hanna subsequently earned her MA degree in Early Childhood Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has been married for 47 years to William Bubin, Ph.D. She taught at the Henry Street Settlement and at P.S. 72 in Manhattan before moving to Westchester County. She has been active as a private piano teacher in Larchmont, NY for 37 years. She was President of the Music Teachers Council of Westchester for 8 years. She has been the Treasurer and part of the Composition Committee of the New York State Music Teachers Association, district 4 (NUSMTA#4). She continues to be active at this time. Hanna has two daughters: Melissa Dubin, Ph.D., a psychologist in San Francisco and Petaluma, California; and Ilana Dubin Spiegel, a reading specialist for schools in Denver and surrounding counties, Colorado. 179 Dr. Martin Edelman 223 Dover Street Brooklyn, NY 11235 (718) 648-1064 / me354@albany.edu M artin Edelman is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of The University at Albany (N.Y.). Before his retirement in September 2005, he was also an Affiliate Faculty member of the UAlbany Judaic Studies Department. Since then, he has been teaching as an adjunct at Kingsborough Community College (CUNY) in the Department of History, Philosophy and Political Science. Professor Edelman is the author of Democratic Theories and the Constitution (1984), and Courts, Politics, and Culture in Israel (1994), as well as articles and chapters on American constitutional law and Israeli courts in professional publications. He was an Associate Editor of the encyclopedia, Governments of the World - A Global Guide to Individual’s Rights and Responsibilities, and is a contributing editor to the Jewish Law Annual. Professor Edelman has been a visiting professor at the University of Liverpool (England), Peking University (China), and at Tel Aviv University (Israel). From 1991-1997 he was the chair of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political Science Association. Over the years, Professor Edelman has received a number of academic honors. He was a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude graduate of CCNY, and was awarded both the Ward Prize and the Bennett Prize. At the University of California (Berkeley), he received a Heller Grant and University Fellowship while earning his Ph.D. He was named a Danforth Teaching Associate in 1980, and subsequently received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Edelman was a Collins Fellow at the University at Albany, and, in 2003, The University at Albany established the Martin Edelman Award for Excellence in Teaching Political Science. 180 Dr. Marvin Eisenstadt 352 S. Oyster Bay Road Syosset, NY 11791 (516) 433-9568 D r. Marvin Eisenstadt is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Class of 1953. After three and a half years as an Engineering major at CCNY, he switched majors, graduating in 1959 with his B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Engineering. At CCNY, he was active in Hillel and Alpha Lambda Sigma. His first non-mandated class was Beethoven with Professor Mark Brunswick, and he received an “A” for the course. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Adelphi University in 1964. Although he retired from his job as Director of Psychological Services at Mercy First/St. Mary’s Children & Family Services in Syosset, NY, where he worked from 1998 to 2007, he maintains a private practice. He has also worked as a Faculty Associate in Psychology at Hofstra University, Yeshiva University, and Adelphi University. His professional associations include the Nassau County Psychological Association, where he served as President, 1987-88, and where he currently serves on the Executive Board (since 1982) and as Chair of the Hospitals, Clinics and Agencies Committee; Professional Advisory Board, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, C.W. Post, Long Island University (1987-1993); Life Fellow (1993) American Orthopsychiatric Association; American Psychological Association; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Society for Personality Assessment; and the Foundation of Thanatology. Publications include the book, Parental Loss and Achievement, published by International Universities Press in 1989, and more than a score of articles in professional journals including, most recently, “Reflections on Aging” in Clio’s Psyche in 2008. Awards and honors include Who’s Who Among Human Services Professionals (1992), Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (1st Edition), Who’s Who in the East (1983), Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans (1977), Men of Achievement (1975), International Who’s Who in Community Service (1975), and Community Leader of America Award (1969). Dr. Eisenstadt and his wife Arlene have two children, Ellen Silber and Felicia Eisenstadt. 181 Dr. Thomas J. Fararo TJF2@PITT.EDU T homas J. Fararo earned his BA in History and Political Science from CCNY’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He was elected to phi beta kappa and graduated magna cum laude. He subsequently completed his PhD at Syracuse Univerity in 1963, and spent three years (1964-67) as a post-doctoral research fellow in pure and applied mathematics for the Social Sciences at Stanford University. He is currently Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he joined the faculty in 1967 and taught fulltime until 2006. He served as chair of the Department of Sociology from 1980 to 1985. Dr. Fararo has been a member of the American Sociological Association from 1963 to the present. He has published more than 100 sociology papers as well as thirteen books, some edited and others co-authored, all in the area of theoretical sociology, especially employing mathematical models. Honors include the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, Section in Mathematical Sociology in 2004; the Sociological Research Association (elected 1996); and the “Distinguished Service Professor” title, an honor bestowed on him by the University of Pittsburgh in 1998. 182 Mrs. Harriet Finkelstein (Cohen) 50 E. Hartsdale Avenue, Apt. 5M Hartsdale, NY 10530 (914) 686-9652 / harfink@msn.com “ I graduated from the Bronx High School of Science as an enthusiastic Biology major with a strong interest in English Literature. At CCNY I discovered I was too squeamish for Lab work and changed my major to English. I also took enough Education courses to reassure my parents that I would be able to earn a living with my college degree. Along the way to earning that degree (magna cum laude with election to Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi and NYS Graduate Fellowship) I received a wonderful education at the College. I have fond memories of English classes with Marvin Magalaner and Oscar Sherwin; auditing Philosophy courses which really opened my eyes to new ways of thinking, taught by Dr. Irani; Economics with Elliot Zupnick; Psychology courses; and Student Teaching at the High School of Music and Art. And of course there was House Plan. Sis Compton brought contacts with women who became my friends, and the group was the basis for our “Table” in the South Campus cafeteria, which made a big school a much smaller place. After graduation, I attended Columbia Graduate Faculties working toward a Ph.D. in English Literature. At the end of the first year, I took a leave of absence and spent five months traveling in England, Italy and France. It was truly a voyage of discovery and gave me a lifelong special perspective on art and culture, and a love of travel. Upon returning from Europe in 1960, I moved to Manhattan and sought a job in the corporate world, expecting to hate it, and to soon return to Academia. However, I was hired and trained by IBM as a Computer Systems Designer in the very early days of computers. It was a truly exciting job, which combined my math and language interests, and offered the opportunity to work with a fabulous group of colleagues. I remained at IBM for eight years. I left when I met and married my husband, Ken, who owned a business in Monticello, New York (where there were no computers at the time). I spent the next thirty years living in the Catskills. It was something of a culture shock for a Manhattanite, but provided many unexpected positive experiences of small town living (and Manhattan was only an hour and a half away). 183 My husband and I have one son, Bradley, who attended Columbia Law School and is now a partner in a Silicon Valley Law Firm. He lives with his wife and two children in Palo Alto, California. In Sullivan County, while raising my son, I taught English in high school for a few years, and then worked for the local Social Services Agency where I eventually became an Administrator and Staff Development Coordinator. I was also very active in the local Hospital Auxiliary where I was honored as “Woman of the Year” in 1978. About ten years ago, my husband and I both retired, and we moved to Westchester County. We are enjoying the combination of suburban living and very easy access to the City. I worked parttime at Sotheby’s in New York for a few years, and did a short stint as a travel agent. Currently, I have become active in a local volunteer organization. Ken and I are avid readers, movie buffs, theater lovers, and are regulars at museums and art galleries. We also enjoy sampling the city’s restaurants. I can’t believe it’s been 50 years since I last visited that very special dining spot - “The Table” - in the CCNY cafeteria!” 184 Mr. Barry Freidenreich 6 Tsamarot St. Apt. 124 Herzlia 46424 Israel phone: 011 972 9957 7250 “ After my halcyon days at CCNY, and graduation in 1959, I joined the corporate world. I worked for IBM and with that company I was all over the USA and much of the world. I was in on the very exciting early days of computers. I worked in a variety of areas, including computer programming, systems design, project management, product development, and artificial intelligence. With a convenient "early retirement" package from IBM, my wife (Fradle Pomerantz, Brooklyn College, New York, and Sir George Williams University, Montreal) and I relocated to Israel in 1989. In Israel I worked in high-tech for ten more years, this time in technical communications and again in artificial intelligence, until I retired for real. We continue to live in Herzlia, a pleasant coastal city just north of Tel Aviv. Our children and grandchildren and siblings are scattered around the US - in Kansas, North Carolina, Florida, Illinois, and Arizona. We return to the US once or twice each year to visit family and friends, and to enjoy the constant delights of New York City from our Manhattan pied-àterre, or more southerly delights from our home in Sarasota, Florida.” Mr. Joseph Furst 2512 Cosmic Dust St. Henderson, NV 89044 702-492-9464 J oseph Furst majored in biology at City College, earning his BSEd degree from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is a 1954 graduate of Boys High School in Brooklyn, NY. He attend CCNY Uptown 1954-1959. His most memorable moments at City, he says, took place while sitting in an oval stadium for lunch and recreation. Joseph married his childhood sweetheart from Rockaway, NY in 1967, and they had a daughter in 1969. He worked in the cardiac catherization lab at Bellevue Hospital from graduation until 1964. He was then a Nuclear Medicine Technologist at New York Hospital from 1964 to 1979, and at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami, Florida, from 1979 to 2001. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2002, where he enjoys retirement, cruising, visiting casinos, stamp collecting, coin collecting, and sports on television. He was a member of the New York National Guard, 1962-1965. 185 Mr. Marvin Galina 45 Walbert Lane Ladera Ranch, CA 92694 nelmarvbelieve@cox.net M arvin Galina earned his BA in Journalism at CCNY. He fondly remembers the enormity and beauty of Shepard Hall, Lewisohn Stadium events, the poolroom, Convent Avenue walks from the crosstown bus to north and south campus; youth, first love, courtship. Alagaroo, garoo, garah!! He also vividly recalls having to lap the pool in Phys.Ed. as a senior, in order to graduate. “A swimmer I was not!” he writes. Marvin retired as a New York City School Principal in 1991. Since then, he has worked as an Educational Consultant. Other positions include stints as an adjunct professor at Hunter College and at Plattsburg State University (1991-2000), and as Leadership Consultant in the New York City School System, 2000-2006. Professional memberships include ASCD and CSA. Marvin has two children, David Ross Galina and Jennifer Stacy Spitz. He and his wife, Nellie, share twelve grandchildren and one great-grandchild. 186 Mrs. Laura A. Gardner (Nussbaum) 55 Maple Avenue, #1A Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 (914) 478-3234 “ New York City (Manhattan) culture has defined me and thus directed a lot of my personal interests. City College prepared me for this and expanded my social horizons as well. I grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Evander Childs High School. To many of my school friends and neighborhood buddies, CCNY was the next accepted step to a better future. I have pursued three careers as a librarian, entrepreneur, and retail salesperson. Earning a Master’s in Library Service from Columbia University gave me an opportunity to explore various librarian’s specialities. I was an art librarian at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and an editorial librarian for Grolier encyclopedias. For a decade my husband and I founded a wholesale art poster business. We rode the wave of interest in art posters as original decorative art. I thoroughly enjoyed expanding the company, going to trade shows and publishing posters as well as distributing posters from museums and galleries. I have worked for several retail stores selling gifts, oriental carpets and decorative objects for the home. Presently I am a Design Associate at a furniture store in downtown Manhattan which allows me to continue to pursue my taste for the arts. I enjoy folk and social dancing and attending modern and ballet concerts. (I am most proud of meeting Merce Cunningham recently after one of his concerts.) My husband, Martin, and I live in lower Westchester with a view of the Hudson River which I find calming and inspiring. Our son is a professional photographer and world traveler. Remembering now, there were two courses at CCNY that stand out for me. One of them was European History I, for which I labored over my first book report so intensely that in looking at the medieval town from every aspect, I did not know when to stop writing. In the end I was exhilarated and thought that I was on my way to choosing a major. The other was Shakespeare where the discussions always seemed clear with the right amount of historical background. Highlights of my social life at CCNY centered on a lively table in the uptown campus cafeteria. There friends, classmates and members of Sis Compton House Plan ate, argued, mingled and provided a closeness that made up for all the commuting and living at home.” 187 Mr. Oscar George bobjeannegeorge@comcast.net A Civil Engineering major, Oscar George earned his BCE in 1959 and his MCE. in 1968. At CCNY, he was a member of the Pershing Rifles (8th Regimental Operations Officer) and The Christian Association. He was a Distinguished Military Graduate. His fondest CCNY memories include meeting his future wife at school in 1958 and the comradery with his fellow Pershing Rifles ROTC cadets. Licensed as a Civil and Structural Engineer in Washington, he retired as State Bridge Preservation Engineer in 1998 after ten years in that position and 30 years (1968-1998) working for the Washington State Department of Transportation. He had earlier been a Bridge Designer for Hardesty & Hanover in New York City (1965-1968) and Bridge Engineer for the California Division of Highways (1959-1965). A member of the American Society of Civil Engineers from 1959 to the present, he served as President of the ASCE Olympia-Tacoma Section in 1976. He was also President of Community Homeowners Association in 1975. He was awarded the 1986 Alfred E. Johnson Achievement Award from the American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials for outstanding achievement in the field of engineering. Oscar and his wife Jeanne Ann have three children, Catherine, Karen and Susan, and two grandchildren. 188 Dr. Cetewayo Gillman 561 Tenth Avenue, #22C New York, NY 10036 (212) 695-0058 “ I was born and raised in New York City where I attended public schools. I was privileged to attend the prestigious Stuyvesant High School. Upon graduation I attended NYU, but was drafted into the army and served in Korea. When I returned from Korea, my years at City College began. My great college memories began with the Gothic Architecture of Shepard Hall and it Great Hall. It was an atmosphere for learning and my fellow students all seemed to be brilliant. One class that stands out in my mind was Dr. Farquar’s Comparative Anatomy - for two reasons: (1) first, I loved anatomy, and (2) second, Professor Farquar told me that I was sitting in the same seat (#24) once occupied by the late Dr. Jonas Salk who had also received a “B”. I thought I had earned an “A”. After graduation in 1959, I was employed at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx where many wonderful memories were recorded. There were the very unusual cases. For example, tuberculosis from a psoas abscess, tuberculous ulcer from the cheek of a nine-year-old girl, which after long hours of microscopy, yielded the tubercle bacillus. Another memorable case was a seaman who had traveled to Brazil and was discovered to have a fungus called Blastomycosis brazilensis, rare in the U.S. One of my greatest associations was during the summer of 1968, when Dr. Rolf Zinkernagle needed a place to stay while in New York and was my house guest. As it turned out, he went on to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine. In August 1968, I was admitted to the Ph.D. program at the School of Medicine at SUNY/Buffalo. Many famous scientists have passed through those hallowed halls. I received a US Steel grant in my first year. In two years I had earned my M.A. degree in microbiology and, in 1973, my Ph.D. in microbiology. I was awarded membership in the National Scientific Society, X Chi. One highlight of my time in Buffalo was a postdoctoral fellowship for NASA, which included an experiment on the Soyuz-Apollo spacecraft. In 1975, I attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow in pediatrics. I next received a diploma as a surgical fellow in the Department of Surgery at Montefiore Hospital, as a member of the experimental lung transplant team. I am currently Adjunct Professor in the biology Department at York College. I have traveled the world to attend track meets (Athletics). I have run many marathons, including the prestigious Boston Marathon.” 