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Tech Times

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The Magazine of The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation

Fall 2014

Spotlight on Young Scholars

Tech Times

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The Magazine of The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation

2 Alumni Events 2014-15 4 From the Alumni Foundation President 5 Principal’s Letter 5 Lifetime Giving Society 22

Contents Inside Tech

Fall 2014

6 10 Research Stars

Did you conduct college-level, publishable research in your Tech days? These young Technites do.

Classic, Revived

Tech’s iconic auditorium gets a 21st century upgrade.

“If you have a niche to be found, you will find it here.” — Emma Parsons ’15 second generation Technite

12 16 Major Achievers

Tech’s majors system gives students a major advantage.

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Money Man

Innovator

Larry Felix ’76 makes more of it than any of us.

Six years out of Tech, he invented the digital camera.

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Engineering Week Regatta:

Sink or Swim

Who said engineering is a dry subject? Once a year at Brooklyn Tech, it’s very, very wet. That would be the annual Cardboard Boat Regatta, the capstone event of Engineering Week, a week of activities to raise awareness of engineering. In the Regatta, 200 Technites aim to demonstrate their design-and-build prowess, not in the classroom but in the Tech swimming pool. The object of the Regatta is as simple as it is absurd: construct a boat entirely out of cardboard and duct tape. Then paddle it up and down the pool’s length better than anyone else, without capsizing or imploding. Pirate boats, rubber duck boats, ungainly contraptions of 2

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every conceivable shape – 60 entries lined up, and all floated, for a few seconds at least. Many actually completed. Not surprisingly, the full range of Tech ingenuity surfaced in all aspects of the competition: design, construction, paddling and navigation techniques and – possibly above all – the scientific principles each team chose to apply. A sampling of these: “The principles of density and resistance.” “Common sense – a point in the front and narrow in the back.” “The physics of water motion.” “We wanted to keep in mind the point of inertia, and balance all the forces.” “Perpendicularly corrugated cardboard for maximum strength.”

Class of 2014

A Barclays Sendoff

The entrance exam: “We calculated Force B, buoyancy, and Force G, gravity, to determine Sigma F – the net force.” The winning team used a simpler approach: “We measured it so it would stay together,” said sophomore Aida Anesmi.

One step closer to sheer simplicity was the strategy of a team of freshmen, which didn’t win but did finish. “We used hope,” said team member Angelina Tham.

Providing Access, Maintaining Excellence

Legislation to revise the admissions criteria for Brooklyn Tech and seven other specialized high schools, by breaking with the historically successful use of a single fair entrance exam, was introduced and tabled in the last session of the State Legislature. The bill is expected to be re-introduced once the Legislature reconvenes. The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation has taken the lead in both pointing out the bill’s deep flaws, and in making recommendations to attract more students from underrepresented communities to the specialized high schools. To read the Alumni Foundation position paper and learn more, visit www.bthsalumni.org.

Gerry Goffin ’57 Gerry Goffin ’57, a lyricist who with then-wife Carole King wrote some of the most enduring songs of the 1960s including “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?,” died on June 19 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 75. Goffin met King in 1958 when they were both students at Queens College. Their marriage and divorce were the basis of Broadway’s Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Their work has been recorded by 1960s megastars including the Beatles, the Supremes and Aretha Franklin. Goffin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 – the only Technite enshrined there. Rebecca T. Kaplan ’09 3

Calendar of Events

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An Outstanding

Larry Cary ’70

High School

The 2013-2014 academic year was a good one for Brooklyn Tech. Of 20,000 high schools nationwide reviewed by U.S. News & World Report, Tech ranked 60th. The racial and ethnic makeup of the student body may have changed from your era, but as it was for you, Tech provides the children of working and middle class families with an outstanding education that enables them to succeed in college and in life. In the pages of this issue, you will meet some of them. I suspect you will marvel, as I did, at their talents and achievements. Seventy-nine percent of the student body belongs to a minority group, with Asian American students the largest in number. Eighteen percent are African-American or Hispanic. Two thirds of the students speak a foreign language at home. All are admitted, as you were, on the basis of a competitive exam. From Randy Asher Nearly 30,000 students sit for it. Tech, the largest of the specialized high schools, can still accommodate only 1,350 freshmen each year. Brooklyn Tech has long been a place where immigrants Tech students rank among New York or the children of immigrants can begin to achieve the City’s highest academic achievers. Last American dream by challenging themselves to compete year’s class had an average combined SAT with the best and brightest amongst their peers. Our curmath and reading score of 1250, which rent students reflect a population that is often not what is puts the school among the top 10 in expected when looking at institutions with our historical the City. Tech’s academic and athletic record of success. Over 65% of them are eligible for free or reduced lunch, teams performed very well this year. because their family income is at or below poverty line. In 70% of our The Mock Trial Team won the city-wide households, the primary language spoken is one other than English. These championship. The Debate Team took students, most of whom may be the first in their family to attend college, first place in several categories at the New are the backbone of the Tech experience. The unparalleled support of our York State championships. The RobotAlumni and an outstanding faculty create an environment that is transforics Team won the city-wide competition mational in their lives. and scored silver in the national finals. Iconic courses like Foundry and IP have evolved through the years as The Girls Lacrosse Team won the cityhave the majors themselves. What has remained consistent is the level of wide championship as did the Boys Cross rigor to which students are exposed, the alignment of our instructional Country Team. objectives to the expectations of colleges and universities, the insight shared You have the right to feel proud of what by our partners in industry to help craft the next generation of skilled emTech is doing today. Alumni help has ployees and the recognition of student accomplishments surpassing local, provided critical support to promoting state and national benchmarks. The students, like the faculty and adminisTech’s academic and athletic excellence. tration, are aware that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Technites and I thank you for what you have done to faculty emeriti have changed the world for generations. help. Please get involved with our programs to enable the next generation of Oh, by the way: while we know that students to be even more successful. You can do this by mentoring research too much emphasis can be placed on students, hiring interns, contributing financial support, creating partnercomparing one school to another based ships in your industry or serving in an advisory capacity to one of our simply on ranking, you will be pleased academic sequences. to know that Tech scored higher in the On behalf of our students, parents, and faculty thank you for your connational rankings than Stuyvesant. (60th tinued support. vs 69th) Yes, it was a very good year! Randy J. Asher Larry Cary ’70 Principal President Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation

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A select group of Technites is conducting college-level research. They’re designing robots, studying cancer and getting a head start on their futures.

igh school students as young as 16 and 17 conducting scientific research at a college level, and getting published? Where else but…Brooklyn Tech. Thanks to the generosity of Josh Weston ’46 and his wife Judy, the Weston Research Scholars Program has created this extraordinary opportunity for 62 Technites since its 2012 inception. The first of these young scholars entered college this fall.

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In a program developed and run by Alumni Foundation Chief Educational Officer Dr. Mathew Mandery, students pair with a mentor-teacher at Tech and a college professor, scientist or engineer to conduct original research. Many Weston projects have won and excelled in competitions and been published and presented at scientific conferences. All of this takes place in addition to a full course load.

Weston Scholars have joined research teams at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, City University Research Center, NYU, NYU-Polytechnic, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Mount Sinai Hospital. On the following pages, a sampling of these astonishingly sophisticated research endeavors and the Technites conducting them:

Shadae BoakyeYiadom ’14 Major: Gateway to Medicine

College: Polytechnic Institute of New York University Weston project: Develop a safer, more precise and environmentally friendly tranquilizing dart gun to restrain aquatic animals. Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Jonathan Cheng ’14 Major: Mechanical Engneering College: Drexel University

Weston project: Design and build a first-ever, two speed transmission for use in the robotics team competition. It propelled Tech all the way to the world robotics competition finals.

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Sarah Panitz ’15 Major: Electro-Mechanical Engineering Weston project: Editor’s note: We’d better let Sarah explain this herself: “Design and construct an underwater exploratory vessel that moves more biomimetically similar to eels in anguilliform locomotion. The fuel cell I am holding here, through the process of hydrolysis, will convert chemical energy into electrical energy as a power source for the drone eel.” Polytechnic Institute of New York University. NYC Science & Engineering Fair Environmental Quest Award, 2013

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Emma Costa ’14 Major: Gateway to Medicine

College: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Weston project: Glioblastoma research in Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Human Oncology Pathogenesis Program, under a prominent neurosurgeon: “My work was focused on understanding the relationship between two key receptors, EGFR and PDGFRA, in glioblastoma tumor growth. I worked with professionals in both the clinical and research fields.” The project won third prize in a citywide science competition.

Alexander Chong ’15 and Eva Justo ’15 Majors: Biological Sciences/Chemical Engineering Weston project: Investigate levels and diversity of bacteria species in four different estuaries after Hurricane Sandy to assess ecological recovery. Kingsborough Community College. This project won first place in a statewide scholastic science competition.

Victoria Majarali ’14 Major: Biological Sciences College: Vassar College

Weston project: Observe the biodiversity of plant species in Brooklyn Bridge Park through identification of bio-indicators.

