A New Nexus for Art and Culture The Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts Cultivates Brooklyn’s Most Talented B Magazine | Spring 2019 1 T I r I Th The T L From the From Desk President’s to provide the means want They of Brooklyn College. goals strategic and academic inthe fully are invested Jackson Emily Tow his and daughter Leonard oday, and TheLeonard in their fields. exceptional become to for our faculty students and Arts is means. one of those for the Performing Center Tow Claire into walked and got lucky We filledhalls. music spilled the and were into with classes for thefirst time with Len. Rooms Center theTow walking through emember The professor practicing. was Choir the Brooklyn College where space a rehearsal and applause into they broke thrilled so that Len in person meet were to students and Alma of the Brooklyn College rendition impromptu an us to treated then and cheered, ended The meeting room. paneled wood the grand, throughout vibrated Sound Mater. Tow.” Mr. you, “Thank another, with one after saying students wonder of that some shares I hope this edition of the magazine Brooklyn College. is wonderful at that much so here about Ifeel that ofgratitude sense t is that with the college, On a daily you. our alumni enhance appreciation basis, and teaching and faculty learning and with our students providing transformational opportunities. family. all part oftheBrooklyn you College forbeing ank regards,Warm Anderson J. Michelle Dear Friends: Dear Tow Claire and Leonard of the magnificent the opening celebrated Brooklyn College of this magazine, As on the cover see can you Arts semester. last for the Performing Center the community through welcoming building of the college, is a beautiful face the new the transformed has dramatically Center The Hillel Plaza. at gate east our new and light. space, glass, of open edifice with a gorgeous entrance campus facilities, efficient highly and water-use low with materials, made recycled college, a glorious, Theater, Buchwald the Don houses It systems. lighting and HVAC is LEED-certified, atthe thefirst building sustainable Center ow for our home stage new and auditorium sophisticated acoustically double-height, is fullyCenter ADA-accessible, Tow The departments. music and theater exceptional design a set spaces, performance and rehearsal state-of-the-art many includes and spaces. meeting and faculty offices, classrooms, constructionand workshop, a lifelong sparked on campus together in 1949. Their experiences students they were when lunchroom basement wife Hall intheBoylan his met late Claire eonard generosity incredible the Tows’ years, the Over Brooklyn College. to connection 700 than more supported has their family foundation through mater alma their to fellowships, travel scholarships, programs, internship faculty and through students awards. stipends, and research 2 8 35 36 38 40 48 50 54 30

Contents Bright Lights Features Newsmakers Alumni Profile Commencement Bulldogs News Class Notes Out and About In Memoriam Photo Album Brooklyn College Magazine Brooklyn 6 | Number 1 Volume Spring 2019 College Brooklyn Avenue 2900 Bedford NY 11210-2889 Brooklyn, [email protected] www.brooklyn.cuny.edu College © 2019 Brooklyn President Anderson Michelle J. Provost Anne Lopes Vice President for Institutional Advancement Michael Galitz Todd Assistant Vice President, Office of Communications and Marketing Jason Carey Editor-in-Chief Anderson Keisha-Gaye Managing Editor Audrey Peterson Staff Writers ’06, ’08 M.F.A. Jones Jr. Robert Ernesto Mora Jamilah Simmons Contributing Writers ’62, ’65 M.S.Ed. Ella Friedman Weiss Martin Johnson Lang ’16 M.S. Alex Art Director Lisa Panazzolo Staff Photographers ’07 Rozenblyum David Craig Stokle Contributing Photographer Hasbini ’11 Salim B B Magazine | Spring 2019 3

u or two weeks last June, senior Jonathan Cabral rode in a van in a van rode Cabral Jonathan senior or two June, weeks last week. a mornings five highway Rico, Puerto Juan, down a San anything know barely “you’d the expressway, from Viewed U C A B C Thi with work to drills learned in the servicestudents hammers and of the thesupervisionnder construction crew, ofaprofessional roofs. corrugated-steel damaged badly ripping repairing up and stories told and the island to who immigrated had woman Dominican funny older thesprightly and he’ll forget says never abral peas, rice and who cooked or the local veteran lifeof her adventures, while I was I ate best fried and pork for the group—“the turkey, Cabral. says there,” chat opportunities sit and simply to many enjoyed and interpreter served an as often Cabral student, s aSpanish-speaking were we the people to know getting good felt “It with residents. personal.” feel to started “It he says. helping,” Brooklyn College Students College Students Brooklyn 200 who nearly the among was Cabral Jonathan Senior CUNY Service with help to Corps island the to traveled Maria. by Hurricane damaged homes repair SIMMONS JAMILAH BY the television and says Playita,” when entered world you another was “It barrio. thePlayita aright turn into made hisut then van of them Most destroyed. completely were houses “Some major. radio a mess.” just was It roofs. have didn’t of hundreds the island—where help up to sign to students fellow and 39 Cabral exactly attracted what onditions like are those Service CUNY without Corps, power—through remained residents work paid in students CUNY places that program a five-year-old and organizations experiences, usually in local community-based the civic, with of improving the goal economic, agencies, government City. York sustainability of New environmental and to Service decided administrators Corps however, s year, happened,” he says, describing how parts of the island looked nearly nearly parts looked of the island describing how he says, happened,” 4 Category Maria,Hurricane the by ravaged being after a year in wake in its $100 billiondamages in estimated an left that storm but a lot of central disaster, see expecting 2017. “I was to September up.” cleaned been had Juan San Help Rebuild Puerto Rico Puerto Help Rebuild heed the call of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “NY Stands with Puerto Rico” with “NY Stands Rico” Puerto Cuomo’s Andrew the call of Gov. heed Brooklyn from of them students—15 195 CUNY sent and initiative the summer, throughout in trips the island staggered College—to roofs. two building repairing weeks they spent mostly where and F Jonathan Cabral works atop a roof in Puerto Rico, Jonathan Cabral works atop a roof in Puerto Rico, where he helped rebuild homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria with CUNY Service Corps. CUNY students. Inset, Cabral with fellow

From participating in in participating From humanitarian international to winning work national prestigious College Brooklyn awards, alumni are students and positive contributing to world. in the wider change bright lights bright 4 B Magazine | Spring 2019 NYPD Surgeon. Orthopedic Care, was swornin asanHonorary Dr. ArminTehrany ’91,founder ofManhattan Have You Heard? life.” achieve theirgoalsin seek opportunitiesto insurmountable, but things that may seem not intimidated by College studentsare “I hopeotherBrooklyn I after he started college. careerfuture asaresearcher until stem had cells, clueofhis little replacement using bodyparts Foundation (NSF) to develop labs at Stanford opened new pathways career. inhis ugenis’ research scholarship earned himafull to Stanford’s Ph.D. program. His research at different we can study itfurther.” y adding afew genes, Iwas able to onand turn off the bacteria’s to move usingability lights LED so way ofcontrolling itcould orcouldn’t when move. gonorrhoeae, interested ofNeisseria themotility instudying bacteria, Eugenis says. At thetime, thelab was programmingthat biologist, hebecame asynthetic that However, occursinthegut. itwas inBiais’ lab Manhattan,where he worked ona bacterial infection the AaronDiamondResearch AIDS Center in sophomorehis year, hepursued an internship at in biology, ushered which himinto In lab work. ow abioengineering Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, Eugenis first declared a major laboratory.microbiology head College’s ofBrooklyn mechano- ProfessorAssistant Nicolas Biais, alma materhis mentor and his visiting said last summer while head inthat direction,” Eugenis cross my mindthat my would life w Iwas into sciences, but senior year ofhigh school, itdidn’t aside from aresearch project inmy BY ERNESTOMORA The Stanford University Ph.D. candidate’s stem cell research earned him the honor. National ScienceFoundation Grant John Eugenis’15Receives Prestigious

from theNational Science recipient ofarecent grant oannis “John” Eugenis ’15, E “B N “I kne amodel organism, butonethat had no Association ofTop Professionals. Science EducatoroftheYear bytheInternational Dr. BernardTandler ’55was selectedasTop

