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TECH TIMES
World Changers of 2036
Alum Makes Waves Tech’s NBA Superstar
6 8 161814They’re smart; they’re
committed; they’re aiming to
change the world they’ll inherit.
They’re today’s Technites.
Alex Elegudin ’03 is a
champion for the
handicapped.
“These are kids who plan to change the world.”
— JOSEPH KAELIN
Teacher
A tale of two Technites:
One’s journey ends at
Harvard, another’s at MIT.
Sam Schwartz ’65 coined the
term ‘gridlock.’ His cause ever
since: pedestrian-friendly cities.
A Tech alum drives the
NBA’s successful marriage
of technology and sports.
Wheeling Forward Going Places From Brooklyn
to Cambridge
Street Fighting ManHigh-Scorer
Fall 2016
The Magazine of The
Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation
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Contents
Inside Tech 2
From the Alumni Foundation President 5
Principal’s Letter 5
Superpowers 10
Smart Watch, Smart Kids 11
What Makes Them Special? 12
Calendar of Events 19
Class Notes 19
They Have Plans 21
Lifetime Giving Society 22
Last Word 25
Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation, Inc.
29 Fort Greene Place Brooklyn, NY 11217
www.bthsalumni.org
Cover: Some of Brooklyn Tech’s Future World Changers
1. Josephine Soddano, chemist
2. Daniel Alhadeff, inventor
3. Peony Wong, super-volunteer
4. Safwan Rahat, super-volunteer
5. Helen Ding, leader
6. Harith Morgan, inventor-athlete
7. Benjamin Spiegel, coder
Certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
The Mark of Responsible Forestry.
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The museum Laurie Cumbo ’93
founded in 1999 opened with a genteel
exhibit on jazz culture. Soon after, a young
African immigrant named Amadou Diallo
was killed in a barrage of 41 police bullets
in The Bronx.
The shooting death shocked the
city, including the artists at her Museum
of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
(MoCADA) in Brooklyn. “Somehow it felt
that if this is what’s happening, what artists
want to talk about, let’s do an exhibition on
it,” Cumbo recalls.
That transformative decision forged
a bond between art and politics that led
to MoCADA exhibits on gun violence,
capital punishment, gentrification and
other timely topics. The bond became a
bridge for Cumbo in 2013: she ran for and
was elected to the New York City Council,
representing Brooklyn Tech’s district.
Behind her career switch was a grow-
ing leadership role in the perennial battles
by the city’s smaller cultural institutions for
government funding: “I was spending so
much time running back and forth
to Albany and City Hall; I thought,
‘I’d rather devote my full time to that
effort.’”
Then came a surprise: Cumbo
was not assigned to chair the cul-
tural affairs committee, as observers
expected, but the committee on
women’s issues.
She had not previously been
highly visible on women’s issues.
Nudged from her comfort zone, she
recalls, it felt as though “some higher
power or force” was saying, “You
may not understand right now, but it
will make sense later.”
She has since stepped forward
on a broad spectrum of issues, no-
tably domestic violence, workplace
discrimination, girls’ education and
sex trafficking.
“It’s been an incredible learning ex-
perience and I’ve really embraced it,” she
says. “I feel that this where I am supposed
to be, need to be, and want to be.”
Also, notes Alumni Foundation Presi-
dent Larry Cary, “She has been a good
friend to Tech.”
Cumbo is Tech’s second alum Coun-
cil member, joining Jumaane Williams ’94.
Some 4.5 million Advanced Placement exams were taken by U.S.
high school students in 2015. Just 322 – seven-thousandths of one
percent – achieved a perfect score.
Among them: Brooklyn Tech’s August Trollback ’17.
Making the accomplishment even more impressive: August
did it as a sophomore – and in computer science, a course
normally reserved for the brightest juniors and seniors.
Having taught himself coding in elementary school,
August explains his gift: “I’m always preoccupied with
programming thoughts.”
That preoccupation has already led to an internship
in financial data operations with Bloomberg L.P., and
success as lead coder for Tech’s robotics team and in
national hacking competitions. He is a developer of
Mathpix, “the world’s first tool that understands
photos of handwritten math using state-of-the-art
deep learning algorithms.”
“August has a quality of genius that is in-
tangible,” says his computer science teacher,
Steve Goldman. “It’s not just that he is smart
and a perfectionist. It’s also his fascination with
the material. He is an original, creative thinker
who thrives on challenge. He is capable of
making unique contributions to the field.”
When Dr. Mathew M. Mandery ’61 was chosen to lead Brooklyn Tech in 1983, he became
the school’s first alumnus principal, a distinction that remains his alone.
The Alumni Foundation was formed during his tenure; Dr. Mandery moved on to other
positions in 1987 but eventually returned to head the Alumni Foundation. He still serves as its
Chief Educational Officer.
Until recently only two Tech principals had been honored with their portraits displayed
in the building: founder Albert Colston and William Pabst. Recently, Dr. Mandery became
the third when the Alumni Foundation commissioned artist Kerry
Brooks to paint his portrait. It was paid for through special dona-
tions from several alumni who wanted to honor Dr. Mandery.
Unveiled in a ceremony earlier this year, the portrait now hangs
in the library with the other two – a constant reminder to all stu-
dents of a lasting educational legacy.
New York City and State have recog-
nized, and expanded, the pioneering pro-
gram developed by the Alumni Foundation
to increase student diversity at Brooklyn
Tech and the city’s other specialized high
schools.
Both governments this year created
and funded diversity initiatives for the
specialized schools modeled after the
Alumni Foundation program, now in its third
year. The city allocated $15 million to the
Department of Education over the next four
years. The state allocated $2 million. Of
that, $250,000 was granted directly to the
Alumni Foundation to expand its success-
ful STEM Pipeline program, which works to
increase enrollment of students from com-
munities underrepresented in the school.
These efforts include a two year
program of admissions test preparation
and enhanced academics for students
in public middle schools that send few, if
any, children to Tech. Often these schools
lack advanced math and language arts
courses, and gifted and talented programs
are scarce in their districts’ elementary
schools.
Reflecting the inequality of educational
opportunities in New York City’s communi-
ties, a majority of students entering the
specialized high schools come from only 5
percent of the city’s public middle schools.
Brooklyn Tech’s STEM Pipeline, sup-
ported by National Grid, also features
proactive outreach to the underrepresented
middle schools, many of which in the past
sent significant numbers of students to
Tech. It has already yielded success, with
majorities of black and Latino participants
gaining entry to a specialized high school.
PIPELINEDiversifying the A PERFECT August The Art of Politics
Two years into a business
model so intriguing it made her a
Forbes’ “30 Under 30” honoree,
Deepti Sharma Kapur ’04 morphed it
into something even more ambitious.
FoodToEat originally gained
notice by introducing online order-
ing to New York’s burgeoning food
truck industry. Consumers liked the
convenience, but the immigrant
entrepreneurs inside those trucks
and carts loved it: It empowered
them for the first time to take the
business online, process credit card
payments and market themselves
professionally.
But the model had limits, so
Kapur reached farther: Why not bring
ethnic vendors and caterers inside
the office towers soaring above their
curbside stands, where a $5 billion
industry of special event and lunch-
time food service awaited?
In FoodToEat’s version 2.0,
Kapur’s business acumen and access
get her vendors in – especially into
companies hungry to offer their
employees fun, street-themed
ethnic food experiences as a perk.
And so workers at companies
like Tumblr are piling authentic gy-
ros, tacos or Indian food onto their
plates rather than another soggy
tuna sandwich. For a street food
vendor or caterer, the opportunity
can be game-changing.
And therein lies Kapur’s higher
aspiration. Introducing immigrant
newcomers to the mainstream
economy has long been her pas-
sion: “When you’re building a
company, your goal shouldn’t be
to make a billion dollars. It should
be to build a successful business
that makes a dramatic change in
peoples’ lives. That’s how I think of
my business.”
FoodToEat is growing, turn-
ing profitable, and raising venture
capital to expand in New York – and
other cities where food carts and
hungry office workers are waiting to
meet each other.
THOUGHT for FOOD
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Special Honor for Special Educator
Alumni Foundation President Larry Cary ’70 presents Dr. Mathew Mandery ’61 with his portrait.
So great is the skill and renown of
Maurice Ashley ’83, the first African
American chess Grandmaster and
an ESPN commentator, that he was
once a Valentine’s Day present to ac-
tor Will Smith from wife Jada Pinkett
Smith. Yet Ashley’s introduction to
the game, as a Tech freshman, had
been humiliating: “I got crushed, and
didn’t understand why.”
“But I knew I had to
get revenge on this
guy,” he recalls. “So I
read a book on chess
and played him
again. I got crushed
again – he had
read the same
book and maybe
100 others.”
Gifted and
persistent, Ash-
ley bloomed later
in mastering the game: He never even
made Tech’s chess team. But by 1999
he had achieved Grandmaster designa-
tion – one of just 45 in the United States.
This year he became the first
African American inducted into
the Chess Hall of Fame.
Ashley’s career centers
on teaching, coaching and
proselytizing for the game –
especially with young people.
He’s coached a team
of Harlem teens
to a national
championship;
he’s worked with
Harvard and
MIT to spread
chess’s appeal
via technolo-
gy. His dream:
to elevate
chess into
a kind of
highbrow
equivalent of poker, played by millions and
offering rich reward pots.
Ashley sees growth potential among
inner city teens – currently he coaches at
Automotive HS – and his style in introduc-
ing them to the game might make a pur-
ist blush. Think street-corner basketball
court trash talk. Think X-rated trash talk.
“Chess, he explains, “is mental war-
fare. I bring that mindset to the schools.
My style remains true to my (Brooklyn)
roots, and the kids love it.”
About that experience with Will Smith:
A lesson with Ashley was Ms. Pinkett
Smith’s Valentine’s Day gift to her chess
enthusiast hubby one year; a Beverly Hills
bungalow was rented for the occasion.
The session dragged into the wee hours
as Mrs. Smith waited patiently.
“I said, ‘Dude, it’s Valentine’s Day;
you’re wife’s here – you sure you want to
play more?’”
History will note that Jada Pinkett Smith
fell asleep before her husband tired of
playing chess with Maurice Ashley.
Today’s Technites are amazing. The competition to win admission is fiercer than ever. College level coursework is required of every student in the ninth grade. In the majors, required courses are so advanced that they go beyond what Advanced Placement exams cover. Many graduates enter college with enough AP credit to skip a full year. And yet, as one of the touted “crown jewels” of the New York City public school system, Brooklyn Tech and its students are being shortchanged by a funding allocation that admittedly provides only 87 percent of what is euphemistically called “fair.” At the same time other specialized high schools receive more than 100 percent of their “fair” funding. When the Brooklyn Tech PTA asks the City to explain why Tech is shortchanged, the answer they get is that historically that is what Tech receives. That’s right, you heard it correctly, Tech is getting less today than what it deserves because in the past it got less than what it deserved. And it’s no wonder we get less: Brooklyn Tech was always, and still is, the specialized school for the children of working class, immigrant and “outer borough” families. A large majority of today’s student body qualifies under Federal anti-poverty guidelines for free and subsidized lunch. A large major-ity of the students speak a language other than English at home. And with over 800 African American and Latino students, Tech has the largest number of students from underrepresented com-munities in the specialized high schools. Today’s Technites need your finan-cial support if they are to receive the exceptional education they deserve. There are two new ways that alumni can now help. Legacy giving allows you to do estate planning and give something back. In honor of Tech approaching its centennial in 2022, we are launch-ing an initiative so each month you can automatically make a small donation (less than $9) using a credit card or an automatic transfer from your checking account to contribute $100 a year. I urge you to consider these approaches to giving something back to the school that changed your life. Today’s students need your help; with it they will change the world!