189 Dr. Jonathan J. Goldberg 261 Seaman Avenue Apartment E-12 New York, NY 10034 “ I graduated from Stuyvesant High School and picked CCNY in searching for the highest quality local free education. I graduated PBK, magna cum laude with Honors in English. I was awarded the Ward medal for excellence in English and received both a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a New York State Regents Fellowship. The faculty in those years at City College was almost uniformly superior. For special mention, I would single out Bernard Sohmer, who made calculus understandable and exciting even to the non math-minded; Vito Caporale, a fiery ItalianAmerican who provided an epic backdrop for an overview of European history; Coleman Parsons (who was later my honors mentor) from whom I first learned how to approach the study of literature. Special mention must go to K.D. Irani, Philosophy, the most insightful and inspiring teacher I ever experienced in any setting, undergraduate or graduate: a “genius” teacher. After a “false” start during six years of M.A. and Ph.D. studies in English Literature at Harvard and New York University and an initial decade as a college humanities teacher, I realized that an academic career did not suit me. Accepted for training in Jungian psychoanalysis, I achieved the analyst diploma and have had a forty year career in the private practice of psychoanalysis and as mentor and supervisor of many psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. I was integrally involved in the long effort to gain state licensure for psychoanalysis as a separate profession, which finally came to pass in 2006. It is more than a bit ironic that this public recognition occurred at the same time as the profession has become marginalized by the overvaluation of psychopharmacology and short-term cognitive therapies that characterize the early 21st century. Generalized societal indifference to the power of the most valuable psychological tool developed in the 20th century – the diverse schools and methods of psychoanalysis – has happened side by side with a national hunger for quick fixes. The sound bite era has no patience for complexity nor any understanding of the meaning of personal depth. My cultural interests are diverse. I have long been passionately engaged with foreign and independent film. In this era of blogs, I co-write on line film reviews with my visual artist partner. They can be found at www.murmurandshout.com.” 190 Dr. Aaron Goldman 982 E. La Mesa Terrace Sunnyvale, CA 94086 D r. Aaron Goldman received his BA degree in History from CCNY’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He was a member of Hunt ’59, The Campus newspaper and House Plan. He earned his PhD in History at Indiana University in 1967. He was Professor of History at San Jose State University from 1967 until his retirement in 2007 and coordinated the Jewish Studies Program. He has published extensively on European Diplomacy, particularly relating to Britain from 1930 to 1945, in such scholarly journals as The Journal of British Studies, The Journal of Contemporary History, The Canadian Journal of History and Journalism History. Among his awards and honors are a National Defense Education Fellowship (1959-1962) and a University Fellowship (1974-1975). He has one child, Rachel, from his former marriage and is now married to the poet Phyllis Koestenbaum. He most fondly recalls “the stimulating teaching of many of my professors” at CCNY, especially Ivo Duchacek, Hans Kohn, and Oscar Janowsky. Hon. James J. Golia 233-34 40 Avenue Douglaston, NY 11363 J ames (Sonny) Golia majored in Civil Engineering at CCNY, earning his B.C.E. degree from the School of Engineering. He was a member of the Wrestling Team, Junior Varsity for one year, Varsity for three years (1955-1958), and Co-Captain 1957-58. He won the Wrestling “Joe Grappler” Award. He later earned his law degree and is now a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court. He has also served as Judge of the Civic Court in New York City, Executive Assistant District Attorney (Queens), Executive Assistant Borough President (Queens County), Consulting Engineer Borough President (Queens County), and Assistant Commissioner, Department of Buildings (NYC). Sonny and his wife Rosemary have two children, Michael James Golia and Jennifer Susan Golia. “My fondest memories are of my special friendship with other CCNY wrestlers, but more specially our ‘Coach’ Joe Sapora. All of us had the highest regard and esteem for ‘Coach.’ In 1956-57, we had seven wins and only one loss, the best record in 25 years!” 191 Dr. Robert Golub 5113 Huntingdon Drive Raleigh, NC 27606 R obert Golub majored in Electrical Engineering, graduating magna cum laude with a BSEE. from the School of Engineering. As a student, he was a member of House Plan. He continued his education at MIT, earning his MSEE. in 1960 and his Ph.D. in Physics in 1967. A Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University since 2005, Dr. Golub was previously Staff Scientist at the Hahn Meitner Institute in Berlin, Germany (1991-2005); Research Physicist at the Technical University, Munich, Germany (1980-1990); and Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, England (1969-1980). He has published a book, “Ultra-Cold Neutrons,” in 1991, and has also written approximately 100 professional research papers, and review articles. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008. Dr. Golub and his wife, Ekaterina, have two children, Amy Mokady and Robin Ince, and two grandchildren. He writes that he would like to get in touch with “anybody who remembers me.” Ms. Roslyn Steinhardt Greenspan 3100 North Ocean Blvd., #1106 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33308 954-375-0110 R oslyn Steinhardt Greenspan (Roslyn S. Shulman in Microcosm) majored in Elementary Education, earning her BSEd. degree from the School of Education. Her activities as a student included Tech News, Modern Dance Club, Education Society, Chorus, and House Plan. She subsequently worked as an Elementary School Teacher until 1975. “I taught school in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for a total of 16 years,” she writes. A widow, she has two children, Jeffrey Shulman and Joanna Greenspan, and two grandchildren. She writes of her decision to attend CCNY and her student days as follows: “I grew up in Pelham Parkway (Bronx) and graduated from Christopher Columbus High School. I chose to attend “City” because I thought it was the Best! I was ecstatic upon being accepted at “City.” Fondest memories: The GREAT opportunity and experience to receive a marvelous education; student secretary (Department of Student Life) to Dean James S. Peace; Professor Stewart C. Easton, my friend and History Professor; Raymond, the bagel man; typist for “Tech News,” a newly formed paper in the School of Engineering; South Campus where there was grass and trees; the awesome feeling of walking into “Great Hall;” and the HUGE ratio of guys over gals!!! Wow!!!” 192 Mrs. Sheila Telmar Grosfeld healer0116@yahoo.com “ I grew up in Pelham Parkway in the Bronx. I attended Christopher Columbus High School and graduated with an Academic Diploma. I wrote for the high school newspaper and was a member of student government. I chose City College because at the time it had the best program for Education majors. At City College, I was a member of House Plan, wrote for the Campus Newspaper and played bridge. I graduated in 3½ years. I married just before my last semester at City College. I taught third grade in the South Bronx for about 3 years while going for my Master's Degree. After that I had 2 sons and stayed home for a few years. During that time I substituted in the NYC school system. I then worked in a grant funded program for Junior High Students with special needs. I taught mathematics. When that program ended, I directed a program for LaGuardia Community College at the Queens House of Detention for four years. In 1980 I left the teaching profession to enter computer technology. I took a six month course at NYU where I learned computer programming in Assembly and Cobol. I got my first job working for Savin the Copier Company. To get ahead I changed jobs every few years. I was asked by the IT Director of Dollar Dry Dock if I would like to learn computer security. They were audited and it was suggested that they establish a security division to monitor access to their data on the mainframe. As time went on computer security become more important and I was able to get better jobs. I retired from Guardian Life Insurance Company in 2003. I then began to pursue my avocation which has been inspiring people to take more responsibility for their health. I work with a biofeedback device called Ondamed, which analyzes the human body and finds areas of blockages that cause the body to be out of balance. It then identifies the frequencies that need to 193 be put back into balance to achieve homeostasis. This system uses the body's energy system to identify where the areas are that need to be rebalanced. The most frequent issues that we work with are pain management, anxiety and stress, poor energy, sleep disorders, high blood pressure, thyroid instability, poor immune function and much more. The Ondamed has a special protocol to help those people who want to stop smoking to achieve their desired result in one to three sessions. I have been interested in spirituality and attended many different classes. I studied medical intuition with a teacher from Detroit for three years learning anatomy and physiology, iridology, aromatherapy, herbology, colon hydrotherapy, lymphology and Lakota spiritual healing. I have also studied body work using the principles of Wilhelm Reich. I am currently studying Hawaiian spirituality with a native Hawaiian Kahuna. My goal is to learn a special massage technique called LomiLomi to provide deep comfort to my clients. Some of my fondest memories include hanging out on the great lawn on South campus, going to concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, coming home at 2am from working on the Campus newspaper, going to House Plan parties, having tea at my French teacher's home.” 194 Mr. Norman H. Gudema 27 Coddington Terrace Livingston, NJ 07039 (973) 992-8354 (home) / (973) 534-8964 (work) ngaka007@verizon.net N orman H. Gudema studied Civil Engineering, earning his BCE from CCNY’s School of Engineering. As a student, he was active in Chi Epsilon, Scabbard & Blade, ASCE, and House Plan - LaGuardia ’59. He subsequently earned his MBA degree from Farleigh Dickinson Univeristy, in 1969. He retired from his engineering career in 2007 as Project Manager for Hoffmann LaRoche, Inc. Previous positions included Project Manager, Foster Wheeler; Director of Engineering, Revlon; and Project Manager, Warner Lambert Co. He is a member of ASCE. Norman is married to Roberta Zacker. He has three children (Michelle, Daniel, Jonathan), four stepchildren, and 13 grandchildren between them both. Mr. Gilbert Hammer 54 Middle Road Sands Point, NY 11050 (516) 883-5474 / gilhammer@optonline.net G ilbert Hammer majored in Economics and Finance, earning his B.A. degree from CCNY’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. As a student, he was a member of House Plan and Baron ’59. He continued his education at NYU’s Graduate School of Business, studying Finance, 1962-1966. He retired as of December 31, 2008, as President of Hammer Consulting Group. He previously was Senior Vice President and Principal, Wilshire Associates Inc.; Vice President, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance. He and his wife, Marcia Lustgarten Hammer, have two daughters, Jennifer Hammer and Melissa Hammer, and two grandchildren. 195 Mrs. Ruth Ester Herman ruthless27@msn.com R uth Ester Herman (née Heinberg) studied Biology at CCNY, earning her Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. While a student, she was active with Hillel and House Plan (Sis Parks). She was elected to the honor society Kappa Delta Pi. Fondest CCNY memories: “Professor Copeland’s Field Botany course, which combined learning in great depth with practical experience and the great experience of learning from a great man who expected much from us and received much in return. In general, I always felt that we were getting the best education that could be gotten anywhere.” Mrs. Herman continued her education, taking a Master of Arts degree at CUNY in 1963. She was a career biology teacher, retiring in 2000. She was a reviewer of the textbook, Biology, An Everyday Experience by Kaskel, Hummer & Daniel, 1988 edition. Awards include the Cherry Creek Chapter, Colorado Teacher Awards (1991); Who’s Who Among American Teachers (1996, 2000, 2003-04); and Overland High School Teacher of the Semester (1984, 1998). She is a member of the Hebrew Educational Association (synagogue), and has served on the Board of Directors there. Ruth and her husband Barry have two daughters, Karen Levy and Julia Burns, and four grandchildren. 196 Arthur I. Hirsch, Esq. One Lincoln Plaza, Apt. 25D New York, NY 10023 (212)595-1635 / ThirtyRock@aol.com “ I was born and grew up in the Bronx of Romanian and Russian parents who emigrated here in 1907. I was first generation and the first professional in the family. The Ellis Island guards changed the name of my immigrant folks from Herscovici to Hirsch...easier for them to pronounce. After attending P.S. 90 and JHS 22, I went to William Howard Taft H.S. where I was elected President of the student body (General Organization, or G.O.). I then chose City after I heard of its great reputation, and of graduates like Jonas Salk and Felix Frankfurter. Tuition was free as well. We could not have afforded a private school. I worked as a deliveryman, sports playgroup counselor and other odd jobs after class. At CCNY, I became President of the Gov. & Law Society, VP of Areopagus (Honor Society) and participated in the Student Court as Associate Justice. After graduating from CCNY, I enlisted in the U.S. Army, became an Ajax-Nike missile crewman (Specialist 4) and later served in Military Intelligence during the Cuban missile crisis and the Berlin blockade. I attended Harvard Law School, wrote a law review article on Air Piracy and Extradition, was a Contributing Editor to a Harvard Law text book on PreMarital and Separation Agreements, and was a member and Lecturer, in NY and Paris, for the International Matrimonial Law Committee of the NYS Bar Association and various matrimonial committees of the NYC Bar Association; I was also a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard Law School. Highlights of my career included an appointment as an Asst. D.A. of Manhattan, then legislative counsel to State Assemblyman Hansen in the 66th Assembly District of Manhattan during the Lindsay Administration, and founding a successful matrimonial law firm in 30 Rockefeller Plaza until 2004. After 40 years of law practice, and having survived two open heart surgeries starting at age 35, 2 angioplasties, one stent, atrial fibrillation and C.A.D., while continuing to be an avid tennis player, swimmer, biker, small boat sailor, skier, and fisherman, I have decided to devote most of the rest of my life to my family, my wife, two children and six grandchildren, and to travel, health concerns, exercise, music, culture and charitable works. Living across the street from Lincoln Center and ½ block from Central Park gives me the exercise and culture I need. My lovely wife, Lyn, keeps me young. City College permitted me to work, save and strive and, with the help of scholarships and loans, and its good reputation, go on to professional and life success....thanks, CCNY!” 197 Mr. Arthur Hoffer 24 Meadow Lane Manhasset, NY 11030-3929 “ As a young man just returning home from the Korean War, I was searching for something that would provide me with more career opportunities than returning to my parents’ grocery store in Brooklyn. Though successful in owning their own store, my parents wanted their children to have better career opportunities than they had available to them. I enrolled at Brooklyn College as the first step in the search for this goal. As one would expect, my plans continued to change, this time for the better. At Brooklyn College, I met my future wife and soul mate, Ellie, who had just graduated from Brooklyn College and started teaching. A year later, we were married and I switched from Brooklyn College to the engineering program at CCNY. While attending classes at CCNY, I was working in my parents’ store and started a family with the birth of my first daughter, Donna. With money tight, my wife continued to work after the baby was born, despite the fact that half of her salary went to childcare. With all things going on, we had a common life experience with our parents: we barely were able to make ends meet. Usually a person has an individual come into their life that has an impact on them. I was lucky to have not one, but two individuals whom I met at this time who helped guide my career path. Professors Javid and Brenner from CCNY continued to encourage me to not allow my current situation to deter me from the potential they saw in me. It was their influence and their belief in me that served as a driving force to continue with my education. Upon graduation, I was amazed at the offers I received in my job search, from companies from New York to California. I decided to accept an offer from IT&T Laboratories. From that experience, I moved on to Litton Industries as Program Manager for the Polaris missile program. I eventually used this experience to become Vice President of CSF/Thompson, France. Using the faith shown to me by my professors of committing to a dream, in 1966 I started my own company as president, founder and CEO of Transvac/Miller Stuart, Inc. My dream grew into a multi-national engineering and manufacturing company building military and commercial equipment such as medical equipment, vending machines and complex electro-mechanical assemblies for the military. Over the years, we worked with Fairchild Republic on the F-105 fighter, A-10A attack aircraft, T-46 trainer and the SF-340 commercial turboprop aircraft. Still going strong, we currently manufacture Radar and System Launcher processors for Raytheon and the US Navy for the Seasparrow Missile Program. From the faith, confidence, and guidance of my professors at CCNY, I have had these professional accomplishments as career highlights: Served on 15 Boards of Directors of public companies; Chairman, Aerospace Political Action Committee; 198 Member of the Haitian Business and Industry Advisory Committee; Holder of 7 patents; Consultant to several investment banks; Chairman, Washington Public Power bond default (WPPSS). My experience at CCNY also provided me with the lesson that one must reach out to help others and see the potential in them as my professors saw it in me, and led to the following personal accomplishments: Member, Long Island Association of Commerce and Industry and the LIA state and federal legislative committee; Business and Industry Chairman of the American Cancer Society; Member, Masonic War Veterans, Masonic ways and means committee, District Deputy Grand Master; Member, emergency relief committee for Israel and Chairman of several fund raising committees for Long Island hospitals; Cited in the United States Congress for pioneering work for special needs teenagers, equal opportunity programs for housewives, and for starting occupational therapy in conjunction with approved drug rehabilitation programs; Candidate for United States Congress. I have been able to share this wonderful experience with my wife Ellie and our three daughters and their husbands, who all share in the same values that were taught to me by my professors so long ago. The best of this story, however, is the fact that I have been able to share these values with four outstanding grandchildren, who I know will pass these values on to another generation. When one asks the question of how a professor at CCNY can have an impact on their students, all I need to say is look at me and my family and you will have your answer.” 