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CLASS OF 1955

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Class Of 1955...

The fall of ’55 opened with City College’s second consecutive year of record breaking studentenrollment. With 1400 students City College began its fall term with the largest number of freshman in itshistory. Along with this swell of new students also came the unveiling of the south campus making CityCollege the third largest campus in the United States. 1955 also saw the closing of Both Hackett Hall,which once housed the theater department, and Abbe Hall. While Wagner Hall, the former dormitory forthe nuns of The Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, became home to the history department. Inaddition the education department was moved to the newly renovated South Hall with its “modern-look-ing classrooms” and “high illumination efficiency”. Even with this slew of changes to the landscape theCollege sought to expand even further calling for a new tech building and creating plans to update the in-frastructure in Compton Hall.

Amidst the changes in scenery were changes in personnel most markedly, the return of Coach NatHolman (pictured left) to the Basketball team. With a long history not only as a professional player but asan accomplished coach Holman began his 34th year coaching that fall. Two years prior Holman resignedamidst a controversy involving the misconduct of a few of his students but he was exonerated and wel-comed back to the coaching staff by The President and students alike. City College also welcomed newprofessor Dr. Ivo Duchacek a man wanted by Eastern European communist parties for pushing anti-So-viet and pro-democratic views while running a London based publication. This along with the rest of thecolorful cast of faculty members made 1955 a memorable year for students.

This cast of eager students was being composed more and more of a female student body, withmore articles appearing in publications such as The Campus, referencing the fashion trends and the dailylives of female students at City College. The New Year also brought in four girls into the engineering de-partment making a total of 15 female STEM students. While this may seem a small number, at the time itwas an impressive step for Women in the field, reminding everyone they met that engineering wasn’t a boy’s club.

The class of ’55 found themselves enamored by the current events of the time, with figures suchas Professor Hillman M. Bishop, a member of the first American Student Delegation to tour through Rus-sia, providing lectures on the “Great Soviet Experiment. He told his students about the difficulties of find-ing out what was really happening in Russia and to value the freedom they had in the U.S. Students andFaculty alike were exploring the world with their own eyes despite the fog brought up by the cold war.They also paid attention to events closer to home such as the marriage of the college President (picturedright) Buell Gallagher’s daughter. Who married inside of The Great Hall. This ability to focus on both im-portant world and home affairs is evident in the publication “The Campus” the City College Newspaperwhich entered its 48th year of publication. They also found other ways to enjoy their time off includinglive musical performances and writing competitions such as the folk concert given by Martha Schlammein the Fall of ’54 and the call to submit for the poetry competition.

President Gallagher was also one to promote open discussion of the quality of instruction at CityCollege. In ’55 he called for the 2md All-College Conference, a meeting designed to evaluate the institu-tion. By facilitating 21 workshops in which students and faculty could meet and discuss the methods forimproving the college. They reviewed problems such as “curriculum, athletics, and intercollegiate activi-ties.” They did this in an attempt to garner greater student self-government.

Despite the discussions prompted by the return of Coach Holman, the athletics department wasputting its best foot forward in bolstering the reputation of City College. The soccer team won the Metro-politan Intercollegiate Soccer Conference Championship continuing a three year streak despite the fiercecompetition against the Brooklyn College Powerhouse and the Wrestling team had its best season since1945. The City College track team closed off the year with a headline making performance against Adel-phi University proving to everyone in the city, who the mighty were.

Apart from the prowess of the athletics department, the class of 1955 also saw eight of their class-mates being sent to the seventh U.S. National Student Association congress in Ames, Iowa. These stu-dents represented City College in a national forum composed of students representing more than half ofthe colleges in the country. Another group of eight students along with four alumni and four faculty mem-bers joined together, forming the board of directors in charge of the student union housed in the formerJohn H. Finley student center (pictured left). They were partially funded by the Alumni Association andthe College itself but a large amount of the operating costs were covered by a three dollar fee all support-ers paid. The performance of the class of 1955 was impressive enough to warrant a duplicate of theRichard R. Bowker honor which was given to both Meyer Baden and Daniel Rosner. The award is re-served for those who do the most to further co-curricular activities at the College and was awarded to twopeople because of the “outstanding qualifications of both recipients.” In total 42 students won awardsfrom the student council with 18 (the largest number at the time) receiving the Student Council majorawards for leadership and service.

Many of these class notes are excerpted from the 1954-1955 issues of The Campus.

Stephen Altman, B.C.E.: graduated from Stuyvesant HighSchool in 1950. He served in the military from 1955-57, andwas a 1st lieutenant. He studied civil/structural engineering atCCNY. In addition, he served as chairman, treasurer, and amember of the governing committee of Webb Patrol, as wellas a member of the planning committee of the History Society.In 1960, he graduated with a degree in construction manage-ment from Fordham University.

In 1957, he was responsible for the narrative and direction forconstruction in the Arctic, published in 1957. He became a li-censed professional engineer in 1960. From 1960-1965,Stephen was Chief Project Manager and a member of theBoard of Directors of Electronic and Missile Facilities; from

1965-1975, he was the company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He wasPresident of Azcon Construction Corp. from 1976-2007.

Stephen is a former member of the Cherry Hill New Jersey Township Shade Tree Commission, andis currently a member of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) and ASCE. He andhis wife Greta have four children—Shari, Melissa, Wendy, and Alec—four grandchildren, and onegrandchild. Greta passed away in 2012.

Memories: “I met my [late] wife Greta while managing the History Library at CCNY. ProfessorsKaplan and Stevens. I was in charge of the History Library for three years (evenings and Satur-days).”

Home Address: 43 Maplewood Drive Apt. AMaple Shade, NJ 08052

Email: [email protected]

Alvin Bachman, B.S., Ph.D.: was a physics major, amember of the Physics Society, and a winner of the WardMedal. He earned his doctorate at Yale University and returnedto CCNY as a professor in the Physics Department. He retiredin 1991 as an emeritus professor. He and his wife, Myra, havethree children, Deborah, Judith, and David, and eight grand-children. Alvin is currently working part-time as a ResearchScientist at the Nathan Kline Institute 9NYS-OMH), in Orange-burg, New York.

Samuel Backer, B.A., M.A.: I grew up in New York City and graduated from George Wash-ington High School in 1951. I received a scholarship to go to CCNY, where I was a member of theFrench Honor Society; a staff member of the CCNY Literary Magazine; a member of the soccerteam; and, in 1952, a member of the History Society. After receiving my M.A. from CCNY, I re-ceived a grant to go to Columbia University. I studied with Professor Weisau and Hans Kohn. AtColumbia, I received an M.A. degree in philosophy in 1959.

I was named Special Representative at the U.S. Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, whichwas held from March 1958—October 1958. After two years in the Army, I went to work at WallStreet (finance). I have been a Sales Director of Financial Overseas, and a Director at Blythe. I re-tired in 1997. In winter, I live in Europe; I divide my time between Europe and Long Island.

Home Address: 24 Ave du Chateau BTE 131081 Brussels, Belgium

Phone: 322-411-4396

Dr. Allen J. Bard: As a young child, Dr. Bard and histwo older siblings relocated from Minnesota to New YorkCity, where they lived in a Bronx apartment near CrotonaPark. (His father arrived in Minnesota from Belarus whenhe was fourteen years old. His mother and her family camefrom Latvia years later.) Dr. Bard’s brother joined the Armyat the start of WWII, stationed in Fort Hood, Texas, andmailed leaves from Texan trees for Dr. Bard to add to hisgrowing collection.

Dr. Bard graduated from Bronx Science High School, wherehe developed a strong interest in chemistry, math andphysics. He even volunteered to work in the chemistry store-

room. He later started working at the Physician’s Clinical Laboratory, where one of his early re-sponsibilities was to pick up urine samples from various pharmacies; the samples were tested forpregnancy, glucose, and the like. At CCNY, Dr. Bard caught Professor Barnet Naiman’s infectiousenthusiasm for analytical chemistry; and he learned of physical chemistry and instrumental analysisthrough Professor Walter Miller. Dr. Bard went on to receive his Master’s degree (1956) and Ph.D.(1958) from Harvard University.

In 1954, Dr. Bard got a job as a student aide trainee at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washing-ton, D.C. He later worked at Brooklyn’s New York Naval Shipyard. In 1955, he took a prescientroad trip with friends to Texas and California. Upon his return, he began working at the GeneralChemical Company in New Jersey, where “one project was to see if fluorocarbons could be usedin aerosol cans with food products, including pancake batter”. In 1958, he headed to Texas to workat the University of Texas at Austin. He “wanted to see what ‘the West’ was like, and thought thatUT, rather than a mediocre place, had lots of potential, if the state would use its abundant naturalresources to finance it.”

He is known as “a father of modern electrochemistry” in his field. Dr. Bard taught at the CNRS labof Jean-Michel Saveant while on sabbatical in Paris in 1973, and spent a semester as the ShermanMills Fairchild Scholar at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Bard has also served as theHackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at the university since 1985.

In 1987, Dr. Bard was the Baker Lecturer at Cornell University; the following year, he served asthe Robert Burns Woodward Visiting Professor at Harvard University. As such, Dr. Bard has men-tored and collaborated with 75 Ph.D. students, 17 M.S. students, and 150 post-doctoral associates,as well as visiting scientists.

The University of Texas at Austin opened the Center for Electrochemistry in 2006. There, Dr. Bard

and his team “created light that produced a sensitive method of analysis that can be applied to awide variety of biological and medical uses, including determining if an individual has HIV, andanalyzing DNA.”

Dr. Bard is the author of three books, more than 900 peer-reviewed papers, and scores of bookchapters; he is also the owner of more than 30 patents. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journalof the American Chemical Society from 1982-2001.

Dr. Bard has received numerous awards and honors, among them: the National Medals of Sciencepresented by President Obama) in 2013; the Priestley Medal in 2002; the Wolf Prize in Chemistryin 2008; and the Enrico Fermi Award in 2014. Dr. Bard is also a member of the National Academyof Sciences (1982), and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1990).

He and his wife Fran have two children, and four grandchildren.

Jerome D. Barnla: After graduating from CCNY in1955 with a BSEE degree, I accepted an offer to joinGeneral Electric and participate in the Advanced Engi-neering Program, a three year graduate level educationalprogram leading to a PhD equivalency. I graduated at thetop of my class and accepted a one year assignment tosupervise the third year Systems Engineering option ofthe Advanced Engineering Program.

After 7 years with GE, I was recruited by RCA, where Iwas engaged in various technical assignments related totelecommunications. During 7 years at RCA I became in-terested in the potential advantages of using satellites toprovide broadcast, communication and navigation serv-ices. Based on papers I wrote while at RCA, I was spon-sored by the USAF to visit each of the NATO countries

to present and discuss how satellite-based services could provide near-worldwide improved navi-gation and telecommunications capabilities to ships, aircraft and land vehicles.

I joined Applied Information Industries (AII), a startup company intended to apply defense tech-nologies to commercial applications. Under my direction we won contracts with the MaritimeAdministration to demonstrate the feasibility and the advantages of using satellites to providetelecommunications and navigation services to both military and commercial users. Under mydirection as President of AII, we won competitive contracts to design and build a navigation re-ceiver to demonstrate the feasibility of ranging to a synchronous satellite to a precision of lessthan one foot. This work led to the development of GPS.

Prior to the breakup of AT&T, I wrote a paper entitled “Telecommunications Alternatives in the80’s. I developed a short course from this work leading to sponsorship from George WashingtonUniversity to present this course in the US and Europe. I formed a consulting company to pro-vide telecommunications services to both commercial and government users.

Over a period of ten years as Vice President of an 8A company, I led a team of engineers andwon competitive contracts to provide ground communications services to the Federal AviationAdministration’s Air Traffic System.

Last but not least, since retirement in 2001 to enjoy the fruits of my labors and time with mywife, four children and three grandchildren. I spend my time between Uruguay and Virginia andwide-ranging travel around the world.

As a final word, as the son of two immigrant parents who arrived in New York just prior to theGreat Depression, I was able to take advantage of the free but second to none education I re-ceived at Brooklyn Technical High School and CCNY. Although there are a number of teachersthat stand out in my mind, Dr. Taub had the greatest influence on my life as my mentor and lead-ing me to complete my education at General Electric. Dr. Taub also gave me the opportunity to

earn a bit of spending money by doing some leg work in support of his efforts with Dr. Millmanat Columbia University who were coauthoring a text entitled Pulse Circuits.

Home Address: 9231 Georgetown PikeGreat Falls, VA 22066

Home Phone: 703-757-7612Email: [email protected]

Alvin I. Becker, B.B.A., CPA: grew up in Queens, New York and graduated from NewtownHigh School. At City, he was an accounting major. He was also elected to the Beta Gamma SigmaNational Honor Business fraternity, and the Beta Alpha Psi National Honorary and Professional Ac-counting fraternity.

He worked in public accounting at a national CPA firm from 1955-1962. He served as Controller inprivate industry from 1962-1975. He was Vice President/Chief Accounting Officer of the New YorkState Power Authority after 20 years (1975-1995). He retired in 1995.

Alvin is a former member of the American Public Power Association (General Accounting, Finance,and Audit Committee); the Government Accounting Standard Board Taskforce on Accounting forBusiness Type Activities; and the New York State Government Finance Officers Association. He isalso a former member of the City of Torrence, California’s Community Emergency Response Team.

Alvin has been married to his wonderful wife Louise for 56 years. They have two children and fourgrandchildren. Alvin’s hobbies include running and finances.

Memories: “Jonas Salk receiving an honorary degree at graduation ceremony. The excellent andquality education with outstanding professors, from Dr. Saxe to Irving Chaykin. Not only the ‘text-book’ learning of accounting, but their many years of experience as practitioners of accounting.”


