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The Class of 1971 Who’s Who and
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The following description in the 1970-71 Microcosm captures the scene of thecampus at that time: “Ever walk across the campus on a nice spring day andjust look around? There’s a frisby game in progress, and there’s football on
the lawn. There’s handholding, tennis and a rally at Cohen Plaza. There’s a friend ortwo passing by, there’s Raymond, City’s own roundtable ambassador of good will,friendly conversation and often times slightly soggy pretzels.”
As a result of the Spring takeover in ’69, in 1970 the College began an openadmissions policy that allowed any graduate of a New York City high school toattend CCNY. The policy enabled a great number of students who would nototherwise have been able to attend college to earn a degree. Open admission,however, came at a cost. As Microcosm explains, over-crowding was a problem: “Thelounges are crowded, the lawns are covered with bodies, registration is a greaterhassle than usual because the temporary classrooms in the Great Hall turned out tobe permanent. But you manage. You smile and you make do because you realizethat this reality is the only way to equal educational opportunities.”
Tuition, at that time, was free, but there was a $58 Bursar’s fee and loads of booksand supplies to buy. CCNY’s free tuition status was endangered by State cuts to thebudget. In response to the threat of abolishing free tuition, students gathered inprotest.
The class of 1971 participated in many other demonstrations. Student-aides workingin Cohen Library and Finley Center took part in a peaceful, symbolic one-day strikedemanding that they be paid the New York State minimum hourly wage of $1.85.The students triumphed. Also, the Puerto Rican Student Union (PRSU) occupiedthe offices of the Romance Language Department for alleged discrimination of thedepartment. CCNY students also participated with students and others around theworld in the Mayday anti-war protests.
The Class of 1971
The class of 1971 experienced a renewal in political activity on campus. Candidatesrunning for student government launched vigorous campaigns, covering the entirecampus with posters and leaflets. The New World Coalition, headed by James Small,swept the executive committee in the October student senate elections and also wona commending majority in the senate, carrying off 22 of the 29 senatorial seats.
Most of the student government’s position on the College campus centered aroundthree issues—drugs, ROTC and the Day Care Center. In one of the rare moments ofunity, the student senate unanimously approved a resolution calling for the removalof ROTC from campus. This vote was approved by the faculty senate. The resolutionurged that the program be moved to an off-campus center to provide services forinterested students throughout the metropolitan area. ROTC enrollment haddecreased drastically both nationally and at the College, as a result of widespreadanti-war sentiment.
The members of the class of 1971 enjoyed a great number of cultural activities oncampus. Four thousand Aretha Franklin fans attended her concert in the open airof Lewisohn Stadium. The first big name concert at the College, the “Queen of Soul”headlined with bandleader King Curtis and his Kingpins, and the renowned poet,Muhammed Ali. A five hour rock concert with the Youngbloods, Jeff Cain and theAllman Brothers performing was the second big name concert of the season.
Class notes are excerpted from the 1970-71 Microcosm, Editor-in-Chief C. N. Lee.
William Betancourt Hilda Chazanovitz
Carlos Cuprill Jon DeLise
Joseph Falbo Alan Freedman
Ed Jackson Steve Karafiol
Ira Levy Linda Mullenix Philip O’Keefe
Juanita Shell Peterson Roslyn Press
Dennis Rosenthal Joseph Salzillo
Mel Schneiderman E. James Stergiou Bradley S.Telias
Robert B. Welner
The 2011 anniversaryreunion committee
ADELMAN Karen Adelman-Mandel p. 1
ADLER Frances Adler-Zamcheck p. 2
AGNELLO Anthony Agnello p. 3
ALTSCHULER Bruce E. Altschuler p. 5
APPLEBAUM Wayne Richard Applebaum p. 7
ARNIM John Arnim p. 7
BENNETT Roger Bennett p. 8
BESSI Kenneth H. Bessi p. 9
BETANCOURT William Betancourt p. 10
BLANK Denise Blank-Landman p. 10
BLECHER Ellen Blecher-Lazer p. 13
BUONOMO Laura Fay Buonomo-Koestler p. 14
BURSTEIN Ronald Burstein p. 16
CLINGIAN Ben (Bernard) Clingian p. 17
COHEN Arthur Michael Cohen p. 18
CUPRILL Carlos J. Cuprill p. 19
CUTLER Leslie Cutler p. 20
CZANDER Geraldine Czander-Miller p. 22
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DAVIS Russell Davis p. 23
DELISE Jon DeLise p. 24
EISENBERG Arlene Eisenberg-Schwartz p. 25
EPSTEIN, A Alfred Epstein p. 26
EPSTEIN, D Dina Epstein-Heisler p. 27
FIFE Camille B. Fife p. 27
FIORE Louis Fiore p. 28
GARRETT Barbara Garrett-Holder p. 29
GEORGE Phoebe George-Spetsieris p. 30
GOLDFARB Howard Goldfarb p. 32
GORDON, H Helen Gordon p. 33
GORDON, Lawrence I. Gordon p. 33
HELLMANN Johny Hellmann p. 34
HENKIN Stephen M. Henkin p. 34
HERMALYN Gary Hermalyn p. 35
HOFFMAN Sharon Hoffman-Buder-Simon p. 36
JACKSON Ed Jackson p. 40
KARAFIOL Stephen Karafiol p. 42
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KOESTLER Anthony Koestler p. 44
KRILOV Sheila Krilov-Sasmor p. 45
LATIMORE James A. Latimore p. 47
LEE John W. Lee p. 48
LOERINC Beatrice Loerinc-Helft p. 50
MARACO Linda S. Marasco-Mullenix p. 51
MARGOLIES Norman Margolies p. 53
MAURER Henry S. Maurer p. 54
MCRAE Mary B. McRae p. 55
MORGANOFF Abraham Morganoff p. 56
MORROW Elsie Bernadette Morrow p. 56
PALLAS Tom Pallas p. 57
PLOTKIN Diane Plotkin-Boehr p. 59
PLUTNO Sasha Sheldon Plutno p. 61
PRESS Roslyn M. Press p. 61
PRINCE Joseph Prince p. 62
RABUNSKI Alan E. Rabunski p. 62
REILLY Laurence Reilly p. 63
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ROBINSON Patricia Robinson p. 65
ROSENTHAL Dennis Rosenthal p. 66
ROSNER Irene Rosner-David p. 66
RUDIN Alicia Rudin-Goldfarb p. 67
SANDBERG Joel E. Sandberg p. 67
SHELL Juanita Shell-Peterson p. 68
SHUSHAN Stephen M. Shushan p. 71
SIEGEL Susan M. Siegel p. 72
SILVERSTEIN Irwin Silverstein p. 72
SPECTOR, A Arthur J. Spector p. 76
SPECTOR, D Deanna Spector-Feder p. 77
STEIN Rona B. Stein p. 77
STERGIOU Emanuel James Stergiou p. 78
STERLING Debra G. Sterling p. 81
TARIGO Gloria Tarigo p. 81
TISCHLER Judith B. Tischler p. 82
TRESS Madeleine Tress p. 84
VELTRI Fred J. Veltri p. 85
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WALTZER Milt Waltzer p. 86
WEISENBERG Jeffrey Weisenberg p. 86
WEBB Annette Webb p. 86
WELNER Robert B. Welner p. 87
WEST Cynthia S’thembile West p. 89
WESTON Raymond Weston p. 91
WILDER Jay Scott Wilder p. 94
WIRTENBERG Jeanna Wirtenberg p. 95
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Ms. Karen [email protected]
Karen Mandel, formerly Karen Adelman, majored in speechpathology with a minor in education. She was the president ofthe sorority Sigma Tau Delta, was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa,and graduated magna cum laude.
Karen earned her master’s degree in speech pathology, summacum laude, from Penn State University and has had a career as a speech, languageand voice pathologist. Since 2008, she has been the Speech Program Manager atWellness Works Therapy in North Hollywood, California. She has also held positionsas a professional development director at a major Los Angeles law firm and as asupervisor to teachers of the blind at the Braille Institute, among others. She is amember of the American Speech and Hearing Association and the California Speechand Hearing Association and is training new young speech pathologists.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “The Bagelman on the corner! Greek parades each year-dressing our floats. Foreign films on Friday nights.”
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Mrs. Frances Adler Zamcheck247 W 254th StBronx, NY 10471-2624
718-548-7887 (home) 917-887-9811 (office)[email protected]
Frances Adler Zamcheck majored in sociology at City. Shelater attended the Columbia University School of Social Work(master’s degree 1973) and Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work,majoring in administration and supervision, 1994.
Since retiring in 2009 as a school social worker, Frances has been an independenthealth care professional. She is currently a military family life consultant and amember of NASW. She and her husband Norman, a school administrator andmusician, have 3 children, boy/girl twins aged 26 and a son age 22.
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Anthony M. Agnello 407 Prospect Ave
Princeton, NJ 08540
Nearly forty years of experience as an engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and executive.Brooklyn Technical HS 1966. BSEE 1971/MSEE 1973 from CCNY/ CUNY.
“From 1972 to 1982 at Eventide Inc where I developed pioneering products inthe field of digital audio. While at Eventide I invented the world’s first practicalaudio pitch change device, the Harmonizer and also digital audio algorithms
and products for artificial reverberation, digital filtering, flanging, phasing, choruseffects and a host of other novel audio effects.
My products have been used by audio professionals in film (from Star Wars to IronMan), music and broadcastproduction and are installed inmost major recording, film andbroadcast studios worldwide.
In 2008, my invention, theHarmonizer was inducted into theTEC Hall of Fame.
In 1982, co-founded Ariel Corp,serving as CEO & COB, where Iled development of digital signalprocessing products for a widerange of applications from medicalimaging to speech processing todefense. Ariel’s products were usedby developers world-wide toadvance the state of the art ofDigital Signal Processing.
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In August 2001, I founded Princeton Digital. Co-founder and Chairman of mhacoustics (www.mhacoustics.com). Co-founder of Manifold Labs. President and ViceChairman of Eventide, Inc (www.eventide.com).
I hold several patents, have published numerous articles and technical papers, andI’ve served on boards of public and private companies.
PatentsUS 7,756,110 “Network-based control of audio/video stream processing” US. 5,228,093 "Method for mixing source audio signals and an audio signal mixingsystem"US. 5,051,799 "Digital output transducer"US. 4,950,999 "Self-contained, real-time spectrum analyzer"US. 4,464,784 "Pitch changer with glitch minimizer"US. 4,369,336 "Method and apparatus for producing two complementary pitchsignals without glitch"
Hobbies: Cello, guitar and ukulele.
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Mr. Bruce E. Altschuler, PhD29 East Fifth Street
Oswego, NY 1312
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Dept. of Political Science, SUNY OswegoOswego, NY 13126
Bruce E. Altschuler is a U.S. Army veteran, 1966-69 including one year’s serviceinVietnam. He has three degrees from CUNY; in addition to his BA from CityCollege(1971), he holds an MPh (1978) and a PhD (1980).
In 1976, Bruce joined the faculty of SUNY Oswego, Department of PoliticalScience.Now a tenured full professor, he was department chair for twelve years andhas alsoserved as chair of the Dept. of Public Justice. Since 1984, he has been apoliticalanalyst for WRVO-FM broadcast from SUNY Oswego. He has also beenacommentator for BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,EveningEdition (Kingston, Jamaica), Newsradio 93.8 (Singapore), Wisconsin PublicRadio,Minnesota Public Radio, and WCNY-TV (Syracuse).
In addition to many book reviews and articles for journals and encyclopedias,Bruce’sbooks include "LBJ and the Polls," University of Florida Press, 1990; and"Keepinga Finger on the Public Pulse: Private Polling and Presidential Elections,"GreenwoodPress, 1982 and "Understanding Law in a Changing Society," Prentice-Hall 1991, co-authors Celia Sgroi and Margaret Ryniker (second edition 1996, thirdeditionParadigm Publishing 2005, revised third edition 2009). His most recent book,"ActingPresidents: 100 Years of Plays About the Presidency," Palgrave Macmillanwill bepublished December 2010.
Among his awards and honors are:
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• SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarly and CreativeActivity, 2007
• SUNY Research Foundation Award “in recognition of your exemplarycontributions to research and scholarship,” presented by SUNY Chancellor RobertKing, May 4, 2005
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award, Alpha Phi Alpha, 2004
• Faculty Enhancement Grant, SUNY Oswego 1997
• Syracuse Press Club Award, Best Radio Public Affairs Program, “ConstittionalConvention,” 1997
• NY State Associated Press Award, Best Local Radio Documentary, “ElectionProject,” 1996
• CUNY Ph.D. Alumni Association 1993 Achievement Award
• SUNY Oswego President’s Award for Creative and Scholarly Activity or Research 1992
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Dr. Wayne Richard Applebaum1312 Shamrock LnPlano, TX 75093-5032
972 380 1030 (home) 214 532 2835 (office)[email protected]
Wayne Richard Applebaum majored in psychology and wasa member of Beta Delta Mu Fraternity and the Inter-fraternityCouncil. He earned honors in education. After City College,he received a master of arts (1972) and a doctorate degree (1976) in statistics andresearch methods at University of Pittsburgh.
Wayne has been in the business intelligence profession for thirty years and workedas an educational researcher for ten. From 1975 to 2008, he worked for DallasIndependent School District, EDS, Business Objects, The Hive Group, Headstrong,and as a principal consultant for Oracle. Since 2008, he has been a principal businessconsultant for SAP. He is a former member of Southwest Education ResearchAssociation (president and program chair) and American Educational ResearchAssociation.
In the community, Wayne has served on the board of directors of Dancers Unlimited,Voices of Change, Plano Rep Theatre, and Plano West Lacrosse (2008-present).
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “The Beta Delta Mu fraternity table in the north cafeteriawas always a place to meet friends. It was home at a commuter school.”Mr. John Arnim
John Arnim has a BA in speech from the College.
Wayne Richard applebaum
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Mr. Roger R. [email protected]
Roger R. Bennett was an electrical engineering major. In1972, he studied as a communications engineer at theUniversity of Delft, Netherlands. He is now a satellitesystems communications engineer and a senior scientist atthe Boeing Co. His published work includes:
• AFSCN Augmentation Satellite System, 1991, 27thAnnual ITC Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Satellite Relay for Unmanned Air Vehicle Data, MILCOM '92 IEEE MilitaryCommunications Conference, San Diego, CA
• A Space-Based Communications Network for BMDO-NMD, MILCOM '93 IEEEMilitary Communications Conference, Boston, MA
• Innovative UAV Global Relay Concept, MILCOM '93 IEEE MilitaryCommunications Conference, Boston, MA
• Space-Based Concepts to Support the Tactical Weather Users, ITC/USA '93, LasVegas, Nevada
For twenty-five years, he has been photographing landscapes. His work can be seenon his website, www.lensimages.com.
FOND MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Spring afternoons in front of Shepard Hall. Gettingmy desired classes in the chaos of registration day. Playing Ping-Pong in SouthCampus.”
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Kenneth H. Bessi 315 rue Leandre-BeausoleilTerrebonne, Quebec, CanadaJ6W 4B2
Rolls-Royce CanadaMontreal, Quebec(514) 828-1644 (office) [email protected]
Ken came to City College from Brooklyn Technical High School. After earning hisbachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, he attended Bernard M. Baruch Collegefor his MBA, 1974.
Ken’s professional career has been in engineering in the field of gas turbine powergeneration.
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William Betancourt, [email protected]
William Betancourt majored in mechanical engineering and earned his bachelor’sdegree in 1971 and his master’s in 1976. He took education courses at St. Peter’sCollege and PhD courses at Walden University. In 1984, he received an MBA infinance from Fairleigh Dickinson University and, in 2003, a PhD in managementfrom Trinity Southern University.
Recently retired, William was a teacher of mathematics, an engineer and anengineering management consultant. From 1976 to 2010, he was the head of BilbiAssociates. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,American Management Association, and National Council of Teachers ofMathematics. Currently enjoying membership in the Brookview Commons LeisureClub, he is looking forward to joining other community organizations.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Discussions with other students; Dr. Levitski’s classes;cultural evenings at Lewisohn Stadium.