Larry Cary ’70PresidentBrooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation
To join this special giving program,
visit bthsalumni.org/donate
Technites need your help Larry Cary ’70
From
The Principal Randy Asher
R. Buckminster Fuller once said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Technites have built new models in a diverse array of fields that have changed the world for generations. Tech students today are being trained to think, problem-solve and in-novate – consistent with the philosophy of Brooklyn Tech instilled by visionary educator Albert Colston nearly a century ago. The tools used have evolved, as have many of the courses that provide a forum for the exploration of ideas in the 21st century. Our freshmen are taught Design & Drafting for Production at the college level, certified in state-of-the art industry software called Autodesk Inventor and experienced in using 3D printers to fabricate prototypes. This academic year, all sopho-mores have begun taking Advanced Placement Principles of Computer Science to provide a collegiate experience in programming and coding. Tech’s 18 majors, including many in the technical fields, also have evolved to include new course sequences and projects that are the envy of other secondary schools. These transformational learning opportunities alone make Tech stand out amongst even the most extraordinary schools. Additional programs like our competitive academic teams and our Weston Research Scholars provide students additional venues to display their extraordinary talents. Though I have been at the helm of this magnificent institution for a decade, the students continue to amaze me with their insight and achievement. Steve Jobs said, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a fol-lower.” Technites have led through innovation for generations, and the current students are poised to extend the legacy of excellence.
Randy J. AsherPrincipal
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“Do colleges have internships?”
“Can you fit in a social life with your
studying?”
“How does financial aid work?”
“Any advice for someone who wants
to be a cardiologist?”
Current Technites hurled their questions
across the classroom to up front, where they
were deftly fielded by Tech’s youngest alums
at the Alumni Foundation’s first-ever Recent
Alumni Day – bringing graduates from the
classes of 2011 through 2015 back to Tech.
For these new alumni – on winter break
from college – it was a return to hallways they
had roamed just a few years ago, and an op-
portunity to visit favorite teachers, reconnect
with old friends and impart sage advice to the
current generation of Technites.
For the current students, it was a day of
invaluable advice on the college application,
admissions and matriculation experiences
that will soon dominate their lives – advice
carrying maximum “cred,” coming from peers
just a few years ahead of them.
As president of a student club while at
Tech, Klaudia Kapo ’15 had brought alums
in as guest speakers. From one of them, she
learned about the college program she now
attends: CUNY’s Macaulay Honors Program.
“Now it is my time to give back,” she said
after spending a morning sharing experiences
with sophomores and juniors.
Nikita Dubnov ’13, now a senior at Cornell,
just wanted to revisit Tech for the first time in
nearly three years. “Homecoming and Career
Day give great insights to students, but these
events connect them with the people they can
relate to the easiest.”
“If I can give one small tip that helps a
student get into the college of their choice, I’ll
be very happy.”
The event was sponsored by Alumni Foun-
dation Board member Penelope Kokkinides ’87.
BEEN There, DOING That
TechMate!
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The chain of events leading to Ed Friedman’s exhilarating surf run starts in October 2003 when former Tech football quarterback Alex Elegudin’s car is struck by a deer, setting off a calamitous accident that paralyzes him. Pursuit of a degree from Carnegie Mellon in biomedical engi-neering devolves, after months of rehabili-tation, into earning a law degree closer to home, in Brooklyn: law, Elegudin reck-ons, being a more handicapped-accessible profession. Practicing law might be a living, but Elegudin also wants a life – for himself and others similarly situat-ed. Teaming with a fellow rehab pa-tient he forms Wheeling Forward, an organization to help people with disabilities lead fuller lives. Among its activities: providing subsidized power wheelchairs and running an exercise facility-cum-social center. One idea leads to another, and Adaptive Surfing Day is conceived.
Ed Friedman spots an announcement for it, and rolls his wheelchair onto the Rockaway sand to await his turn to surf.“I come out for this event and lo and be-hold, it’s a Tech guy behind it,” Friedman recalls. “That was quite a surprise.” The surprise continues as the young man also spots in the festive crowd ex-Tech football coach Jim DiBenedetto ’71, there to provide moral support for his for-
mer player….. and bringing along a small posse of Tech football alums as lifeguards. Lo and behold again, the beach is even more blue-and-white speckled: various of Alex’s Tech friends and relatives have also come to take part. It’s a mini-reunion on the beach, amid the exuberant whoops ris-ing above wheelchairs and surfboards. Technite Stefan Henry ’07, paralyzed since age 14 with a spinal cord injury, is
on the beach. He happily shouts over the DJ-programmed music blaring across the sand: “Being in a wheel-chair, you don’t get many opportuni-ties to be in the water. It’s an amazing experience – there’s something about water moving around you that is energizing. “If it wasn’t for this,” he explains, “I’d be just sitting at home.” Everyone would be sitting at home if not for the 200 volunteers guiding the surfing runs. One of
Alex Elegudin ’03 turned a life-changing
injury into a passion for serving
others. Along the way, some fellow
Technites jumped in the water in to help.
d Friedman ’14, born with ce-rebral palsy and in a wheelchair most days, could be found one July morning pretty much in
the last place you’d expect: Riding a surf-board through the cresting waves of Rock-away Beach, exhilarated and giddy.
Guiding and protecting him, to be sure, is a team of trained surfers and coaches. Ev-eryone is a part of Adaptive Surfing Day – a giant beach party of empowerment created by a quadriplegic Technite, Alex Elegudin ’03. It plunges dozens of quad-riplegics, paraplegics and other disabled people into the water for their first ocean fun in years, if ever. Among the nearly 200 experts at their side to ensure safety is a crew of Tech alums.
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To learn more about Alex Elegudin, visit wheelingforward.org
Alex Elegudin ’03 got wheelchairs onto the sand,
and paralyzed New Yorkers onto surfboards.
Three lifeguards from the Class of 2007: Javien Forbes,
Max Ferlesch and Dwayne Jones
Ed Friedman ’14 rides his wave.
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he largest of Brooklyn Tech’s 137 clubs is so big, at 1,000 members, that only the cavernous audi-torium can house its meetings. A service group, it
was created by a 14 year old freshman who thought students should engage more actively in the community. It brings as many as 300 Technite volunteers at a time to more than 60 charity races, neighborhood cleanups and similar activities around the city.
It’s a given that they’ll work hard and excel academically. Today’s Technites also want to enhance the world they’re about to enter.
Some of them already have.
This cornucopia of youthful activism, named HOPE by co-founder Helen Ding, is Exhibit A (but by far not the only evidence) of a spirit that seems to imbue the current post-Millennial inhabitants of Brooklyn Tech. Some express it through nearly obsessive volunteerism; others are steering their college level lab research internships toward projects with social implications. The class portrait that emerges is of a generation of Technites not unlike those before it – filled with the intensely aspirational children of immigrant families – but also fiercely eager to improve the world they are inheriting. “It seems to be part of the makeup of the kids who come to Tech. They feel a responsibility to give back,” says student activities coordinator Joseph Kaelin. “These are highly motivated kids who plan to change the world.” In uncanny validation of Kaelin’s assessment, Harvard-bound Catherine Hua ’16 (see p.16) is asked, a few days before graduation, to voice her future plans. Within minutes her e-mail reply flashes back: “Life goal: change the world.” Call them the World Changers of 2036: young people aiming to merge their two great gifts – innate intellect and a Brooklyn Tech education – to-ward a greater societal good one day. Or, today:• AlisonCollard,after three friendsdie in traficaccidents, leadsa teamof Technites to victory in a nationwide competition by devising an app that warns pedestrians of oncoming vehicles. (see p.11)• Matt Choy, exploring ocean wave energy-harvesting for his research
internship project, scales down when he envisions the vast potential for millions of families to produce their own energy at home. He creates an energy-harvesting kitchen sink that may become commer-cially viable.• EmigratingtotheUSatagenineknow-ing no English, Qingmei “May” Wu became Tech’s 2016 valedictorian. Now at MIT, she aims to create a high school outreach pro-gram that merges engineering and art.
Consider Karol Kowalczyk. A civil engineering major and Weston Research Scholar, he grows impassioned not only about load and stress analyses, but when
anticipating “being able to assemble phys-ical contributions to society.” He notices and admires the way iconic towers inter-act with and serve people. He hopes to one day create self-powering bridges with cables that harvest energy. Nearly every Weston research project contains a social benefit element, says Dr. Mathew Mandery, Alumni Founda-tion chief educational officer: “You hear it from the kids all the time. They appreciate the opportunity they have, and they are committed to making a difference.” The students on these pages are in-deed special, but they are not unique at today’s Tech. Through those who influ-
enced them and those whom they influ-ence, they all are just the latest links in the endless chain that is the Brooklyn Tech ex-perience. Consider HOPE founder Helen Ding’s final accomplishment before grad-uation: devising a 10 month succession and training process to ensure the group’s continuity after her departure. The successor to emerge from that pro-cess, chemical engineering major Court-ney Tse, says: “Whenever you help some-one, a little light goes on in you. I want to instill that feeling in others.”
Left to right:
Terrique Pinnock,
Helen Ding, Karol
Kowalczyk, Matthew
Choy, Josephine
Soddano
QINGMEI
“MAY’ WU
2016 Valedictorian
My eyes have a function where I can take an image, and REMEMBER it, and find it later.
Devastated when three friends were
hit by cars and killed, eighth grader Ali-
son Collard de Beaufort spent two days
fastening 40 teddy bears to street poles
in her Brooklyn neighborhood in what
became a crusade for road safety.
Then she entered Brooklyn Tech,
and …surprise! ... the campaign went
high-tech.
A team led by Alison, then a sopho-
more, invented a smartwatch app that
vibrates to warn pedestrians of a speed-
ing vehicle approaching them.
The device won a nationwide com-
petition last spring, bringing a prize of
about $200,000 in technology donations
from sponsor Samsung to Tech.
“It was just a matter of applying the
physics we already knew,” said lead
programmer Ben Spiegel ’17, who none-
theless had to grapple with heuristic
algorithms and the like.
Alison, Ben and two schoolmates
spent several weeks on the streets and
in a spare room in Alison’s home, fueled
by Thai takeout, developing the app.
They were picked over 50 student teams
to represent Tech in the Samsung com-
petition, which drew thousands of young
entrants nationally.
The app, one of five that won, works
by interpreting the sound waves an en-
gine emits. The team is now refining the
details and exploring ways to bring it to
market.
Alison, whose interests include the
sciences, coding and figure skating, is
just starting to focus on college selec-
tion, but already knows that “the amount
and quality of work required at Tech has
prepared me for college.”
ROAD STARS
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JANILL LEMA
Bioengineer
I’m really DETERMINED. If I don’t find one way, I’ll try to find another way.
It is a well-known fact that all Technites, past and present, possess superpowers.
How else to explain their ability to survive the rigors of a four year
Tech education, and go on to thrive in their chosen careers?
We asked some super-charged Tech students to reveal their secret powers.
WHAT’S YOUR
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DANIEL ALHADEFF
Inventor of energy-harvesting floor tile
I’ve always BUILT STUFF. When I was a little kid, I had an idea for eyeglasses that would hover in front of your face with electromagnets embedded under your skin. In sixth grade I invented a culinary tape for chefs. I called it Taco Tape.
