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The Magazine of Contents Inside Tech The Brooklyn Tech 2 Alumni Foundation Alumni Events 2014-15 4 From the Alumni Foundation President 5 Principal’s Letter 5 Fall 2014 Lifetime Giving Society 22

Research Stars Classic, Revived Did you conduct college-level, Tech’s iconic auditorium gets a publishable research in your Tech 21st century upgrade. 6days? These young Technites do.10 “If you have a niche to be found, you will find it here.”

— Emma Parsons ’15 second generation Technite

Major Achievers Money Man Innovator Tech’s majors system gives Larry Felix ’76 makes more of it Six years out of Tech, he 12students a major advantage. 16than any of us. 18invented the digital . Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation, Inc.

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Engineering Week Regatta: Sink or Swim Who said engineering is a dry subject? every conceivable shape – 60 entries lined up, and all floated, Once a year at Brooklyn Tech, it’s very, very wet. for a few seconds at least. Many actually completed. That would be the annual Cardboard Boat Regatta, the cap- Not surprisingly, the full range of Tech ingenuity surfaced in all stone event of Engineering Week, a week of activities to raise aspects of the competition: design, construction, paddling and awareness of engineering. In navigation techniques and – the Regatta, 200 Technites possibly above all – the scientific aim to demonstrate their principles each team chose to design-and-build prowess, not apply. A sampling of these: in the classroom but in the Tech “The principles of density and swimming pool. resistance.” The object of the Regatta is “Common sense – a point in the as simple as it is absurd: con- front and narrow in the back.” struct a boat entirely out of cardboard and duct tape. Then “The of water motion.” paddle it up and down the pool’s length better than anyone else, “We wanted to keep in mind the point of inertia, and balance all without capsizing or imploding. the forces.” Pirate boats, rubber duck boats, ungainly contraptions of “Perpendicularly corrugated cardboard for maximum strength.”

2 Class of 2014

A Barclays Sendoff

The entrance exam:

“We calculated Force B, One step closer to sheer Providing Access, Maintaining Excellence buoyancy, and Force G, simplicity was the strategy of Legislation to revise the admissions criteria for Brooklyn Tech and seven other specialized gravity, to determine Sigma a team of freshmen, which high schools, by breaking with the historically successful use of a single fair entrance exam, F – the net force.” didn’t win but did finish. was introduced and tabled in the last session of the State Legislature. The bill is expected to be re-introduced once the Legislature reconvenes. The Brooklyn The winning team used “We used hope,” Tech Alumni Foundation has taken the lead in both pointing out the bill’s deep flaws, and in a simpler approach: “We said team member making recommendations to attract more students from underrepresented communities to measured it so it would stay Angelina Tham. the specialized high schools. together,” said sophomore To read the Alumni Foundation position paper and learn more, visit www.bthsalumni.org. Aida Anesmi. Gerry Goffin ’57 Gerry Goffin ’57, a lyricist who with then-wife Carole King wrote some of the most endur- ing songs of the 1960s including “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?,” died on June 19 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 75. Goffin met King in 1958 when they were both students at Queens College. Their marriage and divorce were the basis of Broadway’s Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Their work has been recorded by 1960s megastars including the Beatles, the Supremes and Aretha Franklin. Goffin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 – the only Technite enshrined there. Rebecca T. Kaplan ’09