199 Erwin Honig E rwin Honig grew up in Brooklyn and went to Brooklyn Technical High School. He chose CCNY for its reputation and cost. He was a House Plan member of Phi Sigma Tau. He says he “was just an average student” and spent three hours a day on the subway commuting. He was a sub on the JV basketball team under Bobby Sand, but could not practice due to afternoon lab classes. He did play with the EE team in the informal Engineering League. After graduations, Erwin received his professional engineering license and became chief engineer at several electrical construction companies. He is a former president of the Association of Electrical Construction Engineers. And he is still working, at age 81. Prof. Marvin Israel 511 Mountain Road Boiling Springs, PA 17007 marvin.israel@gmail.com “ At City College I was a member of The Mercury humor magazine. My fondest memory was watching Brenda Tenen dance the mambo and the swing in the lounge. In the last few weeks before graduation, I discovered that I was three credits short. Passing a bulletin board, I saw a poster advertising summer courses in English at the University of Mexico, so I answered an ad in the NYT to drive an MG sports car owned by the jazz great Lionel Hampton to Las Vegas from which I rode a bus to Mexico City. During the summer my high school Spanish got a big upgrade from a brief relationship with a non-English-speaking senorita. Upon my return, I begged the administration of City College to accept the courses, since I had already won a Regents scholarship which would pay my tuition at Columbia University. They did and seven years later I completed all the requirements for a Ph.D. in sociology except the dissertation, so I have no degree beyond the Bachelor's. After teaching at Brooklyn College for a year, my wife and I moved to a rural area in South Central Pennsylvania where I taught sociology at Dickinson College for the next thirty-five years. Getting tenure without a PhD took two years of struggle culminating in a mass student protest in my support. I was doing a very unusual kind of sociology derived from Plato and Heidegger. For me those were the good old days when a professor didn't have to justify what he did as bringing in research money or preparing students to make a lot of money. Justification enough was encouraging critical thought. 200 Not having to support children, I've been lucky enough to explore almost all my youthful fantasies. We bought ten acres and had a Japanese architect design our house which was solar heated when solar heating was still in its earliest Mother Earth News stage. I learned to ride a horse and had my own Morgan mare in a stable we had built. I grew a huge vegetable garden, learning how from reading U.S. Department of Agriculture booklets. Traveling to various nurseries and botanical gardens to gain knowledge, I planted trees and shrubs in what had started out as a Mennonite farmer's hayfield. I had a bicycle custom built for me, joined the Harrisburg bicycle club, and commuted eight miles each way to work on my bike. I took up weight lifting and jogging, succeeding in destroying the cartilage in my knees. One of my students surmised that I had an interest in guns. He guided me into the hobby which resulted in my acquiring an "assault" rifle, a riot shotgun, and some handguns. I then signed up for courses in unarmed selfdefense and defense with gun, knife, and pepper spray. My mother, who had the typical anti-gun pathology of the urban Jew, was horrified, but the cops I trained with on Long Island laughed and accused me of police brutality. After retiring from teaching, I became a certified personal trainer, but I didn't find that as rewarding as I thought it would be. I took courses in German, French, and Italian so that I could travel to those countries. I'm now able to realize my fantasies of travel to exotic locations, even though they are no longer so exotic, so I've traveled to China and Tibet, India (twice),Turkey, Thailand, and Vietnam and gone on safari in Africa. I'm hoping to travel to Burma, Cambodia and Laos next year. Photography is my current hobby. I recently bought my first ink jet printer which is so large that it only fits in my basement. Some of my prints are currently on exhibit. To keep my mind active, I'm learning Photoshop and I discuss the classics with a local St. John’s College alumni discussion group. (I attended St. John's Graduate Institute one summer while teaching at Dickinson. I took their mathematics and science sequence to better understand Plato's stance on ‘mathema’).” 201 Mr. Elliot Kavesh (425) 562-2450 E lliot Kavesh, BME, was a member and officer of student organizations Alpha Mu Epsilon, ASME, ASTE & SAE. Elliot went to work for Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington, immediately after graduation in January 1959 and passing his New York State Professional EngineerIn-Training exams. Elliot had a diverse 35 year career with Boeing, working first as a manufacturing engineer and then as a Boeing Technical Representative on contract to the USAF for support of the Bomarc Weapon System at McGuire AFB in N.J. and then Dow AFB in Maine. Upon returning to the Seattle home office in 1962, Elliot transferred to a design engineering organization and became an Electronic Packaging Specialist and eventually a Design Manager responsible for design and qualification of avionic units for multiple military missile, space and aircraft programs. Elliot married his wife Lucie, a Seattle gal whom he met at Boeing, and they are lovingly celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this December 2009. They have two children, Jerry and Gina, and two grandchildren. Elliot and Lucie are extremely fortunate to have all their children and grandchildren living within 5 miles of their Bellevue, Washington, home. Although Elliot has been retired from Boeing for 15 years, he continues to stay active as President of Renton Western Wear Inc., a family owned multi-store and internet western apparel retail corporation that was started by his wife Lucie and is now owned and operated by their children. Memories of CCNY: “Starting college as a pre-dental student but transferring to engineering after realizing that the many hours spent hustling bets on the student activity pool tables negatively affected my grandes and potential for admission to a dental school. My industry career confirmed my appreciation that the CCNY engineering faculty were experienced and practical engineers that provided me a solid and basic understanding of the engineering principles that permitted me to succeed.” 202 Mr. Howard G. King kinghoward@dc.rr.com “ I grew up in the Pelham Parkway area of the Bronx. I graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in June 1954. In high school I excelled in science, math, and writing. I was the sports editor for the Christopher Columbus High School paper and received two letters for journalism. I chose CCNY because it offered an excellent education and was tuition free. I later got an MSEE from the University of Southern California in 1962. My first job was for Hughes Aircraft Company as a field engineer from which I transitioned into developing and conducting training courses on the operation and maintenance of air-to-air missile systems for field engineers and Air Force personnel. I left Hughes and went to work for Librascope, located in Glendale, California as a member of their technical training department to develop courses and training for Navy personnel to operate and maintain the fire control system for missiles fired from atomic submarines. After completing my Masters at USC, I changed jobs again. I joined Space Technology Laboratories, which was formed to help the United States win the space race with Russia. The company later became known as TRW. I started by verifying the performance of the software developed for the Minuteman Missile System and the targeting parameters, which guided it to its target. I later led the programming team for one of the computers on the Apollo Lunar Lander. Everyone who worked on the Apollo program considered it to be one of the highlights of his or her career. After being a program manager for a new Minuteman ground control system, I was requested to take a temporary position with NASA reporting to the Viking Program Manager, to oversee all of the software development for the Viking mission to Mars. For my accomplishments on this assignment I was awarded a Langley Research Center Special Achievement award and a NASA Public Service Medal in 1975. Over a 35-year career in aerospace engineering I was part of many other historic projects. These included the MX missile program, International Space Lab program, and the Star Wars program. I also managed a 200 person engineering organization and was later Director of Information Systems for a 5000 person/one billion dollar sales unit of TRW. I belonged to the AIAA and was a member of the Software Systems Technical Committee for 3 years. I have been retired since 1994 and reside in La Quinta, CA (near Palm Springs) with my wife. I have one son. My interests include golf, travel, duplicate bridge and tutoring elementary school students in math and reading. I previously mentored a young underprivileged boy before moving to the desert area. My memories of CCNY include Colin Powell in ROTC. He was leader of the Pershing Rifles, while I had two left feet when it came to marching. I dropped out of ROTC (the only D I got in college) after two years recognizing I wasn't cut out for the military. I also remember Raymond the Pretzel Man and playing Lacrosse in Phys Ed for Chief Parker. I have always been grateful for the education I received at CCNY. Since my first two jobs entailed training other newly graduated engineers, I quickly realized just how strong an education I received.” 203 Mrs. Roberta Koenig krobmart@gmail.com R oberta Koenig (née Rogers) majored in Sociology, earning her B.A. from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her fondest recollection of her CCNY years: “After going to an all girls Junior and Senior High School, it was so nice to be on North and South Campus with real men! It was my extreme pleasure to have as my Major advisor, Dr. Lawrence Podell. He was instrumental in getting me interested in Sociology and keeping me on track and involved in the research connected with it. He was kind enough to have my name added as a co-author to a paper that was published in the Sociology Review, although I was an undergraduate at that time. He became a lifelong friend and we shared a correspondence that continued year after year until his death almost three years ago.” Roberta later took an A.A. degree in Respiratory Care at Prince Georges Community College in Maryland. She retired as a Registered Respiratory Therapist in 1996. She and her husband Martin have two daughters, Barbara and Andrea, and five grandchildren. Mrs. Marion Kornfeld (Rosengarten) 106 North 6th Avenue Highland Park, NJ 08904 (732) 572-3696 “ I grew up in Washington Heights, New York, having come here from Europe at age eleven. I went to George Washington High School in New York. After college, I went to Columbia University School of Library Science; I have 15 credits from that school. However I stopped because I moved to New Jersey and started a family. I did work five years at the Psychiatric Library of Albert Einstein. I also worked at a bank for 10 years. Now I live in Highland Park, New Jersey. I have three children and two grandchildren. Now I and my husband are retired. We keep busy at our community, and are active in the local Y. I have very fond memories of City College. I was walking almost every day from North to South Campus. It is a community college that used to be free in my time. It only took me fifteen minutes from where I lived to get there. It is hard to believe that fifty years have gone by. It seems that it was just yesterday that I went there.” 204 Dr. Nathan Jacques Kranowski nkranows@gmail.com “ I was born in Paris, France in 1937. Due to the Nazi occupation of France and to my being Jewish, I had a hard time of it in my childhood, especially after my parents were taken away to concentration camps and killed, but at age 10, I came to the US to live with an aunt in the Bronx. I knew no English when I arrived and had had little education, but I caught up, and graduated on time from James Monroe HS in 1955. I attended CCNY because it was then tuition-free and had an excellent (and well deserved) reputation for excellence. I earned a B.A. in French in 1959. I was awarded medals in French and in Latin (I especially remember my Latin teacher, Prof. Miriam Drabkin, a delightful woman), and a scholarship to study in France. I was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. Some of my CCNY French profs that I remember are Prof. Solomon Rhodes, Prof. Gaston Gille, Prof. Rene Vaillant, and Prof. France Anders. I was President of Le Cercle Francais (French Club) and hung out especially with other French majors. I earned a Master’s in French from Middlebury College in 1960, which included a year in Paris with their study in Paris program. I then earned a Ph.D. in French at Columbia University in 1966. Before changing careers, I taught French at various colleges: 2 years at CCNY, 8 years at Rutgers University, and 4 years at Hollins University (in Roanoke, VA). In 1974, I went back to college and earned a Master’s in Accountancy at Virginia Tech in 1977, and a CPA certificate a few years later. By that time I was married and had two children. I began a second teaching career, teaching accounting at Radford University (in Virginia) in 1977, where I taught for 25 years until my retirement in 2002. My wife and I continue to live in Blacksburg, VA. We will celebrate our 43rd wedding anniversary this November. For obvious reasons, I am very interested in the Holocaust and have read a lot about it, especially as it affected France. I occasionally give talks to schools and other groups about my experiences as a hidden child.” 205 Lawrence Kreisman 5763 27th Avenue NE Seattle, WA 98105 (206) 523-8441 (home) / (206) 622-5444 x224 (office) larryk@historicseattle.org L arry Kreisman, Honorary AIA Seattle, has a Bachelor’s degree from the City College of New York, a Master’s degree in English literature from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Washington. He has been Program Director of Historic Seattle since 1997 (www.historicseattle.org). He is co-author with Glenn Mason of The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest and curator of an exhibit by the same name that opens in May 2009 at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle and travels throughout Washington and Oregon 2020-2011. Kreisman has also authored Made to Last: Historic Preservation in Seattle and King County, The Stimson Legacy: Architecture in the Urban West, The Bloedel Reserve: Gardens in the Forest, Historic Preservation in Seattle, West Queen Anne School: Renaissance of a Landmark, Art Deco Seattle, and Apartments by Anhalt. Since 1988, he has written cover stories and regularly scheduled home design features for Pacific Northwest, the Seattle Times magazine. He also served as architectural historian on the Seattle Historic Preservation Officer’s Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in Historic Preservation. Since 1981, Larry has shared his life with Wayne Dodge, a family practice physician for Group Health Cooperative. They collect books, architectural renderings, ephemera, furniture and decorative arts, particularly from the period 1890-1930. Mr. Jacob Kusnetz 29 Greendale Road New City, NY 10956 (845) 634-2579 / jjkusnetz@prodigy.net “ My first job after graduating from CCNY was with ITT Labs in Nutley, New Jersey, doing microwave engineering. During ITT’s orientation meeting for new employees, I was surprised to meet one of my former CCNY electronics professors who had also come to work for the company. It was a strange feeling to now be colleagues rather than professor and student. Although my major was electrical engineering, the diverse training in mechanical engineering and engineering drawing that I received at City College was put to good use in this first job. These additional skills have served me well throughout my career. The rest of my forty year career focus was on optical design and bio-medical instrumentation, 206 always working on state-of-the-art R&D projects. These were done at Airborne Instrument Labs (AIL) department of medical and biological physics, at Technicon Instruments, a pioneer in automated blood chemistry equipment, and, finally, at Bayer Diagnostics (Bayer bought Technicon in the 1990s). During this time I received four patents, published several papers, published chapters dealing with nephelometry in two books, and presented a paper at The New York Academy of Sciences symposium on Data Extraction of Optical Images in the Medical and Biological Sciences. The paper was also published in the Annals of the NYAS. I retired from Bayer in 2001. Between the time I was at AIL and Technicon, I worked at Cavitron Ultrasonics on a revolutionary new surgical instrument to remove cataracts - the Phacoemulsifier. It was certainly an honor to participate in this project which has now become one of the principal ways to remove cataracts. Among my favorite professors at CCNY was Dr. Mauro Zambuto. He had the unique quality of making the most complex subjects almost intuitive, and it was always enjoyable to watch his TV program on travel to Italy. It was also a great honor to study with Professor Mark Zemansky. I live in Rockland County with my wife Judy. Our two children, Jay and Rachel (Bitterfield), are now grown and have careers of their own. Rachel and her husband Colin have given us two grandchildren - Kyle and Isadora. Judy and I are both violinists and have played with various groups including the Rockland Symphony Orchestra. All in all, CCNY had given me a well-rounded and diverse engineering education that was the basis of a rich and satisfying career.” 