Ms. Denise [email protected]
“I was born in The Bronx and I grew up living in abrownstone rather than in an apartment. PS 79 andJHS115 were the schools I attended.
My father Paul, a Holocaust survivor and the sole survivor ofhis family, owned a dry cleaning business on the GrandConcourse throughout my childhood. My mother Mildred worked with him daily.They decided to sell the house when I was 13 and we moved in the summer of 1964
William BETANCOURT
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to Lindsay Park, a new condominium development in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,where I attended Eastern District HS, graduating in 1967 at the age of 16.
I always wanted to go to CCNY because of its excellent reputation. The campusmade a favorable impression when I was there for my uncle’s graduation at the oldLewisohn Stadium as a young girl. I was able to reconnect with a few of mychildhood friends from The Bronx who also attended the college. I liked the factthat CCNY attracted students from allover New York City, more than any of theother colleges comprising CUNY.
Attending CCNY from 1967-1971 was avery unique time to be in college. We wereat the tail end of the “hippie” lifestyle aswell as the zenith of student activismagainst the Vietnam War. This affectednearly all of us to varying degrees.
A turning point in my life came when Iwas 18 in1969. I spent my summer inIsrael as a volunteer, living and workingin Kibbutz Gazit. I returned home tobegin my junior year at CCNY, but I’dfallen in love with Israel and intended toreturn. I registered for Hebrew languageclasses and decided to minor in Judaicstudies as well as in education. My majorwas English Literature, with a focus on20th century American literature. While I enjoyed music, fashion, etc. of the day, Inever became involved with the psychedelic drug culture that some students gotsucked into during those years. I joined Hillel and the Israeli Student Club.
After graduation, I taught English and remedial reading to grades 6-9 in Brooklynfor several years & had acquired tenure in District 17, at IS 61 on Empire Boulevardin Crown Heights. I took a leave of absence in the summer of 1978 and returned toIsrael. I taught English that summer at Tel Aviv University which was the bestteaching experience I’d ever had! However, I needed a full time job and was hiredby the Iranian Consulate to be the English secretary until the shah fell in early 1979and all contact with Israel was broken. I lived in Ramat Aviv and suburban Jerusalembefore returning to New York City in 1980.
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I was living and working in Manhattan (had rented apartments on the UWS andUES-both wonderful neighborhoods) when I met the man who would become myhusband in 1981. It was amazing, we were just “meant to be”! Jeff and I were marriedin 1982 and I moved to Suffolk County, Long Island. We bought a home inCommack where we would live in for the next 20 years. It was a great place to raisea family! Sarah Liora was born in 1983 and Talia Eliana was born in 1990.
I became very involved in the PTA as VPand was on the Board of Education atSarah’s school, the Solomon SchechterDay School of Suffolk County. We weresorry to hear it closed recently.
Shortly after Talia was born Jeff and Istarted DJ Computers, Inc. We saw thehandwriting on the wall and had closedour clothing manufacturing business,which Jeff started before we ever met.American made clothing, once NewYork’s #1 industry, was dying…killed bycheaper imports.
When we relocated to Wellington, inPalm Beach County, Florida in July2003 we started our business again too.Wellington is the winter equestriancapital of the world with internationally
ranked competitions in dressage, jumping and polo. South Florida definitely hasthe best winter weather. It’s hard to believe my family and I will be living in Florida8 years in July.
I am so proud of my daughters! Sarah will be 28 in June, a graduate of Universityof Miami with a degree in Film, is post production VP at Dolphin Entertainment inMiami. Talia will be 21 in May and is a junior at the University of South Florida inTampa, majoring in mass communications. We also have 2 Weimaraner dogs again:a 13 year old long haired female we rescued in NY and a 17month old male werescued last month.”
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Mrs. Ellen Blecher [email protected]
Ellen Blecher Lazer was an economics major, a member of SisBing’71, a harmonica player with the Musical ComedySociety, and a reviewer for the school newspaper. She wasawarded an NIMH Fellowship for graduate school and earnedher MS in social administration from Case Western ReserveUniversity in 1973. She has had a career in publishing, public
relations and education.
Semi retired, Ellen is currently working as a freelance public relations and webdesigner. Her prior positions include public information officer for the LivingstonBoard of Education; senior editor at Knowledge Industry Publications; editor atPraeger Publishers; and research associate for Catalyst. She has been a member ofthe National School Public Relations Association and VP of the New Jersey SchoolPublic Relations Association. She has published articles in local media and websitesand contributed crossword puzzlesin Games magazine and the NewYork Times.
In the community, Ellen has servedon the Budget Task Force of theIntergenerational Prom and, since2003, has been the chair ofLivingston Township TechnologyCommittee.
MEMORIES OF CITY COLLEGE:“Walking from North Campus toSouth Campus and back as Ifrequently crossed the line betweenliberal arts and mathematicscourses.”
Ellen BLECHER-LAZER
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Laura Fay (Buonomo) Koestlercell: [email protected]
Laura Fay Koestler, nee Buonomo, was born in the Bronx and raised in StuyvesantTown in Manhattan. She attended public schools and graduated from Seward ParkHigh School as an Arista Honor Society member, 1967.
Laura graduated cum laude from City College with a BA in English and minors inEducation and Spanish. She was a member of the Dean’s List and was inducted intothe Sigma Alpha honor society. She was social director of Sis Wittes’71 House Plan.
Since 1971, she has worked in various claims departments at full service,commercial and personal lines insurance brokerages; starting at Johnson & Higgins,NYC. A highlight of her career occurred early on when, in 1975 at the age of 24,she was hired as manager of the claims department by Conrad Foa, president of Foa& Son Corp. insurance brokerage, NYC; then a few years later was promoted toassistant VP. Most recently she has worked for Mogil Org., NYC.
Beginning with the birth of her sons Larry and Craig, Laura became active incommunity groups such as the Stuy Town babysitting playgroup, Cub ScoutsDivision of the Boy Scouts of America (den leader for both sons), PS11 Chelsea, NYPTA. She is interested in local politics and tenant activism and is currently a member
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of the executive board of the Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Club for whom she hasalso served as VP. She is a long time active member and building captain for theStuy Town/Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association and a supporter of theStuyvesant Cove Park Association.
Laura enjoys dance classes, reading, concerts, theatre, being a Yankee fan, and familysummer vacations on Cape Cod, MA. She has been happily married to CCNYclassmate Tony Koestler '71 for 38 years and enjoyed being a stay-at-home momwhen her children were young. She has lived in Stuyvesant Town all of her life; her93 year old mother Clara lives in the same building.
“Son Larry and daughter-in-law Lyndsay gave us our first grandchild, Henry LawrenceKoestler at 2:35 AM on April 20, 2011. We spent the day at Mt. Sinai Hospital, holdinghim in our arms for hours on end; what an unbelievable experience!”
FOND MEMORIES: “I chose to attend City College over NYU and SUNY Albany, asmy older sister Annette (Class of 1969) loved being a “City” college student, and Iwas eager to follow in her footsteps. I was thrilled to begin freshman year at CCNY,a renowned public, higher learning institution with an excellent academicreputation!! And it certainly didn’t hurt that there was a student ratio of three malesto every female at “City!”
“I fondly remember sunny days, hanging outwith friends between classes, and flirting withthe boys along the Convent Avenue wall(nerdy, quiet, and conservative, northcampus). Also, socializing with fellowstudents in Finley Student Center (cool, hip,and anti-war, south campus) snack bar;bopping to the great 1960’s top 40 on thejukebox, while eating a lunch of burger withfries and a Coke. The daily snack barexperience at “City” was great fun, especiallyin freshman year, as that’s where I met manynew friends, including tall, blond, andhandsome Tony Koestler. We became reallygood friends, then started dating in June1968. It was a relationship that was meant tobe; we’ll be celebrating our 38th weddinganniversary this July!”
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Mr. Ronald Burstein, PE, BCEE, CHMM5 Daniel DriveHillsborough, NJ 08844
908-685-5162 (office)[email protected]
Ronald Burstein holds a BChE, 1971, and a MCE (EnvironmentEngineer), 1974, from City College. He was a member of thevarsity swimming team, played inter-mural paddleball, football,soccer and softball, served as president of House Plan in Brooklyn and was the VPof Omega Chi Epsilon.
For more than thirty-nine years, Ron has been an environmental expert on pollutionprevention and regulatory compliance. He has been Global Director for SHE-Environment, a global adhesive technologies business of Henkel, since 1988. Hehas also been a director of National Starch & Chemical, a staff environmentalengineer for Union Carbide Corp., and an AP engineer for the NYC Department ofAir Resources.
Ron is a member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, AirPollution Control Association, Worldwide Pollution Control Assoc. (WPCA) andthe Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals. He was awarded the WPCAHeukelelian for industrial waste water. He is the editor of the 1995 2nd edition of“The Reporter’s Environmental Handbook,” Rutgers Press.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Playing 2-hand touch football on Convent Avenue duringThursday 2-hour break.”
Ronald BURSTEIN
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Ben Clingain216-906-3439
Ben Clingain grew up in Derry, N. Ireland (the city of the notorious Bloody Sundayshootings in 1972), living in the Bogside and the vacated U.S. army camp atSpringtown. He attended St. Columb’s College in the city, then graduated fromQueen’s University in 1964 with a BA in political science and Latin. While atQueen’s, he played soccer and won his University Blue and also played for thecombined Irish Universities against the Scottish Universities. He formed the firstband while there, singing Irish ballads.
He emigrated with his family to New York City in 1965 where he taught in the NYCschools system at PS 304 in Brooklyn and became a U.S. citizen in 1971, the sameyear he graduated from CCNY with a master’s degree in education.
Later that year, he was offered a job with Lord Thomson of Fleet’s newspaper groupin London, England, so he went back across the Atlantic again.
In 1975 he founded his own newspaper group in Northampton, England, where heremained as chairman and marketing director until the group was acquired byThompson. He left the giant group in 1991 to pursue his interests in writing.
His books include:“The Ryder Cup History” in paperback (co-authored)“Tales of Whortle Manor” (golf)“Hunting Tales” (a history of fox-hunting in the British Isles)“The International Golf Almanack” (Blandford Press 1995)
His interest in music continues and he plays in the Irish Blues Band in Cleveland,Ohio. His original songs include “Goodbye Tillie’s Factory,” “No Irish Need Apply,”“Tiger’s Bad Hair Day,” and "The Ballad of Paddy Macken.”
FOND MEMORIES OF CCNY: “The bright professors, especially Jim Stimson andProf. Hansen and the whole aura on the campus, even though I was only attendingpart-time.”
Ben (Bernard) clingain
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Mr. Arthur Michael Cohen48 Seminole WayShort Hills, NJ 07078-1264
212-820-9359 (office)[email protected]
Arthur Michael Cohen was a pre-law major at City and waselected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1975, he earned a juris doctoratefrom Brooklyn University Law School and joined the firm of Hawkins, Delafield &Wood, LLP of whom he is now a partner. In service to the community, he is vicepresident of Congregation Oheb Shalom in South Orange, New Jersey.
“I grew up in the Bronx near Yankee Stadium on Gerard Avenue (famous for itsarmy recruitment center) and lived in a one-bedroom apartment with mymother and older brother (my father died when I was 3). I fortunately attended
the Bronx High School of Science since my local high school (Taft High School)would have likely resulted in my early demise. I was thrilled to attend City Collegeas my family could not have afforded my attending either a distant or tuition-basedcollege, and I was a Pre-Law major – which meant that I was able to take classes foralmost any subject of interest. I remember fondly Professor Hillman Bishop inConstitutional Law (who accepted my “brilliant” answer that the “spirit” of theConstitution is that which remains when you erase all of the text), Professor JeffreyMorris who was my career advisor (who told me to get over the fact that the onlyLaw School that I was accepted into was Brooklyn Law School and to just do mybest to excel), Raymond the Bagel man, french fries drenched in ketchup in a papercup from the local luncheonette, student demonstrations, and being tested to see ifI could swim; and I remember not so fondly the difficulty in dating girls 2 years mysenior as I had skipped 3rd and 8th grades, rushing to classes between the Northand South campuses to not arrive late, getting a “C” in golf and archery (neither ofwhich I pursued in later life), and being asked on campus for a “dime” or more atlunchtime by persons who clearly wanted a “dime or more.” I graduated Phi BetaKappa and magna cum laude from CCNY. After CCNY, I spent a year working atSmith Barney in their back office counting stocks and bonds to earn money to goon to law school. And then it was on to Brooklyn Law School where I got to singand dance in the annual school show (and realized that it was fun to be on stage),
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was an Articles Editor for the school’s Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude.From Law School I was accepted at the NYC law firm of Hawkins Delafield & WoodLLP (having originally being rejected by that firm but later re-submitting my resumeby accident and having it favorably reviewed by a different partner from the onewho rejected my initial submission), at which I have spent my entire career as apublic finance lawyer (and having been honored as among the best in that field inthe NYC area for each of the past 5 years by Super Lawyers Magazine). Havingworked far too many hours as a young lawyer, I did not marry until age 40 (to theformer Susan Horowitz, also a lawyer).I met Susan on a UJA mission to Israel afterhaving put a note into the Western Wall from my mother asking for divine assistancein finding her son a wife (a/k/a a nice Jewish girl). I now have a 13 year old daughter,a 10 year old son, a 4 year old dog, and a likelihood of retiring not at all.”
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Having skipped both 3rd and 8th grade, and striking up aconversation with a girl whom I thought to be of like age and finding out that shewas married.”
Mr. Carlos J. Cuprill43 Brook Street
Rensselaer, NY 12144
Carlos J. Cuprill majored in sociology at City and earned an MSEd in counselingfrom Queens College in 1972. He retired in 2003 as a counselor and educator. Heis a former director of affirmative action for the NYS Division of Alcoholism andAlcohol Abuse, and had been a coordinator of driver education for the NY StateDepartment of Education since 1983.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “The demonstrations. The student strikes. The takeover ofcampus by Black/Latino students.”
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Lesli Cutler375 E 205th St. Apt. 6ABronx, NY 10467-4411
“I am a Bronx girl through and through, 60 years andcounting. My family moved often, starting on NelsonAvenue in Highbridge, then jumping back and forth from
one side of the Bronx River to the other. .. Bronxdale Housing Projects, Hoe Avenuein Hunts Point, Lafayette-Morrison Houses, then 6 years just off Tremont and theConcourse. In 1967 I graduated from James Monroe High School 3 months aftermy 17th birthday, 3 of the best years of my life.
My freshman year of College was spent at George Washington University in D.C.Too lonely and too young, a friend of mine from JMHS who was attending CCNYhelped me apply and I was accepted for my sophomore year. There were too manythings in NY that I missed, from knishes and hot dogs to all of my friends, to my 2year old brother, and my baseball team. The Mets, NOT the Yankees! A friend ofmine since 3rd grade was in Sis Wittes ’70 of the Wittes Dynasty and she was ableto get me into the House. That was a portent of great things to come, not onlybecause of the House and Dynasty but because I made friends with two amazingwomen who became, and still are, two of the most important people in my life.
Most of my time was spent on South Campus where my classes were held as aSociology major. The Chamber Choir in which I sang also had rehearsals on SouthCampus, in what used to be the Chapel. The rest of my most important time wasspent on North Campus in Shepard Hall in chorus rehearsals, For a few days weweren’t allowed in…the movie “Love Story” was using Shepard Hall as a stand-infor Yale University.
Professor Jahoda, chair of the Music Department and the director of the Chorus,was a taskmaster who coaxed and encouraged beautiful music from us. A teacherof German whose name I do not remember enthralled us with teaching us to read
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Goethe’s “Die Erl Konig” in the old German typeface. What a challenge, whatsatisfaction!
Playing first base and centerfield for the Women’s Varsity Softball Team was a chanceto be as closely involved as possible with baseball, a game I always have, and still,love.