Gilda Berger (nee Shulman): I received B.S. in Ed. in1955 specializing in Special Education under the careful tutelageof Dr. Chris DeProspo. Dr. DeProspo was an early recruiter ofteachers of the so-called C.R.M.D. classes in the NYC publicschools. I was attracted to the field largely because of my inter-est in individualized teaching and my desire to have sustainedinteractions, over a long time, with the same students. Thecourses were amazing and it was my great privilege to be at CityCollege at that time and to take classes with Dr. DeProspo.

After graduation I took the 5th year, M.S. in Ed program whilestarting to teach. For the next 3 years, I taught in two city ele-mentary schools, then married, and had a special ed. class inLong Beach, NY. My husband, Melvin Berger, had taught music

at City during my tenure there, from 1953 to 1955, though we did not know each other at the time.We met during the summer after graduation at a music festival in Ellenville, NY. It later turned out

that I had listened to him play in the CCNY quartetmany times, on Tuesday afternoons at Town-shend Harris.

Our two daughters, Eleanor and Nancy were born in January, 1959 and September, 1960 respec-tively. Shortly before Ellie was born, we met an editor at McGraw-Hill who was looking for peopleto write children’s books on science, in response to the huge demand following the launching ofSputnik. Mel and I thought we’d give it a try and submitted a proposal for what turned out to bethe first book in a lifelong career of writing non-fiction books for children.

When our children were school age, I returned to teaching as a substitute teacher in the Great Neckpublic Schools. However, writing gradually proved more lucrative and I decided to spend moretime at home on the books and less time teaching. My prior experience preparing original readingmaterials for the students in my classes with high interests and low abilities had prepared me wellfor simplifying difficult concepts. Combined with Mel’s background in science (acquired in CCNYbefore embarking on a career in music) we were able, over the last almost 60 years to collaborateon about 350 books on everything from Animal Secrets to UFOs and Space Travel.

Our books have been published by McGraw Hill, Putnam, T.Y Crowell, Harper, Coward McCann,and most of all, Scholastic Books. A great liberal college education prepared me to take advantageof the many opportunities I have been given in life. I am and will be forever grateful.

Contact Information:115 E. 9 StreetNew York, NY 10003212-505-2726

Summer Address:48 Waters EdgeEast Hampton, NY 11937631-267-8884

Gerald Bitman, B.B.A., J.D.: majored in accounting. He went on to graduate from Brooklyn LawSchool. He retired from his career as a lawyer in 1990. Gerald is a current member of the Brooklyn Bar As-

sociation and the New York State Bar Association.

Home Address: 6545 Via MilaniLake Worth, FL 33467

Home Phone: 561-439-4336

Haywood Blum, BS, MS, Ph.D., M.D.:A chaotic andimmature student, nevertheless apparently academicallyinclined and possibly gifted, I am a graduate of TheodoreRoosevelt High School in the Bronx. As with many of myclassmates, my family was intelligent but not well-off, andalthough they were happy to sacrifice for my education, livingat home and going to a tuition-free college with a splendidreputation seemed the best choice. Truth be told, given myage and lack of useful skills, college was about the onlyoption. At the time it was possible to enroll in mid-year,saving a semester of delay. I majored in Physics at CCNY,receiving my BS in 1955, achieved a PhD at the Universityof Illinois, held a postgraduate research position at MIT, thendid research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was anAssociate Professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia,

joined the Johnson Research Foundation in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at theUniversity of Pennsylvania doing biophysics/bioenergetics research, then went to medical schoolat Hahnemann Medical University (now Drexel University) receiving an MD in 1981. I was asurgical resident at Hahnemann Hospital, Temple University Hospital, and the Hospital of theUniversity of Pennsylvania. I continued my research at the University of Pennsylvania for sometime and also worked for the Howard Hughes Foundation. I am presently working in EmergencyMedicine in Pennsylvania. I have published over one hundred scientific papers and hold a patentfor magnetic resonance imaging/spectroscopy.

At CCNY I joined the Chemistry and Physics clubs, was a member of the swimming team for ashort time and then joined the track team. I married a classmate, Evelyn Rauch, in 1955, but aftera turbulent and tumultuous 25 or so years, we divorced. I later married again to, except for myunrequited infatuation with classmate Marilyn (Marsha) Sackman who graduated and disappearedforever, my one true love, but that marriage sadly ended in divorce also. There are 4 children and6 amazing and lovely grandchildren, all of whom love me to some degree. Running, and practicingand teaching Karate, were two beloved activities but arthritic changes have ruled out those sports

as viable options. At CCNY I made a few close and dear friends, most of whom are now dead; itis so easy to let loved ones slip away almost forgotten until they are gone forever.

Memories: The physics undergraduate education at CCNY turned out to be inadequate as afoundation for graduate school; it was missing the rigor and intensity for beginning a graduateprogram, although this defect has surely been long corrected. After a lifetime of working, meetingand interacting with famous and brilliant scientists, two professors from CCNY still remain special:Harry Soodak, who told us that we could easily evaluate everything by using Thermodynamics(well he could, not the rest of us) and Professor Lawrence Wills, a kind person, who showed ushow Maxwell’s Equations worked and how to work with them. I also remember Coach Bruce whoexplained that stretching before track practice would inevitably make us weak and effeminate, sowe had to hide from him while stretching. I still remember with amusement having to make achoice of major by picking an IBM card from a table stacked with them; the color of the carddetermined your major. Up until that moment I had no idea that college was all about specialties.I thought you just got an education in everything.


Edward J. Bottone, B.S., Ph.D.: I grew up in East Harlem. I graduated from BenjaminFranklin High School in 1951, and chose CCNY because of its proximity to my home and the en-rollment fee was 50 dollars per semester. My biology classes, taught by Professor Levine weremost significant. My mentor was Mr. Lester Getzoff when I returned from the U.S. Army. I wasalso a member of the Catholic Club.

I attended Long Island University, Wagner College and received a microbiology Master’s degreein 1968. I received my Ph.D. from St. John’s University in 1973. Currently, I am a member of theAmerican Society for Microbiology, and the owner of a patent on a bacterium Bacillus pumilis. Iam also the author of 2, 009 peer-reviewed publications. The highlights of my 52-year career areserving as a clinical microbiologist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; international recognitionand invitation to Africa (Zaire, 1989), Shanghai (2007), and Australia (1986, 1989).

Fondest Memories: Adjunct Medical Professor, Director, Microbiology course for Physician As-sistant students 2003-2007.

Honors and Awards: Who’s Who in the East (1975); Excellence in Teaching Award from the MountSinai School of Medicine (1977, 1981, and 1986); induction into the Lambda Chapter of AlphaOmega Alpha (AOA) in 1991; appointed Tasmanian Branch Visiting Fellow for 1992 by the Aus-tralian Institute of Medical Scientists, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; honorary membership of theInfectious Diseases Society of America.


Jeffrey Bram, B.E.E., M.S.E.E., grew up in the Bronxand Edgemere. He attended William Howard Taft High School.He graduated from Far Rockaway High School in 1952. Jeffreywas an electrical engineering major as well as a member ofA.I.E.E., I.R.E., and the Amateur Radio Society at CCNY. Hewent on to graduate from Northeastern University. From 1968-1999, Jeffrey was a Principal Engineer at Raytheon, Co. He wasa Senior Instructor at Northeastern University from 1976-1995.He retired in 2002 as Principal Engineer at Converse.

Since 1952, Jeffrey has been a lifetime member of I.E.E.E. He isa former member of the Technology Subcommittee of the NatickSchool System in Natick, Massachusetts. He is the holder ofmany engineering patents. His hobbies include home improve-ment, travel, and electronics. He and his wife Arline have three

children and seven grandchildren.

Memories: “Army Hall; graduation; on amateur radio tower in the Shepard Hall bell tower; classes withprofessors Taub, Froelich, and Brenner.”

Home Address: 24 Fox Hill DriveNatick, MA 01760


Thomas Carcaterra, B.C.E., M.C.E.: I was born on November 11, 1922 in an apartmenton E. 87th St. in New York City. Later, we moved to a single-family house on Crotona Avenue, inthe Bronx. My successful performance during my interlude at Theodore Roosevelt High Schoolwas motivated by my father’s warning that he had no funds to send me to college. My decision togo to City College was simple.

My memories of CCNY center largely on the hard work it took to succeed. The few societies thatI belonged to were the American Society of Civil Engineers, Hunt 43 in the House Plan, and theBacchanalian Society. My social pleasures were largely the debates and discussions we enjoyed inthe alcoves and around the flagpole on the campus.

I obtained my Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree from CCNY in 1943. After basic infantrytraining and serving in the Corps of Engineers during World War II, I returned to CCNY to obtaina Master of Civil Engineering Degree in 1955.

My first job was as a structural engineer for the Board of Transportation of the City of New York.Following a failed marriage, I moved to Washington DC, where I worked briefly as a structural en-

-gineer for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and several private consulting firms. In1954, I was fortunate to meet Edna Ruth Law, who had also come to Washington to seek work,after her job as a secretary in Oak Ridge, Tennessee had ended. Our marriage in 1955 proved to bea major turning point in both our lives. We consider our greatest achievement to be the creation ofour two sons, Thomas Alan and Steven Michael.

For the last 50 years, I have been a consulting structural engineer and managing principal of struc-tural and architectural engineering firms. I was a partner of Smislova and Carcaterra, (1961-1966),Principal of Carcaterra and Associates, (1966-1976), Partner of Chatelain, Samperton and Car-caterra, (1976-1978), President of the EA Design Group, (1978-1984) and Principal of ThomasCarcaterra, P.E., (1984-1999).

In all these structural and architectural engineering design firms, my primary motivation has beenthe pursuit of excellence. I was named “Man of the Year” in 1968 and 1975, by the Consulting En-gineers Council of Metropolitan Washington.

After retiring in 1999, I renewed my lifelong interest in philosophy, religion, science, computertechnology, music, photography and politics. My religious belief during most of my life was largelyagnostic. But a few years ago, I finally understood what my father meant by two cryptic admonitionshe had urged me to remember: “Believe in God but not in religion” and “Work is the secret of life”.

My golden years are ending with peace, love and pride in having fulfilled the duties and responsi-bilities required by the Ephebic oath we took upon graduation from CCNY. We have tried to leavethe nation, (and the world), better and more beautiful than when it was transmitted to us.

Above all, I am grateful for the luck of being born in a city which provided the City College ofNew York, an institution which taught me to constantly seek further knowledge, to attain the ulti-mate goal of wisdom.


Rhea Graffman Cohen

I graduated with a Psych Major and worked in the field whilegetting my Masters (also CCNY). I was lucky to work forthe Ford Foundation’s Puerto Rican Study. This was followedby designing Personality Testing material for the Girl Scoutsand then for an advertising agency. I started my PhD at Co-lumbia when we began a long series of geographic moves.Beginning with Oklahoma (2 children) to Westport Ct (3rdchild) then really going off the grid for 14 years to Thailandand Japan before a Texas assignment. We retired to Manhat-tan, just 5 miles, or 100 blocks, South of where I grew up.

As a volunteer in NYC, I worked at the Japan Society for 10years while working at Mt. Sinai Hospital counseling sexual

abuse victims. I changed to a less horrific but also needy venue where I advocated for abused chil-dren with CASA in the New York Family Courts.

I now serve on the Boards of the New York Youth Symphony, the Council for the Arts at MIT andthe ExxonMobil Annuitants Club here in NYC.

Other places, other roles played, in my field as well as in the arts and politics.

Delighted now to spend time traveling + with my 5 grandchildren (pre-K thru Wesleyan ) whilejuggling meetings, TRAVEL, classes, concerts, plays and just vegging out.

Home Address: 115 Central Park WestNYC 10023, NY


Otto Doelling: I grew up in the East Bronx in theshadow of the Pelham Bay El. My father and namesakehad emigrated from Berlin as a young child after his fa-ther perished while fighting for the Kaiser in World War I.My mother emigrated several years later to escape Ger-many’s runaway inflation and to be able to send muchneeded funds to her family back in Stuttgart. My futureparents met and married in the Bronx.

I attended nearby James Monroe High School, perhapsbest known in its hay day for an ace baseball star and fu-ture Major League Hall of Famer named Hank Greenberg.(My own scant contribution to Monroe’s athletic glorywas as a third-string fullback on its football team.) Education-wise, I owe a debt of gratitude toMonroe’s dedicated teaching staff for prodding me to accumulate enough academic points toenter City College without having to undergo an entrance exam.

Like most of my high school classmates, I chose CCNY for economic as well as academic rea-sons. Where else could one have received such a remarkable college education for practicallynothing (at that time, at least) or benefited from such a stellar staff of educators? Among themwas history professor Hans Kohn, a scholar and author of international renown. And I am forevergrateful to Prof. Irving Rosenthal, for encouraging me to pursue a career in journalism. Towardthat end, I wrote articles for The Campus and majored in English, ultimately squeezing out a cumlaude with my liberal-arts degree.

Among my fondest CCNY memories was attending a guest lecture by a young novelist namedSaul Bellow, who discussed his recently published novel “The Adventures of Augie March.” Andthanks to City, I was able to travel beyond the greater New York City area for the first time in mylife. It was a government class trip to Washington DC. My classmates and I visited the WhiteHouse and, at an Italian restaurant in downtown Washington, we were treated to a civic lecture bya Democratic congressman named James Roosevelt.