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4 An Outstanding Larry Cary ’70 High School The 2013-2014 academic year was a good one for Brooklyn Tech. Of 20,000 high schools nationwide reviewed by U.S. News & World Report, Tech ranked 60th. The racial and ethnic makeup of the student body may have changed from your era, but as it was for you, Tech provides the children of working and middle class families with an outstanding education that enables them to succeed in college and in life. In the pages of this issue, you will meet some of them. I suspect you will marvel, as I did, at their talents and achievements. seventy-nine percent of the student body belongs to a minority group, with Asian Ameri- can students the largest in number. Eighteen percent are African-American or Hispanic. Two thirds of the students speak a foreign lan- guage at home. All are admitted, as you were, on the basis of a competitive exam. From Nearly 30,000 students sit for it. Tech, Randy Asher the largest of the specialized high schools, The Principal can still accommodate only 1,350 fresh- men each year. Brooklyn Tech has long been a place where immigrants Tech students rank among or the children of immigrants can begin to achieve the City’s highest academic achievers. Last American dream by challenging themselves to compete year’s class had an average combined SAT with the best and brightest amongst their peers. Our cur- math and reading score of 1250, which rent students reflect a population that is often not what is puts the school among the top 10 in expected when looking at institutions with our historical the City. Tech’s academic and athletic record of success. Over 65% of them are eligible for free or reduced lunch, teams performed very well this year. because their family income is at or below poverty line. In 70% of our The Mock Trial Team won the city-wide households, the primary language spoken is one other than English. These championship. The Debate Team took students, most of whom may be the first in their family to attend college, first place in several categories at the New are the backbone of the Tech experience. The unparalleled support of our York State championships. The Robot- Alumni and an outstanding faculty create an environment that is transfor- ics Team won the city-wide competition mational in their lives. and scored silver in the national finals. Iconic courses like Foundry and IP have evolved through the years as The Girls Lacrosse Team won the city- have the majors themselves. What has remained consistent is the level of wide championship as did the Boys Cross rigor to which students are exposed, the alignment of our instructional Country Team. objectives to the expectations of colleges and universities, the insight shared You have the right to feel proud of what by our partners in industry to help craft the next generation of skilled em- Tech is doing today. Alumni help has ployees and the recognition of student accomplishments surpassing local, provided critical support to promoting state and national benchmarks. The students, like the faculty and adminis- Tech’s academic and athletic excellence. tration, are aware that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Technites and I thank you for what you have done to faculty emeriti have changed the world for generations. help. Please get involved with our programs to enable the next generation of Oh, by the way: while we know that students to be even more successful. You can do this by mentoring research too much emphasis can be placed on students, hiring interns, contributing financial support, creating partner- comparing one school to another based ships in your industry or serving in an advisory capacity to one of our simply on ranking, you will be pleased academic sequences. to know that Tech scored higher in the On behalf of our students, parents, and faculty thank you for your con- national rankings than Stuyvesant. (60th tinued support. vs 69th) Yes, it was a very good year! Randy J. Asher Larry Cary ’70 Principal President Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation 5 W e s t o n R e s e a r c h S c h o l a r s P r o g r a m Young Researchers

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

igh school students In a program developed and Weston Scholars have as young as 16 run by Alumni Foundation joined research teams at Albert and 17 conducting scientific Chief Educational Officer Dr. Einstein College of Medicine, research at a college level, and Mathew Mandery, students City University Research Cen- getting published? Where else pair with a mentor-teacher at ter, NYU, NYU-Polytechnic, but…Brooklyn Tech. Tech and a college professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Thanks to the generosity of scientist or engineer to con- Cancer Center and Mount Si- Josh Weston ’46 and his wife duct original research. Many nai Hospital. Judy, the Weston Research Schol- Weston projects have won and On the following pages, a ars Program has created this ex- excelled in competitions and sampling of these astonishingly traordinary opportunity for 62 been published and presented sophisticated research endeavors Technites since its 2012 incep- at scientific conferences. All of and the Technites conducting tion. The first of these young this takes place in addition to a them: scholars entered college this fall. full course load.

6 Shadae Boakye- Yiadom ’14 Major: Gateway to Medicine College: Polytechnic Institute of

Weston project: Develop a safer, more precise and environmentally friendly tranquilizing dart gun to re- strain aquatic animals. Poly- technic Institute of New York University

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

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

7 Sarah Panitz ’15 Major: Electro-Mechanical Engineering

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

8 Emma Costa ’14 Major: Gateway to Medicine College: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Weston project: Glioblastoma research in Me- morial Sloan Kettering’s Hu- man Oncology Pathogenesis Program, under a prominent neurosurgeon: “My work was focused on understanding the relationship between two key receptors, EGFR and PDG- FRA, in glioblastoma tumor growth. I worked with profes- sionals in both the clinical and research fields.”

The project won third prize in a citywide science competition.

Alexander Chong ’15 and Eva Justo ’15 Majors: Biological Sciences/Chemical Engineering

Weston project: Investigate levels and diversity of bacteria species in four different estuaries after Hurricane Sandy to assess ecological recovery. Kingsborough Community College. This project won first place in a statewide scholastic science competition.