My best memories at City, other than singing and playing ball, all revolve aroundthe Finley Student Center. No matter what entrance you used, you were on anotherfloor! It had so many nooks, crannies and window ledges where a young, stressedstudent experiencing much emotional turmoil could hide, think and cry. Dynastyand House activities took up a lot of time. (No key for the door to the House room?Just slide in a credit card!) Many important, life-changing events happened withinthose walls.
Immediately after graduating in May of 1971, one of the last classes to do so atLewisohn Stadium, I began two years of graduated work at Fordham University’sLincoln Center campus for my Masters in Social Work. My professional life hasranged from working with abused and neglected children to the opposite end of thelife spectrum, as a social worker in nursing homes. Since January of 2004 I’ve beenworking for the New York State Department of Health investigating nursing homecomplaints!
A brief 9 month stint as a wife in 1977-78 did not, unfortunately, produce anychildren but I am blessed with nieces, nephews and a godson who have been thejoys of my life. Singing has always sustained me and motivated me and I’veexperienced that many times in Carnegie Hall and other venues with the New YorkChoral Society, in Israel and New York with the ZAMIR Chorale as well as in manyperformances with the New Yiddish Chorale. There is nothing better! For the past 21 years I’ve been a member of a wonderful Conservative egalitariansynagogue in Manhattan that has provided a great deal of nurturing and spiritualsatisfaction. Singing, baseball, my Mets, and reading also take up my non-workinglife as does my family and very close friends. A 21 year long term relationship hasbrought much happiness and love into my life.
Will it really be 40 years??”
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Dr. Geraldine [email protected]
Geraldine Miller, nee Czander, was a psychology major andwas involved with many of the activities of the PsychologyDepartment. She was awarded social science graduationhonors in psychology, the Bernard R. Ackerman FoundationAward in Psychology, and the Louis Shapiro FriendshipAward. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduatedmagna cum laude.
In 1980, Geraldine received a PhD in clinical psychology from The Graduate Schooland University Center of the City of New York, whose program was based at CityCollege. She began her career that year with the New York State Office of MentalHealth Pilgrim Psychiatric Center where she worked until December of 2010. Sincethen, she has been an adjunct lecturer at Suffolk County Community College. Sheis a member of American Psychological Association, New York State PsychologicalAssociation, and Society for Personality Assessment.
Geraldine presented a poster at the 8th Annual New York State Office of MentalHealth Research Conference. Her dissertation research won an honorable mentionaward from New York State Psychological Association. She holds the New York StateOffice of Mental Health Management Performance Award and recognitions awardsfrom the Psychology Department, Acute Care Department and Community ServicesDivision. She is listed in Who’s Who in the East and Who’s Who of AmericanWomen.
FOND MEMORIES OF CCNY: “The interesting and stimulating friends andprofessors. I enjoyed college.”
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Mr. Russell Davis, Esq.29 Lakewood Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94127-2719
415-409-5627 (office)[email protected]
Russell Davis majored in economics and political science at City College, and wasinducted into the Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated summa cumlaude.
In 1995, he earned a juris doctorate from Golden Gate University Law School. Heis a member of the California Bar Association, San Francisco Bar Association,National Association of Realtors, Caifornia Association of Realtors and theWashington D.C. Bar. As an attorney and real estate expert, he has been a principalof Law Offices of Russell Davis since January 2001, and Attorneys Diversified sinceJanuary, 2000.
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Mr. Jon DeLise1793 Seminole AveBronx, NY 10461-1830
Jon DeLise majored in mathematics and was captain of thevarsity lacrosse team in 1970. He has a master’s in math education from YeshivaUniversity (1976) and a P.D. in school administration from Queen’s College (1981).
Partially retired from a career in education, as both a teacher and administrator, Jonis currently a consultant for Math for America and City College: professionaldevelopment in math education. He is a past president of the CCNY AlumniAssociation (2000-01) and the CCNYAlumni Varsity Association (1998-2000).Recently re-elected as president of theAlumni Association, he will be servingfrom 2010-2011.
Jon is a member of NCTM, ATMNYC andNCMTA. He holds the AlumniAssociation Service Award, AVA KlauberAward and AVA Abbott Award from theCity College.
FOND MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Lacrossegames and lacrosse team camaraderie;“Surviving” the campus takeovers in thelate 60’s; Going from building to buildingin the tunnels on the north campus;Bumping into my dad, Armand DeLise,who was going for his Master's degreewhen I was an undergrad.”
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Ms. Arlene R. Schwartz, Ed.S.7800 NW 1st StreetMargate, FL [email protected]
Arlene R. Schwartz (nee Eisenberg) was a history major. Shewas a member of House Plan and the literary editor of“Microcosm.” She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi AlphaTheta and graduated magna cum laude. She has a master’sdegree in American history from SUNY Binghamton (1973)and an Ed.S. from Florida Atlantic University (1988).
Arlene’s career has been primarily in the field of adult education. Since 1998, shehas been Community School Director of Broward County Public Schools. She hasalso served as city commissioner and holds the distinction of being the first femalemayor of the City of Margate, FL. She was awarded the 2004 Broward CountyFlorida Public Schools Adult and Community School Administrator of the YearAward and is listed in “Who’s Who in American Education” and “Who’s Who inWomen.”
Active with a variety of community and professional organizations, Arlene is a formermember of the Florida Council on Aging and has served the Margate Planning andZoning Board, Board of Adjustment of the City of Margate, Retired Seniors VoluntaryAdvisory Council, American Cancer Society Board of Directors-West Broward Unit,Central Examining Board-Broward League of Cities, Broward League of CitiesChildren’s Issues Committee, and Replant Broward. She is currently a member ofPhi Delta Kappa, Adult and Community Educators of Florida, Florida AdultEducation Society, and Broward Principals and Assistants Association.
Arlene has one son, Steven, who is a computer web systems consultant.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Playing tennis in the middle of winter, studying by thestatue of the beaver.”
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Mr. Alfred [email protected]
Alfred Epstein was a member of the Industrial Arts Club andearned a BSEd in industrial arts education. He earned hisMA in safety education from New York University in 1974.
Alfred has been an educator since 1971, first with the NYCBoard of Education and later, from 1982 to 2004, with theNY State Education Department. He is currently at Fort Lee
High School in New Jersey, teaching, graphic design, power mechanics andwoodworking. He is a member of the New Jersey Technology Education Association.
A former fire fighter in Spring Valley, NY, Alfred belongs to organizations that assistfamily members of deceased fire fighters from the Fire Departments of the City ofNew York. He is a member of the Livingston First Aid Squad and the Honor Legionof the Fire Department of the City of New York and he volunteers his time as anEMT. He was named Honorary Assistant Chief of the Department, FDNY and hasbeen awarded the Livingston Republican Club Robert W. Kean Memorial Award andthe United States House of Representatives Citation.
FOND MEMORIES OF CCNY: "This may not be the fondest, but I still rememberthe way registration was held in Shepard Hall."
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Dina Epstein [email protected]
Dina Epstein Heisler (nee Alice) was a history major and a member of DuBois Club.She has a master’s degree in TESL from Hunter College and a master’s in supervisionfrom Bank Street College.
Since formally retiring in 2008 from her career as an educator, Dina has been aninstructor at Bank Street College’s BETLA Program-Leadership Institute. She hasbeen a member of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators since 2003.
Ms. Camille B. Fife, MAThe Westerly Group, Inc.
225 East Main StreetMadison, IN 47250
812- 273-8826 (office)[email protected]
Camille Fife has more than twenty five years of experience in the field of historicpreservation. She has dozens of successful National Register nominations to hercredit, including 20 districts, five courthouses, eight individual properties (one ofwhich was less than fifty years old), as well as Multiple Property Documents andone of the largest National Historic Landmark District nominations in the country(in terms of number of resources.) Indiana presently has only four Rural HistoricDistricts, Camille has been responsible for completing two of them, including over1,500 acres and she has contributed to a third. At the present time, she iscompleting work on a massive district nomination for the entire Park and BoulevardSystem in Fort Wayne, including over 1800 acres and over 250 resources.
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She is the author or co-author of a number of publications, including the recentlypublished history, “Madison on the Ohio: Remembering 200 Years, 1809-2009”, aswell as four Cultural Landscape Reports, Interim Reports in Indiana and SouthDakota, as well as numerous feasibility studies and Historic Structures/PropertiesReports. Section 106 consultations include large and small projects throughoutIndiana. She has been a presenter for several dozen conferences and meetings,including the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, ICOMOSInternational Scientific Symposium and the Alliance for Historic LandscapePreservation.
Ms. Fife completed her undergraduate work at the City College of New York andearned the Master of Arts Degree in History/Geography at Indiana State Universitywhere she received the Charles Roll Award for History.
She is currently the President of the Westerly Group, Inc., a firm specializing inHistoric Preservation consultation.
Mr. Louis Fiore212 884-2812 (office)[email protected]
Louis Fiore grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Nazareth High School. At City,he was a psychology major and a member of Webb Patrol. He was married inOctober 1972 and had a son named Peter in 1980. His wife Ellen died in July 2010.
Louis has been an information analyst at New York & Company since January,1993. He is a former senior business analyst at Alexander's Department Stores(1973 to 1992).
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Hanging out at the Webb Patrol table in Shepard Hallcafeteria. Sociology classes I had with Prof. Wayne Cotton
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Dr. Barbara [email protected]
Barbara Garrett-Holder was an education major and a member of the Theatre ofBlack Experience at City. She received the Harry Ritcher Award for financialassistance.
Barbara has an MAT in Education from Fordham University, 1973; a PhD ineducation from Southeastern University, 1976; and a master’s degree in schoolpsychology from Long Island University, 1991. She has been a member of DeltaSigma Theatre, Inc. since 1991, National Association of School Psychologists since1991, and International Association of School Psychologists since 1995. She retiredfrom her career in education and psychology in 2006.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Participating in the drama program; participating in thecampus strike when Dr. Gallagher was president.”
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Dr.Pheobe George [email protected]
“I was born in Athens, Greece and became a naturalized US citizen at the youngage of four in Lexington, Kentucky where my father practiced as a neurologist.For a few years, I lived on the small island of Leros, Greece. My family settled
in New York where I graduated from Julia Richman H.S. with a Regents scholarship.My dream was to someday do research in brain function but I believed I would firsthave to obtain a thorough education in scientific principles. Following my familyback to Greece, I obtained my BS degree in Physics from the National University ofAthens before returning again to the U.S. While taking the GRE exam at CityCollege, I was impressed with the grandeur of the architecture and the atmosphereof the campus and decided to enroll as a CUNY PhD graduate student. I completedmy MA degree assisted by a teaching position as a P/T adjunct lecturer and marrieda CCNY/Columbia graduate in Electrical Engineering. At CCNY, I received a solideducation provided by a host of distinguished physics professors, and was surprisedto pass the first PhD qualifying exam in 1971 with the highest grade among studentsfrom all the CUNY college graduate programs in physics for which I received a CityUniversity scholarship. Further supported by a research fellowship and adjunctteaching positions in physics and mathematics, I concentrated my research andeducation in the general area of the acquisition and analysis of data from biomedicalsystems under the guidance of my thesis advisor Dr. Hiram E. Hart. I obtainedspecialized doctoral training in biomedical physics at City College, Downstatemedical center and at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. At City College, Iremember fondly my discussions with fellow graduate students and especially theadvice and inspiration of Dr. Hart who oversaw research on a proposed nucleardetection tomographic scanner. I contributed in computer simulation ofperformance studies and the computerized control of an experimental setup usinga primitive PDP8 computer. Under Dr. Hart’s guidance and encouragement Icompleted a thesis in theoretical compartmental tracer analysis involving thederivation of topological criteria for complete measurement sets.
In the years that followed I held a variety of positions including computer systemsanalyst/consultant at American Electric Power Service Corp where I designed and
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developed software for computer assisted power plant design and as senior scientificprogrammer/analyst at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where I developedsoftware for brain research including applications in AIDS dementia complex usingPositron Emission Tomography (PET). For the last twenty years, I have been aresearch associate and systems analyst at North Shore University Hospital and amcurrently an Associate Investigator at the Center for Neurosciences, BiophysicsDivision of the Feinstein Institute forMedical Research of the North Shore-LIJHealth System in Manhasset, New York. Incollaboration with colleagues, I developeda multimodality brain imaging analysistoolbox, scanvp, that is available on theweb (www.feinsteinneuroscience.org) andis used at various research centersworldwide. Over the years I havecontributed to numerous research studiesand publications on neurologicalmovement disorders as a member of thePET functional brain imaging laboratoryheaded by Dr. David Eidelberg which isnow also a government supported UDALLCenter of Excellence for research inparkinsonism. From 2001 to 2010, I heldP/T academic appointments as a researchassociate professor of neurology andmedicine at NYU Medical College in New York. My research contributions haveconcentrated on the development of methodologies for computational neurosciencethat have been applied in the derivation of brain network disease biomarkers andin the analysis and differential diagnosis of parkinsonism. In 2005 I was awarded aSpecial Achievement Award from the CUNY Ph.D. Alumni Association. I haveparticipated in numerous IEEE and SPIE conferences, have been a member ofvarious professional societies including the American Physics Society, the NYAcademy of Sciences, ACM and IEEE Engineering and Medicine in Biology and haveserved as an ad-hoc reviewer. My latest publication “Scaled subprofile modeling ofresting state imaging data in Parkinson's disease: Methodological issues” appears inNeuroimage, vol. 54, Feb. 14, 2011.
My hobbies include travel, photography and art and I have a lovely daughter whoaspires to be a writer.”
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Howard Goldfarb
Howard [email protected]
Howard Goldfarb was a political science major at City. Heholds a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling from NewYork University, 1978, and is now a vocational rehabilitationconsultant. He is a former manager and national director ofrehabilitation services at CRS Corp. Since 1989, he has beenthe owner of Goldfarb and Associates.
Howard is a member of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionalsand the National Rehabilitation Counseling Associates. He is a past vice presidentof California Association of Rehabilitation Professionals. He has published a numberof articles on vocational rehabilitation counseling and was named a VocationalExpert by the Social Security Administration. In the community, he serves as amember of the advisory board of California State University in Los Angeles.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Time spent on the south lawn and at Café Finley.”
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Ms. Helen [email protected]
Helen Gordon majored in math education and was amember of House Plan Sis Abbe 70.5. She has a master’sdegree from Yeshiva University. She retired from her careeras a mathematics teacher at A.E. Stevenson High School in2004.
Mr. Lawrence I. Gordon, CLU516-327-2901 (office)
Lawrence I. Gordon majored in mathematics at City.
He has worked with New York Life Insurance Company since 1974, and is now Managing Partner.
He is a member of NAIFA and GAMA.
Lawrence is married to Cynthia and has two children, Meghan and Craig. He enjoystraveling, theatre, movies and table tennis.
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Stephen M. [email protected]
Stephen Henkin was an English major. In 1980, he earned a diploma in religiouseducation from the Unification Theological Seminary. He retired in 2007 as awriter/editor and teacher. From 1986 to 2004 he was the arts editor for The World& I magazine. A wife and five children (3 boys, 2 girls), one of each married andthe youngest son still in the nest. Weekend vacations to AmishLand, Delaware Shore,and West Virginia.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Poetry class. Free tuition. Buying an Orange Julius, withraw egg, on the way to class.”
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Dr. Gary Hermalyn was a history major at City College. Hereceived his doctorate from Columbia University in 1985.
Doc is a historian, publisher, educator and public speaker;CEO of The Bronx County Historical Society, and presidentof the History of New York City Project. He is aneditor/author of 156 publications and more than 100exhibitions, commemorations, conferences on urban history,geography, education, natural history and exploration. Heis the project editor of a ten volume series, “The United StatesSupreme Court,” the 4 volume “Life in The Bronx” series, the eight volume “ResearchLibrary and Archives” series, and the six volume “Roots of The Republic.” He is theauthor of “Morris High School & the Creation of the New York City Public HighSchool System”; “The Study and Writing of History”; “The Earth, The Poles & NYC”;“Postcards of the Bronx”; and “The Bronx Zoo Helped Save the American Bison.”He is co-author of “The Bronx in the Innocent Years”; “Birth of the Bronx”; “TheBronx It Was Only Yesterday”; “Time & the Calendar, Yankee Stadium”; and “TheBronx Cookbook”; and editor of “American Metropolis: A History of NYC”;“Centennial of Greater New York”; “Hudson River: Inspiration and Challenge”;“New York City at the Turn of the Century”; and “Tunneling to the Future”.