Notable newsaboutBrooklyn College alumni,faculty, andstudents and IshakNoble’18. pictured, fromlefttoright:Shreya Jain’18,JerrylAbraham Nicolas Biais,secondfromright,inhismicrobiologylab. Also Ioannis “John”Eugenis’15,center, withAssistantProfessor their goals inlife.” insurmountable, to butseek achieve opportunities are notintimidated by things that may seem He adds, “Ihopeother College Brooklyn students of my mentors at Stanford and College.” Brooklyn This NSF awardisn’t minealone,” Eugenis says. “It belongs to many other people, including all muscle mass astheyage. and even theelderly, since humans heexplains, lose muscular dystrophy, severely wounded war veterans, in muscle regeneration forpatients with living generation. This research could lead toward advances Eugenis has made inroads inthefield of muscle studies muscle stem aresult, and aging. cells As and ProfessorRando,engineering, Thomaswho bone/cartilage engineer is a tissue focus whose t Stanford, and heworked was co-advised with Stanfordby two researchers: Professor Fan Yang, fields ndedtissue switching up to engineering and biomaterials.” “ A “I e to science. outstanding achievements inandcontributions fellow oftheAmericanChemistrySocietyfor his Chemistry Professor BrianGibneywas nameda u D Means forStudentSuccess rom the minute Imet her, Iknew shehad what ittakes to succeed. She onlyhad to onbeing focus more confident,” saysRizzi of with.” Ishould determine firms seek positions which and connected Marge mewith Magner helped me ’69,who across asmentorship as firms, various well opportunities, interviews atalia amazing is and College’s oneofBrooklyn most valuable resources,” says “She Blumenfrucht. helped meto secure many workedwho at Goldman. toe-mail students informing them ofachance alumni to meet with director College oftheBrooklyn Magner Career Center, sent outan never materialized.but theopportunity Then, Natalia Guarin-Klein, sayslumenfrucht that shehad given onworking up initially for Goldman applied after forinternshipstwice she at the company to you to keep itthere.” order to get your footinthedoor, once your inthedoor, footis it’s up CollegeBrooklyn students it’s that while to helpful know someone in mathematics currently and is asenior analyst at Goldman. “Ioften tell receivedwho her bachelor ofscience inactuarial science and financiale was incredibly instrumental and encouraged meto apply to Goldman, and Igot Iapplied theposition for,” says Blumenfrucht, BY ROBERT JONESJR. Brooklyn College Magner Career Center intervened. securing adream job—until Leonardo ’93and the Rizzi BlumenfruchtRenee ’15 was preparedgive to up on WhatMentorship Alumni from one person in particular: Leonardofrom ’93. oneperson inparticular: Rizzi she was able to impress theemployer because shereceived ofadvice set position to after right begin full-time shegraduated. She believes Foundation. Writers Retreat fellows bytheLambdaLiterary Adams ’13werebothnamed2018Emerging Graduate studentAvi Cummings and Ellen “F “N B “H internship. shewas Imagine instead when her surprise offered a at’15 went Goldman Sachs onan interview to apply foran heruring senior year at College, Brooklyn Blumenfrucht Renee scholarship program. as partofNikon’s firstannualStorytellers is oneof10students tobeawarded $10,000, third-year M.F.A. CinemaArtsstudentat Feirstein, College’s FilmProductionB.A. programanda Mushfica Masud,agraduateofBrooklyn simultaneously empathic something is Ialways strivefor.” inanyirst, situation, Iwon’t it when And beoutworked. circumstances,comes to difficult dealing being with direct while ways. specific out intwo the people hecomes incontact He with. says hefocuses onstanding successor Rizzi, means improving processes at theorganizations forand havinghe works apositive impact onthelives and careers of high school oryou go to work—just don’t go to jail.” my is do and this dream.’ It was more like, you can go to college after grand plan like, ‘I’m going to go to what college; I’m is this going to science inbusiness management and finance. “For me, there was no family first personto inhis receive a college degree—a bachelor of ew inablue-collar, up immigrant neighborhood, where most Goldman Sachses and Morgan Stanleys oftheworld,” the says Rizzi, young people didn’t have access to worked thepeople who at the to day. Blumenfrucht this and advises asexemplified bythe fact mentors notfleeting, thatalumni is hestill Center. connection to his And College Brooklyn students and other participating onpanels organized and inworkshops by theMagner pass that blessing on. He does so through mentoring and by also presidentmer vice at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, success asablessing to and responsibility believes ofhis part itis presidentand now avice at The Clearing House,seesRizzi his own smartest and most determined hehas ever come across. adding thatBlumenfrucht, College Brooklyn students are among the “F F “Igr A for Humanities. director oftheEthyle R.Wolfe Institutefor the and poet,hasbeentappedtobecome thenext English Professor Rosamond King, author

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Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 5 6 B Magazine | Spring 2019 I of Humanitiesfor UnionCountyCollege. Melissa R.Sande ’09M.A.becamethenewDean Have You Heard? co-ops onManhattan’sco-ops Lower East Side. the students are about talking recently gated enclaves far outsideNew York limits, City public. But instead offocusing onsuburban effects on an increasingly polarized American subject gated is communities and their for Worker Education at 25Broadway. The Samuel Gompers Houses across thestreet. the residents oftheBernard and Baruch M. complex that to helpful was particularly throughinstalled, cutting offashortcut the thetowerscomplex, have just had new gates A subsidized housing middle-income Towers.more to than miles theMasaryk two Naomi theclass walk Britt and Kelly Schiller gentrification, Anthropology Professors fterdissecting the concepts of urban fear, security, and class division, BY AUDREYPETERSON neighborhood. Manhattan shifting population in the storied lower of climate change, gentrification, and a crossed the East to River study the effects For one month last summer, students Classroom Lower EastSideintoa Transforms Manhattan’s New Field School undergraduate students at CUNY’s Center in progress among College Brooklyn t’s mid-June and is alively discussion A of 94. who continuestoteachprofessionally atthe age PBS NewsHourspotlightedFlossieLewis ’45, rising seas.”rising contemporary threat ofextreme weather and to shape theways that residents approach the race, gender, and migration status intersect asking thestudents to how explore class, development,” inJune. said Schiller “We’re new wave ofgentrification and waterfront ofamajor inthemidst neighborhood is been taught at College. Brooklyn “The archaeology field school had never before cultural of anthropology and type This Project, ofan was abit experiment. the summer and Britt, or Schiller course, The called Urban Anthropology my guests.” students, flashing herID. “These people are property. “It’s I live here,” OK, says one of the for proof that theyhave legal access to the color,in living thestudents asaguard asks The classroomis now discussion playing out advocacy organizationthatworkstobuildresiliencyintheLower EastSide. Students meetwithastaffmemberfromGOLES(GoodOld Lower EastSide),ahousing