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

Weston project: To learn more about Observe the biodiversity of plant species these young scholars in Brooklyn Bridge Park through identi- and their work, please fication of bio-indicators. turn to page 21. 9 Revival of A Classic The auditorium gets a facelift

10 “I remember… Seeing the effects of the hydrogen bomb displayed on a screen.” Mayors LaGuardia, Lindsay, DOYLE WARREN ’59 Giuliani and Bloomberg have graced its stage. Directors James Cameron and Spike Lee have vis- ited. Probably every Technite can remember their first day in our imposing, impressive auditorium. The three-story hall, replete with historic chandeliers and marble flooring, fills alumni with nostalgia. Tech’s 3,000-seat auditorium is the third largest in . It’s in the final stages of a multi-year multi-million dollar upgrade to renovate it with state-of-the-art audio, lighting and stage area improvements. “I remember… Funding was provided by the New How unbelievably hot it got. York City Council and the Brook- Everyone wore shorts under lyn Borough President’s Office. their gowns at graduation.” The auditorium is increasing- NAZARY NEBELUK ’10 ly used to house community and public events, and this renovation will make it more accessible for them. The final stage of the reno- vation will add air conditioning so it can truly be a year-round resource for students and the community. (Remember sweating in 90 degree weather through those last end-of-year activities each June? No more, soon!) With the renovation, all “I remember… ‘Look to your left. Look to orchestra seats have been reup- your right. One of those guys won’t graduate.’” holstered, and the three surviving Dr. Steven Bornfeld, ’69. iconic chandeliers were totally re- furbished and refitted with energy efficient LED bulbs. MajorIt’s always been about the Advantage majors.

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

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Tech prepares students, as Principal Randy Asher likes to note, Aerospace Engineering Architectural Engineering for careers and professions that may not yet exist. Accordingly, the Biological Sciences actual majors have changed significantly over time to keep pace with Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering a changing world. College Prep Electro-Mechanical Engineering Principal Asher has been carrying out an updating and revising of Environmental Science Research the majors for the 21st century. Many students and their parents say Gateway to Medicine Industrial Design it is the majors program that attracted them to the school. Law & Society For 2014, Tech offered its students a choice of 16 majors, listed Mathematics Media at right. How many of these do you recognize? Is your major on the Physics Social Science Research list, or has it gone the way of the foundry and the Step V block? Software Engineering

Meet some of the remarkable young people excelling in their majors…

Ejiro Ojeni ’15 admonition: “We have to on an infinite grid of resistors. research paper, a 30-page Environmental Science get rid of the mindset that we tech taught him: To com- exploration into finding pat- can trash the planet with no municate more effectively: terns in generalized complex comment: “Environmental consequences.” “Scientists need to know how functions, won a silver medal Science is not a tree-hugging to communicate their ideas in the NYC Math Fair. She major!” Jacob Mazor ’14 and projects.” presented it to a judging panel career plan: Combat air of three professors. (University of Chicago) pollution as an environmental volunteers with: NYPD, engineer: “I’m looking for Mathematics Keri Huang ’15 Mathematics Red Cross, NYC Marathon, solutions.” career Plan: Researcher and Educational Alliance, tutoring accomplishments so far: professor of particle physics. Designer: Keri designed math. At age 11, successfully lobbied Recent Achievements: (and is shown wearing) her an American Story: Keri local officials for more street Captain, math team. Wrote class year’s sweatshirt for emigrated to the U.S. from litter baskets. At Tech, collected two 30-page research papers, the math major. China at age 12. Gowanus Canal water samples one on orbital mechanics, one Researcher: Her first to test bioremediation agents.

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Michelle Cera ’14 (University of California, Berkeley) Social Science Research

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

Rebecca Baron ’14 (McCaulay Honors College, City University of NY) Biological Sciences

Inventor: On a summer intern- ship at Mount Sinai Medical Center, arranged via the Alumni Foundation, designed a cell phone app for hepatitis C patients to track their condition. Pre- sented it to a board of physicians, who approved it for production and use. Mohammad Al Amin ’15 Student Athlete: Top three borough-wide champion runner (5K Software Engineering and 3,000 meter). : Started studying the brain in 7th grade (includ- Renaissance Student: Violin-playing, programming-whiz ing watching videos of brain surgeries on YouTube). Aspires to be a cheerleader; runs an IT support business. Ask for his contact neuro- or pediatric surgeon. info, and he’ll hand you a business card. Has never found Service Personified: Was president of Beta, a community service time for a formal lunch or free period in three years at Tech. club at Tech; chaired the National Honor Society’s mentoring com- Quote: “Many people see programming as lines of code. It’s mittee, which introduced middle school students to Tech. really about using tools to create something. Programming is art.”

