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8 Why We’re Liberals 10 Hobart Jarrett 26 The Torah Meets Comics Professor Eric Alterman on The Real Great Debater’s Archie Rands huge painting is a Liberals, Conservatives, journey from the Tulsa Riots to labor of love—and religion and What Is at Stake movie inspiration

DEPARTMENTS Editor in Chief Art Director Brooklyn College Magazine John P.Hamill Joe Loguirato is published by the Office of Communications 2 From Our Readers Senior Designer Managing Editor Brooklyn College Lisa Panazzolo 4 College News Tom Quinn 2900 Bedford Avenue Production Assistant Brooklyn, 11210-2889. 28 Alumni News and Sightings Editors Mammen P.Thomas Copyright © 2008 Brooklyn College. Stephen Garone 36 Class Notes E-mail: [email protected] Lisa Lincoln Staff Photographers Web site: www.brooklyn.cuny.edu 41 In Memoriam Elaine Weisenberg Claudia Mandlik John Ricasoli 42 Recent Books Contributing Writers 44 A Road Less Traveled Jamilah Evelyn Joe Fodor Cover art: Lisa Panazzolo Richard Sheridan Class Notes Editor Stefanie Low Readers 2 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 rmour from EDITOR’S NOTE Tensions between themsurfaced frequently.” donna. andaprima Jack a ‘Rickeyman’ O’Malley called relationship. comfortable were never able to develop a president, Rickey’s successoras Walter O’Malley, and ofherhusband,“He Robinson writes Rachel ofRobinson. input intothehiring and thereislittleindicationofO’Malley’s atthattime manager] oftheDodgers Rickey waspresident[andgeneral Branch . . RonSchweiger. [Borough] Historian about remarks Walter O’Malleyby Brooklyn toreadsomeofthe I wassurprised To theEditor: . . bowels ofHellfor eternity. who know thathewilldwell inthe Dodgerfans condemnation by alltrue and therancor deserves truly andinreality there, to move theDodgers made abindingagreementwiththecity O’Malleyhad Los Angeles were over, the 1957season. alltheway through Brooklyn Dodgers toplay for the Major Leaguecontract O’Malley––signed JackieRobinsontoa Rickey––and not 1947, The nextyear, Canada. teaminMontreal, Brooklyn farm toplay for the . . Rickey . by Branch Robinsonwashiredin1946 statements. Major LeagueBaseball. black ballplayer thefirst in Robinson, ofJackie inhishiring and experimental was thefactthatO’Malleyinnovative hesaid, Amongthem, reasons for that. leaving Brooklyn andgave acoupleof did notbegrudge Walter O’Malleyfor leaving Brooklyn ago. fiftyDodgers years 2007 “Fifty intheFall Years? Say It Ain’t So!” titled Murphy E. by Robert read thearticle ofBrooklyn Collegeand I amagraduate To theEditor: Dwelling inHell O’Malley didn’thireRobinson. Long before thenegotiationswith Schweiger iscompletely wronginhis RonSchweiger In Murphy’s article Brooklyn College Magazine enr rf,’64 Leonard Crifo, about the utmost praise for theman.”utmost praise willalways I speakoutwiththe gratitude. Iowe him adebtof Mister Rickey. willalways defend Robinson said,“I 1965, andwhenhediedin “Mister Rickey,” hewasalways To Robinson, never forgot. andRobinson Robinson toBrooklyn, Jackie by bringing of history American Robinson can’tbeoverlooked.” his[O’Malley’s] ofJackie hiring adds:“And andthen toLos the Dodgers Angeles, O’Malley aposthumouspassfor hijacking Magazine, intheFall2007 So!” Murphy’s article “Fifty Years? Say It Ain’t E. [inRobert “Brooklyn’s Beloved Bums,” ofreminiscingabout Inthecourse . . . To theEditor: outofBrooklyn! Dodgers, the most beloved teaminbaseball, still abum for takingtheclassiestand Moses)is O’Malley (alongwithRobert Andtomany ofusDodgerloyalists, S. P. [with], and hiring JackieRobinson. andhiring [with], negotiating maninrecruiting, instrumental andhewasthe manager atthetime, . . addressed. initthatIbelieve shouldbe an inaccuracy article “Fifty thereis Years? Say It Ain’t So!” While Ienjoyed readingtheFall2007 To theEditor: . . possibility. bombing ofPearl Harborendedthat Angeles for the1942seasonuntil Louis Browns would have moved toLos evidencethattheSt. is stronghistorical there Also, in1957). earlier to California move Stoneham announcedtheGiants’ fifties (ormaybe thefifth sinceHorace oftheUnitedStatesin other parts owner toopenupbaseball fourth Branch Rickey changedthecourse Branch Branch Rickey wasthegeneral Branch O’Malleywasthe Furthermore, itrGosoe ..’0 ..’95 M.A. ’80, B.A. Victor Goodstone, Ron] Schweiger issues Walter Brooklyn College oetA os ’60 Moss, A. Robert alEsen ’65 Paul Elstein, Never Pressured

To the Editor: In the Fall 2007 issue of the Brooklyn College Magazine, David Herbach, ’46, stated in a letter that the administration insisted he sign up for the G.I. Bill so that Brooklyn College could collect G.I. dollars. He “gave in” but is still bothered by the decision. I, too, was a returning veteran. service was related to World War II and I elected not to use the G.I. Bill during my two remaining years at the campus. My purpose was to save the benefits in Ron Schweiger responds: hopes of being accepted to graduate school. It proved to be a fortuitous It is true that Branch Rickey was in fact the one that signed Jackie decision, because I stretched for three Robinson to a Brooklyn Dodger[s] contract. There may have been a years toward my four years at NYU College of Dentistry. miscommunication between me and the author of the article. Jackie At no time did the Brooklyn College signed that contract in the Dodgers’ home office at 215 Montague administration communicate any pressure Street in downtown Brooklyn. on me to utilize my benefit at the college. As far as hoping that the L.A. Dodgers defeat the Yankees in the Alvin Janklow, D.D.S., ’53 2008 World Series, I would hope the Mets get first crack at it. If Heating Up they cannot win the National League pennant, then let Joe Torre and To the Editor: his Dodgers do it. Keep in mind that most Brooklyn Dodger[s] fans Thank you for the Fall 2007 issue of HATED the Yankees because the Yankees defeated our “Bums” in the Brooklyn College Magazine, which I 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, and 1956 World Series. Finally, in 1955 recently received in the mail. Kudos to the Brooklyn Dodgers were world champs over the Yankees. the editors of the magazine for publishing If you read Michael Shapiro’s The Last Good Season, or viewed the the two stunning letters on page 3 regarding geothermal renewable energy. HBO special The Brooklyn Dodgers:The Ghosts of Flatbush, it was made James Koenig, ’54, and Professor quite clear that initially,Walter O’Malley wanted to stay in Brooklyn Robert Bell, chair of the Department of with a new stadium at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. It was Robert Economics, have opened my eyes and Moses who was the major culprit that hindered that from happening. mind to the importance of conveying this At a meeting at Gracie Mansion, with O’Malley, Moses, and Mayor vital information to the media, the Robert Wagner, it became quite evident that Moses was willing to Congress of the and to the citizenry of this country. We need a

have a new stadium built for the Dodgers. However, he offered that BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE FALL 2007 “wake-up” now. Thank you. to O’Malley to have it erected in QUEENS, not Brooklyn. Of course Cassia Brahms, ’49 O’Malley refused while Wagner sat there without uttering a word. Moses had more power than Wagner. After those events, O'Malley was made an offer from Los Angeles that he couldn’t refuse. As they say,“the rest is history.” Ron Schweiger, ’70 Brooklyn Borough Historian

3 the Quad 4 4 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 Top of Jefferson’s suggestion that the marketplace ofideas Jefferson’s suggestionthatthemarketplace conduct.”line between dangerousspeechandharmful andwhoshouldbeempowered the todraw censorship, that itdealswithissuessuchasthelimitsoffreespeech, hesaid,“in “Theletterwaselectric,” asabackdrop. served letter pacing thestagewheremountedJefferson analysis andhighbrow shtickwhile impassioned scholarly weekend. thatvery book, first 10,000words of first the Itwasanacquisitionthatinspiredhimtowrite 1801. letter pennedby President on July 3, Thomas Jefferson ago inNew York’s Bookstoreofahandwritten Argosy andpurchase two years hisdiscovery and now described in2003, totheBrooklyn CollegeLibrary papers personal Amendment inthe Age of Terrorism. andtheFirst Discovery, aRemarkable ALostLetter, Jefferson: alumni inthelibrary’s Woody Tanger Auditorium. and staff, faculty, audienceofstudents, alarge entertained enlightenedand whenhealternately this spring lived uptohislarger-than-life reputation ’59, Dershowitz, andBrooklyn Collegealumnus Alan academic superstar, author, Constitutionalscholar, law professor, Harvard Alan Dershowitz Dershowitz saidthathestrongly disagreeswith Dershowitz heshiftedseamlessly between histalk, During Dershowitz wastheretodiscusshisbook Dershowitz Finding Jefferson, He haddonatedhis his twenty-seventh Comes HometoBrooklyn College Finding our house,” Dershowitz concluded. 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Dershowitz popularmanaroundthe avery Cucchiara Anthony M. hadmade Brooklyn College Archivist throw anything out” made aspecialpointofadmittingthathis “inability to He and thefacultystudentswhomake itunique. isusually uselessanyway!”). obtained by torture (“Information andtorture between robust interrogation (“You tolive shouldprobably withit.”) learn totheline do aboutatoo-loudcalltoprayer from alocalmosque fromwhatto from theaudienceonsubjectsthatranged ingovernment isnoteasily satisfied.”for censorship tellsusthattheappetite Becausehistory allow censorship. is lessdangeroustoallow provocative speechthanto it that isbothdangerousandcacophonous, “though liberty welcome result. a theseideaswere notsoundnordidtheybring ideas, of inthemarketplace and thetenetsofNazismtriumphed that althoughHitlerwaselectedchancellorofGermany, pointingout eventually selectsandchoosesthebestones, “My wife hascometolove and she Tony Cucchiara, hisalmamater alsofound timetopraise Dershowitz fielded questions Dershowitz Following hisremarks, But healsosaidthatagreedwithJefferson’s caution www1.cuny.edu/forums/podcasts/?cat=8 websiteCUNY’s at: as apodcaston Alan Dershowitz’s completelecture isavailable Unlocking the Legacy of Women’s Activism The Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s As Winslow was hatching the project, a crucial fact Activism—1945 to Present continues to expand. And came to light: When Chisholm was elected to Congress, Barbara Winslow, the director of the project, couldn’t be her district was 70 percent women. “This changed the more pleased about the new directions it has taken. An scope of things substantially,”Winslow says. It meant that associate professor in the School of Education and the Chisholm was the product of a very particular Women’s Studies Program,Winslow focuses her research environment and that there were other women activists on the intersection of class, race, and gender issues in like her. “The project needed to include them and collect social protest movements. Her first book, Sylvia Pankhurst: their documents and artifacts,” she says. Sexual Politics and Political Activism, tells the story of an While trying to get funding for the project, the Ford important suffragette, peace campaigner, international Foundation suggested that she establish partnerships with socialist, and feminist. But the Chisholm Project is more organizations in Chisholm’s district, especially Medgar Evers about present-day America, she explains. College, where Winslow has also taught. Medgar Evers Inspired by Assistant Professor of History Philip President Edison O. Jackson promptly convened a meeting Napoli’s oral history project,“In Our Own Words: Portraits with the college’s Department of Social and Behavioral of Brooklyn Vietnam Veterans,” [See page 6.],Winslow Sciences and gave Professor Maria De Longoria reassigned conceived the Chisholm Project during her 2006–07 time to work with Winslow. sabbatical. Housed in the Shirley Chisholm Center for “This spring Brooklyn and Medgar Evers cosponsored Research on Women, the project is also creating an a conference in which we brought together Chisholm instructional webpage to provide materials to educators scholars as well as Brooklyn activists to present their interested in developing curricula about Chisholm and research,”Winslow says. More than two hundred other Brooklyn activists. participants attended the event, including a sizable number A daughter of immigrants from Barbados, Shirley of elected officials, and scholars and students from both Chisholm (1924–2005) graduated from Brooklyn College institutions. “We’ll continue to have joint public events and in 1946. As a member of the New York State Assembly conferences.” from 1964 to 1968, she coauthored legislation that Late last spring,Winslow secured a $200,000 grant from instituted SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation, and the Westchester Jewish Women’s Fund to start the Knowledge), a program that provides funding and guidance Chisholm Archive, to help collect printed material and to disadvantaged youth. She was the first African artifacts about Chisholm’s life and interview people who American woman to be elected to Congress in 1968. knew her, such as her campaign managers and assistants, as