207 Mr. Richard L. Labinger 7057 West Country Club Drive N. Sarasota, FL 34243 rlabinger@earthlink.net R ichard Labinger majored in Mechanical Engineering, earning his BME from CCNY’s School of Engineering. Ira Langenthal,Ph.D. 1499 Blake Street #6i Denver, Colorado 80202 303-534-2603 farfelang@yahoo.com W ith my wife Loretta (celebrating our 47th anniversary in June), I live in Denver, Colorado and spend most of the winter in Scottsdale, Arizona. We have three daughters, Helaine Altus, Marcie Langenthal and Julie Rudofsky, sons-in-law Buddy Altus and Jason Rudofsky and three wonderful grandchildren, Zoe Altus, Lily Rudofsky and Max Rudofsky. Following graduation from CCNY in 1959 with a B.E.E, I received a M. Eng. from Yale University in 1960 and then went to work for a year at Hazeltine Research Corporation before returning to Yale and received a Ph.D. with an emphasis in information and communication theory. I not only benefited from the quality and free education at CCNY but was also fortunate to be able to complete my entire graduate education totally free with the help of a fellowship and later with a research grant through Bell Laboratories. Support from my wife as she was working while I was completing my Ph.D. also played a significant role as we were married and had our first child while at Yale. Following my Ph.D., I returned to Hazeltine Research Corporation and then worked for General Applied Science Laboratories. In 1967, along with three other co-workers, we founded Signal Analysis Industries Corporation, (SAICOR) a company involved in signal processing equipment applicable to a variety of markets worldwide. After "bootstraping" and growing the company we had a small private equity investment and later went public in 1969. In 1972 we attracted the attention of several firms and were acquired by and became part of a division of Honeywell Corporation. SAICOR remained operating in Hauppauge, Long Island until the end of 1975 at which time SAICOR was physically combined with Honeywell's Test Instrument Division in Denver, Colorado. My Honeywell career spanned the next 15 years and I was fortunate to be involved in every aspect of the operations and every aspect of the business on a worldwide basis and eventually became Vice President and General Manager at Honeywell. Over those years I was involved in a diverse set of businesses from test and measurement to mass storage to medical equipment and medical imaging markets. Being exposed both in a small and later public company from research to finance to sales and then to all areas in a large multinational Fortune 500 corporation provided invaluable experience. In addition, since Honeywell operated in those days as a decentralized corporation, Vice Presidents of Divisions had full P&L reponsibilities on a worldwide basis. Although retired since 1991, I have continued being active in the community on various boards involved in education and the arts, and on the boards of both private and public corporations. Loretta and I enjoy an active lifestyle both in Denver and Scottsdale and especially enjoy seeing, playing and skiing with our three grandchildren. We recently added a new puppy, a golden doodle, to further add to our enjoyment. The foundations of my career established initially by my parents while growing up in Brooklyn and later with my wife and family and especially with the free and quality education made available to me and countless others by CCNY (and other free NYC schools) has enabled me to have an extremely rewarding career and perspective on life. Attending CCNY with its dedicated teachers and diverse student population has significantly broadened and enhanced our lives. Thanks. Mrs. Annette Haendel Levine annetteroselevine@embarqmail.com “ After graduation from CCNY, I taught HS biology for a brief time at Andrew Jackson HS and Jamaica HS. I had my first child, a daughter in 1961 and went back to teaching briefly until 1964 when we moved to Ohio and I had our second child, a son. We lived in Ohio for 2 1/2 years and then moved to CT. Once my children were in school full time, I went back to work as a research assistant in a cancer lab at Yale Medical school. I also worked as a realtor for 20 years in CT prior to retiring to NC in 1998. We have 4 grandchildren, 2 in NC and 2 in CA. We spend as much time as we can visiting them. We have also done extensive traveling around the world. My husband, Arnold (CCNY '56) and I are still very active with tennis , cycling, volunteering, reading, taking courses and attending lectures at UNC and Duke University. I belong to a small group of madrigal singers, as well as a choral society in Chapel Hill, NC. Retirement to NC has been wonderful. Y'all come down to see us sometime!” Dr. Jerome H. Levine GERONIMOEZ@AOL.COM J erome Levine majored in Chemistry, earning his B.S. degree from CCNY’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He continued his studies at the NYU College of Denistry, and retired as a dentist in 1998. Dr. Levine has been Chairman of the Implant Department, Jamaica Hospital, NY (1983-1998); Chairman of the Diagnosis and Treatment Planning, New York Hospital (1978-1990); and Associate Professor, Department of Oral Diagnosis, NYU (19651976). He is a past member of The Society for Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis and The New York Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Levine also served as Editor for “The Society for Dental Research,” an international magazine that publishes new research. He received the Society for Dental Research “Certificate of Honor” at the 1963 International Congress of Oral Implantologists. Dr. Levine has two children, Jason Levine and Darin Levine, and two grandchildren. Mr. Fred Kiva Lickstein 3802 NE 207 Street, #1203 Aventura, FL 33180 F red Lickstein majored in Accounting, graduating magna cum laude with a BBA degree from the Business School. As a student, he was active in Beta Gamma Sigma, Beta Alpha Psi, the Accounting Society, and Accounting Forum (Editor). After CCNY, he earned his LLB degree at Harvard Law School in 1962. He has been a partner at Fowler White Burnett, P.A. since 1997, and previously was partner/founder of Semet Lickstein Morgenstern et al. (1982-1997). He is a member of the Dade County Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He and wife Barbara have two sons, David and Larry, and six grandchildren. Mr. Franklin Lowenthal F ranklin Lowenthal earned his B.S. degree in Physics from CCNY’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He received the Belden Mathematics Medal and the Fabregé Physics Award, and graduated summa cum laude. He went on to complete his Ph.D. in mathematics at Stanford University. He retired as a professor in June of 2008 and is now professor emeritus. Published work includes the textbook Linear Algebra with Linear Differential Equations and Journal papers on math, CIS, CS, tax, accounting, and QBM. Fondest CCNY memory: “Going to Boston to present a paper on probability theory to a math conference.” 209 Mr. Fred Mansbach 155 West 68th Street, Apt. 808 New York, NY 10023-5813 (212)595-7612 / FMans888@aol.com “ Growing up in the Bronx, of proud but poor immigrants, there was never any question that my college future would be anywhere but CCNY – it was FREE! Motivated by a need to earn a living, I gravitated to the business school at Lexington Avenue. After giving accounting the old “college try” and finding it not a comfortable fit, I tried for a career in insurance and liked it. Armed with my BBA, I entered the work force (after six months of active duty is the US Army Reserves) having found an entry level job through the employment office at CCNY. I proceeded to carve my niche in the world of insurance by the sheer endurance of continuing at my first job for fifty years – recently retiring from the ownership of the same agency which I came to own. Along the way, I married, on the late side, and had one child – a daughter who has made me very proud and somewhat remorseful of not providing a sibling or two. My wife, Toni, and daughter, Alix, continue to provide impetus and incentive to be active and may it continue to be so!” 210 Dr. Sheldon Marcus (212) 636-6432 (office) S heldon Marcus majored in History/Political Science, graduating with a B.A. degree from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He earned his M.A. at CCNY in 1960 and continued his graduate studies at Duke University and then Yeshiva University, where he completed his Ed.D. in 1970. He has been a college professor and administrator in his professional life, serving as a Professor at Fordham University from 1968 to the present. He has published a number of books, as sole author and in collaboration, including: Hot-Button Issues for Teachers: What Every Teacher Needs To Know (2007); Hot-Button Issues in Today’s Schools: What Every Parent Needs To Know (2006); Administrative Decision Making in School: A Case Study Approach to Strategic Planning (1973); Father Coughlin: The Tumultuous Life of the Priest of the Little Flower (1973); Urban Education: Crisis or Opportunity? (1972); and Conflicts in Urban Education (1970). He and his wife, Phyllis Knight Marcus, have one child, Evan; he also has two children, Beth and Jonathan, from an earlier marriage, and two grandchildren. His fondest memories of CCNY: “Some great teachers - Hans Kohn, Ivo Duchacek, Louis Snyder, Joe Taffet, Oscar Janowsky.” 211 Mr. Walter Herbert Margolies HERZOGMARG@AOL.COM “ I grew up on the Van Cortlandt Park (Amalgamated Bldgs.) area of the Bronx. I graduated from The Bronx High School of Science and chose to attend CCNY for its excellent reputation and its free tuition. While at the Business School, I joined the Saxe ’59 House Plan and we had a great time during our four years together. The highlight event, for me, was when our House Plan was the Cinderella team of the freshman softball intramural league, and as underdogs, we went on to place first in that league in 1956. My favorite instructor was Professor Chaikin. He made studying Accounting understandable and enjoyable. After graduating CCNY in January 1959, I joined a mid-sized public accounting firm and served six years in the National Guard/Reserves (including six-months active duty). In 1961, I joined the Internal Revenue Service as a Special Agent. I worked my way up the ladder and retired in 1987 as Chief of the Manhattan District Criminal Investigation Division. Over the years, I supervised federal prosecution of Organized Crime and Narcotics kingpins, politicians, and white collar criminals. In 1987, I joined the New York State Special Prosecutor’s Office - Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, as Chief Auditor. This Unit was eventually merged into the NYS Attorney General’s Office. I retired in 2007 after supervising the development of numerous prosecutions of nefarious medicaid mills, nursing homes, and dishonest medical providers. My wife, Jerri, and I are proud of the accomplishments of our four children: an accountant, an attorney, a teacher, and an editor. Now that my wife and I are both retired, we enjoy playing golf, traveling, and most importantly taking care of our 2-year-old grandchild, with another one on the way!” Mr. Theodore Mayer 5 Mansfield Grove Road East Haven, CT 06512 (203) 466-2035 T heodore Mayer is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, class of 1952. He attended CCNY from 1952 to 1954, then served in the U.S. Army, 1954 to 1956. He then attended the CCNY Baruch campus 1957 to 1959, graduating with a BBA degree in Economics. He worked for the US Government - Social Security Administration from 1959 through 1989, and was Manager of the NY Social Security Office in Peekskill from 1973 to 1989. He is now retired. 212 Bernard Mennis, Ph.D. 133 Mary Waters Ford Road Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 mennis@temple.edu “ Born and raised in the Bronx, I graduated Stuyvesant High School (1955) before enrolling and graduating at City (1959). Played on the freshman basketball team and was a member of several clubs while at City. After serving in the military under the National Guard Reserve, enrolled at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where I earned a MA in Political Science (1962) and PhD in Political Science (1967). Subsequently taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University in Philadelphia, retiring in 2000. During my academic career, served as Professor and Department Chair, and published 2 books and a number of articles. Was married for nearly 20 years, have 2 sons and 2 granddaughters. Have now been living with Barbara for about 15 years in suburban Philadelphia; she is a Professor at Temple University. My life's interests and activities are not much different from what they were when I was at City. I read a lot of non-fiction since learning still is one of my pleasures, continue to participate in sports (mainly fitness, racquetball, and power walking), travel fairly often, and check out restaurants that seem interesting. And of course spend as much time with my family as they allow me to do. I remember both Stuyvesant and City with deep appreciation and affection. My story is the story that both institutions always tell in their promotions; that is, poor immigrant parents wanting their children to be educated and professionals in the land of opportunity. Following the typical story line, I was the first person in my entire extended family to graduate High School and attend college. I was followed at City quickly by my brother and 2 sisters. Thank you City from all of us. Re CCNY memories, I remember many of my teachers, both the good and really bad ones. I have to be honest here. Several of my teachers were really bad, incompetent in fact. It is unfortunate they were hired and tenured. But I also had many very good teachers, not only in my major, but also in subjects of marginal interest to me. As I moved through the years at City, I learned which faculty taught well and I had more opportunity to choose. That made a very big difference. 213 Perhaps the most critical aspect of my education at City was that, still influenced by traditional notions that a college education was intended to transform ordinary students into well rounded intelligentsia rather than prepare students for the job market, I was forced by the requirements then in force to take a wide variety of classes beyond my major, many of which I never would have chosen. Examples were Theory of Education, Art History and History of Music (in the latter class, we were required to attend a concert at Carnegie Hall, the first time I had ever been there). Also, in the latter class I was introduced to European classical music; I have enjoyed such music ever since. As I grew older, I began to appreciate those requirements since I realized how they have contributed to my quality of life. There really is no way one can underestimate the importance of City. As has been repeated so many times before, I received a quality education that my parents never could have afforded to give me if City was not there. And that gift has allowed me to have a wonderful life, as it has been for so many others.” 214 Mr. Bernard Monahan PE 38 Beach 221st Street Rockaway Point, NY 11697 phone 718-945-0013 / Monohand@msn.com B ernie grew up in the Marine Park Section of Brooklyn and graduated from St. Augustine’s High School in Park Slope. He was attracted to CCNY because of its outstanding reputation for Civil Engineering. He participated in ASCE’s Student Section. His most significant classes and professors included Surveying (Brandt), Foundations (Pei) and Economics (Pistrang). After graduation he worked for a Foundation Engineering and Construction Company and studied evenings at Brooklyn Poly where he earned his MS in Civil Engineering in 1967. Bernie has maintained his fondness for ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) and is currently the co-editor of its Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction. In past years he has served as the President of ASCE’s Met Section and nationally served as Chairman of its Construction Executive Committee and as a Director representing New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico. He is a past Trustee of the Moles, a National Construction Honor Society and a registered engineer in NY, PA, NJ, MASS and FL. He is a co-author of Construction Rock Work Guide (Wiley) and two separate editions of the Handbook of Temporary Structures in Construction (McGraw Hill). Highlights of his career include the completion of many needed improvements to our infrastructure for subways, airports, hospitals and sewage treatment facilities. Career turning points included being elevated to Vice President of a major construction company. His family consists of his loving wife of fortyseven years, Betty; one son, a Mechanical Professional Engineer; three daughters and six grandchildren; one grandson is studying Civil Engineering locally. His hobbies include golf and genealogy. His fondest CCNY memory is the patience and dedication of the professors in the Civil Engineering Department. They taught lessons that last a lifetime. 215 Mr. Shepard Osherow (561) 416-2511 (office) stockup1@aol.com “ I grew up in the Bronx and attended William Howard Taft High School. I chose CCNY because it was affordable to my family. I was a member of the Economics Club at CCNY. I received the following awards and honors while at CCNY: Wall Street Journal Award; Fieland Award; Most Likely to Succeed; Highest average in Economics and Finance. Some of my most memorable and significant professors were Jerome Cohen, Leon Levy, and Emmanuel Saxe. I have been involved in numerous professional and charitable organizations in New York and South Florida, including: Founder Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Founder of the Osherow Field Training Center at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Member of World Presidents Organization; Former Officer of Young Presidents Organization; American Heart Association; Boca Raton Community Hospital, Corporate Advocates Program; Kravis Center for the Performing Arts; Horses and the Handicapped of South Florida; Founder, Florida Atlantic University Football Program; Jewish Board of Children and Family Services. My professional career highlights include: President, Chief Investment Officer and principal shareholder of Sanford C. Bernstein & Company; Co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Atlanta Sossnoff Capital Corporation. Happily married to my wife, Sally Bosch Osherow; two sons, Mark and Kenneth Osherow; one daughter, Caroline Alyssa Osherow; stepdaughter, Connie Bosch Barhorst; stepson, William Bosch. Proud grandfather of six: 4 boys and 2 girls. Hobbies include tennis, skiing, reading and stamp collecting.” 216 Mr. Robert P. Parisi, P.E. 106 Lawrence Avenue Dumont, NJ 07628 (201) 385-3256 / bpb106@att.net “ I grew up in Brooklyn, NY and graduated from Stuyvesant High School before continuing to CCNY. I went to CCNY because of its high quality Engineering education and it was free- that was all I could afford. Alpha Phi Omega was the fraternity I spent four years with. I still stay in touch with one other brother. After graduating from CCNY, I earned a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from New York University (1971) as well as a Master of Business Administration Degree from Montclair State University (1991). My community activities include Chairman of my church's Parish Council, Little League Baseball Coach, and member of the Dumont Board of Health. Professional accomplishments include achieving the grade of Fellow in both the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Transportation Engineers. I also had one article published: “Cheap Paint is Costly” in the Institute of Traffic Engineers Journal. I spent most of my professional career (39 years) as a Traffic Engineer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the last six years (1997-2002) as its Chief Traffic Engineer before I retired at the end of 2002. I was on the 44th floor of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01 when the first plane hit. I knew 10 people who died on that day. I have been married and lived in Dumont, NJ for over 45 years. Our daughter and two sons have blessed us with six grandchildren. I am a Bronze Life Master with the American Contract Bridge League and play in several duplicate bridge tournaments per year. My fondest memories of CCNY include the social growth provided by my involvement with Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity and the top notch education by the Civil Engineering teachers. They were tough and fair and well suited to teach young skulls full of mush. I must list the ones I remember because they prepared me so well for my successful professional career: Allen, Barry, Brandt, Cheng, Coulter, Cunningham, Ettinger, Hartman, Jen, Kaplan, Moskvitinoff, Pei, Steven, and Tiersten. A public Thank You to them all for a job well done.” 217 Dr. George Pasternack 1307 Landings Drive Sarasota, FL 34231 G eorge Pasternack earned his BSci in Chemistry from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He went on to complete his Ph.D. in 1968. He lives in Florida. Mr. Richard I. Pawliger 4770 Stonehaven Drive Columbus, Ohio 43220 rpawliger@earthlink.net “ I came to CCNY following graduation from Stuyvesant High School and commuted daily on the subway from our family’s apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In fact, the cumulative cost of commuting, first 10, later 15 cents per ride, was the greatest category of college expense during my CCNY years, exceeding the cumulative cost of fees and books! Following graduation, I spent a 40-year career in Mechanical Engineering and engineering management with one company - American Electric Power, one of the largest electric utility companies in the United States. My responsibilities included the engineering, design, construction, operation and maintenance of coal-fired, nuclear-fueled 218 and hydroelectric generating units ranging in size from 100 to 1300-MW. My first three years were served in Virginia, the next 21 in New York City followed by 16 in Columbus, Ohio. I retired from active service in 1999. My education at CCNY prepared me very well for my career. One extra-curricular activity that I fondly recall was serving, along with Steve Murdock, as co-Editor-in-Chief of VECTOR, CCNY’s Engineering Magazine. I became a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in New York and Ohio. I also was, and continue to be, active in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) by serving on a number of committees and boards. In 1997 I was elected to Fellow Grade of ASME. One ASME activity that was especially rewarding was serving for ten years as a Program Evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the recognized accreditor for colleges and university programs in engineering and related fields. I currently serve on ASME’s national History and Heritage Committee, a group that encourages public understanding of mechanical engineering, fosters the preservation of this heritage and helps engineers become more involved in all aspects of history. In 1963 I was married to Nancy (née Leitman), a fellow New Yorker who had a career in Social Work and fund raising for non-profits. We have been blessed with two wonderful children and two extraordinary grandchildren. Our son is an engineering manager (in the computer field) and lives with his family in California. Our daughter, who is active in her University’s alumni board, lives with her family in Maryland, so we are busy traveling from Ohio to both coasts.” 