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8 18 Homegrown Our Global Campus Excellence Brooklyn College is How do Brooklyn attracting an increasing Where Our International Turkey 62 Russia 28 Jamaica 11 College students number of students from South Korea 55 Saudi Arabia 28 Trinidad and Tobago 9 succeed? With a mix overseas, while at the same Students Come From India 51 Japan 20 Bangledesh 6 of talent, tenacity, and time sending its faculty China 38 Thailand 14 Nepal 6 the unique support and students abroad, and France 32 Ukraine 13 and mentoring the growing its reputation as a school provides. global campus.

Brooklyn College Editor-in-Chief Art Director Advisory Committee 2 From the President’s Desk 2900 Bedford Avenue Keisha-Gaye Anderson Lisa Panazzolo Jason Carey, Assistant Vice President, Office of Communications and Marketing 23 Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889 Moraima Cunningham, 3 Notables Managing Editor Production Assistant Director, Student Engagement and Judicial Affairs Salvaging the Past [email protected] Nicole Haas, Chief of Staff to the President 8 Features Audrey Peterson Mammen P. Thomas Founded by Alyssa © 2014 Brooklyn College Alex Lang, Assistant Director, Brooklyn College Athletics 27 Newsmakers Staff Writers Staff Photographers Steven Schechter, Executive Director of Government and External Affairs Loorya ’95 and Chris Robert Jones, Jr. ’06, ’08 M.F.A. David Rozenblyum 31 Alumni Profile President Marla Schreibman ’87, ’89 M.F.A., Director, Alumni Affairs Ernesto Mora Craig Stokle Ricciardi ’92, Chrysalis Karen L. Gould Jeffrey Sigler ’92, ’95 M.S.,President of the Brooklyn College Alumni Association 32 Athletics Jamilah Simmons Archaeology plays a Editorial Assistants Andrew Sillen ’74, Vice President for Institutional Advancement Provost key role in protecting 34 Class Notes Contributing Writers Taneish Hamilton ’10 Terrence Cheng, Associate Provost for Academic Programs William A. Tramontano Alex Lang Mark Zhuravsky ’10 and preserving some 40 Out and About Anthony Ramos 42 In Memoriam of New York City’s Jeffrey Sigler ’92, ’95 M.S. invaluable artifacts. 44 Photo Album “What we are charged with doing, educating young people, is the most important work on earth. And we have to believe that, for it may be the only thing that saves the world.” —Jonathan­ Springer ’11, page 7

Survivors of the 19th-century black settlement Karen L. Gould, President in North Buxton, Ontario. From below: a typical cabin, a commemorative bell, and a schoolhouse. NOTABLES

n this issue of B Magazine, we highlight some of the many achievements of our students, from faculty, and alumni whose activities and accomplishments the are helping to shape the local and global reach of our campus. Flight to Canada Since its earliest beginnings, PRESIDENT’S DESK Brooklyn College has had a Fulbright scholar tracks Isignificant presence in our borough: Today, one of every to the borough now account to extend foreign study and fugitives’ escape north on the for the third-largest share of research opportunities for our 20 Brooklyn residents with a Underground Railroad. college degree graduated from residents of any county in the students and faculty. Buxton National Historic Site and Museum Brooklyn College. Our location nation. We look forward to at the juncture of three of the The international awareness welcoming more than 35 new uanda Johnson ’13 M.A. has spent the borough’s busiest thoroughfares of our students—73 percent of faculty members who will join Fulbright scholar Quanda better part of this past year in Nova whom come from the diverse the college this fall, along captures the energy, diversity, Johnson ’13 M.A. in Africville, Scotia, Canada, on a Fulbright grant neighborhoods of Brooklyn—is with three new deans for the to research the population of former and drive of Brooklyn’s Halifax, Nova Scotia heightened appeal and growing further enhanced by the presence School of Education, the School African-American slaves who traveled worldwide recognition. Like the of international students coming of Humanities and Social there on the Underground Railroad. to our campus from South Korea, Sciences, and the division of Q borough, the college is shaped But one of her most interesting findings has by the shifting geo-cultural Russia, China, Japan, France, Student Affairs. Construction been quite ironic in light of her work. roots of our students and by our and elsewhere; they study with is progressing on the beautiful “Black Canadians don’t generally associate us for a semester, a year, or in Leonard & Claire Tow Center interconnected world. Yet even themselves with slavery. That’s the conundrum,” she a degree program. Brooklyn is for the Performing Arts, and with the rapid changes taking says. “But there are slave narratives by people who indeed becoming an educational construction of the Barry R. place around us, the fundamental escaped the U.S. into Nova Scotia.” and cultural destination for Feirstein Graduate School of mission of Brooklyn College has Johnson’s research has uncovered more of those international students as well Cinema at Steiner Studios, not changed: We continue to slave narratives. She spent most of her time scouring provide affordable access to a as for tourists from around the the first public film school in world. New York City, has begun. In libraries and public archives, and meeting with a few superior education by serving as enclaves of blacks who do identify with the history of a magnet for diverse talent and I am pleased to report that, addition, planning is under way the Underground Railroad. as a starting point for many first- through the ongoing generosity for the collaborative Science and Last spring, Johnson earned a master of music generation college students. of a number of our alumni Resilience Institute at Jamaica performance degree, with a concentration in vocal In addition, we must and with the support of the Bay, which will foster scientific performance. She is an accomplished concert singer ensure that the comprehensive Brooklyn College Foundation, study of our urban ecosystems education we offer will effectively we are sending more students and help researchers identify new and theater actress who has toured the world prepare our students to abroad than ever before. ways to protect and preserve our performing, and she has started her own production participate on the world stage This past year the number of coastlands. company. Naturally, Johnson wrote and directed and become thoughtful citizens. Brooklyn College students This summer we are a theatrical performance based on her Fulbright Brooklyn is the ideal setting in studying abroad increased 40 ushering in a new era for the City findings, calledBeyond the Veil of the Sorrow Songs, which to accomplish this goal. percent over the prior year. University of New York system as which she staged this spring in Nova Scotia. In the past decade, Brooklyn Our students are studying with well with the arrival of our new “It synthesizes all these narratives into a has expanded at a rapid pace— Brooklyn College faculty, on chancellor, James B. Milliken, theatrical experience,” she says, adding that the with new residents, revitalized other college programs, and who visited our campus in June. performance features two visual artists who paint neighborhoods, and a strong undertaking individual research In the short time he has been at in real time, spoken-word art, and other multimedia economic climate that has and study projects on their the helm, Chancellor Milliken has elements. “It neatly ties together a lot of what I do.” own. We are also expanding our impressed us with his forward- fostered a host of new businesses Bruce Bottomley/Dalhousie University —Jamilah Simmons and expanding cultural districts. international partnerships with looking vision for CUNY and his Brooklyn’s diversity has always a select number of universities dedication to advancing student been its strength, and immigrants from around the world in order success.

2 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 3 Opposite, from right: Assistant Professor Karen B. Stern; a chamber in Beth She’arim necropolis, located near Haifa, Israel. The complex contains hundreds of burials from Roman Palestine and its surroundings. Below: One of a number of graffiti found in Beth She’arim caves.

History Professor Brings Light or Karen B. Stern, early Christian writings. While tombs, suggesting there was a to Ancient Graffiti thatHo nors the Dead making her way her interest was originally functional component related to through the tunnels sparked by graffiti found at the transitions. Detail of and caves of ancient synagogue discovered at the “They are a deliberate graffiti in Fmortuary complexes in Israel Roman outpost of Dura-Europos vestige of veneration and Greek at Beth “...this could is all in an ordinary day’s in today’s Syria, Stern, who has commemoration,” says Stern, provide insight research. Her goal is to find and received a 2014 grant from the who has received previous She’arim study carvings—pictures and National Endowment for the grants for the project from as to how people texts—inscribed at the burial Humanities, has done much of the Max Planck Institute, as sites, carvings that the history her research at Beth She’arim, well as from the PSC-CUNY in that era professor calls graffiti because, a vast necropolis carved in the (the CUNY faculty and staff unlike epitaphs, the inscriptions hills near Haifa, in northwestern union), the Tow faculty fund, understood and Graffiti of a were made after the tombs Israel. Its subterranean and the Whiting Fellowship, commemorated or monuments were finished. chambers, once accessed by which helped her purchase menorah Some of the carvings date back steps and pathways, contain much of the equipment needed death.” more than 2,000 years. Many hundreds of burials from Roman to conduct her research. —Karen B. Stern, are crudely executed; still, they Palestine and its surroundings. Recently, she found graffiti are no less important to the Only one-third of the in the Church of the Holy Department of History field of archaeology. complex network of caves Sepulcher in Jerusalem, and in Viewed until recently dating back to the second the Church of the Nativity in as a form of defacement or century B.C.E. has been explored, Bethlehem, which she visited desecration, the graffiti in says Stern, who has also with a reporter for the British mortuary complexes were actually participated in archaeological Guardian and CCTV, the Chinese part of a more acceptable and excavations in Petra (Jordan) news network. “This just widespread cultural practice than and Greece. And though nearly confirms that not only was the archaeologists had previously every tomb examined to date use of graffiti more extensive suspected, contends Stern, who has been robbed, the graffiti than previously thought but earned a Ph.D. in religious studies remain largely untouched. also that it cut across cultural from Brown University in 2008. “The people who made these identities and time.” Thanks “Had they been considered graffiti were intent on leaving in large measure to her work, a defacement by the people of their personal imprint in burial these graffiti are now part of that era, they could’ve easily caves,” she says, “and this could the historical record, and “will been removed,” says Stern. provide insight as to how people help us complete the picture we Instead they went untouched, in that era understood and have of antiquity,” says Stern. leaving to posterity dedications commemorated death.” Mostly She will include her research in that memorialize the dead, written in Greek, Hebrew, and her forthcoming book, Writing curses inscribed as warnings Aramaic, the dominant language on the Wall: Graffiti and the to people who wanted to of the Levant of the first Forgotten Jews in Late Antiquity, pillage or desecrate tombs, millennium B.C.E., the graffiti to be released by the Princeton Alice Kober and even the names of rabbis were frequently placed around University Press. mentioned in both Jewish and the doorjambs or ceilings of —Ernesto Mora

4 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 5 His Brother’s Keeper Instead, let it be the echo to every prayer Poetic License A prestigious grant frees hen Jonathan Springer ’11 a Brooklyn drowned out by rain, cripple the air native who teaches humanities at a According to a award-winning alumnus to Wlocal middle school, speaks about being trained by the Brooklyn College Urban like a name flung inside a sinking boat, pursue his art Community Teachers (UCT) Project, there is a 2013 report by let it shatter the bark on the nearest kapok cean Vuong ’12 is no stranger to earning sense of pride in his voice. accolades for his literary work. In 2012, he Created in 2010 to address some of the gaps received the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize in learning experienced by minority children in the New York O the public school system, the School of Education and through it, beyond the jungle’s lucent haze, for Younger Poets; and in 2013, he won the esteemed Pushcart Prize for his poem “Self-Portrait with Exit initiative places qualified black and Latino male the rot and shine of a city trying to forget Wounds.” But while he is proud of and grateful for teachers in New York City public schools, where City Department the recognition his work has garnered, it is his most they comprise only 4 percent of educators recent award, a grant from the Elizabeth George citywide. Research has shown that educators who share the race and gender of the students they — from “Self-Portrait Foundation, which supports emerging writers of great of Education, instruct have a quantifiable positive effect on their with Exit Wounds” promise, that has Vuong thrilled. The $40,000 grant— students’ academic performance. by Ocean Vuong ’12, the largest award in the program’s history—will give “The key is in getting my students to value at right. him the freedom to pursue his artistic dreams Brooklyn College full force. education, and that requires my finding a way to “I will use the funds toward furthering my make it accessible,”Springer says. “That is culturally education in poetics and creative writing,” says relevant teaching, the basis of UCT’s approach.” sends the highest Vuong, who has been accepted into M.F.A. programs UCT was created in collaboration with the at Columbia University, which offered a $40,000 Empowering, Recruiting, Investing and Supporting Jonathan Springer ’11 with Deborah Shanley, scholarship, and New York University, on full tuition (ERIS) Program and the Black and Latino former dean of the School of Education percentage of with an additional $25,000 stipend for living expenses. Male Initiative (BLMI) in 2010. UCT continues Brooklyn College’s track record of excellence Vuong says that receiving the awards has boosted will test the strategies designed to improve the in the development and training of teachers. his confidence, not only in his writing ability but academic performances of young men of color. qualified teachers According to a 2013 report by the New York City also in his ability to be honest. He says his writing Springer says his work as a teacher allows Department of Education, the college sends the is “closely related” to his “queerness as an Asian- him to wake up each day with a renewed sense highest percentage of qualified teachers into the American artist.” And it is in that intersection of of purpose. “What I try to remember, and what into the New York New York City public school system—more than sexuality and race that he finds his gift. He challenges UCT instilled in me, is the idea that we teachers any other university in the state, besting both budding writers to look inward, fearlessly, to find are more important than pop-culture icons in the Columbia University and New York University. With their own. His plan is to study his craft vigorously and lives of the kids we’re trying to educate,” he says. City public school UCT, the college is ahead of national trends. Just continue to publish award-winning poetry, which he “What we are charged with doing, educating young recently, the Obama administration announced hopes will give solace to those who read it. people, is the most important work on earth.” “My Brother’s Keeper,” a nationwide initiative that “After all,” he says, “nobody cares about the —Robert Jones, Jr. system. résumés of Homer, Dante, or even Ashbery at this point. It is their words that nourish us perpetually.” —Robert Jones, Jr. Unity Retreat Serious Business New Dean Susanne G. Scott Takes on Accreditation The School of Business learning goals, creating a picture Center, which he would like to In February, a group of students who Brooklyn College’s first Rhodes scholar; has hired a new associate of what its graduates should look parlay into a major player in had attended the Brooklyn College Unity conflict resolution workshops; grant- Tdean, Susanne G. Scott, like, and developing learning Brooklyn’s emergence as a high- Retreat gathered at the Student Center writing workshops; and recreation. The whose primary responsibility opportunities for students to tech hub. He is currently seeking goal of the retreat was to provide the will be shepherding the recently acquire those skills. space for the center, looking for to recap and review the experience. established School of Business The school, which has hired a director, and applying for grant participants with a set of skills that would Organized by the Division of Student through its bid for accreditation nine new faculty members in the money. Affairs, the retreat had brought together make them not only better students from the Association to Advance last two years and plans to hire Over the past decade, 28 students from diverse backgrounds for but also better citizens and competitive Collegiate Schools of Business. seven more next year, is hoping Brooklyn has consistently candidates in the professional Should the School of Business to complete the accreditation outpaced all other New York City an exercise in team building in Callicoon, receive the stamp of approval, process by 2017. This isn’t the boroughs in economic growth, marketplace. It served as a precursor to in upstate New York. The brainchild of it would be the only accredited first effort like this for Scott, with nearly half a million jobs Elliot Wasser ’02, the retreat was financed the college’s annual Unity Week, held this school of business in Brooklyn. nor for School of Business Dean being added from 2002 to 2012 primarily by President Karen L. Gould. year from April 4 through 11, an event- After serving for 15 Willie Hopkins, both of whom and wages increasing 47 percent filled celebration of the great diversity on years as a professor and have worked on accreditation from 2003 to 2012. Two of the The itinerary also included a leadership administrator at the University bids while at various other posts. top three majors at Brooklyn the Brooklyn College campus. of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, Hopkins adds that he plans College are in the School of session hosted by Lisette Nieves ’92, —Robert Jones, Jr. Scott has spent the past to turn some of his attention to Business. academic year helping Brooklyn the school’s Small Business — Jamilah Simmons College faculty clarify specific