Her fourteen-year tenure as a Congresswoman for well as constituents who were close to her. BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 Brooklyn’s 12th District was punctuated by several “With the help of Archivist Anthony Cucchiara and milestones, including the founding of the Black Associate Librarian Marianne LaBatto we’re going to be Congressional Caucus. She wrote two books, Unbought filing, classifying, and storing all the stories on Chisholm and Unbossed (1970) and The Good Fight (1973). A daring from , news footage on her, and political pioneer, Chisholm’s improbable quest for the materials that former Chisholm aides and assistants have White House in 1972 was a forerunner of Hillary Clinton’s been kind enough to donate,” says Winslow. and Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. continued on page 39

5 O FTEQUAD THE OF TOP 6 6 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 nesv,four-year effort. intensive, sources andmoneyfromhisown pocket fueledthislabor- adding thata$50,000giftfromprivate Napoli says, thatneededto betappednow,” material contemporary distillateofmoving memory.charged a ofrecordedinterviews more thanfive hundredhours have carefully culledfrom andtheBHScurators Alison, ofPictureProjects photographer Alison Coryn Napoli, andlife-sized ofsomeveterans, photographs artifacts, adisplay of Vietnam listening stations, War–era medals and of Throughaseries SocietyinBrooklyn Heights. Historical on display throughtheendof2008at Brooklyn Portraits ofBrooklyn In OurOwn Vietnam Words: Veterans, academicvoid. PhilipNapolitofill aserious of History for Brooklyn College Assistant Professorwas anopportunity later years thirty Vietnam todiscussingtheirexperiences Brooklynites whowent fromfighting warin acontroversial ofscores journeys thewrenchingpersonal Capturing Words Own In Their War Remembered: “As a historian, I saw this is as a rich vein Isaw of thisisasarich “As ahistorian, projectandupcomingbook, history The resultantoral is but alsowiththedignityand respectthattheydeserve.” withalltheirwarts, hope thisexhibitrepresentsthem fairly, Napolisays.“I andunclesbossesfriends,” fathers affairs. veterans’ active in remainsvery andphotographer, author, editor, awidely respected andEdelman, career atConEdison, Wallace enjoying iscurrently asuccessful Napoli says. withbelieving,”far toomany peoplearestillcomfortable humantime-bombs that crazed stereotype oftheviolent, much moretypicalof thanthe Vietnam veterans are fromCanarsie, ’68, Edelman, andBernie Williamsburg, whocameoutoftheMarcyHousesin ’75, Wallace, alumni. featuredveterans intheexhibitareBrooklyn College ofthe several unsurprisingly, is pleasedtopointoutthat, “These veterans are our brothers and sisters and andsisters areourbrothers “These veterans “I have thatguyslike BCgrads cometolearn Anthony ean ob oei hsae,Napoli remains tobedoneinthisarea, that much valuable academicwork Whileimpatient exhausted. currently available tocompletetheresearchare notingthatresources Napoli says, need tobecapturedimmediately,” andtheirvitalstories beginning toage, Vecchio, (center, insuit)looksonbemused. Fellow Vietnam Veteran,JudgeLucian status ontheBrooklyn College historian. paratrooper daughters, conveyinghonorary Professor Phil Napoli andhisdelighted presents(behind lectern) parachuteto Brooklyn Vietnam VeteranRudy Thomas “These menandwomen are BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 7 7 Unlike many other books on many Unlike unwieldy legal casebooks, this this subject that tend to be regulations.” country, according to local law applies differently across the applies differently law how it works,”how he says. “And the nationally, they don’t teach you but “Most books present education law volume is unique,volume accessible, and easy to use. primer encourages educators Bloomfield’s to navigate the perilous waters sail education law—and of public to safety. to Be Masters (Peter Brown in regard American Education Law Public

David Bloomfield is no stranger Bloomfield to the needs David s a certified teacher, principal, a parent- and a activist, of Education Associate Professor After attending Columbia University A frequent columnist and contributor in A graduate of Brandeis University, Bloomfield “It had a direct connection to the

Geared for use by teachers, use by Geared for parents, and the lay to the rights of minorities. School,Law practiced a for Bloomfield law Washington,private firm in D.C., then York became general counsel to the New City Board of Education. Some years and several “educational rights” cases later, he decided to pursue training in educational administration and supervision at Baruch College in the early 1990s. several journals, his has just published Bloomfield first book, v.Topeka Board of Education of A of educators versed to be in U.S. educational law. In fact, principals he teaches it to would-be and superintendents. landed a job as an intern at the Boston City Hall at crisisthe height of the busing in the 1970s, when the desegregating federal was forcefully government America.schools across challenging “Those were times,” he says. the educational how “I witnessed rights became an important of citizens social issue.” Educational rights was a fairly new concept in both fields,the education and law and it soon became a social many new lens through which to look at the issues at work. civil rights struggle,” adds, Bloomfield noting the historic importance of [In Educational Law] [In Educational Teaching Teachers Teaching Lang Publishing, 2007), an unorthodox volume that has been praised as a practical primer educators. for public,“fact and find” the book uses a method. It presents readers with short, scenarios real-life and guides them in in their locality and state. all relevant laws finding Liberal Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Professor Eric Alterman on Liberals, Conservatives, and What Is at Stake

Eric Alterman is a professor of journalism in the Brooklyn College English Department and was named a distinguished professor of English by the CUNY Board of Trustees in 2007. His latest book, Why We’re Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America, was published this spring. As a journalist, author, and political blogger, he is both revered and hated, depending on the political viewpoint of the observer. Staunch conservatives regard him as an implacable opponent, but he has also feuded with some who wear the liberal label. Equally comfortable in the classroom and in TV studios, Alterman was hired as a political commentator by MSNBC in 1996. Altercation, the daily weblog he started under the network’s auspices in 2002, was picked up by Media Matter for America in 2006. He is also a regular columnist for the liberal weekly The Nation. His first book, Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992), won the George Orwell Award. In addition to Why We’re Liberals, his seventh title, he has published When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences (Viking, 2004), and What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (Basic Books, 2003). Before joining BC, Alterman was an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University and Columbia University.

8 You say in your book that “the word You say liberals tend to be too to make their case in such a short liberal has been employed as the nuanced and they find too many time. It doesn’t matter whether what political equivalent of an untreatable differences and divisions where they you’re saying is true or not. So the but potentially containable social shouldn’t. more shameless side tends to win. disease.” Are you a liberal? It’s more accurate to say that most You argue that, in their zeal to I’m a liberal. liberal arguments are built on an create rights for minorities, liberals understanding of the world’s lost the working class. When did you contract the disease? complexity. I wouldn’t say the same Rights were not created—they were I was born in Queens but my family for most conservative positions. This recognized—for minorities. It’s true moved to the suburbs when I was is a moral and intellectual strength for that we needed to redress some four.Whenever I took the train to liberals but a political weakness. Part fundamental aspects of our society Manhattan, which traveled through of it may be a psychological issue. that were unfair to minorities, but we the South Bronx and East Harlem, I’d But part of it, too, is that the did it on the backs of the white working class. When the latter questioned why they had to pay for this, why their jobs had to go, or why their neighborhoods had to become less safe or the quality of their schools had to decline, we called them racists.That is wrong and counterproductive. No wonder they had to find somewhere else to go. This was a big lesson liberals were slow to learn.

You suggest that, by using the courts to move their social agenda, liberals have resorted to nondemocratic means to create a more just society. A lot of the liberals’ short-term victories were won in the courts, but conservatives’ case—reducing issues they lost an enormous amount of see burned-out buildings and kids to sound bites—is far easier to make. political power and influence because playing in garbage-strewn lots. I was of that. And some people they were struck by the contrast with where I Are conservatives more naturally trying to help were worse off in the lived, and I didn’t see a good reason adroit at avoiding divisions in their end. It was a very shortsighted for these kinds of inequities in our ranks? approach, and liberals have paid a country. In the past liberals haven’t been very considerable price for that. In the strategic, and they’ve been fighting for end, the shortcut was a bad idea. Do you see yourself as part of an the spoils of the economic pie rather elite? than joining with each other in order Why is abortion still part of the Though I’m not sure what to enlarge the pie. Conservatives political divide in this country? conservatives mean when they have been more strategic. This is a much more religious country BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 accuse liberals of being elitist—they than any of the other advanced never bother to explain—yes, I guess You say TV tries to wipe out the democracies—although abortion is till you could say I’m part of an elite. differences among Americans. part of the debate in Italy. It’s a central Every country needs an elite.The TV is a tool, like the Internet or issue in politics. In England they never question is whether you have a the phone. It’s supposed to be talk about religion like we do. responsible or an irresponsible elite, entertaining, quick, funny. And so like the Republicans in power today. liberals are at a disadvantage because it’s a medium that doesn’t allow them continued on page 39

9 10 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 Hobart Jarrett:Hobart BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2007 11

the The Great The Crisis, As a boy of five,As a boy Jarrett had

he and other members of the team had one of this year’s Golden Globe nominees for Best Globe Golden one of this year’s The Great Debaters. In fact, under the headline published were the words April 1,Among their victories was a contest on 1935, Wiley,After his graduation from Jarrett on to went The author of the piece was Hobart Jarrett, who The Crisis, The words could have been taken straight from a script been taken straight from could have The words dramatic scene from outline describing a Debaters, to en route College “TheWiley Picture: debaters of Motion their steam car at a general store stop an eastern university, upholder of Nordic A half-intoxicated to get some water. . . .” Winchester superiority shoots at them twice with a in Interracial“Adventures Debates” in survivedAmerican one of the most infamous race riots in history,Tulsa, Oklahoma. of in his hometown At age sixteen,Wiley on a full four-year he was admitted to scholarship. his article And mere months before appeared in completed a 5,000-mile tour during which they debated and white opponents from both segregated black institutions of higher learning, each and every and won one of their competitions. in audience of 2,000 people packed a mixed before Auditorium on the campus of the University of Bovard Southern California.Wiley against The debate pitted tiny the mighty debate team of USC, then the reigning national champion. “The newspapers Coast are still of the Pacific writing about that signal event,” wrote Jarrett with almost glee,palpable the victory following that surprised no one at Wiley College. scholar,become a noted Shakespearean an early leader in official publication of the National Association for the Association for of the National publication official Advancement of Colored People,August 1935. in of English at years become a professor later would College.Brooklyn He was nineteen years old at the time, tiny,and a member of the debate team at the all-black Wiley College in Marshall,Texas, become the which would subject of The Real “Great Debater” “Great The Real FEATURE JARRETT