219 Mrs. Barbara Kleinman Pisetzner 159 Gower Street Staten Island, NY 10314 (718) 698-4881 / fitsyfotsy@earthlink.net “ I transferred to CCNY after one year at Hunter College in the Bronx and one year at SUNY Cortland, and immediately found the intellectual stimulation and friendship I had been seeking. My two years at CCNY were rewarding and happy. I received by B.S.Ed. cum laude, and was admitted to Kappa Delta Pi (Education Honor Society). Four days after graduation I married Ira Pisetzner, an NYU Dental School student. I started teaching at PS 123, a brand new elementary school across the park from the CCNY campus. We had our first child, Mindy Susan, in 1961, and she appeared in the Dental School Yearbook in 1963 as a "Deciduous Dependent." We moved to Fort Jackson in Columbia, SC, where my husband was a captain in the US Army Dental Corps. Our son, Howard Adam, was born there in 1964. In 1965, we returned to Staten Island, where Ira opened his dental practice. He is still practicing, but is on the "cusp" of retirement. Our third child, Karen Michelle, was born in Staten Island in 1968. I earned my Master's Degree in education and my Sixth Year Certificate in Administration and Supervision from CUNY College of Staten Island. I also earned state/city certification in special education and in reading education. I taught learning disabled children in elementary school for 15 years, and then became an educational evaluator--testing, placing, and providing services for children with special needs. In 1989, I was honored by the Board of Education for my work in special education. In March, 2003, I retired after almost 32 years as an educator. Ira and I are celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary on June 21, 2009. We raised and educated three loving, wonderful, accomplished children who attained professional and personal success and stature, and married wonderful spouses. Our family is made complete by our bright, talented, and beautiful grandchildren--Andrew 15, Jason 14, and Jenna 7. Throughout the years, I have enjoyed volunteering in various community organizations and activities. Ira and I enjoy family time, wonderful friends, theater, movies, concerts, fine dining, and all New York City has to offer; our condo in Delray Beach, Florida; and world travel to six continents (thinking about Antarctica). Life continues to be good to us. This 50th anniversary has a special, dual, unbelievable significance!! Happy, healthy 50th to all my classmates!” 220 Mr. Lowell Pollack 51 Clements Place Hartsdale, NY 10530 (914) 949-1074 L owell Pollack grew up on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. At CCNY, he was a member of the Musical Comedy Society and played piano for stage productions at Carnival. He was also a member of the Psychology Society. Lowell received his BA from CCNY and his M.A. from Columbia University. He was a social studies teacher at Castle Hill JHS 127, Bronx, where he also conducted the school stage band. At DeWitt Clinton High School, he taught social studies, served as College Advisor and was the faculty advisor to the Human Relations Club. Lowell received the Brotherhood of Man award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for achievement in the field of Human Relations. After becoming an assistant principal, Lowell worked at Farragut JHS 44, Bronx, where he introduced a Narcotics Addiction Prevention Program. He was the Assistant Principal, Social Studies, at Tetard MS 143, Bronx, where he developed the Ethnic Studies mini-course program. He conducted many in-service classes including a workshop for supervisors and teachers in the Bronx to introduce the Global History course of study. Lowell taught social studies at Woodlands High School in Hartsdale, NY, for seventeen summers. At the Clinton-Walton Center, he taught piano to elementary school students and to adults. He is very involved with music and has taught piano for many years continuing to this day. Lowell supervised a summer program for Special Education students in District 10. He became Principal of the Mosholu School, PS 280, Bronx, where he involved the Bronx Dance Theater in teaching dance to fourth and fifth graders. After retiring from the New York City School system, Lowell taught at Manhattanville College for twelve years in the School of Education, training student teachers and new teachers. He and his wife Judith are community volunteers, delivering Meals-on-Wheels in White Plains, NY, volunteering with the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra and mentoring young people. Lowell is also a member of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) in the Town of Greenburgh and he plays piano for the Early Childhood Program (ECP) in the Greenburgh Central 7 schools. In addition to his wife of fifty years, Judith, Lowell has loving children Scott and Debra Pollack, MD, son-in-law Daniel Wollman, MD and adored granddaughters Joanna and Caroline Wollman. 221 Dr. Martin Pomerantz 5521 Williamstown Road Dallas, TX 75230-2127 (972) 233-9921 / pomerantz@uta.edu “ I grew up in the Bronx on Creston Avenue near 180th Street and attended the Bronx High School of Science. It was there where I developed my interest in Chemistry. I went to CCNY where I majored in chemistry, since the cost was right and it was the best of the city colleges. While at CCNY I was fortunate to receive many honors. I was the recipient of the Ward Medals in both Chemistry and German, a Revlon Foundation Scholarship, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Magna cum Laude with Honors in Chemistry. Following my CCNY years, I was a research assistant in Summer, 1959 at New York University in the Bronx and then attended graduate school in organic chemistry at Yale University. While at Yale I received the following honors. A Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1959-1960), Leeds and Northrup Fellowship (1960-1962, given by the National Research Council), an Honorary Sterling Fellowship (1962-1963, given by Yale University) and a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (1962-1963). I received my M.S. degree in 1961 and, although I completed my Ph.D. requirements in August, 1963, the degree was not awarded until June, 1964. I continued my education as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. My first academic position was assistant professor at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, which, in 1967, became Case Western Reserve University. There I began my career as a teacher and researcher. In 1969, after I turned down an offer for promotion and tenure, I moved to the Belfer Graduate School of Science of Yeshiva University as associate professor. In 1974 I was promoted to professor and also spent four years as chair of the Chemistry Department. While there I was awarded a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1971-1976). In 1976, I moved to the University of Texas at Arlington (between Dallas and Fort Worth) as Professor of Chemistry where I am currently. While at UT Arlington I was the recipient of the 1997 Wilfred T. Doherty Award of the DallasFort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society and of the 1997 University of Texas at Arlington Distinguished Record of Research Award. I have been a visiting professor at BenGurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, Summer 1981 and 1985, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Fall 1972 and Columbia University, Fall 1975 and 1974 and Summer 1970-1975. For two years, August, 2005-August 2007, I was a Program Officer in the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA. 222 I am or have been, a member of a number of organizations including the American Chemical Society where I was an Alternate Councilor for the Dallas-Fort Worth Section, 1992-1995, and, since I joined in 1959 while I was still at CCNY, I am now a 50 year member of that society, and I am also currently a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. I have been fortunate to have received numerous grants and contracts as principal investigator or co-PI for the research I am doing and when converted to 2008 dollars the total is about $12 million. I have over 125 publications in peer reviewed journals, have a number of book chapters and have one patent. I have presented about 140 papers at national and international scientific meetings and about 100 invited talks at universities, companies and government agencies around the world. I have graduated 16 people with Ph.D. degrees and have had more than 20 postdoctoral associates working in my labs. I am listed in “Who’s Who in America” (since 1986), “Who’s Who in the World,” “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering” and “American Men and Women of Science.” I was married in 1961 to the former Maxine Miller, also from the Bronx, and we have three children, Lee Allan, who is a computer specialist with American Airlines and is married to Helen and they have three children, Wendy Jane, a pediatric emergency physician with the Cincinnati Children's Hospital and an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Cincinnati Medical School, and is married to Ryan Goldberg, with one son, and Heidi Lauren (our youngest) who works for Texas Instruments and is a manager in the Education Technology Group. Maxine was an elementary school teacher who became a religious school teacher and retired in 2005. I continue to work at UT Arlington and am continuing to teach, do research, publish papers and get grants. It was the education I received at CCNY in chemistry which enabled me to get my Ph.D. at Yale University and to get the many fellowships I got throughout my years at Yale, and for that I thank the CCNY Chemistry Department Faculty, most of whom are no longer with us.” 223 Mrs. Carol Blitz Portugal 282 Parkway Harrington Park, NJ 07640 (201) 767-8172 / carol-portugal@webtv.net “ I was born and grew up in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx...and many people who grew up there in the fifties remember that enclave with happy memories. I went to Columbus High School and then my friends and I had the choice of one of the city colleges. Hunter was close but City had men and we made the collective decision to go there. Some of us had fantasized about going to an “out-of-town” college...but this was definitely not to be and the long commute became part of the college experience for all. The nightmare of being thrown into a room for freshman registration...was followed by the likes of Joyce, Milton...and my personal Waterloo: Math 61. For someone who was 16 and whose mother still told her to “watch how you cross” every day...this was heady stuff. My intention to major in English and become a writer was quelled in one freshman conference with my composition professor who told me that I “didn’t have it” and that I should choose something else...I believed him and I changed. (Actually, I would up writing for a bank...not creative but publishable). I wound up in the Government Department with the speciality of International Relations with the hope of going into the foreign service or something aiding the “underdeveloped countries (the awful term used in those days). I took a lot of courses that related to Asia in Economics, Government, and History...and who can forget Professor Tiedemann’s course in Japanese Civilization. I even tried to learn Hindustani at NYU at night...as I hoped that working in India was to be my destiny. Of course, my parents wouldn’t have any of it, and, as usual, they prevailed. Upon graduation, I got a job in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and, two years later, went to Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. I moved into Manhattan and had a great life: a nice apartment in the east 70s, a good job, weekends at Fire Island, forays up to the Bronx to Loehmann’s...but, being socialized in the fifties, thought myself totally lacking for having no prospects leading to marriage, a house in the suburbs, kids, the station wagon, the dog, etc. I married Howard Portugal in 1969 at age 30! (Ahead of my time, but not deliberately.) If any woman grad in the class of 1959 did not suffer from my mindset, wow, was she enlightened. For the past two years, I have been making semi-precious jewelry which I enjoy very much and which I actually am able to sell. It is my first hobby since coloring books. I have a son and a daughter and a delicious three-year-old grandson...with another grandchild on the way. It is tough to run after little Dean at the age we all share...but I do my best.” 224 Mr. Ed Rak (508) 398-1291 E d Rak was an engineering major at CCNY, earning his BME degree from the School of Engineering. As a student, he was a member of Delta Alfa. He subsequently attended the University of Connecticut. He retired as an engineer in 1997. In the course of his career, he served as Energy Account Safety Executive for Travelers Insurance Company; Boiler Safety Engineer Inspector for the State of Connecticut; Experiment Test/Analytical Supervisor Engineer for Pratt Whitney Aircraft; and Aeronautical Engineer for Pan American Airways. He is a past member of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), CSP (Certified Safety Professional), PE (Professional Engineer, Connecticut), and NB (National Board Boiler Inspector). He was also a member of Toastmasters International. He has five children (Edward, Ellen, Elizabeth, Marijean, Steve) and eight grandchildren. Mr. Alan Rosenfeld 7153 Mariana Court Boca Raton, FL 33433 A lan Rosenfeld earned both his B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from the Business School. As a student, he was the recipient of the David J. Greene Scholarship. He retired as an Investment Advisor in 2005. He served as Chairman of the Board of M&R Capital Management Inc. He was previously Associate Director of Research for Bache Halsey Stuart Shields and Senior Vice President and Director for Bayrock Advisors. He was a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Society from 1967 until 2005. Alan and his wife Irma have two daughters, Sherri Gelfond and Gayle Rostkowski, and three grandchildren. Fondest CCNY memory: “In my freshman year, the CCNY basketball team won both the NCAA and NIT championships.” 225 Mr. Murray Rubinstein 221 Deer Run Shelton, CT 06484 MURRAYRUB@SBCGLOBAL.NET M urray Rubinstein was a Dean’s List student who majored in Electrical Engineering, graduating with a BEE degree from CCNY’s School of Engineering. He subsequently attended the Stevens Institute, where he earned his MSEE degree in 1966. He retired after ten years as a consultant in 1999. Prior to that, he had worked as a Semiconductor Manager for ITT, 1979-1989. He and his wife, Elaine, have three children (Joseph, Allen, Laura) and three grandchildren. His fondest memories of CCNY: “cafeteria discussions.” Mr. Joel Gary Samit 9 Palomino Drive Manalapan, NJ 07726 (732) 446-2223 (home) / (732) 972-5465 (office) JOGSAM@AOL.COM J oel Gary Samit was an Accounting major, earning his BBA degree from the Baruch Business School. His activities while a student included the Interfraternity Council (Treasurer and Secretary), the Inter Club Board (Representative), Tau Delta Phi Fraternity (Treasurer and delegate to the National Convention), Theatron (Business Manager), Freshman Orientation Society (Big Brother), the Accounting Society (Member), and Truth (Circulation Editor). He received his CPA Certificate in 1964 and continues to work as a CPA in New York and New Jersey. He has been a sole practitioner since July of 1995, and was previously a Partner and Senior Managing Partner at Jacques M. Levy & Co., 19591995. He has been an Honorary Member of AICPA since 1965, a Member of NYSSCPAS from 1965 to the present, and a Member of NJSCPAS from 1988 to the present. He and his wife, Rise, have two children (Lori and Marc) and five grandchildren. Fondest CCNY memories: “Harry the elevator operator and his stories; Dr. Clement Thompson at the FOS Assemblies; the 9th floor lounges and the 10th floor cafeteria.” 226 David Saperstein PO Box 42 - Wykagyl Station New Rochelle, NY 10804 “ I grew up in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx. In those days it was called “The” Bronx, not just Bronx. I attended The Bronx High School of Science and although I was accepted to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, my family circumstances were what today might be called “poor”, and so an out of town tuition was not possible, and there was not enough scholarship money offered. But like many things in life that at first seem disappointing but turn out to be fortuitous, being accepted to CCNY was, for me, surely one of those instances. It took a few years to realize that math, science and engineering, most of my Bronx Science education, was not for me. Fortunately, at that time, CCNY had a fledgling film school that caught my interest. Forty or so credits short of an engineering degree, I switched to film. That led to my life’s career as a screen writer, film director, novelist, lyricist, librettist and producer. My science and engineering education certainly helped develop my respect for research and organization, both of which were key to the crafts I needed to develop in the entertainment and communication fields. I have been fortunate to be a “Best Selling” author and my stories and films have received Writer’s Guild and Academy Awards. One of my most cherished honors was to be awarded the Townsend Harris Medal from CCNY in 1998. I am a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, the Director’s Guild of America, BMI and the National Honor Society. I have lectured and taught at several colleges and universities in America and abroad, including a year as a professor teaching screenwriting, directing and collaboration at the graduate level at the NYU Tisch School. To date I have written twelve novels (perhaps the best known being “COCOON”), twenty-eight screenplays, three librettos and lyrics for more than seventy published songs. I directed two of my own feature film screenplays plus several documentaries and television series and specials. I am now working on a new novel, a play and screenplays from two of my most recent published novels. On the personal side, I have been married for fifty years. We have a married son who is an attorney and a married daughter who lives in Israel. I have two wonderful granddaughters. I served two active duty tours in the Army. My passionate hobbies are my friends, fishing and my garden. I often look back at where I came from, The Bronx, and the public education I received. These are strong and deep roots. Although I started out in the CCNY engineering school, the variety of educational and career choices that the college offered gave me the opportunity to find and pursue my film and writing career. That is something for which I have always been most grateful.” 