Doc is an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City, and a CentennialHistorian of New York City. He also leads study expeditions in tri-state regions'waterways and pathways producing monographs, exhibitions and videos.
As CEO of the Bronx County Historical Society, which was founded in 1955 topreserve the heritage of this thriving community, he oversees the Society’sadministration of the colonial era Valentine-Varian House, which serves as theMuseum of Bronx History, The Bronx County Archives, an extensive research library,and Poe Cottage, the final home of America's great 19th century poet and author,Edgar Allan Poe. Both historic houses are listed in the National Register of HistoricPlaces.
Doc has also produced and directed scores of fundraising events and dinners. Hesits on the board of directors of the Explorers Club and is a part of their LegacySociety. The Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary professional societydedicated to the advancement of field research and the ideal that it is vital to preservethe instinct to explore.”
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“I grew up in the Bronx and was known as Sharon LynneHoffman until I married, following graduation from CCNYin June, 1971. I attended William Howard Taft High School
where I received numerous academic honors and was an activeparticipant in all available female sports (which in those dayswere very limited). As a 16 year old high school graduate fromthe South Bronx my choices for college were CCNY (uptown),Lehman College, or Bronx Community. I chose City becausemy favorite cousin was attending City and she suggested thatnot only was it a good school, but I could pledge her sorority.
The years I attended college, 1967-1971, were pretty tumultuous in this Countryand campus life reflected that. I was exposed to police actions and campus strife, aswell as just good fun hanging out on south campus and just being… I pledged andwas a member of Alpha Sigma Rho Sorority. I also went out for and made the JVBasketball team which was wonderful. But learning I couldn’t do it all and getpassing grades, I gave up my short basketball career. I ultimately made dean’s listand graduated on time in June, 1971. Frankly, what I remember most was howdifficult calculus and biology were (for me the supposed genius nothing was everdifficult), so much for my ambition to be a doctor! Eventually, I majored in Sociologyand minored in Education. What I also remember fondly was the freedom for mepersonally. But again, those were pretty tumultuous years and I felt very fortunateto be there.
Upon graduation I married my childhood sweetheart, Jeffrey Buder. Wehoneymooned in Europe for 45 days, which was almost as long as our marriagelasted. We had the last rent controlled apartment in the Bronx, which we eventuallyleft as we went our separate ways and moved to the City (Manhattan) where I haveremained).
Those were hard times for college grads, much like today and no one wanted to hiresome young college grad with no relevant job experience. Eventually, I got luckyand landed a job at the NYC Department of Correction. I had hoped to be a socialworker, and my initial position was as a very entry level member of a Planning andMonitoring Task Force. The Task Force was funded by the Federal Government as
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a result of the numerous riots in the prisons and jails. Life working in the jails wasamazing and it was after spending numerous days, night and weekends in every jailin NYC that I decided I could make a bigger difference in the lives of the inmates asan administrator or planner responsible for overseeing change, on a larger scale thanjust one on one basis as a social worker.
Being naturally curious and recognizing the need for an advanced degree, I appliedto and was accepted at Bernard Baruch where I attended in the evenings receivinga Masters of Public Administration. My Master Thesis was on the courts and theprocess that led to incarceration. This research eventually led me to apply for andget hired by the NYS Office of Court Administration for the NYC courts. I was theDeputy Director for Planning from 1978-1981.
I never saw myself as a career government employee/civil servant, so before my 10thanniversary, I started actively looking to make a move to the private sector. Aftermuch rejection and not being willing to take a salary cut, because of my inferiorpublic sector experience, I finally had the good fortune to be interviewed by a formeremployee of the Police Department. The position was as a manager in the Trust &Custody Services Division as a first level officer (Assistant Treasurer) at the IrvingTrust Company at One Wall Street. My career at One Wall included numerous staffand line positions in Operations and Client Services and ultimately led topromotions up the corporate ladder to Assistant Vice President, Vice President andultimately Managing Director at the Irving Trust Company, the Bank of New York,and finally the Bank of New York Mellon. I retired in 2009.
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During the intervening years, I married in September, 1985 my wonderful husbandWilliam Simon who passed away in April, 2002 following the explosive return ofhis cancer post 9/11. In 1989 we adopted our son Brett Ian Simon, who is now 22and a student at Kingsborough Community College. I have a step daughter, twograndchildren (one younger then my son) and the other the father of my three greatgrandchildren.
My son and I live in Battery Park City and I own a townhouse in Litchfield CountyConnecticut (near the grand and great grand kids).
I actively fundraise for the American Heart Association. I enjoy all aspects of cityand country life, visiting museums, attending theatre, concerts, restaurants, playinggolf, enjoying the great grand kids and puttering in my garden. I have travelledextensively and hope to continue to, as I work/play through my “bucket list” formany years to come.
I consider myself to be very blessed and I am delighted to be attending our 40thAnniversary Reunion.
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Ed was born and raised in the Bronx and attended Evander Childs High Schoolwhich was located in the Williamsburg section of the Bronx. While attending highschool, he excelled in Math courses such as Geometry, Trigonometry, and AdvancedAlgebra, and was recognized for achieving exceptionally high scores on the relatedRegents’ exams. The academic rigor of high school provided the preparation for hisnext challenge: the prestigious halls of the City College of New York (CCNY).
Although in 1966 CCNY was a commuter college, it provided an opportunity tointeract with individuals from every part of the City who represented diverse culturalbackgrounds. During his first semester at CCNY, Ed joined an intramural basketballteam, which was named the “Eights”. During the next two years, this team won 23straight games and two championships to become one of the most legendaryintramural teams in the history of the school. Several of the “Eights” went on toplay for and lead the CCNY Varsity Basketball Team. To this day, Ed remains closeto his former team mates (his life-long best friend was a member of the team) andthey usually celebrate their friendship and the “good old days at City” every SuperBowl Sunday. While at CCNY, Ed also joined and later became president of PhiBeta Sigma Fraternity. This fraternity is one of four Black, Greek-lettered fraternitieswith chapters throughout the world. Needless to say, some of his fondest memoriesrelate to the fun times spent with his “frat” brothers on South Campus. Aftertransferring to CCNY-Downtown (which is now Baruch College), Ed graduated witha BBA in accounting.
Armed with a degree in accounting and a desire to work in the public sector, Edaccepted a position with the NYC Human Resources Administration (HRA). HRAwas the funding conduit that disbursed funds to hundreds of community-basedorganizations that administered anti-poverty programs such as Headstart, Day Care,Employment Training, Youth Services, and Senior Citizen agencies. Ed played acritical role in the development of disbursement strategies and expenditure reportingthat provided a framework for the success of those programs. Over a period ofthirteen years, he became one of the most knowledgeable and respected financial
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administrators in the area of funding community-based organizations throughFederal and NYS grants. In one of his hallmark achievements, Ed worked withsenior staff from the NYC Comptroller’s Office in the development andimplementation of the Integrated Financial Management System, a citywideaccounting system that was considered the best in class for many years to come.For his many accomplishments and successful career, Ed was awarded a Mayor’sScholarship in 1978, and in that same year, was admitted to NYU’s Graduate Schoolof Business. Four years later, Ed graduated with MBA in Finance. During his stellartenure with HRA, Ed was promoted sixtimes and had risen to the rank ofAssistant Commissioner.
In 1985, Ed joined the Comptroller’sDepartment of the Port Authority of NewYork and New Jersey. During his twenty-one years at the Port Authority, Ed heldseveral key positions including Manager,Revenue Accounting Division, AssistantComptroller for Operations, and Directorof the Financial Services Department(Budget Director was the informal title).As the Budget Director for the Bi-StateAgency, Ed oversaw the development ofthe agency’s annual budget that wasapproximately $5 billion in 2006 andprovided managerial leadership to a staffof seventy professionals. Among his many accomplishments as Budget Director, Edprovided policy and strategic guidance for the implementation of a new budgetsystem in 2004. Ed retired from the Port Authority in 2006.
For his outstanding career in public service and commitment to helping others, Edwas honored by the Harlem YMCA as one of its “Black Achievers in Industry” in2002. In June of 2002, Ed was the recipient of the Port Authority’s CivilianCommendation Medal for the heroism that he displayed in helping to evacuate theWorld Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In 2004, Governor George E. Patakihonored Ed in a tribute to “African American Leaders in State Service” for hisoutstanding contributions to the State of New York and the Port Authority. In Mayof 2004, Ed received the Port Authority’s prestigious Robert F. Wagner DistinguishedPublic Service Medal. During his career, Ed also received several awards andcitations for his work with the National Association of Black Accountants.
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Mr. Stephen Karafiol 87 Sands CourtLido Beach, NY 11561-4929
212-739-6099 (office)[email protected]
Steve Karafiol, a Bachelor of Science(Mechanical Engineering) Major at CityCollege, 1971, also holds a Master ofScience (Management Engineering)degree from Long Island University’sC.W. Post College, 1977 and his NYSProfessional Engineer’s License since1976.
Steve was born in Brooklyn, raised inQueens, schooled in Manhattan, andlives on the south shore of Long Island,NY since 1974. A true New Yorker, whois glad he ‘never got out’! He is marriedto his wife, Karen for almost 39 years, hasa 34 year old daughter, Melissa & 31 yearold son, Adam.
Since graduating the City College Schoolof Engineering, Steve has always workedin the construction industry. Employedby several mechanical contracting companies early in his career, he then worked formajor construction managers and real estate developers here in the ‘Big Apple’.Currently, since November, 2004, he is an SVP at Tishman Construction Corp. ofNY. Prior to joining Tishman Construction, he was an SVP with Lehrer McGovernBovis, Director of Construction at Jack Resnick & Sons, and Construction Managerat Bloomberg LP.
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Steve has also kept himself busy ‘giving back’, by being active with several charitableand philanthropic organizations. From 1996 to 2010, he served as the ConstructionIndustry Division Chairman for the Greater NY State of Israel Bonds. He has beena member of the Board of Directors of the Men’s Division of Albert Einstein Collegeof Medicine since 1995, and their past President from 1997-1999. He is also amember of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Societyof Mechanical Engineers.
Active with the affairs of the College, including projects with the Grove School ofEngineering, Steve is currently serving as the President of the Board of Directors ofThe City College Fund and as Chairman of the ‘Class of 1971 40th AnniversaryReunion’ Committee.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Being a ‘commuter from Queens,’ and also working duringmy ‘spare time’ selling shoes at Tom McCann’s in Queens, I remember being oncampus with the debates of ‘open enrollment,’ ‘the Vietnam conflict’, ‘ROTC oncampus,’ and the large crowds of students enjoying the beautiful City Collegeenvironment. And, of course, the many events, concerts, etc. that took place in theformer classic Lewisohn Stadium! Although it was over 40 years ago, I will neverforget and appreciate my ‘stepping stone’ into my adult life from The City College.”
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Anthony W. Koestler917-903-8439 (cell)[email protected]
Anthony W. Koestler was born in Quincy, MA and raised inYorkville on the upper east side. He attended public schools,graduating from Brandeis High in 1967 and then enrollingin the School of Education at CCNY where he earned a BSin Ed and later an MS in Ed. He was a member of Wittes’71 House Plan.
In the early 1970s, Anthony taught elementary school, but his career path took himfrom education to positions as a retail manager, civilian procurement specialist forthe Department of the Navy, contract manager for NYC Transit and finally, to MTABridges and Tunnels where he has been manager of service contracts, deputy chiefprocurement officer and, currently, chief procurement officer for the ProcurementDepartment. He is a member of the All-Agency Procurement Council at MTA Bridgesand Tunnels, and has been a member of the National Institute of GovernmentalPurchasing – CPPO, CPPB - since 1991.
Anthony is married to fellow CCNY alumnus Laura Buonomo Koestler and has twosons, Larry (married to Lyndsay) and Craig. He has been a coach for his sons’basketball, soccer and baseball teams. In the 1990s, he was a soccer coach of theManhattan Kickers and a baseball coach for the Peter Stuyvesant Little League. He’sa lifelong Yankees fan, and also follows pro football, hockey, and college basketball.
Anthony and Laura live in Stuyvesant Town and are members of the StuyvesantTown/Peter Cooper Village Tenant Association, as well as the Stuyvesant Cove ParkAssociation. They vacation in Cape Cod. Their first grandchild was born this April,and they are both looking forward to celebrating their 38th wedding anniversary inJuly.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Friendships developed at both the north and southcampuses; I met my future wife Laura in the south campus snack bar. In 1967, Iconsidered "City" to be a great school and was proud to be accepted!”
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Sheila Krilov Sasmor 64-11 99th Street Apt. 207Rego Park, NY 11374
“Greetings from Sheila Krilov. I grew up in the Bronxnear the Grand Concourse and Tremont Avenue.Remember “The Bronx?/ No thonx!” by Ogden Nash (in
Hard-Lines (1931))? I was lucky enough to go to the Bronx High School of Scienceand then to City College. At that time so many Sciencites went on to CCNY that itseemed a natural choice. I was the first in my family to complete a college education.My parents would have loved the opportunity but their family responsibilitiesprecluded higher education. My dad served in World War II and then, as the onlyson in a family of seven, assumed responsibility for his aging parents. He tried goingto CCNY at night but found himself sleeping through too many classes so he focusedon his job in the garment center. My mom, herself an immigrant, was tracked intoa vocational high school program. She worked as a bookkeeper until she marriedand then became a 1950’s housewife.
At CCNY, I majored in math and minored in education. My father always chuckledthat calculus was the class that drove him out of CCNY and I went so far beyond inmath. I graduated with the Silver Belden Medal in Mathematics and I went on tograduate school in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. By the beginningof my second year I realized that I was enjoying the teaching component of myfellowship more than my coursework. I opted to leave Penn’s PhD program with aMaster’s degree. I was glad I had minored in education and completed my studentteaching as an undergraduate. I returned to New York where I started my career,teaching math at Hunter College High School. At that time Hunter was an all-girlsgrade 7 – 12 school. For me it was a perfect match. The girls were bright andmotivated and eager to learn. I started coaching the school’s math teams and got towork with the students who were most eager to further their problem solving skills.After a few years and a lawsuit Hunter became coed. The culture changed somewhatbut it was still my dream job.
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In 1983 I married Ken Sasmor (CCNY ’70). Though we had gone to the same highschool and the same college we didn’t meet until years later. When our sons wereborn (Jonathan in 1985 and Steven in 1988) I opted to take a leave of absence to behome with my sons. I had waited a long time to have children and I wanted to bethe primary caretaker. Each semester I thought I would return to Hunter but thenI realized that, if I went back to work, I would be neither the teacher nor the parentthat I wanted to be. I resigned from my job at Hunter and stayed home until myyounger son was entering fifth grade. At that time two veteran teachers were retiringand a tenure line was opening up. I returned to Hunter in 1999 and have beenhappily teaching and coaching math team there ever since. My new project is themiddle school MATHCOUNTS program and I’ve been able to get some of mystudents to the national competition overthe years.
Some of my fondest memories of CCNYcenter around Friday nights and HousePlans. I was a member of Sis Wittes ’71and enjoyed the philosophy and natureof House Plan. I sometimes hung out atthe Hillel House. And I usually wentIsraeli folk dancing several times a week,at Columbia or the 92nd Street Y. Iremember the majesty of the Great Halland Lewisohn Stadium. I remember thechallenge of course registration andhoping you got the courses you mostwanted. I remember faculty memberswho gently guided me on my path to graduate school, a math professor namedJeannette Keston and an education professor named Al Weiss. I also remember theyears of political unrest and demonstrations and showing up at CCNY every day tosee for myself what was going on. It was unnerving to realize that the New YorkTimes’ descriptions were not always accurate. And I remember Coretta Scott Kingspeaking at our graduation.