As a senior ROTC member, I was elected captain (i.e. CCNY chapter president) of Scabbard and

Blade, the military honor society. Upon graduation and commissioning as second lieutenants inJune 1955, ours became the first City College ROTC contingent in several years not to be sent toKorea — the Korean War having ended two years earlier. One part of our class was dispatchedto Hawaii and my half was assigned to West Germany where I joined Combat Command B of the3rd Armored Division. The unit was based in the town of Gelnhausen, about an hour’s drivefrom Frankfurt. At a German Carnival dance in Frankfurt’s Palm Garden I was to meet Ingrid,my future bride and mother to be of our two children: Christine and Marco.

After my deactivation from the military in 1957, I was hired as a general assignment reporter forThe Gainesville (Fla.) Daily Sun — my first professional newspaper job. The following year, Iwas accepted to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where I earned a masterdegree. (One of my Columbia classmates, Lou Boccardi, later became president of The Associ-ated Press and my boss.)

After graduation from J-school, I was offered a job with the AP in Florida, but I opted instead fora reporting assignment with the Army Times Publishing Company in Frankfurt, Germany, so asto be reunited with Ingrid. We were married in April 1960. Upon returning from our honeymoonon Lago Maggiore, I leaned to my regret that Army Times was shutting down its Frankfurt of-fice. Back in the States, I was hired by The Associated Press and assigned to its Albany bureau.There, I covered the New York State Assembly during the governorship of Nelson Rockefeller. Ayear later, I was appointed AP’s Syracuse correspondent in charge of a one-man bureau respon-sible for coverage of central New York State, Syracuse University’s football powerhouse and,perhaps most significantly, Onondaga County’s very active Republican politics. During the year Iwas in Syracuse the visiting GOP speakers included former president Dwight D. Eisenhower andtwo presidential hopefuls — Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon.

One advantage to running a single-man AP operation in a medium-sized city like Syracuse wasthe easy access it afforded to news sources. I was able to come away with a scoop from Nixonafter he had delivered a foreign policy address to a business group. Not satisfied with the newspotential of his speech, I followed him to the door of his Syracuse hotel suite and elicited fromhim that the speech was to be the first in a series aimed at reasserting his voice in the policies ofthe Republican party. Mind you, this was September 1963 — a year after Nixon’s bitter defeat inCalifornia’s governor’s race and his angry retort to reporters: “You won’t have Richard Nixon to

kick around anymore. Because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.” He proved per-fectly affable in granting me an interview. (My story made the front page of the New YorkTimes.)

From Syracuse, I was transferred to the foreign news desks at Associated Press headquarters in50 Rock where I was groomed for an oversea’ assignment. Within the year, I joined AP’s WestGerman hub in Frankfurt. I was to spend nine years in Germany for AP, mostly as news editor inFrankfurt and later in the West German capital of Bonn. In addition to Germany and Austria mycoverage area included such Soviet Bloc states as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Roma-nia.

In Bucharest, I interviewed Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu, who was to meet abloody end with the fall of the Iron Curtain. In Prague, I luckily avoided the secret police andwas able to come away with widely published interviews with key members of the “PragueSpring” reform movement. And in April 1973, I sat next to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal as astate attorney in Frankfurt announced that a skull dug up in Berlin had been identified with agreat degree of certainty as that of Hitler’s long-sought deputy, Martin Bormann. Wiesenthal toldme that, prior to the press conference, he had believed that Bormann had been resourcefulenough to have survived the war. But Wiesenthal added that he had come away from the pressbriefing “99 percent” convinced that Bormann was indeed dead. The story gained wide interna-tional play.

In 1977, after a brief stint as Cairo bureau chief, I was promoted to Chief of Middle East Servicesoperating out of Nicosia, Cyprus. My coverage area included Lebanon, which was still wrackedby civil war, and revolutionary Iran, as well as Syria and the Arab Gulf states.

During my 43-year AP career, I was part of the news coverage teams at nine Summer and WinterOlympics — from the tragic games at Munich to Lillehammer’s tranquil snow-capade.

I returned to New York with my wife and family in 1980, and served seven years as AP’s chiefUnited Nation correspondent. I wrapped up my AP career as an administrator with the agency’sWorld Service division at 50 Rock. I retired in 2004 with the title of general executive. Ingrid andI then moved cross-country from our home in Fanwood, New Jersey, to the Seattle suburb of

Bothell, our son and daughter having separately preceded us to the rainy, Evergreen State.

Ruth Drescher, nee Lieberman, B. A., M.S.: wasan English Literature major. She went on to receive herMaster of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh in1973. She specialized in social work from 1973-1992, andsold residential real estate from 1993-2015.

Ruth was the 2nd President of the Board of Jewish Residen-tial Services (1995-1999). She also served on a variety ofcommunity boards, e.g. Just Harvest, Pittsburgh PublicSchools, subcommittee on community relations; and theBoard of Directors of the Penn Group Health Plan. She iscurrently a Board Member of Jewish Residential Services,and Congregation Dor Hadash, Editor of HINEINI, HereAm I.

Ruth has been practicing digital photography since 2002, both for real estate work, and the Semes-ter-at-Sea Voyage around the globe. In 2013, she created digital images for the children’s book, Inthe Land of Friendly Creatures; the book was published in response to poems written by ChristineDoriean Michaels. Ruth’s photographs and essays have been published in a variety of local and na-tional publications, and her work has been exhibited locally on an annual basis.

She has been teaching a course entitled “Writing for Fun and Exercising Your Brain” in the CarnegieMellon University OSHER Program since 2000. Her other forays into the arts include print-making,fabric arts, calligraphy, painting and drawing.

Ruth married Seymour Drescher, CCNY 1955, on June 19, 1955, four days after their graduationceremony. They have three children: Michael, b. 1960, who is currently working in emergencymedicine at Hartford Hospital (Conn.); Jonathan, b. 1962, who is currently Director of Project Man-agement for the Durst Organization in New York; and Karen Flora, b. 1964, who is a business an-alyst at K-Force in Tampa, Florida. Seymour and Ruth have eight grandchildren: Atalya Drescher,b. 1995; Eliana Drescher, b. 1995; Matthew Drescher, b. 1997; Yasmin Drescher, b. 1998; AvshalomDrescher, b. 2001; Abiona Flora, b. 2003; Samuel Drescher, b. 2004; and Jesse Flora, B. 2005.

Home Address: 4625 Fifth Avenue #509Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Home Phone: 412-521-5978

Seymour Drescher, B.A., M.S., Ph.D.: was born in the Bronx and attended Bronx ScienceHigh School. He majored in history at CCNY, where his most influential professors were: HansKohn (Intellectual History)—most enduring impact; Henry Magid (Philosophy and Political Phi-losophy)—“he helped me to get the Meade Prize”; and John Collier (Anthropology-Native Amer-icans). Seymour went on to receive his Master’s degree in in 1956, and his Ph.D. in 1960, both inhistory, from the University of Wisconsin.

Seymour’s teaching career began at Harvard University, where he worked from 1960-1962. He iscurrently a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has taughtsince 1962. He has held other teaching positions along the way: he was a Visiting Professor atCarnegie-Mellon University in 1983; and a Visiting Distinguished Professor at CUNY in1986/1987/1988. He has also served as Secretary of the European Program at the Woodrow WilsonCenter from 1984-1985; an Academic Dean-at-Sea in 1998 and 2002; and Editor of The Journal ofContemporary History from 1992-1998. He has also been involved in the making of the documen-tary film, Confrontation: Paris 1968; and co-editor of the forthcoming project The Cambridge WorldHistory of Slavery, 1804-Present.

He has won numerous accolades during the course of his career: the Meade Prize in History fromCCNY (1955); induction into Phi Beta Kappa (1954); a Fulbright Scholarship to work in Paris(1957-1958); a Social Science Research Fellowship (1968-1969); a National Endowment Human-ities Fellowship (1973-1974); a Guggenheim Fellowship (1977-1978); declining an ACLS Fellow-ship (1977-1978); being a Resident-Scholar in Bellagio, Italy (1980 and 1990); winning theFrederick Douglass Prize at the Gilder Lehrman Center of Yale University (2002); and becominga member of Academia Europaea (2009).

Seymour married Ruth (nee Lieberman) CCNY 1955, on June 19, 1955, four days after their grad-uation ceremony. They have three children: Michael, b. 1960, who is currently working in emer-gency medicine at Hartford Hospital (Conn.); Jonathan, b. 1962, who is currently Director of ProjectManagement for the Durst Organization in New York; and Karen Flora, b. 1964, who is a businessanalyst at K-Force in Tampa, Florida. Seymour and Ruth have eight grandchildren: Atalya Drescher,b. 1995; Eliana Drescher, b. 1995; Matthew Drescher, b. 1997; Yasmin Drescher, b. 1998; AvshalomDrescher, b. 2001; Abiona Flora, b. 2003; Samuel Drescher, b. 2004; and Jesse Flora, B. 2005.

Memories: “Finding and keeping my wife, Ruth. Finding and keeping the best friends of my life,including fellow historians Leonard Dinnerstein and Frederick Jaher. Special moments: hearingDylan Thomas recite poetry; hearing Paul Robeson speak and sing in the Great Hall; and weekafter week, the inspired lectures of Hans Kohn, the very epitome of Academia Europaea Best Club;the Gilbert and Sullivan Society (alongside my wife-to-be).”

Home Address: 4625 Fifth Avenue #509Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Home Phone: 412-521-5978Office Phone: 412-648-7474

BIOGRAPHY OF FRANCINE MARCUSFARBER / CLASS OF 1955

707 West Fairmont Avenue * Fresno * CA * 93705 * [email protected]

1955 CCNY BA, PsychologySouthern Ct. State University MA, School PsychologySouthern Ct. State University Sixth Year in Administration/Psy-chologyU of Bridgeport Ed.D. in Educational Management

At CCNY I was the first woman editor-in-chief of The Cam-pus. I was also a member of Sigma Alpha and Lock andKey. I was a percussionist in the City College orchestraunder Fritz Jahoda for four years.

My fondest memory is that I met my husband, Murray, on The Campus, and we married while Iwas in my senior year. This January 2, 2015, we celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. Iwrote an article about our meeting and marriage which was published in the CCNY alumni mag-azine a few years ago.

My four years on The Campus gave me a life-long love of journalistic writing which I practiceas much as I can. I am frequently published in the Fresno Bee on the op-ed page (which alsoruns my photo) and with letters to the editor, so am well-known in the community and have thepleasure of being greeted by strangers in theaters, restaurants, doctors’ offices, etc. I have hadmore than 50 op-ed pieces published and probably close to that in letters. I had several articlespublished in Fresno Magazine, now defunct. I write about a variety of topics – frequently per-sonal observations, sometimes about topics relevant to education and mental health.

I also edit the newsletter for the Jewish Federation of Central California, of which my husband iscurrently president.

After staying at home with our three children in their early years, I worked as a School Psychol-

--gist for 13 years, then as a Pupil Personnel Administrator. After that I was an Assistant to theSuperintendent for Personnel, also specializing in competitive grant writing and school public re-lations. I worked in schools and central offices in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. I re-tired - in October, 2000 with more than 30 years in education.

After our two sons passed away, one in 1996 at age 35 and the other in 2001 at age 42, we movedfrom Connecticut to Fresno, CA to be close to our daughter, our youngest child, who has twoteenage daughters, one a freshman at UCLA and the other a high school sophomore. Ouryounger son left a daughter who is now a senior in high school in Oakland, CA.

We have lived in Fresno for about 11 years full-time and two years part-time. I became involvedin community affairs. I was president of the League of Women Voters for 6 years and am still onthe Board and edit our monthly newsletter. I am also on the board of an inner city organization,Reading and Beyond, that supports children and families from cradle to career, and am now thevice president.

This is one of my proudest achievements in recent years: When I was chair of the League’s edu-cation committee and then president, I led a movement in Fresno County to increase access topreschool for four-year-olds. As a result the County received hundreds of thousands of dollarsfrom the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for this purpose. Both in my working years andas a volunteer in retirement I’m known for being a successful fund-raiser.

Another proud achievement is that two and a half years ago my husband and I began a programcalled “Steve’s Scholars,” named after our older son and funded with money from his estate. Itprovides college scholarships for any student from Tehipite Middle School in Fresno in the need-iest zip code in California where 25% of the parents have only a 5th grade education and the aver-age family income is about $15,000 annually. The students have to maintain at least a B average,at least 95% attendance, perform prescribed hours of community service, and take college prepcourses for 6 years through middle and high school. If they do, they will receive $1,000 for eachof two years. The first cohort is now in 9th grade. It seems as though about one-third of the stu-dents are on-track at this time to receive a scholarship. A companion program called Mike’sBikes, named after our younger son, provides a free bike, helmet and lock to one 7th and one 8th

grader who have at least 95% attendance for the year. Their names are drawn through a lottery.

I am a member of the Mental Health Board of Fresno County, which acts as an advocate for chil-dren and families and works with the County’s Department of Behavioral Health.

I consider myself to be a full-time community volunteer and at various times have served as co-chair of the Citizens Committee for General Plan Revision for the City of Fresno, interview com-mittee for the City of Fresno Police Auditor, Title IX committee for California State University atFresno, and numerous committees in connection with the Fresno Unified Public Schools involv-

-ing the high school graduation rate, human resources, building construction and other matters.

We love to attend Cal State Fresno (also known as Fresno State) men’s and women’s basketballgames and even travel on a fan bus to out of town games several times a season. Unknown tomany, Fresno has a wealth of cultural activities including many classical music concerts whichwe also attend, including the Philharmonic, an excellent piano series that attracts world-class mu-sicians at small-town prices, and many professional chamber music groups.