227 Mr. Alfred A. Sarnotsky 5 Shaw Lane Hartsdale, NY 10530 (summer) (914) 949-7925 (home) / (914) 715-3395 (cell) or 8453 Grand Messina Circle Boynton Beach, FL 33472 (winter) (561) 736-2772 (home) / ALSARNOTSKY@YAHOO.COM A l Sarnotsky majored in Chemical Engineering, earning his BChE degree from CCNY’s School of Engineering. At City College, he was a diver for the Swim Team, a member of Kappa Rho Tau Fraternity, and served in various elected positions in Student Government. He was a recipient of the Tremain Scholarship. He later graduated from New York University with his MS in Organic Chemistry (1965), and continued his post-masters studies at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In 2002, Al retired as Vice President from Spraylat Corporation, where he had worked in a myriad of positions since 1960. He is a current member of the New York Society for Coatings Technology and the New York Paint and Coatings Association. He is a past president of the New York Society for Coatings Technology, and a past member of the Board of Directors of the New York Paint and Coatings Association. He has published several technical articles in paint and coatings journals. He won the Industry Statesman Award from the National Paint and Coatings Association when he retired, and various other awards from professional organizations for technical and service contributions. Additionally, a scholarship in his name, funded by Spraylat Corporation, is awarded yearly to technically competent college freshmen. He remains active in his retirement community, builds sets for community theater productions, is a photographer for the community newsletter, and is a member of the Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) both in New York and Florida. Al is married to Midge Sarnotsky, and they have one married son, Steven. Al participated in marathon running until last year, and still enjoys running, photography, travel, and biking. His fondest memories of CCNY: “Friendships that I still retain.” 228 Dr. Saul Scherzer 10 Bluewater Hill South Westport, CT 06880 (203) 226–3100 (work) / drsconsult@aol.com D r. Saul Scherzer earned his BEE degree from CCNY’s School of Engineering. At City, he was a member of the swim team. His fondest memories include “walking from North to South Campus” and “mixing with all kinds of students.” He later earned his MBA in Marketing at CCNY and his PhD in Psychology at New York University. He is still active as President of a consulting corporation, serving as an organization and business psychologist. Previously, he was psychologist for G.E. (1972-1975), psychologist for ITT, and consultant for Booz Allon Hamilton. He is currently a Master Mason and is a past member of Mensa. He has been a Masters Swim Team member for twenty years. Dr. Scherzer and his wife Leah have two children. D.J. is a medical doctor and Sandy is a company president. The Scherzers have four grandchildren. 229 Allan L. Schiffer, Ph.D. 184 Fern Street West Hartford, CT 06105 (860) 233-6228 (work) “ Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1938, my family made the “trek to the suburbs” in the ’50’s and I graduated from Bayside H.S. in Queens, N.Y. in 1955. Upon the advice of an uncle, I chose a business school and thought I would become a “junior executive” (although I never did learn what that “title” really meant) and attended The Baruch School. When it became time to choose a major I was still pretty clueless as to my future. I was chatting with a friend, between classes, about my dilemma and he suggested I specialize in whatever courses I enjoyed the most. “Psychology” I told him and, by chance, chose to be a psych major – which became the most important and most positive turning point in my life. While I was at “City” I was a “commuter student” and spent 3-4 hours a day traveling back and forth between home and school. I spent little time socializing or being involved in school activities, although I was a member of a House Plan - whose name I’ve forgotten. Some memorable scenes at “City” include watching the Dean (also forgot his name) pumping his arm up and down, trying to generate excitement among some listless students, singing “Sturdy Sons of City College” and only creating giggles and assorted snickers at the image. Then there was Prof. Henderson who must have received his educational training at a Marine barracks. I can still remember some of the dread he instilled in us in a physical education class. And finally, I remember an economics teacher who, out of frustration, had the habit of kicking his students out of class when they were unprepared or inattentive. One day he called on me, and using “soap” as an example of a commodity for the purpose of the lesson, asked me, “What kind of soap I used?” Well, I had adolescent acne and was using a medicated cleanser and said, 230 “I didn’t use soap…” and before I could explain, I was summarily kicked out of class to the sounds of the class bursting into laughter in the background. I graduated from “downtown” and went “uptown” and obtained a Master’s degree at The School of Education, also majoring in Psychology. Looking back I can only express my deep appreciation for the breadth and depth of my education, the excellence of most of the teachers ( at both campuses ) and the exceptional foundation I had obtained prior to pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Michigan State University. After graduating M.S.U., I came back east and settled in Connecticut. I worked as a Staff Psychologist at a State Hospital and as an Assistant Professor at The University of Hartford, about four years each, and finally settled into full time private practice. For the past 40+ years I have been a psychotherapist and founder/president of Pathways EAP an organizational consulting firm. I am particularly appreciative of the opportunity to have helped others along the way and the contribution I may have made to the individual clients, couples and families I have worked with. One of my greatest feelings of accomplishment has been my recent interest in and the founding of a committee, called The Peace Project, with other national and international professionals. The purpose was to synthesize a variety of communication skills and create a technique called Communologue, for the purpose of better understanding, collaboration and resolution among individuals and groups. We have taught these skills, for example, to various groups including Israelis and Arabs (in Israel), Rwandan Hutus and Tutsis (at the U.N.), to other professionals and lay persons, and I just completed facilitating some trainings with counselors at St. Joseph’s College and 20 middleelementary school teachers in my community of West Hartford. So here I am, 70 years later, a semi-retired Psychologist with four children and four grandchildren, still trying to grow (studying Tai Chi, Buddhism, taking tennis and art lessons, sailing as much as I can on our boat) and still trying to make a contribution, while sharing my personal and professional life with my lovely significant other and partner Yvonne Miceli our dog Molly and our cat Corky. Thanks to you all…” 231 Dr. Lawrence Schulman lschulm@optonline.net D r. Lawrence Schulman earned his BS degree as a Pre-Med student at CCNY, where he was Interscience Council Representative, a member of Caduceus, and a member of the Psychology Society. His honors and awards included the Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa, and Magna Cum Laude. His fondest CCNY memory is Comparative Anatomy Class with Dr. Farquhar. After CCNY, Dr. Schulman attended the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center for his MD. He has been President since 1972 of Schulman & Carton, M.D. P.C. in Yonkers. He is semi-retired as an orthopaedic surgeon. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; and an Instructor in the Department of Orthopaedics, NYU Medical School. He received the Samuel Kleinberg Award from the Hospital for Joint Diseases in 1970. Dr. Schulman and his wife Susan have three children (Deborah L. Richter, Stephanie F. Schulman, and Robert M. Schulman) and three grandchildren. 232 Mr. Jack Schwartz 200 Hamilton Road Chappaqua, NY 10514 CALMERFUTURE@yahoo.com J ack Schwartz majored in English, graduating with a B.A. degree from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. During his time at CCNY, he was Editor-in-Chief of The Campus, and warmly remembers the friends that he met along the way. A member of the U.S. Army, 1961-63, he served in the 8th Special Forces. He writes: “Over a career of 50 years I have worked at The New York Times as copy chief of the Magazine, metropolitan editor at The Week-in-Review, deputy Family-Style editor, assistant editor on the Daily Culture, Weekend and Arts & Leisure sections and copy editor on the Metropolitan desk; at Newsday as Book Editor, Day News Editor, Specialists Editor, reporter and columnist; at the New York Daily News as Book Editor, at the Paris Herald-Tribune on the news and copy desks. I also worked as a reporter for the Long Island Press after starting out at the New York Daily Mirror and the New York Post. I taught copy editing at New York University Journalism School and weekly review editing at the Columbia Journalism School where I am currently an Adjunct Professor supervising student master’s projects. I am a member of the Century Association and the Harvard Club. The gateway to all this was City College. My wife, Dr. Nella Shapiro, is a breast cancer surgeon with a career of more than 30 years at Albert Einstein hospital; my son, Max, a lawyer, is a cum laude graduate of Columbia College and New York University Law School and studied at Oxford. My daughter, Molly, graduated from Barnard College and works for Conde-Nast Traveler magazine. We live in Chappaqua, N.Y., and New York City. We have two pugs, Rosie and Fredo, whom I walk.” Mrs. Florence Revitz Schwartzberg 16 Meadow Road Scarsdale, NY 10583 “ I spent my childhood in the Allerton Avenue section of the Bronx. I was graduated from Christopher Columbus High School. I chose C.C.N.Y. due to its high academic reputation. While there I was a member of House Plan. After graduation I married and started a family. I then became a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator. The organization where I was employed was a member of N.Y.S.F.H.A. and A.H.C.A. Traveling with colleagues all over the world to compare our standards with theirs opened up a whole new world to me. I appreciate the U.S.A.” 233 Mrs. Mary Bren Selzer 67-30 167th Street Fresh Meadows, Queens, NY 11365 (718) 445-9681 / edwin.selzer@gmail.com “ I was born and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School. I chose the Baruch School of Business-CCNY because it was the college that prepared you to teach business subjects. At City College-Baruch, I was a member of Lexicon ’59 staff, the Ticker, Boosters, Cowin 59 and the Education Society. I was inducted into the Education Honor Society. I received a Master’s Degree from Baruch-City College, 1961, and another Master’s Degree in Counseling from C.W. Post College of Long Island University. I have been a member of the Nassau Counselors Association for 25 years. I was an Assistant Principal of Pupil Personnel Services in a high school in New York City and a Director of Guidance, K-12, for a Nassau County School System. Presently, I am semi-retired. I train Assistant Principals, Guidance and Guidance Counselors in the New York City school system and am an Adjunct Professor in the Counseling and Development Department, Graduate Division of C.W. Post College of Long Island University. My husband is retired and was an Assistant Principal of Social Studies in a New York City high school, as well as the author of 14 books on United States History, Economics, New York State History and United States Government. We have three sons: the oldest is a doctor, the middle son is a lawyer and CPA, and the youngest is a lawyer. My hobbies are traveling - I have been all over the world with the exception of Southeast Asia. I also enjoy swimming and tennis. The Baruch School of Business - CCNY enabled me as a poor immigrant to get a college degree and become a professional woman, long before women went in huge numbers to college.” 234 Ms. Sondra P. Hartman Silver sondysilver@nyc.rr.com “ The 50 years since graduating from City College have flown by. Wasn’t it just yesterday that I graduated from George Washington H.S. and was overwhelmed by the registration process at City? Almost immediately, I was assigned to the House Plan, Sis Compton ’59, and new friends suddenly emerged. I continue to be good friends with many of them. Eventually, I also joined the Education Society and the Psychology Society. I had many outstanding experiences during my four years. One of the most unexpected was meeting my future husband in an American History class. He sat behind me and kicked my chair. We married in January ’58 and just celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary. During many of these years, my husband Morris was Chairman of the Economics Department at CCNY. After graduation from City, I taught elementary school in the Bronx and earned my Master’s Degree. (At City, of course.) After six years, I went on maternity leave and raised two sons. (Both are now married and I am the proud grandma of four children.) Fortunately, I took advantage of the opportunity to train as a math teacher (at Hofstra) and become certified in Mathematics K-12. I taught math for many happy years and retired from Hempstead H.S. in 1999. During that time I was honored to receive many awards, including: “Who’s Who Among American Teachers,” Newsday Selection “Long Island’s Top Teachers,” and “Hempstead Mayor’s Excellence in Teaching Award.” City College taught me well! Presently, I am a faculty member at Hunter College CUNY and New Paltz College (SUNY). I supervise student teachers in secondary schools throughout New York City. In addition, I am a weekly volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There is no doubt that CCNY gave me the education and confidence that enabled me to reach so many goals. Thank you, City College.” 235 Mrs. Leatrice Tell Silver 2 Horizon Road, Apt. 1009 Fort Lee, NJ 07024 (201) 224-4284 / leatrice.silver@yahoo.com “ I grew up in the Bronx and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in June, 1955. I chose to attend CCNY because of its reputation as a top school for Mathematics and Science. When I received my B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Education in May, 1959, just four women were planning to become Mathematics teachers on the secondary level. Although I was a commuter, I still formed lasting friendships with fellow members of the Sis Parks ’59 House Plan. Two professors who were most significant to me were Dr. Hurwitz and Dr. Leonard Cohen, both in the Mathematics Department. In fact, I spent over 30 years teaching all levels of Mathematics on the secondary school level. For over twelve years, I ran a GED program as part of James Monroe High School which enabled high school dropouts to return to school and prepare for a GED. After graduating CCNY in 1959, I continued my education evenings and summers to earn my MA in Mathematics Education in May, 1962. The National Science Foundation provided math teachers with special study grants which I took advantage of, taking post-graduate courses at Brown University, University of Illinois-Urbana, and the Courant Institute at NYU. My husband Seymour and I divide our time between Fort Lee, New Jersey, and Coconut Creek, Florida, staying connected with old friends and family. Both my stepdaughter and stepson are teachers in New Jersey public schools and my four granddaughters and grandson are products of public schools in Bergen County. My hobbies include playing bridge and mah jongg, attending theatrical performances, and spending quality time with family and friends. My fondest CCNY memories include socializing in the dance lounge on South Campus on Thursday between 12 and 2 p.m. and getting a bagel from Raymond the Bagel Man while rushing from North to South Campus with barely 12 minutes to arrive in class on time.” 236 Waynett A. (Wayne) Sobers waynethecoach@optonline.net (914) 946-3819 (office) A graduate of Stuyvesant High School, Wayne Sobers earned his B.S. degree in Meteorology at CCNY and took his M.B.A. degree in International Business at Baruch. Also a graduate of Officer Candidate School, he served as a U.S. Navy Officer for seven years, attaining the rank of Lieutenant. Wayne’s résumé boasts an extremely diverse business and leadership background. For ten years, he worked as a meteorologist and Technical Specialist for the U.S. Weather Bureau. During that period he formed W.A. Sobers Associates, Inc., a firm specializing in all forms of insurance. Wayne’s exciting media communications career began with Ebony Magazine as an Advertising Representative. Three years later he began a distinguished association with Earl Graves and Black Enterprise Magazine that spanned sixteen years. He pioneered several vital positions in marketing, management, and finance; was responsible for the acquisition and operation of two radio stations under the banner of E.G.G. Dallas Broadcasting Inc. He left the company as Executive Vice President to explore his own entrepreneurial desires. Wayne became owner/operator of Sobers Chevrolet, Inc., Mooresville, NC. After he sold the dealership he established WayVon, a small business consulting company, which also served as an independent distributor of educational and environmental products. 237 In addition to being licensed in all forms of insurance for 30 years, Wayne was a Registered Representative for AXA/Equitable. He subsequently served as Executive Vice President for the nation’s premier community development corporation, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Westchester Business Institute and Mercy College. He later began a career in banking with Wachovia Bank, where he served as a Customer Relationship Manager and Financial Center Manager. Wayne served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Equitable Variable Life Insurance Company (EVLICO), and a board member and treasurer of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB). In addition, he served on the Board of St. Peter’s Union Free School District and the St. Peter’s School Board of Education, Peekskill, NY. Wayne is extremely proud of his legacy of mentoring young minority employees. He encouraged and helped them to prepare for significant positions in marketing and advertising, as well as starting their own businesses. Several very successful African-Americans in business, publishing, public relations, and banking attribute their readiness to step out on their own to his direction, support, and tutelage. He continues to add to that legacy as an Accredited Energy Leadership and Certified Empowerment Coach. Fondest CCNY memory: “That would be the time that I personally met Jackie Robinson. It occurred prior to him addressing a NAACP chapter meeting at the college. He was one of the very few people I ever idolized and I was so very proud of him. This encounter took place after he had retired from baseball.” Dr. Edward Starr edwardstarr@yahoo.com D r. Edward Starr graduated from CCNY’s Baruch School with a BBA in economics. 