I still keep in touch with some of my CCNY classmates – Lillian Fluek Finkler, GailRotberg Kleinman, Ruth Heger Shuster, Ellen Blecher Lazar, and Joan Fuld Sapir.As I tell my current students, college is the experience you make of it. Going awaygives you one kind of independence. Staying in New York, even while living athome, gives you another kind. And New York is a great city in which to becomeindependent.”
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Dr. James A. Latimore8 Revonda DRAsheville, NC 28804-3013
James Latimore was a sociology major and a recipient of theHerbert Lehman Award from NY State. He earned his PhDin sociology from CUNY in 1976. He retired from a careerin academia in 1996.
James is a political activist and a member of Veterans for Peace. He enjoysplaywriting and is the published author of several books including “Bookwoman,”a memoir of his wife who died of lung cancer in 2000, and “Children of Light,” astudy of a small religious group in South Carolina. He is currently working on anew book, “Socialism for the Clueless.”
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Attending faculty meetings as a teaching assistant. ProfessorJoseph Bensman. Years of turmoil. Graduation ceremony with Coretta Scott King asa speaker.”
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Dr. John W. Lee180 Park Row Apt 23BNew York, NY 10038-1132
212-732-2397212-636-6424 (office)[email protected]
Dr. John W. Lee is currently Professor and Associate Chairin the Division of Educational Leadership, Administrationand Policy at the Graduate School of Education, FordhamUniversity. In addition, he serves as a coordinator for both the Division’s doctoralprogram in urban school leadership and master’s degree program in educationaladministration and supervision, and he oversees the Graduate School of Education’sNYSED Wallace Foundation Enhanced Leadership Preparation Program. He teachesand advises in both the doctoral program and master’s degree program in educationalleadership, teaching courses in leadership, qualitative research, organizationalculture, supervision and critical issues in educational administration.
Prior to being invited to Fordham University in 2005, John served for more thanthirty years with the New York City Department of Education. He began his careerwith the NYC Board of Education as a high school English teacher and then servedsuccessfully as assistant principal and then principal at Lower East Side PreparatorySchool, one of the oldest alternative high schools serving recent Chinese high school-aged immigrants as well as dropouts and potential dropouts.
As schools superintendent for the Queens High School District with the NYCDOEfrom 1997-2003, John was the first Asian American field-based superintendent withthe NYC Department of Education and led the largest district at that time with 35high schools serving more than 75,000 students. During his tenure, he openedseveral new small high schools, was a key witness at the Campaign for Fiscal Equitytrials and led a small delegation of high school principals to China in a “sister school”program. He was a member of the Joint Math Commission created by City UniversityChancellor Matthew Goldstein and then NYCDOE Schools Chancellor Harold Levy.John also held the positions of executive director at the Office of Student EnrolmentPlanning and Operations (OSEPO) at Tweed Headquarters.
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John has taught English as a second language to immigrant adults at a new Englishlanguage center founded by the Chinese American Planning Council. He was thefounding director for the Oliver Street School Age Day Care Center in lowerManhattan, co-sponsored by the Chinese American Planning Council and HamiltonMadison House, two of the city’s oldest social service agencies in NYC’s Lower EastSide funded by the NYC Agency for Child Development.
Over the years, John has served as an adjunct instructor at Baruch College, PaceUniversity and St. John’s University, teaching courses both in educational leadershipand in teaching and learning. He has served as an education consultant and programevaluator for the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum’s Educational Department,worked as a consultant for Victor Schools and consulted as a leadership coach fortwo new schools created under the aegis of New Visions for Public Schools in NewYork City.
Dr. Lee earned his doctorate from New YorkUniversity. His dissertation was onsuperintendent-principal partnerships. He holdsa master’s degree in education and a bachelor’sdegree in English from the City College of NewYork and completed work for his New York Statecertification in school administration andsupervision, and school district administration atFordham University, City College of New Yorkand Bank Street College. He is a proud productof the New York City public school systemhaving attended public school in New York’sChinatown and the former High School for Musicand Art, now LaGuardia High School for the Arts.
John has been recognized with numerous awardsincluding Supervisor of the Year, CCNYEducation Alumni Outstanding Administrator
Award, leadership awards from the New York State Arts Council, various ChineseAmerican and Asian American business, community, civic and parent organizations,and the Humanitarian Award from Marymount Manhattan College. He is serving inhis second year as president of the CCNY Education Alumni Group.
Dr. Lee continues to reside in Manhattan’s historic Lower East Side.
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Dr. B. Loerinc [email protected]
Beatrice Loerinc Helft majored in math at City and receivedthe Isidore Dressler Award for excellence in mathematics. Shegraduated summa cum laude.
After earning a master’s degree, 1973, and doctorate, 1979,in computer science from the Courant Institute ofMathematical Sciences at New York University, Beatrice joinedthe faculty of the Baruch School of Business. In 2001, she left Baruch to become theAcademic Director of CUNY Online Business Programs (BS and MS) at the Schoolof Professional Studies. She is also the founder of Bea…Organized!, professionalorganizing services for home and office since 2003.
Beatrice is married and has a daughter, two step-children and four grandchildren.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Hanging out in Shepard cafeteria with people differentfrom those I grew up with. The great professors and the awesomeness of the GreatHall (running from end to end during registration time, picking up punched cardsfor the courses I wanted to take.); the very bright students who were part of theSelected Students Program, as I was.”
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“I attended CCNY as Linda S. Marasco and graduated with the class of 1971. Igrew up in Far Rockaway, New York and attended Far Rockaway High School.I rode the “A” train from the Far Rockaway station to the Convent Avenue/125th
street station every day – a four-hour round trip. I attended CCNY because of theschool’s remarkable reputation as the flagship college of City University, with astoried and glorious past that included many distinguished graduates. CCNY thenwas a tuition-free university which afforded students from poor and blue colorfamilies the opportunity of an outstanding college education with distinguished,dedicated faculty. A New York State Regents scholarship paid for our books andsubway fare. We paid $38 a semester in student fees.
After being an undeclared major for several semesters, I finally majored in politicalscience. My favorite and most inspirational professors in the political sciencedepartment were Jeffrey Morris, Randolph Braham, Joyce Gelb, Ned Lebow, andMarshall Berman. Jeffrey Morris’s classes in American government and constitutionallaw inspired me to become a political science major. Professor Morris had all hisstudents invested in the 1968 presidential election, with each student tracking theelection in a particular state (mine was Washington State, which I predictedincorrectly). In constitutional law, Professor Morris sent us down to the 42nd streetpublic library to read case law reports relating to prisoner rights. We briefed andargued cases (I was the only woman in that class). Marshall Berman memorablytaught political theory outside, under the trees, invoking Jean Jacques Rousseau andthe theory of nature (“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”). RandolphBraham taught us the Russian revolution and Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe,while looking forlornly out the window at rioting students. Joyce Gelb taught usabout local precinct politics, and sent us there to do our class projects. Ned Lebowintroduced us to erudite theories of international relations.
My most distinct memories of attending CCNY during the late 1960s were of thepolitical turmoil and riots during this period as a consequence of Americaninvolvement in the Viet Nam War and the mandatory draft. CCNY cancelled classesevery spring after the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, theCambodian invasion, and the shootings at Kent State. I remember seriously believingthat the entire country was on the verge of revolution. My courses at CCNYexpanded my knowledge, vision, and comprehension of world and current events.I graduated CCNY Phi Beta Kappa. Our class graduated from Lewisohn Stadium in
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June 1971, and our commencement speaker was Coretta Scott King, whom Ibelieved spoke for nearly an hour. Due to Marshall Berman’s inspiration (politicaltheory under the trees) -- and with the aid and support of Professors Morris,Braham, and Gelb -- I attended Columbia Graduate School where I earned an M.Phil and Ph.D degrees in political theory. After earning my graduate degrees, I taughtpolitical science at Fordham University for three years. However, the lingeringinfluence of Jeffrey Morris, from his undergraduate constitutional law course, finallypropelled me to attend Georgetown Law Center in Washington D.C. After graduating
Georgetown law school, I worked as anappellate attorney at a largeWashington D.C. law firm. I married alaw school classmate, Jim Mullenix,from whom I have been divorced forover 15 years.
In 1981 I began a new career as a lawprofessor. I have been a law professorfor the past thirty years. In 1991 Imoved to Austin, Texas and currentlyI am on the faculty at the University ofTexas School of Law where I teach thefirst year course in civil procedure andupper level courses in complexlitigation. I have published severalbooks and numerous articles relatingto federal courts, civil procedure, classactions, and mass tort litigation. Bystrange coincidence, there are three
CCNY graduates on the University of Texas School of Law faculty – myself, ProfessorJack Getman, and Professor Lino Graglia. We three believe this is the largestconcentration of CCNY graduates on any law faculty in the country.
During the course of my academic career, I have had the great opportunity to be ascholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and ConferenceCenter in Bellagio, Italy. During spring 2007 I held the Fulbright SeniorDistinguished Chair in Law, in Trento, Italy. Currently, I serve on the Board ofDirectors of the Fulbright Association of Austin, Texas. My academic career hasafforded me the chance to travel throughout the United States and abroad to delivertalks at academic conferences.
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I have three grown sons; my oldest son is married and lives in northern California,and my other two sons live in Austin. I have travelled extensively both professionallyand for fun. I am an avid tourist and nothing is too trivial, mundane, or ridiculousto escape my attention. I continue to read the New York Times and the New Yorker,even down here in Texas. I spend as much time as I can hiking, canoeing, kayaking,and in the great outdoors. I continue to love books, movies, theatre, and the opera.Improbably, I became a golfer. I return to visit New York several times a year, buthave not been back to campus since graduation.
I am part of an extended CCNY family, mostly north campus folks. My youngersister Diane Marasco Stelling graduated from the CCNY School of Engineering in1973, two years after me. She married a CCNY engineering classmate, DouglasStelling. His sister, Susan Stelling also attended the CCNY School of Engineering,and she married her classmate Paul Loheide. The Stelling and Marasco families countmany CCNY graduates among them.
I am very grateful for my CCNY education, including all those turbulent politicalyears. My CCNY education has served me very well in the forty-plus years since Ibegan trudging uphill from the 125th street subway station to south campus.”
Dr. Norman Margolies8 Chelsea Ct.Tintin Falls, NJ 07724
732-380-7025732-842-6370 (office)[email protected]
Norman Margolies was a biology major. He earned a DMD atthe University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in1975.
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Mr. Henry S. Maurer219 Drake RdCherry Hill, NJ 08034-2005
Henry S. Maurer majored in psychology and was chairmanof the CCNY chapter of Young People’s Socialist League, anupper class advisor for the Freshman Orientation Program,and a member of Young Democrats, Jewish Student Union,
and the Freshman Honors Program. He has a master’s degree in political science fromthe University of Pennsylvania, 1972, and a juris doctorate from Temple UniversitySchool of Law, 1980. Between 1972 and 1979, he was the editor of The PFT Reporter(Philadelphia Federation of Teachers).
Following admission to the New Jersey Bar, Henry was an associate attorney withlaw firms in Southern New Jersey. Since 1984, Henry has worked with the NewJersey Civil Service Commission. He is currently a division director, in charge ofappeals and regulations. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association,Labor and Employment Law Section, executive committee. His community serviceincludes an appointment to the Planning Board of Cherry Hill Township, 1984 to1996. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Jewish CommunityRelations Council of Southern New Jersey since 1982 and was president from 2005to 2007.
Henry is married to the former Linda Rosen and is the father of David andgrandfather of Emily Madeline, born 09/11/2009.
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Dr. Mary B. McRae212-998-5552 (office)
Mary B. McRae majored in history and education. She holds a master’s degree inguidance and counseling from Brooklyn College, 1976 and an Ed.D in counselingpsychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, 1987.
Mary has been a professor of applied psychology in the Department of AppliedPsychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and HumanDevelopment, New York University since 1990. She was recently awarded the 2009-2010 NYU Challenge Fund. She is a member of the American PsychologicalAssociation and the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. She haswritten numerous articles and book chapters and is the author of the book, “Racialand Cultural Dynamics in Group and Organizational Life: Crossing Boundaries,”2010, Sage.
FOND MEMORIES OF CCNY: “I had a number of great professors at City, whotook a real interest in my learning. I was also a part of the group that took over thecollege in 1969. This was a historic event that taught me that I could take standand make a difference in the world.”
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Abraham Morganoff, [email protected]
Abraham Morganoff is a neurologist in private practice inNew Jersey and a member of the attending staff at SaintBarnabas Medical Center. He is former chief of neurology forUnion Hospital. He and his wife Fern have three children,Jessica, Gregory and Michelle.
Ms. Elsie Bernadette Morrow914-562-5380
Elsie Morrow grew up in Inwood Heights. At City, she was a history major and amember of the History Club. She lives in New York and has two grown children.
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Tom PallasPO Box 2906
Edgartown, MA 02539
508-627-9201 x32 (office)[email protected]
“As a night school graduate of CCNY, I can't say that I was deeply enmeshed inthe fabric of student life. But I am proud to be an alumnus, and a bit stunnedthat it all took place so long ago.
I was born in Buffalo, boarding schooled in Niagara Falls, and pink-slipped fromOhio Wesleyan in 1966. I ended up at City College a year later, right around thetime LBJ was amping up the ground war in Vietnam. CCNY became my refuge. Iretained my student deferment, and found myself surrounded by fascinatingprofessors and serious, hardworking students. At $3.00 per credit hour it was thebargain of a lifetime.
Jim Hatch and Maryann Cowan were my favorite professors. And Marvin Cohen -a zany English instructor. My proudest college moment came in Dr. Cowan'sphilosophy class. She was explaining some concept of the German words "ur" and"teil", when I asked if they might be the derivatives of "ordeal". At the start of ournext class Dr. Cowan announced that she had looked up ordeal, found that I wasright, and for that reason she would always remember me.
That happened in 1970, also the year of my most self-destructive, brash and stupidcollege stunt. I wrote a paper for one English class, and handed it in to a secondclass I was taking the same semester. While other students may have tried this, it'spretty certain that I'm the only one to do it in classes taught by the same professor.I got an A in the first class, an F in the second, and squandered any respect I hadearned to that point from Professor Hatch.
Anti-war unrest on campus spared us from taking finals one year - hooray! But weall had tears in our eyes the day somebody set fire to Shepard Hall. The fire went
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out, student life went on, and I managed to earn a diploma.
For the next year I thumbed through Europe. When I returned to NY, heroin hadmade the city unlivable, so I headed back home to Buffalo. I bought an old bicycleshop and for 20 years had a good livelihood.
Now I'm a Real Estate Broker on Martha's Vineyard. I can't fish worth a damn, butthere's great cycling, good clamming & stuff that needs fixing. And Carolyn, a finewoman who enjoys my company.
My daughter starts college in the fall, so retirement isn't on my horizon. Wherevershe enrolls, Naomi is sure to become a distinguished alumnus, unlike her old man.But like I said, I am proud to be a graduate of CCNY. I didn't need a college degreefor any of the jobs I've held, but having one has made all the difference.”
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Ms. Diane Plotkin Boehr301-435-7059 (office)[email protected]
“I was born and raised in the Bronx. I attended the Bronx H.S. of Science, whichwas in walking distance of my house on the Grand Concourse. I truly believethat my parents, from the time I was in a crib, stood over me and repeated “You
will go to City College, you will go to City College,” so when the time came to applyto college, it seemed the only logical choice.
I majored in chemistry, but in the end, the only work I did in chemistry was onevery interesting summer job between my junior and senior year of college that Ifound through CCNY, working for the NY State Racing Commission testing horsesurine and saliva for drugs.