Notable newsaboutBrooklyn College alumni,faculty, andstudents F conference. Theater inHigher Education’s national in Teaching Theateratthe Associationfor received theOscarBrockettAward for Excellence Theater Professor Rose BurnettBonczek departments,” added. Schiller traditionally taughtis inmany anthropology field inamore manner holistic ethical, than We are aiming to future give anthropologists thetools to approach the before,” theproject. during said Britt the same course. That’s notbeen donehere What’s differentis that we’re teaching archaeological and ethnographic in methods archaeological analysis. artifact localresidents, with and interviews experts, boardcommunity from meetings, visits trips to observe visits, museumfilms, East Side. Theprofessors scheduled also ontheLower forspacestruggle and survival and theongoing thehistory explore toursalking were just oneoftheways andhelped Britt their Schiller students “ “ W u A become afellow at 2018conference aFebruary organized by theNIH. Institutes ofHealth (NIH). Lavali was oneof25students chosen to aftermedicine she completes a yearlong fellowship at the National in Queens. She later had achange and ofheart now plans to pursue emigrated from her native Sierra to Leone reunite her parents with their homes. In theprocess, Lavali’s lost what property family little nation, forcing to schools close mid-year and displacing from families war and its then, Lavalintil lived ofthecivil inthemidst aftermath. maraudedMilitias throughouttiny the WestAfrican finally able theironlychild to bring to the United States in2012. Queens and her mother stayed 2004.The couple behind until were dead and thousands more uprooted. Her father immigrated to avali’s about uncertainties her education were heightened by events unfolding inher war homeland. 11-year left50,000 An civil BY ERNESTOMORA Professions program helped her stay the course. Lavali’s career in medicine. Brooklyn College’s Pre-health A civil war in her native Sierra Leone all but derailed Angela of HealthFellow Odds toBecomeaNational Institutes Angela Lavali ’18Overcomes the for amoving #MeToo essay. awarded theJosephE. MohbatPrizefor Writing Brooklyn CollegestudentWirdahKhanhasbeen U L schoolteacher. That was in2013,less than a year after she had aftermedicine thedeath ofher father,Lavali,K. a James ngela Musu Lavali her up study ’18thought of about giving 800th careerwininFebruary. Fencing legendNikkiFranke’72 earned her problems theyand other Sierra Leoneans had to confront. foodscarcity and lackthey owned; ofjobs were among themany ased onmy experience,” Lavali says, “my dream after graduating tois go back to Sierra to Leone establish afoundation to help Infectious Diseases. continues her work at the NIH’s National Institute and ofAllergies physicians intheemergency room and thecardiac care unit.Lavali graftsfrom bypass a CT artery scan. shadowedShe also three Dr. Simon Durham, shelearned to design and fabricate coronary ton 2017,thanks thePre-health Professions program, she obtained at afellowship Weill Cornell Medical College, where, under summer intern. and at oftheNYC ahealth-care Department facility ofSanitation asa General Hospital, assisting patients and monitoring theircondition, hundreds at ofhours Long Island Jewish Hospital and Queens Jewish Institute forHealth Care and Rehabilitation. She logged also ot oneto from Lavali demanding shrink decided to work, in order to work at several including theParker hospital facilities, obtain anurse’sfromLong aidecertification Island Hospital Jewish t was my first exposure to research using model a particular organisms.” different invades and ofhow structure to thefungus thefunction analyze sterilization techniques to infectious handle materials. learned to prepare solid media to grow microorganisms and learned albicans, Candida Professorn 2015,shejoined Biology Peter Lipke’s laboratory to work onaproject to understand therole ofadhesion proteins used by development,” Lavali says. They résumékeep track and mockinterviews. of each student’s rofessor encouraged Silbering meto participate ininternships and apply forscholarships,with staff and his helpedmy me anewtarting at College Brooklyn ofthePre-health aspart Professions program under Director Steven was ablessing. Silbering w that after five years atthe College of and Medicine foundation,” shesays. University HealthApplied ofSierra Services, Leone, Ihad agood to her join parents intheUnited States. school inSierra Leone. After five years, alucky legal allowedbreak her Lavaliespite high finished thesocial and emotional turmoil, school at 16and decided to attend college to prepare formedical “B I N “I I “P S “I kne D acommon pathogenic she time yeast, which during

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Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 7 8 B Magazine | Spring 2019 E shouting directions, such about as“Right here” and massive blueprint. He’s plottinglighting the plan and alternately oftheset, part checking alaptop and a atthewstudent M.F.A. lightingan in Deinhart, design, on thestage is hanging outby abar that is BY JAMILAHSIMMONS directed production to grace new playhouse. this preparationsundertake forPorto, jingling ofkeys asfewer than ahalf-dozen stagehands There’sblinds. and the clacking, alotofbooming, morning sunlight peeking is opened through partially butinacornerdim, ofthestage’s like back itlooks wall M Claire Tow Center forthePerforming is Arts Don Buchwald TheaterLeonard inthe & semester,arly inthefall at about midday, the thefirst student- exciting.” and we’rewhat out figuring we can do,is still which ofthetheater.Deinhart “It’sor me, as alighting designer, agreat there are new building alotof that thenew space,” comeopportunities with says sound and acoustic paneling. wall with fitted eight-channel also uchwald is Theater which hall, concert is intimate and state-of-the- can operate thenew 225-seat, double-height within Thereart. are lightssome 150LED that the students focuses lights from acubby just off stage left. and Caitie Miller, theater another M.F.A. student, production manager shoutsback from thecatwalk, the luminaires above bounce across thestage. The “Can Iget beams thatwhile from cast sharper?” alittle “F The B enter hometo is theConservatory of Music and the Department ofTheater. In in an active way.” to thecampus and thesurrounding community in and outofthecenter really connects usback Media and Performing “Being able to Arts. see t’s transparent avery building,” says Maria Conelli, deanAnn oftheSchool ofVisual, promenade, and beyond. oftheFlatbush Junction’sviews new pedestrian glass-enclosed grand lobby, and balconies with and-new Leonard &Claire Tow GateHillel entrance, itsopen plaza, with College an ambient is presence at thecollege’s Center forthePerforming at Brooklyn Arts The c “I The br Mort Topfer Rehearsal Studio(next page). spaces for students,liketheBobbiand Theater (above),andmanynewrehearsal 225-seat, state-of-the-art DonBuchwald entrance tothecollege(left),new The Tow Centerfeatures anewgrand performance spaces in thebuilding. direct audio to ties with theother hall all live roomits own overlooking theconcert rooms. There’s anew recordingwith studio studio, and reception and class, meeting, apost-production workshops, construction practice and rehearsal rooms, set design and second performance space plus numerous addition to theBuchwald Theater, thereis a rooklyn Collegerooklyn aplace is that surrounds thetoolsits students and confidence with createow Foundation, it. founded by the ’52 Tow, donated to thecollege $10million to center’s namesakes, Leonard ’50and Claire “B The T of The Tow Foundation. Tow Jackson, executive director and president learn, create, and theirskills,” perfect says Emily there adedicated is place theycan inwhich endeavors,supported intheirartistic and that that College Brooklyn students are fully Tow Center forthePerforming ensures Arts needed to succeed.Leonard Thenew & Claire and lighting systems. recycled materials, and highly efficient HVAC campus, incorporating low-water-use toilets, ADA accessible, fully is which lding, sustainable onthe building LEED-certified, impairments, thefirst audio and is and visual includes for intheperformance technology hall

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SINCE 12 2005 CLAIRE TOW CLAIRE TOW TEACHING AWARDS AWARDS TEACHING Jamilah Simmons — 2001 TOW STUDENT TOW 116 RESEARCH TRAVEL TRAVEL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS SINCE FELLOWSHIPS u oundation, the Tows have given close have oundation, the Tows eonard Tow visited the newly opened visited the newly eonard Tow to their alma mater that only increased after after increased that only alma mater to their in 1988. Foundation The Tow they created it of what to be stewards ourselves felt “We and to and accumulated, we accomplished was that redistribution it, and to focus redistribute generated,” from which it was on the venues & Claire Tow said at the Leonard Tow Leonard Arts dedication in the Performing Center for College is one of those “Brooklyn November. grateful.” are ever grateful, forever places. We many has supported Foundation The Tow including College, at Brooklyn endeavors Student like the Tow signature programs Tow Fellowships, Travel Research and Faculty Distinguished Tow and the Claire Professorships, the college hosts a Each spring, Award. Teacher Christoph M. Kimmich luncheon in the Award Tow College Library. of the Brooklyn Room Reading TOW TOW SINCE Through their f Their biggest gift to the college to date—and the largest Their biggest gift to the college to date—and In August, L 95 2000 SCHOLARSHIPS