Speaking of music, I began studying the cello at age 70 and play in the Fresno City College stringorchestra, performing in two concerts a year. Many years ago at age 10 I gave a solo accordionrecital in what was then Carnegie Chambers Hall, and at age 14 I was the youngest winner of theArthur Godfrey Talent Scouts Show, playing classical music on the accordion. I attended theHigh School of Music and Art, where I played French horn and percussion. I also toured acrossthe country after high school as an accordion soloist with Phil Spitalny’s All-Girl Orchestra.

Is that enough for 81 years? I hope so.

Francine FarberWish I could be with my classmates on our 60th graduation anniversary but the distance is toogreat.

Dr. Walter Farkas, B.S., Ph.D.: was a chemistry major and a member of the Baskerville Society.He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1960. Walter retired in 1996 from his career as a Biochemist.He remains active as a Professor Emeritus from the University of Tennessee.

Walter is a current member of: AAAS; The Society of Toxicology; The American Society of Biochemists;The American Chemical Society; and The Lupus Foundation of America. In 1986, he received an award forResearch Excellence from the Beecham Pharmaceutical Co. He also received an award for contributions tooccupational health from the Council of Labor Affairs, Republic of China. He has had work published innumerous professional journals. Walter enjoys tennis and reading. He and his wife have two daughters, twogranddaughters, and two grandsons.

Home Address: 7324 Toxaway DriveKnoxville, TN 37909


James A. Forde was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 23, 1927, the son of James G. Forde andEdith Johnson, both of Barbados, West Indies. Jim graduated from Boys High School in Brooklyn at anearly age and combined full-time and part-time employment with part-time attendance at Brooklyn College.At the age of seventeen, he was probably the youngest person involved in the development of the atomicbomb that precipitated the end of World War II. He was employed as a lab assistant at the Manhattan Projectfrom 1994-45 at its facility in New York. From 1946-1949, he worked in the early days of television forCBS. After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1949 he worked as a social worker for the City of NewYork. When the Korean War started, Jim was drafted to serve in the Army. From September 1950 to August1952 he served his country, and was eventually discharged with the rank of sergeant. Four days prior tobeing drafted, on September 21, 1950, he married Gaille Faulkner, at St. Peter Claver Church in Brooklyn,New York. There were two children from that union, Janice, born June 23, 1952, and Jacqueline, born No-vember 7, 1956.

After the war, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the CCNY Baruch School ofBusiness and Public Administration. In 1955, he began an extensive and successful government career withthe New York State Department of Mental Hygiene. From 1955-1977 he served in a variety of administrativeposts in the Department, including Budget Director, Director of Long Range Planning, and Assistant Com-missioner for Local Services. He retired from that agency while serving as one of the original seven RegionalDirectors in a reorganized Department. His region included state and local governmental services for thementally ill and developmentally disabled in the seven counties directly north and west of New York City.During his twenty-two years with the Department, he was the first African-American to be appointed to aCommissioner level position, the first non-physician director of a Department institution, and the firstAfrican-American Regional Director.

The overt discrimination in housing that Jim faced in Albany, New York, led to his family settling in Sch-enectady rather than the city that was the State Capitol. It also fueled his determination to work for healthand lifestyle improvement for ethnic groups and the poor in Schenectady. He was a founding member of theEverest Club, an organization formed to provide scholarship funds for African-American students. As Chair-man of the Housing Committee of the local NAACP chapter, he co-authored and promoted the passage bythe Schenectady City Council of the first municipal fair housing law in the country. As Chairman of a localcommunity action agency, he obtained Federal funds to support a small health clinic in a low-income areaof the city.

In 1977, Jim retired from New York State service, and accepted the position of Deputy Administrator of theHealth Care Agency in the County of San Diego, California. In 1979, as part of a county government reor-ganization, the Departments of Mental Health, Public Health and Substance Abuse were combined intosingle Department of Health Services and Jim was appointed the Director. At the time, he was the first non-physician and African-American to hold that position. At a time when tobacco companies were free to ad-vertise their products widely, and even physicians were endorsing specific brands of cigarettes, Jim was ableto obtain Board of Supervisor approval to ban smoking in public places in the county. Another significantachievement during his tenure was the creation of a county-wide trauma system that was the first in Cali-fornia, and among the first in the country.

Jim retired from the San Diego County Health Department in 1986, but continued his involvement in localand statewide activities dedicated to improving the health status of ethnic minorities and the poor. He wasone of the founders of the San Diego Black Health Associates, and the California Black Health Network,local and statewide organizations with that goal. He was also active with the American Public Health Asso-ciation, the Black Caucus of Health Workers, the San Diego Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities,and many other community organizations. In addition to his community activities, he pursued two of hisgreat passions, travel and bridge. He and Gaille have sailed on over forty cruises all over the world. Theyespecially like the Caribbean, where they still have relatives in Barbados. Jim is a member of bridge clubsin San Diego, and Durham, and has always tried to fit bridge in at least once or twice a week into a usuallybusy community schedule.

Jim and Gaille moved to Durham to be close to their older daughter, Janice Ross. Janice retired from a hos-pital administrator position in Syracuse, New York, and is now House Manager for a University Hospitalhospitality house in Chapel Hill. Janice and her husband, Haynes, have two children, Stacy and Adrienne,who live in Atlanta and Baltimore, respectively. Jim and Gaille’s younger daughter, Jacqueline Sullivan, isan account manager in the wholesale food industry and lives in Long Island. Jacqueline has a daughter,Nicole Ortiz, and a granddaughter, Danielle. Needless to say, Gaille and Jim are ecstatic about their greatgranddaughter, who is now a beautiful teenager.

Jim’s community activities: Board of Directors of the San Diego Black Health Services Association; theCalifornia Black Health Network; the California Prevention 2000 Advisory Committee; the California Tu-berculosis Executive Committee; the California Pan Ethnic Health Network; the California HypertensionAdvisory Council; the Everest Association; Northeastern Blue Cross; Northeastern New York Health SystemsAgency; Commissioner of the Schenectady Housing Authority; Capital Area HMO; Carver CommunityCenter; Albany Regional Medical Program; Schenectady County Narcotic Guidance Council; SchenectadyJunior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award.


Betty Kaplan Gubert, B.A.: was an English major andmember of the Modern Dance Club; Anthropology Society;Promethean; and editor-in-chief of The Dante Society. In1955, she graduated from the Middlebury College, whereshe studied Librarianship.

She served as Assistant Chief Librarian for General Re-search and Reference at the Schomberg Center for Researchin Black Culture (part of the New York Public Library). Sheretired in 1991, after twenty-one years of service. Betty is aformer member of the American Library Association. Sheis the author of the following books: “Distinguished African-Americans in Aviation and Space Science”; and “InvisibleWings: Early Black Bibliographies, Nine Decades of Schol-

arship”.

She is also a benefactor of the Betty Gubert Collection of African-Americans in Aviation, whichis housed in the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of the Chicago Public Library. The collectionincludes fourteen archival boxes of books, pamphlets, letters, photographs, newspaper and maga-zine clippings, audiovisuals, funeral programs, and more.

Home Address: 150 W. 96th St. Apt. 3DNew York, NY 10025


Jerome D. Hanfling, B.E.E., M.E.E., P.E.: was onthe Dean’s List and was a member of Eta Kappa Nu, TauBeta Pi, Analyzer, Tech InterFraternity InterSociety Council(TIIC), Freshman Baseball Team (at Brooklyn College),and the student branch of the IRE. After graduation, he be-came a senior engineer at Wheeler Laboratories, where heworked in the field of microwave and antenna engineeringuntil 1967, all the while earning his master’s degree andcompleting courses towards a doctorate at the BrooklynPolytechnic University.

In 1967, he joined Raytheon as a principal engineer. Jeromeretired from Raytheon in November, 1992. That same year,he was honored with the IEEE Fellow Award for “contributions to the design and testing of passiveand active phased array antenna systems.” As a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation So-ciety, he has served as Chapter & Pace chairman and, currently, on the Antenna Standards Commit-tee. He is still a licensed professional engineer in New York and Massachusetts and holds sevenU.S. patents for microwave, antenna, and phased array applications. His work has been featured inmany professional publications.

He has served as president of the Rolling Ridge Homeowner’s Association and as a member of theNorthport, Long Island, New York Planning Board. Jerome is married to Marcia Julie Hanfling andhas two children, Edward and Merle. His hobbies include bird watching, photography, vegetablegardening, golf, and sailing. Edward is an engineer working for the Mitre Corporation and Merle isa licensed social worker employed by the Lahey Clinic.

In Framingham, Massachusetts, Jerome was treasurer of the Temple Beth Am Brotherhood. He hastwo grandchildren by his daughter, Merle Kushner. His oldest grandchild, Hannah (18) has graduatedfrom Framingham High School and is attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Hisgrandson, Jacob (16) is active in orchestra and jazz band in high school.

Memories: “Participation in honor societies, TIIC, IRE and E-Day activities. Taking classes withProfessor Froelich in transmission lines and networks, and with Professor Taub in electromagnet-ism—inspired me to go into microwave and antenna engineering.”

Home Address: 6 Huron DriveFramingham, MA 01701-3038


Dr. Martin Harrow (B.A., CCNY, 1951-1955, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1956-1961)

Martin Harrow, Ph.D., a former U.S. chessmaster from CCNY (1951-1955 class) was a graduateof Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York. He was captain of the CCNY chess team; playedfirst board for them; and led CCNY to second place in the U.S. Intercollegiate Chess Champi-onships. He placed in the top seven in the U.S. Open Chess Championships three different years;won the Connecticut Chess Championship and the New England Chess Championship, and tiedfor first place in the Illinois Chess Championship Tournament. Dr. Harrow also has two draws intwo tournament chess games against Bobby Fischer, former world chess champion, who is viewedby most as the best chess player in the history of the world.

Dr. Harrow, a clinical psychologist, later obtained his doctorate in psychology in 1961 at IndianaUniversity, and obtained a faculty position at Yale University, where he also became Chief Psy-chologist at Yale New Haven Hospital. During his eleven years at Yale in the Department of Psy-chiatry, he published his research extensively and became a widely cited expert on schizophrenia.Later, he moved from Yale to the University of Chicago as an Associate Professor and then a Pro-fessor. After 17 years at the University of Chicago, he moved to the Psychiatry Department of theMedical College of the University of Illinois in Chicago as Professor and Director of Psychology.Twenty-two years later, he is now a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of IllinoisCollege of Medicine.

Dr. Harrow is a widely cited expert on schizophrenia. He has published over 260 scientific papersand 4 books on schizophrenia and related areas. For 31 of the last 39 years, Dr. Harrow has beenawarded major research grants (RO1s) from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) onschizophrenia. In the past, he was also awarded as (pi) Principal Investigator research grants fromthe MacArthur Foundation and other funding agencies. Major aspects of his current research arecurrently being funded by the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health. As initiator, directorand Principal Investigator of the Chicago Follow Up Study, since coming to Chicago, he has re-ceived several rare national awards for his research on thought disorder, psychosis, long-term ad-justment, suicide, and recovery in schizophrenia. These include the Gralnick Award by the AmericanAssociation of Suicidology for his research on suicide in schizophrenia, an NIMH MERIT Awardand the Zubin Award by the Society for Research in Psychopathology for lifetime contributions tothe understanding of psychopathology. He also was awarded the Illinois Psychological AssociationAward for outstanding contributions to psychology. His research on the long-term use of antipsy-chotic medications for schizophrenia, which he plans to continue to pursue, is beginning to raisechallenging questions about these medications. His research in this area has been discussed exten-sively in two popular books on psychiatric treatment by Robert Whitaker with this including thelatest (2010) edition of Mad In America.

Dr. Harrow has been happily married to his productive, intellectual wife, Helen, for 58 years. They

Dr. Harrow has been happily married to his productive, intellectual wife, Helen, for 58 years. Theyhave four daughters and seven grandchildren.


Dr. Joseph Hartog, B.S.: attended the High School ofMusic and Art. At City, he majored in both pre-med and biol-

ogy/chemistry. He was also a member of the Caduceus Society,

and graduated cum laude. Joseph is a Clinical Professor at the

University of California in San Francisco; he has also served as

the editor of “Anatomy of Loneliness” published by Interna-

tional University Press. Joseph, who enjoys playing the violin,

and his wife have three daughters, and five grandchildren.


Henry J. Hersh, Class of January 1955, Politi-cal Science Major:

I went from CCNY Army ROTC into Army Infantry at Ft. Ben-ning, in Georgia, followed by Airborne School, and then to Ft.Carson in Colorado. I did overseas military service in Heilbrunn,Germany. After discharge, I went to work for the Social SecurityAdministration and Medicare (1959-1995). I retired as DistrictManager.

I obtained an M.A. in Public Administration in 1977 from Fair-leigh Dickenson University and taught Advanced PersonnelManagement at Fairleigh Dickenson.

I married and moved to New Jersey in 1964. My wife (a HunterCollege grad) and I have 3 children and 4 grandchildren. For 18

years, I was President of the local chapter of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees andserved as VP of the State Federation.

In 1992, I served as an advisor to TSA at Newark Airport as TSA was being set up.

My wife and I moved to a senior community in Central Jersey in 2004, and have spent our “Golden Years”travelling the world. After driving across the USA, we have explored the Caribbean, Europe, the MiddleEast, Alaska, and Hawaii. When home, I have a regular weekly poker game. Life is good!

Dr. Seymour Holtzman, B.S., M.A., Ph.D.:

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in the Borough Park section. I graduated from New Utrecht HighSchool in January, 1951. I chose to attend CCNY because it was the furthest away from Brooklynthat I could afford to go to.