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Revival of A Classic The auditorium gets a facelift

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Mayors LaGuardia, Lindsay, Giuliani and Bloomberg have graced its stage. Directors James Cameron and Spike Lee have visited. Probably every Technite can remember their first day in our imposing, impressive auditorium. The three-story hall, replete with historic chandeliers and marble flooring, fills alumni with nostalgia. Tech’s 3,000-seat auditorium is the third largest in New York City. It’s in the final stages of a multi-year multi-million dollar upgrade to renovate it with state-of-the-art audio, lighting and stage area improvements. Funding was provided by the New York City Council and the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office. The auditorium is increasingly used to house community and public events, and this renovation will make it more accessible for them. The final stage of the renovation will add air conditioning so it can truly be a year-round resource for students and the community. (Remember sweating in 90 degree weather through those last end-of-year activities each June? No more, soon!) With the renovation, all orchestra seats have been reupholstered, and the three surviving iconic chandeliers were totally refurbished and refitted with energy efficient LED bulbs.

“I remember… Seeing the effects of the hydrogen bomb displayed on a screen.” DOYLE WARREN ’59

“I remember… How unbelievably hot it got. Everyone wore shorts under their gowns at graduation.” NAZARY NEBELUK ’10

“I remember… ‘Look to your left. Look to your right. One of those guys won’t graduate.’” Dr. Steven Bornfeld, ’69.

Major Advantage It’s always been about the majors.

rooklyn Tech has long set the expectation that students pursue an academic major, just as in college, regardless of whether they lean to the sciences and technology or the humanities.

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Tech prepares students, as Principal Randy Asher likes to note, for careers and professions that may not yet exist. Accordingly, the actual majors have changed significantly over time to keep pace with a changing world. Principal Asher has been carrying out an updating and revising of the majors for the 21st century. Many students and their parents say it is the majors program that attracted them to the school. For 2014, Tech offered its students a choice of 16 majors, listed at right. How many of these do you recognize? Is your major on the list, or has it gone the way of the foundry and the Step V block?

Aerospace Engineering Architectural Engineering Biological Sciences Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering College Prep Electro-Mechanical Engineering Environmental Science Research Gateway to Medicine Industrial Design Law & Society Mathematics Media Physics Social Science Research Software Engineering

Meet some of the remarkable young people excelling in their majors… Ejiro Ojeni ’15 Environmental Science Comment: “Environmental Science is not a tree-hugging major!” Career plan: Combat air pollution as an environmental engineer: “I’m looking for solutions.” Accomplishments so far: At age 11, successfully lobbied local officials for more street litter baskets. At Tech, collected Gowanus Canal water samples to test bioremediation agents.

Admonition: “We have to get rid of the mindset that we can trash the planet with no consequences.”

Jacob Mazor ’14

(University of Chicago)

Mathematics

Career Plan: Researcher and professor of particle physics. Recent Achievements: Captain, math team. Wrote two 30-page research papers, one on orbital mechanics, one

on an infinite grid of resistors. Tech taught him: To communicate more effectively: “Scientists need to know how to communicate their ideas and projects.”

Keri Huang ’15 Mathematics Designer: Keri designed (and is shown wearing) her class year’s sweatshirt for the math major. Researcher: Her first

research paper, a 30-page exploration into finding patterns in generalized complex functions, won a silver medal in the NYC Math Fair. She presented it to a judging panel of three professors. Volunteers with: NYPD, Red Cross, NYC Marathon, Educational Alliance, tutoring math. An American Story: Keri emigrated to the U.S. from China at age 12.

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Michelle Cera ’14

(University of California, Berkeley)

Social Science Research

Athlete scholar: Played on varsity soccer and lacrosse teams; tutored elementary school students. Research areas of interest: Race and gender issues; income and education inequality. Interviewed 90 Tech students and 30 teachers for a paper examining effects of conversion of the old Board of Education into a mayoral agency.

Rebecca Baron ’14

(McCaulay Honors College, City University of NY)

Biological Sciences

Inventor: On a summer internship at Mount Sinai Medical Center, arranged via the Alumni Foundation, designed a cell phone app for hepatitis C patients to track their condition. Presented it to a board of physicians, who approved it for production and use. Student Athlete: Top three borough-wide champion runner (5K and 3,000 meter). Neuroscience: Started studying the brain in 7th grade (including watching videos of brain surgeries on YouTube). Aspires to be a neuro- or pediatric surgeon. Service Personified: Was president of Beta, a community service club at Tech; chaired the National Honor Society’s mentoring committee, which introduced middle school students to Tech. 14

Mohammad Al Amin ’15 Software Engineering Renaissance Student: Violin-playing, programming-whiz cheerleader; runs an IT support business. Ask for his contact info, and he’ll hand you a business card. Has never found time for a formal lunch or free period in three years at Tech. Quote: “Many people see programming as lines of code. It’s really about using tools to create something. Programming is art.”

Zaria Holcomb ’15 Biological Sciences Renaissance Student: Volunteer judge in a court system peer justice program; manager of Tech’s football team; hospital volunteer in Kingston, Jamaica; placed third in a citywide poetry reading contest. Career plan: Become an emergency medicine plastic surgeon treating victims of war and terrorism. Observation: “I love the diversity of Tech. There are students from around the world here. It makes me feel worldly.”

Reaz Rahman ’15* and Shaeed McLeod ’14 (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Electro-Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Science *Weston Research Scholar

After school: Reaz tutors middle schoolers in math — and college students in physics. Shaeed volunteers at a nursing home. Powerful plans: Reaz’s plan – help people in power-poor developing countries find innovative ways to generate electricity. His plan starts with separating collected rainwater into hydrogen and oxygen. Shaeed’s plan – start a solar energy company.

Kevin Baichoo ’14 (University of Pennsylvania)

Software Engineering

Major impact: “Tech’s majors system allowed me to find my main interest: computer science.” Programmed: Fixed bugs and programmed for the Men’s Health magazine website in an Alumni Foundation-arranged internship with Rodale Publishing. How It Feels: “When I’m programming, everything else fades into the background. I am focused.” Career Plan: Become a professor doing research and working with college students: “That’s the most impact you can have.”

Emma Parsons ’15 Social Science Research 2nd Generation: Dad Donald (’69) is a Tech alum: “He’s amazed we don’t have slop cops in the cafeteria!” Why Tech is special: “If you have a niche to be found, you will find it here.” 15

Larry Profile Felix

“Many of the things we’re doing now with our currency are directly related to the physics and chemistry I studied at Tech.”

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Meet the Brooklyn Tech alum who makes more money than any of us.

arry is Director of the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing — the agency that prints our money. It’s a big job, and it’s getting bigger every year. Despite recessions, credit cards, e-payments, bitcoins and all the rest, the appetite for U.S. currency grows every year. It’s Larry’s job to meet the demand. And, in this age of digital high-tech counterfeiting, it’s an increasingly challenging and technology-based job. Who else but a Technite to handle it? Back in the day, his Tech teachers and classmates would not have predicted this career path. A College Prep major, he fully intended to become a history teacher. But there were hints, if you looked closer. Larry was captain of the Audio Visual Squad. More important, he learned — as have generations of Tech students — how to solve a problem. And so, a pattern emerged at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the agency he joined in 1991: vexed supervisors would call him into their office and say, “We have a problem, can you fix it?” Confident that his Brooklyn

He’s Larry Felix ’76, and he makes $358 billion a year.

Tech training could help him master any challenge, he would reply, “Yes. Absolutely.” And then walk out the door, clueless as to what he would do next. But not clueless for very long. As his successes grew, the scenario shifted slightly. Now, a top boss would sit him down and say, “Larry, I know you’re not an engineer, but do you think you could be our Chief Engineer?” Or, “Larry, you don’t really have the educational credentials, but can you serve as Chief Technology Officer?” “It’s a pretty darn good thing,” he says today, “that I went to Brooklyn Tech.” Pretty soon, he had climbed so high up the ladder that there was only one job left. In 2006, the Treasury Department gave him the Director’s office. And a fairly cool office it is. Most days — including the crisp fall afternoon TechTimes visited — the Presidential motorcade glides right by the ground level window. “On his way to lunch,” Larry, barely looking up, explained. Sometimes the routine varies and the President zips overhead in a helicopter. One day, this happened as Larry was receiving some dignitaries from China. The following year, when he reciprocated the visit,

his Chinese hosts apologized profusely for not matching his hospitality with a flyover by their leader. It turns out that a lot of science lies within the art of making 21st century money: The chemistry of ink and solvents. The visible and hidden physics and optics of counterfeit prevention. It’s a lot for a nonscience guy to be in charge of. It’s a good thing indeed that Larry was an attentive student during those Brooklyn Tech classes and labs. Some years back, a group of Bureau engineers and scientists met to resolve a problem bedeviling the money-makers: Something during the press plate cleanup process was unexpectedly gumming up the works by causing a severe foam buildup. Larry sat in on the session. A dim memory from Brooklyn Tech’s Chem Lab quickly came into focus. “Have you guys looked at the lauryl sulfate in the mixture?” he asked the scientists in the room. After their mouths dropped, one of them said, “That’s exactly the path we’re following. How did you know that?” Larry Felix just smiled.