6 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 7 A sk any member fostered by the campus of the Brooklyn College community itself. “I think faculty why he or she is Brooklyn College reflects so dedicated to teaching the dynamic character of at the college, and the the borough,” says Assistant response is unanimous: Professor of Finance and One in 20 the students. As award- Business Management winning and internationally Veronica Manlow. “There is renowned experts in their almost nothing we can take Brooklynites fields, the faculty have the for granted.” She says the keen ability to recognize college is enhanced by the with a college the potential for greatness student body, which brings when they see it. Brooklyn something unique to the College students, they say, college experience. “Far from degree received are remarkably talented being empty containers individuals—bright, savvy, seeking knowledge, they determined, and diligent. already know a lot and have that degree There is only one thing, they experienced life,” she says, say, that these students lack. adding that this makes the from Brooklyn role of faculty imperative in “Our students do not the classroom and beyond. have a distinct sense of College. entitlement,” says Assistant Roberto Sanchez-Delgado, Professor of Film Sarah J. professor of chemistry, Christman. “They aren’t agrees. “When students trying to hustle their way sense that a professor is through. They are deeply genuinely interested in interested in acquiring the them and in their future, skills needed to achieve they not only engage more their goals.” As a result, she fully in the academic work, says, they are a “rewarding but also open up in sharing It is no surprise that Brooklyn College counts student body to teach.” their aspirations, dreams, and fears,” he says. “And so many academic stars among its student body. Brooklyn College students begins a mutually enriching How they arrive at success is a mix of their own are serious not only about relationship that turns from their own improvement but talent and determination, and the kind of unique teaching to mentoring, and also about the improvement nurturing, encouragement, and inspiration that from learning to evolving. In of the communities around a setting of mutual respect the college provides. them. And that ethos is by Robert Jones, Jr.

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Charlene Fletcher-Brown Magner Career Center harlene Fletcher-Brown ’13 M.A. t was not until Caitlin Boas ’14 came to Brooklyn College Created in 2004 through the generous support is not originally from Brooklyn, that she discovered she wanted to be a time traveler. She of Marge Magner ’69, the Magner Career Center Cbut she certainly embodies the Isearched for a way to accomplish this feat. Geology was one chutzpah of the borough. discipline that filled the bill. gives Brooklyn College students an edge in the “If I’m going to do it, I’m going “The work that I do spans 65 million years,” says Boas, the marketplace by providing expert academic, to do it big,” she says about leaving recipient of a grant from the American Institute of Professional career, and internship counseling services— her hometown of Indianapolis for Geologists, as well as a Rosen Fellowship that permitted her to including résumé and cover letter review, mock Brooklyn. She’d planned to join the travel to Alabama and Mississippi last August to unearth and New York City Police Department. survey millennia-old fossils and extraterrestrial rock fragments. interviews, access to career workshops, job and Instead she became a historian. This was awe-inspiring research for an artist from eastern internship fairs, and alumni mentoring and Fletcher-Brown earned a Pennsylvania who had once bought into the narrative that claims networking events. Under the management of bachelor’s degree from Martin science as a male-only field. The moment she stepped into Terrence Cheng, associate provost for academic University in Indianapolis and a Professor David H. Seidemann’s core geology course, all of that master’s from John Jay College changed. programs, and now retired director Bob Oliva, of Criminal Justice, CUNY. After “He taught science a different way than I had been exposed the center works with over 2,500 employers working at many jobs, from curator to. I realized that science isn’t an isolated study. It’s on some sort who offer employment and internship at a small museum in Louisiana to of spectrum with the arts and involves thinking creatively and opportunities; 48 percent of those internships criminal justice teacher at LaGuardia being imaginative in looking for ways to solve problems.” Community College, balancing it Boas was so inspired by the subject matter and did so well in are paid. all with motherhood, she came to the course that immediately after completing it she chose earth Natalia Brooklyn College. and environmental sciences as her major. She credits her success Guarin-Klein, “I would go into classrooms to the education she received at the college and the faculty interim director [at other schools] and be teaching who instructed her. She will apply all that she has learned at the these students who want to work in University of California at Berkeley when she attends in the fall. of internships and the criminal justice system but have “I came to Brooklyn College because The Princeton Review alumni programs, never read the U.S. Constitution. I had ranked it second in the ‘Bang for Your Buck’ category, not has worked in and intellectual honesty, Furthermore, the students realized, instantly, that no one could do this work without a full because of any specific program. But having discovered the Earth the center for 10 this can become a long- realize they have something understanding of history. What Brooklyn College offered me was and Environmental Sciences Department—a happy accident— lasting bond.” money cannot buy: each the opportunity to take my practical experience and couple it with nothing could be more fulfilling.” years. Brooklyn other. As globalization gains history in a way that would prepare me to impact public policy.” College students It is not lost on these Fletcher-Brown says it was only here that she would receive traction, Brooklyn College routinely name students that in addition the kind of education that was truly worth the investment. students are uniquely her as one of to the relationships they And the college, in turn, has invested in her. The Department Natalia Guarin-Klein prepared for a world that the people on develop with faculty, they of History—including Department Chair Christopher C. Ebert, has finally caught up with Professor KC Johnson, Associate Professor Michael J. Rawson, are supported by improved campus who their own daily experiences and Assistant Professor Lauren Mancia—has been eager to have positively affected them. They cite her facilities, departments, promote the work she has done here, whether in her day-to-day of diversity. The college tireless advocacy for their professional well- and organizations like the coursework, where she offered up some compelling feminist succeeds because the Caitlin Boas Magner Career Center and insights into the heretical burning of a woman in 14th-century being as one of the things that most changed students do. the Office of Scholarships, Europe, or for her master’s thesis, in which she made fascinating the trajectory of their lives. She was recently which round out their connections that sparked a reevaluation of previous scholarship awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the on the race riots that occurred in Charleston, South Carolina, experiences and foster student body for her advocacy. Like many of during the early 20th century. successful outcomes. Fletcher-Brown’s expert historical analyses paved the way the professional staff, Guarin-Klein often goes for her entry into Indiana University Bloomington’s Ph.D. history above and beyond the call of duty in her service program on a full scholarship. She begins in the fall. to students. She says that is partly because of how closely she identifies with them. “I’m a first-generation Latina, the first in There are over 38,000 my family to attend college. As the product of a public education, I understand how crucial that education is in making a difference in Brooklyn College alumni someone’s life. Brooklyn College students in particular are very grateful, humble, and give households in Brooklyn. back to the community. It gives me a great deal of satisfaction to be of service to them. It gives my life purpose.”

10 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Stascia Horton ulfilling is precisely how painter Stascia Horton curvature of the spine. She survived major surgery for the describes her experience at Brooklyn College. The scoliosis but still lives with chronic pain. The cost of surgery, FGeorgia native and mother of an 18-year-old son says and unemployment during her rehabilitation, left her destitute, she left the South in an attempt to escape what she calls “an homeless, and saddled with an extra burden of shame, taking a oppressive patriarchal religion,” and found herself drawn to psychological toll. the college because of its diversity, something that she had Horton knew she would have to turn things around. After Stephen Gracia, Rhodes Scholar Zujaja Tauqeer ’11, not experienced very much of in her hometown. “Life here is she recovered from the surgery, she enrolled at Brooklyn and Evelyn Guzman like artwork; it’s a tapestry. Brooklyn College really exemplifies College, where she imagined she might find community. She that whole concept. There seem to be themes that run through did. “I’m inspired by Professor Patricia Cronin and Clarity all of my coursework, no matter which ones I take. There’s an Haynes [’07 M.F.A.], whose art involves the same activist intersectionality that can’t be accidental. And it ensures that concerns that I am dealing with in my own work.” Office of Scholarships my learning comes in layers.” Horton hopes to make that work accessible to many. She’s It is relatively easy to cite the numbers when That intersectionality is a central topic in Horton’s currently producing a book series featuring her artwork and speaking about the Office of Scholarships at paintings, which address women’s issues as well as her place in the testimonies of other women who overcame adversity. “I’m Brooklyn College: More than 600 scholarships, the world as a person with disabilities. Horton was born with interested in creating a different dialogue, a different discourse, awards, and prizes are offered to eligible students spina bifida occulta, a condition that affects the vertebrae in of approaching this work from a different perspective.” the spinal column, which likely led to another condition, adult each year. In 2013, with the help of the Brooklyn idiopathic and degenerative (de novo) scoliosis, which causes College Foundation, $1.4 million in scholarships and awards were provided to over 1,100 students. orton is not the only one. Remember the name Under the leadership of Stephen Joyner, David J. Rosenberg ’14. If all goes according to plan, vice president for enrollment management, and Hthe Brooklyn native—who was president of the Evelyn Guzman, director of scholarships and undergraduate student body and the first in his family to honors recruiting, the Office of Scholarships also attend college—is going to be a future mayor of New York David Rosenberg City. That may be a bit unexpected coming from a student functions as an academic counseling center, majoring in biology. But Rosenberg believes his training in the where promising scholars are molded and sciences gives him a unique perspective on politics. polished, often by helping them to recognize their “Increasingly, we’re seeing technology outpace the law. own greatness. One person who has a hands-on And we need people who understand the principles of both. This past summer, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court role in that process is Fellowship Coordinator ruled on a major case regarding genetics, and because of Stephen Gracia ’01, ’03 M.F.A. my training, I was able to understand both the legal and the In addition to counseling Brooklyn College scientific ramifications.” 76% of Brooklyn students on the ins and outs of general To help with this transition, Rosenberg enrolled in the college’s pre-law program, which prepares students for scholarships, Gracia is also responsible for careers in law by providing access to internship, career, College students grooming them to become viable candidates and networking opportunities; workshops and events; and for some of the most prestigious honors in the academic and professional counseling, all of which he utilized country, such as the Rhodes Scholarship and the before applying to Columbia Law School, the University of are from or live in Pennsylvania Law School, and the University of Virginia School Fulbright Award. of Law. He was also inspired by the leaders around him. He Gracia says that one of the biggest hurdles in cites two figures, in particular, as having profoundly influenced the borough of shaping scholars at Brooklyn College is convincing his decision to effect change through government: Professor them of their own capabilities. He says that of Psychology Nancy Romer and Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould. Brooklyn. without partnerships with the exceptional faculty “It was Dr. Romer who got me started and taught me at the college, his work would be impossible. everything I know about being an advocate for other people And the proof is in the numbers: Three of the and fighting for what I believe in. And it was President Gould seven CUNY students who are Rhodes Scholars who taught me, by example, how to take that passion and translate it into effective leadership—and most importantly, are from Brooklyn College. how to make the difficult decisions that come with it.”

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izette Bonfante Gonzalez ’13 agrees. Gonzalez, a graduate of get a better sense of their economic investment and determine the the School of Business, has been making the rounds at local minimum number of members required to make the relationship one Ltelevision stations to promote her work with Parkchester that could be more easily sustained. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), one chapter of the Gonzalez then worked with the organizers of the CSA to offer Jesus Estrada STANDOUT FACILITIES organization that collaborates with local farmers to bring fresh payment options for residents, including installment plans, financial Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema organic vegetables into urban neighborhoods that might not aid via charitable donations, and the possibility of the CSA accepting otherwise have access to them. Her association with Parkchester came Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as Scheduled to open in Fall 2015, the graduate as a result of a marketing project she was assigned while a student of payment. Manlow was so impressed with Gonzalez’s acumen that she school of cinema will be the country’s first housed Assistant Professor Veronica Manlow. recommended her for CUNY’s Salute to Scholars, which profiles the on a working studio lot. “She tasked me with figuring out how to promote the Parkchester university’s top students. CSA, which was experiencing a drop in membership,” says Gonzalez. “To this day, Professor Manlow remains a mentor and a resource,” Boylan Hall The M.F.A. creative writing program “I was determined to come up with a plan to get the word out about says Gonzalez. “She was instrumental in helping me to apply for the there is one of the top programs in the nation. the importance of the organization because I believe people have a CUNY-IME Beca Scholarship that will help me finance my education. The Brooklyn College Community Garden grows moral right to know where their food comes from and to have access But beyond that, she’s someone who has confidence in my abilities, to healthy food. But I wasn’t confident that I had what it took to who saw my potential and helped me to realize it.” organic produce all year round. accomplish this.” Gonzalez, who continues to work with the Parkchester CSA, and The Brooklyn College Library is the most With Manlow’s help, Gonzalez created a survey to elicit answers is approaching the membership goal she set out to reach, will return that would help them understand the needs of the Bronx community to Brooklyn College in the fall to earn a second bachelor’s degree, this technologically advanced library in the CUNY served by the CSA. On her own, she canvassed the neighborhoods and time in the fine arts. As a Colombian immigrant without green card system. engaged residents. She discovered that an overwhelming majority status, she is grateful that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals The Greenhouse in the Ingersoll Extension of them knew that their local supermarkets did not provide them (DACA), a 2012 initiative from the Obama administration, will allow her with affordable and fresh vegetables, but that the fee associated to work in this country in order to help finance her academic goals. There, professors and students are researching with CSA membership made participation for some residents out of ways to combat the effects catastrophic climate reach. Additionally, she conducted interviews with CSA farmers to change has on the environment.