the civil rights movement and, the other Negro people were eventually, the first African obliged to leave our homes in American to become a full North Tulsa,” he said. “My father professor in Brooklyn College’s was a grocer. His store was Department of English. He taught burned down. When we at the College for twenty-five returned from having run, we years, retiring in 1986 with the found our house was not title of professor emeritus of burned, but our things were English. strewn about in a terrible Born November 1, 1915, in shamble.” He added,“My the small east Texas town of grandfather really made me Arlington, Jarrett grew up in Tulsa, proud. He refused to leave in where his family had moved the pickup truck with us . . . My when he was still quite young. grandfather sat on the front There, in the northern part of porch with a shotgun. Because the city, a number of well-to-do of him, neither his house nor black residents had established a ours was burned.” prosperous community known as Because Jarrett’s father did Greenwood. So noted for its not trust banks, he had kept all wealth and good fortune was the family’s money at the store. Greenwood that many people After the fire, the only capital ––blacks and whites both–– the Jarrett family had to rebuild praised the community as a their business was thirteen “black Wall Street.” dollars that young Hobart Jarrett But Jim Crow laws ruled in John Hope Franklin had kept in a box at home. states throughout the American Noted historian John Hope South in the early decades of the twentieth century, Franklin, chairperson of the Brooklyn College History dictating racial segregation in almost every aspect of life. Department from 1956 to 1964 and currently professor Fear and jealousy underlay relations between the races. emeritus of history at Duke University, was a childhood The stigma of this radical division sometimes made it friend of Jarrett’s. “I was a year older,” said Franklin. “From dangerous for blacks to step out of the shadow of whites. the time I was ten until I was sixteen, we were practically So it was on May 31, 1921, when a rumor that a black inseparable.” elevator operator in a downtown department store had Franklin moved to Tulsa four years after the riots. The attacked a young white female passenger inflamed an angry two never discussed the violent event, he said. “Boys at mob––sending hundreds of armed whites rampaging that young age don’t talk about old bad things,” he told through Greenwood for two days. The Red Cross later Brooklyn College Magazine. “We played marbles, went to reported that three hundred black citizens of Tulsa were the Boy Scouts, and after we started high school we joined killed in the rioting, more than eight hundred were injured, the debate team.” and ten thousand were left homeless. An area of thirty-five After they left Tulsa for college—Franklin to Fisk city blocks composed of 1,257 residences was destroyed by University, Jarrett to Wiley College—the two boys regularly fire and millions of dollars in property damage was done. It met during summer trips back to their hometown, Franklin was the worst recorded race riot in U.S. history. said. It was a pattern that continued for decades. For a During an interview conducted by Herbert Livesey time the pair were colleagues at Brooklyn College. for his 1975 book, The Professors, Jarrett recounted the Franklin remembers Jarrett from that time as “very elegant, terror of that time. “My family and its various parts and all very proper. I called him ‘Mister Correct.’” It was a BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008

12 “Many have inquired if I were afraid. . . . After a debater has thoroughly prepared himself for several months in research work, after he has weighed all the pros and cons and mastered the art of delivery and refutation, there is nothing to fear.”

demeanor that had and cons and been painstakingly mastered the art of honed during his delivery and years at Wiley refutation, there is College. nothing to fear.” At Wiley, Jarrett The year after fine tuned his the article appeared, debating skills under Jarrett graduated the college’s from Wiley College. innovative and He earned a master’s demanding coach, degree in English Melvin B.Tolson, from Syracuse whose idea it was University in 1937. to debate against He then studied white colleges after English and his teams proved philosophy at unbeatable against Harvard before squads from rival returning to Syracuse black colleges. to earn his Ph.D. in “Our the humanities in preparation for these interracial encounters is gruelingly 1954. It was in Syracuse that he met his future wife, intensive and extensive,” wrote Jarrett.“ Our debate squad Gladys; the couple would be wed for sixty-five years. reads hundreds of magazine articles and scores of books Jarrett’s teaching career began in 1937 at Langston on government, economics, sociology, history, and University in Oklahoma. There he quickly rose from literature. We are taught to be prepared for anything.” instructor to chairperson of the Modern Languages He added,“we must learn to handle our knowledge with Department. In 1949 Jarrett moved to Bennett College, a readiness and poise growing out of a mastery of the small black college for women in Greensboro, North platform.” Carolina, where he served as professor and chairperson of Added to these rigors were ever-present threats of the Humanities Division. lynching as the team traveled to white colleges and pushed Greensboro was also where he emerged as an activist racial boundaries. In his article for The Crisis, Jarrett in the cause of civil rights. According to Herbert Livesey, recounts that in Beebee, Arkansas, the debate squad had Jarrett was discontent with the slow progress blacks were to slip past a white mob with flaming torches scattered making on the road toward equality in American society. along the road, looking for a black drifter suspected of He saw an opportunity to help improve their situation killing a deputy sheriff. On a debate tour in West Texas, when four young black students decided to challenge the “the colored hostess” asked Coach Tolson, who had whites-only policy at a downtown five-and-dime lunch become particularly friendly with the coach of the white counter. They were allowed to sit at the counter, but were BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 team, if he wanted “to get all three of them lynched for not served. practicing racial equality.” “One of the great highlights of my life was working “Many have inquired if I were afraid,” wrote Jarrett, with the sit-ins in Greensboro,” Jarrett told the author. referring not to the dangers he faced on the road but on “The boys announced they were going back the next the debate platform. “This is rather amusing. After a Saturday. Nine men––black men considered prominent in debater has thoroughly prepared himself for several the town––met the next morning. I was named months in research work, after he has weighed all the pros coordinator of the group, the liaison between adults and

13 14 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 nights a week. She had Jarrett for her first two for semesters. herfirst ShehadJarrett nights aweek. goingtoclassfour in1976, Special BaccalaureateProgram Sheenrolledinthe inhighschool.” “had donepoorly but fromNewUtrecht HighSchoolin1969, graduated she inmarketing, Now working inEnglish. with aB.A. summacumlaude whograduated ’83, Scarino, Marianne admissions.” totheintroductionof hundred inoneyear prior “open studentstofourthat doubled thenumber ofminority Committee chaired theEqualEducationalOpportunity Healso citation fromCUNYfor excellenceinteaching. presidential medalsfromthreepresidentsandaspecial hereceived histenure, During at Brooklyn College. acrosstheSouth. emulated protesters by civilrights thatwassoon victory Itwasanearly toblacks. counters management buckled andagreedto opentheirlunch thestore table, at thebargaining withJarrett Soon, We saidthatwastheway itwasgoingtobe.” everything. Theysaidwe were ruining We met. ready tolisten. andthenthemanagementsofstoreswere standstill, cametoa SaidJarrett:“Business the downtown stores. students by puttingupmoneyfor their bailandboycotting the supported black residents bloodshed.” would be expected there because we done inahurry Things hadtobe Association.’ Citizens ‘Greensboro what we calledthe the presidentof then Iwasnamed and snowballed, the thing contacted others, We the students. lifeprocesses,”human beingsneed,buthelpsthemunderstandtheirvery “Literature notonlyaffords thetouchstonesthatintelligent,sensitive, honest,good tdnsfokdt i lse.“ oe htmn”said “Iloved that man,” Students flocked tohisclasses. accepted ateachingpost Jarrett 1961, in A year later, Negotiations between thetwo sidesgotunder way. Greensboro’s Professor Hobart Jarrrett, center, withfellow English faculty, Department 1965. impact on generations ofstudents. impact ongenerations his and equality, for played racial Jarrett inthestruggle role recallingtheimportant Church, atRiverside service spoke athismemorial JohnHopeFranklin a longillness. Ido.” forward withgleetogoingwork. Iknow noonewholooks ajoy. achallenge, is anhonor, “Teaching peoplethoseideas hesaid. life processes,” very their but helps themunderstand good humanbeingsneed, honest, sensitive, affords thetouchstonesthatintelligent, authorof Livesey, hehimselfgave toHerbert wasanobservation character “Hewasamanofgreatdignity.” Viscusi said. air,” senatorial “Hehadakindof for younger instructors. model” IV.” ItwasHenry what Ihadspoken aboutthatday. Andhealways remembered helpful. andvery friendly Hewasvery me aboutmy teachingatgreatlength. “Hetalked to said Viscusi. aroundhere,” was abigritual young lecturer. whenhewasa timeinthefallof1968, for thefirst Jarrett Viscusirecalledmeeting Institute for theHumanities. directoroftheEthyle R.Wolfe of EnglishRobert Viscusi, On May 8, 2005, Jarrett diedbackhomein Jarrett Tulsa 2005, after On May 8, Jarrett’s Perhaps themostapt summationofHobart was Viscusi alsorememberedthatJarrett “a role which me, ever toobserve person “He wasthefirst The Professors. “Literature notonly “Literature members greatly members fellow faculty love learning.” He taughtmeto made usscholars. He hoodlums. housewives, businessmen, were dropouts, There admissions. It wasopen real mixed group. “We were a said. she extraordinary,” One wasProfessor and collegialspirit. respected hisskill “He was Jarrett’s BROOKLYNBROOKLYN COLLEGE COLLEGE MAGAZINE MAGAZINE SPRING FALL 20082007 15 15

in the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. books of the Hebrew the first five Torah, in the component canvasses each illustrate one of the 613 commandments contained component canvasses when he set out to create his 1,700-square-foot painting, 613. The work’s painting, 613. his 1,700-square-foot when he set out to create Presidential Professor of Art says that size of Art in the back of his mind was at least Professor Presidential Archie Rand believes that size, indeed, matters. The Brooklyn College The Brooklyn Rand that size, believes indeed, matters. Archie Meets the Comic Book The Torah While the Bible tells us that God created the world in me,” he recalls. Of the paintings, he says,“They are vulgar six days, it took Rand a little longer to finish 613—from images painted in garish colors.” The comic book style of 2001 until 2006 to be exact. After five years of hard the individual acrylic paintings is a definite homage to DC work, the Sunset Park muralist and painter had good comic books and Mad magazine, which were a seminal reason to smile recently, following a well-received open influence during his childhood. However, in the aggregate, house at his Clinton Hill warehouse/studio that drew the combined effect of the garish and the vulgar seem to seven hundred visitors, including the New York media, cancel each other, to finally suggest a more serious observant Jews, and curious passersby from the grandeur. surrounding artist-heavy community near . Rand states that he “wanted to imagine and create a Rand is a self-described unobservant Jew who has distinctive image for each commandment that would be visited religious themes in his work for decades, including memorable with or without the text,” which he concedes illustrations of the Bible’s 54 books. While artistically was a necessity, considering the commandment numbers exploring Jewish religious tenets via the paintbrush is far are written in Hebrew. “To be honest, this came rather from common, Rand whose work has appeared in the naturally to me,” he says. Museum of Modern Art among other venues, confesses Indeed, some of the more arcane commandments that the sheer number of commandments in Jewish law (“To break the neck of the first-born donkey if the owner helped lure him to the project. doesn’t claim it”) seem to cry out across the ages for “The seemingly pure silliness of the number of irreverent illustration. Others, such as Rand’s huge open, commandments that needed attention was what drew screaming mouth illustrating the biblical missive “not to BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008

16 “All art is religious. Western art in particular would simply not exist without the religious themes and patronage that nourished it,”

insult or harm anyone with words,” ring as true and timeless today as when they were set to parchment. Rand insists that his slightly off-center approach to 613 is part of a centuries-long tradition of illuminating and interpreting religion through art and is in no way dismissive of the power of religious belief. “All art is religious.Western art in particular would simply not exist without the religious themes and patronage that nourished it,” Rand says, noting that the enduring tradition of art and artists being inspired by

religious belief endures today. “Warhol never missed BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 Sunday Mass,” he says.“Matisse referred incessantly to God, and Cezanne was a very religious man.” Rand himself is offering one prayer for 613:“This is, as far as I know, the largest free-standing painting in the world. So finding a venue for a public display is a huge challenge. I pray we find one.”