MONEY MATTERS

Here are some questions Brooklyn Tech’s Money Man, Larry Felix ’76, gets asked often: Why is our money green? Nobody’s really sure. The answer comes down to, because that’s what it always was. That said, green pigment ink has long been readily available, and resists chemical and physical changes well. Plus, people are believed to associate green with warm fuzzy feelings toward the government’s strength and stability.

What does it cost to make them? Ten cents a note.

How many times would I have to fold a bill before it tears? 8,000.

Why make so much money? Over 90% of it ships out to replace aging notes How much does $1 million weigh? In $1 bills, 2,040.8 pounds. So in $100 bills, whose lifespan is over. just 20.4 pounds. How long does a bill stay in circulaHow much U.S. money circulates tion? outside U.S. borders? Almost six years for a $1 bill. More like 15 How much money does Larry make? Over 70% of it. People overseas like the green8.4 billion individual notes a year, totaling $358 for a $100 note, because it changes hands back for all kinds of reasons, while we’ve moved less often. billion. toward cashless transactions.

So the cashless economy is shrinking demand for paper notes? Actually, demand is growing 7% yearly. In part because nothing else is as anonymous. And the question Larry Felix gets asked most…

Can I have a free sample? No. 17

Talking With….

Steve Sasson: On Innovation Steve Sasson

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Few people invent something that changes the way we live. Steven J. Sassson ’68 is one of them. Just six years after graduating from Brooklyn Tech, Sasson invented the digital camera. A researcher for the world’s largest manufacturer of photographic film, Eastman Kodak Company, he cobbled spare parts and low-cost electronics components into an eight pound aluminum gadget the size of a bread box. It took him less than a year. No one at Kodak had assigned him this mission. It was just something he decided to do. 18

A recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor the United States awards to scientists, engineers and inventors, and inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Sasson was Tech’s 2013 Commencement speaker. He sat down with TechTimes after the ceremony to talk about … innovation. It was a brief conversation. A boss at Kodak asked the 24-year-old researcher to take an open-ended look at an image sensor, based on light-sensitive capacitors, that another company had just developed. No targets, expectations or directions were set. T2: So did you wake up one day and say, “I think I’ll invent the digital camera”? A.: It was a very casual kind of assignment. I thought since no one was looking and it was a very open atmosphere, “Let me see if I can capture an image [electronically].” Then I thought, “If I can do that, I’ll have to display it, and I’ll need a way to do that. Wouldn’t it be neat if I could build something like a camera? Store an image somehow, and then generate a television signal somehow and put it on a TV set.” T2: What drove you? A.: I thought I’d try to build a camera with no moving parts at all. As a kid, I loved building stuff – stuff that had no purpose. Maybe it was a little bit of the Brooklyn Tech in me. You know, “Let me try to do something really nuts here, and drive these other guys crazy.” I just thought it would be fun. T2: There had to be an intellectual challenge too. A.: I thought, “I can freeze time.” That’s what digitalization does. You take a continuous wave form, sample it and turn it into numbers that get stored in digital memory – for as long as you want. I was simply thinking about removing film from the chain and viewing images electronically. I thought that would be cool. T2: How did you break the news to your employer, the global giant of film?

be faster and better, that digital memory would shrink in size and cost, that there would be a non-volatile solid state form of memory. I couldn’t see any fundamental reason, any law of physics, saying it couldn’t happen.

T2: Kodak’s reaction covered the spectrum, from fear to ambivalence to great interest. What did it feel like to you when the time A.: I used to call it filmless photography. A came to show the bosses your invention? bad choice, right? A.: No one ever asked me how I got the thing to work – I had spent years working T2: At Kodak, definitely. Did you consider on it, all kinds of technical tricks. Nobody that before proceeding to invent? really cared about the technical effort. A.: The [first] images didn’t look good; What they cared about was the future: they were black and white. Exposure “When will it be commercializable? time was 50 milliseconds, but it took When’s it for consumers?” 23 seconds to record the information [onto tape] from the internal memory. T2: Did you know? I thought: I’m not going to endanger A.: I didn’t. I used Moore’s Law: I had anybody with this thing – it was so far 10,000-pixel images. How many pixels away. I just loved the idea of light, silicon, would be equivalent to a consumer color no moving parts, all digital. New ideas – film? Two million. So it was 200 to putting them together, could I get this to one. I asked, “When will Moore’s Law work? This was the tinkerer in me. I was predict the 200-to-one range?” That’s how so lucky to be in a place that had a lot of desperate I was. I came up with 15 to 20 [spare] parts, and smart people around me years – not even knowing if Moore’s Law to ask questions of. applied to transducers like the Charge T2: But many colleagues must have thought you a nonconformist who worked on crazy stuff all day long. How does an inventor disregard that and keep going? A.: I didn’t think about that at all. Innovators tend to think about “the problem” more than about themselves. That’s why inventors are bad dressers. (Laughs) You’re thinking about the problem, the joy of trying to solve it. I wasn’t really thinking about what people would think of me, until I started showing it and people started asking me questions. [Then] I became sensitive to the fact that this potentially could impact the business. T2: You were swimming on your own into deep uncharted waters. Where does the motivation and discipline come from to keep going? A.: Don’t feel like you have to know the answer for everything. The whole world is inventing along with you. I had to have faith that microprocessors would

Coupled imaging array I was using. (Editor’s note: it basically does, and the estimate was essentially right on the money. Sasson modestly considers this “dumb luck.” Smart luck might be more accurate.) T2: What else did they ask you? A.: In the early days, “Why would anybody want to look at a picture on a television set?” Even at the time I thought that was a bad question. We had a slide business that projected film onto a wall, much bigger than a TV set. There were many good questions: “What’s a photo album going to look like?” T2: And then there were the doubters. A.: Experts will tell you all the reasons something won’t happen. That’s their job. They know the limits of an idea. That’s what research is about. It isn’t about how things work; it’s about the ways things can’t work. I don’t have time to tell you all the reasons I heard, over 30 years, why digital cameras would never exist.

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“I just loved the idea of light, silicon, no moving parts, all digital.”

President Obama presents Steven Sasson with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation

T2: How did that not stop you in your tracks a thousand times? A.: I would say, “OK, you are way smarter than me.” I was never the smartest person in the room. I would listen to them and then I’d say, “Go with me for a second. Those three reasons you just told me why this won’t work. Just make believe somebody solved them.” And they would say, “Maybe you could do this, or maybe that.” All of a sudden, the expert’s a little bit outside the pie. Now he’s free to think a little more aggressively.

expose it for a fraction of a second, get an incredible image, store it in your camera maybe for five years. Develop it, and project it. All for about half a cent. That’s what we were trying to displace, We knew how good our system would have to be.

T2: But at first it wasn’t. Low resolution, and no easy way to show and share. A.: When we built an experimental digital camera that looked and acted a lot like today’s modern DSLRs, I asked Marketing if they could sell it and they said, “Yes, but not if it comes at the expense of one T2: How does an inventor know if his or her film camera.” They asked me, “What idea is a good one? If the invention that the economic model are you proposing for idea turns into is good? this new technology that will enhance our A.: Remember, you can’t displace a techreturn?” I couldn’t come up with a good nology unless it is as good as the technol- business model. All I knew was that we ogy you’re displacing in every aspect. And could do it, and that it indeed had several then, better in at least one. advantages over film. For the next 10 years Kodak spent a lot of money trying to T2: How did you demonstrate that in your figure out when it could happen, but they company, decades before personal computers, didn’t really want to see it happen. The cell phones, the Internet and selfies? irony was that there was more work going A.: People were very happy, thank you, on inside Kodak on digital photography with photography. Film was really good. than anywhere in the world. It was a highly profitable model that the consumer was very happy with. Think T2: What are some lessons from your experiabout it: Something this big (holds his ence that inventors can take away? fingers a few centimeters apart) you could A.: I learned over my career that not manufacture for a tenth of a cent and everyone has your technical background buy for a few cents. Put it in any camera, or experiential base, yet you have to

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convince them. That requires a different set of skills. Your idea is only as good as your explanation of it – how clearly you demonstrate it, how convincing you are. You work on an idea for five years, and you explain it to people for the first time in five minutes. And you’re disappointed that they don’t get it. Just being right is not enough. You have to tell your story. T2: Difficult for some technology-centric people to do. A.: It’s not what technical people do, but it’s so important: writing intelligently, making a presentation, letting your emotions and passions show through in a controlled way. T2: In your Commencement speech to the Tech grads, you encouraged them not to fear failure. What were you getting at? A.: Failing is wonderful. It is totally underrated. You learn so much more. Thomas Edison was asked about the thousand experiments he did before succeeding at the electric bulb: “Wasn’t that a waste of time?” His answer was, “Of course not. I know a thousand ways how not to make a light bulb.” That’s the process of success. As people see the product the end result of a success. They forget the process that led to it.