million challenge the college has ever received—is the $10 which established in 2003, Foundation grant from The Tow Arts. The the Performing Center for & Claire Tow the Leonard College was given on the condition that the Brooklyn gift would raise an additional $15 million in private Foundation million in public and funds. The college raised more than $50 in 2011. funds, and broke ground on the new building private welcome from arts center and received a warm performing as part of an open the students as he toured the facilities the Public house and celebration of a partnership between that was Foundation and The Tow College, Brooklyn Theater, announced last year. to $16 million to Brooklyn College, funding nearly 700 funding nearly College, to $16 million to Brooklyn and scholarships, internships, professorships, fellowships, celebrates its 30th Foundation The Tow teaching awards. anniversary this year. TOW TOW SINCE 2000 INTERNSHIPS 166 AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE, THE TOWS HAVE FUNDED: HAVE COLLEGE, THE TOWS BROOKLYN AT 2000 FACULTY TOW 187 RESEARCH TRAVEL TRAVEL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS SINCE FELLOWSHIPS The couple were among the earliest and most active L TOW TOW SINCE success in the nascent cable television industry. Claire worked success in the nascent cable television industry. medical as an elementary school teacher and emergency Century Communications technician; she also co-founded College presented with her husband. In 1998, Brooklyn Corp. Doctor of Humane the couple with the honorary degree of with in 2014 after a 14-year battle Claire passed away Letters. disease. Gehrig’s Lou a commitment College Foundation, supporters of the Brooklyn A Lifetime of Giving ’50 Tow been almost 70 years since Claire ’52 and Leonard It’s a was Leonard met in the Boylan Hall basement lunchroom. or taller a group of six-foot Club, member of the Longfellows the Hi College students. Claire hung out with male Brooklyn Their tall stature. Hites, an organization of women of similar popular (but long- courtship began with a date at the highly Skating Rink in Midwood. They Circle Roller since closed) Park graduation. weeks after Claire’s were married a few eonard earnedadoctorateineconomicsandfound 1994 109 PROFESSORSHIPS PROFESSORSHIPS

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B Magazine | Spring 2019 Our Campus F classes inone oftwo academicbuildings the attendees were students, eager totake 18, 1937, toacrowd of some7,000. Many of Brooklyn Collegecampus openedonOctober Brothers andBarnumBailey Circus, the was alsolater thefairgrounds forRingling on theformersiteofaDutch farmthat Administration, andbuilt Roosevelt’s Work’sProgress President Franklin D. unded withmoney from

through the years the through buildings, adownpour turned partsofthe the inauguration of theneo-Georgianstyle the entirecampus. Inthedays following Hall Library, itsclock tower afocalpointof swimming pool—andstudy at theLaGuardia Roosevelt Hallgymnasium—complete with sports andrecreation inthebrand-new (today’s Boylan andIngersollHalls), enjoy Campus Construction 1930s connecting themainbuildings. yielded temporary wooden sidewalks via theschool newspaper The Vanguard muddy swamp. Urgent requestsfrom students campus that hadnotbeenlandscapedintoa Lily PondLily 1960s East Quad 1950s most beautiful urbancampusesinthe nation. garner thecollegerecognition asoneofthe and awell-manicured landscape that would pond, grace elmsamong avariety of trees, he school’s grounds would be transformed inthenextfew years withalily T

15 Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B B Magazine | Spring 2019 17 The Leonard & Claire Tow Center for Tow Leonard & Claire The the Arts stands at the Performing Road and Hillel of Campus intersection Whitman of location the former Place, (inset), Theater Hall and Gershwin opened their doors in 1955. which The Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts 2018 the for Center Tow Claire & The Leonard Br Center for the Tow Leonard & Claire The continuestobetransformed. College ooklyn the intersection of at located Arts, Performing opened its doors Campus Road and Hillel Place, and anchor a westernmost providing in fall 2018, 35-acre campus. to the school’s entrance grand Building were torn down to make way for the West West for the way to make torn down Building were opened in 2009. Quad Center, West Quad Center 2010s Center Quad West Plaza Building Overpass 1980s Overpass Building Plaza

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B Magazine B 16 18 B Magazine | Spring 2019 newsmakers environments.” affecting these change is how climate to know it’s important bigger project, “As partofthe M well astheUniversitywell Fairbanks, ofAlaska ina researchersandel working with is at Columbia and Colorado State Universities, as make that easier.” these environments. We’re developing new tools to toimportant know how climate change affecting is says Mandel. “As ofthebigger part project, it’s projectThis is an interesting scientific application ofaudio processing algorithms,” BY JAMILAHSIMMONS better understand sound. Mandel’s research aims to help computers Awarded $500,000NSFGrant Professor Michael Mandel noises generatednoises by human activity. assess how theyare affected by climate change and songbirds,animals like and waterfowl, and caribou, researchersallow to study themigration patterns of will analysis This wilderness. from theAlaskan Foundation (NSF) to audio analyze recordings more than $500,000from theNational Science M “ has just secured afive-year grant worth Computer Information Science Department, ichael Mandel, an associate professor inthe noise inother environments.”noise sources ofsound and the future, such asidentifying e adds, “We can apply from technology our Arctic sound analysis project to other problems in from theNSF work. this to support Apple’s He Siri. recently received another grant communication assistants like systems, and virtual automatic speech recognition, hearing voice aids, interestedis to less inmaking disruptive noise create systems that can understand He sound. signal and processing, psychoacoustics to inmachine listening, andel an expert is combines of thefields machinewhich learning, variables weather. like and high-resolution modeling ofenvironmental datascholars onthefieldwork, focus analysis, techniques theother forthesound analysis, while collaborative$3.1 million project. He developing is H M u annual show highlighting the gallery’s new acquisitions. community?” community?” and the the individual are theconsequences to gets to what decide? And bodyhas value? Who work are: Whose aid Cronin at Pietra her La Villa lecture, “The main questions I’m interested my inasking with and social justice andcontemporary thehuman art, condition. of women’sand writing history, therelationships between feminism and to such explore themes asgay and lesbian representation, therecovery from thevantage point oftheparticipants. Since then, shehas continued media series ofPolaroids and watercolors that showed intimacy sexual projects, Cronin recipient gainedwo-time in1993for“Girls” College oftheBrooklyn notoriety and Tow “Boys,” mixed- two Professorship, which provides $25,000to theawardee ofexceptional new and insupport ongoing and havepublic art it be permanent, you theland.” shouldbuy permanent place formy If you’re publicart. chased plot awoman inWoodlawn ourburial and you want to make Cemetery intheBronx and in Florence, Italy. “I’m ensuring ourfinal resting place . and Ialso ensured a installed itthere,” said Cronin ina2017lecture at Pietra/NYU La theVilla of it.” attorney documents, and thosedidn’t celebrate life our together butthe end people could have [at healthcare thetime] and proxies, were power-of- wills, ed a‘nationalist’ neoclassical form—American sculpture—to sculpture because theonlylegal funerary a double-portrait protections gay address what Isaw asafederal failure,” Cronin told theSmithsonian. “Imade near total absence by women cities. ofpublicart inAmerican (as opposed to allegorical) women portrayed inpublic sculpture, and the commemoration oftheirrelationship, ofthelack ofreal asacritique aswell odeled Cronin at when could atime notlegally and wed Kass (they have since in2011),thesculpture married, was intended asa sculpture. mortuary embrace. inaloving Kass, The work was created of19th-century inthe style an “iconalled ofthemarriage movement” equality by theSmithsonian, the larger-than-life-size bronze shows Cronin and her partner, Deborah artist National Portrait “Recent Gallery’s Acquisitions”exhibition. 50thanniversary Memorial to aMarriage (2002)was chosen to oftheSmithsonian’s bepart College Professor Brooklyn Art spring, PatriciaLast Cronin’s sculpture BY AUDREYPETERSON Memorial to aMarriage Acquires Professor Patricia Cronin’s Sculpture The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery

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19 Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 20 B Magazine | Spring 2019 $ major: sociology year: senior NINA DARO your life.” think you want to dowith challenging you onwhat you that is fellowship big itis on Ilike about this “What from professors andmentors. based onthequalityoftheirresearch andrecommendations The award is given annually tostudentswhoare selected Jonas E. SalkScholars Jeanette K. Watson Fellowships medical or graduate school each to defray the cost of 8,000