James Hall is home to the School of Education, or award-winning alumnus Jesús G. Estrada ’10, ’13 M.S., a which sends more qualified teachers into the Lizette Bonfante Gonzalez Colombian immigrant who arrived in the United States with New York City public school system than any Fa tourist visa in 1995, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals other college in the state. provided a path for him to continue the groundbreaking research he is doing under the supervision of his adviser and lead researcher, Professor The Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the of Chemistry Roberto Sanchez-Delgado. Together, they published Performing Arts will be a new hub for creative Over 90% of a paper on their work developing safer compounds that will have ventures in Brooklyn. pharmaceutical applications in the treatment of drug-resistant malaria. Estrada, a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School and of The Library Café offers 24/7computer access and graduates report William E. Macaulay Honors College, which covered the entire cost of a great cup of joe. his undergraduate study at Brooklyn College, decided early on that he was going to study chemistry when he fell in love with the subject Nostrand Avenue Expansion A recently acquired that Brooklyn in high school. He chose to continue his studies at Brooklyn College site that will be the future home of the School because he was told by his teachers and mentors that “Brooklyn of Business, student residence halls, and retail College was the best place to go if you wanted to study science—and space. College helped more specifically, chemistry,” and he planned to go to medical school. His experience as an undergraduate inspired him to apply for the Roosevelt Hall The Roosevelt Science Teaching graduate program at the college, as he wanted to remain close to Commons will cement the college’s reputation as prepare them for the people, knowledge, and facilities that had enabled his previous success. He is very excited about the proposed plan for the Roosevelt one of the greatest spaces for scientific learning in Science Teaching Commons, which he believes will make an already the borough. strong program unbeatable. their current job. West End Building is where students learn to In addition to working with Sanchez-Delgado on research, Estrada is also an instructor, teaching chemistry to other Brooklyn create award-winning films. College students. He uses Sanchez-Delgado as his template for how West Quad Center The women’s basketball team to inspire his students to do their best work. has had a record number of winning seasons in “There are many, many Brooklyn College faculty who have gone out of their way to help me. But if there’s one person who has really the 11,700-square-foot competition gym. helped me all of these years, it’s been Professor Sanchez-Delgado,” Whitehead Hall Home to the college’s new, state- says Estrada. “He took me in after my sophomore year. He welcomed me into the laboratory, and as a result, I gained invaluable experience. of-the-art HD television studio. When people ask me, ‘Where did you gain such great research techniques?’ I tell them, ‘Brooklyn College.’ And they listen.” Estrada has his pick of schools to which he’ll bring his research techniques and experience: He has been accepted to Ph.D. programs at Columbia University, Princeton University, Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

14 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Our GLOBAL Campus Brooklyn College’s by Jamilah Simmons with additional reporting by reputation as Audrey Peterson an international campus is bolstered by the number hen it comes to sending our students overseas, a majority—79 percent— of students from Wof Americans surveyed by the Association of International Educators agree that overseas, and by the U.S. colleges and universities must do a better job of teaching students about the world in students and faculty order to prepare them to compete in the global who travel abroad economy. Increasing the number of Brooklyn College students who study abroad is just one and bring the world part of a multiphase, multi-pronged process to embed an international ethos into the very back with them. fabric of the institution. “Our international program is something that permeates every level of the academic experience here,” says Ryan Buck, executive director of international student affairs. Alice Gail Bier, senior director of the Office of International Education and Global Engagement (IEGE), agrees: “Internationalization is a state Brooklyn College of mind across the campus; it is how you think about Brooklyn College’s place in the world.” When Bier arrived at Brooklyn College three students were years ago, 5 percent of its students studied overseas. Bier’s charge has been to increase born in over that percentage and, just as crucial, to broaden the range of overseas opportunities. One way is by seeking formal exchange agreements. The 135 countries. college has secured agreements with foreign institutions in Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, China, and a university in Ghana that supports a faculty exchange program. “It keeps us on the radar—we get into the system of overseas institutions, and they begin to work us into their programs,” says Bier. IEGE planted seeds about the study-abroad program and related activities with faculty, students, and other campus groups to get the word out, and it’s paying off, says Bier. She points out that, according to a recent review, there was a 40 percent increase in Brooklyn

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College scholars studying oversees during 2013–14 compared with the previous year. And their experiences are bearing out the importance of overseas study. When asked what they gained from study abroad, 90 percent of student respondents, most of whom participated in a recent program in China, said they had had opportunities that helped them learn how to move within and negotiate an unfamiliar environment. They also John Tan had been introduced to new ways of thinking and Brooklyn College junior John Tan’s interest in study interacting with people from abroad was first piqued by other students. When he the host country and culture. learned about a Brooklyn College program to study More than three-quarters surveyed film in Japan, he strung together funding from three Jen-I Costosa said that they had learned more abroad sources — the Roy L. Furman Fellows Program, Jen-I Costosa ’13 never really considered studying than they would have through a class about the Student Affairs Study Abroad Scholarship, and abroad until two of her professors prodded her to the same culture at home. And most agreed that Study/Travel Opportunities for CUNY Students — do it. “I didn’t think I was that caliber of student,” their program leader was knowledgeable about for an adventure that changed his life. says the former children and youth studies major. the country and local area, and about the specific “I don’t think I would have really appreciated “So I never even thought about it — not to mention academic subject matter. “Faculty-led programs how big the world was, or how intricately connected abroad are the best experience a student can trying to get time off of work to do these things.” we all are, had I not made this trip,” says Tan. have,” says Bier, “because they are specific to the But when an opportunity came up to study Besides, the experience turned “what might faculty member’s expertise.” with Anthropology and Archaeology Professor ordinarily be a modest résumé into something more “Every course has study-abroad potential, and Sophia Perdakaris in Barbuda, complete with intriguing and well-rounded.” we are working to identify key departments and funding from the Roy L. Furman Fellows Program, majors, such as business, English, psychology, Costosa jumped on board. anthropology, political science, modern languages, The Brooklyn native says the program, in and sociology, and to develop programs around which students conduct research relating to them,” she adds. environmental initiatives in the region, taught her On the academic side, students who were Rebecca Echevarria how to acclimate to a different culture while also surveyed stated that they were most interested Junior Rebecca Echevarria traveled to Bangalore, engaging in the kind of hands-on fieldwork that in internships, work, service learning, and India, in the fall semester through the University volunteering in addition to, or as part of, their cannot be replicated in the classroom. Studies Abroad Consortium because she wanted to studies and coursework. immerse herself in a society that was engaged in “Study abroad is at the center, but there is some interesting cultural shifts. so much more to the internationalization of our “I enjoyed the fast-paced nature of the city and campus,” says Bier. Students who remain on reveled in the communal nature of the society,” says campus, and they are the majority, also need a global education, so faculty are integrating 46% of Brooklyn College the CUNY baccalaureate student, who is majoring in overseas curricula into their own and “expanding environmental sustainability and social justice. the conversation,” says Bier. One of these, students are the first in their Even outside of her coursework, she explored Veronica Manlow, assistant professor of finance different neighborhoods throughout South India and business management, is working with and experienced several festival celebrations like faculty in five different countries, who together families to attend college. Ganesha Chathuri and Dasara. are having their students do research and compare findings on the same project.

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This type of interaction has been advanced by the work of the Office of Information Technology Services, which has, among other things, greatly increased bandwidth for services such as Skype and Blue Jeans Network, enabling faculty members to work with their counterparts overseas in real time.

n a given day, a visitor to Brooklyn College might hear any of more than 100 Olanguages spoken or meet students from any of 135 countries. Fueling that diversity are international students—those enrolled in foreign universities who have chosen to study here. Omar Almohsin Last fall, more than 400 international students Everyone knows, says graduate student Omar Almohsin, a native of Saudi Arabia, that the United attended the college. States has the top business schools in the world. “Part of our vision,” says Buck, “is to expand So when he got a scholarship to study abroad, he the number of international students on campus, naturally gravitated to New York City. which will enhance the experience of students What the business and finance student didn’t and faculty here.” The goal is to provide a cross- realize was that there was a completely different cultural experience, working not only through teaching style here than back home. “The professors here are really good,” he says, noting that they have technology but also with international students pushed him in ways he didn’t imagine. “A lot of them and faculty themselves. have us research by ourselves instead of writing For his part, Buck is also seeking to formalize everything on the board.” some international partnerships. Almohsin, who has traveled the country “One of our strongest partners is the Institut extensively while he has been here, plans to go back Superieur de Gestion (ISG), a Paris-based business to the Gulf region after he completes his degree next semester. school,” says Buck. “We had 50 French students “I will miss everything here except the weather,” this past spring from ISG and the University he says. of Paris-Dauphine, with 25 in the American Language Academy [a full-time intensive English language learning program at Brooklyn College]. Morgann Gicquel Morgann Gicquel spent the past year at Brooklyn We have a program where the students can come College honing his filmmaking skills. An exchange Guangyuan Xu in the summer prior to their sophomore year student from France, Gicquel earned credits toward Guangyuan Xu had never left his Guangdong here and take an intensive English course. The province in China until he got an opportunity to his master’s degree in film and production. He hope is that after they go back to France to finish participate in an exchange program in Taiwan as an sought out the college because it is one of the few their undergraduate degrees, they will return to in the country that teaches students on 16mm film undergraduate student. The experience whetted his Brooklyn College to pursue advanced degrees.” stock, rather than newer digital formats. appetite, so he made the big leap to study abroad and ended up landing at Brooklyn College, on the Buck and his colleagues work hard to ensure “Film is a discipline. I wanted to learn the recommendation of an alumna. as positive and fruitful an experience as possible fundamentals,” he says. The graduate student in biology wants to for international students, visiting professors, and Asked what he thinks he brought to the campus learn as much as he can so that he can go home scholars. Buck gives out his cell phone number to here, Gicquel says he is full of colorful perspectives. and run the family business, a company that sells students and visiting faculty and counsels on all “I can definitely bring meters, which is a safer and agricultural products. He also plans to get another matters from housing, to changes in majors, to more efficient way to calculate things than feet and master’s degree in marketing. visas. He has established a program for students pounds and whatnot,” he teases. He says what he loves about Brooklyn College with exchange visitor, or J-1 visas, which has

compared with some of the other schools he looked increased their presence on campus to 70 from at, is the diversity. “It forces me to talk to others,” two when he first arrived. says Xu. “I’m learning a lot about the culture from “I work front and center with the students my local friends.” every day,” says Buck. Creating a more concierge experience for international students is part of the plan, but for now, “we put our resources in play to make things as streamlined and simple as possible,” he says. “If a foreign student or faculty

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Ryan Buck, executive director of international student affairs, and Alice Gail Bier, senior director of the Office of International Education and Global Engagement at Brooklyn College. Salvaging the Past

Over 100 languages are spoken on

the Brooklyn College campus. by Audrey Peterson

Alyssa Loorya ’95 and Chris

member arrives here with 20 things they must do to settle a conference might speak to fellow foreign faculty and Ricciardi ’92 have taken their in and we can simplify five of those tasks, it helps.” convey to them that Brooklyn College hosts visiting scholars experience from Brooklyn College’s Brooklyn College wants international students to come from overseas. Or a foreign faculty member might mention archaeology field school and made early and stay a long time. “They are our ambassadors an agreement his or her university has for scholars to come it into the business of protecting abroad,” relaying their experiences to their peers, says Buck. study in the United States, and that information will be and preserving some of the tri-state The same can be said of faculty—visiting scholars from passed on to my office,” says Buck. “In the initial stages, international colleges and universities arrive and become 99 percent is conversation. We follow up on each of these area’s most valuable artifacts and part of the academic community for a semester, often doing conversations, supplying as much information as we can historic sites. joint research, then return to their home countries as part of to bring it to a point where a new international partnership the college’s global faculty. becomes a reality.” “This is a game changer,” Buck says. Visiting faculty The effort by Brooklyn College to increase international members are able to give a firsthand account of their time partnerships was reaffirmed by President Karen L. Gould at Brooklyn College. “We’ve had visiting faculty bring their during a recent trip to China. Her second trip in two years, children, and that’s another level of experience they can the April visit solidified a relationship with institutions bring back to their colleagues at home.” of higher learning there that she had cultivated when And the data supports the positive impact international she began her tenure in 2009. This included formalizing students have in both strengthening global ties and processes surrounding faculty and student exchanges and contributing to the U.S. economy. According to NAFSA, more promoting college facilities, institutions and programs that than 800,000 international students and their families at would be of interest to college students in China. universities and colleges across the nation supported 313,000 “These are mutually beneficial ventures,” notes Buck. jobs and contributed $24 billion to the U.S. economy during While Brooklyn College seeks out institutions that share the 2012–2013 academic year. In addition, they build bridges the college’s goals and values, and have common academic between the United States and other countries, bring a global programming connections, “We’re not only invested in the perspective to classrooms and research labs, and by paying benefits that this type of collaboration brings us,” he adds, A Derenthal & Schalk beer bottle, out-of-state tuition, funded mostly by non-U.S. sources, “but also how we can be of service to our partners.” late 19th century, recovered from support programs and services on campus for all students. Brooklyn Bridge Park. Outreach, networking, and quick follow-through are key in expanding the international program. “Faculty attending

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A Sample of Chrysalis Opposite: Alyssa Archaeology Projects Loorya and Chris

156 Rivington Street In the 19th century, Ricciardi on-site this former tenement was home to many at Fulton Street in newcomers to New York City. Located on lower Manhattan. the Lower East Side, it was part of a bustling This page, several immigrant neighborhood. Chrysalis conducted artifacts excavated a cultural resource assessment for the building’s owners as part of their plans to in the vicinity. renovate the property.