After college, I entered the U.S. Army in 1955. I served in Fort Dix, New Jersey, Fort Bliss inTexas, and Wiesbaden, Germany. Other institutions that I attended include: NYU, courses in Biol-ogy and Animal Behavior; CCNY, M.A. in Biology, 1965; and CUNY at Brooklyn College, Ph.D.in Biology in 1973.

I wed in 1961 for more than 50 years to Victoria Elena. We have two children, David and Ruth.

My fondest memories include my coach, Joseph Sapora, and teammates on the varsity wrestlingteam.

As a Biology major, my fondest memories are of Professors William Etkin and Raymond Root,particularly the interactions in labs and seminars that kept my interests in my intended career path.

My current interests are one-wall handball, coaching high school wrestling, travel, and photogra-phy-based digital imagery fine art.

Home Address: 6147 Long Key Lane

Boynton Beach, FL 33472


CHARLOTTE WARREN HUEY

CLASS OF JUNE, 1955

I entered City College as an art major in February 1951, but changed my major once I discovered the world

of Speech and Hearing Therapy during my sophomore year. Unfortunately, one could only achieve a degree

in this area via the School of Education where I had zero interest, but I changed to that school to accomplish

my goal. I met Charles Huey who was a Pre-Med chemistry student during that same first year and we mar-

ried in 1955 upon my graduation and conference of my first degree, a Bachelor of Science in Speech Edu-

cation.

I went on to earn my first Masters in Speech Arts from Hunter College and completed that degree in 1958.

During that period I worked as an adjunct professor teaching a course, “Creative Dramatics for Children

and Parents.” In 1958, we moved to Belgium where my husband went to medical school at the University

of Louvain. While he studied medicine I immersed myself in French culture and language. I became Mme.

Le Vice President of the International Circle for Foreign Students where I taught English as a second language

to students going to the States; I translated professional texts and thesis from French to English; I wrote ar-

ticles for the PARIS, “Esprit”. During the Algerian liberation from France, I wrote and worked for pro-Al-

gerian forces with Simone de Beauvoir and John Paul Sartre. Our daughter, Kim was born in 1963.

Our return to the States was dictated by my husband’s places of internships and residencies in Rochester

and Buffalo. While in Rochester, I was the chair of the Speech Department at West High School. I produced

a Children’s Poetry program for Rochester television. I taught a course in Black Literature for Teachers at

SUNY Brockport. I produced and directed a play at the Buffalo Studio Arena Theatre and directed a summer

arts program for SUNY Buffalo the summer of 1968 before we returned to New York City.

I completed my second Masters Degree in Counseling at C.W. Post and worked as a guidance counselor

until I retired in 1994.

Some of my other pursuits include a brief career as a free lance journalist for New York Women’s Week;

created and performed a video art performance with Shigeko Kubota, Mary Lucier and Nam Juin Paik. My

daughter graduated from Vassar College in 1985. I have traveled extensively to many continents and

presently am working on a novel.

When I write my autobiography, it will definitely include those treasured years and memories at City College

that set the stage for so much of the rest of my life. One special memory is sitting in the Great Hall listening

to Dylan Thomas as he read his poems in the wonderful half light that filtered through the windows in the

late afternoon/early evening. I remember listening to Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers before they be-

came famous. I remember the plays I staged as part of the Drama classes I took. The long walk to the 145th

Street subway that took me and my friends back to Queens where I lived during that period of my life is

sketched forever in my heart. These and so much more will always make my years at City College resonate

with me forever.

Dr. Frieda Tatem Hugley, B.S.Ed., M.S.Ed.: I grew up in Manhattan and graduated fromWashington Irving High School, where I was a student leader and served as a judge on the studentcouncil. I chose CCNY because it was in Manhattan and I wanted to attend a co-ed college, sincemy high school was all-female. I was a member of House Plan and a Christian Student Group. Igraduated in June, 1954 because I had enough credits and taught elementary education in New YorkCity for five years before going to Germany for two years to teach in the Military DependentsSchools (DODDS) in Wertheim-A-Main and Heidelberg.

After teaching again in NYC for two years, I went to Japan and Okinawa to teach for two years,traveling extensively in the Far East while I was there. I returned to NYC schools until 1970, whenI became a professor at Buffalo State University in 1977. I returned to NYC because my motherwas very sick, and after she passed away, I married my husband, Alvin Hugley, and moved to FairfaxCounty, Virginia. I taught in the Fairfax County Schools until I retired in 1993. I was also a teacherlobbyist in Richmond, Virginia for the Fairfax County Education Association.

I have received service awards from the American Association of University Women (AAUW)McLean Branch; the Potomac Women’s Club in Virginia; and the Washington, DC CCNY AlumniChapter—I will receive the CCNY Alumni Service Medal in 2015 in June. I am presently a volunteerlobbyist on Capitol Hill for AAUW; the Vice Chair of the Fairfax ASAP; a White House volunteerin the Correspondence Department; a volunteer with wives of diplomats, to acquaint them with ourculture while learning about their cultures. I have been a volunteer at the National Book Festivalon the Mall and the Easter Egg Roll at the White House. I am a member of the New York State So-ciety, and I serve on the Altar Guild at my church, and as a lector.

I also attended NYU, Columbia University, Heidelberg University, and was a teacher trainer forTeacher Corps at Buffalo State. I have fond memories of friends at CCNY and really enjoyed asummer geology class where we went on field trips. My student teaching was very enjoyable. My

supervisor was the wife of renowned artists Hale Woodruff.

I live in Virginia and I am a widow. My husband, Alvin Hugley, was an ordained Baptist Ministerand a federal government employee.

Home Address: 2776 Melchester DriveHerndon, VA 20171

Louise Gross Jones: I attended CCNY as LouiseGross.I have lived in Minneapolis since 1967. Previously, I livedin Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; Rome, Italy; and Shore-ham, NY.I was an editor/writer at the University of Minnesota,primarily producing booklets, fact sheets, and newslet-ters for the Extension Service and for the University Hos-pital. I retired in 1998, and now do volunteer work for theAdult Basic Education program of the Minneapolis PublicSchools and for the Minneapolis Public Library.My husband, Roger S. Jones, also from the class of ’55, died in 2011. He was a physics professorat the University of Minnesota and author of “Physics as Metaphor” and “Physics for the Restof Us.”I have many fond memories of CCNY, particularly my days working on The Campus newspa-per—the characters who labored there, and late nights at the printer’s, checking galley proofs(in the days of linotype machines) and getting home at 1 am. Also, some wonderful professors,particularly Rosenthal, Hendel, and Berall. And CCNY is still indirectly (via CUNY) still in the family: my daughter teaches at Hunter Col-lege, and my grandson graduated from Baruch College. Home Address: 336 Parkway CourtMinneapolis, MN 55419Home Phone: (612) 827-1849

Howard Ronald Kaplan, B. ChE., M.S.: majored inchemical engineering, and was vice president of Tau Beta Pi;secretary of AIChE; and Chairman of the Major Affairs Com-mittee of House Plan. He received his Master’s degree in in-dustrial and management engineering from ColumbiaUniversity.

From 1955-1993, Howard worked at the American CyanamidCompany; when he left the company, he was Director of theChemicals Engineering Group. He was a Director of CollegeRecruiting from 1990-1993.

Howard is a former member of the Wayne New Jersey MusicalTheater (1970-1980s), and a current member of the AmericanInstitute of Chemical Engineers, and President of the Homeowner’s Board of Directors (2010).

He and his wife have three children and three grandchildren. His hobbies include square-dancing,traveling, singing in the choir, and participating in the Community Musical Theater Club.


JOSEPH KARTIGANERCity College of New York Class of 1955

I am married to Audrey, a supportive, fun-loving, travel-bug-bitten, arts enthusiastic companion aswell as a very accomplished professional. I delight in my two very wonderful daughters, Debbieand Alison; my sons-in-law, Constantin and Jonathan; my grandchildren, Nicholas, Christina, andChristopher; and, through Audrey, my step-son, Eric Amdursky, his wife, Jennifer, and his fourchildren, Devin, Zack, Luke, and Kate. I have maintained my love affair with New York City whereI have lived from age 3, through all my schooling, for my entire professional career, and now duringwhat I am proud to say is a totally blissful retirement filled with music, opera, museums, and read-ing. Summers are enriched by a Brigadoon-like cottage island in Maine. My only geographicalregret is that the entire next generation has had the poor judgment to move to the West Coast, whichmakes for long weekends spent in different time zones.

My schooling included P.S. 173 (’45) and J.H.S. 115 (’48), both in my Washington Heights neigh-borhood, Stuyvesant High School (’51), City College of New York (’55), and Columbia Law School(’58). I regret to say that I have almost no memory of my times in high school and college, other

than they were seriously unexceptional both academically and socially. I constantly give thanksfor an inexplicable ability to ace admissions (high school and college), LSAT, and short-answerexams.

Professionally, I am comfortable that I found a spot that seemed to suit my talents and succeededin making some impact in my chosen specialty.

After a stint in the army, I joined the law firm of White & Case in 1960, became a partner there in1969, and remained there until 1988, when I left to become a partner at the law firm of SimpsonThacher & Bartlett, where I remained until my retirement in 1999; I was the head of the trusts andestates departments at both firms.

As a member of the American Bar Association, I chaired its Real Property, Probate & Trust LawSection (1986-87) and served, among other capacities, as co-chair of its Standing Committee onGovernmental Submissions; as ABA Advisor to the Uniform Probate Code, the Uniform PrudentInvestor Act, and the Uniform Trust Act; and as the RPPTL Section Advisor to the Uniform Dis-claimer Act.

I am a retired: Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Council (I was a member ofits Board of Regents (1978-1984)), and presented its Learned Lecture (the Trachtman) (1995); Ac-ademician of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Estate Law (I was a 2 term member ofits Council (1980-84 and 1998-2004)); and Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. As amember of the American Law Institute, I was Associate Reporter for its Generation-Skipping Trans-fer Tax Project, and an Advisor to Restatement, Trusts 3rd (including the Prudent Investor project),to Restatement, Property (Donative Transfers), and to its Subchapter J project. I served (and amnow Emeritus) on the Joint Editorial Board for Trusts and Estates of The Uniform State Laws Com-mission. I also served as chair of the Surrogate’s Court Committee of the Association of the Barof the City of New York (1990-92), as co-chair of the National Conference of the Lawyers and Cor-porate Fiduciaries (1991-94), and as a member of the New York EPTL-SCPA Legislative AdvisoryCommittee (1997-2010).

In addition to extensive lecturing, writings, and publications, I was a Lecturer in Law at ColumbiaLaw School (1973-84) and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School (1997-99).

I am an Honoree in Marquis’ Who’s Who in The World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who inThe East, and Who’s Who in American Law.

Home Address: 812 5th Avenue Apt. 5BNew York, NY 10065-7259


Samuel C. Klagsbrun, B.A., M.D.: was a member of the Psi Chi honor society, and Hillel whileat City College. He graduated with a degree in psychology. He went on to receive his Bachelor’s in ReligiousEducation from Jewish Theological Seminary in 1955. Since 1976, he has been Executive Medical Directorof Four Winds Hospital. Since 1980, he has been a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein Collegeof Medicine. He has also served as a Visiting Consultant at St. Christopher Hospice in London, England,since 1980.

Samuel is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the UJA, and a member of the Board of Trustees ofthe American Jewish Committee. He has been a member of the APA, AGPA, and AMA since 1966. He haspublished numerous professional articles, and has also received awards throughout his career. They includeThe Distinguished Alumni Award and the S.M. Isaacs Award from the American Jewish Committee. He en-joys photography; his wife, Francine, is a published author.

Elaine D. Kruskol (nee Gorman), B.S.Ed., M.S.Ed.:met Nat Kruskol at CCNY registration in the fall of 1951. Bothwere education students—Elaine majoring in elementary educa-tion and Nat in industrial arts. In their senior year, they got mar-ried on January 15, 1955 during intersession. Friends and facultytried to dissuade them, saying that they were too young, and thatit would not last. On January 15, 2015, they celebrated their 60th

wedding anniversary.

Elaine received her Master’s degree in education in 1973 fromNew York University. She taught at South Columbus ElementarySchool from 1955-1956. She retired from her career as a teacherin New York City in 1988. She was a member of the UFT, andwas Chapter Chairperson for five years; she is still a retired mem-

ber. (She has been one since 1960, when the union formed.)

Elaine has been a member of the Symphony Organization of Augusta, Georgia for the past sevenyears. She also loves to travel: she has been to London, Paris, Ireland, South America, the FalklandIslands, Tahiti, Hawaii, the Panama Canal, Greece, Alaska, and Japan. She also enjoys needlepoint.

Memories: “Playing bridge with Nat and other Pershing Rifle organization people at CCNY.”

Home Adddress: 419 Diamond Ridge WayEvans, GA 30809

Nathaniel Kruskol, LTC USA (Ret.), B.S.Ed.,M.S.Ed.: majored in industrial arts, and was a member ofPershing Rifles, Company A-8 (1951-1953), 8th Regiment HQ(1953-1954). In 1954, he was awarded the Bronze Medal fromthe 8th Reg. HQ Pershing Rifles. He received his Master’s de-gree in industrial arts from CCNY in 1963. He then went onto The Engineers School, located in Fort Belvior, Virginia. U.S.Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth,Kansas. Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington,D.C. Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL Correspon-dence PRG. Nathaniel retired as a military educator in 1983and as a civilian educator in 1987.