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3 + in stipends academically gifted undergraduate who studentsare an program honors ARC is that offers mentoring, research for and experience, financial support to Research Careers (MARC) Program at thecollege. distractions, Frank discovered Access theMaximizing way to entirely focus any academics onhis without courses around work schedule. his Wanting to finda continuing time, to taking in 2002while work full save money. He entered time College Brooklyn full Unable to afford college, Frank began working to e notes that even thelow at tuition thecollege was afinancial hardship working-class forhis family. feel atyou home.” still interesting you come when from someplace and else so diverse, you don’t really feel an outsider. like It’s are quite different. But because Brooklyn Collegeis safe you space. come to anew country, When things place an obvious like to be,” hesays. “But a itwas also rank attended Brooklyn College forpragmatic reasons. “It was really close to homeand itseemed earn aPh.D. attend college inthe United States and thefirst to in Brooklyn. He was family thefirst personto inhis States parents his in2001with and siblings, settling n and raised inGrenada, Frank—who an is the University ofMichigan—came to theUnited assistant professor at ofbiophysics and chemistry infectious diseases.” disease, ofcancer, forms various and Alzheimer’s into to fight drugs against neurologicaldiseases, like discover molecules small that may one day beturned to dynamics design structural and and RNAs’ function We hopeto use insights about between thelink associated theabnormal ofRNAs. expression with orRNAs,”acids, Frank says. “Many diseases are y research ofaclass ofbiomolecules ribonucleic called dynamics team uses computer tools to study and thestructural function betweenthe link biological to known illnesses humankind. treatments and cures forsome ofthemost devastating to ofhumantiniest parts oneday biology develop collaborators, are using what theyknow about the Aaron Frank research ’06and his team, together with BY ROBERT JONESJR. the structure associated and function with ofRNAs human diseases. Computers are helping Frank and his collaborators study the between links Treat andEliminate CancerandOtherDiseases Aaron Frank HeadsMolecularResearch Team Seekingto M H F Bor “M do that.” me. Academia was thespace that would meto allow ealized I wantedcould and explore that were to have interesting my research own and to exciting group and have control of questions I over thetypes was essential Frank inspurring to choose research. mentor,his Professor Chemistry Greer— Alexander to engage inresearch and theaccess from to support Program—which MARC thetime provided himwith rank’s plan original was to attend medical school after completing undergraduate his studies, butthe because ofMARC. That was huge forme.” way greater aperson with financial means would have though Iwas given thechance to attend college inthe Ilook back that Itell my onit, Ifeel as wife “When rank says that receiving theopportunities afforded himthrough theprogram was a real privilege. biomedical research.biomedical to increase professionals thenumber in ofminority research careers sciences. inthebiomedical Its goal is interested inentering graduate programs leading to diverse, you don’t really feellike anoutsider.” quite different. ButbecauseBrooklyn Collegeisso “When you cometoanew country, thingsare “I r F F u molecules.” of biologically relevant structure anddynamics tools toelucidatethe integrative modeling to “develop anddeploy Research Groupseek right) andtheFrank Aaron Frank’06(seated

21 Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 22 B Magazine | Spring 2019 mag18/facultyawards brooklyn.cuny.edu/ faculty awards, visit For acomplete listof endless growth ofcancer cells. division in order to arrest the mechanics ofthe process ofcell system could help determine the study using yeast asamodel Professor Amy Ikui, whose new research, including that ofBiology and awards for new and ongoing more than $9million in grants Brooklyn College faculty garnered From July 2017to June 2018, F publish inthatpublish journal asacorresponding author. thefirst is Brooklyn College member faculty to of Sciences ofthe United States ofAmerica). Ikui (Proceedingsjournal PNAS ofthe National Academy was released cycle thecell during by theprestigious paper ontheeffects membrane of cell damage for slightly came more after than $1.4million, her Themost recent$2.4 million. one, afour-year grant function ofgenes andfunction proteins. Eukaryotes are genome using genetic tools inorder to study a havecientists been using yeast asamodel system because theycan manipulate easily its eukaryote. share single-cell alotofcommon this genes with human genome,” says that Ikui, explaining humans because amodel close system to itis the very or ourresearch, we are of using cells Saccharomyces cerevisiae—better as known yeast— BY ERNESTOMORA Estimates NIHGrant Winner Professor Amy Ikui Repairing CellMembrane Damage CouldGoaLong Way, S “F from theNational Institutes ofHealth totaling Professor Amy Ikui has received three grants or thelast nineyears inarow, Biology stopping the cell division, it will beabig step.” itwill stopping division, thecell what factors, proteins which are at work to assist in now collaborating her. with “If we can determine survive,” shesays, adding that theHarvard team is stop reproducing theyheal inorder until to The grantis to study how membrane cell damage can send asignal to forcells take notice, communicate other cells. with to getand ports signals from theoutsideworld and the layer protecting and has cells many all receptors Ikui says, important, is given that themembrane is o onehas studied damage whether to the membranecell canarrest also cycle,” thecell which anew approach. Ikui decided to try division, cell membrane caused by alaser might stop cancerous nspired by Harvard University researchers are howwho studying damage to thecell into daughter two dividing cells. by first duplicatingtheir cells a cell’s DNAbefore asmitosisknown where multicellular species grow process cycle—the normal cell division ofcell cording to her, most have scientists focused on how DNAdamage to arrests thecells the ofcancerendless growth cells. inorderthe process to arrest division ofcell the new study could help determine themechanics of treeisolated first in1971,assists inhealing. Her and onhow Taxol, aderivate ofthePacific yew doctoral focused oncancer dissertation biology Ikui, whose explains they cannot stop dividing, havecells to control lost theability division, cell joining College Brooklyn in2007.Because cancer aduate Einstein College oftheAlbert of training program at University Rockefeller before Medicine, Ikui completed afive-year postdoctoral its reproductive cycle. membrane that protects theorganelles governing and archaea—have anucleus enclosed by a those ofbacteriaorganisms cells—unlike whose A gr “ “N I Ac u trials and to tribulations succeed,trials including medicine. Theyboth went through many came towho theUnited States to practice Both my parents were emigrants from India shape theperson and physician Iam today. that would forever change my life, and of thethen 16spots. It really was adecision program and was lucky enough to get one w Iwanted to beaphysician, and career path. fortheB.A.-M.D. Iinterviewed was motivated enough to besure was my this college. broughtwas what originally meto the The Brooklyn programCollege B.A.-M.D. broughtWhat you to Brooklyn College? Department. in the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery fourth-year resident at Mount Sinai Hospital from scholar/athlete to his position asa at Brooklyn College for his career trajectory hardworking parents and his rich experience ’11credits Badhey Arvind the example ofhis team, and amember ofPhi Beta Kappa, Dr. awarded member ofthe Speech and Debate of the men’s cross-country track team, ahighly scholar-athletean Arthur Ashe and captain Program and HonorsB.A.-M.D. Academy, A biology/philosophy major in the Coordinated I kne of training afield asan otolaryngologist, I am currently offive inmy years fourth of work? Could you tell usmore about your field both best men, at College. Brooklyn ashalfofmy aswell groomsmenfriends, and Program events. Imet some ofmy closest are inregular contact. attend Istill Scholars [director oftheHonors Academy] and I wedding. Professor And Schwebel Lisa Professorwith hecame to Mirotznik; my in myself. Also, Imaintain my relationship He was great at making mefeel confident mentor. He taught mebeyond academics. at thecollege, and hebecame my research hewas anI met associate himwhen provost Mirotznik inHealth and Nutrition Sciences. always stand Professor outis will who Jerrold College,Brooklyn butformetheperson There are many amazing professors at catalyst for success after you graduated? influenced you the most or provided a Was there any one professor or class that Iwas finishing high when school. medicine Smita—all three ofthem were already in an inspiration forme, asmy aswell sister, school inIndia. My parents have always been finding spots evenresidency after excelling in BY AUDREYPETERSON Dr. Arvind Badhey ’11 Bryan Flores’11. Awoyemi ’11(left)and College alumniFa’iz Bayo- men andfellow Brooklyn day in2017withbest (center) onhiswedding Dr. ArvindBadhey is agreat tois develop. skill reach outto people and guidance foradvice say that being toI will motivated and willing task—I’mimpossible not great still at it.But and making connections would bean student and medical student that networking Iat so important. is first believed asa college Make connections inyour field early on. This would like to go into your field? majors, particularly thoseB.A.-M.D. who Do you have any words for ofwisdom reconstruction surgery. in thebroader field ofhead and neck reconstruction, oneofseveral ofmy interests them; forinstance,with calvarial (skull cap) have been lucky to work onresearch projects operate under theguidance ofourfaculty. I a day-to-day basis, Isee multiple patients and cancer, and complicated reconstruction. On postnasalissues like drip, to head and neck that ranges from treating patients fordaily to your patients. that you experience your to allows life relate maymedicine beyour career, future be itwill it. It to so important is understand that while at do what said, you love: If that means ortravelingathletics, oracting, theworld, do Th