That same summer, I married Danny Boehr, whom I had met at Bronx Science. Heattended CCNY downtown (as Baruch College was then known). By my graduationin June 1971, I was 4 months pregnant and I stayed at home raising my childrenfor the next 10 years. My daughter Michelle was born in Oct. 1971 and my sonJoshua was born in April 1975. In June 1973, Danny accepted a job with Amtrakand we moved to the Washington DC suburbs in Maryland. Once my son was readyto begin kindergarten, I was ready to start a career. I felt that I had been out of thechemistry field too long to go back. I had volunteered in the elementary school
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library and enjoyed that, so I applied to library school at the University of Marylandand was accepted. I received my MLS from Maryland in spring of 1983 and beganworking for Costabile Associates, a library consulting firm that specialized incataloging services. In 1998, Danny and I did a career shift. He took a buyout fromAmtrak and became a transportation consultant and I took a government job,working in the cataloging section of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Our daughter married in 1996, and in 2001 our granddaughter, Lexi Thieman wasborn. Very soon after that my life took a very unexpected turn when Danny wasdiagnosed with cancer and died 6 weeks later in April of 2002. With the help ofmy very supportive family and friends, I have been able to put the pieces of my lifeback together. I still do a lot of traveling, attend a lot a theater, and have taken upcontra dancing. CCNY has an active alumni chapter in Washington, DC and I enjoyattending some of their events—and being the baby of the group!
I was promoted to the Head of Cataloging position at NLM in 2005 and have becomevery active in national and international standards development for cataloging. Iam a member of the Beta Phi Mu Library Science Honor Society, the AmericanLibrary Association, the Medical Library Association, North American Serials InterestGroup. I was a member of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Futureof Bibliographic Control, and am currently serving on the US RDA Test CoordinatingCommittee which is evaluating if the US community should adopt a newly publishednew set of cataloging rules.
During my days at CCNY, I was an active member of the Sis Wittes ’71 houseplan,although I have lost touch with most of my housemates. The years from 1967-71were a tumultuous period at CCNY. I remember being on campus planning ahouseplan event the night Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and being told to gohome immediately. There were strikes and shutdowns which occasionally canceledfinal exams, so that we had the option of taking pas/fail grades in some classes. AndDanny and I were part of the group that arranged the protest and bus transportationto Albany in 1970, where along with about 12,000 of our classmates we foughtagainst the imposition of tuition fees. I am very grateful to CCNY for the excellenteducation I received. Despite the fact that I had some 8 hour chemistry labs thatlimited some of my course choices, I was still able to take a wide variety of classesand meet some wonderful people. And to do all that for just a $35 fee, while havinga Regents scholarship to pay for books was extraordinary.”
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Sasha sheldOn plutno
Roslyn M. Press
Mr. Sasha Sheldon [email protected]
Sasha Sheldon Plutno majored in sociology.
Ms. Roslyn M. Press914-271-0938718-918-3682 (office)[email protected]
Roslyn M. Press was a sociology major.
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Joseph Prince30 Cathedral Ave
Florham Park, NJ 07932-2521
973-377-9153908-730-5610 office
Joseph Prince was a chemical engineering major and a member of ROTC. Hegraduated summa cum laude.
A professional engineer in the State of New Jersey and a member of the AIChE,Joseph works in chemical and environmental engineering. With the exception ofthe years between 2001 and 2004 when he worked as a manager of environmentalengineering for Teltra Tech, he has been a member of the staff of Foster WheelerCorp. since 1972. He is now a chief engineer for the company.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “South Campus activities.”
Mr. Alan E. Rabunski630 Third Avenue - 23rd Floor
New York, NY 10017
212-682-1133 office
Alan E. Rabunski majored in political science at City College. He holds a JD fromJohn Marshall Law School, 1975 and an LLM in taxation from New York UniversitySchool of Law, Graduate Division, 1978. He is a practicing attorney.
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Mr. Laurence Reilly370 Riverside DriveNew York, NY 10025-2107
“Born and raised in Manhattan, I followed a long familytradition in attending both Stuyvesant High School andCity College where my father, uncle, and older brother preceded me. I entered
City College planning to be a “shop” teacher and left without once straying fromthat career path. While at City, I was on the freshman fencing team – loved runningup the stands at Lewisohn Stadium (where incidentally my parents met many yearsbefore). I held leadership positions in the Outdoor Club; Bicycle Club; and IndustrialArts Education Society.
One of my best experiences at City College was a cross country road trip withmembers of the Outdoor Club and our faculty advisor, Geology Professor Jack Faganin his VW bus. He knew the wilderness areas of Wyoming and the other westernstates like the back of his hand and would drive down barely discernable fire roadsto magnificent camping spots. During this trip, we were in Jackson Hole, and undera full moon, watched the first moonwalk on a television set through the window ofa restaurant. Priceless memories! As a result of this adventure, I became a Rangerwith the National Park Service, working at the Statue of Liberty weekends andsummers for the duration of my college years.
I attended graduate school and received a M.A. degree from New York Universityand set off on my short lived teaching career. I become active in several bicycleadvocacy groups and as President of Transportation Alternatives in the late 1970s,drafted a bicycle safety plan that received the support of major federal funding forthe City of New York. During the 1980 transit strike, I worked with organized bikegroups based in NYC to implement temporary bike lanes. The subway strike seguedmy professional life into a position as New York City’s first full-time BicycleCoordinator. During the 1980s, we developed a comprehensive city-wide plan for
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education and enforcement. I was then appointed to the Governor’s StatewideBicycle Advisory Council (1985-1991) and the Transportation Research Board’sCommittee on Bicycling and Bicycle Facilities (1982-1987). An avid life-long cyclist,he and his wife, Winifred Zubin, were members of the first bicycle tour of mainlandChina in 1981.
I continued my career with the NYC Department of Transportation, through anumber of senior level positions including Special Events Director and Chief of Stafffor both the Traffic Intelligence and Enforcement Divisions. He also directed the
deployment of Department resources for special NYC events and VIP visits, anddeveloped contingency plans for emergency road and bridge closings, weatheremergencies, strike threats, and building collapses.
Prior to my retirement in 2002, I served as Executive Director of Authorized Parking& Permits, which at the time, issued over 75,000 permits annually to people withdisabilities, oversize trucks, clergy, government and not for profit agencies. Wedeveloped and implemented on -street parking policies for press, diplomatic, andgovernment vehicles. A career highlight was the development and implementationof a web based permit issuance system to replace a clunky, inefficient paper basedone. I also re-engineered the disability permit unit and cut waiting time for citypermits from 6 months to 6 weeks. As a contrast to my bicycle planning days, the
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unit permitted and routed all oversize and overweight vehicles travelling within thecity.
I’ve been involved with many civic organizations over the years, including the CityCollege Education Alumni Association, where I served on Board of Directors from1984 to 1988. I‘ve been a life member of the Sierra Club and many otherenvironmental and bicycle-centric groups for decades.
The transit strike not only affected my professional life, but my personal life as well.I met Winifred Zubin, who is still my spouse, while on bikes during the strike. We’veraised two wonderful children, who unfortunately chose not to attend City College.Timothy, another Stuyvesant graduate and a computer geek, received his degree incomputer science posthumously from Binghamton University in 2008. Rebecca, ispresently a senior at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Shecertainly has inherited her fathers’ love of the outdoors.
Since my retirement, I’ve continued my outdoor pursuits as Manhattan Coordinatorfor the East Coast Greenway, the nation's first long-distance urban trail system forcyclists, hikers, and other non-motorized users (Maine to Florida).
I serve as the Chairman of the Planning Board in Fleischmanns, NY, where I wasinstrumental in the development and adoption of a comprehensive plan andsubsequent zoning revisions for the small Catskill Mountain community where Ispend an increasing amount of his time.”
Patricia J. [email protected]
Patricia J. Robinson was a science major.
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Mr. Dennis Rosenthal212-509-5522 (office)[email protected]
Dennis Rosenthal majored in biology. He was a member ofAlpha Epsilon Pi National Fraternity and made the Dean’sList in his junior year.
In 1977, Dennis earned an MBA in management fromFairleigh Dickenson University. He has been the owner and CEO of a computerconsulting firm, Jonkeith Communications Consultants, Inc., since 1992.
Dr. Irene Rosner David212-562-3671 office
Irene Rosner David majored in art and was a member of SisSchiff ’71. She has a master’s degree in art therapy from NewYork University, 1981, and a doctorate in psychology fromthe Union Institute, 1999.
Irene is an art therapist and has been the director ofTherapeutic Arts at Bellevue Hospital Center since 1973.Since 2004, she has been a member of the faculty of theGraduate Art Therapy Department at the School of Visual Arts. She is a long-standingmember of the American Art Therapy Association (former member of the board ofdirectors) and of the New York Art Therapy Association for whom she has served aspresident. She has been a member of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare since2005. She has published in professional art therapy journals including Journal of theAmerican Art Therapy Association, Medical Art Therapy with Adults, and AmericanJournal of Art Therapy. Her awards and honors include the Honorary Life Member
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Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the New York Art TherapyAssociation, and the Clinician Award from the American Art Therapy Association.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Loved the cupcakes in the cafeteria! Great, creativeatmosphere of the art department.”
Mr. Joel E. Sandberg 10 Lincoln Ave.
Dix Hills, NY 11746-6448
718-472-6364 (office)[email protected]
Joel Sandberg has a BBA in accounting from City College. He is the chief financialofficer of Davis & Warshow, Inc. in New York, 1994-present, and a member of theAICPA and NYSSCPAs.
Alicia Rudin-Goldfarb
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Alicia [email protected]
Alicia Goldfarb, nee Rudin, was a sociology major at City.She has a master’s in library science from Queens College anda teaching credential from Cal Poly, Pomona.
Alicia currently teaches first and second grade. She has alsobeen a childrens’ librarian and the owner of two Gymboreecenters. She is a member of the National Education Society.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Café Finley, South Lawn, Raymond the Pretzel Man, HousePlan parties. I married a CCNY man on 9/71- 2 children and handsome grandson.”
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Dr. Juanita Shell Peterson906 Gerard Avenue Apt. 2ABronx, NY 10452-9400
“Societal unrest and turbulence characterized my entryas a student into City College in 1967. Students weresitting in; classes were disrupted, dismissed or cancelled
due to demonstrations and demands for open admissions. Every Thursday therewas a two hour break on campus. Often speakers were invited to speak. Sometimesit was done outdoors in front of the library and other times in Finley Hall; both nolonger exist. The discussions were usually centered around the pros and cons ofopen admissions at the City Colleges in the city. Amidst the turmoil, my compasswas always pointing north. I grew up in the south of the United States and arrivedin New York in my senior year of high school. I attended Wadleigh High School andgraduated the same year. Following my graduation I applied for a clerk position inthe Brooklyn Public Library. After a few years passed I moved from Brooklyn toManhattan and wanting a job closer to home. I was interviewed for a secretarialposition at Haryou-Act, an antipoverty program/ The Arts and Culture Division. Itwas a place where I learned about what was current and significant in thecommunity. It was there that I learned about public colleges and an opportunityarose to attend one, City College. People in the African American Communityreferred to it as the Citadel on the Hill. I recall canvassing the campus after I learnedabout it and being struck by its architectural beauty. After submitting my applicationI waited and waited before I finally received a letter to report to the campus for aninterview and registration. By this time I was married and the mother of a two yearold daughter. I became a member of the Psychology Club and considered becominga member of a Greek Organization but did not continue due to family commitments.Upon graduation from City College,the Black and Puerto Rican Faculty gave me ascroll which read “Without struggle there is no Progress ……” by FrederickDouglass--- along with a monetary gift. I also received the Sirovich Award, also amonetary gift. Two professors are stand outs in my mind, Professors Toni Cade andJohn Antrobus. Professor Toni Cade taught English grammar and literature. She
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emphasized that one should be able to throw away his or her notebook near theend of a semester-meaning that the information must be committed to memory andProfessor Antrobus taught Statistics; he suggested that one must practice Statisticsdaily in order to learn it and to perform well. Both ideas have held me in good steadand I draw on them often.
Following graduation, from City College of New York I attended the GraduateCenter of City University of New York and received a PhD degree in 1977. I did notstop there. In 1981 I enrolled in the New York University Post Doctoral Programin Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy as a part time student. I earned a CertificationCertificate in 1991 from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science. I became a member of various Professional and Community Organizations such as:American Academy of Science, American Psychological Association, BellevueHospital and New York University School of Medicine Society, N Y U Post-doctoralPsychoanalytic Society, Community Board #4 in the Bronx , Hale House Board ofDirectors and New York City Mayor’s Subcommittee on Mental Retardation andDevelopmental Disabilities, Metropolitan Jack and Jill of America and Women’sAuxillary of North General Hospital, and St. Philip’s Church. I am currently amember of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Society and BoardMember of Schomburg Corporation
My Dissertation was “Patent: Determinants of Sharing Behavior in African AmericanChildren,” 1977
My Publications are as follows: “A Study of Three Brothers with Infantile Autism,”Journal of American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1984
“The Reactions of African American Children to the Atlanta Child Murders:International Year Book: The Child and His Family,” edited by Anthony, James, 8thedition. New York: John Wiley, 1988
“Values of Postpartum Women from the Inner City: An Exploratory Study,” Journalof Child and Family Studies, Vol. 6 No.1, 1997
“A Comparative Study of Values and Attitudes of Inner City and Middle ClassPostpartum Women,” Psychological Reports 2004, 95, 235-249
“Values Fathers Have for Themselves and Their Newborns,” Psychological Reports,2005
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I am the recipient of the following Awards and Honors: Recipient of the RichardParish Award for Education, 1986 Recipient of the Wendell Foster Award forCommunity Service, 1999; Psychologist of the Year in 1997 by Governor Paataki. Ihave also been listed in Marquis Who's Who in American Women in Science 1985to 2009.
Some of highlights of my life are: I am the wife of a loving husband, Alonzo Peterson;the mother of two wonderful adult children,Lisa Mitchell and Jason Peterson and thegrandmother of four gorgeousgrandchildren Marcus age 9, Alexander age8, Jasmine age 7 and Andrew age 6. Mygreatest joy is spending time with them. Irecently retired from my position asAssistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatryand Staff Psychologist at NYU- BellevueMedical Centers. I plan to continue workingin my profession as a lecturer andpsychoanalyst as well as to continueinvolvement in the community endeavors.
For the first time beginning this year I willbe able to spend more time with family andfriends. I plan to go out to dinner, take inconcerts and plays and travel to far- awayplaces.
I have a special interest: writing a bookabout my experiences growing up in thesegregated south and its impact on mythinking and the direction my life has taken.My fondest memory of City College wasrealizing that I had acquired the tools to doanything I set my mind to. Along withnumerous other positive factors in my life,I say thank you, City College.
Yes, my compass is still pointing upward-with an honest, single-eyed purpose to liftas I climb.'
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Mr. Stephen M. [email protected] Diego, CA
“I grew up in Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn Technical High School. I choseCCNY because of the engineering curriculum. At CCNY I was a member of theTKE fraternity. My fondest memories of CCNY were the beautiful buildings,
great teachers and friendly students.
I retired in December, 2004 from the City ofSan Diego. I worked 30 years at the City inthe finance department and 18 years as theAssistant Manager at Qualcomm Stadium(home of the San Diego Chargers and SanDiego Padres). In my final year of work, Ihelped open up the new baseball ballparkfor the San Diego Padres. While atQualcomm Stadium, I coordinated: 3 SuperBowls; 1 World Series; 1 baseball All-Stargame; 10 major concerts and numerousother events.
Prior to joining the City of San Diego in 1974, I worked a year for the VISTAProgram (Domestic Peace Corps) in San Diego assisting minority businesses inobtaining loans and providing them with technical assistance.
Currently, I am a board member for 2 non-profit organizations, a member of theHoliday Bowl Football Game Committee, and active in my neighborhoodcommunity association. I also help organize a major community event in which300,000 people attend over two days.
Two major awards that I have received are: on December 7, 2004, the San DiegoCity Council declared it Stephen Shushan Day; and on May 13, 2010 I received theGolden Triangle of Distinguished Service from the YMCA for my 10 years of beingon the board.”