He is a founding member of the Army Historical Foundation’s Campaign to Build the NationalMuseum of the U.S. Army. He has also been a founding sponsor of the Army Historical Societysince 2014. He has been a charter member of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security& Medicare since 2011. Since 1958, Nathaniel has been a life member of the Reserve Officers As-sociation of the U.S. His hobbies are collecting U.S. stamps and coins; he also has an old-time radiocollection dating from 1939-1950s on reel to reel tape, cassette, and CDs, about 5000PGMs.

Memories: “I remember the night Gen. Webb got down off his pedestal and walked the campus.The next day, students learned of his exploit when they saw his white wash footprints on the campusstreets, courtesy of the P.R.s. Lavender for lunch.”

Ronald Lang, B.M.E., M.E.E.: was a mechanicalengineer and a member of the Epsilon Nu Gamma engineering

fraternity. H received his M.E.E. from Columbia University in

1957, and graduated from Baylor University in psychology in

1968. He was an engineer for ten years before becoming an ex-

ecutive for twenty years. For the last twenty-eight years, he has

been self-employed as a consultant in the business world, as

the Founder and Managing Partner of Ronald Lang & Associ-

ates (RLA). RLA is a crisis management consulting firm based

in Boston, with operations in Sarasota, Florida, Hartford, Con-

necticut, Manchester, New Hampshire, and Providence, Rhode

Island.

From 1969-1972, he was Division President of United Technologies. He was CEO of various corporationsin Boston from 1980-1987, and has published many papers on life support in space, medical devices, andbusiness practices. Ronald is a former president of Temple Israel in Sharon, Massachusetts. Ronald and hiswife have three daughters and eight grandchildren.


Alfred LaPorta, B.A., J.D., Esq.: majored in politi-cal science. He received his J.D. from New York University

School of Law in 1959. He worked at the law firm of LaPorta

& LaPorta from 1961 until he retired as partner in 2003.

Memories: “My great education.”

Home Address: 19 Georgia LaneCroton-On-Hudson, NY 10520


Alan Marks, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.: was a historymajor and the vice president of the graduating class of1955. He was a member of the Student Council, YoungLiberals, the History Club, and Government & Law.

Alan attended the CCNY Graduate School of Businessfrom 1955 to 1956 and earned a master’s degree in eco-nomics from Columbia University in 1957. He returnedto school at CCNY and Long Island University in 1960and to Columbia in 1961. He earned a master’s in guid-ance from Columbia in 1965. He holds a doctorate in ad-ministration from NYU (1972) and a 2002 certificate ofachievement from Cornell.

Alan began a career in school administration in 1968. Forseveral years after retiring in 1993, he was a trainingmanager for Prudential Financial. He is currently the brotherhood president of Temple Beth Torah,a speaker and recruiting & information specialist for Cornell, the general chairman of the CornellAlumni Association in Long Island, and a member of the Cornell Club of Palm Beach County. Heis a former president and secretary of Phi Delta Kappa of Suffolk County. His published work in-cludes contract analysis for Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk Counties from 1968-1971.

Alan enjoys golf, reading, sailing and antique collecting. He and his wife Louise have two children,Melissa and Davis, and two grandchildren.

MEMORIES OF CCNY: “The outstanding faculty members. Meeting many bright students. Mygreat senior year and the groups I worked with as vice president.”

Dagny J. Lohar McDaniel, B.A.:

It doesn’t seem possible that sixty years have passed since grad-uation, however, I am really looking forward to the reunion.Since my husband Claude and I retired (he from the CUNY sys-tem and I from the Department of Social Services and Adminis-tration for Children’s Services), we have managed to remainactive, both with our church and organizations. We love traveland manage to squeeze in a few vacations per year.

We were blessed with two wonderful children—Claudia andMark—and a granddaughter, Janine. We’ve been happily marriedfor fifty-seven years, and are hoping for many more healthy yearstogether. Congratulations to the graduating class of 1955.

Home Address: 3317 Tiemann Ave.Bronx, NY 10469-2721

Leon Meshel, B.B.A.: majored in accounting and was a member of Post ’55. He retired as CFO ofA.D.D.S. in 1982. He is a former member of the Great Neck Synagogue and served on the Board of North

Shore Hebrew Academy. He is served as President of Stonebridge C.C., and is now a Director of Laurel

Oaks H.O.A. Boca West C.C.

Home Address: 20100 Boca West DriveLaurel Oaks Apt. 115Boca Raton, FL 39434


Edward Minkow, B.B.A.: was a management major. He retired in 2013.

Memories: “The great group of career-driven students who, despite their economic status, had greatsocial skills and ambition.”

Home Address: 405 E. 54th St. Apt. 12BNew York, NY 10022

Home Phone: 646-484-6063

Judge Stuart Namm (Ret)

But for the fact that CCNY in 1951 like some of the otherNew York City schools in the world of public education wastuition-free, I would not be writing this today. I would neverhave spent 16 months in Korea in the 17th Infantry Regiment,north of the 38th parallel, a graduate of CCNY ROTC; goneto the evening session of Brooklyn Law school; never havebeen hired by the Federal Trade Commission, under PresidentKennedy’s “Law Honor Graduate Program,” right out ofBrooklyn Law School; never have become a judge against allthe odds in Republican Suffolk County, thanks to a scandalknown as “Watergate;” never have become a “whistle-blower” about a corrupt system of justice in Suffolk County,despite having been called by my detractors, “the HangingJudge;” never have been the first recipient of the “JusticeThurgood Marshall award;” and probably never have ended up in North Carolina when the politicalbosses ended my judicial career after 16 ½ years; and never have written my book, “A Whistle-blower’s Lament,” after being diagnosed with the Stage 4 Cancer known as the dreaded “Lym-phoma.”

City College of New York, CCNY, how quickly the years have passed. Sixty years, and at the veryripe old age of 81, it seems like it was almost yesterday. I’ve been asked to write about my “fondestmemories of City College,” and the only thing and people that instantly come to an aged mind isthe sport of Lacrosse, and aging coach Leon Miller, a full blooded Cherokee and brother-in-law ofa sports legend, Jim Thorpe. Growing up in the aging tenements of Brownsville, Brooklyn, andhaving played stickball, softball and basketball in the P.S. 156 schoolyard, well into my teens, Ihad never heard of the sport of Lacrosse until my freshman year at CCNY when “the Chief” super-vised many of our days in a mandatory gym class. That immediately brings to mind the 90 minutetrip on the IRT subway, in the early morning, to get to the ROTC class and my gym class, carryingmy Lacrosse stick which people thought was a “fishing net.”

It was not long after, when I turned out for an early spring tryout and practice on the hard surface

of a schoolyard, then across the street from the muddy Lewisohn stadium. I immediately becamea member of the “junior varsity,” probably because there were so few volunteers, and moved up inno time, even before the spring season started, to the varsity which consisted of many former CCNYfootball players. The sport of football had been eliminated a year or two before I entered City Col-lege in the fall of 1951. From there on out, Lacrosse became my informal major at City College,spending every afternoon on the dirt and concrete steps of Lewisohn Stadium for conditioning andlearning to become a varsity Lacrosse player.

I always desired to become an architect, but the one free tuition school for architecture in NewYork City at that time was Cooper Union, and I never made it past the “waiting list.” Accepted toCity College School of Engineering, I told my parents that I would go to Delahanty Institute tostudy drafting, however they insisted that I was going to college. After all, like so many others, Iwas to be the first member of both families to go to college. So, reluctantly, I commenced my col-lege career at CCNY. I drifted from Engineering, which I detested, to Liberal Arts because my Eng-lish professor said that I belonged in Liberal Arts as, in his opinion, I wrote so well. I toyed withEducation, but dropped that because I had an early, since corrected, lisp, and I was told that youcouldn’t pass the teaching exam with a lisp.

As for my education, you might say that my major course of studies was the sport of Lacrosse.There are nights that I wake up in a deep sweat wondering how I even got through City Collegewith a B-minus average when I never seemed to study or be ready for the occasional exam. I wonderhow I got through the Thursday afternoon Geology class which was scheduled right after the twohour recess after lunch, when my fellow Lacrosse buddies and I would spend the time in LewisohnStadium improving upon our stick handling abilities. Despite that, we never had a winning record,playing mostly against teams that were stocked with players from high schools that had alreadybeen playing Lacrosse, and the West Point (Army) “B” team, which was in so much better conditionthan our crop of tenement players.

The one class that I can remember vividly, and which seemed to have so much impact on my futurelife was a class in the afternoon of the fall session of my senior year, “State and Local Government,”taught by an African-American professor with the name of “Davis,” It was the year of “Brown v.the Board of Education,” argued by the inimitable Thurgood Marshall, Esq. in the Supreme Courtof the United States, while the great John A. Davis, Esq. argued against the integration of schoolsby blacks. Prof. Davis was involved in writing the historical brief in that case! Coincidentally, Iwas introduced to Judge Marshall when working in the United States Courthouse in Foley Squarefor the Federal Trade Commission after he had been appointed to the Circuit Court of Appeals byPresident Lyndon Johnson. I will never forget the enormous hand that shook my diminutive hand,and am reminded of it every time that I walk into the alcove of my home where the magnificentcarved glass “Justice Thurgood Marshall award,” which I received four days after his death hangsproudly.

Parathentically, might I add as an aside that I knew so little about the goings on in City College,other than Lacrosse, through no fault of its great educators, during my four year passage throughits great halls and classrooms, that during one of my highly publicized murder trials in Suffolk

County, seated aside me, as an expert witness, was one of the most prominent medical examinersin the world, without me ever knowing until I attended the fifttieth anniversary of our graduationthat he had been the President of the class of 1955!

Judge Stuart Namm (Ret)[email protected] Marshview RoadHampstead, NC 28443

Tel: 910 2701405

Joseph G. Owen, B.A., L.L.B.: majored in social sci-ences. He was also a member of the Delta Alpha fraternity andWebb Patrol. He was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in theUnited States Army Infantry in June, 1955.

He received his L.L.B./Doctor of Laws from Fordham Uni-versity School of Law in 1959. In 1957, he graduated from theBasic and Advanced Infantry Officers School, located in FortBenning, Georgia; he also graduated from the Basic and Ad-vanced Artillery Officers School in Fort Sill, Oklahoma in1966.

From 1974-1984, Joseph was the Town Justice of the town ofWallkill. From 1985-1993, he served as the Surrogate of Orange County and Acting Supreme CourtJustice of the 9th JD. He served as the Supreme Court Justice of the 9th JD from 1994-2010. JudgeOwen retired from his Supreme Court position in January 2010. He remains active as a JudicialHearing Officer of Supreme Court, is Special Counsel to the Owen Law Firm and the Patrick S.Owen Law Firm, in Goshen, NY. Judge Owen also has his own Arbitration and Mediation practice.

Judge Owen is a former member of the 170th Artillery Bn (1958-1968); the Bn Adjutant (1958-1965); the Hg & Svc Battery Commander (1965-1968) in Newburgh, NY; the 156th Artillery Bn(1968-1970); Bn Motor Officer in Kingston, New York; he was discharged as a Major in 1970.

Judge Owen is a current member of the New York State Supreme Court Justice Association; theNew York State Trial Lawyers; the Orange County Bar Association; the New York State MagistratesAssociation; and the Orange County Magistrates Association. He is also a member of the KiwanisClub (1980-present); the Circleville Fire Co. (1965-present); the Knights of Columbus (1965-pre-sent); the American Legion (1985-present); and the 4H Cooperative Extension (1982-present). Heis a former member of the District Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America (1958-1961); amember of the Executive Committee of the Hudson Delaware Council (1961-1965); and OrangeCounty Mental Health (1973-1980).

Judge Owen is a recipient of the Liberty Bell Award (May 2009), given by the Orange County BarAssociation; a 50 Year Certificate from the Orange County Bar Association (2009); a 33 Year Cer-tificate from 4H (2014); and a 50 Year Certificate from the Circleville Fire Co. (2015); and LifeMember of the American Legion (2014).

He has been married to his wife Patricia for 53 years; they have five children and nineteen grand-children.

Memories: “The fraternity and ROTC.”

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 59Circleville, NY 10919

Office Phones: 845-294-5001; 845-692-8000Home Phone: 845-361-2761

Dr. Leo Parnes, B.E.E., B.M.E.: grew up in Brooklyn, New York and attended Eastern DistrictHigh School. At City, he was a member of the Photography Club and the Biology Club. He received awards

for his efforts in both math and French. He graduated from PCOM in 1968, and is still active as a physician.

Leo is currently a member of AOA and ACOFP, and a fellow of ACOFP.

Home Phone: 718-968-9346

Alvin (Al) Perlman, B.A., M.A.: was an Englishmajor, and was active as the following: Chancellor andChaplain and National Council Chancellor of the Sigma BetPhi fraternity; a member of the Literary Society; AssociateCopy Editor, Associate News Board a member of the edi-torial board of The Campus; delegate of the IFC; a memberof the Inter Club Board; and a member of the Microcosmstaff.

After graduation, he received his M.A. from the FletcherSchool of Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University inMedford, Massachusetts in 1970. In 1976, he completed theInternational Relations Program of the Royal College of

Defence Studies in London.

He was Reporter-Editor of The News-Gazette in Champaign-Urbana (Illinois) from 1955-1960.From 1960-1962, he was Editor of The Des Moines (Iowa) Register. From 1962-1979, he servedthe USIA in India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom. From 1979-1982, he was an In-formation Officer and Cultural Affairs Officer for the USIA. He served as the organization’s Coun-selor of Embassy (Romania) from 1982-1984. From 1984-1986, he was the Policy Officer of theOffice of European Affairs for the USIA (Soviet Union, Eastern and Southern Europe). From 1987-1991, he was Editor of the School System Newsletter in Winchester, Virginia.