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23 Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 24 B Magazine | Spring 2019 1,029 3,035 CLASS OF2018STATS 4,131 Number oflanguagesspoken Number ofmaster’s degrees Total numberofgraduates Number ofstudentswho

baccalaureate degrees commencement Number ofveterans identify asdisabled 85 88 37 Number of and will notsucceed oneanother.” without and will achievement theassistance that afiction culture. ofothersAmerican is in persists without We cannot We are more to likely believe success that determined is ourindividual by hard ourown work than citizens of nearly any intheworld,” other country narrative “The shesaid. ofindividual aledictorian Macaulay E. oftheClass of2018,William Honors College Scholar and challenging theaudience to reach forthehighest ofcommon goals. English education major Margaret Iuni, inspired theaudience philosophy by sharing and ahopeful onyourup own.’ Iwould say, ‘Sit inmy up wheelchair.’” own Eventually, Ineeded came thetime when to become my advocate. own Some ofyou would say, ‘Stand speak and, especially, up to and speak intheface rights forequality up and ofdiscrimination injustice. itprobably asituationif feels wrong. wrong, They is taught me about theneedwith allies to to join Without ever planning to, my parents, had who come from Germany and had lost so many family members intheHolocaust, taught methevalue ofadvocacy,” Heumann taught “They said. methat thatpolicies benefit and protectdisabilities. with people movement,” Heumann’s Judith Heumann activist rights sability gave thekeynote address work has had and accepted asignificant impact ontheimplementation an Honorary oflegislation and Doctorate ofHumane Letters. asthe rights Known “motherdisability oftheindependent living tocompetent ofothers.” assume challenging ofleadership positions and willing intheservice to engagethe opportunity difference with and complexity,which makes them more interculturally Barclays Center inDowntown Brooklyn. “Studying at College Brooklyn provides ourstudents with CollegeBrooklyn President Michelle J. at Anderson the2018Commencement Ceremony, held at “We know that ourstrength is ourdiversity and enhances theacademic forall,” experience said BY ROBERT JONESJR. student success with hopeful messages from alumni andfriends of the college. The event, which drew politicians from across the city, highlighted College’s 93rdCommencementCeremony Diversity andInclusionCelebrated at Brooklyn “ The v “ Di u Class of2018,offering goodwishes for thefuture. graduating class,filmedaninspirationalmessage for the the solesurvivingmemberofBrooklyn College’s inaugural One-hundred-and-six-year-old EthelLagarenneHagquist’32, days. AndIthankyoufor lettingmetalktoyou.” will bemucheasierfor youthantheywerefor usinthose Brooklyn College, Iwishallofyoutheverybest.knowthings want tosay asamemberoftheveryfirstgraduatingclass you?—$14 aweek.You heardcorrectly—per week!Ijust received asmyfirstsalary—areyousittingdown,allof I graduatedcumlaude. WhenIenteredtheworkforce, I graduated in1932,attheheightofGreatDepression. Ethel LagarenneHagquist’32 “I hadtwomajors:LatinandEnglish,”shesaid.

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25 Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 26 B Magazine | Spring 2019 bulldogs news of an ESL class. back to her parents 1993,when met onthefirst day haswith the alovefamily college that affair dates of achance ofgoing anywhere her else; immediate Shor, who, asithappens, didn’t really have much is that I friends was with all my The joke accepted to College Brooklyn inthewomb,” says College.Brooklyn her player—or talent asavolleyball her being at hen you get to to talking Ezri Shor and her family, you realize that luckhas nothing to dowith ght even comment that theteam is roster. lucky to add such atalented freshman to their achievements are deserved. well thatthe season, obvious her itis early-season at’s impressive, you and if take alook at her statistics, and thesquad’s 9–3record to begin league’s oftheWeek Rookie award. the Bulldogs’ freshman setter, Shor,Ezri the time, theCUNY Athletic Conference has awarded 2018 season has come and gone, and forthethird The Brooklyn College women’s team’s volleyball BY ALEXLANG Brooklyn CollegeIsaFamily Affair andaDestiny Fulfilled For Bulldogs’Freshman StarEzriShor, the 2018–2019season. Coach Langand theBulldogshave muchoftheirnucleustogether andexpect tomakeanotherrunin Bulldogs earnedanNCAATournament berthaswell,butlostinthefirstroundtoCabrini,65–52. awarded withboththeCUNYAC and MetropolitanSportsWritersCoachoftheYear awards. The “ W One mi Th for longtime coachfor longtime Tomasina retired who Lenzi, championship,School Athletic League city thefirst s ajuniorat Midwood High School, Shor was team ofavolleyball part that would take thePublic female award intheschool’s winner history. award at theschool’s graduation. She was thefirst career, earning Bay Academy’s Athlete oftheYear Shor’szri days asascholar-athlete date back shebeganto school, when middle her volleyball majoring incomputer science and math. zri’s older brother, Dayton, asenior is Honors College student at College, Brooklyn double go to school there aswell,” shesays. therefore it seems onlynatural formy children to great ofthecollegehe speaks with affection. College“Brooklyn to me, has been and everything manager, and developer. client services/analyst, as abusiness systems coordinator/IFAS support the Office of Information Services Technology making her way to up her current with position and has been employed at thecollege ever since, Shor,rina Ezri’s mom,notonlyearned her degree from but got Brooklyn, awork-study job, E E S I A Team. HeadCoachAlex Langwas Moogan werenamedtotheAll-Star well, whileMakandforward Alexandra Rookie oftheYear award winner as was theCUNYAC’s regular-season to theall-tournamentteam.George guard Taylor Georgewerealsonamed Karen Makandfreshmanshooting shots. Seniorall-conference pointguard points, 14rebounds,and2blocked Player, finishingthecontest with18 named thetournament’s MostValuable Freshman forward ChanelJemmottwas the 2017ChampionshipGame, 59–50. defeating StatenIslandinarematchof Championship, theirfirstsince1980, campaign bywinningthe2018CUNYAC team cappedoffatremendous The 2017–2018women’s basketball Freshman volleyballplayer EzriShor, secondfromright,with family members.

success. success. with betterShor beingbig a 2018, reason forthe team’s continued ontargetis to quite total surpass possibly that and have win an even of theYear, departed Sarina after Rozek, her senior season,omen’s the team team volleyball had theirmost successful season in the conference Coach oftheYear theCUNYAC award. While Player 17matchesteam in2017,winning and history earning Gotowicki madeI’ve itagoal ofmineto oftheYear.” beCUNY Rookie now thatshe says, been I’ve oftheWeek named “but Rookie twice, theawardwinning never crossed my mindcoming into theseason,” theearlyhor is favorite theconference to oftheYear win Rookie award year, this has become which agoal thought of ofhers. “The thesame mindset.” “SheGotowicki. has limitless potential, so long asshecontinues with a great is zri athlete and competitor, her hardest tries who every shestepstime onthecourt,” says women’s head volleyball coach Matt earningup and helped spot, astarting her team to agold medal. couldn’t go onthetrip, Shor was named to theteam and then ended put ontheteam asan alternate, butafter a playerpicked ahead ofher fouryears held every is inIsrael.the world, which was She initially ing thesummer of2017,between her juniorand senior years Games, an all-Jewish athletics ofteams competition from around of high school, Shor outfortheU.S. tried team intheMaccabiah playervolleyball College forBrooklyn onthemen’s side. school coach her during senior year was Tommy Ma, star aformer from coaching thesquad after the team’s achievement. Shor’s high The w S “E Dur u

conference runners-up. the seasonwitha9–4markas the victory, whileHunterended Bulldogs improvedto15–2with Tournament inMay 2019.The an automaticbidtotheNCAA the victory, theBulldogsreceive U.S. NationalTennis Center. With final attheUSTA BillieJeanKing 5–1, intheconference tournament history, defeating HunterCollege, the firsttimeinprogram’s the CUNYAC Championshipfor women’s tennisteamcaptured In October, theBrooklyn College