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Shadae Boakye-Yiadom ’14 Shadae’s Career Plan, As of Now: 1. Major in mechanical engineering and Japanese 2. Work in Japan for an employer that builds high-speed bullet trains (which are more common in that country). 3. Return home with the expertise she acquires in Japan; join the team that builds the first bullet train in the U.S. Co-published in the Annual Conference Proceedings Journal of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians; semi-finalist, Junior Stockholm Water Award, 2012 Jonathan Cheng ’14 Beyond the Book: Jonathan designed and built his invention from scratch, at Brooklyn Tech. He has been designing robots since age 12. “With the facilities, teachers and resources Tech provided me, I was able to understand complex engineering concepts that went beyond the book. With so many hands-on activities at Tech, I could see how concepts and formulas apply to real-life projects.” Sarah Panitz ’15 Sarah’s Typical Day: • Enter the Brooklyn Tech gates by 8 a.m. • Get home about 6 or 7 p.m. during

sports seasons • Get home about 10 p.m. during robotics season • Squeeze in 3-4 hours of homework • Get about ½ hour of free time before bedtime

woman in the room. But my mentors at Brooklyn Tech encouraged me to express my interests, and go after what I aspired to achieve. At Tech I learned to have confidence in myself.”

“I always liked to build things. The Weston program got me interested in research as well. More generally, Tech has increased my interest in STEM subjects.”

Big Plans: Their Weston project’s purpose was to explore concerns that stormcaused sewage overflows might pollute recreational waters. The study concluded that recovery levels were adequate.

Victoria Majarali ’14 Activist Scientist: Victoria collected 100 samples over three years and discovered evidence of possible soil contamination in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which she reported to the Parks Department. Emma Costa ’14 Class of 2014 Valedictorian Career Interests: Oncology and neuroscience Emma won Tech’s highest student honor, the Blue and White Award, for outstanding overall achievement; she scheduled each 10-hour day of classes and extracurricular leadership meticulously with a bound planner: “I organize my life so I don’t have to plan at the last minute.” “Being a woman in science isn’t the easiest path. Often I am the only, or the second,

Why I Give

Why I Give

Willard Archie ’61

Bonnie Kong ’08

Headed the nation’s largest minority-owned CPA firm “Tech gave me an introduction to the world. I didn’t have family members who were professionals, who could talk about architecture or engineering.” How Willard gives: “I keep up with what’s happening at Tech, and I hear good things. I’ve made a gift every year since the Alumni Foundation began.”

Alexander Chong ’15 and Eva Justo ’15

Alexander: “Tech has taught me time management skills and how to be independent.” His current interests: • On the track team • Studying telomeres* His post-Tech plan: • Earn a Ph.D. in biochemistry • Pursue a career in medicine Eva: “I have teachers who know what it means to be in a college class.” Her research resume so far: • Rutgers University • Science Research Mentoring Program, American Museum of Natural History • Black Rock Forest Consortium Her post-Tech plan: • Study biochemistry; “Get a good basis in all the sciences.” • Work in gene therapy * At the tips of chromosomes, they prevent the loss of DNA during cell division

Financial Analyst, JP Morgan Chase “Even a small donation makes a difference. I remember how $50 could buy a whole chemistry set for one class.” How Bonnie gives: Marked her first year of post-college fulltime work with her first donation: “I intend to give annually.”

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Lifetime Giving

This list reflects total lifetime giving through July 1, 2014 above $1,000. Many thanks to all the contributors who have not yet reached that level but whose contributions are making a difference at Brooklyn Tech. $1,000,000 + Isaac Heller ’43 Norman K. Keller ’54 Leandro P. Rizzuto ’56 Leonard Riggio ’58 Charles B. Wang ’62 $500,000 + Fred M. Grafton ’44 Josh S. Weston ’46 Organizations Goldman Sachs Gives Annual Giving Fund $200,000 + Erik Klokholm ’40 Harold Antler ’46 Mary & Richard Schnoor ’49 Victor Insetta ’57 Achilles Perry ’58 James Fantaci ’64 Floyd Warkol ’65 John A. Catsimatidis ’66 Organizations Con Edison $100,000 + Frederick C. Meyer ’40 Charles A. DeBenedittis ’48 Alfred Lerner ’51 Lee James Principe ’56 Michael F. Parlamis ’58 Jeffrey M. Haitkin ’62 Herbert L. Henkel ’66 Friends of Tech Richard Mack Stephen C. Mack Organizations BTHS Parent Teachers Association $50,000 + Joseph J. Jacobs ’34 Martin V. Alonzo ’48 Thomas J. Volpe ’53 Anthony J. Armini ’55 Peter A. Ferentinos ’55 Joseph J. Kaminski ’56 Richard M. Kulak ’56 William L. Mack ’57 Michael A. Weiss ’57 Robert C. Ochs ’59 Jacob Feinstein ’60 Louis H. Siracusano, Sr. ’60 Willard N. Archie ’61 Michael Minikes ’61 Rande H. Lazar ’69 Carmine A. Morano ’72 Organizations Ingersoll Rand $25,000 + John C. Siltanen ’31 Arnold J. Melloy ’40 Murray H. Neidorf ’45 Stuart Kessler ’47 David Abraham ’48 George E. Safiol ’50 Joseph M. Colucci ’54 Robert F. Davey ’58 William Sheluck, Jr. ’58 Howard Fluhr ’59 Eric Kaltman ’60 Bert Reitman ’63 Anonymous ’67 Andy Frankl ’67 Peter J. Cobos ’72 Chester Wong ’94 Class of 2011 Graduation Gift

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Friends of Tech Dorcey Chernick Jason Haitkin Penny Haitkin Betty J. Mayer Organizations American Express Foundation BTHS Alumni Long Island Chapter C. R. Bard Foundation Keyspan National Grid Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP The Segal Company $10,000 + Louis Walkover ’37 Frederick H. Ajootian ’41 Roy B. Simpson ’41 Daniel K. Roberts ’43 Armand J. Valenzi ’44 Sidney A. Mayer ’46 Ronald P. Stanton ’46 Wesley E Truesdell ’46 Joseph N. Sweeney ’48 LeRoy N. Callender ’50 Lawrence Sirovich ’51 Michael D. Nadler ’52 George Suffal ’53 Lawrence C. Lynnworth ’54 Len Edelstein ’55 John Moy ’58 Michael Tannenbaum ’58 William A. Davis Jr. ’59 Richard E. LaMotta ’60 Patricia Vasbinder & Victor B. Montana ’60 Bernard R. Gifford ’61 Michael Levine ’61 Mathew M. Mandery ’61 George W. Moran ’61 John B. Rofrano ’61 Edward R. Rothenberg ’61 Douglas Besharov ’62 Murray Dropkin ’62 Joseph Angelone ’63 Thomas C. DeCanio ’63 Steve H. Kaplan ’63 Edward P. Salzano ’64 William H. Wong ’64 Alan M. Silberstein ’65 Ned Steele ’68 John DiDomenico ’69 Jeffrey L. Goldberg ’69 Alan S. Natter ’69 William J. Rouhana Jr. ’69 Tony Bartolomeo ’70 Larry L. Cary ’70 George Graf ’70 George L. Van Amson ’70 James DiBenedetto ’71 Domingo Gonzalez ’72 Keith Forman ’76 Susan Mayham ’76 Nicholas Y. Chu ’77 Franklin F. Lee ’77 Friends of Tech Emanuel Becker Elizabeth Korevaar Ellen Mazur Thomson Daniel Stahl Jonnie Stahl Randi Zinn Organizations B. T. Alex Brown BDO Seidman, LLP Care2 Charles B. Wang Associates, Inc.

Chase Manhattan Bank Computer Associates International, Inc. Cowles Media Foundation Durst Group FIRST Robotics GameStop Corporation Goldman Sachs Heritage Mechanical Services, Inc. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Mancini Duffy Marathon Bank Math For America Inc MBS Textbook Exchange Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation

Arthur H. Kettenbeil ’67 Anthony P. Schirripa ’67 William C. Wurst ’67 Lloyd Zeitman ’69 Charles J. Rose ’70 Roger E. Schechter ’70 Barry Sohnen ’70 Marty Borruso ’71 Steven A. Hallem ’72 Arnold Goldman ’73 Jonathan D. Dubin ’74 Edward M. Rosensteel ’74 Seth Ruzi ’76 Elizabeth M. Wieckowski ’79 Hau Yee Ng-Lo ’80 Wilton Cedeno ’82 Margaret Murphy ’83

Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman LLP Textron Charitable Trust The Jay Chiat Foundation, Inc.