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Susan M. Siegel415-602-1120
Susan M. Siegel was a psychology major. She is currently the communicationsmanager at Agilent Technologies.
Dr. Irwin Silverstein44 Reservoir AvenueNeedham, MA 02494
Irwin Silverstein was a mechanical engineering major at City College and the vicepresident of Kappa Phi Omega. He holds a master’s degree in environmentalengineering (1976) and a PhD in environmental engineering (1986) fromNortheastern University. He is a registered professional engineer in Massachusettsand Maryland and a licensed site professional in Massachusetts.
Irwin has been a chief environmental engineer at Gale Associates, Inc.; director ofenvironmental engineering at META Environmental, Inc.; environmental insurance
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specialist and technical manager at Environmental Underwriters Insurance; and,more recently, a senior environmental engineer at HydroEnvironmentalTechnologies, Inc. In 2004-2006, he was awarded a AAAS Fellowship to work onwater security at the USEPA. Since 2007, he has been teaching high school chemistryat Taunton High School in the City of Taunton, Massachusetts.
Irwin’s professional and community memberships include:
Permanent Public Building Committee - Needham, MA 2008 to presentSolid Waste Disposal Advisory Committee - Needham, MA 2007 to presentAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science 2004-2006National Society of Professional Engineers 1986 to 1995Licensed Site Professional Association 1995 to presentMassachusetts Association of School Committees 1996 to 2004Needham School Committee - 1996 to 2004Massachusetts Department of Education Advisory Committee on Science andTechnology/Engineering
The following publications are science/engineering related articles:
“Investigation of the Capability of Point-of-Use/Point-of-Entry Treatment Devices asa Means of Providing Water Security,” I. Silverstein, American Water WorksAssociation Water Security Congress, Washington, D.C., September 12, 2006.
“The Role of Online Water Quality Event Detection in Contamination WarningSystems”, I. Silverstein, D. Shalvi, and E. Luczak, American Water Works AssociationWater Security Congress, Washington, D.C., September 11, 2006.
“Backflow Prevention Strategies and Water Security,” I. Silverstein, Cross-ConnectionControl Program Annual Workshop, Massachusetts Department of EnvironmentalProtection – Drinking Water Program, Haverhill, Worcester, and North Dartmouth,MA, May 24, 25, and 31, 2006.
“Cross-Connection and Backflow Vulnerability: Monitoring and Detection”,participant, Technical Workshop, Foundation for Cross-Connection Control andHydraulic Research, Los Angeles, CA, March 13, 2006.
“Evaluating Backflow Prevention as a Potential Water Security Strategy,” I. Silverstein,U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Publication, EPA/817/R-06-001, March 2006,available on Water ISAC website, www.WaterISAC.org.
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“Investigation of the Capability of Point-of-Use/Point-of-Entry Treatment Devices asa Means of Providing Water Security,” I. Silverstein, U.S. EPA publication,EPA/600/R-06/012, February 2006, www.epa.gov/nhsrc/news/news022406.htm.
“Event Detection for Drinking Water Contamination Warning Systems,” I.Silverstein, Presentation before the Science Advisory Board, Washington, D.C.,January 30, 2006.
“Overview of Event Detection Systems for WaterSentinel, Draft, Version 1.0 forScience Advisory Board Consultation,” I. Silverstein, U.S. EPA publication, Dec.,2005, http://cfpub.epa.gov/safewater/watersecurity/publications.cfm?view=all.
“WaterSentinel-Continuous Water Quality Monitoring and Event DetectionAlgorithms,” I. Silverstein, Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, December 1, 2005.
“Designing and Implementing a Cross-Connection Control Program,” I. Silverstein,L. O”Brien, R. Coates, R. Werley, K. Goergen, and B. Walter, Technical Workshop,American Water Works Association DSS Conference and Exposition, Tampa, FL,September 18, 2005.
“From Confrontation to Collaboration, a Case Study at the Dow Chemical HazardousWaste Site in Wayland Massachusetts,” I. Silverstein and A. M. Desmarais, January2004, www.jsi.com/resources/pubs/pubs-envhealth.htm.
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“The Use of a Medical Oxygen Generator for Remediation of a Petroleum Spill Site,”I. Silverstein and Brian Connaughton, poster presented at the Nineteenth AnnualConference on Contaminated Soils, Water, and Sediment, an Amherst ScientificConference held at UMASS Amherst, October 21, 2003.
“Lecture Series: Remedial Option for a Dissolved Phase Plume at an MGP TarDisposal Site, In-situ Stabilization at a Former MGP Site, and Rendering MGP Tar-containing Soil Non-hazardous,” I. Silverstein, presented at the School ofEnvironmental Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 1998.
“Literature Review: Asphalt Batching of MGP Tar-containing Soil,” B. B. Taylor, I.Silverstein, META, I. Murarka, EPRI, and R. Bozek, EEI, EPRI Report TR-108597,December, 1997.
“Characterization and Remediation Alternatives Evaluation at a Historic Diesel SpillSite,” B. B. Taylor, I. Silverstein, and L. F. von Oldenburg, presented at the TenthAnnual Conference on Contaminated Soils, an Amherst Scientific Conference heldat UMASS Amherst, October 23-26, 1995.
“Expedited Site Characterization at a Capacitor Substation Using Manually DrivenSampling Devices,” I. Silverstein, B. B. Taylor, L. F. von Oldenburg, META, and I.Murarka, EPRI, presented at the EPRI: 1995 PCB Seminar, Boston, MA on August30, 1995.
“The Role of Specifications and Construction Period Services in UndergroundStorage Tank Replacement,” I. Silverstein, presented at the New EnglandEnvironmental Expo, 1993.
“Closure of Underground Storage Tanks,” I. Silverstein, presented at the NinthAnnual Hazardous Materials Management Conference/International, Atlantic City,NJ, 1991.
“Cyclic Heat Treatment to Inhibit Bacterial Growth in Activated Point-of-UseTreatment Devices,” I. Silverstein, CSCE-ASCE National Conference onEnvironmental Engineering, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1988.
FOND MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Participating in Greek Day; discussing college lifewith my fraternity brothers at our table in the North Campus cafeteria; relaxingbetween classes in the South Campus Lounge.”
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Mr. Arthur J. SpectorRuhtra @comcast.net
Arthur J. Spector majored in political science at City andgraduated from Boston University School of Law with a JD,cum laude, in 1974. He was a member of the U.S. ArmyReserves from 1970 to 1976.
From 1984 to 2002, Arthur was a U.S. bankruptcy judge inthe Eastern District of Michigan, where he was Chief Judgethe last three years. He authored 170 published judicial
opinions, including 25 in the Dow Corning case, and many law review andnewsletter articles. He was an adjunct professor of law and an instructor at numerousprofessional and judicial seminars. Before taking the bench, he was engaged in thegeneral practice of law in Bay City, Michigan, with an emphasis on bankruptcy andlitigation. From 1974 through 1976, he was an assistant district attorney in NewYork County, New York. His memberships include the National Conference ofBankruptcy Judges (Sixth Circuit Governor, 2000-2002), and the AmericanBankruptcy Institute.
He is currently a shareholder in Berger Singerman, a Florida based business lawfirm..
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Ms. Deanna Spector Feder39 Rumson RoadStaten Island, NY 10314(718) [email protected]
“My degree from CCNY was a BS in Education in 1971. Ialso received an MS in Education from Queens College in1975. I retired in 2010 after 36 years with the City of New
York.”
Ms. Rona B. [email protected]
Rona B. Stein was an economics major. She holds an MBAfrom Fordham University, 1977. Now a bank officer, she is avice president and assistant corporate secretary.
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Emanuel James Stergiou9 Yeoman DriveUpper Saddle River, NJ 07458
201-723-3174 (cell)201-935-3434 #11 (office)[email protected]
“Like many CCNY graduates and attendees, I am a life long New Yorker. I grewup on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, born 8/24/49 at Polyclinic Hospital,just across the streets of the old Madison Square Garden, which was located on
50th St and 8th Ave. The hospital has long since ceased "operations" ( tongue incheek ) and is now a co-op apartment complex.
I attended PS 93 elementary school ( now demolished, replaced by a housingproject) which was located on 93rd st, between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave, andJoan of Arc Jr High School 118, which has been renamed Manhattan School ForChildren.I went to Stuyvesant HS in 1964 and graduated in 1967.
There was NEVER any doubt that CCNY would be my first college choice. The pricewas right, and the school had a stellar reputation. I was the first in my family to evergo to college, and, even graduate high school. My parents were Greek immigrants.My Dad served in WW II and fought in D-Day and worked as a Marine machinistat the old Brooklyn Navy yard. My Mom was a seamstress, sewing linings on minkcoats, and was a union shop steward, in the garment center.
At CCNY, I was involved with House Plan, Wittes '71 and we rented some oldcampaign space near the Grand Concourse used by Rep. Jim Sheuer, for about$100/month. Our monthly dues for Wittes totaled about $5 to $6. Food and beerfor parties was extra. What a deal!
I was on the Dean's List every year while at CCNY, graduating Cum Laude in 1971( I missed Magna Cum Laude by .03, as I recall ). Dr Poss, Dr Billimoria, Prof
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Schwartz, Prof Applegate, and Prof Chuckrow were my most influential professorsat CCNY.
After college, while working as an actuarial trainee, I attended the Courant Schoolfor Math Sciences at NYU, receiving an assistantship, while trying for for my Ph D.
I became a full time actuary, and rose to become a Fellow of the Casualty ActuarialSociety and a Member of The American Academy of Actuaries.
I started my own casualty actuarial consulting firm in 1980 and am currently Chairand CEO of it. I published numerous articles in actuarial journals and served onEducation and Exam committees within the industry.
I was married to Roseanne in 1973, and we have two sons, Bill, age 36, Andy, 32,my daughter in law Jessie, 32 and our grand daughter, Molly, born 9/30/10.
I collect sports memorabilia and have a wide collection in our homes in NYC andin NJ.
While raising our family in Ridgewood, NJ, I coached 32 kids baseball, basketballand soccer teams, and Chaired the Insurance committee in Ridgewood. I was namedVolunteer of The Year in 2007.
My fondest CCNY memories include:
a) my Dad going to the Admin building while I was in HS and getting me anapplication.
b) my first time at Shepard Hall ( what a sight ! ), and all the other Gothic sights atCCNY and The Great Hall. So imposing !
c) playing touch football on the South Campus
d) seeing Lewisohn Stadium and graduating from there, hearing Coretta Scott King'sspeech.
e) Most of all, seeing CCNY become the American Dream for countless kids like me,whose parents had dreams of a better life for them and their generation. CCNY wasmy way to success. I shall never forget it and will always be grateful !”
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Debra G. [email protected]
Debra Gail Sterling majored in speech pathology andaudiology. She was a member of Sigma Alpha Eta and Dean’sList. She earned a master’s degree in audiology from Universityof Connecticut in 1973 and worked as a clinical audiologist atthe New York League for the Hard of Hearing from 1973 to1975.
Debra earned a juris doctorate from University of BaltimoreLaw School in 1993. She was a member of the Maryland State Bar from 1993 to2009 and is currently a member of the Arizona State Bar. She is a former seniorcounsel at Housing Authority of Baltimore and has served as an attorney for the LawDepartment of the City of Baltimore and in several administrative positions at theBaltimore City Health Department. Since 2005, she has been Assistant AttorneyGeneral at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “My friends and the diverse campus.”
Ms. Gloria Tarigo37 King StNew York, NY 10014917-865-5352 (office)[email protected]
Gloria Tarigo was a French major. She is the president of LetThem Eat Cake, Ltd., 1979 – present,www.letthemeatcakenyc.com. Since 2008, she has been amember of the Benefit Committee of New Alternatives forChildren.
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Dr. Judith B. TischlerPOB 339 Moshav Olesh Israel 42855
“Born on the lower East Side of Manhattan to immigrantparents, I moved to the Bronx at the age of 4 and spentall my school years at the same address. During those
years, I returned to the lower East Side weekly to studypiano at the Music School Settlement where I wasintroduced to the wonderful world of music. This worldwas enriched further when I was admitted to the HighSchool of Music and Art. Traveling on two trolley cars or
two trains, I made my way to that wonderful school for four years. French Hornwas my chosen instrument and I eventually became a professional French Hornist.I was inducted into the Arista honor society.
I graduated early (age 16) and went directly to Brooklyn College where I becamevery active in the performing groups of the music department. During my secondsemester, however, I developed “infectious mononucleosis” and was not able to finishthe year. Since I had lost so much time, I did not return to college. Instead, I fulfilleda dream and went to Israel to live in a kibbutz. This kibbutz recognized my musicalabilities and sent me to a chamber music seminar conducted by members of theIsrael Philharmonic Orchestra. I won a scholarship from the IPO and continuedstudies at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. Studies ended for me when I was invitedto play with the Voice of Israel Radio Orchestra.
I married. My husband died of viral pneumonia soon after our marriage. I gavebirth to twin girls in the U.S. and then returned to Israel to support myself. I playedwith the Opera orchestra for four years, during which time I remarried. It was atthis time that I felt the need to continue formal studies and we decided to return tothe United States. My son was born soon after our arrival and I returned to collegewhen he was two years old. That college was CCNY – evening division. It took meseven years to complete my B.A., four years at night and three during the day.
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Honors: Lado Award. Suma cum laudeHonor Societies: Magna Sigma Lambda: Phi Beta Kappa
I completed my MA at CCNY (1974) with the help of a teaching assistantship. I remember with great respect and affection my teachers at CCNY – all of them, butin particular, Fritz Jahoda, Jack Shapiro and Miriam Gideon. They had a profoundinfluence on my life and career. Miriam Gideon recommended me for a position atthe Jewish Theological Seminary of America where I taught until June, 2009 andwhere I completed my doctorate (after taking most of my courses at ColumbiaUniversity). She was a member of my thesis review committee. My dissertation, “TheLife and Work of Lazar Weiner: Master of the Yiddish Art Song (1897-1982),” was published by University Microfilms in 1989. I did not attempt to prepare it forcommercial publication but copies exist in major university libraries such asBrandeis and Harvard.
In 1981, I was engaged by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC),now Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) to become Editor in Chief of their musicpublishing division, Transcontinental Music Publications. My name appears asEditor on the title pages of many of their major publications. I retired from thatposition in 2000 but continued to teach.
We moved back to Israel in 2000 where our twins live. We had decided to livewhere at least two out of our three children were located. From 2000-2009, I taughtfor JTSA in two countries – one semester in the U.S. and one semester in Jerusalem.It was the best of both worlds. We could be with one part of our family in the Falland the other part in the Spring. In Israel I became a member of the IsraelMusicological Society and participate in many of its forums.
If I were to be nostalgic and say what I liked most about my years as a musician andmusicologist, I would say that I felt most fulfilled during the period of my life whenI was a performing musician. That does not detract from the immense fulfillmentand satisfaction that comes from teaching. I have enjoyed my many years ofteaching, beginning with those as a teaching assistant at CCNY where I receivedbasic training and ending with the years as a Professor at JTSA.
Currently, I am studying Hebrew literature and volunteer with an NGO that workswith ecological co-existence projects (between Palestinians and Israelis), hike, go tolectures, attend theater and concerts, and all those wonderful things that healthyretirees do.”
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Dr. Madeleine [email protected]
Madeleine Tress majored in classical civilizations at City. Shehas a master’s degree in comparative literature fromWashington University in St. Louis, MO, and an MA, MPhiland Ph.D. in politics from New York University.
Madeleine has been a Senior Policy Analyst with theConference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germanysince 2002. She is a member of SHARE Self-Help for
Women with Breast and Ovarian Cancer, and the National Breast Cancer Coalition.Since 2008, she has been a peer reviewer with the Congressionally Directed MedicalResearch Programs in Breast Cancer/U.S. Department of Defense.