17 18 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 News assistant to Nike cofounder and chairman PhilKnight. assistant toNike cofounder andchairman then went as an toNike for andworked twenty years He have beeninducted intotheProFootballHallofFame. hehasrepresented fifteen that players Holdout Howard, degree andthenwent on torepresentathletes. whoeventually obtainedalaw says Slusher, of career,” Imetalotofathletes and “WhileIwasatUSC, decided thatbecominganagentwould beacoolchange ` ofCalifornia. and thenattheUniversity atOhioState first as aprofessor for morethantenyears, Heworked ineducationfromOhioStateUniversity. Ph.D. College andthenwent on togetamaster’s degreeanda hesays. help withrecruitment,” thatwill andultimately, attentiontotheprogram will draw nodoubtit more interestfromstudentathletes.“There’s able toafford Nike’s high-qualitygear. wouldn’t be who notesthattheCollegeteamsnormally says Filosa, of qualitythatyou seeatDivisionIschools,” we’ve ever tothekind hadanditwillbemorecomparable we willhave moreapparelandequipmentthan donation, will give Brooklyn Collegeathleticsarealboost. thegift athletics facilitiesinthenew West Quadbuilding, tothe upgrade Alongwiththedramatic a bettertime. couldn’thave comeat Rebecca, from Slusherandhiswife, hesays. thinkingaboutBrooklyn College,” started backto New atrip hiswife arranged just York.“I birthday, but lastsummerfor his70th years, for thirty and California, inOregon Hehaslived onthe West Coast, fame in2003. 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BC Athletics Supports Slusher Gift college Nicknamed (hehadredhair)and Agent Orange Slusher majoredinphysical educationatBrooklyn willhelpstir Filosa addsthathethinkstheupgrade dollarbut withthis we stretchevery “Generally, says thedonation directorofathletics, Filosa, Bruce whilehewasa andtrack golf, Slusher played soccer, Aya Shohat Student Profile cancer, can build on to make further discoveries.” canbuild ontomake further cancer, say whoarestudying, unknown andthatotherresearchers process orageneproductwhose functionwaspreviously thepossibilityofdiscovering anovel shesays,“is research,” aboutmy gratifying her own labatauniversity.“What’s goalistolead Her long-term program. go ontoapostdoctoral be independentandtofind out whatinterestsus.” usto Hereally encourages students totake different directions. get asetofresultsinthislabandit’s uptothegraduate “We shesays. whatever specialtyIwanttostudy,” me topursue “Ilike thefreedomhegives herfreshmanyear. professor during herbiology withEshel, studentinordertowork as agraduate studiesandstayedBrooklyn on Collegefor herundergraduate Sheattended moved toBrooklyn whenshewasthirteen. she inIsrael, Born inthefield. College’s consortium doctoral andheadofBrooklyn oftheBiologyDepartment chairperson sheexplains. in celldivisionfor humans,” ofthatgeneplaysprobably arole amoreadvancedversion thereis for celldivisioninyeast, we find thatageneisimportant “If cancerbetter. tounderstand including thosewhoaretrying Shohat planstofinish herstudiesnextyear andhopesto deputy inthelabofProfessor DanEshel, Shohat works for otherresearchers, ofapplications variety that couldhave awide adiscovery process, that play aroleinthat genes andmechanisms toidentify working she’s cell division, theprocessof observe Usingyeast to division. of DNAaffect cell how thoselongstrands involves lookinginto research dissertation Her all inthegenes. it’s Shohat, student Aya For biologydoctoral BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 19 Quadrangle. “I teach about event on the event social movements,” Against the War Against the says Associate says recently held a Rock held recently Professor of Sociology Professor groups, and most Tim Shortell,“so it’s speakers, and study gratifying to work with such hosted film screenings,hosted film guest an active group.an active I tell my counter-recruitment activity, counter-recruitment students that the only way to change way students that the only engaged in demonstrations and BCAW meets weekly during meets weekly the academic year,BCAW and IVAW member Matthis Chiroux,IVAW at the a freshman One of the founders of the coalition, of Professor that they won’t embracethat they won’t others political with different views.That inspires me.” maintains a large mailing list and website, www.bcantiwar.org. in summer 2005, Founded the coalition has coordinated a well-attended, teach-in; all-day society is through organized collective action.society is through organized collective Working true how me realize makes that is.” with BCAW College, helped plan and stage the 2007–2008 BCAW finale. An army sergeant, honorably discharged after four years of service, a redeployment received Chiroux recently order to Iraq. Soon after the event, to he traveled Washington, D.C., announce his intention to to publicly resist. Psychology Nancy Romer, effect. summarizes BCAW’s join together as peers,“When we sharing our knowledge and ideas, forming close relationships, on each and relying other, form we a learning and we action community and it.” are all the better for

here are many ways to measure the cost of the to measure the ways here are many War.Iraq Coalition Anti-War College The Brooklyn to consider this one:The you like would $720 BCAW, was organized which summer of 2005, in the Arnow, David Says of computer and a professor the collaborationwith students,” “I love Associate says

T nearly for on the war could pay million spent each day university scholarships. 35,000 full four-year groups on campus that includes is one of the few students, alumni, faculty, and staff members, campus group in be the only and it may which every member has an equal say in planning, publicizing, and and actions. coordinating events “Our membership is diverse in respects—age,many experience, and belief—and the coalition is democratic, amazing we so it’s done,”get anything says administrative staff member Lisa Lincoln,“but are all we’re determined to end the war in Iraq. of that shared The galvanizing power purpose, effect.” BCAW call it the information science,“It’s to work wonderful with students and colleagues on an equal basis, with no regard for traditional rank and status. The students are utterly amazing—organizing and connecting nationally, locally even globally.” student club, The BCAW a component of the broader coalition, is a member of the nationwide Campus Antiwar Network (CAN). ‘both sides of the desk.’” people from great to have “It’s Bennet,Terri ’08,“tosays people in the group who have mentorsare simultaneously and friends.” of English James Davis,“theirProfessor idealism renews itself on a more rapid cycle.They’re not so usually committed to one or another hidebound political doctrine Not Bombs Books, COLLEGE NEWS

weekend going-out money,” he says after he filed a Freedom of now.“I wasn’t going to hand that Information Act request) there are over to the city.” clauses stipulating that motorists are But when he realized allowed to park at broken and years later that people were missing meters. suing over the issue, he had The Parking Pal was born. an epiphany.“It dawned on Camporeale knew he was on to me that the city wasn’t something when he was eating at a informing people of their restaurant on Avenue U and saw a rights,” he says,“because it was to traffic agent about to issue him a their advantage not to. Most people ticket. She noticed the placard in his either didn’t care to fight the system windshield and simply walked away. or didn’t know how to.” “It was one of the greatest moments ouis Camporeale, ’84; M.S., ’87, A little research turned up of my life,” he says. was working as a legal assistant another striking statistic—“New York, He caught a break when fellow L in 1994, when, researching a the city with the greatest public Brooklyn College alumnus and New transportation-related issue, he transportation system in the country, York Post columnist Neil Graves discovered how many people had issued $10 million in tickets annually,” wrote a story about the Parking Pal sued over tickets they he says, whereas, Los Angeles––the and his products, leading to a surge received for parking at broken capital of America’s car culture–– of interest. meters. wrote only $3 million in tickets.“How He went on to make placards Broken meters he knew well. As do you come to terms with that?” for commercial vehicles, medical a Brooklyn College student, he had Camporeale couldn’t. So he professionals, and residents with legal routinely scoured Bedford Avenue, came up with an idea to help driveways. By 1998, he had written Campus Road, and all the streets uninformed motorists in the five his first book, The New York City surrounding the campus for a spot boroughs: A windshield placard, Parking Survival Guide: How to Deal that might save him a little money. He brightly hued and with bold lettering with Parking Tickets Effectively, which also knew about getting tickets on that reminds traffic agents that they the website About.com selected as broken meters, which he always aren’t about to ticket just any passive the No. 2 reference book in New disputed—successfully—because the parker.This one knows that in section York City, right behind the Zagat $20 fines amounted to a full day’s pay 4-08, subsection (h), subsection (3), of restaurant guide. from his jobs at the campus book the NYC Department of Traffic Rules, Camporeale became a regular store and the pool.“That was my (which Camporeale obtained only contributor to New York Now, a

Brother Acts This past season, the Brooklyn College men’s basketball team posted its best record in a quarter-century, making it to the ECAC Metro semifinals. The team’s top two players––possibly the two best players in the City University of New York Athletic Conference––are the younger brothers of two former members of the team. Richard Jean-Baptiste, a sophomore forward who ranked fourteenth nationally in scoring in Division III with 22.8 points per game, was the first men’s basketball All- American at the College since the return of intercollegiate athletics to the school in 1994. He was also named Division III player of the year by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association. Jean- Baptiste’s older brother, Jeffrey, averaged better than 20 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008

20 happened,” he says, sounding a bit frustrated with submissive citizens.“If everyone who got a ticket in New York City fought it, it would crush the system.They’d have to dismiss the tickets because they wouldn’t be able to respond to them all in time. And all it would take is for all of us to write a letter.” Meanwhile, Camporeale is program of the PBS-affiliated WMHT- out of business.” (Camporeale says he writing his next book, which he TV, and made a name for himself as has never been contacted by city hopes will be out sometime next the New York media’s point person officials about his manual or products year. If his first could be considered on all things parking, appearing on though he jokes that he was “a little NYC Parking 101, then think of the “Good Day New York” and in concerned during the Giuliani second as an intermediate text, with Newsday and the New York Times. administration.”) examples of how to prepare different He earned his badge of honor Humor aside, he sees a bigger types of letters of defense and how during an interview with a reporter point in all of this, one about the to find good parking spots in the first outside the city’s Department of power of an informed citizenry in a place, something at which Camporeale Transportation offices: A DOT official, democracy and individuals claiming has become quite adept.To this day, realizing Camporeale was the their rights and taking on the system. he still looks for broken meters. infamous Parking Pal, lamented,“Oh, “The entire world disinvested in “Now, that’s laundry money,” you’re the guy who’s trying to put us South Africa and look at what he says. points per game playing point guard under coach Steve “I stole maybe one or two of his moves,” concedes Podias from 2002 through 2006. He ranks as the third Richard, who is on pace to surpass Jeffrey’s scoring record. leading scorer in Brooklyn College’s history and currently The Weismullers are from a sports-saturated family. serves as assistant coach for the team. Their father played basketball at the University of Iowa and Sean Weismuller, a center and power forward, was their sister, Kelly, also currently plays basketball for Brooklyn selected as the CUNYAC preseason player of the year. He College, and led the team in field-goal percentage this past didn’t disappoint, scoring 16.4 points per game and 6.4 season. rebounds.The 6’ 8’’Weismuller’s older brother, Danny, was “There was always a basketball hoop around the BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 a member of the Bridges from 1999 to 2003, and is Weismullers growing up,” says Danny, who played small currently working on a graduate degree in physical forward and never missed a game in his four years.“We’ve education at the College. always been in leagues.We played every sport you can Both sets of brothers grew up playing a variety of think of.” Sean also runs cross-country at Brooklyn College. sports, though not always against each other because of Podias says all four players were easy to coach. Of the their age differences. But there’s still a healthy competitive Weismullers, he says “Danny was like a coach on the court jostle between them. because he thought through every possession while Sean “He mimics a lot of my moves,” says the older Jean- has more ability to take over a game when the team Baptiste, Jeffrey, of his celebrated younger brother.“Make needs him to,” he says. sure you put that in the story.” continued on page 39 21 World’s Largest Boxing Collection Scores KO as Donation to Library