Block 7792, Tottenville, Staten Island Chrysalis conducted a survey of this property for the presence of Native American artifacts, several And what they have found, even after the accrual of in Marine Park, Brooklyn, where, as students, she and of which were recovered. cultural and natural transformations, provides tangible Ricciardi worked on excavations. The house, built in 1800 evidence to underpin what we know about New York and incorporating construction from 1720, has yielded Christopher Street Burial Vaults Renovations City based on the historical record. Excavations much information about rural life in historic to a private residence revealed several at Fulton Street and the South Street Seaport Brooklyn. “There were, and are, simply very few early-19th-century burial vaults and associated human remains. Chrysalis district, where water mains have been replaced archaeology jobs in academia,” Loorya continues. assisted the homeowner with navigating and upgraded over the years, have alone yielded “Professor Bankoff encouraged us to start our the regulatory process and associated legal thousands of artifacts, one of the biggest finds own company based on salvage archaeology.” issues surrounding this discovery. The burials being huge caches of 18th-century beer bottles, “He even helped us with the name,” says were respectfully excavated and reinterred. Chrysalis also helped identify the remains still intact. Ricciardi. “Chris plus Alyssa.” They both laugh. and associated grave goods, adding to the “And Revolutionary War buttons from the Battle The Lott House is one of several local digs in scholarship of funerary practices in New York hen asked what project Chrysalis Archaeology is currently of Brooklyn,” says Loorya, citing several small, well- which Brooklyn College students have participated over City’s recent past. working on, Alyssa Loorya ’95, the firm’s president and preserved buttons of the type worn by the thousands the years. “Professors Bankoff and Winter were the only principal investigator, and Christopher Ricciardi ’92, its co- of British soldiers who once occupied Manhattan. She professors we knew of at the time who consistently High Bridge Park Chrysalis is working with Schiavone Construction on the rehabilitation founder and consulting partner, point to a whiteboard filled stands up from the table where we’ve been sitting and dug locally and gave people the opportunity to do of the High Bridge. The 19th-century steel with sites and rattle them off: walks over to the stack of crates, searching. She pulls backyard archaeology. Studying under them really (originally stone) arch bridge, which spans “Fulton Street, Peck Slip . . .” out a brick-colored bottle. “This was a more recent shaped our attitude about sharing with the the East River connecting Manhattan and the W “John Bowne House in Queens . . .” find.” It’s a German mineral-water bottle from 1790, community,” says Loorya. “We embraced social Bronx, was part of the original Croton Water from a company—Staatlich Fachingen, named for Aqueduct system. Chrysalis is monitoring “The Lott House . . .” media to get some of the information we were excavations in the areas that surround the “High Bridge . . .” the source of the spring—that is still in existence. gathering out quickly. Even just one artifact can be a bridge in both boroughs, and inventorying “Floyd Bennett Field . . .” snapshot of time.” storage spaces within the bridge to ensure “And Sandy recovery,” they say almost simultaneously. Neither Loorya nor Ricciardi came to archaeology Both Loorya and Ricciardi make it clear that they don’t that significant historic materials are “Fire Island. We are working on salvaging and replacing directly. Loorya began her education at Hunter College, work in a vacuum, and between them, begin naming preserved. the boardwalk there. And Pleasantville in New Jersey. City then transferred to Brooklyn. “At first I was a experts in other disciplines with whom they consult— St. George’s Church Cemetery, Flushing, Island . . .” photojournalist,” she says. “It was all about people- computer scientists, architects, soil scientists, Queens Chrysalis monitored excavations We are in their lab in Flatbush, not far from Brooklyn watching. Then I participated in Dr. Bankoff’s field underwater archaeologists. “An archaeologist can’t associated with a new fence installation to College, a space the firm recently moved into. Nearly all school.” Professor H. Arthur Bankoff ’65 joined do it all,” says Loorya. “Engineers and construction ensure that no existing burials were disturbed. of the artifacts under their review, which number in the the Brooklyn College faculty in 1970 and is now workers have something to offer; they often find Several early-19th-century tombstones were recovered. thousands, are still in packing crates stacked against a wall. chairman of the Department of Anthropology and artifacts before we do.” Through the firm, Ricciardi and Loorya—who are Archaeology. Under his supervision, the college’s Field The team also works with large corporations Wall Street Water Mains Excavations along husband and wife—along with six or seven fellow School at Home brings students into direct contact with that hire them to sponsor field trips for schoolchildren. Beekman Street in the South Street Seaport archaeologists, provide cultural resource management: the borough’s past. “You should have seen the reaction when I showed them Historic District recovered two intact 19th- century wooden water mains, as well as an archaeology, yes, but also historic studies, historic Ricciardi was a history and classics major when he a chamber pot,” Loorya says of the youngsters on a recent 18th-century storeroom foundation, several preservation, public outreach, agency coordination, and joined the field school led by Bankoff and Fred Winter outing. “But when I explained the logic behind not having brick barrel vaults, and landfill cribbing curriculum development. ’68, a professor of classics at the college. The work, which to leave your bedroom and go to an outhouse in the middle remnants. The project along Beekman Street The team at Chrysalis are “salvage archaeologists,” included participation in a dig under the guidance of a freezing-cold winter night, they got it.” shows that despite ongoing development, specialists whose expertise is called upon when, for of trained professionals as part of a larger Loorya has developed special content curricula archaeological deposits remain. instance, construction workers break ground and find research project, appealed to Ricciardi: “I found I in archaeology, historic preservation, and human remains. Federal, state, and city regulations require could study history and get my hands dirty.” architecture for the New York City Department that an archaeologist be brought on-site whenever artifacts “The idea of starting a company was really of Education and several local museums and or human burials are found. “We oversee whatever artifacts born in the Lott House,” says Loorya. She is nonprofit organizations. construction might disturb,” says Ricciardi. “We record. We referring to the Hendrick I. Lott House, located excavate.”

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U.S. Postal Service Commemorates Shirley Chisholm ’46 COLLEGE NEWS NE ws MAKERS with Stamp

On January 31, the U.S. Postal the United States. Throughout Service honored Shirley her tenure in Congress she Chisholm ’46—the first African- was a steadfast supporter of American woman elected to legislation that improved health Salvage archaeology is not like academic archaeology, “And there are other issues.” Loorya counts off a litany Congress and also the first to care, public education, and run for President—by issuing the lives of the working poor, where one chooses a site and works on it, sometimes, of challenges they confront in the course of fieldwork: “Hot a limited-edition 37th Black among other causes. for years. “The sites choose us,” says Ricciardi, and often utility pipes. Active steam pipes. Tight spaces underground. Heritage “forever” stamp. A Founded by Winslow in 2006, the work is done in tandem with construction, repair, or Being squashed underneath utilities. Open sewers.” She ceremony marking the occasion the Shirley Chisholm Center for rehabilitation, as at Manhattan’s City Hall, built in 1812 and pauses. “I think the coldest place I’ve ever been is on the took place at Brooklyn Borough Research on Women strives to now one of the oldest government buildings in continuous East River in winter.” Hall. develop original scholarship in use in the United States. As a result, along with historical Still, according to Loorya and Ricciardi, only a quarter “This was an extraordinarily gender studies and promote wonderful and important feminist inquiry and practice. societies, Chrysalis counts architectural firms, engineering of their time is spent digging, and the rewards far outweigh event, to have Shirley Chisholm Winslow also created the companies, and city agencies among its clients. the inconvenience. “It may take years to verify a discovery, honored not only by the Shirley Chisholm Project on The vagaries of nature and city infrastructure play even a little one,” says Ricciardi. United States Post Office but Brooklyn Women’s Activism, major roles in this field. “Hurricane Sandy caused the East “And even though they may not be the Elgin Marbles or by so many important people, River and Hudson River to temporarily push back to the Tut’s tomb or the Sutton Hoo treasures,” adds Loorya, “the including political activists original 18th-century shoreline, what it was before the smallest finds can be just as exciting.” from Brooklyn,” says Barbara Winslow, a professor in the Professor Barbara Winslow (right) landfill was put in,” says Department of Education with filmmaker Shola Lynch, director of the Ricciardi of the flood that (Secondary) and the director of award-winning documentary Chisholm ’72: followed the massive storm the college’s Shirley Chisholm Unbought and Unbossed, at the unveiling of surge when the hurricane hit Center for Research on Women. the Shirley Chisholm Black Heritage stamp at in October 2012. Winslow is also the author of Brooklyn Borough Hall, January 31. “There are hundreds of the biography Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change (Westview pumps pumping water out Press, 2013), which explores of the subway system all day, Chisholm’s life against the every day. If they broke, we’d backdrop of 20th-century urban be in big trouble; the system America and the great social would just flood,” says transformation that was wrought Loorya. “We did that,” she in the latter half of that century. an archive of materials As a student at Brooklyn relating to women’s political says, meaning human will, College, Chisholm was mentored activity in the borough from as opposed to nature. “We by a political science professor 1945 onward. “This year, the altered the water table over who recognized her potential Chisholm Project is dedicated the centuries. Now we are while watching her debate, to the struggle for voting finding wells nine feet below and encouraged her to go into rights and the commemoration the surface, old drainage public service. of the 50th anniversary of After a career as a teacher, Mississippi Freedom Summer,” systems still in use, with she was elected to Congress says Winslow, “as well as the newer systems leapfrogging Top: Chrysalis archaeologist Eileen Kao at an excavation of a well in lower in 1968 and went on to serve current efforts to combat voter to older stone and brick systems.” seven terms for New York’s 12th suppression, something of Manhattan. Above: An exhibit of artifacts from an early-19th-century deposit at Congressional District. In 1972, which I believe Mrs. Chisholm Manhattan’s Fulton Street. she became the first major-party would be most proud.” black candidate for President of —Audrey Peterson

26 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 27 Holding their Emmys, Playing it Smart Nickesha Johnson, By 2018, Brooklyn College is committed to having most laptops, and a DVD player. By the end of 2014 students and Michael Gomez ’13 of its instructional space turned into “smart” classrooms faculty will have access to 110 smart classrooms, and the and Anthony Tart ’13 or labs—also known as enhanced instructional spaces. college is working toward a goal of 300. In the meantime, are pictured with actor Each classroom will contain a suite of state-of-the-art Information Technology Services (ITS) has equipped 100 Nick Weschler and at audiovisual tools, such as an overhead video projector, “smart carts” with similar plug-and-play technology, the College Television an enhanced sound system, and a camera activated from which are readily available for faculty members to use in Awards in Los Angeles. a podium that houses a control panel; also inside the their classrooms. podium, users will find a PC, connections for iPods and A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CLASSROOM

Classroom Tools, Then and Now rooklyn College student Nickesha Johnson, together Brooklyn College with recent graduates Michael Gomez ’13 and Anthony Tart ’13, brought home an Emmy for Best Newscast from the 35th College Television Awards, presented in April by Student and theB Television Academy, producers of the Primetime Emmy Awards. Television and Radio Professor Barbara Nevins Taylor, who has some 22 Emmys of her own, says the award confirms what the Alumni Receive college teaches: “You can achieve success through hard work, focus, and the pursuit of excellence. Winning doesn’t stop here.” She adds that she encourages all of her students to apply for big awards because it’s important for them to see how they measure up against their peers. Emmy Fresh off that win, for which Johnson, Gomez, and Tart had flown out to Los Angeles to attend the red-carpet ceremony, the trio learned that another production from their Summer Broadcast News Institute (a capstone course for broadcast majors) had won AWARD the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence Award for the regional competition, in the category of Best All-Around Television Newscast. Johnson, a mother of two, is pursuing a double major in broadcast journalism and psychology, with a minor in human resources management. Gomez, a broadcast journalism major, currently works full-time for a nonprofit that helps homeless people. Tart is a freelance videographer for local news channel NY1 and has interned at The Wendy Williams Show and SportsNet New York. —Ernesto Mora

RESEARCH and DISCOVERY Assistant Professor Jason Frydman of Women’s Center Program Coordinator The New York Department of Brooklyn College faculty Professor David E. Balk of the English Department Lecturer Matthew Lecturer Bryan the Department of English published Nava Renek ’89 M.F.A. co-edited, with Education awarded Professor Susan Department of Health and Nutrition Burgess ’01 M.F.A. published Slippers Dunphy of the Sounding the Break: African American Natalie Nuzzo ’11, the contemporary Vaughn, associate librarian for continue to receive Sciences published Dealing with Dying, for Elsewhere with UpSet Press. Department of and Caribbean Routes of World anthology Wreckage of Reason II: Back collection development, $16,448 to Death, and Grief during Adolescence Television and prestigious grants Professor Dee Clayman of the Classics Literature with the University of to the Drawing Board, published by organize and preserve the records of with Routledge. Radio published and awards for their Department published Berenice II and Virginia Press. Spuyten Duyvil Publishing. Brooklyn’s Young Women’s Christian Satire’s Brew: Association from Adjunct the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt Professor Margaret King of the Professor scholarship. This past year, Mass Media & Assistant Professor Ryan Murelli of 1920 to 1939. Associate with Oxford University Press. Department of History edited and of Political close to $10 million was Coffee Beans with the Department of Chemistry was Professor translated Renaissance Humanism: Science Assistant Assistant Professor Cognella awarded $157,000 from the National awarded to faculty for new Jeffrey An Anthology of Sources, published Mojúbàolú Professor of Matthew Crump of Academic Publishing. Institutes of Health to study two Biegel, the by Hackett Publishing Company. Olúfúnké Philosophy and ongoing research. the Department structurally related natural products Conservatory Records Ruin the Landscape: She also authored How Mothers Okome Christine Vitrano Here are just a few of those of Psychology that may be effective in treating of Music’s John Cage, the Sixties, and Shaped Successful Sons and Created published a published The received $110,897 tuberculosis. The study may uncover funded projects, along with coordinator Sound Recording, a book World History: The School of Infancy, new book Nature and Value from the National information that can be exploited of piano studies, released a new by David Grubbs, associate published by Edwin Mellen Press. this year of Happiness with a selection of recent faculty Science Foundation to in the design of more in-depth drug album, Life According to Chopin, professor at the Conservatory with Palgrave Westview Press. publications. research how high- and low- development pursuits, potentially published with GPR Records. of Music, was published by Duke Macmillan, level cognitive processes interact resulting in the first new TB-specific University Press. titled Contesting the Nigerian State: to allow typists to order their treatment in over 40 years. keystrokes rapidly and accurately. Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization. 28 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 29 WANTS O S T H TO W A Compassionate Touch

A B E M IR ILLIONA alumni profile

Take the B Magazine “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” quiz to test your knowledge of the college. Answers can be found throughout the issue.