238 Mrs. Sheila Forman Stein ECS148@optonline.net “ I grew up in the Bronx and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. City College was chosen for its excellent scholastic reputation, its proximity to my home, and it was very affordable. I belonged to Sis Compton 59, the Education Society, and Hillel. After graduation I joined the United Federation of Teachers and for several years served as the Chapter Chairman in my school. I have three children, a daughter and two sons, and six grandchildren ranging in age from 12 years to 8 months. My husband and I have been retired for four years. I spent 14 years teaching – 4 years as a classroom teacher in 5th and 6th grades and the rest of the time as a reading teacher. I then spent 19 years as the office manager for my husband’s dental practice. Retirement has given me the freedom to read when I want to, work on my needlecraft projects, and help out with my grandchildren when needed. I also volunteer at our local library, helping with fund raising, and any other needed projects. The four years I spent at City were among the happiest of my life. I have remained friends with several of the women in my houseplan. I know that I received an excellent education that has served me well.” 239 Peter J. Stein, Ph.D. 302 Columbia Place East Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (919) 967-1432 / pstein22@aol.com “ I was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and came to the USA at age twelve. I graduated from Seward Park H.S., a very diverse place with many ethnic, racial, and religious groups. I lived on East 28th Street, an easy walk to campus. I was drawn to Baruch College by its roaming campus, the dramatic architecture, the elevators and the fact that I was accepted. I really liked many classes especially those with Professors John Bauer (Psychology), William Turner Levy (English), Joan Kelly Gadol (History), and Leo Hamalian (English). I became active in student government and in House Plan serving as President of the Class of 1959 and President of the Lamport Leaders Society. Irv Gregor and Dan Skillin (House Plan) became important mentors. I have fond memories of my friends in Saxe ’59—Vic Rosenzweig, Arnie Konopny, Mel Streisand, Sherman Sklar, Stan Itzkowitz, Joe Silver, and many others. We met as freshmen, learned the ChaCha-Cha together, won several intra-mural championships, and supported one another. I do miss Arnie, with whom I shared many good times---he died tragically of MLS. After a stint with the NY National Guard in Georgia (“Sleep well tonight, your National Guard is on duty!”) I sold office machines in London, England and worked in Personnel for a chemical engineering firm in NYC. I felt a need for more education and after consulting with Bauer and Gadol, I decided to pursue a Ph.D. degree in sociology at Princeton University, graduating in 1969. I taught sociology at Rutgers University, Lehman College, CUNY, and Wm. Paterson University where I also served as Director of Graduate Studies and Co- Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Currently, I am the Associate Director of Aging Workforce Initiatives at the Institute on Aging at the University of North Carolina. I’ve authored a dozen books in sociology, focusing on issues of inequality, social diversity, work and family life, aging, and the single life. One summer day in Amagansett, LI, I met Michele Murdock, fell in love, and decided married life was worth pursuing. Michele, who has a B.A. degree from Trinity University in Washington, DC and an MA in Communication from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, worked and owned her own communications firm in New York, producing a number of awardwinning films and videos for private and public sector clients. We lived on the West Side where our son Michael was born in 1984, then moved to Dobbs Ferry, Westchester, and we now live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mike is now 24 years old, a college graduate and working in educational development in D.C. He’s in the process of applying for an MFA Program I have many fond CCNY memories – first meeting some life-long friends, learning from excellent and exciting Professors who inspired me to become one, learning about leadership and small groups at Lamport House, participating in student organizations, playing intra—mural sports, and meeting Bernard Baruch. The quality of our education at Baruch College is reflected in the many, many achievements by the members of the Class of 1959. Lavender, my Lavender!” 240 Mr. Jay G. Strum 7732 Sandhill Ct. West Palm Beach, FL 33412 561-691-9373 or 71 Clubhouse Lane Scarsdale, NY 10583 914-591-2212 / jstrum@kayescholer.com “ I grew up in the northeast Bronx, and I attended Evander Childs High School. I applied to the University of Pennsylvania and CCNY, both of which enjoyed strong academic reputations. I went to CCNY because I could not afford to go to Penn. At CCNY I was a member of Remsen ’59 House Plan. It was a very nice group of people, and we had a terrific time. However, many of the members were in engineering, so I often needed a translator at House Plan functions. I graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. I attribute my grades to having regularly eaten Raymond’s pretzels, which he claimed were coated with cerebral salts. My next stop was Harvard Law School, from which I received a J.D. in 1962. After law school, I spent six months on active duty with the United States Army. In Oct.1962, I had just completed training at Fort Dix as the Russian ships were steaming toward Cuba. It was a very scary time. In 1963 I went to work in the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission. In those days there were many so-called “boiler rooms” as well as assorted crooks and scam artists. We took great pleasure in putting many of them out of business and in jail. Thereafter, in 1967 I became an associate in the litigation department of the New York law firm then known as Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler. At that time, the firm had one office and I was the 70th lawyer. Today the firm is known as Kaye Scholer LLP with approximately 600 lawyers. We have offices in New York, D.C., West Palm Beach, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Frankfurt, and Shanghai. I became a partner in 1971, and I remained at the firm until my retirement at the end of 2006. During that period I handled matters and tried cases involving corporate and securities law. I represented banks, brokerage firms, and officers and directors of public and private corporations. Also, you may have seen me on CNNfn and CNBC discussing issues relating to securities law and stock markets. At the end of 2006, after 40 years at Kaye Scholer, I retired. My wife of 40 years, Patricia and I live in West Palm Beach and Scarsdale. We have two children and three grandchildren. At retirement, I decided that I was then old enough to learn to play golf. In Florida, we live in a community with three 18 hole courses, so we have lots of opportunity to play. In New York, I have done some teaching at the Legal Aid Society. I am still trying to get comfortable with retirement.” 241 Mr. Robert B. Taub 4617A Grandview Drive W. University Place, WA 98466 253-564-3684 / 253-475-3000 Office TAUBFAMILYLAWYERS@MSN.COM R obert Taub majored in Pre-Law, earning his B.A. from CCNY’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He would like to be in touch with any Pi Lambda Phi members. Ms. Sandra Vigo (Grubman) 94 Shafter Street Islandia, NY 11749 631-234-7554 “ I was born in the Bronx and proud of it. I attended PS 96 JRHS 113 and CCHS. There are so many fond memories of all those years, giggling through those years with some great friends, Flo Revitz, Judy Rosen, and more. Upon graduation of CCNY, I became a first grade teacher. My first assignment was PS 10 in Harlem, then PS 57 in the Bronx, in “Real Little Italy”. I married a Puerto Rican native, moved to Carolina, PR and lived there for 9 ½ years. Both my daughter Vanessa, now 37, and son Dino, now 34, were born there. Having become very nostalgic and longing for my wonderful NY, we moved back. We settled in Long Island NY, my present home. After 15 years of marriage we divorced. In 1990 I met a wonderful man and it has been 19 years of living with my best friend. Life couldn’t be better. My daughter is married to a wonderful fellow, who is like a second son. I am a Granny of a gorgeous 10 month old, Ava Sophia. Vanessa is a graduate of SUNY Oswego and Master’s from NYU and presently is a stay-at-home mom. Dino, my son, is a graduate of CW Post and is a writer/actor and stand-up comedian. He does gigs at Caroline’s, Apollo, Symphony Space and many more. I am so very proud of my two children. Hans and I are enjoying our retirement. We have traveled all over the world. Traveling is at a halt now, as we have two beloved dogs, one is 15 ½ and the other is 7. We do not want to leave the older dog alone as he is on in years. Our love of animals is what brought Hans and me together. My life is also filled with wonderful friends from the past and present. We meet for lunch, dinner, theater trips and just hanging out together. I also belong to a knit club and enjoy knitting for friends and family. And would you believe it, I have had two hip replacements, fell and had two hip revisions, and can still out boogie the young ones! What do they know about the Lindy anyway? Bottom line - life is wonderful. The best to all my friends from CCNY and elsewhere.” 242 Mr. Alan Wachtel 26 Longwood Drive Huntington Station, NY 11746-4729 (631) 549-0561 (home) / (212) 245-2700 (work) awachtel@argylesecurity.com “ I grew up in Queens, initially in Corona until I was 13 and then subsequently in Flushing. I graduated from Jamaica High School in 1954. Since I was only 16 when I graduated, I realized that I lacked the maturity to even consider going away to college, even if my family’s economic circumstances permitted it. I only applied to commuter schools with an Engineering program–NYU, Columbia, and CCNY. When I was accepted by both NYU and CCNY, I chose CCNY because I believed that both schools were comparable in their programs but that CCNY would be a lot less of a financial burden on my parents and the commute to Harlem was shorter than commuting to the Bronx. I was a member of Mosher’58 Houseplan, ETA KAPPA NU, R.O.T.C.; my honors and awards included the Alexander Hamilton Medal at the end of sophomore year; Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association Honor Award ’59; ETA KAPPA NU. Among my most significant professors: Professor Vincent Del Toro, who made the study of closed loop servomechanism and control systems fascinating and clearly understood.Professor Mauro Zambuto whose passion for his part-time profession (he taught at night) and his slashing chalk board performances (he attacked the board) on complex circuit design problems that he brought (we suspected) from his day-time job caused the class to dub him Mauro Zorro. We also tuned in to his early morning TV classes on the Italian language on PBS. Lastly, Philip Brown, who guarded the gate in the Electrical Engineering curriculum by teaching A.C. Circuit Theory and who announced to the class in his opening lecture that there will be no ‘A’s in his class as he was the only person worthy of an ‘A’ and there would probably only be one ‘B’, a smattering of ‘C’s and the rest ‘D’s and ‘F’s. He was a magnificent teacher that made the subject matter clearer than clear to those that chose to listen and that paused in mid chalk stroke and sentence when the bell rang to end the period, picking up exactly where he left off at the beginning of the next session. He was so good, damn the grades, I deliberately took him for more courses both in undergraduate and graduate school. Professional and Community Organizations: IEEE SM’57, M ’60, LM ’03; Society for Information Display; Instrument Society of America; Society of Cable & Television Engineers; American Society for Industrial Security International; and National Burglary & Fire Alarm Association; and Kehillath Shalom Synagogue, chairing various committees during a long membership. I hold U.S. Patent 3,725,573, 1973, one of the earliest patents for a DVR; my recent publications include: “Convenience and Connectivity”, December ’05, Asian Security Magazine; “Evolution of 243 Intrusion Detection Systems”, May ’07, Asian Security Magazine; series of articles in the K.S. Reconstructionist Newsletter celebrating the 60th anniversary of the birth of Israel: Israel @ 60, April, May, June, September issues, 2008. Early Career Highlights include: Being given program management responsibility for the NIMBUS weather satellite data acquisition & processing system in my mid 20s and successfully executing in that responsibility (1962-63); creation of an alternative to NIMBUS, the TOSS satellite, which successfully reduced satellite cost by a factor of 20 (1964); pioneering the concept of superimposing phase state diagrams on Karnaugh Maps for the creation of bug free discrete component digital designs and schooling the design engineers in three companies for which I worked in the concept (1961-1968); creation and development of a product line of automated microfiche storage and retrieval systems that ranged in cost from $20,000 to $750,000 each in an era long before digital storage became more economical than film storage of data (1968-1971), which was successfully sold to banks and government national libraries; conceptualizing the idea and then leading the team that successfully developed one of the first DVRs which was capable of storing of and permitting remote access to high definition television imagery (1970); creation, development and marketing of a highly successful line of work station centric automated remittance processing systems integrating multiple technologies ergonomically–OCR, MICR encoding, mechanics, and electronics–that spawned a successful division of General Instrument Corporation (1972-1980). More recently: As Vice President of Ademco International, a Pittway Subsidiary, and subsequently of Honeywell, developed the growth strategy and was a key player in executing the growth of the company’s international business in electronic security from $20 million per year to $300 million (1989-2003); as a consultant initially and subsequently as Vice President, being one of the founding members of a new company, Argyle Security, in the electronic security sector that has grown from nothing to being a $135+ million revenue public company (2005 to present). My most significant life turning point came in 1980: marrying my wife Inez–a magnificent teacher and a wonderful, loving, and strong individual, and integrating our two families (subsequent to the deaths of her and my first spouses) close to the same time that I had to choose a new career direction. With three roads to choose from–managing an electronic banking equipment manufacturer’s business unit, heading up engineering for a laser manufacturer, and taking a marketing position with the leading electronic security product manufacturer, whose technology was then in the dark ages, I chose the latter road purely on the strength of my affinity for the management personnel with whom I interviewed. This choice put me on a road to personal, professional, and financial growth that I might never have achieved had I selected one of the other roads. Inez and I have four children, ages 41 through 38: Adam, Beverly, Heidi, and David. Adam lives in New Rochelle, NY. Beverly is a pediatric ER doctor married to another doctor, Brian Lee, has three children, Alexander, Harrison , and Jessica, and lives in N. Potomac, MD. Heidi is an intermediate school math teacher married to Eric Pasternack, an event planner, has two children, Rachel and Joshua, and lives in Plainview, NY. David is an internal medicine doctor married to another doctor, Joyce, has two children, Andrew and Samuel, and lives in Parkville, MD. Hobbies include hiking and mountain climbing, kayaking/white water rafting, crossword puzzles, cinema, travel.” 244 Mel Wacks 5189 Jeffdale Ave. Woodland Hills, CA 91364 (818) 225-9666 numismel@aol.com “ I grew up in the Bronx, in Parkchester to be precise. I attended Herman Ridder Junior High School and Christopher Columbus High School. I was good in math and science – also in liberal arts. I loved art but didn’t think I was good enough to make it a career. CCNY had an excellent reputation, and I could get there with a bus ride and the subway. At CCNY I was Art Editor and then Managing Editor of Vector Magazine. I was a member of Hillel, the Philatelic Society and IRE. After receiving a BEE degree from CCNY in 1959, I attended NYU in the evening while I worked at Norden Labs; I received an MEE degree in June, 1962. After working 14 years as an engineer, I began a career in numismatics, evolving from my coin collecting hobby. I am a Fellow of the American Numismatic Society, member of the American Numismatic Association and the Numismatic Literary Guild. I have been on the Board of Directors of the American Israel Numismatic Association since its founding in 1968, and have served as President since 2002. I founded the Jewish-American Hall of Fame in 1969, and have served as Director to the present, overseeing the issuance of annual commemorative medals and creating its award-winning web site www.amuseum.org. We have raised over $200,000 for educational projects. I designed the reverse of medals commemorating Elie Wiesel (1995) and Houdini (1996), as well as the American Numismatic Association New York Convention medal (1997). In addition, I headed the committee that produced the official medals commemorating 350 Years of Jewish Life in America (2004), one of which was presented to the President at a National Dinner in Washington, which I was privileged to attend. 245 I wrote the biographical entry on Lillian Copeland for “Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia” (1997). Also prepared script for 30 minute video, “Visions - Honorees in the JewishAmerican Hall of Fame” (1995, revised 1997). Wrote “Handbook of Biblical Numismatics” (1976), which can be read at www.amuseum.org/book; also wrote chapters “Ancient Judaean Coinage” in the American Numismatic Association’s Intermediate Numismatic Correspondence Course (1978) and “Introduction to Numismatics: An ANA Correspondence Course” (1990), chapter on “Coins, Medals and Stamps” for the Jewish Museum Docents’ Handbook (1995), and hundreds of other articles on numismatic subjects published in Coin World, World Coin News, The Numismatist, The Shekel, The Medal, WorldWide Coins, COINage, etc. The Numismatic Literary Guild presented me with the following awards: Best All-Around Portfolio (1999), Best Coin Article in a U.S. Coin Magazine (2000), Best Non-Commercial Web Site, amuseum.org (2002), and Best Writer in the NLG Newsletter (2007). I have been married for 45 years to Esther Wacks RN, who I met at a Mt. Sinai dance when she was a student. Our daughters are Dr. Debra Wacks, who is teaching and raising two children (the delightful Bella and adorable Landon) in Hong Kong, and Shari Wacks, whose hand-made jewelry can be seen at www.shariwacks.com. My memories of CCNY have, unfortunately, faded. I remember the pretzel vender (Raymond?) … pledging unsuccessfully for a fraternity (I couldn’t keep a straight face) … the life-drawing art class … and mostly doing lots and lots of homework and being a nervous wreck for tests. I appreciate the excellent education I received at CCNY, and have been a member of the Alumni Association ever since I graduated.” 