SIAC T.E.C. Systems, Inc. TD Bank, NA The Lotos Foundation The New York Community Trust The Durst Organization Time Warner

Kenneth D. Daly ’84 John Liu ’98 Kaeisha T. O’Neal ’99

Oscar A. Levi ’44 Al Roffman ’44 Dominic N. Castellano ’45 Arthur A. Feder ’45 Henry H. Frank ’45 Robert W. Citron ’46 Irwin Dorros ’46 Gerard Hirschhorn ’46 Erwin L. Schaub ’46 Arnold Jaffe ’47 Saunder Schaevitz ’47 Joel F. Lehrer ’48 Frank S. Vigilante ’48 Harry H. Birkenruth ’49 Stephen P. Cuff ’49 James E. Dalton ’49 Stanley D. Margolin ’49 Saul Muchnick ’49 Gerald F. Ross ’49 Charles J. Sisti ’49 Chester P. Soling ’49 Joseph J. Kohn ’50 Arthur M. Dinitz ’51 John J. Huson ’52 Sheldon Katz ’52 Kenneth E. Batcher ’53 William J. D’Antonio ’53 Robert J. Heilen ’53 Sidney Levitsky ’53 Stuart K. Pertz ’53 Robert H. Tuffias ’53 Erwin Zeuschner ’53 Peter J. Kolesar ’54 Ivan D. Steen ’54 Donald Lanier ’55 Owen D. McBride ’55 Jean G. Miele Jr. ’55 Robert F. Dendy ’56 Joel O. Lubenau ’56 Dan M. Ruesterholz ’56 Bernard J. Stein ’56 Salvatore J. Vitale Jr. ’56 Robert B. Bell ’57 David J. Bershad ’57 Peter Dornau ’57 Zdzislaw Mikolajczyk ’57 Francis C. Moon ’57 Joseph Riggio ’57 Leon C. Silverman ’57 Anthony Borra ’58

$5,000 + Ernest R. Schultz ’25 Allan C. Johnson ’28 Charles Kyrie Kallas ’37 Frederick DeMatteis ’40 Eugene V. Kosso ’42 David W. Wallace ’42 Lawrence G. Rubin ’43 Bertram Quelch ’45 Robert Gresl ’46 Irwin Smiley ’46 Robert J. Domanoski ’47 Gordon H. Hensley ’47 Robert J. Pavan ’47 Irwin Shapiro ’47 Donald Bady ’48 Herbert A. Granath ’48 Bert Krauss ’50 Lee H. Pomeroy ’50 Ralph B. Wagner ’51 Murray Farash ’52 Carl H. Kiesewetter ’55 Floyd R. Orr ’55 Les P. Kalmus ’56 Edward D. Miller ’56 William H. Henry ’57 Stephen J. Lovell ’57 Raymond M. Loew ’58 Robert J. Ciemian ’59 Glenn Y. Louie ’59 Robert C. DiChiara ’63 Joseph F. Azara Jr. ’64 K. Steven Horlitz ’64 Domenick J. Esposito ’65 Peter Kakoyiannis ’65 Edward T. LaGrassa ’65 Marvin J. Levine ’65 Kenneth D’Alessandro ’66 John M. Lyons ’66 Steven Wishnia ’66 John V. Cioffi ’67

Friends of Tech Randell Barclay Syd Blatt Brian Cosgrove Lucia DeSanti James Dimon Al Ferrara William L. Haines Kiseon Ko Thomas Lowry Stephen Mazur Joan Riegel Jonathan Riegel Randi Rossignol John Thonet Organizations Air Products Bonanza Productions, Inc. Burson-Marsteller Cary Kane LLP Cellini Fine Jewelry Chicago Bridge & Iron Company Credit Suisse Securities Deutsche Bank Duggal Color Projects, Inc. Eastern Metalworks, Inc. El Paso Energy Foundation Gateway Institute for Pre College Education Haights Cross Operating Company ITW Foundation Laura Berdon Foundation Lucent Technologies M & I Electric Industries, Inc. Morgan Stanley Cybergrants National Hockey League Foundation Pennoni Associates, Inc. Pension Review Polytechnic University Raytheon Company Ridgewood Savings Bank

$2,500 + Louis K. Robbins ’30 Virgil V. Chiavetta ’35 L. Remsen Skidmore, Jr. ’37 Ernest E. Pearson Jr. ’40 James E. Amrhein ’41 Rudolph Bahr Jr. ’41 Joseph P. Barbieri ’41 Eugene L. Fieldhammer ’42 Robert W. Mann ’42 J. L. Snoke ’43

Joseph A. Cavallo ’58 Joseph B. Ciccone ’58 Barry D. Epstein ’58 Stanley M. Ferber ’58 Kenneth D. Greene ’58 James H. M. Malley ’58 Stuart Schube ’58 Donald J. Stahl ’58 Thomas V. Delfina ’59 Robert Ennis ’59 Richard R. Ferrara ’59 Zachary C. Fluhr ’59 Stephen A. Levine ’59 Valentine P. Povinelli, Jr. ’59 Robert J. Stalzer ’59 Michael A. Antino ’60 Michael T. Cohen ’60 Joel M. Fields ’60 John Klvac ’60 Walter Skuggevig ’60 Richard E. Sorensen ’60 Anonymous ’61 Robert H. Digby ’61 Kenneth A. East ’61 Warren L. Gutheil ’61 Robert F. Kelly ’61 Frank R. Luszcz ’61 John R. Murphy ’61 Joel A. Aragona ’62 Warren Christie ’62 Joseph Macnow ’62 Samuel D. Cheris ’63 Vincent DeLuca ’63 Ed R. Diamond ’63 John Glidewell ’63 Steven Protass ’63 Jeffrey A. Stein ’63 Benjamin E. Feller ’64 Michael Greenstein ’65 Frederic H. Jacobs ’65 Joel Seidner ’65 Stephen L. Shupack ’65 Paul J. Angelides ’66 Vincent D’Onofrio ’66 Samuel Estreicher ’66 Mike L. Johnson ’66 Chester Lee ’66 Michael J. Macaluso ’66 Louis G. Adolfsen ’67 Al D’Elia ’67 Jerry M. Friedman ’67 Donald P. McConnell ’67 Alfred J. Mulvey ’67 Ron S. Adler ’68 Kenneth S. Albano ’68 Richard S. Feinstein ’68 Richard W. Turnbull ’69 Lance Turner ’70 James Ellerbee ’71 Alan Flash ’71 Frederick A. Frenzel Jr. ’71 Allan Chong ’72 Victor J. Dasaro ’72 Robert Femenella ’72 Robert M. Ianniello ’72 Robert E. Kupiec ’72 Robert J. Paterna ’72 Eric D. Barthell ’75 Bradford R. Jones ’75 Gerard Justvig ’75 Thomas Breglia ’76 Eugene Picone ’76 George S. Cuhaj ’77 Marc B. Mazur ’77 George Mejias ’77 Keith Franklin ’78 Michelle Y. Johnson-Lewis ’79 Russell P. Wong ’79 Kay D. Benjamin ’80 Deirdre D. Cooke ’80 Derek A. Holley ’80 David L. Fung ’81 Anonymous ’82 Jose R. Claxton ’82

Norbert F. Giesse ’83 Horace H. Davis ’84 Robert B. Liebowitz ’84 Julia C. de la Garza ’86 Mario Guerrero ’86 Joy H. Hsiao ’87 Penelope Kokkinides ’87 Leslie D. Wade ’87 Sunil G. Singh ’89 Gordon Mak ’93 Adrienne D. Gonzalez ’94 Friends of Tech Charles Cahn Jr. William Cheung Joseph Cuzzocrea Sr. Daniel DeMatteo R. Richard Fontaine J. Alan Kahn Noel N. Kriftcher Jeffrey Lane Gordon C. Lattey David Lee Godwyn Laura Morris Diiana Oliver-Steinberg Stanley H. Pantowich Roxane M. Previty Majorie Smith Lynne Tarnopol Mark D. Todd Judy Tran Organizations Alone Productions, Inc. Bulgari Corp. of America Cirocco & Ozzimo, Inc. Citicorp Foundation Ellenbogen Rubenstein Eisdorfer & Co. Elsevier Inc. ExxonMobil First New York Partners GE Foundation Hatzel & Buehler, Inc. Hellenic American Bankers Association Inc. Insignia/ESG, Inc. Israeloff, Trattner & Co. J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Johnson and Johnson Langenscheidt Publishing Group Merck Company Foundation New York City College of Technology Opus Northwest, LLC Pfizer Inc. PSEG Raffles Reed Business Information SUNY Farmingdale TAG Associates LLC Whitestone Capital, LLC Wolters Kluwer Law and Business/Aspen Publishers Yoswein NY $1,000 + Herbert I. Butler ’32 Martin Kaltman ’32 Robert V. Henning ’34 Danos Homer Kallas ’35 David Bady ’36 Paul Gitto ’36 Claude W. Peters ’36 Harris H. Levee ’37 John Papamarcos ’37 Charles W. Potter ’37 Arturo Rescigno ’37 Carl P. Weber ’38 Adolph H. Wold ’38 Constantine S. Cucurullo ’39 Joseph De Rienzo ’39 Edmund J. Moderacki ’39 Zeke Cooper ’40 Joseph B. Milgram Jr. ’40 Jerome D. Luntz ’41 Melvin Schoenfeld ’41 Tellef Peter Tellefsen ’41 Eugene Miritello ’42