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Zaria Holcomb ’15 Biological Sciences

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

Reaz Rahman ’15* and Shaeed McLeod ’14 (Georgia Institute of Technology) Electro-Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Science *Weston Research Scholar

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

Kevin Baichoo ’14 (University of Pennsylvania) Software Engineering

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

Emma Parsons ’15 Social Science Research

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

15 Profile Larry Felix

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

16 Meet the Brooklyn Tech alum who arry is Director of Tech training could help him his Chinese hosts apologized makes more money the master any challenge, he would profusely for not matching his Bureau of Engraving and reply, “Yes. Absolutely.” And hospitality with a flyover by than any of us. Printing — the agency that then walk out the door, clueless their leader. prints our money. as to what he would do next. It’s a big job, and it’s getting But not clueless for very long. It turns out that a lot of sci- He’s Larry Felix bigger every year. As his successes grew, the sce- ence lies within the art of mak- Despite recessions, credit nario shifted slightly. Now, a ing 21st century money: The ’76, and he makes cards, e-payments, bitcoins and top boss would sit him down chemistry of ink and solvents. $358 billion a year. all the rest, the appetite for U.S. and say, “Larry, I know you’re The visible and hidden phys- currency grows every year. It’s not an engineer, but do you ics and optics of counterfeit Larry’s job to meet the demand. think you could be our Chief prevention. It’s a lot for a non- and, in this age of digital Engineer?” Or, “Larry, you science guy to be in charge of. high-tech counterfeiting, it’s don’t really have the educational It’s a good thing indeed that an increasingly challenging credentials, but can you serve as Larry was an attentive student and technology-based job. Chief Technology Officer?” during those Brooklyn Tech Who else but a Technite to handle it? “It’s a pretty darn good classes and labs. Back in the day, his Tech thing,” he says today, “that I some years back, a group of teachers and classmates would went to Brooklyn Tech.” Bureau engineers and scien- not have predicted this career Pretty soon, he had climbed tists met to resolve a problem path. A College Prep major, he so high up the ladder that there bedeviling the money-makers: fully intended to become a his- was only one job left. In 2006, Something during the press tory teacher. the Treasury Department gave plate cleanup process was un- But there were hints, if you him the Director’s office. expectedly gumming up the looked closer. Larry was captain and a fairly cool office it is. works by causing a severe foam of the Audio Visual Squad. More Most days — including the buildup. Larry sat in on the important, he learned — as have crisp fall afternoon TechTimes session. generations of Tech students — visited — the Presidential a dim memory from Brook- how to solve a motorcade glides right by the lyn Tech’s Chem Lab quickly problem. ground level window. “On his came into focus. And so, a pat- way to lunch,” Larry, barely “Have you guys looked at tern emerged looking up, explained. the lauryl sulfate in the mix- at the Bureau Sometimes the routine var- ture?” he asked the scientists in of Engraving and Printing, the ies and the President zips over- the room. After their mouths agency he joined in 1991: vexed head in a helicopter. One day, dropped, one of them said, supervisors would call him into this happened as Larry was re- “That’s exactly the path we’re their office and say, “We have a ceiving some dignitaries from following. How did you know problem, can you fix it?” China. The following year, that?” Confident that his Brooklyn when he reciprocated the visit, Larry Felix just smiled.

MONEY MATTERS Here are some questions Brooklyn Tech’s Money Man, Larry Felix ’76, gets asked often: Why is our money green? What does it cost to make them? How many times would I have to fold So the cashless economy is shrinking Nobody’s really sure. The answer comes down Ten cents a note. a bill before it tears? demand for paper notes? to, because that’s what it always was. That 8,000. Actually, demand is growing 7% yearly. In part said, green pigment ink has long been readily Why make so much money? because nothing else is as anonymous. available, and resists chemical and physical Over 90% of it ships out to replace aging notes How much does $1 million weigh? changes well. Plus, people are believed to as- whose lifespan is over. In $1 bills, 2,040.8 pounds. So in $100 bills, And the question Larry Felix gets sociate green with warm fuzzy feelings toward just 20.4 pounds. asked most… the government’s strength and stability. How long does a bill stay in circula- tion? How much U.S. money circulates Can I have a free sample? How much money does Larry make? Almost six years for a $1 bill. More like 15 outside U.S. borders? 8.4 billion individual notes a year, totaling $358 for a $100 note, because it changes hands Over 70% of it. People overseas like the green- No. billion. less often. back for all kinds of reasons, while we’ve moved toward cashless transactions. 17 Talking With…. Steve Sasson: On Innovation

Steve Sasson ’68

Few people invent something that changes the way we live. Steven J. Sassson ’68 is one of them. Just six years after graduating from Brooklyn Tech, Sasson invented the .