He has been a member of the following organizations: Foreign Service Retirees Association ofFlorida (1994-present); the American Foreign Service Association (1970-present); the Delray BeachKiwanis Club (1994-present); the Kiwanis Club of Winchester, Virginia (1986-1993); and theCCNY Alumni Association’s Palm Beach Branch.

Alvin’s hobbies are bowling, and lecturing on the role of foreign service and public diplomacy ininternational relations. His plans for the future include remaining active in lecturing, writing, andtraveling. Alvin and his wife, Ellen, live in Delray Beach, Florida.

Fondest Memories: “Writing about college events for The Campus.”

Home Address: 1717 Homewood Boulevard Apt. 145Delray Beach, FL 33445


Donald S. Pitkof, B.A., M.B.A.: was a member of LASAK ’55 House Plan and a member of theGamma Eta Sigma fraternity. He graduated from CCNY with a degree in Production Management. He re-

ceived his M.B.A. from Farleigh Dickinson in 1970. Donald retired from his career as an industrial engineer

in 1995. He is a former member of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers.

Home Address: 111 Montebello Commons Drive Apt. 118Suffern, NY 10901

Ira J. Raab, B.B.A: grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. After graduating from SewardPark High School, he earned his undergraduate degree in business from CCNY. He received his J.D. from

Brooklyn Law School in 1957. He received his M.P.A. from New York University in 1959, and his M.S.

from Long Island University in 1961. He has also attended courses at New York Law School (1961), and

the Citizen’s Criminal Justice Academy (2007). He also received his M.B.A. from Adelphi University in

1990.

Before his retirement in 2003, Ira had a long and varied career in law. He began as pro-bono counsel for the

Federal Trade Commission, aiding financially challenged clients. In 1975, he became an arbitrator at the

American Arbitration Association. From 1976-1996, he was a Law Guardian at the Family Court in Nassau

County. He served as Assigned Counsel Plan on Supreme & Criminal Court Panels of the Appellate Division,

First Department. For twenty-six years (1970-1996), Ira was an Arbitrator of the Small Claims Court of the

Civil Court of New York County. He worked as an arbitrator in the Small Claims Court and regular day

court of the District Court of Nassau County from 1978-1996. He moved on to the Nassau County Bar As-

sociation’s Speakers’ Bureau in 1983, and remained there till 1991. For three years (1982-1985), he instructed

paralegal courses in Landlord/Tenant Law at School District 15. He taught paralegal courses at Briarcliffe

College from 1997-1998.

Ira was an Administrative Law Judge of the NYC Parking Violations Bureau from 1991-1993. From 1977-

1996, he served as a Special Master in the Supreme Court of New York County. As such, he heard and de-

cided Civil Procedural Motions. Since 1982, he has been a Small Claims Assessment Review Hearing Officer

in the Supreme Court of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. In 1976, he was a Trial Commissioner of the NYC

Correction Department, where he presided over departmental trials. He was Pro-Bono Counsel of the NYC

Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, where he represented indigent police officers on personal and legal

matters.

In 1977, Ira served as the U.N. Delegate to the International Conference on Human Rights. He was Counsel

for Parking Enforcement and Traffic Control Agents, C.W.A., Local 1182. From 1970-1981, he was General

Counsel of Richmond County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. In 1970, Ira was Counsel

to the investigative hearings into conditions at the Willowbrook State School, a state mental hospital. From

1963-1970, he was Assistant Corp. Counsel for the City of New York’s Tort Division, where he defended

the city and city agencies in tort cases, and their employees in criminal cases.

From 1961-1963, he was Staff Counsel at the U.S. Small Business Administration, where he handled loans

and actions. In 1959, he was Counsel to the New York City Corrections Department; he handled departmental

trials and revised departmental rules and regulations. In 1958, he was an Agent at the Westchester County

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. From 1997-1999, Ira was an elected Nassau County Dis-

trict Court Judge. He was the Presiding Judge of the Nassau County District Court from 2000-2001. That

same year, he was also elected President of the Board of Judges of the Nassau County District Court. From

2001-2003, Ira was an elected Justice of the New York State Supreme Court.

Ira has held numerous professional and community affiliations. They include: member of the Board of Di-

rectors of the Woodmere Merchants Association (1979-1994); Chair of the Businessmen’s Luncheon of the

Wall Street Synagogue (1968-1979); National Treasurer of the American Judges Association (1978-1982);

and President of the American Judges Foundation (1977-1979). He is still active as: a member of the Ethics

Committee of the American Judges Association (since 2014); a member of the Nassau County Bar Associ-

ation (since 1979); Magistrate of the City of Palm Beach (since 2014); member of the League of Women

Voters of the United States (since 2012); and a Professor of American Government at Northwood University

in West Palm Beach (since 2009).

Throughout his career, Ira has been the recipient of many awards. They include: the Consumer Protection

Award from the Federal Trade Commission (1974, 1976, 1979); the Presidential Recognition Award, given

by President Ronald Reagan (1985); Man of the Year Award by the Nassau Council of Chambers of Com-

merce (1987); Lawyer of the Month by the Nassau County Bar Association (April, 1989); and Man of the

Year by the NYS Court Reporters Association (1999).

Ira and his wife have eight children and seventeen grandchildren.

Memories: “The ten cent subway rides to City College.”

Home Address: 9452 Lantern Bay CircleWest Palm Beach, FL 33411

Home Phone: 561-514-1047 Email: [email protected]

Robert Rachlis:

I graduated from the School of Arts and Sciences inFeb’55 and majored in Physics. That prepared me for a tech.career in optics that was interesting and financially rewarding,except for several periods of unemployment, reflecting polit-ical and economic turns of society. I was in ROTC and wenton active duty April ‘55. I found long after that I might havebeen able to continue education to a Master’s degree beforeactivation. That could have resulted in better Military assign-ments.

I married my long term square-dance partner in Sept.’55, hadtwo children—both over 50 now—who live in California and

Colorado. During my working years, I was in the Military-Industrial field, Medical and Industrialmeasurement instruments, worked for a prestigious Ophthalmic Surgeon and finally in Lithographycameras for Pentium production. I have been a member of the Optical Society of America mostof my life, credit Prof. Zemansky’s optics class for much of my success, wish I had been taughtabout Fourier Transforms in the Advanced Calculus Math course for School of Arts and Science,and have been interested in following Prof. Alfano’s work in ultra-high speed optics and lasers.

I have lived in Colorado Springs for a bit over five years near my daughter and grandchildren. Wehave several classical music organizations as well as a classical radio station, an acoustical folkmusic society, The Colorado College and Univ. Col. Col. Springs, and an Astronomical Society. Iwould welcome contact, particularly with fellow Techies, in the region. I keep busy with homemaintenance, Lay Leading at local synagogue, studying some of my old texts in Physics and Math,and exercise to repair my injuries from a car accident I had in July, 2014.

I can be reached at: [email protected]

Denis Rauchman: I grew up in Yorkville and Kelly, Simpson and Tiffany streets in the south Bronx.I attended Stuyvesant H.S. and fed the pipeline into City, graduating with a BA in ’55. Some memories in-

clude protesting the Un-American committee, singing German songs on the steps of Lewisohn on Fridays

and working on the play, Stalag 17. I got an MA in English and taught English for 33 years at Lowell H.S.

in San Francisco. I became a potter and now paint plein aire on the coast and pluck my ukulele with other

seniors. Waiting for Godot.

Gil Robinov, B.A.: was a history major. He was also pres-ident of Students for Democratic Actions, Chairman of Academic

Freedom Week, and a reporter for The Campus. He was Chairman

of the 50th Anniversary Reunion Committee in 2005. He is cur-

rently Executive Managing Director of MHP Real Estate Services.

Gil and his wife Felice, of over 56 years, live in Greenwich, Con-

necticut. They have two children and four grandchildren.

Memories: “Debating the issues of the day with all different po-litical groups on campus—from extreme left to extreme right—especially on Thursday from 12-2, campus club period.”

Office Phone: 917-693-3633Email: [email protected]

David Lee Rosen, B.S., M.D.21 Windstone DriveSan Rafael, CA 94903415-472-1721Preferred contact: [email protected]

Graduated September 1955, BS (pre-med)

Born in 1929, I grew up in Far Rockaway. I spent ages 12-15 in Panama, where my father had taken a jobwith the Army Corps of Engineers in the Panama Canal. I graduated from Far Rockaway High School in1947.

1947 to 1953: I attended Brooklyn College, worked as a farm hand in upstate New York, attended ColumbiaCollege, worked as a plumber’s helper, attended the University of Wisconsin, taught and played the accordionprofessionally, and entered pilot training with the U.S. Air Force. I was given a medical discharge whenthey discovered I had rheumatoid arthritis of the spine.

1953-55: Thanks to CCNY’s tuition-free policy and a $100/month college stipend from the Air Force, I wasable to complete my bachelor’s degree at City College with a pre-med major.

1955-1956: I spent a year teaching chemistry at the University of Wisconsin.

1956-1965: I attended the University of Maryland for my medical degree and the University of Cincinnatifor my psychiatric residency and a child psychiatry fellowship.

1965-1970: I was the chief of child psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.

1970-1975: I was the director of the Marin Center for Intensive Psychotherapy in San Rafael, California.

1975-1995: I was the chief of psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael.

1995—present: Since my retirement, I volunteer at a free clinic in San Rafael and am a member of KaiserSan Rafael’s Ethics Committee.

I have five children and two grandchildren, all doing interesting things, some of which I actuallyunderstand. I have been married to Linda Steck for the past forty years, a relationship which gets better eachyear, I have replaced sailing, tennis and skiing with traveling, gardening, woodturning, reading, exercising,meditating, and playing the piano. I also attend adult-education classes at Dominican University in SanRafael and take part in a lively book group.

You asked for my fondest memories of City College. On the light side, I recall a chemistry classthat took place right after lunch. Students were forever falling asleep. The professor never commented onthe napping students but brought it to a stop when he arranged for an explosion to detonate in each class atsome unpredictable time.

On a more serious side, I am forever grateful to City College for making an education available tome financially. Without that opportunity, medical school would have only been a dream instead of the ful-filling experience it was. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Dr. Daniel E. Rosner:

I am currently Emeritus Professor [and formerly Chairman(1984-1987, 1993-1996) of the Department of ChemicalEngineering at Yale University, having retired from 45years of teaching/research there in 2014 to concentrate onresearch and rekindling my earlier activities in the graphicarts. Ironically, I was a Mechanical Engineering undergradat CCNY and, as summarized below, my subsequent “tra-jectory” (both professionally and personally) was com-pletely unforeseen.

I actually entered the CCNY from Brooklyn College, whichI had chosen because of its fine arts program/faculty—-hav-ing been a 1951 graduate of the High School of Music &

Art.(then adjacent to the CCNY campus)! But my growing interests in Mechanical- and Aeronau-tical- Engineering, combined with exciting developments in these areas following WWII, led tothis transition (perhaps to the relief of my engineering-oriented but practically self-taught NYC-born father, who repaired electromechanical devices to make a living during/following the depres-sion). At CCNY I enjoyed meeting like-minded colleagues, and was intrigued by most of myengineering courses——— I even surprised myself by becoming quite active in the student chaptersof ASME and Tau Beta Pi, as well as the launching of Tech News ——an undergrad tech-orientedstudent newspaper. Upon completing my (BS-Mechanical Engineering; undergraduate degreesumma cum laude) at CCNY, I was offered a coveted Guggenheim Fellowship to study “rocketscience” at Princeton University, receiving my PhD (Aeronautical Engineering!) in 1961. In theactive decade between about 1959 and 1969, I performed research at the intersection of aero-,chem-and mech- E at a small Princeton-based company (appropriately called AeroChem) foundedby two of my dissertation advisors along with John B Fenn( then affiliated with Mech E at PrincetonU.). It was the innovative physical chemist Fenn who was first recruited to Yale University in1967 to rebuild the ChE group and who invited me to join the Yale EAS-faculty in 1969—- therest is (as they say) history!

Professionally, my research activities have focused on convective energy and species transport,interfacial chemical reactions, phase transformations, gas dynamics, fine particle technology, andcombustion-—subjects on which I have published ca. 250 papers and an award-winning book, en-titled: Transport Processes in Chemically Reacting Flow Systems (Butterworths, 3d Printing, 1990;reprinted (Paperback with Supplements), 2000, by DOVER). A particular pleasure has been work-ing with (and following the subsequent careers of) my students. These collaborations have led toPhD-degrees for some 24 graduate students, most of whom I remain in contact with.

By Toby Carliner Sanchez, BA 1955 (History),MLS (Queens College) 20112635 Nostrand Avenue, Apt. 6D, Brooklyn, NY 11210347-702-6284 [email protected]

I grew up in St. Louis and came to New York in 1949, when mymother (a single parent before the term was invented) becamethe book buyer at Brentano’s , a once famous Fifth Avenue bookstore, now gone and forgotten.

I spent my senior year at George Washington High School inWashington Heights, and then applied to City College, becauseit was free and my mother was afraid of losing her new job. Idid not understand then how precarious her situation was. Duringmy freshman year, I felt lost and out of my league, realizing thatwhatever I had learned in my previous high schools was nothingcompared to what the students from the Bronx High School of Science knew. I was often afraid that I wouldfail at college and thought perhaps I could blame it on a brain tumor, but knew this was a weak excuse.

I entered City in September, 1951 and met my future husband, Ray Sanchez, at a party on December 24.From then I engaged very little with College life. I spent my time doing homework, practicing the piano,talking on the telephone and going out with my new best friend, who became my husband in 1954.