Carl V. Pernicone ’42 Karl M. Sandbo ’42 William J. Stolze ’42 Salvatore J. Azzaro ’43 Norman W. Castellani ’43 David S. Hacker ’43 Alfred L. Haffner ’43 Norman A. Schefer ’43 Morton Sorkin ’43 Robert E. Wentsch ’43 William C. Drewes ’44 Joseph L. Flood ’44 Paul J. Glasgow ’44 Warren M. Haussler ’44 Charles J. Heilbronner ’44 Gerald A. Lessells ’44 Jonathan V. Levin ’44 Eugene E. Lopata ’44 Joseph T. Pardovich ’44 Robert U. Schoenfelder ’44 Joel J. Sterling ’44 Charles H. Waide ’44 Eugene A. Weisberger ’44 Richard Foxen ’45 Burtin Goldberg ’45 Henry Kirchdorfer ’45 Daniel A. LeDonne ’45 Norman N. Lewin ’45 George T. Lewis Jr. ’45 Monroe F. Richman ’45 George H. Spencer ’45 Ruth E. Staehle ’45 Irving Streimer ’45 Peter A. Tufo ’45 Kenneth B. Wiberg ’45 Stanley Wolpert ’45 Harvey Brickman ’46 Nathaniel B. Cohen ’46 Milton Cooper ’46 Seymour Fagan ’46 Martin R. Horn ’46 James H. Lantelme ’46 Velio A. Marsocci ’46 Leonard Matin ’46 Norman Moskowitz ’46 Lewis G. Nieberg ’46 Frank L. Peishel ’46 Alfred Schroeder ’46 Bertram H. Stiller ’46 William J. Anton ’47 Harry Bernstein ’47

Lino A. Graglia ’48 Louis Gross ’48 William K. Kramer ’48 Murray A. Luftglass ’48 Richard F. Marsh ’48 Joseph A. Parrella ’48 Morton Povman ’48 Leonard Shapiro ’48 Harold Sobol ’48 David Weild III ’48 George A. Yabroudy ’48 Hermann F. Anton ’49 Klaus Bergman ’49 Richard M. Ehrlich ’49 Leonard Ehrman ’49 Murray H. Feigenbaum ’49 Alvin R. Finkelstein ’49 Barry D. Greene ’49 Richard J. Harper ’49 Pazel G. Jackson, Jr. ’49 Stratos G. Kantounis ’49 Allan W. Lyons ’49 Lionel A. Marks ’49 Sidney S. Paul ’49 R.A. Satin ’49 Alvin M. Silver ’49 Walter J. Smith ’49 Edward P. Taudien ’49 Anonymous ’50 Robert J. Anders ’50 William H. Chamberlain ’50 Robert T. Cole ’50 Frank J. Farella ’50 Richard G. Ramge ’50 Bert W. Wasserman ’50 F. Richard Zitzmann ’50 Albert R. Adelmann ’51 Noah M. Berley ’51 Lawrence D. Brown ’51 Frank A. Cipriani ’51 Morton Corn ’51 Gordon Davidson ’51 Kenneth A. Griffin ’51 Walter G. Jung ’51 M. Robert Kestenbaum ’51 Angel Martin ’51 Arno A. Penzias ’51 Richard J. Pressel ’51 Robert M. Rosen ’51 George C. Stoutenburgh , Sr. ’51

William Cullen ’53 Clifford J. Daly ’53 Sheldon W. Dean Jr. ’53 Anthony R. Fandozzi ’53 Carl D. Harbart ’53 Charles F. Muller Jr. ’53 Richard Schwartz ’53 Jerome I. Sharrin ’53 William M. Slyman ’53 Ron Tevonian ’53 Bernhard E. Deichmann ’54 Franklin J. Gladstone ’54 Thomas W. Hall ’54 Heinz A. Hegmann ’54 Norman D. Henderson ’54 Albert LoSchiavo ’54 Peter F. Margulen ’54 John C. Munnelly ’54 Hans R. Naumann ’54 Kurt R. Willinger ’54 Fred H. Woodruff ’54 Lawrence M. Baskir ’55 Robert B. Bruns ’55 Joseph A. Castellano ’55 Vincent R. Damiano ’55 W. Philip Johnson Jr. ’55 Carl J. Lange ’55 John Leary ’55 Joseph D. Monticciolo ’55 Eric C. Olsen ’55 Irving Rozansky ’55 Joel M. Spiro ’55 Robert J. Sywolski ’55 John H. Andren Jr. ’56 Anthony J. Balsamo ’56 Joel B. Chase ’56 Marvin C. Gersten ’56 Bruce L. Hollander ’56 Joseph T. Kavanagh ’56 William B. Knowlton ’56 Peter A. Lopes ’56 Peter L. Norgren ’56 Joseph F. Plummer ’56 Robert Rung ’56 Bernard Schwartzman ’56 Stanley Skalka ’56 Philip G. Taylor ’56 Jack H. Willenbrock ’56 Elkan Abramowitz ’57 Robert H. Buggeln ’57 Louis P. Crane ’57

Robert R. Detwiler ’47 Melvin Elfin ’47 Charles D. Federico ’47 Arnold W. Frank ’47 Fred A. Grauman ’47 Richard J. Katucki ’47 Stephen J. Keane ’47 Abraham L. Landis ’47 Edward W. Lewison ’47 Robert Marchisotto ’47 Marvin I. Mazur ’47 Arthur Miller ’47 Stuart Pivar ’47 Norman Y. Zelvin ’47 Jerome L. Sackman ’47 George W. Smith ’47 Donald J. Bachrach ’48 Sheldon Batterman ’48 Roger E. Beutner ’48 John W. Chromy ’48 Bernard Friedland ’48 John A. Garstka ’48

William Assiff ’52 Richard B. Brandt ’52 Hank E. Carillo ’52 Victor J. Caroddo ’52 Alan B. Dolmatch ’52 Alan Drucker ’52 Karl E. Fritsch ’52 Lester A. Hoel ’52 John M. Jeffords ’52 David Kliot ’52 Robert E. Melnik ’52 Edward M. Messina ’52 C. Raymond Nelson ’52 James P. Popino ’52 Stuart J. Rothkopf ’52 Steven P. Shearing ’52 Theodore Thomte ’52 Michael A. Turin ’52 Vincent Volpicelli ’52 Raoul Alvarez ’53 Roger S. Blaho ’53 Alexander N. Casella ’53

Frederick J. Dymek ’57 Arthur Fontaine ’57 Bernard H. Friese ’57 Victor F. Germack ’57 Martin L. Goldfarb ’57 Ed Goldman ’57 Robert Hoch ’57 Jack Karczewski ’57 Donald C. McCann ’57 Thomas J. Mitchell ’57 Joseph M. Moran ’57 D. Robert Oppenheimer, Jr. ’57 Kenneth M. Rosen ’57 Richard S. Taylor ’57 John J. Tomaszewski ’57 Allan Abramson ’58 Anthony R. Baldomir ’58 David Berman ’58 Joel D. Citron ’58 Sal Dunn ’58 Allan R. Ginsberg ’58

Edward Haleman ’58 Marvin L. Meistrich ’58 Arthur W. Kirsch ’58 Ronald Morony ’58 Steven J. Nappen ’58 Anthony C. Nicoletti ’58 Ronald Olson ’58 Robert Raifman ’58 Raymond Reilly ’58 Edward Rogas Jr. ’58 Stanley M. Rogovin ’58 Lester A. Rubenfeld ’58 Richard K. Ruff ’58 Robin J. Russo ’58 Jack B. Shaifer ’58 Alvin J. Siegartel ’58 Paul B. Thorn ’58 Thomas E. Waber ’58 Richard F. Worsena ’58 Stephan Ariyan ’59 Melvin J. Band ’59 Steven M. Darien ’59 Clifford H. Fisher ’59 Robert A. Grossman ’59 Arnold A Gruber ’59 Arnold Katz ’59 Marshall J. Levinson ’59 Joel S. Levy ’59 Charles J. Luchun ’59 Dennis J. Moran ’59 Andrew G. Mueller ’59 Albert F. Neumann ’59 Bruce N. Newrock ’59 Edward A. Oxer ’59 Ira N. Slow ’59 Chuck Spillert ’59 Louis P. Torre ’59 Francis J. Voyticky ’59 Jack S. Bakunin ’60 Louis R. Comunelli ’60 Nicholas J. DeCapua ’60 Robert W. Donohue ’60 Asher Etkin ’60 Bernard Grossman ’60 Steven Koestenblatt ’60 Derek I. Lowenstein ’60 Ray A. Lynnworth ’60 Paul B. Mentz ’60 Robert O. Mercer ’60 Eugene B. Michaelsen ’60 Edwin Neff Jr. ’60 Paul Pliester ’60 John H. Powers ’60 Arthur P. Rea ’60 Stephen L. Richter ’60 Bruce Rubinger ’60 Ronald H. Schmahl ’60 Miles A. Slater ’60 William J. Tinston Jr. ’60 David H. Abramson ’61 Richard P. Anastasio ’61
 Irving M. Adler ’61 Lawrence A. Baker ’61 Peter J. Balestiero ’61 Sheldon Bernstein ’61 Alan I. Brooks ’61 Peter J. Coppolino ’61 Peter L. Cuneo ’61 Elliott J. Dubin ’61 Dennis E. Ellisen ’61 Paul D. Felder ’61 Marshall N. Gartenlaub ’61 Peter N. Geornaras ’61 John Hahn ’61 Franz J. Hoge ’61 Clifford A. Hudsick ’61 George B. Johnson ’61 Gordon A. Lewandowski ’61 William D. Livesey ’61 Joseph J. Merenda Jr. ’61 Joseph Nalven ’61 Marvin Pflaum ’61 Lawrence J. Simon ’61 Mark C. Stern ’61 Michael F. Trachtenberg ’61 Norman Weinstein ’61 Douglas B. Woessner ’61 Michael E. Zall ’61 Steven M. Bauman ’62 Richard J. Cusick ’62 William B. Follit Jr. ’62