JOHN NGUYEN
Storm sewer system engineer
I’m always ANALYZING things. If I’m waiting for the train, I’d look at the tracks and try to think, “How does this work?” Or I look up at pipes and, think, “I wonder where this goes; how does this work? Is this carrying water? Is it carrying wires?”
Ben Spiegel and Alison Collard de Beaufort are out to make streets safer
To learn more about them, visit www.bthsalumni.org/RoadStars
WHY I do WHAT I do
CATHERINE HUA
Biochemist working on new cancer chemotherapies
“As I worked on countless pro-
cedures, I began to appreciate
nature’s true artistry. As I ana-
lyzed my failed reactions, I was
absolutely amazed by nature’s
infinitesimal precision and our
planet’s ability to preserve and
destroy. Chemical synthesis is
truly a humbling art.”
QINGMEI “MAY” WU
Electrical engineer; runs art club
“When I first came to America, I
didn’t know any English. Art became
a way for me to communicate with
other people. That has stayed with me.
When I get to MIT, I want to open an
engineering-art outreach program for
local high school students. I’m going to
introduce engineering art.”
PEONY WONG
Super-volunteer
“I went with a church group to serve
Native American tribes in South Dakota.
We built and installed outhouses for
families that had no bathrooms.
Those people lived in the middle of
nowhere, no society around them. They
cried when we came and said, “Thank
you, no one else is helping us.”
I mean, there we are, worrying about
whether we have Wi-Fi…”
MATTHEW CHOY
Inverted a household alternate energy device built into a
kitchen sink
“My entire life I’ve felt a split -- a pull
between, am I going to do research
when I get older, or am I going to pursue
this whole social justice/law thing that
I feel strongly about?”
HELEN DING
Created 1,000-member student service club.
“One person can do
a lot, but teamwork
can do a lot more. “
TERRIQUE PINNOCK
Developing alternatives to pills for ingesting medicine
“I was always fascinated with the human body: So
many systems fit in one space, so many reactions.
Then you add a pill, and something gets fixed.
How does that happen? I started wondering about
that when I was ten. “
KAROL KOWALCZYK
Bridge engineer
“In my Tech internship I worked on an elec-
trochemical bridge fatigue sensor. It was eye-
opening to see what I was capable of, and to
see the next step in [learning] engineering. We
study physical concepts, but the bigger picture
is seeing myself in the future helping a major
project in a city…having a social impact.”
JOSEPHINE SODDANO
Chemist
“One time in my internship lab I saw a yellow
gas waft out of the vessel inside the fume
hood. It was chlorine. I realized, that’s a thin
barrier between me and a potentially toxic
gas. My Tech research internship was the
first time I worked with hazardous chemicals.
It was exciting. I felt a sense of responsibility.”
ANDREW PALACIOS
Organizes cancer research fund drives
“My aunt was a survivor of breast cancer but
unfortunately the cancer recurred. I wanted to
continue her mission of fighting. I didn’t want
her passing away to just be the end of it.”
SAFWAN RAHAT
Organizes cancer research fund drives
“My family took me to Bangladesh when I was
seven or eight. I saw a lot of people in poverty. My
dad and uncles said, It is better to give something
to them; they need it more than we do. With that
single act of kindness, I got interested in helping
others.”
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My Memorable Moment
To learn more about these Technites, visit www.bthsalumni.org/worldchangers
T2: Why is the NBA so aggressive about introducing new technologies to the game?A.: We have the youngest fans among the four big sports. They are constantly on the cutting edge of technology. They’re pushing us, saying, “Here’s where we are; here’s how we like to consume content – we expect you guys to be right there with us.” We have owners who are successful in the technology sector; they push us again and again to think about what the future looks like. This is all about growing the game, getting more people en-gaged with the NBA. Technology is a great facilitator and enabler of that.
T2: The other sports must think similarly. Why is the NBA often out front?
A.: We’re comfortable taking risks, doing things no one’s done before. That fosters an environment of entrepreneurs and tech people coming to us [first]. The venture funds too – they’re constantly bringing us new ideas around technologies that are
applicable to sports. So there’s a pipeline, and we take every meeting.
T2: And what’s the latest new thing?A.: The hottest right now is vir-tual reality. It’s going to change
the fan experience. Very few fans have the opportunity to go to an NBA game and even fewer to sit courtside: You are feet on the floor, hearing the players. You can’t get any closer to the action. Well, virtual real-
ity allows you to get that experience from anywhere in the world. The sounds, the view; you get to see how fast, how skilled these players are. And you can change the viewing angle – hover above the backcourt, feel like you’re floating above the court. Then turn and see the crowd reaction. It’s an amazing experience, and today is the worst it’s ever going to be. The technology’s only going to get better.
T2: How close is this to “ready for primetime?”A.: A lot of people much smarter than me are investing tens, hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get that technology up and running ASAP. We’ve already demonstrated we can shoot and stream a live game. So I think it’s going to grow pretty quickly in the next couple of years.
T2: It’s been reported the league is testing mini-GPS devices in player uniforms – to track player movements and generate all kinds of new statistics.A.: Yes, it’s one of those things we’re obvi-ously looking at. Anything that has to do with GPS or wearable devices, we’d have to talk to our players association about. So I don’t want to say it’s inevitable, but I’ll tell you there’s definitely more of a trend of capturing that kind of data and information. There’s [already] so much tracking going on today. It’s basically cameras in the arenas tracking player movements. We have a partnership with SAP. They’re synthesizing that information and providing enormous amounts of information to our fans.
T2: It seems there’s already a stat for everything. What’s left?A.: You might want to know, who runs the most miles up and down the court during a game? You could map out things like, what is the best two or three person combination of players to have on the court at any one given time.
T2: Keeping track of just points and re-bounds is starting to feel old-fashioned.A.: Today’s consumers – particularly that younger demographic – have an insatiable thirst for insight and data and informa-tion.
T2: And will this join the game narrative on TV? A.: The broadcasters and analysts will use that data. Certainly, our teams are using it now on a consistent basis. That’s how it started – our basketball operations people taking that data, that analysis, and applying it to the court. We’ve now made it available to the consumer.
T2: How much is too much? Does human judgment get sacrificed? A.: The data is helpful information, but at the end of the day I still think you need that human element, those intangibles that help you make certain decisions. I don’t think we’ll ever get to the point where some computer says, “Okay, now you send in Lebron James.”
T2: But maybe the TV commentator tells viewers the computer said that. And maybe someday there’s such detailed data that a team doesn’t want its competitors to get, or that a player doesn’t want his team to see.A.: Well, if you wanted to take the time to do it, you could track and measure everything happening on the court. So our view is, let’s be transparent about it. Let’s share the information. You and I may have the same data, but we may not come to the same conclusion on how we use it. The data is the data. The secret sauce is, how do you interpret that information, and what do you do with it?
T2: How is the NBA using social media?A.: We heard from our audience, “It would be nice if I saw a highlight on Twitter, and I was able to buy just that.” So this year for the first time, we have that. It’s all about us-ing social media to give you a little bit of a taste, then giving you the opportunity and making it easy to go and consume more if you want to. We were the first sports league to pass the one billion views mark on Vine.
T2: What else does technology hold in store? A.: One thing we’ve been looking at is the whole eSports phenomenon. There’s a growing industry around people watching other people play games. It’s fascinating. A lot of these events are held in NBA
Mark’s Hall of Fame
Mark Tatum has an MBA from
Harvard, and his business acu-
men is legendary. We asked him
whom he’d put in an NBA hall of
fame for athlete-entrepreneurs.
Kobe Bryant: “He went out and started his own
company, Kobe Inc. He hired a CEO and he’s got
a staff. I know for a fact that he spent a lot of time
talking to other successful CEOs, and he is think-
ing long-term about how he builds his [post-NBA
career] global brand.
Lebron James: “A very savvy businessperson.
He recently announced a lifetime deal with Nike.
From the time he was very young in the league,
he has always thought about building his global
brand and he’s done an incredible job at it.”
Magic Johnson: “A consummate entrepreneur
and a terrific businessperson.”
Michael Jordan: “He translated his on-court
success into incredible off-court success, to the
point where he is one of our owners and a global
icon not just in sports but in business.”
Rising Stars:
Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh “There are
guys like them who are very interested in tech-
nology, and have invested in various technology
companies – and venture funds that invest in
entrepreneurs and tech companies. These guys
are very sophisticated; they surround themselves
with sophisticated investors. It’s never too early
to start thinking about your post-NBA career, and
this generation of players is doing that.”
Virtual reality that turns your home sofa into a courtside seat... Data-dense algorithms to let fans second- guess the coach instantly... Tiny GPS devices embedded in player uniforms... It’s all coming.
With owners like Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Mark
Cuban (cable TV) and Vivek Ranadivé (data technology), it’s no
surprise that the NBA leads the field in sports-tech.
Mark Tatum ’87 is Deputy Commissioner and second in com-
mand of what is now a $5 billion multi-media, content-streaming
global juggernaut with a 215 country footprint -- the NBA. His
portfolio includes the league’s accelerating new-technology push.
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Talking With…. Mark Tatum
A technology revolution is transforming
how we watch professional sports.
Guiding it at the National Basketball
Association is… Who else? A Technite.
Continued on page 20
(Editor’s note: at presstime, Kobe Bryant announced a $100
million venture capital fund to focus on media and technology)
“Technology is a great enabler.”
“I went to a parochial Islamic middle school; 200 kids. I knew that coming to a
large public school, I would face challenges to my faith.
My kufi is like an anchor point for me. In my freshman year some people would
see it and say, “Why are you wearing that
hat? You’re Black, you’re not Muslim.”
But the biggest thing was that one of
the five prayer times coincides with the
middle of the day. At my other school
they made time for that, but here…
I had to decide it was something I
was going to do, and I had to go out of
my way to figure out a way. To muster
the confidence to tell teachers, ‘I need a
space to pray during lunch.’
Sophomore year, I even got my
schedule changed so I could
make the prayer at the
appropriate time.
The encounter with di-
verse ideas and people was
[also] a challenge for me,
but a welcome one. Even
as someone decided in my
beliefs, I think it’s important
to see other beliefs.
I joined the track team.
When I was a sophomore one
of the seniors got into Stanford,
MIT, Harvard and Yale. I thought,
‘Wow. That’s excellence. He’s my
friend. Maybe I could do that.’ He
became my role model. He pointed
me to a teacher who pointed me to
the Alumni Foundation’s Weston re-
search program, which pointed me
to a research opportunity, which
formed my desire to go to MIT.
Brooklyn Tech was a huge part
of why I’m going.”
“Go for it,” urged her math teacher, a Harvard alum; as did a former Tech buddy, now a Harvard freshman.
“No I’m done,” she replied. “I applied to 21 colleges including every other Ivy.”
Then, as December application deadlines approached, she saw an interview with a famed author. In it,
Elizabeth Gilbert told of the Ivy League rejection letter she’d kept for years – as an
incentive to always try harder.
“A Harvard rejection,” Catherine thought. “That would always motivate me
to reach for the stars.”
At the 11th hour, encouraged by the teacher and the friend, Catherine
speedily crafted a 22nd application, basing it on her Brooklyn Tech research
project abstract and adding some extraordinarily poetic words (See p. 12)
about her awe of science.
The day when all eight Ivies simultaneously announce acceptances is
called Ivy Day. Catherine spent it in a coffeeshop, checking online updates
anxiously, and often.