1. How many countries are represented “I want to be by Brooklyn College students? here to hold

A. 55 B. 87 their hands,” Credidio says. C. 135 D. 206 “That’s my gift, it’s what 2. Approximately how many scholarships, awards, and I do best.” prizes are offered to eligible students each year?

A. 100 B. 200 hen Sister Ann Credidio foundation, run completely by donations, ’73, ’77 M.S. first started now has an annual budget of $400,000 FortunE’S son C. 400 D. 600 working with patients and will celebrate its 20th anniversary in Jack DeLorenzo ’11 hits it big suffering from Hansen’s December. disease,W she was told not to touch them. But Today the patients receive holistic that didn’t work for her. care, including attention to their medical “I’ve always had a passion for trivia and board games,” “I’m of Italian descent,” says the former needs, help facilitating visits with family says Jack DeLorenzo ’11, who won big earlier this year 3. How many residents of Brooklyn with a college SEEK student who grew up in the Brooklyn members, access to college scholarships, and on the January 9 episode of Wheel of Fortune. He neighborhood of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. assistance from personal sponsors. degree received that degree from Brooklyn College? finished with more than $15,000, his second major “Hugging and kissing is natural for me.” “One of the saddest things I’ve ever win since his 2010 appearance on Who Wants to Be a And it horrified her to see people who seen is a mother who couldn’t hold her Millionaire, when he walked away with $16,550. A. 1 in 10 B. 1 in 20 were afflicted with what was once known baby in her arms because of the effects of The initial audition process featured a 30-question as leprosy, in a dilapidated hospital wing in the disease,” says Credidio, who arranged C. 1 in 50 D. 1 in 75 multiple-choice exam as well as a one-on-one interview. Ecuador with no wheelchairs or walkers, few to have a medical team fly in from New A lifelong trivia buff, DeLorenzo easily moved past the mattresses or mosquito nets, coping with Hampshire every year to operate, free of preliminaries to a mock staging of Wheel of Fortune open wounds, and rodents. charge, on patients who have lost their and then onto the show itself. “It was an absolute nightmare for them,” fingers and toes. Having participated in a multitude of contestant 4. What percentage of internships offered by the says Credidio, who moved to the South Credidio, who majored in education, searches, DeLorenzo is keen on what makes a player Top: Sister Ann Credidio, center, and Magner Career Center at Brooklyn College are paid? American country some 25 years ago with says she was greatly influenced by a appealing. “They want you to be yourself but to make a group of service-oriented nuns called the Brooklyn College professor who raised Damien House staff members fete a yourself stand out,” he says, adding, “have a lot of Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. money to pay for corrective surgery when patient in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Above: A. 11% B. 27% energy, and don’t be nervous.” With the help of a few friends, Credidio she noticed that Credidio and her twin sister Sister Ann visits with a patient. Back at Brooklyn College, DeLorenzo is currently C. 36% D. 48% established a foundation to care for the were unable to pass their speech exams due pursuing a master’s degree in community health Hansen’s patients. She named it Damien to an issue with their palates. education while working as a pharmacy technician, House after Father Damien of Moloka‘i, who “That’s why I believe so strongly in actor, and model. He is also one of the founding in the 19th century opened a sanctuary for helping people to this day,” says Credidio.

members of the Brooklyn College Kappa Sigma Answers: 1. C; 2. D; 3. B; 4. D 4. B; 3. D; 2. C; 1. Answers: Hansen’s patients on the Hawaiian island, “She made a huge difference in my walk of fraternity chapter. “Brooklyn College was the right fit and then later developed the disease. The life.” —Jamilah Simmons for me,” he says, “a springboard to the real world.” —Mark Zhuravsky 30 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 31 Women’s Basketball Teams CUNYAC All-Stars Fall Up with ‘Friends of Jaclyn’ to Men’s Soccer “Adopt” Local Girl Dmitry Prokofyev (16 goals, 5 assists, 37 points) – Player of the Year Peter Vavalle (8 team shutouts) – Defensive Player of the Year Kamil Ostrowski (75 saves, 6 shutouts) – First Team Taras Frankivskyy (3 goals, 4 assists, 10 points) – First Team Oleg Tykhonravov (8 goals, 4 assists, 20 points) – Second Team Fernand Grisales (3 goals) – Second Team Kenny Benitez (4 goals, 5 assists, 13 points) – Second Team

athletics Women’s Soccer Jordan Kerwin (18 goals, 6 assists, 42 points) – Rookie of the Year Shani Abrahams (15 goals, 10 assists, 40 points) – First Team Jasmine Fermin (11 team shutouts) – First Team Sayla Flores (9 goals, 10 assists, 28 points) – Second Team Stefany Ibarra (3 assists) – Second Team Shani Nakhid-Schuster (4 goals, 4 assists, 12 points) – Second Team Meagan Cranston (2 assists) – Second Team Patrick Horne (15–4 over record, CUNYAC Champions) – Coach of the Year New Zealand Import Nakhid-Schuster, Women’s Tennis n 2009, Brooklyn College Head Women’s Basketball Coach A Standout for Championship Women’s Soccer Squad Yuliya Orkis (12–1 overall singles record) – Player of the Year Alex Lang saw a moving story captured on HBO’s Real Suraya Maenhout (10–4 overall singles record) – First Team Sports about the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, a nonprofit organization that partners kids who suffer from brain cancer hani Nakhid-Schuster, also excelled on the soccer field, surreal, almost,” says Nakhid- Maria Sanz (8–4 overall singles record) – Sportsmanship Award with local sports teams. The teams “adopt” a child in the hope of a New Zealand native, being named CUNY Conference Schuster when asked about this and Second Team I providing a setting that will lift the child’s spirits. always dreamed about All-Star in both her freshman season’s miraculous run. “I won Ahmad Odetalla (CUNYAC Runner-up Finish) – Coach of the Year S Touched by the foundation’s work and the story of Jaclyn coming to New York City. When and sophomore years. nationals back home in high Women’s Volleyball Murphy, the inspiration for the organization, Lang immediately searching for a college, she had As a freshman, she was school and that was an amazing Julia Bogdan (237 kills, 169 digs, 51 aces) – Rookie of the Year signed his team up to be partnered with a child. He soon learned to look no further than to her asked to anchor the Brooklyn feeling that I never thought from Friends of Jaclyn that there were actually many more own mother for guidance. defense, and she did just that, could be met again, but it was.” Jillian Escobar (190 kills, 215 digs, 62 aces) – Second Team Lisenia Rodriguez (201 digs) – Sportsmanship Award interested teams than there were children with brain cancer. Camille Nakhid ’84, a native helping a first-year program to She has also earned the However, in 2013, Lang received an e-mail from Michelle Deleso, of Trinidad and Tobago, moved six victories, while also mentoring respect and admiration of her Women’s Cross-Country the foundation’s executive director, informing him of a match. A to New Zealand in 1989. Her the team’s less-experienced teammates. Senior captain Stefanie Steel – 7th-place finish at CUNYAC Championships 13-year-old Brooklyn girl, Cheday Dawson loved basketball and memories of her alma mater had members. “She came into the Shani Abrahams speaks of Jacqueline Szpunt – 9th-place finish at CUNYAC Championships would be a perfect partner for the Brooklyn College Women’s a great impact on her daughter. program at the most critical time, Nakhid-Schuster glowingly. Basketball Team. A few weeks later, on November 9, the team Nakhid-Schuster contacted its beginning,” says Horne. “She “Two of Shani’s greatest assets hosted Dawson in an “adoption” ceremony, during which they Head Women’s Soccer Coach played a major part in helping as a teammate are her ability to Winter presented her with a Brooklyn College jersey and t-shirt. The college Patrick Horne, who was newly to encourage the right attitude encourage others and to lead by Women’s Swimming & Diving cheerleaders were also on hand at the ceremony to give Dawson hired and in the process of and professionalism to build a example,” says Abrahams. “She Jenny Lee – 2nd place finish in the 1,650-yard Freestyle at gifts and welcome her to the team. forming an inaugural women’s foundation for future Bulldog has a genuine love for the game CUNYAC Championships Dawson instantly bonded with the players and coaches, as well soccer program. Hearing of teams.” and an intuitive feel for the Valentina Monroy – 2nd place finish in the 500-yard Freestyle at as the cheer squad, sharing stories of her basketball experiences, Nakhid-Schuster’s soccer prowess, It didn’t take long for that sport that helps her excel.” CUNYAC Championships her little brother, and her family. Horne knew that she could be a foundation to inspire the future. In addition to Nakhid- Junior Sarah Shanderson calls Cheday a “sister,” adding, “Having key member of the team. In Nakhid-Schuster’s sophomore Schuster’s on-the-field Men’s Basketball Cheday in our huddles and the locker room was an inspiration. She “I think coming to Brooklyn season, now playing the midfield accomplishments, she also Egzon Gjonbalaj (14.6 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 2.5 apg, 1.8 spg, 1.4 bpg) – always had a smile on her face. She has a great sense of humor.” College is one of the best as Horne was able to recruit maintains a 3.8 GPA. She aspires Second Team Shanderson and her teammates battled their way to a 22–8 decisions I have ever made,” a more balanced squad, the to work in the film industry and season, the squad’s third straight 20-win year. says Nakhid-Schuster, who is team went on to a 15–4 record possibly remain in New York Women’s Basketball Dawson was able to make it out to many home games majoring in film and sociology. while capturing the CUNYAC City. She will have two more Megan Campbell (14.7 ppg, 7.5 apg, 1.7 bpg) – First Team throughout the year, sitting with the team on the bench and coming “I’ve made friends with so many Championship and going to years at Brooklyn College before Nicole Francomano (8.9 ppg, 6.2 apg, 3.6 rpg, 3.2 spg) – Second Team into pregame and postgame meetings with the coaches and team. different people from all over the NCAA Tournament. Nakhid- she needs to make that decision. And perhaps the best news of all—she was recently declared the world. Brooklyn is definitely Schuster started every game for Until then she will have plenty cancer-free by her doctors. —Anthony Ramos my favorite of the five boroughs. the team and scored four goals of time to enjoy the city and the I love the diverse culture and while also delivering four assists school and to help her Bulldogs food.” on the season. become champions once again. Along with her experiences “The experience of winning —Alex Lang off campus and in the the CUNYAC Championship classroom, Nakhid-Schuster has is very hard to describe. It’s

32 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 33 Joyce M. Feldman Saltman ’64 The bird photography of Arthur Filmmaker Paul is professor emeritus of special Morris ’70 will be presented in an Dear Alumni, Mazursky ’51, passed education at Southern Connecticut exhibition at the American Museum I hope this letter finds away peacefully on State University in New Haven. of Bird Art at Mass Audubon. you and your families well. She co-authored, with Ronnie June 30. A five-time The Brooklyn College Alumni Greenspan, I’m Changing the Locks Sandy Portnoy ’70 was recently Association (BCAA) has been Academy Award- and Cementing the Windows: What named to the Women’s Roll of very active during the winter nominated director, to Do When Your Kid Leaves Home, Honor for the Town of North and spring months, and I would screenwriter, actor, published by Kiwi Publishing, and Hempstead, New York. like to take a moment to Sing a Celebration, published by and producer, Ron Schweiger ’70 Brooklyn update you. Ivory Tower Press. borough historian, recently received But before I begin, it is Mazursky is best the Community Leadership Award with sadness that I report the known for such David L. Levinson ’66 was re-elected from the Flatbush Development passing of BCAA board member Dorothy Salwen Rabinoff films as Bob & to his tenth four-year term as town