Curtis K. Goss ’62 Steven Heymsfield ’62 Stanley Keyles ’62 Peter Konieczny ’62 Allan A. Koslofsky ’62 Pete Kudless ’62 Michael Lamoriella ’62 Robert Levine ’62 Dennis A. Paoletti ’62 Arthur N. Peterson ’62 Joel Zizmor ’62 Neil Bromberg ’63 Alan R. Cravitz ’63 Michael DeFazio ’63 Jeff Erdel ’63 Joel M. Feldschneider ’63 Bradley B. Fordham ’63 William P. Fox ’63 Peter Gamba ’63 Donald Gaylord ’63 Andrew Kohl ’63 Lloyd J. Lazarus ’63 Herbert J. Marks ’63 Emil Monda ’63 David A. Rosenzweig ’63 Chet Singer ’63 Bernard M. Spiegel ’63 Stephen N. Weiss ’63 Arnold Zimmerman ’63 Robert Filosa ’64 Richard D. Firestone ’64 Richard Gaccione ’64 William J. Gallo ’64 Gabriel Goldberg ’64 Louis D. Greenzweig ’64 Eliot Hess ’64 Peter Kunka ’64 Kenneth R. Pierce ’64 Steven Schlosser ’64 Glenn C. Seale ’64 Wayne L. Taylor ’64 Damon S. Williams ’64 Barry Zemel ’64 William J. Aghassi ’65 John Berenyi ’65 Ronald E. Brandt ’65 Bruce A. Brice ’65 Vincent Cavaseno ’65 Charles S. Di Marco ’65 John J. Eschemuller ’65 John J. Fahner ’65 Alan S. Fitter ’65 Jeffrey Greenberg ’65 Mark Hauerstock ’65 Sandor J. Kovacs ’65 Ta M. Li ’65 Thomas G. May ’65 Paul E. Mendis ’65 Leonard P. Morse ’65 Joseph Napoleon ’65 Elby M. Nash ’65 Ronald C. Ruoff ’65 Samuel I. Schwartz ’65 Steven A. Shaya ’65 Raymond S. Stefanowicz ’65 Salvatore T. Troiano ’65 Rein Uibopuu ’65 Michael C. Alavanja ’66 Andrew W. Au ’66 Steven Bauml ’66 Robert E. Browne ’66 Paul Ellingsen ’66 Thomas F. Fagan ’66 Howard Fluhr ’66 Laurence Greenberg ’66 Nicholas Koopalethes ’66 Joseph D. Korman ’66 Alan W. Kramer ’66 Richard A. Laskowski ’66 Harry A. Laster ’66 Bruce S. Lederman ’66 Michael M. Liu ’66 Edward R. Lubitz ’66 Peter Z. Mantarakis ’66 Vincent Massaro ’66 Kevin McPartland ’66 Stephen J. Roppolo ’66 Gabor Rothauser ’66 Mark H. Scherwin ’66 Abraham M. Akselrad ’67 Steven Berkowitz ’67

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Joseph M. Calabro ’67 Marc F. Colman ’67 Joseph P. Crosson ’67 Joseph S. Cusumano ’67 Mark L. Kay ’67 Raymond C. Martinez ’67 Jeffrey Nathan ’67 Joseph Pellegrino ’67 Mark S. Rosentraub ’67

Justin O. Schechter ’73 Russell M. Price ’73 Robert H. Shullich ’73 John W. Bellando ’74 Kenneth E. Chapin ’74 Thomas E. Cuhaj ’74 Isaac B. Honor ’74 Raoul D. Ilaw ’74 Raymond P. Jones ’74

Brian Clark ’80 Andrea Currie-Wigfall ’80 Lenworth A. Daley ’80 Leslie Osei-Tutu ’80 Alex Sosa ’80 Adam N. Stoller ’80 Kenneth Wong ’80 Anonymous ’81 John K. Goudelias ’81

Stanley Rowin ’67 Kenneth R. Adamo ’68 Martin S. Brooks ’68 Mitchell Fine ’68 Lawrence Gulotta ’68 Andrew A. Janczak ’68 Zbigniew R. Jankowski ’68 Jack C. Jawitz ’68 Edward Roffman ’68 Sholom Sanders ’68 Mark Seratoff ’68 Roger L. Shields ’68 Carlton P. Tolsdorf Jr. ’68 Robert Trentacoste ’68 Stephen Wanderman ’68 Anonymous ’69 Raoul G. Farrell ’69 Sandy D. Fein ’69 John P. Fillo ’69 Robert M. Krasny ’69 Richard P. Lampeter ’69 Benjamin Moreira ’69 Daniel K. Moy ’69 Carl W. Ordemann ’69 John M. Picariello ’69 Norman D. Romney ’69 Roger S. So ’69 Frank P. Szaraz ’69 Christopher J. Cavallaro ’70 Thomas M. Giusto ’70 Carmine R. Inserra ’70 Michael R. Krieger ’70 Parkin Lee ’70 Isaac A. Lewin ’70 Fred Parise ’70 James F. Reda ’70 Eliseo Rosario Jr. ’70 Francis J. Sanzillo ’70 Kenneth Arbeeny ’71 James E. Brennan ’71 Fred M. Del Gaudio ’71 David Gerson ’71 Thomas M. La Guidice ’71 Steven A. Mirones ’71 Daniel R. O’Connor ’71 Raymond C. Stewart ’71 John C. Sweeney ’71 Barton A. Chase III ’72 Costantino Lanza ’72 Steven D. Menoff ’72 James Murphy ’72 Carl M. Renda ’72 Alfredo Sardinas ’72 Robert E. Borowski ’73 James G. Calderone ’73 Marshall Haimson ’73 William Lee ’73 Mark V. Lindstrom ’73 Gary J. McDonagh ’73 Richard E. Mikaelian ’73

Tony H. Lawrence ’74 Edward Mecner ’74 Anthony P. Nuciforo ’74 Albert Rodriguez ’74 Felix L. Rodriguez Jr. ’74 Frank Scipione ’74 Barry A. Callender ’75 Keith K. Chan ’75 Jo Anne Kana ’75 Albert H. Ziegler ’75 Gary Chan ’76 Carlos Garcia ’76 Sharon P. Munroe ’76 Giovanni Tafa ’76 Grayling G. Williams ’76 Duncan Wong ’76 Douglas Yagilowich ’76 Allen V. Zollo ’76 Vance B. Barbour ’77 Susan L. Downing ’77 Mitch Friedman ’77 Nicholas O. Kallas ’77 Richard T. Konig ’77 Sidney Milden ’77 Howard L. Millman ’77 Wayne P. Naegele ’77 Richard Puswald ’77 Robyn V. Allen-McKinnon ’78 Aubrey Braz ’78

Derrick A. Hostler ’81 Ira S. Krolick ’81 Dana S. Newbauer ’81 David W. Robinson ’81 Vera L. Admore-Sakyi ’82 Stephen Blanchette Jr. ’82 Marion Bobb-McKoy ’82 Beverley A. Madden ’82 Frank S. Viola ’82 Mark Arzoomanian ’83 Carmen M. Colon ’83 Carol Cunningham ’83 Selena L. Holmes ’83 James J. McCarthy ’83 Eric Polite ’83 Mitchell E. Stashower ’83 Denice C. Ware ’83 Mark S. Christopher ’84 Joseph C. Cuzzocrea Jr. ’84 Raymond Feige ’84 Gretchen Mullins-Kim ’84 Lauren Nassau ’84 Pamela Rumph ’84 David L. Yang ’84 Cherryann Joseph ’85 Cheryl-Ann Leslie ’85 Dionne G. Sinclair ’85 Anthony Whiteman ’85 Travis Wiltshire ’85 Lynda P. Wyatt ’85