A knockout collection of material relating to boxing history was bequeathed to the Brooklyn College Library following the recent death of its owner, Hall of Fame boxing historian Hank Kaplan. Consisting of thousands of documents, photographs, memorabilia, and other artifacts, the collection, according to Brooklyn College Archivist Anthony M. Cucchiara, is “easily the largest boxing-related collection in the world. It is preliminarily estimated to be worth well over one million dollars.” Cucchiara, himself a boxer who trains at the storied Gleason’s Gym on the Brooklyn waterfront, said the Barbara Kaplan-Haar stands with her husband in front of just a portion of the collection was amassed over many vast collection of boxing memorabilia willed to the College by her dad, Hank. years by Kaplan, who died last December at age 88. Cucchiara and waves of immigration to this country research resource. Many were Kaplan met through their mutual and the striving of ethnic groups by concerned that this vital tool would interest in boxing. the names and nationalities of the end up outside the New York City The sport of boxing is as old as boxers throughout the nineteenth area and were relieved to learn it had civilization, said Cucchiara, and and twentieth centuries—the Irish, found a home in Brooklyn. depictions of boxers have been found Italians, Jews, African Americans, and In assembling this rich collection, in Sumerian art as early as the third most recently Hispanics.” Cucchiara said, Kaplan searched old millennium B.C. The ancient According to Cucchiara, Kaplan book shops on trips to New York Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, too, drew on his friendships with a variety City, buying boxing histories, record all enjoyed boxing. Cucchiara cites of boxing greats, including fight books, and other materials to fill out the Roman poet Virgil’s comment on promoters, such as Chris Dundee; his collection. But his major source the sport,“Now, whoever has the boxers Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston, remained the thousands of friends he courage and a strong collective spirit and Kid Galvin; trainers such as had made over a lifetime of passion in his breast let him come forward, Angelo Dundee, as well as numerous for the “sweet science.” lace up the gloves, and put up his sportswriters and authors, such as “I visited Hank at his Florida hands.” David Margolick (Beyond Glory), home to examine the collection for “But the Kaplan Collection really Jeremy Schaap (Cinderella Man), and myself,” Cucchiara said. “Boxes filled is about much more than sport,” Ron Ross, ’52, (Bummy Davis), who whole rooms in his house and were Cucchiara added. “Here in the over the years had come to rely on stacked floor to ceiling in his two-car United States, you can trace the great the Kaplan Collection as an invaluable garage.” BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008

22 Included in the Kaplan Collection are • Approximately 2,600 volumes of history, biographies, and record books. • Roughly 150,000 photographic prints and negatives of bouts and boxers. • 1,000 broadsides/posters of fight events held in the United States. • Bound and unbound copies of Ring Magazine and Boxing Digest. • Nearly 800 boxes of newspaper clippings dating from the 1890s to the present. • 150 binders of ephemeral collected materials of various sorts, many signed by the top stars of boxing. • 300 audio- and videotapes of fights and interviews. • More than 300 items of memorabilia. The Kaplan Collection now occupies two rooms on the fifth floor of the Brooklyn College Library, where it will remain until an assessor’s evaluation of the dollar value of the collection is completed later this year. “It took us five days to carry it from the first floor to the fifth,” said Cucchiara.

Cucchiara returned to Florida for a last visit in April 2007 to conduct a videotaped oral history interview with Kaplan. It turned out to be the last time he would see his friend. Kaplan died on December 14, 2007. His daughter, Barbara Kaplan-Haar, phoned Cucchiara to inform him of her father’s passing. “She said,‘Dad willed his entire collection to you and Brooklyn College,’” Cucchiara said. “It really took me by surprise.” At a small ceremony in the Archives and Special Collections Division of the Brooklyn College Library on Thursday, May 8, Kaplan-Haar signed over ownership of BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 the collection to the Brooklyn College Foundation. “My older brother,” she said,“always thought of the collection as my Dad’s third child. Dad told us what good is knowledge if you keep it to yourself. There is no better place for his collection than Brooklyn College.”

23 24 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 NEWS COLLEGE details oftheperformance. up aFacebookpagewherethey communicated about Thestudentsalsoset the cross-Atlanticcyber-connection. for technologystaffprovidedinformation theinfrastructure New York studentscomingtoBrooklyn Collegewherethe withtheEast timesviavideoconference, several practiced thetwo groups thelatewinterandspring, During ahighschoolinSouthLondon. Xavier College, Francis St. Technical HighSchoolinBrooklyn alongsidestudentsfrom World? Broadway playhouse inManhattan. at theCollegeandJuliaMiles anoff- Theater, project students fromLondontoproduceaperformance I London York highschoolstudentswithagroupof cosponsored aprojectthatpairedgroupofEastNew theBrooklyn CollegeSchoolofEducation n April, The performance, featured studentsfrom the Performing and Arts Cyber-Bridge What Do We Want toSaythe has tremendouspotentialfor futureprojects. model ofusingtechnologytofoster suchcollaborations Hebelieves thatthis Reedsays. tactics andmethods,” new tolearn really goodfor studentsfrombothcountries “Itwas modelmoretypicalinNew rehearsal York theater. asopposedtothe and discussionamongtheartists thatincludesmorereflection art approach toperformance beyond Brooklyn.” York limitedexposuretopeople studentshave hadvery Many oftheseEastNew the samebackgroundasyou. whodoesn’tcomefrom someone fromanothercountry something really stimulating aboutconnectingwith There’s think theyfelt intheirstruggles. affirmed “I Reedsays. couldhavethe world similarlife experiences,” Reed addsthattheUnitedKingdomtakes adifferent students in another part of students inanotherpart were overwhelmed that both sidesofthe Atlantic studentson the simulcast, people ofcolor. and prejudgedasyoung sense offeeling alienated ontheir focused largely andpoetry, dance, song, whichfeatured performance, The social competencies. and cultural, intellectual, todevelop their opportunity school studentsthe togive low-income high arts wastousethe collaboration, the helped arrange who Reed, Education Wayne Assistant Professor of accordingto project, “When we started The goalofthe BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 25 Brooklyn GOT CLIPS? GOT been in the news you’ve If for Items let us know. lately, and Sightings Alumni News may be e-mailed to [email protected] or mailed to College Magazine. ” is Robert has been the general National Law Journal. Who is the last one perhaps best known as an orchid perhaps best known of the and as the founder grower Mid-Hudson Orchid Society, group a started orchidists she of avid in 1978. April an exhibition of her recent This watercolors graced the art gallery at ParkDowning in Newburgh, New York, her longtime home.The exhibit her depictions of the scenic featured Hudson Valley, seascapes, and botanicals, including a generous selection of orchids. Chanin, ’56, Marian Holtzberg Kent, ’38, standing when the music stops? standing when the music For fortyyears, lawyer largest union, the nation’s counsel for National the 3.2 million–member Association.Education He has argued the U.S.cases before Supreme Court times and has negotiated five hundreds of labor contracts. But it years,hasn’t been easy the past few he told the education is under attack,”“Public he reports, citing a Bush administration’s characterization of the NEA in 2004 “a terrorist organization.”as Chanin’s been with most recent battles have Act,the No Child Left Behind and the on the suit last year NEA filed grounds that Congress is defaulting on $72 billion in education aid promised delivered. never in the legislation but question is: Urchin Sightings

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Dealers Digest godfather of “the the man it calls bankruptcy,” a new who foresees of bankruptcies.wave In the past few years gone private equity firms have on a binge of deal-making, leveraging companies and selling them to other private equity firms who, in turn, sell them to others.“It’s almost like chairs,”musical Miller reflected.“The ’54, Acheson of distressed debt” his for in handling delicate financial finesse City’s situations,York including New crisisfiscal of the 1970s. low-budget movie”low-budget “captures the that at night.” eerie of the subway rhythm and illegally Because it was filmed York’s in some of New audaciously most security-heavy locations, was scheduled to be Harlacher’s film Hack in last September at the shown in Malaysia, conference the Box an gatheringannual of computer hackers and security experts. But the Film CensorshipMalaysian Board put a stop to Bankruptcy lawyer First-time director shot his gory horror thriller without permits in the streets and York. Released last of New subways year, raves––the received has the film Village Voice premiere, ruling posed a the film “threat to culture.” News 26

BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 ANDSIGHTINGS NEWS ALUMNI by Lawrence Ferlinghetti that has by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Beachinstitutionfounded the North presence intheCityLightsBookstore, year-old isstilla SanFranciscan theninety-one- slowed thesedays, Considerably andBukowski. Ginsberg, withthelikes of once ran Auden, Poet 10-foot windows. having 14-to16-foot ceilingsand withmany units flavor,” an industrial will host with “distinctive apartments Places, National RegisterofHistoric whichisonthe that thefactory, Cohentoldthe April, ceremonyAt theribbon-cutting in mixed-use residentialdevelopment. intoa NewJersey, West Orange, Commerce Centerindowntown inventor’s and Invention Factory twenty-one acresoftheprolific development projectthatwillturn $230million a behind Edison Village, ’62, Cohen, Edwin H. but the lightbulb andthephonograph, Thomas Edisonmay have invented andmany others.” Walker, Dallas––Blind LemonJefferson,T-Bone in who lived andperformed “the greatpioneerblues musicians the commissionwillbetorecognize County News Lowenberg toldthe Dallas. ofthepeoplewhobuilt contributions interest andhighlightsthe sitesofhistorical helps determine which Commission, County Historical second two-year ontheDallas term in his He’s now serving Texas history. but he’s becomeanexpert children, a marry Texan three andraise Texan Notonly didhe and hasgonenative. law inDallassince1966, practicing ’63, Michael Lowenberg, aodNre(lam,’38, Harold Norse(Albaum), that oneofthegoals New YorkTimes is theforce has been Dallas rw.Ittakes you.” grows. he says ofhis passion for rocks.“It anyone whohastheslightestinterest,” hopingtopassiton collection.“I’m more andloves hissprawling sharing He’s stillonthehuntfor in 2002. themtothePoconos he transported when and filled threemoving trucks thisgeologist’s cram home— skarns and shales, tuffs, Ores, rockhounding. of amassed inahalfcentury specifically hehas thetonsofminerals Pennsylvania homewashisrocks, they visitedhisEastStroudsburg, wanted totalkhimaboutwhen Butwhat the music. who hasreleasedtwo CDsoforiginal Heisalsoasinger-songwriter Smirnoff. Rodney Dangerfield and Yakov and acomedianwhohasopenedfor retired New York Cityschoolteacher ’74, M.S., ’68; Michael Kessler, 1934–2003 Norse, CollectedPoems ofHarold Force: Fiery the bookstorefrom this Marchthepoetgave areadingin but well representedontheshelves, Notonly isNorse for years. writers ofBeat published andsoldtheworks (Da CapoPress). Pocono Record In theHubof is a eaiiainfclttr credited rehabilitation facilitator, a Lynch, game shopinManhattan. awell-known Compleat Strategist, Times the GygaxinMarch, Gary After thedeathofD&Dcreator love. ’01, Lynch, game Dungeons&Dragons, Without therole-playing fantasy Lafayette HighSchool. Spumoni Gardenswhileattending atfamedBay Ridgepizzeria working andeven boastedof Brooklyn past, senator madenosecretofhis J.)dentistandstate County (N. theMorris campaign materials, Inhis 40 percentofthevote. onJune3with Republican primary Pennachio finished secondinthe three-way contest, In atough, Senate. intheU.S. (D-CA) Boxer ’62, Brooklyn CollegealumniBarbara tojoinfellow campaign inaneffort ’76, Joe Pennacchio, industry. $60 billiondatastorage thefuturegrowth ofthe securing Technology Award in for hiswork Device Johnson DataStorage withtheIEEEReynoldB. Charap presented Electronics Engineers and theInstitute ofElectrical spring, limitation.This “superparamagnetic” discovering ways tocircumvent this computer scientistshave been Sincethen, systems. storage would limitthedensityondisk fundamental physical mechanismthat foresaw a Mellon University, atCarnegie computer engineering and ofelectrical professor emeritus a Charap, published inthe1990s, ofinfluentialpapers In aseries anditwascrowded! of datastorage, ’53, Stanley Charap, caught upwithLynchin The might never have found saw thefuture ran atough ran New York Gary