By dinnertime, she was in at six Ivies. Not wanting the expected
rejection to spoil her happy mood, she headed home without check-
ing Harvard’s announcement.
That night the toll from too much coffee consumption struck
hard. Catherine tossed sleeplessly. Around 1 AM, bored, she
gave in and logged on to the Harvard site. The first word she
saw was “Congratulations…”
Catherine slipped from bed and shook her mother
awake in the next room to share the news. Tears of joy
flowed freely.
Everyone who knew Catherine Hua implored her: apply to Harvard.
“I won’t get in,” she thought for months. “Why bother?”
TEACHERS AND FRIENDS ALTER A TECHNITE’S IVY QUEST
F r o m B r o o k l y n . . . . . . T O C A M B R I D G E
Call Her CATHERINE
2011:
Joins track team; goes
on to captain it to city
championship.
2012:
Enters Tech’s Weston
Research Scholars
program.
2013:
Weston teacher
guides her to college
biochemistry lab
internship; she excels.
2013-15:
Holds leadership posts
in two scholastic
honors/service
organizations.
Fall 2015:
Teachers and
friends urge her:
apply to Harvard.
She declines.
Dec. 2015:
Finally heeding the
advice, files an
11th hour Harvard
application based
largely on her Weston
research abstract.
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Harith Morgan ’16 came to the nation’s largest, most diverse high
school from a tiny parochial middle school. He adjusted; he thrived...
all the way to MIT... with a teammate and a teacher providing assistance.
A Diversity ENCOUNTER
The Hua/BTHS formula for
admission to Harvard:
HUA
To learn more about Catherine Hua, visit www.bthsalumni.org/Hua
Talking With….
SAM SCHWARTZ
T2: It’s constantly getting harder to navigate around town, isn’t it?A.: Maximum mobility in New York City was around 1970, then it went downhill. But we confuse mobility and accessibil-ity. We think that mobility means we can go fast. But if you can walk to the corner store, your accessibility is much better.
T2: One sees new bike lanes, and reads that millennials are driving less. Are these real progress, or fads that will fade when the 20-somethings reach middle age?A.: It’s not just a blip when we have ten straight years of reduction in vehicle miles driven. I think the desire is long-term among millennials. There’s a study that shows when they have children, they still
use transit.
T2: Many still drive.A.: The majority will still drive, but we’ve seen a 20% shift, which is dramatic. We’ve never seen a 20% shift away from driving. That means 20% less energy use, 20% fewer people obese, 20% fewer crashes. Wonderful changes that will help society.
T2: New York has bike lanes, pedestrian zones and now the Vision Zero plan to reduce traffic fatalities. Is this enough progress?A.: Those move the needle, but they haven’t dealt with the congestion problem. None of it radically changes what the av-erage New Yorker does during the course of a day. We need more of a master plan,
more area-wide improvement.
T2:A master plan might include what?A.: If we are smart as a society, we will encourage walking, biking, active trans-portation and transit. I don’t see the big thinkers out there. We have not built a bridge to Manhattan since 1909. That’s 107 years ago. Other cities are proposing pedestrian and bike bridges. I’ve proposed one from Red Hook to Governor’s Island and lower Manhattan, one from Hunters Point or Greenpoint to Roosevelt Island and midtown, another from Jersey City or Hoboken into midtown. But I don’t see anyone in the city or state saying “Hey, let’s build a bridge.”
’65If New York City’s vehicle-clogged streets increasingly resemble a dense swamp to you, the facts suggest you are correct. But beware the trap of confusing mobility with accessibility, says Gridlock Sam — Sam Schwartz ’65. Flee your car, hop on a bike or lace up your walking shoes and you’ll encounter a far friendlier-feeling city.
Schwartz, a former New York City traffic commis-sioner who actually invented the word “gridlock,” is vocal in the nationwide push for improving urban life by relying less on autos. He’s written a book about it: “Street Smart.” But now, emerging technology threat-ens to actually increase urban street congestion.
Schwartz has a plan for dealing with that, too.
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September 16, 2016 Dedication of Main Gymnasium in
Memory of Conrad McRae
October 26, 2016 Career Day
October 30, 2016 Long Island Chapter Breakfast,
Cradle of Aviation Museum
November 30, 2016 Titans of Tech Awards Dinner,
Pier Sixty – Chelsea Piers
January 5, 2017 Recent Alumni Day
February 15, 2017 Tech Celebration Recognition Dinner,
Gargiulo’s Restaurant
March 11, 2017 Ruby Breakfast Celebrating
Class of 2017 Young Women
March 30 - April 1, 2017 Homecoming
New Directions Lecture Series – Speakers To Be Announced
Start times – 3:45 in the Library
October 26, 2016 (Career Day)
December 7, 2016
March 22, 2017
April 26, 2017
Calendar of EventsT2: And if we are not smart as a society?A.: If we’re dumb, we’re going to let the autonomouscarsandtheUberstakeoverto the point where we become very lazy and it mirrors WALL-E in that film.
T2: Wait, will driverless cars actually function in the craziness of Manhattan traffic?A.: Yes. It’s easy.
T2: Really?A.: Yes. You have to realize that all the decisions we make as a driver [in urban traffic] probably add up to hundreds of thousands at most. For a computer that’s not a lot. A dime can contain all the in-formation for 100,000 decisions.
T2: How far in our future is this?A.: Austin will have about 100 [driverless cars] in the next couple of years. In a place as complex as New York City: probably the 2030 to 2040 decade.
T2: And you think this not a good thing?A.: It creates a lot of problems in cities. Most studies show we’ll have more vehicle miles traveled. The autonomous car doesn’t go the parking garage. You go to your meeting, and it circulates. You see the parking lot costs $60, so you tell your car, “Just drive around the block.”
T2: And your solution is…?A.: We need a pricing strategy.
T2: Congestion pricing, tolls to cross the East River bridges? You’ve been advocating that for years.A.: I have been. For 45 years.
T2:What’s going to soften resistance?A.: We’re going to need pricing or we’ll be crippled. We’re already getting crippled withtheadventofUber,LyftandVia.Also I would lower tolls on the outer borough bridges – the Whitestone, the Verrazano – so the boroughs get relief. We need leadership: You go to London, Paris, almost any Asian city and they’re all recognizing that cars aren’t the answer to urban traffic.
Class Notes
Dr. Allen Lee ’70 received a LEO
Award for Lifetime Exceptional
Achievement in Information
Systems. The award is given
to distinguished members of
the research community whose
contributions have changed the
field and influenced others. Dr. Lee is a professor
in the School of Business at Virginia Common-
wealth University in Richmond, VA.
Sharmella Riggs ’81 is the propulsion & power inte-
grated product team lead at the Naval Air Warfare
Center, Aircraft Division.
Denisha McPherson ’04 won an Emmy for “out-
standing technical team” for her work with NBC at
the XXII Olympic Winter Games.
Andrea Wangsanata ’07
took an early career sab-
batical to see the world,
covering 22 countries in
16 months and blogging
about it before settling
in Sydney, Australia. She met up with classmates
Kristi Ann and Aliya Codrington in Bali, and un-
expectedly encountered another Tech alum deep
inside a national park in Brazil.
Bryan Bautista ’10, who won the BTHS talent
competition in 2008, finished in the top eight in the
2016 season of television show The Voice.
Nikita Dubnov ’13, a senior at Cornell University’s
college of engineering, interned last summer at
Apple working in software development. He is
majoring in information science and minoring in
business. “All based on the skills that I learned at
Brooklyn Tech, I am looking forward to a career in
technology project management,” he reports.
Emma Costa ’14 is an undergraduate research
assistant at the Synthetic Neurobiology Group,
MIT Media Lab, and a junior at MIT. She designed
and implemented a technology-based curriculum
for secondary school students in rural Kenya, and
won the MIT Freshman Award for Distinguished
Achievement in Entrepreneurship.
Yejin Lee ’14 is a dual degree honors student at
Syracuse University in Information Management
and Technology and Supply Chain Management,
and is a student peer mentor.
Bilal Nadeem ’15 is studying at Harvard and has been
a research analyst intern at Concept Capital Markets.
Angela Zeng ’16 went on a summer educational
expedition in the Arctic as the first Asian-American
scholarship recipient of the Beatrice Snyder Founda-
tion, through the Students on Ice program, a global
initiative to educate students about the polar regions.
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Surf’s Up Tatum
them, hanging with Henry, is his former classmate Julia Shuliko ’07, who hasn’t seen him since back in the day. Her job: to transfer participants from their wheel-chairs onto the adaptive surfboards they will lie on. “We are seeing people who are non-mobile live life to the fullest,” she says. “Seeing them in the water, fearless, inspires me. If they can go out there, I should be living my life to the fullest too. Maybe there’s something that I haven’t been doing that I should try.” Around then, Ed Friedman emerges dripping wet and beaming from his surf-ing run: “It’s adrenalin. It’s a nice rush. It’s empowering,” he says. Empowerment is the point of it all for Elegudin. In an interview later, he recalls his dismay at seeing his post-accident rehab buddies shunted off to nursing homes because they couldn’t live independently: “I started to think, ‘One day when I’m better, I want to help
people like my friends deal with lack-of-access issues.’” He began volunteering as soon as he could, and launched Wheeling For-ward in 2012. The organization teams with other groups to pull off some of its major events, like the surfing day, but concentrates on the daily essentials: “Helping people have active, meaningful lives. Helping them go back to school, to work. To improve their quality of life.” He does it, according to those who know him, to the max: “He is always there for you, he always finds a way – and he pushes himself to the limit,” says surfing day volunteer Jane Sosland ’08 – who is Elegudin’s cousin. But what matters to the appreciative participants here on this July afternoon is that they have just had one of their best days ever. Still dripping drops of ocean water, Ed Friedman smiles again. “I caught some of the biggest waves,” he says happily.
Tech Teams
Are Champs
Brooklyn Tech’s athletes col-
lectively set a school record in
2015-16 when eight teams won
city championships. Tech’s
student athletes have a mean
grade average in the mid 90s.
WHAT’S NEXT for the Technites featured in this issue? We asked them….
Continued from page 7
Ben, whose programming résumé dates back to elementary school and who can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 11.4 seconds, is interested in Stanford, MIT, or another top engineering school. “I walked into a land of opportunity when I came to Brooklyn Tech,” he said. “It is
the perfect place for me.” Skeptics who point out that electric carsaresilent,pleasenote:by2018,USnon-combustion autos must have an audible engine sound to enhance pedes-trian safety.
Road stars
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buildings. Time Warner has invested in a league. We’re seeing EA Sports creating a whole division focused on eSports. It’s one of those things I think has potential to be pretty game-changing.
T2: Would that be soon, or down the road a bit? A.: It’s happening now. Some of these global tournaments are attracting mil-lions of viewers online.
T2: The NBA’s multi-year, multi-billion dollar new TV deal is taking effect now. But traditional TV is no longer the whole pie. What about the proliferation of new digital platforms for distribution and viewing?
A.: Many in the younger generation are never signing up [for cable or satellite service. They’re consuming their content today in much different ways. At the local and the global level we’re making invest-ments in marketing and customer data strategies — identifying who is coming to our games, who’s watching on television, who’s interacting with us in social and digital media, and trying to figure out: how do they want to continue to interact with us, how do they want to consume our content, where are they consuming our content, when do they consume it? Those are things we try to get smarter about every single day.