246 Dr. Daniel Walden 1262 Smithfield Street State College, PA 16801 (814) 237-1609 (home) / (814) 880-7476 (cell) dxw8@psu.edu D r. Daniel Walden majored in History at CCNY, where he was a member of the Douglass Club. He subsequently earned a Master of Arts degree in History at Columbia University and his Ph.D. in American Civilization at New York University. Dr. Walden taught in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Jewish Studies Program, at the Pennsylvania State University from 1966 through 1997. He retired as a Professor Emeritus, but still teaches one course per semester. His professional memberships include the Modern Language Association, the Northeast MLA, MELUS, American Literature Association, and the Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Association. His major book publications include On Being Black (1970); WEBD: The Crisis Years (1972); On Being Jewish (1974); The World of Chaim Potok (1985); The World of Cynthia Ozick (1986); Conversation with Potok (2002). Dr. Walden and his wife, Beatrice, have four children: Moss, Ruth, Aileen, and Beth. They have nine grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. He regrets that he is unable to attend the reunion and sends his best regards to all. Mr. Paul Weinberg 2065 Illona Lane Merrick, NY 11566 (516) 868-8811 / pweinbergpe@juno.com P aul Weinberg majored in Civil Engineering, earning his BCE degree from CCNY’s School of Engineering. His fondest City College memory: “Professor Steven telling me I was his favorite student.” Paul is a professional engineer, contractor, consultant, arbitrator, and mediator. He served as President and CEO of Pels Construction Corporation from 1988 to 1995. He was President of Pulsar Construction, 1984-1988. He recently published a book, My Word Is My Bond, a Memoir. Paul and his wife Linda have two daughters, Stacy and Elyce, and four grandchildren. 247 Mr. Bernard Weinraub bweinraub@gmail.com “ After graduating from City College, I served in the U.S. Army for two years. Then I joined The NY Times as a copy boy, and worked there for more than 30 years. As a reporter, I worked for The Times in New York, Saigon, New Delhi, London, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. I left The Times in 2006. I’m now writing plays.” Herbert Weinstein H erbert Weinstein grew up in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, New York, attending P.S. 180, Montauk Junior High School and Midwood High School, all followed by his admission to The City College of New York. Upon graduating from CCNY, he began his career as a Structural Engineer with the Office of James Ruderman, designing the structures for high rise office buildings, apartment houses and hotels while obtaining his MBA from The Baruch School. Some of the buildings designed by Herb included 850 Third Avenue, 845 Third Avenue, The Pan Am Building, 200 Park Avenue and 60 Broad Street, as well as The Gateway Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Upon leaving The Office of James Ruderman, he was hired by Schacht Steel Construction Company and was put in charge of the Engineering Department for this structural steel fabricating and erecting company. In 1966, Herb was hired by Tishman Realty and Construction Company, Inc., where he was a Construction Consultant to The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, supervising the structural steel contracting for The World Trade Center. In addition to this function, he was the Construction Manager for the building of three major Office Buildings in New York City: 909 Third Avenue, 919 Third Avenue, and 1166 Avenue of the Americas. In 1972, Herb Weinstein left Tishman Realty and Construction Company, Inc. to open his own General Contracting, Construction Management and Consulting Company. During a period of 34 years, Regency Building Enterprises, Ltd. and its subsidiaries performed work on over 3,000 248 buildings including such diverse projects as The Ellis Island Museum, Barnes and Noble Bookstores, The Collegiate School, The Government of Israel’s New York City offices, Hertz, Avis and National Car Rentals, Downstate Medical Center, Tiffany, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. In 2006, Her closed Regency Building Enterprises, Ltd. and opened Winston Consultants, Inc., a Consulting Engineering practice specializing in Owner’s Representative services together with other professional engineering functions. Clients call upon him and Winston Consultants, Inc. to provide services to them in their specific areas of concern. Herbert Weinstein is licensed as a Professional Engineer in 6 states and is a member of the following professional societies: American Society of Civil Engineers (Life Member) ASCE, Metropolitan Section (former President) New York State Society of Professional Engineers National Society of Professional Engineers Association of Construction Inspectors National Association of the Remodeling Industry National Association of Review Appraisers American Society of Safety Engineers. He taught Construction Management at Cooper Union for a number of years and has had the privilege to guest lecture several times at his alma mater. 249 Dr. Stanley Jerome Weiss (202) 885-1724 (office) / sweiss@american.edu “ I grew up in the Bronx and attended Theodore Roosevelt High School. I chose CCNY because of the quality education I knew I would get there. My working-class family couldn't afford traditional college tuition and expenses, but could help support me if I attended while commuting from home. The two professors at CCNY who had the most profound influence on me were Dr. Joseph Barmack, whose rigorous Experimental Psychology course profoundly influenced my future direction in psychology, and Dr. Kenneth Clark, with whom I was a research assistant for his work on racism in the NY public schools. I couldn't appreciate then how working with such a socially relevant man would remain with me. I also have fond memories of Professor Plotkin. From Professor Clark's "Theories of Personality" course, the theories have faded. However, I will never forget his descriptions of the "choose a white/black doll" social psychological research he conducted in the South in the late 40's/early 50's. He described how when he went into a rural black school to test black children an armed WW II marine who was guarding the building said to him, "Don't worry Doc, before they get you they'll have to kill me". Professor Clark's research showing how segregation led to black children's rejection of their blackness played a significant role in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision declaring segregated schools unconstitutional. From the Gestalt Psychology of CCNY, I went to pursue my graduate studies at The Ohio State University in the heart of mid western S-R associationism. At OSU I earned my Master's (1961) and Doctorate (1963) in Experimental Psychology with a concentration in the experimental analysis of behavior (operant conditioning). After holding Assistant Professorships at OSU and SUNYStony Brook, in 1968 I accepted an Associate Professorship at American University in Washington, DC where I have been a tenured Professor of Experimental Psychology since 1973. My research is concerned with the role of operant and classical conditioning contingencies in creating stimulus control and incentive motivation, the role of learning mechanisms in drug abuse and biological-constraints-on-learning. This research has been funded by grants awarded by NIMH and NIDA for over 30 years. I've published about 75 articles in scientific journals such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Psychopharmacology, Drug & Alcohol Dependence, Learning & Motivation and Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology. Some 200 presentations have been delivered at professional meetings and universities. In 2003 I was a Fulbright Scholar/Researcher at Pavlov Medical University in St. Petersburg, Russia. I was elected a Fellow of American Psychological Association Divisions 3 (Experimental Psychology) and 25 (Experimental Analysis of Behavior). I have been a visiting professor at Cambridge University in England, Hebrew University, St. Andrews University, the University of 250 South Wales and the University of Colorado. I was elected President of the Eastern Psychological Association and have served for many years on its Board of Directors and Program Committee. Since 2002, I have been Convener of the Winter Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior. My 2007 B. F. Skinner Lecture at the Association of Behavior Analysis Conference was concerned with "Reinforcement Contingencies and the Stimulus Control of Behavior: From Food to Drug Self-Administration as Reinforcers". I explained how the principles of stimulus control established through my research with traditional appetitive reinforcers could be applied to further our understanding of drug abuse, craving, and the "loss of control" that is a hallmark of addiction. My research program that produced an "instrumentally derived incentive-motive function" was described and those reinforcement contingencies that maximally energize behavior according to this function were then employed with drug self-administration (cocaine or heroin) rather than food as the reinforcer. This revealed how environmental cues related to the drug-taking experience come to energize drug-related behavior, plus how exposing rats to combinations of these cues can triple their drug seeking and even override reinforcement-related mechanisms that normally regulate drug-intake. Symmetrically, stimulus control processes that can be used to decrease drug seeking were also described. The first systematic investigation of conditioned inhibition within the context of drug self-administration provided findings relevant to behavioral treatments of drug abuse. I met my wonderful wife, Joan McWilliams, almost 50 years ago when we were both students at OSU -- she creating ceramic art, prints and sculpture while I ran my rats. We have two daughters, Juliet and Philana, and two grandchildren, Katherine and Jonathon. We feel so fortunate to live close to each other in the Washington, DC area and appreciate our extended family beyond measure. Before closing, I want to remember my father, Philip Weiss. His devotion, encouragement, boundless faith in me plus unconditional love were instrumental in me becoming who I am and accomplishing what I have. For him, and my mother Gloria who just celebrated her 91st year, I am eternally grateful. Although he has, tragically, been gone for over 42 years, a day doesn't go by when he isn't "alive" in my memory. That void can never be filled, but I am so fortunate in having a deep, wonderful relationship with my 63 year old "kid brother" Richard -- who graduated Science High School, Hunter College and Stanford and has gone on to be a very accomplished hydro-geologist. Looking back, the only CCNY-related regret I have is not making close friends at City who I remained in contact with over the years. I found myself primarily attending classes at City, with my classmates (potential new friends) and me returning home shortly thereafter. "Home" (often many miles from City) was where we all had continuing relationships with life-long friends in our "old neighborhoods". So we didn't necessarily need new friends, like college students attending out-of-town schools. That's an unanticipated, unfortunate by-product of being a "commuter student". It wasn't until OSU that I moved away from New York to Columbus, Ohio. Fifty years since graduation from CCNY is a long time -- in fact a lifetime made more complete by the opportunities my CCNY experience helped create.” 251 Mr. John J. Wohlever jjwohmi@hughes.net J ohn Wohlever graduated with a BBA degree in Management from the Business School. He was a member of Alpha Phi Omega. His fondest memories of CCNY include “small class size” and “interrelations with fellow students and professors.” He subsequently earned his MM degree from Northwestern University in 1976. He retired in 2003, having been owner and President of Mergenthaler, Inc. from 1991 until his retirement. He had previously been Plant Manager for the Andrew Corporation (19811991); Abbott Laboratory Branch Manager (1974-1981); and Continental Coffee Company Division Manager (1963-1974). John and his wife Marie have four children (Diane, John, James, and Michele) and nine grandchildren. Mrs. Toby Fox Wolfman (973) 575-0310 / tobywo@optonline.net “ I grew up in the Bronx and went to James Monroe High School, and then on to CCNY. I often think of the many days running from South Campus to North Campus and up to the third floor of the Psychology building, breathless and hopefully not late. There are happy memories of gatherings outside Shepard Hall, where everyone had a free period, and I had to run off to the one class I almost didn’t survive - Economics (I still have trouble with it to this day). After all these years, the Sociology Professor, Dr. Singer, has always stood out in my mind. I remember his class being one that started me thinking on a very different level, and I can still recreate a thought-provoking question that was on one of his exams. After graduating, from 1959-1969, I taught elementary education at P.S. 39 in the Bronx in the Fort Apache Police Precinct. In 1969, I married Ed Wolfman and moved to New Jersey. I taught for 4 years in Maplewood, until the birth of my first daughter, Randi, in 1973. I then became a stay-at-home mom. In 1976, my second daughter, Ilysia, was born. I went back to teaching in the late 80's in East Orange, and retired from there in 2000. I currently reside in Pine Brook, New Jersey, and still look back on my days at CCNY with great fondness.” 252 Ms. Gloria Lynn Grening Wolk 14460 New Falls of Neuse #149-247 Raleigh, NC 27614 ggwolk@Viatical-Expert.net I grew up in the Bronx, NY (near the Yankee Stadium), attended Wm. Howard Taft H.S. and choose to enroll at CCNY because it was an honor to qualify and tuition-free. After graduation I taught school for three years. After I became a full-time mom, I learned organic gardening and became involved in a number of community organizations (e.g., League of Women Voters). During those years I organized a grass roots anti-extremist group; returned to school for a master's in social work (U. of Conn.); then organized a grass roots support group (Coalition to Protect Children of Divorce). As a single mom who had to support three children, I needed to earn far higher income than I could as a clinical social worker, and I needed flexible hours: I chose to work in financial services. After relocating to Orange County, Calif. in 1990, I volunteered at AIDS Services Foundation while completing the Certificate for Legal Assistantship program at the U. of Calif. in Irvine. My experiences at ASF led me to research and then write a book intended to prevent terminally ill people from being defrauded by viatical companies. In order to make the book available quickly, I set up an independent publishing company, Bialkin Books (named for my maternal grandmother). Due to being the only publisher of information on the viatical industry, prospective investors began to phone to find out if Bialkin Books had anything in the pipeline about buying viaticated life insurance policies as investments. These queries led me to research, write, and publish "Viatical Settlements: An Investor's Guide" in 1998, and to set up a web site (www.Viatical-Expert.net) to warn the public about fraud. As a result of the information I had and because this was completely new to government agencies, I was asked to address the North American Securities Administrators Assoc. (NASAA), the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the National Conference Of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), the Financial Services Committee of the House of Representatives, and interviewed by 253 Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Forbes, TIME, etc. Two noted business journalists, Kathy Kristoff of the Los Angeles Times syndicate and Jane Bryant Quinn of Newsweek, wrote columns about my efforts. At one point Ms. Kristoff told me, "You can judge your effectiveness by the enemies you make." That was because I had become Enemy Number One to companies that defrauded the public (primarily retirees and disabled people): I struggled for years against a series of meritless lawsuits filed by these companies. They wanted to silence me but also they correctly suspected that I provided information to government investigators and assisted attorneys who represented their victims. As a result of assisting attorneys I published the only legal text on viatical litigation (with lawyerauthored treatises, and actual case documents and rulings). In 2005 I published a new investor's guide, this one about Viatical & Life Settlements. In 2010 Bialkin Books expects to publish “The Perils of Pro Se Litigation” (working title), as well as other titles. In 2006 I relocated to Raleigh, NC, which should be my last relocation. I continue to work full time but the mild climate allows me to garden year round, visit dog parks and hike nature parks with my German Shepherd dogs. I am proud to have been accepted as a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors. Although I have many fond memories of CCNY, the greatest benefit was the challenge to think critically. That has served me well throughout my life and influenced all my activities.” Ms. Loretta Wu 326 East 65th Street, #11 New York, NY 10065 lorettawu@hotmail.com L oretta Wu graduated cum laude with a B.A. degree in History from CCNY’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her fondest student memories include: “Meeting a boyfriend in the cafeteria; being asked for dates by classmates; being asked to talk about Chinese History in front of the class after receiving an A in an exam by Prof. Arthur E. Tiedeman.” She subsequently earned her M.A. in Chinese History from Columbia University (1975) and a second M.A., in English as a Second Language, from Hunter College in 1992. She retired in 2001 as a teacher at George Washington High School. She is currently Vice-District Governor of the Lions Clubs International District 20-R2 and Charter President of the New York Cosmopolitan Lions Club. She received the Lions Clubs International President’s Commendation from Al Brandel on March 9, 2009. Loretta writes that, “CCNY will always have a place in my heart. I loved being a student there and I will forever be grateful for what it has done for me in my growth as a person.” 254 Ms. Arlene Zweifler 5 Horizon Road, Apt. 503 Fort Lee, NJ 07024 (201) 886-1418 “ I grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Walton High School. My desire to attend CCNY was based on its high educational standing. I was a member, and social chairperson, of Sis Parks ’59 (House Plan). As a teacher, I taught elementary school in the Bronx for 30 years. I was UFT Chapter Chairman for more than 20 years and remain a member of the Union. I also taught English on a Kibbutz in Israel for 2 years. My membership in various community organizations include serving on the Board of Directors of Jewish Family Services of Bergen County, as well as on the Board of the JCC in Tenafly. I’m a volunteer at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood. I am also active in UJA, Hadassah and NCJW. Though I have many interests, my favorite is traveling. I’ve been to almost all the places I’ve dreamed of visiting and still look forward to continuing my travels. I worked in between classes in the CCNY Psychology Department. One of my fondest memories are the expressions of appreciation, for my work, from several of the psych professors. But, by far, my fondest memory is of the wonderful friendships I made at CCNY - some of which continue today.” 255