The professors still remembered quite clearly include Prof. Bronstein (Philosophy), Norman Rosenberg,(Government), Professors Borome and Irani (History) Prof. John C. Thirwalli (English) and especially Prof.Stewart Easton in History, with whom my husband and I became quite friendly after graduation.

I was in the Honors program, wrote a paper on “The British Union of Fascists & English National Character,”(We were all Anglophiles in those days). I did not apply to graduate school, as many of my friends did, be-cause I wanted to find out how the real world worked, and how things were accomplished. My job searchseemed long, although it was less than one month. Employers did not seem impressed by City College de-gree, and I suspected that Ivy League diplomas were more attractive, although I can’t say that I was themost glamorous candidate nor that I exuded great poise and confidence. Thanks to a telephone call by mymother, who was quite well known in the book business, I went to work at a subsidiary of Prentice Hall,called Hawthorne Books, a special imprint, awarded to the employee who had pulled The Power of PositiveThinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, literally out of a wastebasket, recognizing it as a potential money-maker.

At City I had learned how to study and at P-H, I learned how to work hard and fast. This was a place wherenot a moment was lost nor a penny wasted. Pencils were used until they could not be sharpened any more,and people did not linger or chat, but were always busy at their desks. I saw executive s literally run fromthe men’s room to get back to work and not lose a minute.

I moved on to other jobs, again in pursuit of learning more about the world, although it would have been

smarter to stay at Hawthorne Books and move up the ladder. In the summer of 1958 my husband and Ispent three months touring Europe in a Citroen 2CV. We were one of the first Americans to visit Czecho-slovakia, thanks to the fact that my aunt worked for a travel agent who pioneered opening up travel be-hind the Iron Curtain. I returned home pregnant.

I had no desire to pursue a career or a specific area of expertise via a Masters, and wanted only to stay homeand be a housewife and mother. I worked at motherhood, cooking, decorating and helping my husband withhis academic career (typing his doctoral thesis -an original and 4 perfect carbon copies - his articles, his re-sume, etc. as he pursued tenure at various universities. We moved from C. W. Post College, to the Universityof Puerto Rico, to Fairleigh Dickinson University, to City College and finally Hunter College, where hestayed until he retired in1990.

Our children, now in middle age, are Rachel, a teacher, who lives in Staten Island, and Joe, alandscaper/building designer, who lives in Woodstock. There are five grandchildren.

Although busy with children, I resumed my interest in how the world works by joining the League of WomenVoters in Queens, becoming one of the founder of the League in San Juan, Puerto Rico, becoming active inanti-Vietnam war activities in Morris County, becoming a parent association founder and president whenwe lived in the Bronx, and a neighborhood association activist and president in Brooklyn. I began a fulltime career in the non-profit world in 1974 at the Community Service Society, worked for Deputy MayorHerman Badillo for awhile, and then at several other nonprofits until I started doing free lance proposalwriting in 1993. At one of my jobs I researched and wrote detailed profiles of the populations and historiesof six Brooklyn neighborhoods (Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Crown Heights, Sunset Park, Red Hookand Williamsburg), before the advent of the internet, when every fact is at one’s fingertips. These “Neigh-borhood Profiles” are still available in college libraries and at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Along theway my husband and I founded and ran a community garden in which lasted from 1993 to 2011.

In 2011 I received s an MLS from Queens College, specializing in archives. I am now the voluntary archivistand historian at the East Midwood Jewish Center, where I have been the co-president for the past two years.I wrote the proposal which put our congregation on the National and New York Registers of Historic Prop-erties, which then resulted in a $409,000 grant to restore the stained glass windows. My interest in my fam-ily’s history led to my becoming in 2010 the editor of DOROT, the Journal of the Genealogical Society ofNew York, a job I still hold. Also, I teach an annual course at New York University on how to start andoperate a no n profit organization.

Thank goodness for all the required courses at City, because I had no idea in 1951 what I wanted to take orwhat to major in. I now recall these courses, especially the history sequence, as the best part of my CityCollege education. Of course, much was missing from the history curriculum: Asia, Africa, a serious lookat the economics of slavery, at colonialism, or the role of Jews in European history (in a school with a mostlyJewish faculty and Jewish student body). Quite likely the curricula at other college s were equally blandand sanitized in the 1950s. I am truly grateful for everything I learned and was exposed to at City College.

Bernard Schiffer, B.S.: studied bacteriology, and was amember of the varsity track team (hurdles)—he earned a major let-

ter for his efforts—and president of Tau Delta Phi. He went on to

attend New York University. He was Manager of Sales Training at

Warner Lambert during his career. Since his retirement in pharma-

ceuticals and retail, he was active as the Executive Director of 99

Cent Only Stores’ Administrative Service & NMPG. Bernard re-

tired from 99 Cent Only Stores in 2013.

Bernard is a former member of the Rockland County Youth Boardof Directors and former Chairman of the Ramapo Rec. Dept. He iscurrently a library volunteer at Brentwood Public Library, and theCo-Chairman of the Brandeis Mens Groups. He also actively sup-ports the FIDF (Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces).

Bernard and his wonderful wife Terrie have four great sons—Eric, Dan, Rich, and Tom—and two wonderfuldaughters-in-law, Karen and Leah. Bernard and Terrie also have five great grandkids—another is due inApril. Bernard is enjoying the beautiful weather in L.A.

Memories: “Bridge playing in the lunch room; the quadrangle; great teachers and great friends.”

Home Address: 410 S. Gretna Green WayLos Angeles, CA 90049-4010

David Sherman, B.S.: I was born and raised in the Bronx,graduated from Bronx Science High School, and went to C.C.N.Y.

because that was all we could afford. Thank God City was there for

me! After graduating City Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. degree in lib-

eral arts, with a psychology major, I went on to Columbia Law

School, where I was a Law Review editor and earned a J.D. degree.

After seven years in private practice in Manhattan, I joined General

Electric, Co. and was counsel for five different company components

in New York, Phoenix, San Jose, and Rockville, Maryland, until re-

tirement in 1996.

Along the way, I acquired a wonderful wife, Harriet Somers (B.S.Ed.,C.C.N.Y. ’57), two terrific children, and five delightful grandkids.For about ten years, I was a director of the Information TechnologyAssociation of America.

My fondest C.C.N.Y. memories are:

Meeting my beloved wife at a Phi Ep Pi fraternity party with her House Plan group;

Yelling “Allegaroo Gara” at City basketball games;

Learning to speak German by singing German songs in Professor Susskind’s outdoor classes inLewisohn Stadium;

The Annual C.C.N.Y. Bear Mountain Boat Ride up the Hudson River;

Helping to produce the C.C.N.Y. humor magazine, Mercury;

Prowling the cafeteria for volunteers for Psych. 51 experiments;

Haircuts in the Army Hall basement.

I also remember, but not so fondly:

The class registration and used book zoo every semester;

Professor Shelby Robinson desperately trying to teach calculus, but with virtually no success.

Home Address: 1077 30th St. NWWashington, DC 20007

Home Phone: 202-338-5527

Dr. Howard Sorkin, B.S., M.S., Ph.D.: was a chem-istry major and member of the Baskerville Chemistry Society.He went on to receive his Master’s degree in chemistry fromCornell University in 1957, and a Ph.D. in 1960. He was theWilliam S. Merrill Research Assistant at Cornell Universityfrom 1955-1959.

He then worked as a research scientist, specializing in poly-mers, liquid crystals, and electronic displays. He was a SeniorMember of the Technical Staff at RCA from 1969-1976. Hewas a Senior Scientist at Phillips Research from 1980-1996.He retired in 1996.

Howard is a former member of the American Chemical So-ciety (1955-1985). He is the owner of 17 patents and has published papers in professional journalson liquid crystals.

Memories: “Walking up Convent Avenue, through the Main Gate, was a great thrill and honor fora poor boy from the Southeast Bronx. Registering for classes—watching classes open and closeand reopen was both a challenge and a thrill. Putting together a schedule was an achievement. Beingable to buy used books.”

Home Address: 6842 Rienzo StreetLake Worth, FL 33467


Martin J. Stahl, B.A., M.A.: was an economics major. Hewas a member of the Student Council and was the Business Man-ager of the Observation Post. He earned his Master’s degree atColumbia University.

Martin was the Personnel Officer for the U.S. Atomic EnergyCommission from 1959-1972, and worked at other federal agen-cies for thirty-one years. Since 1995, he has been a lecturer onbusiness and management subjects at Empire State College.

Martin and his wife Nina live in Manhattan. They have two chil-dren, Keren and Alana, and four grandchildren. As a hobby, Mar-tin collects stamps and coins. He enjoys traveling and, althoughretired, he continues to work for Empire State College fromhome.

Fondest Memories: “I enjoyed my college experience.”

Home Address: 325 E. 79th St. Apt. 8ANew York, NY 10075-0983

Charles Steinberg: starting in 1988, I was Presi-dent of the Broadcast and Professional Company ofSony Electronics, Inc., with the responsibility for mar-keting and development of products and systems for thebroadcast and business/industrial markets in the UnitedStates.

Effective July 1, 1999, I retired from Sony and thenserved as a consultant to Sony Electronics. I am an ad-visor to both the eye IO and Vioozer Corporations anda member of the Board of Directors of Plug and Play. Iam also a consultant to other electronic companies.

I was an Executive in Residence for the GraduateSchool of Management at the University of Californiaat Davis, California.

Starting in 1988, I spearheaded the transition of the Broadcast and Professional business unit froma product-oriented group to one that focuses on total systems for the broadcast and professionalmarket. As a result, Sony has become a leading provider of systems solutions to the broadcast andproduction, business and industrial, government, medical, and education markets. I served as Chair-man of the Board and CEO of Sony Cinema Products Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary en-gaged in providing products to the motion picture industry. I also served as Chairman of the Boardand CEO of Sony Trans Com, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary serving the airline industry withproducts and systems for in-flight entertainment.

Prior to joining Sony in 1988, I was with the Ampex Corporation for 25 years, serving in variouspositions, including president, and chief executive officer and Chairman of the Board.

I have received three Emmy Awards. The first was the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime AchievementAward Emmy, which was presented “in recognition of the Broadcast and Professional Division ofSony Electronics. The Emmy commemorates his vision, leadership and contributions to the worldof digital television.” A second Emmy Award was for production and broadcast of the first four Na-tional Football League (NFL) games in High Definition Television. The third Emmy Award wasfor technical efforts at the Games of the XXVII Olympics in Australia.

I was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Broadcasters Association (NAB)Convention in 1999 from Broadcasting and Cable in recognition of contributions to electronic tech-nology during a professional lifetime. I was also presented a Lifetime Achievement Award fromthe Association of Imaging Technology and Sound (ITS). In December 2008, I was inducted intothe Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame.

I am a Lifetime Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and a recipient ofthe Presidential Proclamation Award from that organization.

I served on the Board of Trustees for the American Film Institute for ten years. I was also on theBoard of Trustees for the Vision Fund, a charitable organization dedicated to improving the life ofvisually impaired individuals. I received an award from this organization for “superior achieve-ments” and “professional excellence and social involvement”.

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York in 1955and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology in 1957. I reside in Woodside, California with my wife, Helen. My three grown childrenand seven grandchildren also reside in California.

Home Address: 235 Crest RoadWoodside, CA 94062

Home Phone: 650-780-0223

Bernard Tabachnik, B.S.Ed., M.A.: was an edu-cation major, a member of the Education Society, and House

Plan. He has retired from his career as an Adjunct Professor

in the CUNY system.

Home Address: 6 Ermeti PlaceEnglewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

Caroline Townes (nee Watkins)

Caroline Townes is a native New Yorker who was born in the Bronx and raised by a devoted auntand uncle. The family moved to Jamaica, Queens in 1946. After graduating from Morris HighSchool, she attended the City College of New York and received a Bachelor of Science degree inEducation in 1955. Now married, her immediate family moved to Laurelton in 1965, where sheraised four children; and still resides as an active member in the community.

In 1959, she became employed by the Board of Education as a Common Branch Teacher andTeacher of Library for grades 1-8. In 1979 she received her Master of Library Science degree fromQueens College and began teaching at Sarah J. Hale High School. She was the school’s librarianuntil her retirement in 1991.

Over the years, Ms. Townes has served her community in various capacities to help make Laureltona better place to live. She completed training as an Auxiliary Police Officer in 1980 and for fiveyears performed duties as the liaison/main contact officer for the Laurelton Auxiliary Police, doingmonitoring and surveillance.

Upon retiring in 1991 from the Board of Education, she became more intensely involved in com-munity work/activities. Interested in wanting to continue to help youth, she worked as a schoolvolunteer, tutoring and doing substitute teaching at PS38Q; in June of 1997, she was presentedwith an Appreciation Plaque for her dedication and service to the school.

Wanting to do more, she became active with the Federated Blocks of Laurelton, where she took onthe responsibilities of Recording Secretary and Supervisor. A member of the Education Committee,under the Directorship of Barbara Jackson, a Saturday Peer Tutoring Program was developed forgrades 1-8. Applying a friendly smile and lots of loving care, she coordinated the program and su-pervised the curriculum. Local youth were recruited and selected to become student-tutors provid-ing assistance in reading, writing, math, and special assignments. The program grew from aSaturday storefront operation in 1989 to a year round program handling the needs of as many as50 students in 2005.

The Education Committee was two-fold. It raised monies for scholarships and canvassed the localgrade schools, middle, junior and high schools for names of students who met the following criteriaregarding academic achievement, most improved and community service. Each selected studentwas awarded a certificate, bonds, or a monetary incentive, or a scholarship.

Memories: “I enjoyed the yearly boat rides to Bear Mountain.”

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her way to address the Education Society

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