T2: How did Brooklyn Tech help prepare you for bringing the world of cutting-edge technology into the NBA?A.: Brooklyn Tech taught me to be curious and showed me how to solve problems cre-atively. The lessons I learned there have helped prepare me to engage with and embrace emerging technologies in our business today.
In sixth grade, I made a Van de Graaf generator. I found a video on how to build it, and I just followed it.
Sophomore year, I built a piezo-electric energy harvesting floor tile. Step on it, and it produces electricity. It’s been installed in Tech several times, and it is completely economically viable. I’m looking to install it in office buildings, malls and subway stations.
In my research internship we’re working to prolong insulin’s life at room temperature. Because it is unstable at room temperature, insulin has to be stored in a refrigerator. Our work will help hospitals.
HARITH MORGAN
Inventor-athlete
DANIEL ALHADEFF
Inventor
TULSI PATEL
Lab researcher
A Cool Thing I did...
DANIEL ALHADEFF
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Aiming to bring his energy tile to market; also developing a mobile phone app with commercial potential.
MATTHEW CHOY
Talking to patent at-torneys, including Tech alumni, about his home alternative energy inven-tion.WilldoublemajoratNYUinscienceand sociology: “I feel it’s feasible to have a career that focuses on both. The track of science throughout history is finding innova-tive ways to help people.”
ALISON COLLARD
Wants to develop a flight simulator-type app that can teach aspiring motorists to drive.
HELEN DING
John Jay College, major-ing in political science. Undecidedwhethertojoin a student organiza-tion or start one. Plans to study law and become a prosecutor.
CATHERINE HUA
“Study abroad or travel to at least 3 different continents... Con-centrate at Harvard in chemical and physical biology; minor in physics…Research, most definitely!! … Life goal: to change the world.”
KAROL
KOWALCZYK
City College, majoring in civil engineering. Hopes to start his own structural engineering firm and “accomplish projects that will leave a great social impact.”
JANILL LEMA
ColumbiaUniversity.“What I really want to do is tissue engineering. This is creating organs from stem cells. It is an emerging field.”
HARITH MORGAN
“MIT is a place where opportunities abound; where you set up the dominoes for the rest of your life. I want to study mechanical engineering and ultimately help people and the world by making stuff. And I want to have fun at the same time.”
JOHN NGUYEN
CooperUnion,tomajorin chemical or mechani-cal engineering. Hopes to join Engineers With-out Borders, attend graduate school, serve in the Peace Corps and start his own company.
ANDREW
PALACIOS
Macaulay Honors Col-lege,CUNY.Planstomajor in either engineer-ing or political science.
TULSI PATEL
Considering Boston University,DukeandCUNY;hopingtomajorin biomedical engineer-ing and minor in litera-ture. “I am leaning toward being a doctor. I hope to start an organization in which athletes team up with centers for autistic children to help them play sports.”
TERRIQUE
PINNOCK
Considering college study in chemistry, biol-ogy or medicine. Also anticipates engaging in
“some kind of leadership and volunteer-ing organization to help the community.”
SAFWAN RAHAT
Major in biomedical engineering, minor in businessatUniversityof California - Berkeley
JOSEPHINE
SODDANO
Setting sights on majoring in meteorol-ogy or chemistry at theUniversityofCalifornia-Berkeley or MIT: “The large and competitive environment of Tech has really prepared me for college:”
BENJAMIN
SPIEGEL
Hoping to study pro-gramming or computer science at Stanford or MIT
PEONY WONG
VillanovaUniversitypsychology/pre-med, then attend medical school and “maybe join a few missionary trips before I completely settle down” as a psychiatrist.
QINGMEI WU
MIT. “I want to work in the third world on environmental energy and power grids. I’ll start in the kitchen. Where I came from, many people had inefficient fireplace stoves. I’ll go to a third world country, sit in their homes, and turn my observations into new stove designs or a new kind of grid.”
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James H. Lantelme ‘46Velio A. Marsocci ‘46Leonard Matin ‘46Norman Moskowitz ‘46Lewis G. Nieberg ‘46Frank L. Peishel ‘46James Spool ‘46Bertram H. Stiller ‘46Jerome Tiegel ‘46William J. Anton ‘47Harry Bernstein ‘47John A. Caruso ‘47Robert R. Detwiler ‘47Melvin Elfin ‘47Charles D. Federico ‘47Arnold W. Frank ‘47Fred A. Grauman ‘47Richard J. Katucki ‘47Stephen J. Keane ‘47Abraham L. Landis ‘47Edward W. Lewison ‘47Marvin I. Mazur ‘47Arthur Miller ‘47Stuart Pivar ‘47Jerome L. Sackman ‘47George W. Smith ‘47Norman Y. Zelvin ‘47Donald J. Bachrach ‘48Sheldon Batterman ‘48Roger E. Beutner ‘48John W. Chromy ‘48Bernard Friedland ‘48John A. Garstka ‘48Kenneth L. Goldman ‘48Lino A. Graglia ‘48Louis Gross ‘48William K. Kramer ‘48Murray A. Luftglass ‘48Irwin B. Margiloff ‘48Richard F. Marsh ‘48Irwin Medoff ‘48Joseph A. Parrella ‘48Morton Povman ‘48Leonard Shapiro ‘48Harold Sobol ‘48David Weild III ‘48George A. Yabroudy ‘48Hermann F. Anton ‘49Klaus Bergman ‘49Richard M. Ehrlich ‘49Leonard Ehrman ‘49Murray H. Feigenbaum ‘49Alvin R. Finkelstein ‘49Philip M. Fleiss ‘49Alan E. Goldberg ‘49Barry D. Greene ‘49Richard J. Harper ‘49Pazel G. Jackson, Jr. ‘49Stratos G. Kantounis ‘49Allan W. Lyons ‘49Lionel A. Marks ‘49Sidney S. Paul ‘49R.A. Satin ‘49Alvin M. Silver ‘49Walter J. Smith ‘49Edward P. Taudien ‘49Robert J. Anders ‘50Anonymous ‘50William H. Chamberlain ‘50Robert T. Cole ‘50Rasmus A. Erdal ‘50Frank J. Farella ‘50Richard G. Ramge ‘50Bert W. Wasserman ‘50F. Richard Zitzmann ‘50Albert R. Adelmann ‘51Noah M. Berley ‘51Lawrence D. Brown ‘51Frank A. Cipriani ‘51David A. Citrin ‘51Morton Corn ‘51Gordon Davidson ‘51Kenneth A. Griffin ‘51Walter G. Jung ‘51M. Robert Kestenbaum ‘51Angel Martin ‘51Robert A. Meyers ‘51Arno A. Penzias ‘51
Richard J. Pressel ‘51Norman Reinertsen ‘51Calvin H. Reing ‘51Robert M. Rosen ‘51George C. Stoutenburgh, Sr. ‘51William Assiff ‘52Gordon Baym ‘52Richard B. Brandt ‘52Hank E. Carillo ‘52Victor J. Caroddo ‘52Alan B. Dolmatch ‘52Alan Drucker ‘52Karl E. Fritsch ‘52Lester A. Hoel ‘52John M. Jeffords ‘52David Kliot ‘52Robert E. Melnik ‘52Edward M. Messina ‘52C. Raymond Nelson ‘52James P. Popino ‘52Stuart J. Rothkopf ‘52William Scales ‘52Steven P. Shearing ‘52Theodore Thomte ‘52Michael A. Turin ‘52Vincent Volpicelli ‘52Allen L. Wasserman ‘52Raoul Alvarez ‘53Gerald K. Bergh ‘53Roger S. Blaho ‘53Alexander N. Casella ‘53William Cullen ‘53Clifford J. Daly ‘53Sheldon W. Dean Jr. ‘53Anthony R. Fandozzi ‘53Carl D. Harbart ‘53Joel J. Levitz ‘53Charles F. Muller Jr. ‘53Lowell M. Rubin ‘53Jerome I. Sharrin ‘53William M. Slyman ‘53Ron Tevonian ‘53Richard J. Zaloum ‘53Bernhard E. Deichmann ‘54Robert T. Franco ‘54Franklin J. Gladstone ‘54Ronald Haggett ‘54Thomas W. Hall ‘54Heinz A. Hegmann ‘54Norman D. Henderson ‘54Albert LoSchiavo ‘54Robert F. Lynch ‘54Peter F. Margulen ‘54Jon Mulford ‘54John C. Munnelly ‘54Hans R. Naumann ‘54George R. Nelson ‘54Kurt R. Willinger ‘54Fred H. Woodruff ‘54Lawrence M. Baskir ‘55Joseph A. Castellano ‘55W. Philip Johnson Jr. ‘55Eugene Kremer ‘55Carl J. Lange ‘55John Leary ‘55Joseph D. Monticciolo ‘55Eric C. Olsen ‘55Paul I. Olsen ‘55Irving Rozansky ‘55Joel M. Spiro ‘55Robert J. Sywolski ‘55Edward R. Wolpow ‘55John H. Andren Jr. ‘56Anthony J. Balsamo ‘56Joel B. Chase ‘56Avram Cooperman ‘56Marvin C. Gersten ‘56Bruce L. Hollander ‘56Joseph T. Kavanagh ‘56William B. Knowlton ‘56Peter A. Lopes ‘56Peter L. Norgren ‘56Michael J. Pisani ‘56Joseph F. Plummer ‘56Robert Rung ‘56Bernard Schwartzman ‘56Saul C. Shenberg ‘56