class notes Corporation at its 39th annual ’51. The wife of BCAA board member and past president justice for the Town of Woodbury, Carol & Ted & Alice awards dinner at Gargiulio’s Samuel Rabinoff ’49, Dorothy was for many years a force Orange County, New York. Noted photojournalist Art Shay Shirley Soffer ’56 recently and An Unmarried Restaurant, Coney Island. behind the success of the BCAA, holding memberships on its ’43 was awarded the 2014 Silver published The Astrology Woman. This past Greater Arlington/Mansfield Texas Camera Award for distinguished Sourcebook: Your Guide to Activities and Alumni Awards committees. She also served Staten Island’s Sundog Theatre May, Mazursky Democratic Women showed its photography by the Columbia Understanding the Symbolic on the executive committee of the BCAA Campus Chapter appreciation of Dr. Barbara Chiarell received a $25,000 grant to tour received the 2014 College Chicago’s Museum of Language of the Stars. and was co-chairperson of the Post 50th Alumni Awards ’67 and her work by presenting her “Burnt,” its 45-minute original Contemporary Photography. Committee. In 2010, Dorothy was presented with the Jerome Best of Brooklyn Award at the college’s annual gala with a state proclamation signed by theater piece, directed by Michael Barry Zisser ’56 has been honored S. Milgram Award for exceptional meritorious service toward held at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in Senator Wendy Davis, a flag from the Tennenbaum ’70, ’75 M.F.A. The Steven Kasher Gallery by the Florida Bar for 50 years of the advancement of the BCAA and its activities on behalf of New York City. Television, film, and theater director state capitol, and a personalized tray. presented both early vintage service as an attorney. Brooklyn College. Our deepest sympathies go out to Sam Sheila Gerber Ziegler ’70 was Joel Zwick ’62 served as master of ceremonies for selected as the 2013 Communicator photographs and later large-scale and his family. Dorothy will indeed be missed. Beth Goren ’67 was awarded Vidabeth Bensen ’57 was chosen of the Year by the Long Island prints by Jerome Liebling ’48 in an The BCAA Alumni Awards Committee has selected Dr. the evening, and noted actresses Ellen Burstyn and second-place prize in the Artists’ exhibition titled “Jerome Liebling: as the North Carolina Retired Art chapter of the International Lisa Staiano-Coico ’76, president of the City College of New Marsha Mason were also in attendance. In December Embassy International Poetry Matter of Life and Death.” Educator of the Year for 2013–14. Association of Business York, CUNY, and Vinnie Favale ’82, vice president of late-night 2013, Mazursky received the 2,515th star on the Contest out of California. Communicators. programming for CBS, as its 2014 Alumna and Alumnus of Dr. Maurice H. Miller ’50 received Mayor Bill de Blasio has appointed Hollywood Walk of Fame. Theodore Orlin, ’67 gave a the Honors of the American Speech- Stanley Brezenoff ’60 as an unpaid the Year. The awards will be presented on October 23, 2014, keynote address at a naturalization Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Language-Hearing Association special adviser to the First Deputy at the fifth annual Alumni Honors event, which will be held Patricia DiMango ’73 is set to star (ASHA) at its annual convention Mayor. on the Brooklyn College campus. Congratulations, honorees! in a new syndicated court show in Chicago in recognition of his On February 18, the BCAA feted the class of 2014 as part titled Hot Bench. Fran Orenstein ’60 recently For the first distinguished contributions to the of its Senior Night Celebration during the final home games published her newest novel, a time in eight profession of audiology. of the women’s and men’s basketball teams. I am happy to 1939: Neil Skolky ’73 was elected to the historical murder mystery/romance years, the Brooklyn College report that the Brooklyn College Bulldogs defeated the John board of trustees of the Pascack with paranormal overtones, Ira B. Harkavy ’51 and his wife, Jay Bloodhounds in a doubleheader sweep! A fun time was Kingsmen triumphed over City Historical Society. Death in D Minor, with New World Roberta, were recently honored had by all. Thank you, BCAA Student Relations Committee, College in a 12–6 football victory. by Madison Jewish Center as 2014 Publishing, and The Spice Trader’s Larian Angelo ’75 was appointed for organizing the event. Brooklyn College tied the score Couple of the Year. Daughter with Saguaro Books. vice president for Administration The BCAA will be joining Brooklyn College and the late in the second period on a and Finance at the Stella and Brooklyn College Foundation in an effort to improve the The Woodward Gallery presented Carol Zimmerman Brody ’62 play that fooled the other team. Charles Guttman Community was selected to exhibit her manner in which we communicate with you. The goal of this College. new works by abstract expressionist Sol Levine, the back, smashed painter Natalie Edgar ’53. award-winning watercolor in the initiative is to upgrade the e-mail communications system International Watercolor Biennial including data management, online directory and social over City’s left tackle on a quick- Roger Hernstadt ’75 has been Dr. Eli A. Friedman ’53, Exhibition in Shenzhen, China. network features, and e-mail marketing. Please stay tuned. opening play in the final period named the city manager of Marco distinguished teaching professor Afterward, the painting travels for We are very excited about the upcoming publication and raced 16 yards for the Island, Florida. of medicine at SUNY Downstate one year to eight museums around of our fifth alumni directory, which will be available in winning touchdown. Justice Doris Ling-Cohan ’76 has Medical Center, received the the country. September 2014. I hope that you all have participated in been appointed to the Appellate Lifetime Achievement Award in the project. Alumni nationwide and abroad have submitted Hemodialysis at the Thirty-fourth Mark Edward Partners LLC, a Term, First Department. She is the biographical information, photos, and essays. The directory Harry Leibowitz ’63 and Kay Annual Conference on Dialysis, national, full-service insurance Kenneth Rosenblum ’63 has been ceremony as 39 people from 11 first woman of Asian descent to be is an excellent networking tool and will be a great addition Isaacson-Leibowitz, co-founders of presented by the University of brokerage firm, announced that named the director of the Veterans’ countries became U.S. citizens. appointed to an appellate panel in to your libraries. the World of Children Award, are Missouri School of Medicine, at a Marshall Manley ’62 has joined the and Service Members’ Rights Clinic New York State. Congratulations to every graduate in your family, and one of America’s Top Five Inspiring Reg Cornelia ’70 has been voted in ceremony in Atlanta. firm as a partner with the title of at Touro Law Center in Central Islip, vice chairman. enjoy your summer! Stay connected with Brooklyn College! Power Couples, according to the New York. The clinic provides free as the new vice chairman of the East Yvette Meléndez ’76 has been Martin P. Schreibman ’56, In service, Huffington Post. legal services to military veterans Hampton Republican Committee. elected chair of the nine-member, representing Brooklyn College Ella Friedman Weiss ’62 was and family members. volunteer board of directors of The Boca Museum of Art mounted Former Brooklyn Borough Graduate Center, spoke on “Novel recently honored at the 2014 Shirley the Hartford Foundation for Public an exhibition of works by Elaine President Marty Markowitz ’70 Methods of Food Production and Chisholm Women of Distinction Professor Kenneth Sherrill ’63 Giving—the community foundation Reichek ’63 focusing on the period has accepted the post of vice Addressing Global Hunger” at Celebration, presented by NYC presented a paper on LGBT for the 29-town Greater Hartford from 1972 to 1995. president for borough promotion Farmingdale Food Day sponsored by Council member Jumaane D. Jeffrey Sigler ’92, ’95 M.S. consciousness and voting region. and engagement with the New the Social Science Research Institute Williams ’01. behavior at the annual meeting York City tourism bureau, NYC & of Farmingdale State College. of the American Political Science Association. Company.

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CLASS CORRESPONDENTS

1933 Herbert Nestler, 8440 South Military Trail, Apt. 216, Boynton Beach, FL 33436-1511 1940 Eva Weiss Hubschman, 1650 West Glendale Avenue, Apt. 1101, Phoenix, AZ 85021-5757 1941 Cecile Yasker Kaufman, 7920 E. Granada Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85257-2245 1946 Bernard R. Schwartz, 404 Beach 143rd Street, Neponsit, NY 11694-1111 1947 Reva Frumkin Biers, 4631 Ellenita Avenue, Tarzana, CA 91356-4931 1948 Eneas Newman Sloman Arkawy, 27110 Grand Central Parkway, Apt. 8G, Floral Park, NY 11005-1209 1949 William D. Isaacson, 26910 Grand Central Parkway, Apt. 18-Y, Floral Park, New York 11005, [email protected] 1951 Marion Unger Gordon, 70 East 10th Street, Apt. 9P, New York, NY 10003-5112 1952 Sheila Talmud Raymond, 3 Lakeside Lane, Bay Shore, NY 11706-8845 Do you have news to share 1953 Ben Suntag, 1311 Franklin Lane, Rockaway, NJ 07866-5814, [email protected] 1954 Marlene (Marcia) Jacoby Hillman, 255 West 94th Street, Apt. 6Q, New York, NY 10025-6986 with the Brooklyn College 1955 Geraldine Miller Markowitz, 1500 Palisade Avenue, #26C, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, [email protected] 1956 Mike Saluzzi, 1351 East Mountain Street, Glendale, CA 91207-1837, [email protected] community? Please send On April 29, 2014, more than 45 B.A.–M.D. students 1957 Micki Goldberg Ginsberg, 217 E. Maple Avenue, Moorestown, NJ 08057-2011, [email protected] information to your class and members of the Brooklyn College Chapter of 1958 Sandra Seigel Pikoff, 4500 Williams Drive #212-320, Georgetown, TX 78633, [email protected] the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) 1960 Saul Kravitz, 3382 Kenzo Ct., Mountain View, CA 94040, [email protected] correspondent listed at 1961 David S. Herskowitz, 1175 Kildeer Court, Encinitas, CA 92024-1278, [email protected] welcomed Steven Hofstetter, M.D. ’67. The surgeon- left. If your class has no Fifty years ago, an educational 1962 Steven J. Nappen, 38 Troy Hills Road, Whippany, NJ 07981-1315 in-chief at NYU Langone Medical Center, Dr. Hofstetter 1964: television-production center, said to be one of the 1963 Cliff Rosner, 111 Blue Willow Drive, Houston, TX 77042-1105 correspondent, you may gave a PowerPoint presentation, “The Making of most modern and complete in the Northeast, was 1964 Jay Orlikoff, 20 Beaverdale Lane, Stony Brook, NY 11790-2507, [email protected] a Surgeon,” that covered everything from what to opened at Brooklyn College. The resources included 1965 Barbara Berman Leveene, 24 Jubilee Circle, Aberdeen, NJ 07747-1807 send items directly to expect in medical school to career building and time two studios, six cameras, two TV film systems, two 1966 Felicia Friedland Weinberg, P.O. Box 449, Clarksburg, NJ 08510 [email protected], management, as well as how to have a balanced and 1967 Sharon Weinschel Resen, 1740 Kimball Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234-4304 videotape recorders, and a fully equipped control rewarding life as an academic medical practitioner. 1968 Eileen McGinn, 210 East 15th Street, Apt. 10N, New York, NY 10003-3927 [email protected], room. Dr. Eugene S. Foster, the center’s director, Akreeti Maskey ’14, vice president of Brooklyn College 1969 Edward M. Greenspan, [email protected] praised the equipment, saying it afforded students or Brooklyn College Magazine, AMSA, and Dr. Steven Silbering, director of the 1970 Barry Silverman, 176 Stults Lane, East Brunswick, NJ 08816-5815, [email protected] an opportunity to work with cameras and other 1971 Robert J. Miller, 494 East 18th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11226, [email protected] college’s Coordinated B.A.–M.D. Program, helped to 2900 Bedford Avenue, technology identical to that used for “on the air” 1972 Stanley A. Alexander, 98B Charles River Road, Waltham, MA 02453 set up this unique opportunity for pre-med students programming. 1973 Linda E. Gross Carroll, 212 Stony Point Drive, Sebastian, FL 32958, [email protected] Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889. to gain from the invaluable perspective of a highly 1974 Diane Oeters Vaughn, 42 Briarwood Drive, Old Saybrook, CT 06475, [email protected] respected and experienced surgeon. Dr. Hofstetter said 1975 Rubin Leitner, 138 East 96th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212-3534 he was delighted to return to his alma mater, which 1976 Henry P. Feintuch, 50 Barnes Lane, Chappaqua, NY 10514-2425, [email protected] he had not visited in over 40 years. 1978 Susan A. Katz, 120 Pinewood Trail, Trumbull, CT 06611-3313 1989: Twenty-five years ago, for the 1979 Anthony Esposito, 211 Highway 35 N, Mantoloking, NJ 08738-1420 first time in the college’s history, an all-night study 1981 Debbie Schiffer-Burke, [email protected] 1982 Eileen Sherman Gruber, 69 Derby Avenue, Greenlawn, NY 11740-2130 Marie Roberts ’76 collaborated African-American collectibles, and hall was made available to students during the final 1983 Michael Kosik, 866-327-5162, [email protected] with CUNY chemist Teresa Bandosz black memorabilia such as dolls, examination period. The experimental study hall was 1985 Peter Huertas, 5135 Fedora Drive, San Antonio, TX 78242-2427, [email protected] as part of the Ligo Art of Science quilts, and photos, including a held in the Whitehead Cafeteria during the first week Project, a six-month artist-in- portrait of her great-grandmother, 1986 Ian Lee Brown, 109 USS Buckley Place, Hingham, MA 02043, [email protected] residence program that allows each a former slave. During Black History of examinations. Plans called for the study hall to be 1987 Eric Steinhardt, 915 East 7th Street, Apt. 1H, Brooklyn, NY 11230-2733 artist the opportunity to interact Month, a Nelson Mandela exhibit open from 8pm to 8am for three days. To maintain 1988 Lauren Korn Popkoff, 951 Woodoak Drive, Baldwin Harbour, NY 11510-5023 with scientists, learn about research, honoring his many achievement was security, access to the study hall was limited to the 1990 Beth Debra Kallman Werner, 105 Husson Road, Milford, PA 18337-7156 and, from these interactions, create featured. Campus Road approach to the cafeteria. 1991 Tami Sheheri, 140 Cadman Plaza West, #14E, Brooklyn, NY 11201, [email protected] a piece of science-inspired art. 1993 Sarah Battaglia, P.O. Box 882, Miller Place, NY 11764, [email protected] Michael Grohman ’80 was 1994 Ilene Berkowitz, 1575 46th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11219-2726 Carol Steinberg ’76 has been honored by the organization Girls appointed president of the Educational and Mentoring Services 1995 Nathan Solat, 2793 Lee Place, Bellmore, NY 11710-5003 Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, as one of two inaugural recipients 1996 Anthony Vitale, 1742 Gildersleeve Street, Merrick, NY 11566-2504 a national nonprofit organization of its Male Allies Award. 1997 Diane Abramowitz Rosenberg, 5 Penn Plaza, 19th fl., New York, NY 10001, [email protected] dedicated to advocacy, research, 1998 Glenn P. Nocera, 616 East 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11218-4922, [email protected] and optimal care for individuals Steven H. Richman ’80 was elected 1999 David Moskowitz, 2327 East 18th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11229-4416 with dementia and their families. vice chair of the New York State 2001 Tatesha Bennett Clark, 540 East 82nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236-3119 Bar Association’s Section Delegates 2002 Kimy Mandil, [email protected] Wilhelmina Pelham Banks ’78 is Caucus for one term beginning in 2004 Yael Abraham Fogel, 431 Broadway, Lawrence, NY 11559, [email protected] founder and director of Nyumba Ya June 2014. 2005 Miriam Alexander, 118-03 228th Street, Cambria Heights, NY 11411, [email protected] Tausi Peacock Museum in Bristol, Virginia. The museum is filled 2007 Ezra N. Rich, 309 S. 2nd Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, [email protected] with African artifacts, handmade 2008 Stefanie Low, 3-A Putnam Avenue, Glen Cove, NY 11542, [email protected] toys, musical instruments, jewelry, 2009 Steven Juskowicz, 1485 East 32th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234-3403, [email protected] 2013 Elizabeth Weiss, [email protected]