27 Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 28 B Magazine | Spring 2019 class notes receive information from Brooklyn College. Alumni Engagement soyou cancontinue to mailing listinformation withtheOfficeof Please besure toupdate your current Moved recently orchanged addresses? e-mail [email protected], orcall718.951.5065 Visit brooklyn.cuny.edu/mag/contact, brooklyn.cuny.edu. Email usat magazine@ time at Brooklyn College? photo tosharefrom your Do you have agreat President, College Brooklyn Association Alumni Ella Friedman Weiss ’62,’65M.S.Ed. ofour alma mater.contribute to thevibrancy college’s alumnicommunity. Ithank you forthemany ways you already inwhich time, talent, and resources, and participate by becoming active members ofthe enerosity ofthecollege’s alumniplays role inproviding the acrucial fortoday’sopportunities students. Iinvite you to continue thetradition ofgiving awards, internships, scholarships, and mentorship that enhance the and enrich date onthelatest college orread news, about an old astory classmate. website to learn about thebenefits As keepavailablewell, up to to you asalumni. Alumni theOffice of Engagementvisit at1239 Ingersoll orcheck outour Hall togethers, orjoining usonsocial media, alocalchapter. following You can also to ouralma mater. So stay connected, it’s whether through attending alumni get- is here accomplishments. to help BCAA The you maintainlifelong a connection yous alumni, have used your achievements to and experiences make a measurable difference. We want you as we also to support tout your just that—a is family family. playthey also hard, and moments these like remind methat College theBrooklyn Collegeof theBrooklyn Affairs. Ouralumninotonly Alumni work Office of hard, ast summer, we hosted a10-year-reunion bowling night inTimes Square, organized thesupport with by College theBrooklyn (BCAA) Association Alumni and fellowship that typifies the spirit at thespirit Brooklyn College.and that fellowship typifies warmly welcoming them to ourcommunity, Iwas reminded ofthecamaraderie as theyentered Barclays Center, high fives giving to thegraduating students and Warmest, The g A L donned by the 50th-anniversary classdonned by the50th-anniversary Watching thesea ofgold gowns industry. every world, invirtually made impact ameaningful inthewider the numerous ways ourgraduates have significant milestone, Ithought about Class of2018celebrated incredibly this where more than 4,100members ofthe Commencement Ceremony last May, College family. Iattended As our members oftheBrooklyn with It always is apleasure to connect Dear Alumni,

29 Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 30 B Magazine | Spring 2019 war’s keyconflicts. documentary, Midway, onthe will underpinanupcoming War IIairbattles,andhisexpertise Iwo Jima,isanexpert onWorld a divebomberintheBattleof [email protected] Class Correspondent Irene HammerGoldstein GEORGE WALSH, Scottsdale, AZ85251 3212 N.MillerRoad, Apt.320 Class Correspondent Cecile Yasker Kaufman Phoenix, AZ85021-5757 Apt. 1101 1650 West GlendaleAvenue Class Correspondent Eva Weiss Hubschman 1946 1943 1941 1940 whofought as on tocontinueingraduateschool. Several priorawardees have gone Department faculty member. under thementorshipofaBiology for thestudenttodoresearch award supportsasummerstipend Award for abiologymajor. The donor ofthePriscillaFrewPollister concept development.” deductive reasoning,aswell problem solving, inductiveand making, creativity, analysis, cognitive skills,beitdecision- We canimproveourpupils’ writes, “We canteachfor thinking! educators. Intheintroduction,she Publishing, 2017),abookaimedat Teach ThemAlltoThink(Page [email protected] Rockaway, NJ07866-5814 1311 FranklinLane Class Correspondent Ben Suntag FRANCINE LIFTONKLAGSBRUN SYDELL GASNICKROSENBERG’s HELENE NATHAN GUTTMAN [email protected] Floral Park, NY11005-1018 Apt. 18Y 269-10 GrandCentralParkway Class Correspondent William D. Isaacson Floral Park, NY11005-1209 Apt. 8G 271-10 GrandCentralParkway Class Correspondent Eneas NewmanSlomanArkawy DR. MURIELGERHARD [email protected] Tarzana, CA91356-4931 4631 EllenitaAvenue Class Correspondent Reva FrumkinBiers Amy Losak. posthumously byherdaughter, Candy Books,2018)was published of HaikufromAtoZ(Penny book HIsfor Haiku:ATreasury of Israel(Schocken,2017). Lioness: GoldaMeirandtheNation is theauthorofbiography 1953 1952 1951 1949 1948 1947 released is the