Stanley Skalka ‘56Philip G. Taylor ‘56Jack H. Willenbrock ‘56Elkan Abramowitz ‘57Robert H. Buggeln ‘57Louis P. Crane ‘57William F. Dworsak ‘57Frederick J. Dymek ‘57John A. Finguerra ‘57Arthur Fontaine ‘57Bernard H. Friese ‘57Victor F. Germack ‘57Martin L. Goldfarb ‘57Ed Goldman ‘57John F. Harte ‘57Robert Hoch ‘57Jack Karczewski ‘57Joseph M. Moran ‘57D. Robert Oppenheimer, Jr. ‘57Kenneth M. Rosen ‘57John J. Tomaszewski ‘57Allan Abramson ‘58Edward J. Antonio ‘58Anthony R. Baldomir ‘58David Berman ‘58Joel D. Citron ‘58Sal Dunn ‘58Bernard Greenberg ‘58Edward Haleman ‘58Gilbert Jackson ‘58Arthur W. Kirsch ‘58Marvin L. Meistrich ‘58Ronald Morony ‘58Steven J. Nappen ‘58Anthony C. Nicoletti ‘58Ronald Olson ‘58Robert Raifman ‘58Raymond Reilly ‘58Stanley M. Rogovin ‘58Lester A. Rubenfeld ‘58Richard K. Ruff ‘58Robin J. Russo ‘58Jack B. Shaifer ‘58Alvin J. Siegartel ‘58Paul B. Thorn ‘58Thomas E. Waber ‘58Richard F. Worsena ‘58Stephan Ariyan ‘59Melvin J. Band ‘59Robert S. Comparato ‘59Steven M. Darien ‘59Clifford H. Fisher ‘59Robert A. Grossman ‘59Arnold Katz ‘59Fred K. Kies ‘59Marshall J. Levinson ‘59Charles J. Luchun ‘59Dennis J. Moran ‘59Andrew G. Mueller ‘59Kenneth A. Ness ‘59Albert F. Neumann ‘59Bruce N. Newrock ‘59Edward A. Oxer ‘59Alan J. Sheldon ‘59Ira N. Slow ‘59Chuck Spillert ‘59Stanley Steinberg ‘59Louis P. Torre ‘59Francis J. Voyticky ‘59Jack S. Bakunin ‘60Louis R. Comunelli ‘60Nicholas J. DeCapua ‘60Robert W. Donohue ‘60Allen F. Goldman ‘60Bernard Grossman ‘60James L. Iskiyan ‘60Steven Koestenblatt ‘60Derek I. Lowenstein ‘60Ray A. Lynnworth ‘60Paul B. Mentz ‘60Robert O. Mercer ‘60Eugene B. Michaelsen ‘60Edwin Neff Jr. ‘60William H. Otto ‘60Paul Pliester ‘60John H. Powers ‘60Arthur P. Rea ‘60
Stephen L. Richter ‘60Bruce Rubinger ‘60Ronald H. Schmahl ‘60Miles A. Slater ‘60Steven Stark ‘60William J. Tinston Jr. ‘60Nicholas P. Trentacoste ‘60David H. Abramson ‘61Irving M. Adler ‘61Thomas R. Alcamo ‘61Richard P. Anastasio ‘61Peter J. Balestiero ‘61Sheldon Bernstein ‘61Alan I. Brooks ‘61Peter J. Coppolino ‘61Peter L. Cuneo ‘61Elliott J. Dubin ‘61Dennis E. Ellisen ‘61Paul D. Felder ‘61Marshall N. Gartenlaub ‘61Peter N. Geornaras ‘61John Hahn ‘61Franz J. Hoge ‘61Thomas J. Hughes ‘61George B. Johnson ‘61Ilan M. Levi ‘61Gordon A. Lewandowski ‘61William D. Livesey ‘61Eric M. May ‘61James P. McNamara ‘61Joseph J. Merenda Jr. ‘61Joseph Nalven ‘61Marvin Pflaum ‘61Lawrence J. Simon ‘61Mark C. Stern ‘61Michael F. Trachtenberg ‘61Norman Weinstein ‘61Douglas B. Woessner ‘61Michael E. Zall ‘61Steven M. Bauman ‘62Arnold S. Berger ‘62Richard J. Cusick ‘62William B. Follit Jr. ‘62William M. Gelbart ‘62Curtis K. Goss ‘62Philip M. Katcher ‘62Stanley Keyles ‘62Peter Konieczny ‘62Allan A. Koslofsky ‘62Pete Kudless ‘62Michael Lamoriella ‘62Robert Levine ‘62Frank Lynch ‘62Dennis A. Paoletti ‘62Arthur N. Peterson ‘62Joel Zizmor ‘62Neil Bromberg ‘63Alan R. Cravitz ‘63Michael DeFazio ‘63Jeff Erdel ‘63Joel M. Feldschneider ‘63Bradley B. Fordham ‘63William P. Fox ‘63Peter Gamba ‘63Donald Gaylord ‘63Andrew Kohl ‘63Lloyd J. Lazarus ‘63Herbert J. Marks ‘63Emil Monda ‘63David A. Rosenzweig ‘63Chet Singer ‘63Bernard M. Spiegel ‘63Mark Weiss ‘63Stephen N. Weiss ‘63Arnold Zimmerman ‘63Robert Filosa ‘64Richard D. Firestone ‘64Richard Gaccione ‘64William J. Gallo ‘64Gabriel Goldberg ‘64Louis D. Greenzweig ‘64Thorsteen K. Hervold ‘64Eliot Hess ‘64Neal Klinger ‘64Peter Kunka ‘64Kenneth R. Pierce ‘64Jeffrey B. Sameroff ‘64Steven Schlosser ‘64
$1,000,000 +
IndividualsIsaac Heller ‘43Norman K. Keller ‘54Leandro P. Rizzuto ‘56Leonard Riggio ‘58Charles B. Wang ‘62
$500,000 +
IndividualsFred M. Grafton ‘44Josh S. Weston ‘46
OrganizationsGoldman Sachs Gives Annual Giving Fund
$200,000 +
IndividualsErik Klokholm ‘40Harold Antler ‘46Mary Jane Schnoor & Richard H. Schnoor ‘49Victor Insetta ‘57Achilles Perry ‘58James Fantaci ‘64Floyd Warkol ‘65John A. Catsimatidis ‘66
OrganizationsBTHS Parent Teachers AssociationCon Edison
$100,000 +
IndividualsFrederick C. Meyer ‘40Charles A. DeBenedittis ‘48Alfred Lerner ‘51Lee James Principe ‘56Michael F. Parlamis ‘58Louis H. Siracusano Sr. ‘60Jeffrey M. Haitkin ‘62Herbert L. Henkel ‘66
Friends of TechRichard MackStephen C. Mack
OrganizationsNational Grid
$50,000 +
IndividualsJoseph J. Jacobs ‘34Sherman Rigby ‘46Stuart Kessler ‘47Martin V. Alonzo ‘48Thomas J. Volpe ‘53Anthony J. Armini ‘55Peter A. Ferentinos ‘55Joseph J. Kaminski ‘56Richard M. Kulak ‘56William L. Mack ‘57Michael A. Weiss ‘57Robert C. Ochs ‘59Jacob Feinstein ‘60Willard N. Archie ‘61Michael Minikes ‘61Larry Birenbaum ‘65Rande H. Lazar ‘69Carmine A. Morano ‘72
OrganizationsC. R. Bard FoundationIngersoll RandBTHS Alumni Long Island Chapter
$25,000 +
IndividualsJohn C. Siltanen ‘31Arnold J. Melloy ‘40Patrick Romano ‘43Murray H. Neidorf ‘45Robert Marchisotto ‘47David Abraham ‘48George E. Safiol ‘50Joseph M. Colucci ‘54Robert F. Davey ‘58William Sheluck Jr. ‘58Howard Fluhr ‘59Eric Kaltman ‘60Bert Reitman ‘63Alan M. Silberstein ‘65Anonymous ‘67Andy Frankl ‘67Peter J. Cobos ‘72Chester Wong ‘94
Friends of TechDorcey ChernickJason HaitkinPenny HaitkinBetty J. Mayer
OrganizationsAmerican Express FoundationKeyspanSimpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLPThe Lotos FoundationThe Segal Company
$10,000 +
IndividualsCharles Kyrie Kallas ‘37Louis Walkover ‘37Frederick H. Ajootian ‘41Roy B. Simpson ‘41Daniel K. Roberts ‘43Armand J. Valenzi ‘44Sidney A. Mayer ‘46Ronald P. Stanton ‘46Wesley E Truesdell ‘46Joseph N. Sweeney ‘48LeRoy N. Callender ‘50Lawrence Sirovich ‘51Michael D. Nadler ‘52George Suffal ‘53Lawrence C. Lynnworth ‘54Leonard Edelstein ‘55John Moy ‘58Michael Tannenbaum ‘58William A. Davis Jr. ‘59Glenn Y. Louie ‘59Richard E. LaMotta ‘60Patricia Vasbinder & Victor Montana ‘60Bernard R. Gifford ‘61Michael Levine ‘61Mathew M. Mandery ‘61George W. Moran ‘61John B. Rofrano ‘61Edward R. Rothenberg ‘61Douglas Besharov ‘62Murray Dropkin ‘62Joseph Angelone ‘63Thomas C. DeCanio ‘63Steve H. Kaplan ‘63K. Steven Horlitz ‘64Edward P. Salzano ‘64William H. Wong ‘64Edward T. LaGrassa ‘65John M. Lyons ‘66John V. Cioffi ‘67Ned Steele ‘68John di Domenico ‘69Jeffrey L. Goldberg ‘69
Alan S. Natter ‘69William J. Rouhana Jr. ‘69Tony Bartolomeo ‘70Larry L. Cary ‘70George Graf ‘70George L. Van Amson ‘70James DiBenedetto ‘71Domingo Gonzalez ‘72Keith Forman ‘76Susan Mayham ‘76Nicholas Y. Chu ‘77Franklin F. Lee ‘77Wilton Cedeno ‘82Margaret Murphy ‘83Penelope Kokkinides ‘87
Friends of TechEmanuel BeckerElizabeth KorevaarEllen Mazur ThomsonDaniel StahlJonnie StahlRandi Zinn
OrganizationsB T Alex BrownBDO Seidman, LLPCare2Charles B. Wang Associates, IncChase Manhattan BankComputer Associates International, IncCon EdisonCowles Media FoundationDurst GroupFIRSTGameStop CorporationGoldman Sachs Matching Gift ProgramHeritage Mechanical Services, IncJohn Wiley & Sons, IncMancini DuffyMarathon BankMath For America, IncMBS Textbook ExchangeMerrill Lynch & Co FoundRaytheon CompanySIACT.E.C. Systems, IncTD Bank, NAThe Durst OrganizationThe New York Community TrustTime Warner
$5,000 +
IndividualsErnest R. Schultz ‘25Allan C. Johnson ‘28Frederick DeMatteis ‘40Eugene V. Kosso ‘42David W. Wallace ‘42Lawrence G. Rubin ‘43Dominic N. Castellano ‘45Bertram Quelch ‘45Robert Gresl ‘46Irwin Smiley ‘46Robert J. Domanoski ‘47Gordon H. Hensley ‘47Robert J. Pavan ‘47Irwin Shapiro ‘47Donald Bady ‘48Herbert A. Granath ‘48Harry H. Birkenruth ‘49James E. Dalton ‘49Bert Krauss ‘50Lee H. Pomeroy ‘50Ralph B. Wagner ‘51Murray Farash ‘52
Carl H. Kiesewetter ‘55Floyd R. Orr ‘55Les P. Kalmus ‘56Edward D. Miller ‘56Salvatore J. Vitale Jr. ‘56William H. Henry ‘57Stephen J. Lovell ‘57Francis C. Moon ‘57Anthony Borra ‘58Raymond M. Loew ‘58Robert J. Ciemian ‘59Richard R. Ferrara ‘59Valentine P. Povinelli Jr. ‘59Robert J. Stalzer ‘59Michael A. Antino ‘60John R. Murphy ‘61Robert C. DiChiara ‘63Joseph F. Azara Jr. ‘64Domenick J. Esposito ‘65Peter Kakoyiannis ‘65Marvin J. Levine ‘65Kenneth D’Alessandro ‘66Steven Wishnia ‘66Arthur H. Kettenbeil ‘67Anthony P. Schirripa ‘67William C. Wurst ‘67Lloyd Zeitman ‘69Charles J. Rose ‘70Roger E. Schechter ‘70Barry Sohnen ‘70Marty Borruso ‘71Steven A. Hallem ‘72Arnold Goldman ‘73Jonathan D. Dubin ‘74Edward M. Rosensteel ‘74Eugene Picone ‘76Seth Ruzi ‘76Grayling G. Williams ‘76Douglas Yagilowich ‘76Keith Franklin ‘78Elizabeth M. Wieckowski ‘79Deirdre D. Cooke ‘80Hau Yee Ng-Lo ‘80David L. Fung ‘81Kenneth D. Daly ‘84Mario Guerrero ‘86Joy H. Hsiao ‘87Adrienne D. Gonzalez ‘94John Liu ‘98Kaeisha T. O’Neal ‘99