Among the many awards, grants andhonors she has received, Madeleinereceived the Fulbright Grant for fieldresearch in Israel, 1986-1987 and aDAAD (German Fulbright) StudyVisit Grant to Germany in 1993. Shehas declined other awards, includinga 1993-1994 Friedrich EbertFoundation Postdoctoral Grant, a1993 Lucius N. Littauer FoundationAward, and a DAAD Study Visit Grantin 1998, all for research in Germany.
Madeleine has received numerousawards for conference papers and haspublished a number of peer reviewed journal articles on immigration policy, healthcare policy and social policy.
FOND MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Jack Rothenberg's art history classes; not gettingarrested; South Campus cafeteria conversations”
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Dr. Fred J. Veltri4635 N Covey LaneTucson, AZ 85750
Fred J. Veltri majored in counseling at the City College School of Education and wasa member of the Honor Society, Alumni Association, a Red Cross volunteer, and avolunteer for political organizations-recruitment and voter registration.
Fred holds a PhD in counseling psychology from Indiana State University, 1984.Recently retired, he was Outpatient Director of Clinical Services at the GoshenCommunity Mental Center from 1978-1994, and Crisis Clinician and ClinicalSupervisor at So. AZ Mental Health Corp. from 1994-2010. He has been a memberof So. AZ Psychological Assoc. since 2009 and is a past member of The AmericanPsychological Assoc., Red Cross and OFA.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Enjoyed many of the classes and professors who inspiredme to pursue a career in Counseling Psychology.”
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Milt [email protected]
Milt Waltzer majored in health at City College and earned an MSE here. He has abachelor’s degree in physical education,1968, and a master’s in school counseling,1972, from Kansas State Teachers College. He retired in 2001 as a teacher andguidance counselor.
MEMORIES OF CCNY: “Professor Leibowitz- a great teacher.”
Mr. Jeffrey Weisenberg13 Sutton PlHightstown, NJ 08520-1716609 448 [email protected]
Jeffrey Weisenberg has a BA degree in sociology from the City College ’72 and anMS in urban planning from Florida State University ’74. He is a sales managementprofessional.
Mrs. Annette S. Webb162-11 75 RoadFresh Meadows, NY 11366-1131
Annette Webb was an English major.
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Mr. Robert B. Welner7 Rose AveGreat Neck, NY 11021-1530
516 829 6912516-487-0500 (office)[email protected]
“Like most students of that era, we were products of theNew York City school system and commuted from hometo college classes ona daily basis. My profile was no
exception. Born in Manhattan and initially raised on the upper west side and laterin Middle Village Queens, I attended PS 165 and PF49 respectively and then WilliamCooper JHS 73 in Maspeth. Perhaps my first lucky break was being accepted andgraduating from Brooklyn Technical High School which set the stage for pursuingan engineering education. Upon high school graduation I was not accepted to myfirst choice college CCNY but was placed into Queens College - my second choice.Although disheartened, I knew that I could transfer eventually to CCNY and anengineering education. So after two years at Queens College I applied for a transferand was admitted to the School of Engineering.
The engineering curriculum was rigorous with long days and countless hours ofstudy, lab and project assignment hours. Because of all the hours spent together, acamaraderie developed among the civil engineering students. This was particularlyevident during a memorable summer spent at surveying camp in Van Cortland parkand staying until midnight to take star shots - I still have my field book sitting inmy office desk. I also became involved with the student chapter of the AmericanSociety of Civil Engineers nd held the position of chapter president for three years- running activities on and off campus as well as interacting with other studentchapters. I am still a member to this day. I remember particularly Professor Cheng,a gifted teacher who taught structures; his free-hand blackboard illustrations werelike artwork. The engineering curriculum was actually a full five year program of145 credits but because I had transferred and worked ina a highway design firm for15 to 20 hours a week, it took another semester to finish and this I officially becamea ‘1971’ graduate.
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After graduation I wet to work as an assistant engineer in the Buildings EngineeringDepartment of the then New York Telephone Company and began studying for anMBA degree in the areas of management and finance a Baruch College GraduateSchool which I completed in 1975. I have worked both in construction and realestate development firms over the years building both market rate and affordablehousing units with conventional and low income housing tax credit syndications. Iam a Licensed Professional Engineer in New York and New Jersey and a member ofConstruction Institute. Currently I hold the position of Executive Vice President forJobCo Incorporated, a Long Island based construction, real estate, and propertymanagement firm.
My wife Deborah and I have been married for 38 years. Our daughter Marissa is anattorney and our son Micah works in the Film and Video Department at the Schoolof Visual Arts.
I am privileged to serve with my fellow classmates on the Class of 1971 ReunionCommittee.”
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Dr. C. S'thembile West, Ph.D. [email protected]
“CCNY overshadowed the valley of Harlem where I grew up and had a stately,slightly aged presence in Manhattanville, the neighborhood surrounding thecampus. The university's minimum tuition fees, proximity to home and fierce
reputation for academic excellence in the sixties were the major magnets that ledme there.
Although I was uncertain of my careerplans in 1967, I found a home on thewomen's basketball team, and later inphysical education with Dr. MarionGilbert, one of the very, very few AfricanAmerican professors at that time.Eastern European immigrant andgymnastics coach, Ms. Szabo, told me Iwas going to play basketball. Despiteher lithe, nearly five-feet presence, Ms.Szabo accepted only affirmativeresponses to demonstrative inquiries !Needless to say, I played varsitybasketball during my first year and fortwo years thereafter. By senior year, Ihad relinquished my spot on the team toengage physical science and the creativearts. Finally, after a year working as oneof the first floor coordinators at FlowerFifth Avenue Hospital, I abandonedplans in medicine to pursue teaching.
After five years at William Howard TaftH.S. in the Bronx, I left to study balletand modern dance at American BalletTheater and Clark Center for thePerforming Arts respectively. For two
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decades I worked professionally with diverse companies and choreographers: TheCleo Quitman Dance Expedience, The Chuck Davis Dance Company, Sounds inMotion Dance Company and Crowsfeet Dance Collective. Dance touring ended in1988, but my love affair with dance - modern, classical African, salsa and hip-hop- continues to enrich my life.
Writing about dance in diverse venues - magazines, journals, books and newspapers- provides opportunities to stay in the mix, although teaching in African Americanand Women's Studies Departments at Western Illinois University keeps me engagedwith diverse students and varying perspectives.
Since graduation from CCNY, I've been blessed to have earned advance degrees ineducation and African American Studies, M.A. and Ph.D. respectively. Colleaguesin the fields of Religious Studies, Dance and Women's Studies have invited me towrite journal articles and chapters in several books. For details, go to google scholarand insert my name. You couldn't even "white-out" on the typewriter when I wasworking on the master's degree! Now, technology is moving to the edge of scarywith respect to privacy.
My, my, how far I've come since 1971! From a rundown tenement on 138th Streetin Central Harlem, to owning a 1963 F85 purchased from a junk yard on LongIsland, to the Marxist materials presented in Dr. Frieda Silvert's sociology class, tothe establishment of the pre-Baccalaureate program with scholars like the lateAddison Gayle, Sonia Sanchez, James Hatch and Charles Russell, to the timelytakeover of the campus by students to insure inclusion of diverse histories in 1968/9,to the removal of the "dust bowl," the former Lewiston Stadium, the City College ofthe City University of New York has weathered the storms of change with dignityand grace. I am proud to be a part of that legacy.”
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Raymond Weston, Ph.D.Brooklyn College/CUNY2900 Bedford AvenueBrooklyn, New York 11210
718/951-5000 #2743 (office)[email protected]
A clinical psychologist, with more than 20 years of researchexperience and more than 30 years of clinical experience, Dr. Weston has focusedhis career efforts on the mental and public health needs of persons of Africandescent.
Born in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Dr. Weston lived with hisparents, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Weston; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Burnett, andhis sister, Ms. Patricia Weston. He attended Our Lady of Victory RC GrammarSchool and upon graduating, applied and was accepted into Bishop LoughlinMemorial High School. In 1967, Dr. Weston chose to attend City College/CUNYbecause of its excellent academic reputation and affordable tuition. He received hisBA in Psychology from City College/CUNY in 1971, his MS and PH.D in ClinicalPsychology from the Rutgers University Graduate School of ‘Applied andProfessional Psychology in 1976 and 1977 respectively. Additionally, he attendedone year at Boston University, School of Social Work, completing 24 credits towardsthe MSW degree.
In the clinical area, Dr. Weston has worked with diverse populations in severaldifferent roles. He has functioned as a direct service provider, supervisor,coordinator, and director in an assortment of clinical areas including psychiatricinpatient units, residential treatment programs for the seriously mentally ill, andoutpatient clinics. In 1989, as a member of the Association of Black Psychologists,Dr. Weston was among the psychologists who received training in the preventionand treatment of persons living with AIDS, funded by a grant from the NationalInstitute of Mental Health.
The major thrust of his research has been in the area of racial identity, specifically
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the impact of racial identity on mental and public health outcomes such as Alcohol,Tobacco, and Other Drug use, serious and persistent mental illness, HIV/AIDS,cancer, and heart disease. In 1990, he received a Minority SupplementalInvestigators Award from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to identify theimpact of racial identity on health behavior decisions regarding heart disease. Resultsindicated that the a racial identity based video was an effective educationalinstrument for communicating information regarding the health risks of a highcholesterol diet, but was less successful in modifying behavioral intentions tomonitor cholesterol.
Dr. Weston has participated in several National Institutes of Health fundedcommunity wide health promotion projects including:
1. A National Institute of Drug Abuse funded project for thedevelopment of HIV/AIDS prevention material targeted toward youth of African andLatino descent. 2. A National Heart. Lung, and Blood Institute funded cholesterolawareness and screening projects in a bi-racial community3. A National Cancer Institute funded tobacco cessation project in theHarlem community.
In 1993, Dr. Weston was awarded a National Institute of Health Research Fellowshipfor training in the area of HIV/AIDS. Working within the Department of Psychiatryat Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, he investigated the impact of referencegroup orientation on the behavioral practices of women of African descent who wereat risk for HIV/AIDS. The results have demonstrated the heterogeneity of beliefs,values and behaviors that exist among women of African descent, and the impact ofthese differences on health care utilization practices. In 1994, he was named ChiefResearch Fellow, a position that he held for the remainder of his tenure in theFellowship Program.
In 1996, Dr. Weston became a member of the faculty of the Department ofPsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Inthis role he explored the impact racial identity on the behavioral practices of womenof African descent who are at risk for HIV/AIDS and cancer.
In September 0f 2001, Doctor Weston joined the faculty of the Department of Healthand Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Hecontinues to focus his professional activities around the health needs of people of
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African descent, as well as share his clinical and research experiences withundergraduate and graduate level students. Dr. Weston is also a Senior ResearchConsultant for EXAXX, Inc., an African American owned research firm.
He has published articles in several refereed journal, edited books, served as ajournal reviewer and presented at professional conferences. A partial list of hispublication includes:
Weston, R. E., Weston, P. J., Futterman, R.F., Lepore, S.J., Carolina, D.S., Pinto, J.T.,Lang, M.A. , Thomas, R.I., Cardwell, J.J., Gordon, A.P. Effectiveness of A ModifiedComputer Assisted Instructional Tool In The Dissemination of Prostate CancerInformation to Men of African Descent Through Black Churches. Journal of AfricanAmerican Studies. (R). 11:140-156.
Weston, R.E., Thomas, R.I., Lang, M.A., Weston, P.J., Cardwell, J. & Gordon, A.P.(2005). Formative Evaluation of a Hepatitis C Virus Computer Assisted InstructionTool for Communities of African Descent (R). Californian Journal of HealthPromotion. 3(1):103-116.
Weston, R.E., Ray, K., Landers, C., Vaccaro, D., Futterman, R., Haley, N.J., &Orlandi, M.A. (1992). Mobilization and Educational Strategies in a ModelCommunity Cholesterol Education Program (R). Health Values, the Journal ofHealth Behavior, Education and Promotions. 16:8-21.
Professor Weston is a member of several professional organizations including:Association of Black Psychologists, New York State Association of BlackPsychologists, American Psychological Association, Association for the Advancementof Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy. He has also been active in his community,serving as a member of the Board of Directors of a local high school, Assistant Coachof a Girls High School Basketball team, and a physical fitness instructor at theChristian Cultural Life Center in Brooklyn.
Professor Weston’s currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Cheryl. His family hasgrown to include a daughter, Brandis Ruffin, son-in-law, Willie Ruffin, and twograndchildren, Azariyah aged 5 and Warren aged 3, with a third on the way.
Professor Weston’s fondest memory of City College/CUNY is the pride that he feltwhen he waved to his family at his graduation ceremony.
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Dr. Jay Scott Wilder 9521 Sweet Grass Ridge
Columbia, MD 21046
Jay Scott Wilder majored in biology and was a member ofBing’71 House Plan.
“After CCNY I earned my MD degree from the Albert Einstein College ofMedicine in 1975. I did my hospital training at the Washington Hospital Centerin Washington, D.C. I am Board-Certified in Internal Medicine. Since 1986, I
have been a civilian Primary Care Internist at the Walter Reed Army Hospital inWashington, D.C. I live happily with my wife of 30 yrs, Lora.”
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Dr. Jeana Wirtenberg973-335-6299 (office)[email protected]
Jeana Wirtenberg, Ph.D. has a BS in mathematics with a minorin psychology from City College, magna cum laude, Dean’s List,Phi Beta Kappa. She has a master’s degree in psychology fromUCLA, 1972 and a doctorate in psychology from University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles, 1979.
Jeana is President & CEO of Transitioning to Green, LLC,www.transitioningtogreen.com and the Transitioning to Green Foundation whosemission is helping organizations and individuals successfully transform themselvesinto the new green economy. Transitioning to Green is committed to giving peopleH.O.P.E. which stands for Harvesting Opportunities for People and Enterprises inthe emerging green economy.
She is Co-founder and Senior Advisor, Institute for Sustainable Enterprise (ISE)www.fdu.edu/ise in the Silberman College of Business at Fairleigh DickinsonUniversity. Her work at the Institute focuses on bringing people together to learnhow to develop and lead thriving, sustainable enterprises that are “in and for theworld.”
She is editor of “Transitioning to the Green Economy” a Special Issue of People &Strategy Journal published by the Human Resource Planning Society (HRPS) 1Q2010. Most recently, she wrote “Unleashing Talent for a Sustainable Future,” Chapter37 in The Talent Management Handbook (2010).
Her consulting firm focuses on building sustainable enterprises through leadership,culture change, collaboration, and learning www.whenitallcomestogether.com. Shealso writes a weekly newsletter on Sustainability for the Wall St. Journal.
Jeana is lead editor of “When It All Comes Together,” published in 2008 byGreenleaf Publishing and AMACOM. www.TheSustainableEnterpriseFieldbook.net.
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She serves as articles editor for the organizationeffectiveness knowledge area for People andStrategy and is on the leadership team of the GlobalCommunity for the Future of OD.
Formerly, she was HR director at Public ServiceEnterprise Group (PSEG), where she wasresponsible for a variety of functions to transformthe firm and build organizational capacity.Previously she held positions in AT&T and ledresearch programs in the U.S. federal governmentat the National Institute of Education and the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights.
HONORS AND AWARDS
• New Jersey Association of WomenBusiness Owners (NJAWBO) “Salute to WomenLeaders” award (one of ten in New Jersey) for 2001• Distinguished Executive Fellow,Center for Human Resource Management Studies,Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1999.• Tribute to Women and Industry(TWIN) Award, 1999.• AT&T Human Resources ExcellenceAward, for Global HR Transformation, 1994/95.• AT&T Human Resources ExcellenceAward, for Strategic Assessment Survey, 1993/94.• AT&T HR Rave Award, forrecruiting of several hundred sales associates,1990/91.• Council of Leaders Winner,Consumer Products, 1988.• Dissertation Award (first prize) fromSociety for Psychological Study of Social Issues,1979.• Graduate Woman of the Year,Association of Academic Women, 1978.• Outstanding UCLA GraduateStudent Award, 1975.
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