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LARRY KATZ Whippany, NJ07981-1315 38 TroyHillsRoad Class Correspondent Steven J. Nappen [email protected] Encinitas, CA92024-1278 1175 KildeerCourt Class Correspondent David S.Herskowitz is found. NYCHA untilapermanentdirector Medal ofHonorin1984,willlead 1962 1961 work asawriter, director, won three Emmys forhis look back on. Kosofsky hehas much to Still, back at ones. previous achievements rather than to look ahead to new prefers aman like who the idea. He sounds but ambivalent about His tone warm is M.A. Joel Kosofsky ’63,’69 amemoir,”write says “My son says Ishould servesasco-chair isspearheading Captain memoir, “Maybe my right.” son is —Martin Johnson fter 15minutes careerdiscussing his and personal accomplishments, hepaused and offered about thepossible setting time goals for and thencost, meeting those goals. it was any much like business venture: assembling team, theright upstate, and purchased alot.From founditto theirliking, there the costs directed theirinterests elsewhere. 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Brooklyn CollegeandtheItalian Japanese society and government. devoted studyand educationon government for hisdecadesof and NeckRibbonsbytheJapanese Order oftheRisingSunGoldRays Press inlatefall. will bereleasedbytheGuilford Proposals: AStep-by-Step Guide, new book,CreatingWinningGrant which shefounded in1985.Her for School/CollegeCollaboratives, directorship oftheLehman Center 1964 1963 A N was awarded the hasresumedthe [email protected] Brooklyn, NY11234-4304 1740 KimballStreet Class Correspondent Sharon Weinschel Resen Clarksburg, NJ08510 P.O. Box 449 Class Correspondent Felicia FriedlandWeinberg JOEL KLEIN Senior Gamescyclingevents. participate intheHuntsmanWorld St. George, Utah,inOctoberto SANDY GOLDwillbetraveling to Aberdeen, NJ07747-1807 24 JubileeCircle Class Correspondent Barbara BermanLeveene 45 years. 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31 Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 32 B Magazine | Spring 2019 University. professor ofphysicsatSyracuse 2019. Stoneisadistinguished Experimental Particle Physicsfor the W. K.H.Panofsky Prizein SHELDON STONE SETH LEWIN BARRY F. HERSH PHIL HEIT [email protected] New York, NY10003-3927 210 East15thStreet,Apt.10N Class Correspondent Eileen McGinn soloist Chamber musicianandconcert American Reader (Routledge, 2017). Urban Redevelopment: ANorth and auditorganization. longest-established peerreview MedReview, Inc., NewYork’s Services Review Organization/ of theNewYork CountyHealth president andchiefmedicalofficer to becompletedin2019. Records. Theproject,a10-CDset,is François Couperinfor Centaur harpsichord musicofcomposer Children’s Hospital. Medical CenterandNationwide the OhioStateUniversityWexner on preventioninpartnershipwith New Albany. 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Science, Technology, Engineering, Through! HelpingGirlsSucceedin of theaward-winning Breaking GARY ROBBINS HARRIET MOSATCHE GAIL GURLAND this fall. Publishers), whichwas released Where AreYou? (AustinMacauley the children’s picturebookOlives, the recipient continues to meet —Martin Johnson thecriteria. aminimum GPAsciences with of3.5,and may berenewable provided to College aBrooklyn student majoring and inearth environmental Plafker Family Scholarship. Created in2010,the scholarship goes at College Brooklyn to large follow inhis footsteps by endowing the Stanford University in1972.He has worked hard to enable students the University Berkeley, ofCalifornia, in1956and adoctorate at fter Plafker received a bachelorscience of degree at Brooklyn College in1949,hewent onto earn amaster’s degree at ingeology the potential ofthese devastating events today. and tsunamis have altered theway researchers inwhich understand the gold standard. His research onmassive earthquakes and writings the largest inhistory, at 9.5ontheRichter work scale—his became After those conceptsapplying to the Chilean of1960— earthquake convergent boundaries, established theconcept ofplate tectonics. the field. His research onthecauses ofthequake, plate slips at Plafker’s Alaskan study ofthe1964 has earthquake reshaped A was votedtothe istheauthorof istheauthor 1732 MistletoeStreet Class Correspondent Linda E.GrossCarroll Waltham, MA02453 98 BCharlesRiverRoad Class Correspondent Stanley A.Alexander [email protected] Brooklyn, NY11226 494 East18thStreet Class Correspondent Robert J. Miller 1973 1972 1971 Williamsburg, Brooklyn. at theFigureworksGalleryin “Coney Island:FromtheStudio,” the subjectofasoloexhibition, Global TiesU.S.network. 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33 Spring 2019 Spring | B Magazine B 34 B Magazine | Spring 2019 mudflats. majestic mountainstoserene Manhattan skylineandfrom from industriallandfillstothe poetry thatexplores theoutdoors a collectionoflyric andnarrative (Three MileHarborPress,2017), Meadowland Take MyHand [email protected] Brooklyn, NY11201 140 CadmanPlazaWest, #14E Class Correspondent Tami Sheheri [email protected] Milford, PA 18337-7156 105 HussonRoad Class Correspondent Beth DebraKallman Werner PAMELA HUGHES Baldwin Harbor, NY11510-5023 951 Woodoak Drive Class Correspondent Lauren Korn Popkoff Press, 2018). published BlueLyre (DosMadres GINO DIIORIO’s Teacher Action Research. Research andTheJournalof of EthnographicandQualitative published articlesintheJournal Poet Square inMemphis,Tennessee. premiere atPlayhouse inthe DiIorio, Crib, was givenitsworld Nebraska. 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Forman ’78 David ’78 Abramowitz EvansEmily Wolff ’77 Thelma Augenstein Slutsky ’77 Joel Oteri ’77 P.Ellen ’77 Millner —M. J.—M. 2017. Today, the Strand remains afavorite destination forbibliophiles. Bass ofbooks. continuedmiles to retirement work at his theshopuntil in inventory grew inthe1990s, proving thestore’s tagline ofhousing over 18 theirauthors, and answering question. The with 10 titles onetrick store’s employees were famously required to pass atest created by Bass, matching Broadway and 12thStreet, and overseeing arapid expansion. Prospective ftertwo-year a Army, stint inthe he returned home and took over management itto in1956,moving itscurrent ofthebookshop location on many years.” J. —M. loved science and hebrought and excitement optimism to colleagues his for guidance,”under his Vagelos medical told journalLancet. The theBritish to majorAnother ofAl theMerck contribution scientific community mentoringwas his ofyounger became scientists important who biochemists simvastatin would revolutionize cardiac medicine. that1987 ofthecompounds would lead to thecreation oflovastatin and and exercise having been onlymoderately in discovery effective. Alberts’ cardiologists and had scientists to sought lower adrug cholesterol, dieting findinghe wasto lower tasked adrug with cholesterol. Since themid-1960s, a key mentor. He followed Vagelos to thepharmaceuticalwhere firm Merck, took ajob at theNational Institutes ofHealth, where hemet P. Vagelos, Roy pressures,dissertation before and lefttheuniversity his finishing Alberts wherethe University hestudied biology. cell ofMaryland, Beset by financial program at theUniversity then transferred ofKansas, to program asimilar at in 1949. and earnedBronx, abachelor’s degree inEnglish from College Brooklyn hewas 13.Hewhen graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School inthe stretching Place from Astor to Union Square. Fred began working at thestore A “ e was accepted into aPh.D. of science degree in1953. College, where heearned abachelor at Erasmus Hall, then at Brooklyn inManhattan was born lberts but attended school first in Brooklyn, age of87. away inColorado onJune 16at the statin intheUnited States, passed first approved cholesterol-lowering chemical compound that led to the discovered who the Alberts, Alfred Alfred Alberts’53 a booksellers’ rowa booksellers’ shops ofsmall 10th and 11thStreets inwhat was Strand onFourth Avenue between a Lithuanian immigrant, opened the ass inManhattan was born in 1928, theyear father, his Benjamin, the New York scene. literary City one ofthemost influential figures on bookstore inNew York City, Bass was owner oftheiconic Strandwas 89.As 2018 at homeinManhattan; his he Fred Bass passed away inJanuary of Fred Bass’49 H A B “He environment-friendly and livable intheUnited cities States. Portland from 1993to to 2005and led itsstature thecity asoneofthemost atwomen to inAmerica thetime hold such asmayor apost. She served of the role ofspeaker oftheOregon House ofRepresentatives, oneofonlytwo spearheadedalso an overhaul ofOregon’s education system. She ascended to and equal forwomen, rights theLGBTQ community, and migrants. Katz Mel J. —M. Katz. sister, Katz; grandson, Max Katz; Zena Linden; and husband, former artist choreographer by her son, Jesse journalist Martha Graham. survived is Katz in sociology. She renowned studied also dance dancer modern with and earned abachelor’s degree science inpolitical in1955and graduate did work HighRichman School inManhattan and Brooklyn College,where she and Germany ofHitler. therise during Bolsheviks, She attended Julia atz Vera was born Pistrak to parents Russian Germany, inDüsseldorf, in 1933.Her parents had escaped ofthe theirhomeland therise during along with himand explore. J.along —M. with Weston theywere quest, and heinvited a lifelong spiritual to everyone come connections between jazz music are and African an academic exercise; for n 2001,theNational named Endowment himaJazz fortheArts Master, one ofthehighest itconfers honors musicians. upon For many people, the several jazz standards such as“Hi Fly,” “Little Niles,” and “Marrakech Blues.” interpreting therepertoirewrote ofDuke and he Thelonious Ellington Monk, Gnawa people and integrated theirmusic into performances. his Amaster of counterparts. HeAfrican became by intrigued thetraditions particularly ofthe half oftheUnited Nations,Center, Weston fostered frequently which inthe Africa visited exchanges musicians between American and their andRabat then inTangier. He opened Cultural aclub, Rhythms theAfrican early 1960s,and settled in Morocco thereliving in1968,forfive first in years, such asThelonious Roach. Monk and Max meeting place formany ofthepreeminent lived musicians inthearea, who K I On be Trios, became quickly a which operations father’s ofhis restaurant, and returning upon unit, took over the inWorldserved War inasegregated II 1926, and grew intheborough. up He 6, He onApril inBrooklyn was born jazz composer, pianist, and educator. Weston was aprofoundly influential at homeinBrooklyn. He his was 92. 2006, passed away onSeptember 1 Honorary Doctorate inMusic in Weston,Randy received who an Randy Weston curve inadvocating control forgun curve Legislature. She was ahead ofthe her first election to theOregon campaign. Four years later, shewon F. Kennedy’s 1968presidential career stuffing envelopes Robert for She was 84.She began her political at her homeinsouthwest Portland. and leukemia onDecember 11,2017, complications disease from kidney Oregon passed politics, away from Vera figure alegendary in Katz, Vera Katz ’55

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