Friends of TechRandell BarclaySyd BlattCharles Cahn Jr.Brian CosgroveJoseph Cuzzocrea Sr.Lucia DeSantiJames DimonAl FerraraWilliam L. HainesJohn HensleyKiseon KoThomas LowryStephen MazurJoan RiegelDavid RiosRandi RossignolJohn Thonet
OrganizationsAir ProductsBonanza Productions, IncBurson-MarstellerCary Kane, LLPCellini Fine JewelryChicago Bridge & Iron CompanyCredit Suisse SecuritiesDeutsche BankDuggal Color Projects, IncEastern Metalworks, Inc
El Paso Energy FoundationGateway Institute for Pre-College EducationHaights Cross Operating CompanyITW FoundationLaura Berdon FoundationLucent TechnologiesM & I Electric Industries, IncMorgan Stanley CybergrantsNational Hockey League FoundationPennoni Associates, IncPension ReviewPolytechnicUniversityRidgewood Savings BankRobinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman, LLPTextron Charitable TrustThe Jay Chiat Foundation, IncThe McGraw-Hill Companies
$2,500 +
IndividualsLouis K. Robbins ‘30Virgil V. Chiavetta ‘35L. Remsen Skidmore Jr. ‘37Ernest E. Pearson Jr. ‘40James E. Amrhein ‘41Rudolph Bahr Jr. ‘41Joseph P. Barbieri ‘41Eugene L. Fieldhammer ‘42Robert W. Mann ‘42Eugene Miritello ‘42David S. Hacker ‘43J. L. Snoke ‘43Oscar A. Levi ‘44Al Roffman ‘44RobertU.Schoenfelder‘44Arthur A. Feder ‘45Henry H. Frank ‘45Robert W. Citron ‘46Irwin Dorros ‘46Gerard Hirschhorn ‘46Erwin L. Schaub ‘46Alfred Schroeder ‘46Arnold Jaffe ‘47Saunder Schaevitz ‘47Joel F. Lehrer ‘48Frank S. Vigilante ‘48Stephen P. Cuff ‘49Stanley D. Margolin ‘49Saul Muchnick ‘49Gerald F. Ross ‘49Charles J. Sisti ‘49Chester P. Soling ‘49Joseph J. Kohn ‘50Arthur M. Dinitz ‘51John J. Huson ‘52Sheldon Katz ‘52Kenneth E. Batcher ‘53William J. D’Antonio ‘53Robert J. Heilen ‘53Sidney Levitsky ‘53Stuart K. Pertz ‘53Richard Schwartz ‘53Robert H. Tuffias ‘53Erwin Zeuschner ‘53Peter J. Kolesar ‘54Ivan D. Steen ‘54Robert B. Bruns ‘55Vincent R. Damiano ‘55Donald Lanier ‘55Owen D. McBride ‘55Jean G. Miele Jr. ‘55Robert F. Dendy ‘56Joel O. Lubenau ‘56Dan M. Ruesterholz ‘56
Bernard J. Stein ‘56Robert B. Bell ‘57David J. Bershad ‘57Peter Dornau ‘57Donald C. McCann ‘57Zdzislaw Mikolajczyk ‘57Thomas J. Mitchell ‘57Joseph Riggio ‘57Leon C. Silverman ‘57Richard S. Taylor ‘57Joseph A. Cavallo ‘58Joseph B. Ciccone ‘58Barry D. Epstein ‘58Stanley M. Ferber ‘58Allan R. Ginsberg ‘58Kenneth D. Greene ‘58James H. M. Malley ‘58Edward Rogas Jr. ‘58Stuart Schube ‘58Donald J. Stahl ‘58Thomas V. Deffina ‘59Robert Ennis ‘59Zachary C. Fluhr ‘59Arnold A Gruber ‘59Stephen A. Levine ‘59Joel S. Levy ‘59Michael T. Cohen ‘60Asher Etkin ‘60Joel M. Fields ‘60John Klvac ‘60Walter Skuggevig ‘60Richard E. Sorensen ‘60Anonymous ‘61Lawrence A. Baker ‘61Robert H. Digby ‘61Kenneth A. East ‘61Warren L. Gutheil ‘61Clifford A. Hudsick ‘61Robert F. Kelly ‘61Frank R. Luszcz ‘61Joel A. Aragona ‘62Warren Christie ‘62Steven Heymsfield ‘62Joseph Macnow ‘62Samuel D. Cheris ‘63Vincent DeLuca ‘63Ed R. Diamond ‘63John Glidewell ‘63Steven Protass ‘63Jeffrey A. Stein ‘63Benjamin E. Feller ‘64Barry Zemel ‘64Ronald E. Brandt ‘65John J. Eschemuller ‘65Michael Greenstein ‘65Frederic H. Jacobs ‘65Joel Seidner ‘65Stephen L. Shupack ‘65Paul J. Angelides ‘66Andrew W. Au ‘66Vincent D’Onofrio ‘66Samuel Estreicher ‘66Mike L. Johnson ‘66Alan W. Kramer ‘66Chester Lee ‘66Michael J. Macaluso ‘66Gabor Rothauser ‘66William B. Siegel ‘66Louis G. Adolfsen ‘67Al D’Elia ‘67Jerry M. Friedman ‘67Donald P. McConnell ‘67Alfred J. Mulvey ‘67Kenneth R. Adamo ‘68Ron S. Adler ‘68Kenneth S. Albano ‘68Richard S. Feinstein ‘68Edward Roffman ‘68Richard W. Turnbull ‘69Lance Turner ‘70Fred M. Del Gaudio ‘71James Ellerbee ‘71
This list reflects total lifetime giving through June 30, 2016 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.
Lifetime Giving
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Board of Directors
Larry Cary ’70President
Susan Mayham ’76Anthony Schirripa ’67Donovan Wickline ’88
Vice Presidents
Carmine Morano ’72Treasurer
Horace Davis ’84Secretary
Wilton Cedeno ’82Jim DiBenedetto ’71
Norman Keller ’54Penelope Kokkinides ’87
Edward LaGrassa ’65Salvatore Lentini ’79
John Lyons ’66Margaret Murphy ’83
Bola Oyedijo ’92Mark Perelman ’03
Achilles Perry ’58Ned Steele ’68
Denice Ware ’83Michael Weiss ’57
Laurie Zephyrin ’92Directors
Leonard Riggio ’58Honorary Director
Husna Ellis ’17Tousif Khan ’18
Valmira Popinara ’18Tiffany Voon ’17
Student Representatives
Foundation Office
Elizabeth A. SciabarraExecutive Director
Mathew M. Mandery ’61Chief Educational Officer
Rikhia ChowdhuryResearch Analyst
Ina CloonenOffice Manager
Suzanne HausmanGraphics Administrator
Liliya Magalnik Nissen ’01Special Events and Projects
Coordinator
Vance Toure ’06Special Assistant
Tech Times Staff
Editor In Chief and Chief Writer:Ned Steele ’68
Graphic Design: Robert Horansky
Creative Consultant: Chelsea Erin Vaughan
Editorial Direction: Elizabeth A. Sciabarra
Photography: Ron Glassman, Principal Photographer (pages C1, C2, 2, 3, 8-13, 16, 17, 20, 21 )
Kayla Flynn, Photography Coordinator Nathaniel S. Butler, NBAE/Getty Images (page 15) Sulav Darnal (page 3)Megan Garrison (page 19)Steve Kelly (pages 1, 18)Marquee Photography (page 18)Jennifer Pottheiser, NBAE/Getty Images (pages C2, 14) Ned Steele (pages 4, 7, 10, 13, 21)Be Aware Photography/Simone Yhap ’15 (page 2)
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The Magazine of
The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation
Fall 2016
Randy J. Asher, Principal BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
This issue of TechTimes is a testament to
the power of a Brooklyn Tech education. All
our alums, no matter what field they entered,
can look back and find some way Tech
impacted their choices and their successes.
In the pages of this issue, you’ve been intro-
duced to Tech alumni who are at the forefront
in their fields. You’ve been introduced to
alumni who know the importance of “paying
it forward.” You’ve been introduced to current Tech students, whose super
contributions have made them powers to be reckoned with in our school.
These young people are you.
I am proud to be the Executive Director of your Alumni Foundation. Our
office, located in the school, serves the needs of our current students and
teachers by enhancing the instructional experience. This may be in the form
of providing instructional resources for teachers through our Jeffrey Haitkin
Faculty Grant Program, or special activities and resources for students in
their classes. We actively support many co- and extra-curricular activities
including robotics, debate, chess, research through our Weston Research
Scholars Programs, internships through the Leandro P. Rizzuto Internship
Program, young women’s leadership through our Ruby Engineers program,
student government, mentoring, middle school outreach and a host of
other activities including PSAL athletics and special programs such as
Relay for Life and Room to Read.
The Foundation has been responsible for upgrading facilities in the
building by using alumni dollars as well as grants from the Brooklyn Bor-
ough President’s Office and the New York City Council.
On a daily basis, our students learn about the Foundation and the way
in which it has helped develop the Tech experience into an experience of a
lifetime.
Everything we do is consistent with our mission: “to support Brooklyn
Technical High School as the premier specialized high school for science,
technology, engineering and mathematics by harnessing the intellectual
and financial power of Tech alumni.”
Each alumni engagement activity is designed to bring alums together
and at the same time showcase our school, which has changed with the
times but has retained its educational core of excellence.
Remember your time at Tech, revel in TechTimes and stay in touch with
your alumni office. Please also consider making a gift at this time, so we
may continue all that we do -- and more.