Robert S. Bright ’78 Carl E. Brown Jr. ’78 Glennis R. M. Hall ’78 King C. Ng ’78 Wai Nam Tam ’78 Charles Tepper ’78 George Yanakis ’78 Walton D. Pearson ’79 Anonymous ’80 Audrey C. Churchill ’80

Kirwin Gibbs ’86 Margaret Mullins ’86 Gary S. Pasricha ’86 Michael V. Swabowicz Jr. ’86 Wei-Jing Zhu ’86 Rory A. Anglin ’87 Monya Bunch ’87 Virginia-Marie M. Chan ’87 Michelle Gay ’87 Randolph B. Houston Jr. ’87

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Paul W. Katzer ’87 Richard Lukaj ’87 Jason Orefice ’87 Rodney L. Shannon ’87 Janet Sosa ’87 Robert W. Berger ’88 Victoria Reyes ’88 Donovan Wickline ’88 Andrew Beyzman ’89 Kenyatta M. Green ’89 Petula K. Lee ’89 Luke Mangal ’89 John P. Albert ’90 Scott Rozany ’90 Michael Simpson ’90 George Bougiamas ’92 Carl Erik Heiberg ’92 Emrah Kovacoglu ’92 Nathan Lipke ’92 Suman Sabastin ’92 Erika Terebessy ’92 Robert Roswell ’94 Katrina Burton-Nichols ’95 Seth C. Flash ’95 Carina Lucia L. Kim ’99 Taahira Maynard ’99 Vadim Verkhoglyad ’02 Friends of Tech Anonymous Anonymous

Bruce Baskind John L. Battaglino James Batterman Noreen Begley Allyson Brenner James M. Bergin Leonard Berner

Michael E. Billett Philip E. Brugge Matthew Burkley Robin Calitri Thomas Callahan Class of 1999 Graduation Gift Class of 2004 Graduation Gift Morris Chernick

James Crowe Art Dauber Charles M. Dauber Rosanne D’Augusta Joseph D. D’Esposito Thomas A. Evangelist Maryann M. Feeney Sarah Flanagan Barbara Friedman Peter Gethers Kenneth Greenberg Susan Harmon Harold Heffner Jerry M. Hultin Henry Jackson Joseph Kaelin Irwin Kallman John D. Kaltman Lauren Kaltman Richard Kaltman Mary Ellen Keating Howard Kelly Mitchell Klipper Jodi Koelsch Richard Korn Richard Lattey Ricardo Lezama Concetta Licitra Evelyn Maloney Patrick Maloney Vergenia McRae

Jack S. Vanderryn Leonard J. Verebay Robert Villency Scott Winston Don Zacharia Edwin Zarowin Norman L. Zlotnick

Peter Menikoff Irene Miller Lorraine C. Nanko David Newman Richard Nicotra Miriam Nightengale Kenneth Nisbet Linda Noonan Kecia O’Neal Joan M. O’Shea Elaine Osterweil Hoke Peacock James Gw. Pepper Achilles M. Perry Alex Picozzi Isaiah Pratt William Prensky Bruce Ratner William Reilly Bernice Righthand Frank Ritota Max Roberts Lori Roland-Plonski Robert Rothberg Carleton Schade Elizabeth A. Sciabarra Dalila Serrano Enrique R. Rodriguez Andrew T. Silverman Norman S. Stern Manette H. Thomas Alice Timothy John P. Tobin Marie J. Toulantis Barbara L. Trommer Georgene C. Tufo Janet Tweed

Jewish Communal Fund JP Morgan Chase Logicon M. Shanken Communica tions, Inc. Millennium Capital Markets, LLC Moody’s Investors Service Motorola Foundation NBC Studios, Inc. New Jersey Brooklyn Tech Alumni Group New York Chapter Associa tion of Energy Engineers Northrop Grumman Perseus Books LLC Sonenshine & Pastor Co. Sorrentino Development Corp. St. Francis Food Pantries & Shelters St. John’s University The Bank of New York The Marketplace Realty The Prudential Foundation The Scout Company, Inc. Tomkins Corporation Foundation Turner Construction Co. United Defense FMC Foundation United Way of New York City Vanguard Construction Waldner’s Business Environments Inc.

Organizations Anonymous Allied Signal Found, Inc. American Express Tax & Business Atlantic Bank of New York Baltimore Community Foundation Belmet Products Inc. BP Amoco Foundation Inc. Brooklyn College Auxiliary Enterprises BWD Group LLC Carter-Wallace Conair Council of School Supervisors & Administrators Ethicon, Inc. Fiori Gillette Honeywell International Foundation HSBC

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The Foundation Office As the 2014-15 school year opens, the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation has much to celebrate. During the last school year, we helped Brooklyn Tech in a number of ways, thanks to your support and your donations. We provided the faculty with over $100,000 in grants. Their projects included the purchase of special instructional materials and equipment, professional development workshops and conferences and sponsorship of academic and athletic teams. We partnered with various corporations and universities to directly impact school programs and student opportunities. National Grid, Makerbot, Stevens Institute of Technology, Pennoni Associates and Drexel University are but a few of these. We sponsored a lecture series that focused on all areas of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics); these lectures highlighted innovative programs to pique the intellectual curiosity of our students. We expanded our Weston Research Scholars Program to include new placements at Stevens Institute of Technology, NYU-Poly and CUNY. We continued to work with the school on the modernization and upgrade of the auditorium and the first floor gymnasium. We secured Capital Project money to renovate and upgrade the Tech Athletic Field. We funded an outstanding public relations campaign that bought air time for Brooklyn Tech on public television; the segment on STEM was part of the Breakthrough Series. We purchased six 3-D printers and supported the Robotics Team in its quest for the national championship. We expanded our National Grid STEM Pipeline Program and middle school outreach efforts to educate prospective students about Brooklyn Tech. We supported such student events as the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, Banner Day and Senior Awards Night. We connected graduating seniors with the Alumni Foundation through our Homecoming, Career Day and Ruby events. We think it important for seniors to understand the role the Foundation plays in our school and how instrumental your dollars are to making their time at Tech truly extraordinary. Finally we lauded several alumni at our annual dinner; recognizing our alumni and sharing their achievements with the larger school community are essential components of our strong partnership with Tech. Looking ahead, we will continue to ask for your support. We are sponsoring a facilities feasibility study to develop a full-fledged strategic plan for the Tech of the future. This study will look at all the spaces in the building that have not yet been re-tooled by the Foundation, so we can plan for future upgrades and re-purposing. We have to take care of Tech so that Tech will take care of our future generations of Technites! Thank you for all you have done for Tech! Elizabeth A. Sciabarra Executive Director

The Blueprint Society Please consider including Brooklyn Tech in your estate and tax planning through a bequest or other form of planned gift. To learn more, please contact [email protected] or call the Alumni Foundation Office inside Brooklyn Tech, 718-797-2285. Your inquiry will be treated with respect, appreciation and strict confidentiality.

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Board of Directors Larry Cary ’70 President Susan Mayham ’76 Anthony Schirripa ’67 Donovan Wickline ’88 Vice Presidents Horace Davis ’84 Secretary Carmine Morano ’72 Treasurer Wilton Cedeno ’82 Jim DiBenedetto ’71 Jack Feinstein ’60 Norman Keller ’54 Penelope Kokkinides ’87 Amy Kong ’99 Edward LaGrassa ’65 John Lyons ’66 Margaret Murphy ’83 Achilles Perry ’58 Ned Steele ’68 Denice Ware ’83 Michael Weiss ’57 Marc Williams ’90 Laurie Zephyrin ’92 Directors Zeshan Gondal ’15 Student Representative Foundation Office Elizabeth A. Sciabarra Executive Director Mathew M. Mandery ’61 Chief Educational Officer Rikhia Chowdhury Research Analyst Ina Cloonen Office Manager Suzanne Hausman Graphics Administrator Liliya Magalnik Nissen ’01 Special Events and Projects Coordinator Vance Toure ’06 Special Assistant

The Magazine of The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation Fall 2014

Tech Times Staff Editor In Chief and Chief Writer: Ned Steele ’68 Graphic Design: Robert Horansky Editorial Direction: Elizabeth A. Sciabarra Writer: Rebecca T. Kaplan ’09 Photography: Ron Glassman (pages C1, C2, 7-9, 12-15, 21) Robert Horansky (pages 2- 4, 10-11) Steve Kelly (pages 1, 18) Be Aware Photography/Simone Yhap ’15 (pages 2, 3, C4)

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© 2014 Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation, Inc. Tech Times is published annually by the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation. Articles may be reprinted with its permission. To receive the Technite Online e-newsletter by email, contact [email protected]. Please send class notes and updates, letters to the editor, address changes and other communications to: Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation 29 Fort Greene Place Brooklyn NY 11217 718-797-2285 www.bthsalumni.org [email protected]

Randy J. Asher, Principal Brooklyn Technical High School

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