36 Brooklyn College Magazine | SPRING/SUMMER 2014 Allen Wright ’97 was appointed When Adria Alpert Romm ’77 to the post of political director for International Union of Operating graduated with a degree in Engineers Local 14. sociology, she planned to 2004: become a social worker, but state Craig Collins ’98 was the 2014 On November 4, the Brooklyn budgetary constraints left scant Honoree for Human Services College Library dedicated awarded by the National Council of job opportunities in the social Echoing Factors, a hanging Negro Women, Inc., Queens County services field. Instead, the Gravesend Section. sculpture by artist Chakaia native accepted a position with a Booker. Mounted on a wall on Lisa Fernandez ’98, principal of P.S. headhunting firm in Manhattan. the first floor, the sculpture 119, Brooklyn, was recently honored As it turns out, she was the one at the Shirley Chisholm Women of is made of discarded rubber who ended up being recruited, by a Distinction Celebration. tires and wood. Born in client who asked her if she’d ever Newark, New Jersey, Booker Luke Leonard ’98 conceived, considered working in corporate earned a bachelor’s degree directed, and designed the world human resources. premiere of Bum Phillips, An All- in sociology from Rutgers “I studied for a career that was American Opera last March at La University, and a master of fine arts from the City College of New York, CUNY focused on helping people,” says MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in in 1993. Her works are featured in the collections of the Newark Museum, the Alpert Romm, now the chief human New York City. Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. resources and global diversity officer Laura Silver ’98 M.F.A. has been at Discovery Communications, which selected to receive the 2014 Media has 4,000 employees in 40 offices Arts Fellowship, courtesy of the multidisciplinary nonprofit BRIC. worldwide. “I realized that human resources is a part of that.” There Is No End to This Slope, a Growing up during the Cold War and the McCarthy era was a big In her role as the chief people novel by Richard Fulco ’02, was influence on photographer Builder Levy ’64. His family “encouraged art officer at a company renowned for its progressiveness in work life and wellness, recently published by Wampus Multimedia. and believed that the world needed to be changed,” he writes in his Alpert Romm can take a lot of the credit for Discovery being named one of the latest book, Appalachia USA (David R. Godine, 2014). As a young man best places to work by Working Mother, Computerworld, and, most recently, Fortune Feature-length documentary Alive just out of college, he wanted to find a way to tap into the social tidal Inside: A Story of Music & Memory, magazines. She has helped the company to engage employees by developing wave of the civil rights and peace movements: photographed by Shachar Langlev programs such as a global mentoring initiative and has overseen the creation ’06, debuted at the 2014 Sundance “With the camera I was able to immerse myself directly into real life of four on-site wellness centers and a daycare center at Discovery’s global Film Festival. itself. I could abstract, compose, and intensify aspects of often chaotic, headquarters just outside Washington, D.C. fluid reality within the rectangle of my viewfinder,” Levy writes. “With Kristoffer Diaz ’09 has been Alpert Romm, a cum laude graduate, has worked in human resources for more the release of the shutter, I could begin to physically create a new awarded a 2013 New York than 30 years, mainly in the television field, having made stops at NBC Universal, Foundation for the Arts Fellowship consciousness in and of the world.” MSNBC, and CNBC. in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Born in Tampa, Florida, in 1942 and raised in Brooklyn, Levy “I absolutely adore the television business,” she says, adding a few words of graduated from Brooklyn College with a bachelor of arts in art. Heir advice. “I tell students: You have to read everything, and you have to understand Jasmine Patel ’10 received the Chancellor’s Award, courtesy of apparent to a legacy of social realists that included Walker Evans, Lewis the business you are in.” ­ State University of New York Hine, Dorothea Lange, W. Eugene Smith, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, at a Levitt, Roy DeCarava, and Robert Frank, Levy set about capturing the ceremony in Albany at the Empire lives of America’s coal miners and the often dangerous business of State Plaza Convention Center. Karen Weinstein Tenenbaum ’80 faculty adviser of The Roundabout, a Donna Nixon ’91, an electronic extracting coal. Over four decades (1968–2009), he fixed in silver print was honored by Long Island Pulse University-produced television talk resources librarian and clinical Lori Podvesker M.S. ’10 has been © Builder Levy, Oglesby Bedroom, Stotesbury, Raleigh County, the Appalachian people as they navigated strikes and picket lines, saw Magazine with the Most Impressive show she developed to give college West Virginia, 1982 assistant professor of law at the appointed to the New York City the destruction of their source of livelihood by surface mining, and Case Victory Award for her firm’s women a voice, while promoting University of North Carolina Law Panel for Educational Policy. recent successful representation positive images of women in the Library at Chapel Hill, was recently experienced the rage, frustration, and desperation that come with a hard job that at any time might bring grave of taxpayers in a New York State media. elected to the executive board of Rachelle Suissa ’10 was elected injury or death. Yet, even in dark moments, Levy’s portraits hold a quiet grace and dignity that spill over into other income tax residency audit. the American Association of Law president of the Brooklyn- images of everyday life: parishioners emerging from church on a Sunday; an ageless scene of downtown America; Composer and singer Rebecca Libraries. Queens chapter of the National giggly children of miners looking out a window that reflects a snow-topped car from an earlier era. The Lamar Community College Teplow ’88 performed at the Kaplen Organization for Women. named David Frankel ’84 M.F.A. JCC on the Palisades’ Eric Brown In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, a “I wanted to see and experience America by spending time and exploring what I felt was a significant yet as Faculty of the Year. Theater. novel by Ruchama King Feuerman Nancy Margolis Gallery hosted the little understood and often overlooked region of the United States,” Levy writes about the genesis of his decades- ’93 M.F.A., was one of the finalists opening of “Shooting Star,” the first long project in Appalachia USA. “The mountains themselves—the most biodiverse in North America and among Loretta McLaughlin-Vignier Former 68th Precinct Commanding up for the 2013 National Jewish solo New York exhibition of works the oldest in the world—have been central to my interests. My primary focus remains, however, the quotidian life ’88 M.S., assistant professor of Officer DeputyI nspector Richard Book Award in Fiction. by Gregory Hayes ’11. communication at William Paterson DiBlasio ’90 will be taking over of the people and their enduring humanity.” University, has won a Bronze as head of the 70th Precinct in Timothy Lynch ’94 will join SUNY International CINDY Award for her Brooklyn, New York. Maritime as the provost and vice role as executive producer and president for Academic Affairs.

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Celebrating Women’s History Month Media,” an event held in connection Annual Electroacoustic Music Second Annual Best of Brooklyn Seymour Kaplan ’76, Eyewitness at BCAA Annual Meeting Procope S. Costas Classics Reading All-Star, and Francomano was named to 12. Former Brooklyn Borough President 15. China Trip From left: New York in 1. Filmmaker Stacey Muhammad, with Women’s History Month. Ensemble Award Gala Dachau 7. Brooklyn College Alumni Association Room Plaque Dedication the Second Team. Marty Markowitz ’70 is honored with a China Center LV Guoqiang; Dr. Richard (center) with Zinga A. Fraser, endowed 3. Students perform as part of the 4. President Karen L. Gould with Joel 6. Seymour Kaplan ‘76 speaks to President Jeffrey Sigler ’92, ’95 M.S. 9. From left: Christophil Costas, Celia Presidential Medal. Simon; President Karen L. Gould; postdoctoral fellow of Women’s and Furman Fellows Program annual Electroacoustic Music Ensemble. Zwick ’62 at the Second Annual Best of students about his experiences as (center), with BCAA Student Award Costas, Sophia Costas, and Jack Contes. Commencement 2014 13. Graduates applaud at one of two Academic Director Kim Hartswick; Putuo Gender Studies (right), and Sau-Fong 2. Brooklyn College Foundation trustee The ensemble plays a combination Brooklyn Award Gala honoring director, a soldier and translator helping to Winners. 11. From left: Shani Abrahams, 2014 master’s ceremonies. Governor Cheng Xiangmin; Executive Au, director of the Women’s Center. Roy Furman ’60 (center) meets with this of acoustic instruments and other writer, and actor Paul Mazursky ’51. liberate the Dachau concentration camp 2014 CUNYAC/Con Edison Basketball Undergraduate Class Representative; Director Ryan Buck; Dean Maria Conelli; Muhammad spoke as part of “Taking year’s participants in the Furman Fellows instruments custom-built from software 5. Best of Brooklyn honoree Paul at the end of World War II. Annual Scholar/Alumni Luncheon Championships and All-Star Luncheon Israel Strum, president of the School of Brooklyn College Department Professor Shuming Lu; Deputy Director Risks and Blazing Trails: The History Program, which supports educational and electronics. Mazursky with Academy award–winning 8. Dr. Nachum Katlowitz ’77 speaks with 10. From left: Junior Nicole Francomano, General Studies government; and David of Theater General for Putuo Bureau of Education, of Black Women Filmmakers and opportunities abroad for students. actress Ellen Burstyn. a student. senior Megan Campbell, and Alex Rosenberg, president of undergraduate 14. Theater students perform Qui Hu Jun; New York in China Center Huang Redefining Representations in Film and Lang, head coach, women’s basketball. student government (CLAS). Nguyen’s She Kills Monsters, directed by Guoqiang Campbell was named a First Team Adjunct Lecturer Jolie Tong.

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Alumni Lena Monaco Romano ’42 Corinne Machover Levin ’49 Joyce Frankel Rosenberg ’55 Evelyn Fishler Goldstein ’64 Edythe Brofsky Rubens ’42 Ruth Goodman Raine ’49 Arnold H. Simon ’55 Paul Goldstein ’64 Gandolfa Aiosa DeFronzo ’32 Kathleen Clancey Darcy Walsh ’42 Ruth Schulzinger Roggen ’49 Arthur D. Sullivan ’55 Robert M. Goldstein ’64 Ethel Pearson Levine ’33 Florence Berkowitz Kessler ’43 Aaron Shakun ’49 Elizabeth A. Goldfeder ’56 Robert E. Harrison ’64 Sarah Chaifetz Gordon ’34 Evelyn Tumin Rubin ’43 Sanford Shatanof ’49 Elissa Lucadamo Kish ’56 Albert J. Jenkins ’64 Martha Fried Jelenko ’34 Milton M. Shapiro ’43 Henry Solomon ’49 Harold Margulies ’56 Matthew A. Morales ’64 Shirley Lowenstein Perlmutter ’34 Ethel Soba Sheiner ’43 Fay Jones Stahl ’49 Henry Rattner ’56 Joseph A. Paladino ’64 Margaret Wyckoff Reiners ’34 David Sive ’43 Lorraine Kaminsky Weinbaum ’49 Aaron Stern ’56 Nicholas Pristouris ’64 Bessie Douglas Alper ’35 Leonard Skriloff ’43 Jack Werboff ’49 Jack H. Dobosh ’57 Roslee Kalminson Radish ’64 Mia (Miriam) Whiter Lord ’35 Adele Sampson Truman ’43 Stanley Barkin ’50 Elaine Chenenko Glicksman ’57 Eleanor Vivona ’64