With much pride,
Liz Sciabarra
Executive Director
Closing CommentGlenn C. Seale ‘64Wayne L. Taylor ‘64Damon S. Williams ‘64William J. Aghassi ‘65Ronald B. Alexander ‘65John Berenyi ‘65Bruce A. Brice ‘65Charles Buckley ‘65Vincent Cavaseno ‘65George M. Chan ‘65Jack A. Cuneo ‘65Vincent J. DeSantis ‘65Charles S. Di Marco ‘65John J. Fahner ‘65Alan S. Fitter ‘65Melvin Gadd ‘65Jeffrey Greenberg ‘65Mark Hauerstock ‘65Sandor J. Kovacs ‘65Ta Mei M. Li ‘65Thomas G. May ‘65Daniel McGlynn ‘65Paul E. Mendis ‘65Leonard P. Morse ‘65Joseph Napoleon ‘65Elby M. Nash ‘65Rodman K. Reef ‘65Norman B. Ringel ‘65Fred Rosen ‘65Ronald C. Ruoff ‘65Samuel I. Schwartz ‘65Pat T. Seccafico ‘65Steven A. Shaya ‘65Richard O. Sponholz ‘65Raymond S. Stefanowicz ‘65James W. Thomas ‘65Salvatore T. Troiano ‘65ReinUibopuu‘65Stephen F. Woolbert ‘65Norman L. Zlotnick ‘65Anthony Agnello ‘66Michael C. Alavanja ‘66Steven Bauml ‘66Robert E. Browne ‘66Steven A. Carlsson ‘66Paul Ellingsen ‘66Thomas F. Fagan ‘66Howard Fluhr ‘66Neil W. Gafney ‘66Laurence Greenberg ‘66Michael T. Hoffman ‘66John S. Klinger ‘66Nicholas Koopalethes ‘66Joseph D. Korman ‘66Richard A. Laskowski ‘66Harry A. Laster ‘66Bruce S. Lederman ‘66Russell Liddle ‘66Michael M. Liu ‘66Edward R. Lubitz ‘66Peter Z. Mantarakis ‘66Vincent Massaro ‘66Kevin McPartland ‘66Kenneth Nisbet ‘66Steve J. Roppolo ‘66Mark H. Scherwin ‘66Abraham M. Akselrad ‘67Steven Berkowitz ‘67Joseph M. Calabro ‘67Marc F. Colman ‘67Joseph P. Crosson ‘67Joseph S. Cusumano ‘67Mark L. Kay ‘67Alfonso Lau ‘67Raymond C. Martinez ‘67Jeffrey Nathan ‘67Joseph Pellegrino ‘67Mark S. Rosentraub ‘67Stanley Rowin ‘67Anonymous ‘68Martin S. Brooks ‘68Mitchell Fine ‘68Stanford Glasgow ‘68Lawrence Gulotta ‘68Andrew A. Janczak ‘68Zbigniew R. Jankowski ‘68
Jack C. Jawitz ‘68Sholom Sanders ‘68Mark Seratoff ‘68Roger L. Shields ‘68Carlton P. Tolsdorf Jr. ‘68Robert Trentacoste ‘68Stephen Wanderman ‘68Anonymous ‘69Charles Arcadipane ‘69Steven L. Denker ‘69Raoul G. Farrell ‘69Sandy Fein ‘69John P. Fillo ‘69Robert M. Krasny ‘69Richard P. Lampeter ‘69Robert Leibenluft ‘69Benjamin Moreira ‘69Daniel K. Moy ‘69Carl W. Ordemann ‘69John M. Picariello ‘69Norman D. Romney ‘69Roger S. So ‘69Frank P. Szaraz ‘69Andrew B. Alper ‘70Anonymous ‘70Christopher J. Cavallaro ‘70Thomas M. Giusto ‘70Steven Glasser ‘70Carmine R. Inserra ‘70Michael R. Krieger ‘70Parkin Lee ‘70Isaac A. Lewin ‘70Fred Parise ‘70James F. Reda ‘70Eliseo Rosario Jr. ‘70Francis J. Sanzillo ‘70Kenneth Arbeeny ‘71James E. Brennan ‘71David Gerson ‘71Thomas M. La Guidice ‘71Steven Mayo ‘71Steven A. Mirones ‘71Kevin G. Montgomery ‘71Daniel R. O’Connor ‘71Raymond C. Stewart ‘71John C. Sweeney ‘71Barton A. Chase III ‘72Yuon Chiu ‘72Ben J. Hauptman ‘72Costantino Lanza ‘72James Murphy ‘72Charles A. Pomaro ‘72Michael Reiff ‘72Carl M. Renda ‘72Alfredo Sardinas ‘72Robert E. Borowski ‘73James G. Calderone ‘73Vincent W. Chin ‘73Marshall Haimson ‘73William Lee ‘73Mark V. Lindstrom ‘73Gary J. McDonagh ‘73Richard E. Mikaelian ‘73Russell M. Price ‘73Justin O. Schechter ‘73Robert H. Shullich ‘73John W. Bellando ‘74Kenneth E. Chapin ‘74Thomas E. Cuhaj ‘74Isaac B. Honor ‘74Raoul D. Ilaw ‘74Raymond P. Jones ‘74Greg Kaufman ‘74Tony H. Lawrence ‘74James W. McClean ‘74Edward Mecner ‘74Anthony P. Nuciforo ‘74Albert Rodriguez ‘74Felix L. Rodriguez Jr. ‘74Frank Scipione ‘74Barry A. Callender ‘75Keith K. Chan ‘75JoAnne Kana ‘75Albert H. Ziegler ‘75Gary Chan ‘76Michael F. DeVoy ‘76
Carlos Garcia ‘76Arlene Isaacs-Lowe ‘76Faryce B. Moore ‘76Sharon P. Munroe ‘76Anthony Pino ‘76Juan B. Roman ‘76Giovanni Tafa ‘76Pam D. Taylor Hurst ‘76Mitchell J. Weitz ‘76Kershaw L. Weston ‘76Duncan Wong ‘76Allen V. Zollo ‘76Ralph C. Baione ‘77Vance B. Barbour ‘77Susan L. Downing ‘77Mitch Friedman ‘77Nicholas O. Kallas ‘77Richard T. Konig ‘77Howard L. Millman ‘77Wayne P. Naegele ‘77Richard Puswald ‘77Peter M. Taras ‘77Robyn V. Allen-McKinnon ‘78Aubrey Braz ‘78Robert S. Bright ‘78Carl E. Brown Jr. ‘78Althea Evans ‘78Vanessa Fulston-Thomas ‘78Glennis R. M. Hall ‘78King C. Ng ‘78Enold Pierre-Louis ‘78Wai Nam Tam ‘78Charles Tepper ‘78George Yanakis ‘78Walton D. Pearson ‘79Lancelot Williams ‘79Judith A. Woods ‘79Anonymous ‘80Audrey C. Churchill ‘80Brian Clark ‘80Anthony Cooper ‘80Andrea Currie-Wigfall ‘80Lenworth A. Daley ‘80Leslie Osei-Tutu ‘80Janet E. Schwartz ‘80Parameswar Sivaramakrishnan ‘80Alex Sosa ‘80Adam Stoller ‘80Anonymous ‘81Nathalie M. Augustin ‘81John K. Goudelias ‘81Derrick A. Hostler ‘81Ira S. Krolick ‘81Dana S. Newbauer ‘81Anelle E. Patron-Anderson ‘81Sharmella A. Riggs ‘81David W. Robinson ‘81Vera L. Admore-Sakyi ‘82Anonymous ‘82Stephen Blanchette Jr. ‘82Marion Bobb-McKoy ‘82Beverley A. Madden ‘82Frank S. Viola ‘82Andrea Allard ‘83Mark Arzoomanian ‘83Carmen M. Colon ‘83Carol Cunningham ‘83Selena Lee L. Holmes ‘83James J. McCarthy ‘83Eric Polite ‘83Afshan Bokhari ‘84Mark S. Christopher ‘84Joseph C. Cuzzocrea Jr. ‘84Raymond Feige ‘84Sean C. Forbes ‘84Yanique LeCadre ‘84Gretchen Mullins-Kim ‘84Lauren Nassau ‘84Pamela Rumph ‘84David L. Yang ‘84Francine Arias ‘85Jane Heaphy ‘85Cherryann Joseph ‘85Janice Keller-McDowall ‘85Carla Middough ‘85
Dionne G. Sinclair ‘85Anthony Whiteman ‘85Travis Wiltshire ‘85Lynda P. Wyatt ‘85Cindy L. Bird-Kue ‘86Kirwin Gibbs ‘86Dionne Henry ‘86Margaret Mullins ‘86Gurpreet S. Pasricha ‘86Kyle D. Plant ‘86Michael V. Swabowicz Jr. ‘86Rory A. Anglin ‘87Virginia-Marie M. Chan ‘87Sharlene R. Forbes ‘87Michelle Gay ‘87Randolph B. Houston Jr. ‘87Paul W. Katzer ‘87Richard Lukaj ‘87Jason Orefice ‘87Rodney L. Shannon ‘87Janet Sosa ‘87Anonymous ‘88Christine M. Bennett ‘88Robert W. Berger ‘88Peter Glavas ‘88Wing Lok Lee ‘88Victoria Reyes ‘88Craig A. Westcarr ‘88Donovan Wickline ‘88Andrew Beyzman ‘89Petula K. Lee ‘89Luke Mangal ‘89John P. Albert ‘90Eric M. Howard ‘90Brian Kaplan ‘90Matthew A. Paskin ‘90Scott Rozany ‘90Leon Nash ‘91Susan Voyticky ‘91George Bougiamas ‘92Carl Erik Heiberg ‘92Emrah Kovacoglu ‘92Nathan Lipke ‘92Oyebola Oyedijo ‘92Suman Sabastin ‘92Erika Terebessy ‘92Laurie Zephyrin ‘92Robert Roswell ‘94Katrina Burton-Nichols ‘95Seth C. Flash ‘95Maria L. Diaz ‘96Steven A. Khan ‘96Carina Lucia L. Kim ‘99Taahira Maynard ‘99Vadim Verkhoglyad ‘02Charles P. Naut ‘08
Friends of TechHarriet AinbinderJohn AldermanAnonymousAnonymousBruce BaskindJohn L. BattaglinoJames BattermanNoreen BegleyJames M. BerginLeonard BernerMichael E. BillettAllyson BrennerPhilip E. BruggeMatthew BurkleyCarla BurnsRobin CalitriThomas CallahanChun Mable ChengMorris ChernickLillian Cincotta-FioreJames CroweArt DauberCharles M. DauberRosanne D’AugustaJoseph D. D’EspositoThomas A. EvangelistMaryann M. FeeneySarah Flanagan
Barbara FriedmanPeter GethersKenneth GreenbergSusan HarmonMiesha HaydenPaul S. HoftyzerMark HoyJerry M. HultinElizabeth IshilHenry JacksonJoseph KaelinIrwin KallmanJohn D. KaltmanLauren KaltmanRichard KaltmanMary Ellen KeatingHoward KellyMitchell KlipperJodi KoelschRichard KornRichard LatteyRicardo LezamaConcetta LicitraEvelyn MaloneyPatrick MaloneyMary Ann MarranoAnna Mateo-JerezVergenia McRaePeter MenikoffIrene MillerLorraine C. NankoDavid NewmanRichard NicotraMiriam NightengaleLinda NoonanKecia O’NealJoan M. O’SheaElaine OsterweilHoke PeacockJames G. PepperAchilles M. PerryAlex PicozziIsaiah PrattWilliam PrenskyBruce RatnerWilliam ReillyBernice RighthandFrank RitotaMax RobertsEnrique R. RodriguezLori Roland-PlonskiSteve RosemanRobert RothbergAlice RubenfeldCarleton SchadeAngelique SchipaniDalila SerranoAndrew T. SilvermanNorman S. SternManette H. ThomasAlice TimothyJohn P. TobinMarie J. ToulantisBarbara L. TrommerGeorgene C. TufoJanet TweedJack S. VanderrynLeonard J. VerebayRobert VillencyMargaret WaltherScott WinstonDon ZachariaEdwin Zarowin
OrganizationsAllied Signal Found, IncAtlantic Bank of New YorkBaltimore Community FoundationBank of AmericaBelmet Products, IncBP Amoco Foundation, IncBristol-Myers Squibb FoundationBrooklyn College Auxiliary Enterprises
BWD Group, LLCCenter For Educational Innovation, IncCarter-WallaceColgate-Palmolive CompanyConairCouncil of School Supervisors & AdministratorsEthicon, IncFioriGilletteHoneywell International FoundationHSBCJewish Communal FundJP Morgan ChaseLogiconM. Shanken Communications, IncMillennium Capital Markets, LLCMotorola FoundationNBC Studios, IncNew Jersey Brooklyn Tech Alumni GroupNew York Chapter Association of Energy EngineersNorthrop GrummanPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & GarrisonPerseus Books, LLCSonenshine & Pastor, CoSorrentino Development CorpSt. Francis Food Pantries & SheltersSt.John’sUniversityThe Bank of New YorkThe Benevity Community Impact FundThe Marketplace RealtyThe Prudential FoundationThe Scout Company, IncTomkins Corporation FoundationTurner Construction, CoUnitedDefenseFMCFoundationUnitedWayofNewYork CityVanguard ConstructionVerizon Foundation, IncWaldner’s Business Environments, Inc
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An evening to support Brooklyn Tech – the nation’s leading public STEM high school – and to honor three of its distinguished alumni.
For more information, visit bthsalumni.org/titansoftech
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Meet the TITANS of TECH: an extraordinary philanthropist, an NBA superstar-in-a-suit and a construction industry giant.
Josh Weston ’46
Mark A. Tatum ’87
The late John Cavanagh ‘54