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were ; Times New York Times York New Neil Neches, “I worked and that one day thought he had was thirty years ago. he recently Most has been running Hill Cobble the on Theater Cinema (formerly the Rio the corner of Court and Butler streets), and the Kew Gardens Theatre Austin Cinemas (formerly the on Lefferts Boulevard). in Both are trendy neighborhoods, and former Ledger Hill neighbor Heath Cobble was a frequent patron of Elgart’s Court Street multiplex. a far cry It’s from his first job, movie Avon at the on 9th Street in Park Slope.“It was a porno house then,” he told the News. me.” was enough for At first, ’75, unanimous in their praise of Neches’s punctuation, though M.I.T. linguistics Noam Chomsky was less professor enthusiastic.“I suppose Bush would No Child Left of the effect claim it’s Behind,” he said. done something wrong when a reporter called him up to ask him about his use of a semicolon in the text of a subway poster about newspaper litter: “Please put it in a trash can; that’s everyone.”good news for But no brickbatsNeches received his for wordsmithing, bouquets. only A writer City Metropolitan York New for Authority who is also Transit the Poetry for in Motion responsible campaign,subway Neches was happy that his semicolon, which he has been using since the third grade, received such prestigious notice. Grammarians the contacted by was the Lawrence loved movies so movies loved is an assistant professor Lawrentian, Stéphane Tran Ngoc,Stéphane Tran M.Mus., ’87, my own music being performed.” music own my Violinist University at Lawrence in of music Appleton,Wisconsin, where his wife, Arden Lambert, ’87, also teaches. But when the University student newspaper, wrote about him, on his dwell they didn’t training in France, his priceless Francesco Gobetti violin, or his repertoireextensive and performances.They wanted to know shoes when he he doesn’t wear why jogs around the campus.“I’m one of the very runners barefoot few in the world,” he explained.“I’m interested to use the body in the most in how ways.”productive He added that he that a shoeless runhas found is on joint strain.healthier and cuts down Seisler,Gladys Margolis ’48, designated a “living legend”designated a of Alexandria,Virginia, the local by Rotary her work Club for with the Naughty Knitters of Montebello.The named group of fiber salaciously artists, Seisler fourteen by founded years ago, has produced more than 5,300 hats, blankets, scarves, and needy children and mittens for seniors as in the United States as well Colombia, Belarus, and South Korea. There are currently knitters twenty in the project whose motto involved “every stitch is made with love.” is Elgart,Harvey ’72, much he bought a movie theater, he bought a movie much Surf Side Cinema in the Rockaways.That Cliff Oster, visited her. of A native a piece for tenor a piece for Lyudmila German,Lyudmila ’96, is taking his beverage Gone, News Times News Composer appointed minister of was recently at Bethlehem Lutheranmusic Church in Georgetown, Connecticut, where the M.A., ’76, Nutritional to Skinny knowledge Corp., where he will head up Water, the first production on Skinny water that zero-calorie flavored suppresses appetite. is At Glaceau he credited with formulating the first Waters in the United Vitamin three as overseeing States as well production. Oster is also a skilled stained-glass artist and is a member American Glass Guild and the of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. Former Glaceau Vitamin Water Vitamin Former Glaceau Director of Operations Gygax’s Dungeons & Dragons for Gygax’s wife,introducing him to his Dara Stallings.The pair met at the BC ago and club a decade science fiction married Grandwere in Brooklyn’s Prospect Hall in February.“Without him, gotten have never I would married.” of Gygax. Lynch said Ukraine, German is a prolific great composer and has taken pleasure in seeing her works debut, including saxophone and electronics that she Hall Yamaha York’s premiered in New last year:“It’s to hear a great feeling ALUMNI NEWS AND SIGHTINGS

Donald Zingale, ’67, spent thirty Mike Camardese ’77, has spent twenty- years with the California State five years as head coach of the Chiefs, University, most recently as the vice- the Canarsie High School football team, president for academic affairs at the racking up an impressive 182-72-7 California Maritime Academy. But this record. He’s also taken his team to the spring he deserted the Golden State PSAL finals several times, most recently and accepted the president’s post at last November, when the Chiefs lost to the State University of New York the Curtis Warriors 22-16 for the Public College of Agriculture and Technology Schools Athletic League championship. at Cobleskill. It won’t be the first time A week after that loss, Camardese Zingale has ventured into the heart of picked up the New York Jets High New York State.“I learned to ski in Songwriter Larry “J. Phoenix” Loftin, School Coach of the Year Award, for the Catskills,” he told the Schenectady ’93, has written a fair number of songs, serving “the best interests of the game Daily Gazette. including cowriting credits for “Thugz through the teaching of sound football fundamentals, the motivation of young The Honorable Carolyn E.Wade, ’78, Mansion,” a posthumous track by Tupac Shakur that was chosen for inclusion players to achieve, and the promotion was elected to the Civil Court of the of youth football by way of their City of New York and is currently last year on The Best of 2PAC, Part 2: Life. He has also written pop, jazz, R&B, dedication to their community, their assigned to a Queens courtroom, but school, and their student-athletes.” in January she chose to be sworn in at and gospel tracks for such artists as Brooklyn’s Borough Hall, not far from Nancy Wilson and Earth,Wind & Fire. Alissa Goldring (Alice Berman where her father, the late Justice But he’s also a great singer, as Reiner), ’42, has lived a life of George E.Wade Jr., ’55, served on the Masterpiece, his first solo CD, proves. romance and adventure. Highlights Brooklyn Supreme Court. The Brooklyn Loftin’s soulful debut features thirteen include marriage at age seventeen; Daily Eagle reported that it is Wade’s tracks produced by some of the top stints at the anarchist Ferrer Colony in intention to carry on her father’s talent working in New York. Stelton, New Jersey; divorce; and legacy: she even wore her father’s A dozen paintings inspired by the long moving to Mexico with her two judicial robes for the ceremony. and eventful life of Peter Bel, ’72, children in 1954 to work as a professional photographer. Goldring’s In January Walter E. Block, ’64, who made up “Signs! Signs! Signs!,” his first solo show, at the Riverhead Town Hall photos from those days are now held holds the Harold E.Wirth Eminent in the Special Collections and Archives Scholar Chair in economics and is this spring. Some of the artist’s images come from his thirty-six years as a of the University of California, Santa professor of economics at Loyola Cruz. (Goldring has been a Californian University in New Orleans, received longshoreman; other works, featuring banners advertising bingo games and herself since returning from Mexico in the 2007 Dux Academicus Award, the 1972.) A lively oral history of the artist highest honor a Loyola professor can the Police Athletic League, draw upon memories from his childhood on the and her peripatetic life has been receive, for excellence in teaching and published by the University of Santa scholarship. Block, whose libertarian streets of Brooklyn. Newsday praised the “sharply realistic” style of painting Cruz, titled “I Respond: Alissa Goldring’s path was set when he went to hear Photographs of Mexico in the 1950s.” Ayn Rand lecture at Brooklyn College and said the show “lives up to its in 1963, was also the top economic name.” Bel’s wife,Trudi, worked in the adviser for presidential candidate Ron Brooklyn College Library for many Paul, according to the Chronicle of years, and their son, Marc, is better Higher Education. known as Marky Ramone, the drummer for the celebrated New York punk rock group The Ramones. BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008

28 Matthew Appelbaum, ’73, was on his Much honored throughout his career, way to California with a master’s Stuart A. Rice, ’52, the Frank P.Hixon degree in computer science from the Distinguished Service Professor of University of Wisconsin, when he Chemistry at the University of stopped to visit a friend in Boulder, Chicago, honored two of his Brooklyn Colorado.That was thirty-one years College professors in this year’s Compressed Scrap Metal, ago. Last November, Appelbaum was Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. In oil on panel, 24” x 19.75”, 2007 elected to the Boulder City Council, an autobiographical sketch entitled “A Painter Michael Kareken, M.F.A., ’86, where he had previously served from Fortunate Life in Physical Chemistry,” finds inspiration in trash, especially the 1987 to 1996. In an interview with Rice lauds Melba Phillips as “intelligent, stuff heaped in the giant recycling the Colorado Daily, Appelbaum sophisticated, and socially aware,” and plant next to his St. Paul, Minnesota, remembered his days in the nascent remembers her classes as studio.While Monet focused on Brooklyn College Computer Science “characterized by an elegance of haystacks, churches, and waterlilies, Department: “They had just started presentation coupled with deep Kareken’s paintings, like Compressed offering computer classes at Brooklyn insights.” Donald Wright, while not a Oil Drums, Metal Pile, and Scrapped College, and nobody really knew brilliant lecturer, communicated “the Engines #2, are drawn from industrial what they were doing,” he recalled. grand themes in chemistry.” More sources.This year “Urban Forest,” his “The teachers didn’t know, the importantly, when Rice tested positive solo show at Minneapolis’s Groveland students didn’t know, but it was a for tuberculosis soon after graduating, Gallery, collected twenty-four gritty huge amount of fun. It was sort of Wright was able to have him urban paintings that the Star Tribune free-form—everybody was learning accepted as a patient in a trial of new praised for their “brooding grandeur.” together, and it was just fascinating.” anti-tuberculosis drugs at Brooklyn’s Grace Clinic. Within a few weeks any Mort Künstler, ’46, often cited as the Gertrude Himmelfarb, ’42, has a fan traces of Rice’s TB had disappeared, nation’s premier historical artist, is in the new British Prime Minister and he was able to go to Harvard for best known for his meticulous Gordon Brown. Brown, the British graduate school. paintings of the Civil War. Wounded Labour leader and successor to Tony veterans from a more recent conflict Blair, has written the introduction to Muriel Feldshuh, ’62, has combined will be able to appreciate his work the U.K. edition of The Roads to her love of children’s literature and now that the artist has provided at Modernity:The British, French and her quilting skills to create quilts cost sixty art prints for use at American Enlightenments, her 2004 featuring her favorite illustrators.The Vaccarro Hall at the Walter Reed book, which has just been published in retired school librarian mails each Army Medical Center in Washington, England. He has also mentioned her illustrator a fabric square, along with a D.C., where approximately 250 work in speeches, and when he was letter explaining the project. Then members of the Warrior Transition Chancellor of the Exchequer he invited she stitches the artwork into a quilt. Brigade are recuperating from their her to lead a seminar at 10 Downing She has received nearly a hundred wounds sustained in the current Street, the chancellor’s residence. His pieces of art, has completed two BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 conflicts. Künstler’s donation of prints offer to hold the launch party for the quilts, and is well on her way on a of an American flag painting to the book at 10 Downing Street has been third, she told New York Teacher. In Red Cross after 9/11 raised “politely declined,” according to the 2003 this longtime member of the $250,000, according to Newsday. London Times. Books for Kids Foundation was pleased to have the library at the Books for Kids Library and Literacy Center at Marcy Children’s Center in Williamsburg named in her honor.