IN MEMORIAM Rose Eiselman ’36 Mae Steinberg Weinstock ’43 Frances Antokol Birnbaum ’50 Helen Levy Matt ’57 Jonah Botknecht ’65 Lillian Lakretz Tobin ’36 Muriel Abramowitz Hale ’44 Sumner Braunstein ’50 Anne Erlanger Rotenberg ’57 Harvey Fremer ’65 George Edelman ’42 passed away in May of this As of July 1, 2014 Flower Bram Yancovitz ’36 Samuel N. Karp ’44 Giovanna (Jane) DiRienzo ’50 Chester W. Salm ’57 Irene M. Kaniecki ’65 year. He was 93. Edelman majored in Physical Ryo Murakami ’04, who was making a name George Ashendorf ’37 Shirley Hendler Leiba ’44 Ilse Plapler Feuer ’50 Marion Dachinger Siegel ’57 Howard Leichman ’65 Education at Brooklyn College, and enjoyed a long for himself in the film business, died on June Josepha Marcus Cohen ’37 Faculty Benjamin Levine ’44 Mona Millner Morris ’50 Beverly Kolenberg Spelfogel ’57 Linda Levine Mendelson ’65 career coaching in the public schools and running 29, 2013, after becoming sick with malaria Shirley Gold Kramer ’37 Marjorie Boschen Rohmann ’44 Alma Parrish Flaumenhaft Ellen Dorf Wolf ’57 Frank J. DeFrancesco ’66 while at work on a movie project in Liberia. Iris Fletcher Norstrand ’37 Camp Idylwold during the summer in upstate Prof. Louis Fier, former chair Frances Lee Seltzer ’44 Raab ’50 Phyllis L. Anderson ’58 Harriet Joseph Faskowitz ’66 Essex County. But in later years it was his constant Murakami was young and talented, and Julian B. Rotter ’37 Bernice Lassar Wechsler ’44 Martin Silverman ’50 Lloyd E. Carlson ’58 Philip W. McLaughlin ’66 Department of Economics presence at alumni events that endeared him to some said he was getting closer to filming Gordon J. Thomasch ’37 Lucille Wiedman ’44 Marilyn Rothman Topcik ’50 James V. Gibbons ’58 Arnold M. Sedaca ’66 Brooklyn College: at the Broward–Dade and Palm major Hollywood productions with each Arthur B. Bangel ’38 Gloria Ehlers Wiepert ’44 Charlotte Skapowsky Weingart ’50 Marvin Gottfried ’58 Benjamin A. Larosa ’67 Prof. Emeritus Ernest G. McClain Beach chapters of the Brooklyn College Alumni day. A freelance director of photography, Sylvia Cutler Ettenberg ’38 Kathryn Sullivan Donaghy ’45 William (Bill) J. Adler ’51 Kenneth A. Irom ’58 Laurie Ovett Levine ’67 cinematographer, and filmmaker, Murakami Department of Music Muriel Goldman Hessel ’38 Association, and at the annual gathering of Brooklyn Rosalind Sobel Lipstein ’45 Sol Aisenberg ’51 Jay A. Jones ’58 Barbara Post Donsky ’68 liked to shoot stories about the real world Regina Kessler Kantzler ’38 College former athletes, on the BCAA Board of Matilda Falcon Mehl ’45 Stuart N. Anderson ’51 Blanche Marcus Liker ’58 Marshall I. Farkas ’68 and about how to make it better. But he also Evelyn Hoffman Ranz ’38 Directors, and as a co-chair of the BCAA’s Post-50th Rita Reiskin Schechter ’45 Frances Sherman Dostal ’51 Michael Suhl ’58 James Foster ’68 enjoyed shooting fictional stories, feature Gloria Steckler Waldman ’38 Alumni Awards Committee. He was also a driving Ruth Beidler Schneider ’45 Marie Bivona Edwards ’51 Grace Clemente Dorfsman ’59 Patrick J. Haddican ’68 films, music videos, and commercials, and Sylvia Dreyer Crystal ’39 force behind the Brooklyn College Athletic Hall of Alice Schuster Korobow Speil ’45 Seymour Kleinman ’51 Stuart Leibowitz ’59 Sylvia Bursztyn ’69 with each new project he was able to blend Samuel Davis ’39 Vivian Pellecchia Oster Adams ’46 Jerome M. Levine ’51 Albert W. Paladini, Jr. ’59 Edward Dolinger ’69 Fame and attended its dedication in June 2013. techniques learned from all of those formats Ruth Diamond Herman ’39 Eugene S. Davis ’46 Martin Lupow ’51 Ihor R. Rakowsky ’59 Mary De Meo Schaeffer ’69 Edelman was a member of the college football to establish a unique style of his own. He Evelyn Jaffe Holzman ’39 Daniel F. DiBlasi ’46 Howard N. Mantel ’51 Norman Cohen ’60 Lynn Luxenberg Werner ’69 team on Saturday, November 4, 1939, when, after was involved in the filming of Grammy-Award Jean Gintoff Humble ’39 Herbert N. Hersh ’46 Dorothy Salwen Rabinoff ’51 Tillie S. Danberg ’60 Seymour Silver ’70 eight losses to City College (and being outscored winning artist Alicia Keys’s “Girl On Fire” Roslyn Lindenbaum Levine ’39 Edna Eisler Johnson ’46 Nancy Cooper Winkler ’51 Vincent J. DiTursi ’60 Sara Taylor Vaughan Smith ’70 89–6 in the previous five matchups), the Maroon music video. Louis Weiser ’39 Phoebe Wagner Kapor ’46 Jack Greenfield ’52 Marvin R. Jaffe ’60 Thomas E. Thweatt, Jr. ’70 and Gold squad beat their rivals in Lewisohn Mae Fishman Zizmor ’39 Eleanor Kremen ’46 Leonard A. Herzenberg ’52 Gertrude Salzberg ’60 Charles (Buzz) F. Moschetto ’71 Stadium 12–6, setting off a wild week of celebration. One of Murakami’s projects was a long- Silvia Gerber Allen ’40 Edna Paltrowitz Krusch ’46 Robert Langer ’52 Barbara Siegel Moss Somach ’60 Eugene A. Fernen ’72 The following Monday, after a rally on campus that form documentary called Book of Seasons–A Harriet Duboff Bluming ’40 Philip C. Merker ’46 Ruth Kitzes Marcus ’52 Reuel Thomas Walrond ’60 Terrence S. Sholek ’72 lasted from 11 a.m. to 6 in the evening and blocked Year in Kanazawa, produced in collaboration Charlotte Finkelstein Brooks ’40 Bernard Schwartz ’46 Joseph S. Olcott ’52 Edward Anker ’61 Lucrecia Medina ’73 traffic on Flatbush Avenue, Edelman and 100 of with United Nations University (UNU) Alyce Franco Edwards ’40 Harriet Schlesinger Ackerman ’47 Saundra Schwartz Siegel ’52 Virginia Roy Barber ’61 Nancy Carro Klein ’75 his peers drove up to the CCNY campus, scaled colleagues. It explores the biodiversity of Lillian Siegel Fox ’40 Elmer H. Beberfall ’47 Marilyn Hacker Spira ’52 Mary Malette DiStasi ’61 George E. Lee ’75 the walls of the stadium, and sawed the goalposts Kanazawa, Japan, and how that influences and Samuel H. Gottlieb ’40 Doris Ceren Blumenthal ’47 Arlene Kolodny Turett ’52 Barbara Riotto Garodnick ’61 Michael L. Pergament ’75 down. Police caught the students on the corner of enriches the local culture. Lionel Kaplan ’40 Isaac Eines ’47 Max Cohn ’53 Sarita Nazer Goren ’61 Joan C. Podhorzer ’75 Amsterdam Avenue and 125th Street as they were Murakami shot another documentary on Frederick D. Kranz ’40 Doris Lipschutz Esteban ’47 Richard P. Dober ’53 Joseph P. Irving ’61 John M. Sheehan ’75 attempting to disassemble the posts. Eleven spent satoumi, the traditional marine conservation Eddie Lawrence ’40 Samuel Levine ’47 Martin Haberman ’53 William F. Martin ’61 Cledy DelCastillo ’76 the night in lockup on a charge of malicious mischief practices followed by fishermen throughout Jerome Saldick ’40 Stanley Liss ’47 Marcella Winter Hilfer ’53 Irene Karnitsky Odinov ’61 Barbara Hong Supp ’77 Japan, and was there to film the fishers’ way Morton Sunshine ’40 and were released the next morning. Samuel Rieger ’47 Joel F. Holubar ’53 Arleen Finkelstein Richter ’61 Rioghan M. Kirchner ’78 of life. Ruth Rosetsky Barlas ’41 But Brooklyn had beaten City College. Finally. Florence Rafman Rosenberg ’47 Frances Wacks Konoff ’53 Maxine Stern Altman ’62 Claralin N. Sampson ’78 He visited Kesennuma, Japan, which Abraham Berger ’41 The campus went nuts for a few more days, even Nathan M. Silver ’47 Thomas R. Leach ’53 Howard L. Mann ’62 Karen Needleman Mattes ’79 was devastated by the earthquake and Joseph C. Catalano ’41 holding a rally and burning an effigy of a City Burton Sloane ’47 Nathaniel (Nat) Lehrman ’53 Erica Elias Marantz ’62 Helen Barall Snyder ’80 tsunami of March 11, 2011, and he captured Veronica Gurin El Senoussi ’41 College player, and forming a huge conga line that Gloria Kravetz Albert ’48 Beverly S. Mandel ’53 Nancy Rosenblum Peterkin ’62 Ellen Vanden Broeck ’85 on film the impact that this disaster had on Ruth I. Finkelstein ’41 Stanley L. Einhorn ’48 Leon Ross ’53 Stanley Selvin ’62 Dennis Daniel ’88 snaked from one end of the campus to the other. a once-prosperous fishing community. He Edna Kirschenbaum Malino ’41 Carroll A. Felleman ’48 Ruth Lewis Sommer Baum ’54 Pearl Daniel Bloom ’63 Patricia DiMaggio ’88 Eventually City College students retaliated by returned three more times to witness the Esther Deutsch Melman ’41 Florence Goldman Fisch ’48 James S. Carlese ’54 Michael Cohn ’63 Myrna C. Rattiner ’95 sneaking onto the Brooklyn campus, decapitating community’s efforts of rebuilding and to Lila B. Perl ’41 Gerald M. Forlenza ’48 Gertrude Rosenblum Powell Susan J. Heller ’63 Jenifer Becker ’01 the Lily Pond sundial, and writing “CCNY Avenged” share that experience through a documentary Selma Shostak Rosenbaum ’41 Louis Garbaty ’48 Cornelius ’54 Ronald Lenkowsky ’63 Roderick McLucas ’01 in red paint on the sidewalk. It was a story George called Standing Strong. Bernard Rubinstein ’41 Burton A. Goldberg ’48 Jerome Liebman ’54 Gerard G. Treval ’63 Beth G. Martin ’06 Edelman loved to tell, and today, on the second Harold M. (Susselman) Suss ’41 Gerald Landau ’48 Barbara Sklar Maslekoff ’54 Harold Aber ’64 Elissa M. Nelson ’07 floor of the college’s West Quad Center, at the His work put him in difficult conditions. Semah Zinsher Unterman ’41 Marcia London ’48 Ruth Sugerman Propp ’54 Mel Barlin ’64 Athletic Hall of Fame, is a display case that holds He worked with UNU colleagues to record Grace Shorr Zeitlin ’41 Eugene S. Anolick ’49 Carole Grundfast Ring ’54 Earl J. Benjamin ’64 the uniform Edelman wore and the cloth number geothermal energy training in Iceland and Murray Bernstein ’42 Muriel Apfelberg Choplin Marvin Sontag ’54 Jerome A. Cooperman ’64 “1” that he tore from a CCNY player’s jersey during Kenya. Using a certain camera system that was Eleanor Gurland Bienstock ’42 Brownstein ’49 Gerald Topfer ’54 John W. Cummings ’64 Errata that epochal game. Soon a plaque honoring burdensome to carry in the field, especially Albert V. Brucato ’42 Shirley (Shelly) Mehlman Stanley A. Berger ’55 Janet Sargent Earle ’64 Edelman will be added to the Hall of Fame, for a when the project required long hikes across Jules (Julius) Burstein ’42 Our sincere apologies to Dinhofer ’49 Frank A. Friuli ’55 Ronni Caplan Fein ’64 dear friend to many and a proud Brooklyn College the rugged landscape of Kenya’s Rift Valley, George Edelman ’42 Sydelle Berg Friedman ’49 Murray Geller ’55 Ronald Feldman ’64 Marilyn Gelb Wallach ’67, alumnus. Murakami was always determined to get the William R. Jacobs ’42 Manny Hillman ’49 Sidney Gendin ’55 Tito Frezza ’64 whose name erroneously perfect shot. Marie Falke Jezierski ’42 Seymour Kalechstein ’49 Seymour D. Miller ’55 Pauline Gelfand ’64 appeared on this list in the —Taneish Hamilton Shirley Kellman Neitlich ’42 Lena (Lee) Neisenblatt Katz ’49 Percy J. Russell ’55 Claude Goldman ’64 Fall 2013 issue. Nathan Poker ’42

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When asked about the Dooshk James Spellman ’74 and Sam Cynamon ’74, ’77 M.S. pose with a portrait of the (pronounced “DUSHK”), the Brooklyn College swim team’s unofficial mascot Dooshk, the Brooklyn College swim team’s fanciful former “mascot.” for a few short years in the 1970s, Jim Spellman ’74 and Sam Cynamon ’74, lasted through the decades is celebrated at an annual dinner where ’77 M.S. have their stories down pat about the mythical aquatic alumni from various swim teams of years past convene to reconnect creature. and swap memories. “Legend has it that it was first seen in the old Roosevelt pool,” Where is the Dooshk residing now? Before the Plaza Building Cynamon says, referring to the campus pool that was eventually was demolished in 2005, in preparation for construction of the closed and is used today as a storage space. West Quad Building, Joe Margolis, a professor in the Department “Sam was the inventor,” says Spellman, who met his fellow of Physical Education and a swim coach, had campus maintenance alumnus in 1970, when they were both on the swim team and take the Dooshk down and store it in a closet. Cynamon, Spellman, working toward earning bachelors degrees­—Cynamon in math and Margolis, and another swim team alumnus, MVP and team captain Spellman in health sciences. “We were on the pool deck and Sam Pete Martinowicz ’70, retrieved their mascot, and it has since was drawing on a 3x5 index card. He created this creature and just lived comfortably—after some touch-ups and a new coat of kept painting and asking, ‘How does that look?’ I just threw in my polyurethane—at Spellman’s house in Rockaway Beach, Queens. two cents.” —Audrey Peterson The Dooshk—the origin of its name remains a mystery—was Did you swim for Brooklyn College when the Dooshk was the school’s hung high in a window that overlooked the pool in the Plaza unofficial mascot? Or did you happen to see the mythical aquatic creature Building, where the team swam, and rigged with a curtain with pulls. at a swim meet? We’d love to hear from you if you were there for either Before each meet, someone would use a pole to dramatically open or both. Please contact us at [email protected] or write to the curtain while the team shouted, “Dooshk! Dooshk! Dooshk!” Brooklyn College Magazine, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210. On away meets, the team had a traveling Dooshk—a bedsheet decorated with a drawing of the mascot. “We’d also take a gallon of Brooklyn College pool water to every away meet and bless the On November 4, 1973, legendary musician Frank Zappa performed competitor’s pool,” says Spellman. in Walt Whitman auditorium. It must have worked, claim Spellman and Cynamon: In 1972, the Zappa and the Mothers of the team was 14–0 and the following year, 15–2. Invention, along with special guest After graduation, Cynamon was offered a job as a water safety star Kathy Dalton, rocked the specialist in charge of training instructors at the Red Cross of campus. A few years later, British Greater New York, and has taught lifesaving and aquatic safety rock group the Kinks took the since 1983. Spellman worked as an adjunct swimming instructor at stage a day before Thanksgiving, November 23, 1977. Led by Ray Brooklyn College, then taught physical education at a Harlem high Davies, the Kinks performed school and, since 1978, at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory High after Artful Dodger, the concert’s School. The two men, who were team captains together, remain opening band, a Long Island-based close friends. rock group. Did you see these Spellman says they saw each other often at the Red Cross Rock and Roll Hall of Famers at headquarters in Manhattan, where he picked up lifesaving either of those appearances? certificates for students he was training. The camaraderie that has Send your memories to [email protected].

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