29 30 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 SIGHTINGS AND NEWS ALUMNI diitain andDavid Administration, theFDR life during everyday Goodwin’s enjoyed Kearns readings fromDoris Participants Set.” the Television chapter presented “Brooklyn before the In April, andguidance. leadership thanked for theirdedicated whowere ’68, Blaker-Gordon, andJill ’59, Salovitch, Hochlerin Roberta were chapterfounders Alsohonoredatthisevent questions. some pointedandimportant onthebenchandfielded experiences talked abouther of NewJersey andchiefjusticefor thestate general attorney NewJersey The former Justice Deborah ’58. Tobias Poritz, Chief honoring dinner, Women” Chapter Last Decemberthe the seedsofaplay.” andIbegantoformulate by thatstory, Iwasalways intrigued jail. underground in an andhewasaprisoner survivor, legend saidtherewasonly one toldmy motherthat grandmother told the he Kitts,” hereinSt. play beganright genesisofthat Pelée in1902.“The ofMt. theeruption have survived to Martinique, Pierre, two peopleinSt. oneofonly of Louis-AugusteCyparis, Breast ofHeaven, Entitled published. in1963, written play, Hezekiah hashadhisfirst Kitts, between Brooklyn andhisnative St. Now splittinghistime 1969 to1984. Brooklyn Children’s museum from andthedirectorof 1967 to1969, Brooklyn Academy ofMusicfrom He wastheassistantdirectorof and distinguishedcareerinthearts. ’66 Lloyd Hezekiah, t Kitts/Nevis Sun. St. hosted its “BC Loves No Ordinary No Ordinary Time, the play isthestory hashadalong , Mid-New Jersey “My about The over theglobe. by slidesofBCstudentsexcavating all washighlighted New andIsrael,” York, “Archaeological ResearchinEurope, Hispresentation, speaker. astheguest ’65, Bankoff, Arthur H. and Archaeology of Anthropology ofthe Department Chairperson Brooklyn CollegeProfessor and Clubwith Boca RatonCountry Chapter the In January, NelsRunger.award-winning narrator by building oftheBrooklyn Bridge, McCullough’s The day endedwithaluncheonfor thereunion classandtheirguests. spoke onbehalfoftheclassduringCommencementExercises. Brooklyn CollegeFoundation Trusteeand applause. DonaldKramer Commencement processional andmarched totheirseatsamidcheers Following inthe thisthey tookpart gowns andposedfor aclassphoto. thegroup donned gold caps and for breakfast intheGeorgianRoom, Aftergathering fiftieth reunion celebrationheldonCommencementDay. Members oftheClass1958returned toBrooklyn Collegeto attenda Fiftieth ReunionoftheClass1958 enjoyed aluncheonatthe The Bridge, Palm BeachCounty about the had groupphotos taken. Allteamsrepresented athletic facility. on thenewphysical educationand to dateontheprogressbeing made Kimmich andbroughtthegroup up representedPresident Foundation, with theBrooklyn College seniorphilanthropy adviser ’99, Healy, andlotsofstories.William good food, were goodcompany, members.There including eightHallofFame ever, turnout the secondlargest with itwasahugesuccess, rainstorm Despitetheterrible Florida. Beach, inBoynton annual reunioninJanuary, Athletes Affiliate The Brooklyn College held itseighteenth Former Alumni College Night 2008

In April the Brooklyn College Alumni Association honored past and present students on Alumni College Night. Madelyn Schwartz Gould, ’72, and Elliott A. Norse, ’69, were the recipients of Distinguished Achievement Awards. Dr. Gould is a professor in clinical public health (epidemiology) at the Columbia In January, the San Diego Chapter University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School held a different kind of event for the of Public Health and a research scientist with the New York State political season. Gloria Stern Penner, Psychiatric Institute. Norse is an ichthyologist who is the founder and ’52, of radio and KPBS-TV, led president of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, a Pew Fellow in discussions with audience participation Marine Conservation, and an adjunct professor in marine conservation and a primary vote to choose a policy and science at the Duke University Marine Laboratory. candidate for each party from the Harriet Levy Rosenblum, ’76, was the recipient of the Jerome S. likely contenders. An election of a Milgram Award for Service. She has served as an officer and member ”president” followed all for fun. of the Brooklyn College Alumni Association Board of Directors, the February was a busy month with BCAA Southwest Brooklyn Chapter, and the BCAA Accountants many chapters holding events. Affiliate. Broward-Dade held its very The annual BCAA Students Awards were presented to Kenny successful “We Love BC” annual Advocat, ’09, a member of several of the Brooklyn College music scholarship luncheon. The program ensembles;Yitzchak Fogel, ’08, a paramedic and officer of the Brooklyn speaker was BCAA board member College Emergency Medical Squad; and Alexander Pyronneau, ’08, a and Distinguished Professor Emeritus tutor with the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) of Biology Martin Schreibman, ’56. program. Schreibman is the founder and BCAA Student Awards are presented to students who have made director emeritus of the Brooklyn a contribution to the Brooklyn College community or performing arts College Aquatic Research and program. In accepting their awards, the recipients expressed their Environmental Assessment Center appreciation not just for the present honor, but also for the role (AREAC), a $2.5 million teaching and Brooklyn College has played in their lives by providing the academic research institute that studies aquatic foundation for them to build on. In speaking of the benefits they have organisms and environments that derived from the College, they also addressed the importance of giving they inhabit. back to their alma mater.

Tucson Chapter members welcomed Vice-President for Institutional by BC alumnus Art Shulman, ’63. On March 30, the Advancement Andrew Sillen, ’74, as Alumni were happy to have the Chapter hosted a chapter celebration the guest of honor at their February opportunity to meet Vice-President brunch at the Culinary Institute at luncheon. Sillen, the son of two BC Andrew Sillen, ’74, who joined New York Institute of Technology, alumni, was a professor of chapter members for this event. Central Islip Campus.The featured paleoanthropology and chairperson speaker was Anthony Sclafani, ’66, of the Archaeology Department at Also in February, the Campus Chapter distinguished professor of psychology the University of Cape Town, South hosted a presentation by attorney and and director of the Feeding Behavior Africa, before becoming the UCT Professor of Accounting Howard and Nutrition Laboratory at Brooklyn BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 director of development. He spoke Davidoff entitled,“The Four Pillars of College. Appropriately enough, after a of his journey around the world and Wealth Preservation.” Davidoff, an lavish buffet brunch, Sclafani talked back home again to Brooklyn. expert in the areas of wills, trusts and about “The New Discoveries on the estates, and taxation, provided alumni Biology of Taste and the Psychology In February, Los Angeles/Southern with basic techniques and strategies to of Food Preferences.” Alumni were California alumni gathered for a keep assets in the family. In his fascinated to learn why they choose performance of The Rabbi and the inimitable robust fashion, he imparted a the foods they do. Shiksa followed by a special reception good deal of information and kept for BC alumni on stage with the everyone wide awake with his actors.This hilarious play was written characteristic sharp wit and humor. 31 32 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 (718) 951-5065. address above orcall please writetothe class correspondent, asa volunteer toserve brooklyn.cuny.edu. or e-mail,bcmag@ (718) 951-4609, reach usbyfax, 11210-2889. Avenue, Brooklyn, NY College, 2900Bedford Magazine, Brooklyn College send itemsdirectly to correspondent, please If your classhasno to your correspondent. magazine, pleasewrite published inthe you wouldlike accomplishments that have newsaboutyour Magazine. 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1962 Davina Rubin is a prestigious guide Steven J. Nappen columnist for the Napa Chambers USA, Class Correspondent Register and information America’s Leading 38 Troy Hills Road officer for the Napa Lawyers for Business. He Whippany, NJ 07981 Valley Child Care works in the Real Planning Council in Estate Department of 1963 California. She is also a Ballard Spahr Andrews painter with artwork & Ingersoll, LLP. Cliff Rosner currently in the Jessel Class Correspondent Miller Gallery in Napa 111 Blue Willow Drive 1969 and in Arte de Sayulita Houston,TX 77042- Edward M. Greenspan Gallery in Sayulita, 1105 Class Correspondent Mexico. She has been 1237 Avenue Z, Apt.6G chosen for an 1964 Brooklyn, NY exhibition at the Napa 11235-4360 Jay Orlikoff Transportation and Class Correspondent Planning Agency. Helen Zegerman 20 Beaverdale Lane Schwimmer wrote Stony Brook, NY 11790 1967 Like the Stars of the Heavens, an anthology recognized for her Stress: A Woman’s 7-Step Builder Levy was Sharon Weinschel of articles first passionate dedication Program to Reclaim Joy selected as a Resen published in The Jewish to the Orthodox and Spontaneity in Life Guggenheim Class Correspondent Press. Jewish yeshiva and the (see Alumni Books). She Foundation Fellow in 1740 Kimball Street Jewish community. is also a motivational photography for 2008. Brooklyn, NY 11234 speaker, stress Five of his vintage 1970 Edward Krasnove, a management expert, photographs will be Barry Silverman 1972 real estate attorney, was personal trainer, and included in two Class Correspondent Stanley A.Alexander recently promoted to host of the radio exhibitions: Road to 176 Stultz Lane Class Correspondent the position of program Turn on Your Freedom: Photographs of East Brunswick, NJ 4 Indian Valley Road executive vice-president Inner Light Show, heard the Civil Rights 08816 East Setauket, NY and general counsel of on WGBB–AM 1240 in Movement, 1956–68, at [email protected] 11790 Foursquare Properties, New York City. the High Museum of Inc., a real estate Roselyn Feigenbaum Mary Claire Dunn is Ita Mairanz Mond is a Art in Atlanta, and the development, Graff is a substitute the founding artistic cofounder of From Mary Wilson Collection management, and teacher in Cordova, director of Charlie’s Under the Hat, an from the Supremes, at investment company Tennessee. Port, a professional Orthodox women the Victoria & Albert based in Carlsbad, children’s ensemble in artists group Museum in London. California. Donald P. 1971 Atlanta. A recent headquartered in Silver Zingale was appointed Constance Forte production was Waiting Spring, Maryland. She 1965 the next president of Pigozzi for My Growth Spurt, a also teaches painting to Barbara Berman SUNY Cobleskill. Class Correspondent one-man show written local women. Leveene 7802 16 Avenue and performed by Class Correspondent 1968 Brooklyn, NY 11214 thirteen-year-old Jason 1973 24 Jubilee Circle David. She also acts Eileen McGinn Linda E. Gross Carroll Aberdeen, NJ 07747 Helen Ungar Friedman periodically, writes, and Class Correspondent 212 Stony Point Drive was a guest of honor at coaches, and is 210 East 15 Street Sebastian, FL 32958 the Hebrew Academy currently designing 1966 Apt.10N [email protected] of the Five Towns and educational DVD Felicia Friedland New York, NY 10003 Rockaway’s (HAFTR) packages for high Weinberg thirtieth annual 1974 Class Correspondent Mark Pollak was one of school performing arts scholarship dinner at Diane Oeters Vaughn P.O. Box 449 six Baltimore attorneys programs. Debbie the Woodbury Jewish Class Correspondent Clarksburg, NJ 08510 named “Leaders in Eisenstadt Mandel’s Their Field” in the 2008 Center in Woodbury, third self-help book is 80 Kelsey Place

BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 edition of the Long Island. She was entitled Addicted to Madison, CT 06443 34 Lucille L.Abellonio was chancellor for facilities for Child Development, leading opera, ballet, 1985 recently appointed the planning, construction, a special school for and concert Peter Huertas superintendent of and management at students with disabilities performances in Italy. Class Correspondent Clairton City Schools in The City University of in Queens. Michael A. 5135 Fedora Drive Pittsburgh. Diane New York in April 2007, Vitelli was promoted 1981 San Antonio,TX 78242 Kirschner was certified after having served the to executive vice- Gershonah Cynthia alamodude2001@ by The Humanist city of New York for president of Best Buy Whitley wrote her first yahoo.com Society as a Humanist more than twenty-five Corporation. book, Looking for Self in minister, authorized to years, most recently as All the Wrong Places, 1986 perform all life passage commissioner of 1978 which is based on The Ian Lee Brown ceremonies, and transportation. Susan A. Katz Wizard of Oz (see Class Correspondent licensed by the city of Class Correspondent Alumni Books). 13978 Sawteeth Way New York as a marriage 1976 120 Pinewood Trail James F. Faraguna is a Centerville,VA 20121 officiant. Albert A. Henry P.Feintuch Trumbull, CT Vietnam veteran who Kruger of the Office of Class Correspondent 06611-3313 coaches American Lorna Wallach, a cantor River Protection of the 50 Barnes Lane football in Turkey. with Congregation B’nai Kathleen Alaimo is U.S. Department of Chappaqua, NY 10514 Rhoda Seidenberg is Israel in Millburn, New currently serving as Energy, was named glass the associate curator at Jersey, and a soloist Oheneba Boachie- dean of the College of scientist for the Waste the Yeshiva University with the Zamir Chorale Adjei, an orthopedic Arts and Sciences at Treatment and Museum at the Center (the first modern and spine specialist, was Saint Xavier University Immobilization Plant on for Jewish History in Hebrew-singing chorus honored at the 6th in Chicago. the Department of New York City. Donna in North America), Annual African Health Energy’s Hanford Site in Tait is the proposed performed at their Summit for his Washington State. 1979 principal of the eponymous Carnegie significant contributions Anthony Esposito McCown Expeditionary Hall presentation, to medical education 1975 Class Correspondent Learning School, which Celebrating Israel at 60. and global practice.The Rubin Leitner 265 Hamilton Drive will open in Staten event was hosted by Class Correspondent Red Bank, NJ 07701 Island in September 1987 the Ghana Physicians 138 East 96 Street under the aegis of New Eric Steinhardt and Surgeons Brooklyn, NY 11212 1980 York City Outward Class Correspondent Foundation of North Bound. She is currently 915 East 7 Street Ben Katchor is a America. Yael Zarhy- Rose Kanarek joined assistant principal at the Apt. 1H MacArthur Foundation Levo, associate the firm of Rosen Math, Science, and Brooklyn, NY 11230 “genius” grant–winner professor in the Seymour Shapss Martin Technology Institute in and writer of the Department of & Company LLP in Brooklyn. original musical The Literature at Tel Aviv New York City as tax 1988 Slug-Bearers of Kayrol University, wrote a manager. David Lauren Korn Popkoff Island, which premiered book of criticism Leibowitz is the 1982 Class Correspondent at the Vineyard Theatre entitled, The Making of principal conductor of Eileen Sherman 951 Woodoak Drive in Manhattan. He is best Theatrical Reputations: the Massapequa Gruber Baldwin Harbor, NY known for his comic Studies from the Modern Philharmonic, one of Class Correspondent 11510 strip,“Julius Knipl, Real London Theatre. the largest orchestras 69 Derby Avenue Estate Photographer,” on Long Island. He is Greenlawn, NY 11740 1990 the founder and BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 which chronicles Knipl 1977 Beth Debra Kallman current music director throughout a historic 1983 Class Correspondent Michael Hanna of the New York New York landscape. Michael Kosik 8718 Ridge Boulevard Class Correspondent Repertory Orchestra, Iris Weinshall was Class Correspondent Brooklyn, NY 11209 12 Woodlawn Road which is in its sixteenth honored as the CUNY 331 Newman Springs Somerset, NJ 08873 season. In addition, he is Partner of the Year at Road, Building 1 on the conducting staff the 21st Annual Rhonda Kontner was Red Bank, NJ 07701 of the Rome Festival, Partners for Progress recently named the [email protected] Gala. She was director of the appointed vice- Interdisciplinary Center

35 36 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 NOTES CLASS grant. Fund$10,000 Writers Lesbian Emerging 2007 Astraea the recipientof Racquel Goodison 11694 NY Belle Harbor, 554 Beach129Street Class Correspondent Anthony Vitale 1996 NY11710 Bellmore, 2793 LeePlace Class Correspondent Nathan Solat 1995 NY11219 Brooklyn, 1575 46Street Class Correspondent Ilene Berkowitz 1994 Bay Area. and theSanFrancisco massage inNew York chair corporate and New York in salsa instruction which specializes in Liccardo Enterprises!, Liccardo Gina A. 1993 owns is Fathers and Sons Fathers Hisplay Connecticut. of University Campuses ofthe PointAvery and Main atthe arts dramatic assistant professor of NY11235 Brooklyn, 2327 East18Street Class Correspondent David Moskowitz 1999 March. Hunter Collegein at administration social work in master’s certificate completed hispost- Ronald Jean 10001 NY New York, 10A Apt. 440 West 34Street, Class Correspondent Dowd Tara M. 1997 Michael Bradford NY11236 Brooklyn, 540 East82Street Class Correspondent Tatesha BennettClark 2001 is an mathematicians form mathematicians form to helpingfemale dedicated organization an NYWIMN, cofounder of Sheisa May. City Tech campusin Conference onthe (NYWIMN) Mathematics Network Women in Annual New York sponsor theSecond to Foundation grant National Science recent winnerofa (City Sheisthe Tech). College of Technology at New York City mathematics professor Victoria Gitman Carolina. North Salem, in University Winston- Wake Forest Collins Awards. Audelco Theatre prestigious several and wasnominatedfor played Off-Broadway Living inthe Wind Hisplay in Manhattan. Theatre Contemporary premiered at A teaches at Raymond is a ork. k r Yo New Schenectady, Schoolin Elementary Pleasant Valley Communications at Culture and of the Academy physical educationat He teaches State. distinction inNew York toholdthat teachers oneoffive Childhood, Early/Middle Physical Education/ for Certification National Board Watson school. class inaBronxpublic inclusion seventh-grade teachesa currently of Educationwho York CityDepartment teacher for theNew special education Sheisa in August. England for two weeks residencyin in anartist selected toparticipate Hager Uraline Septembre for success. necessary social networks the professional and [email protected] NY11218 Brooklyn, 5C Apt. 570 OceanPkwy Class Correspondent YaelFogel Abraham 2004 NY11230 Brooklyn, 6C Apt. 1342 East18Street Class Correspondent Igor Galanter 2002 was recently Maurice received his Zealand. New Wellington, November in heldlast Festival, Jazz International eleventh Wellington musicians for the oflocal with aquartet Monk of Thelonious thetunes rearranged composer who percussionist and Edward J.Ware NewYork. Rochester, Eastman Housein Theater/George Project attheDryden by hisgroup The BQE which wasperformed Keaton’s music toBuster and conductedthe Nazziola costumes. create setsand which shehelped wrote andfor allof two ofwhichshe directed nineplays, Shehasalso Maine. inKennebunk, School, Kennebunk High her almamater, new theaterteacherat Mimi Meserve 2006 [email protected] NY11542 Glen Cove, 3-A Putnam Avenue Class Correspondent Stefanie Low 2008 [email protected] 10025 NY New York, 205 West 95Street Class Correspondent Ezra Rich 2007 Battling Butler composed om To is the is a Memoriamin

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Weeksville collaborations with the Heritage Center, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the Rutgers University Library, which houses an of Shirley papers.archive Chisholm’s March 2009— “Our hope is that by Women’s straddling Black History and History one of will have months—we the most thorough Chisholm archives, or online,”Winslow live says. an ambitious project,It’s Winslow and the late Congresswoman believes other way. had it any have wouldn’t “But the project is more than and life teaching about Chisholm’s says.legacy,”Winslow to inspire “It’s them a sense of school kids and give the importance of political activism and of being engaged in your community.” “With every game, don’t go you politics” and lost outlived and have their usefulness. protect their They own, narrow interest instead of the help liberals would public’s—which more. Is the U.S. to elect a black ready president? The country is, not all parts but of it, and some swing voters not be. may I America is ready, believe in keep but mind, electoral a funny have we system. suggest liberals should use the You label with pride. what the book is about.That’s And to do it. possible it’s Do I predict it will happen? No. part It’s of our role as intellectuals to light a spark hold.and see an idea take JFK, who I book,quote in my a what defined liberal was in 1960 and welcomed the label. Eight years of Bush may cured a lot of people in the have country become averse to who’ve the liberal label. to a ways There’s go, is I think the problem but receding. can do that.They’re close, they both say. to surpass But if Richard were his scoring record? brother’s record. into it thinking about your team to your just rooting for You’re win,” Jeffrey.“Richard says is on my team, him.” rooting for so I’m always Being his big brother might have something to do with it, too. continued from page 21 continued from page 9 Of the Jean-Baptistes, says Podias As a coach, that feels Jeffrey now BROTHER ACT BROTHER One of the flaws you attribute to you One of the flaws seek the liberals is that they endorsement of organizations that at with the public resonate don’t large, such as the pro-choice NARAL,ACLU, etc. A lot of these organizations were “identity created in the time of You contend liberals are too liberals are contend You principled and unwilling to compromise. who are unwilling to People compromise shouldn’t be in politics. are talking about a Unless you dictator, art politics is the of compromise. say,“I’m And when you not going to compromise myself, and Nader instead of for I’m voting Gore,” therapy, that’s not politics. LIBERALS see the don’t liberals say You Democratic Party as their political arm. Because the Democratic Party is not a liberal party; coalition in which a it’s liberals be the largest may segment not necessarilybut the strongest. Liberals coalitions. need to establish they’re both the players you want both the players you they’re with the ball with the game on the line.“It’s as a coach to a great feeling can count on players like you know that,” he says.“I’ve had great always in both of them.” confidence about Richard.way But he confesses his most blunt saves that he probably brother.criticism his younger for He 41 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2008 Less traveled a road raiain.B 96 he hadmetalotofscientists who By1996, organizations. things onalevel Icouldnever have imagined.” Igottodo but IhadPotomac fever. idea ofacademe, withthe “Istillflirted hesays. cametogether,” ever learned essential toolinhiswork. received whileatBrooklyn Collegewas avaluable and Western Norse civilizationandsociologycourses—that Hehadfound hisgroove. ittoday. drives that helpedgalvanize the environmental movement andstill one insightintothenatureofproblem, It wasacrucial efforts. of conservation shouldbethemainpriority diversity ecological thatpreserving president inwhichheargued tothe the CouncilonEnvironmental Quality’s annual report andwroteachapterin for theoffshoreoilandgasindustries governments.” families, people, It’s “It’s us. says. 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There are many ways to help Brooklyn College pursue our traditional mission—to provide high-quality, affordable education. One option is to remember the College in your will. If you are like many alumni, you want to support future generations of Brooklyn College students. Making a bequest to the College costs you nothing in your lifetime, helps satisfy your philanthropic objectives, and— with the proper planning—can provide estate tax savings. If you are considering including a bequest to Brooklyn College in your will, ask your attorney to use the following language: I bequeath to the Brooklyn College Foundation, Inc., a not- for-profit organization organized under the laws of New York State, with its principal offices located at 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210, ___ % of my residuary estate (or the sum of $______) for its general unrestricted Annual Fund.

If you have already made provisions for Brooklyn College in your will, we encourage you to notify the Brooklyn College Foundation so that you may be listed as a member of the Legacy Society. To find out more about a bequest to the College, contact Bill Healy, senior philanthropy adviser, at [email protected] or (718) 951-5074, or log on to our website, www.brooklyncollegefoundation.org. Two ways of giving and one terrific school.What are you waiting for?

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