A researcher for the world’s largest manufacturer of photographic film, Eastman Company, he cobbled spare parts and low-cost electronics components into an eight pound aluminum gadget the size of a bread box. It took him less than a year.

No one at Kodak had assigned him this mission. It was just something he decided to do. 18 A recipient of the National Medal of Technology and be faster and better, that digital memory would shrink in size and cost, that Innovation, the highest honor the United States awards there would be a non-volatile solid state to scientists, engineers and inventors, and inducted into the form of memory. I couldn’t see any fundamental reason, any law of physics, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Sasson was Tech’s 2013 saying it couldn’t happen. Commencement speaker. He sat down with TechTimes T2: Kodak’s reaction covered the spectrum, after the ceremony to talk about … innovation. from fear to ambivalence to great interest. What did it feel like to you when the time It was a brief conversation. A boss at Kodak A.: I used to call it filmless photography. A came to show the bosses your invention? asked the 24-year-old researcher to take an bad choice, right? A.: No one ever asked me how I got the open-ended look at an image sensor, based thing to work – I had spent years working on light-sensitive capacitors, that another T2: At Kodak, definitely. Did you consider on it, all kinds of technical tricks. Nobody company had just developed. No targets, that before proceeding to invent? really cared about the technical effort. expectations or directions were set. A.: The [first] images didn’t look good; What they cared about was the future: they were black and white. Exposure “When will it be commercializable? 2 So did you wake up one day and say, T : time was 50 milliseconds, but it took When’s it for consumers?” “I think I’ll invent the digital camera”? 23 seconds to record the information It was a very casual kind of assign- A.: [onto tape] from the internal memory. 2 Did you know? ment. I thought since no one was looking T : I thought: I’m not going to endanger I didn’t. I used Moore’s Law: I had and it was a very open atmosphere, “Let A.: anybody with this thing – it was so far 10,000-pixel images. How many pixels me see if I can capture an image [elec- away. I just loved the idea of light, silicon, would be equivalent to a consumer color tronically].” Then I thought, “If I can do no moving parts, all digital. New ideas – film? Two million. So it was 200 to that, I’ll have to display it, and I’ll need putting them together, could I get this to one. I asked, “When will Moore’s Law a way to do that. Wouldn’t it be neat if work? This was the tinkerer in me. I was predict the 200-to-one range?” That’s how I could build something like a camera? so lucky to be in a place that had a lot of desperate I was. I came up with 15 to 20 Store an image somehow, and then gener- [spare] parts, and smart people around me years – not even knowing if Moore’s Law ate a television signal somehow and put it to ask questions of. applied to transducers like the Charge on a TV set.” Coupled imaging array I was using. (Edi- 2 T : But many colleagues must have thought tor’s note: it basically does, and the estimate 2 What drove you? T : you a nonconformist who worked on crazy was essentially right on the money. Sasson I thought I’d try to build a camera A.: stuff all day long. How does an inventor modestly considers this “dumb luck.” Smart with no moving parts at all. As a kid, I disregard that and keep going? luck might be more accurate.) loved building stuff – stuff that had no A.: I didn’t think about that at all. Inno- purpose. Maybe it was a little bit of the vators tend to think about “the problem” 2 What else did they ask you? Brooklyn Tech in me. You know, “Let T : more than about themselves. That’s In the early days, “Why would me try to do something really nuts here, A.: why inventors are bad dressers. (Laughs) anybody want to look at a picture on a and drive these other guys crazy.” I just You’re thinking about the problem, the television set?” Even at the time I thought thought it would be fun. joy of trying to solve it. I wasn’t really that was a bad question. We had a slide thinking about what people would think business that projected film onto a wall, 2 There had to be an intellectual T : of me, until I started showing it and peo- much bigger than a TV set. There were challenge too. ple started asking me questions. [Then] many good questions: “What’s a photo I thought, “I can freeze time.” That’s A.: I became sensitive to the fact that this album going to look like?” what digitalization does. You take a potentially could impact the business. continuous wave form, sample it and turn T2: And then there were the doubters. it into numbers that get stored in digital 2 T : You were swimming on your own into Experts will tell you all the reasons memory – for as long as you want. I was A.: deep uncharted waters. Where does the something won’t happen. That’s their job. simply thinking about removing film from motivation and discipline come from to keep They know the limits of an idea. That’s the chain and viewing images electroni- going? what research is about. It isn’t about how cally. I thought that would be cool. A.: Don’t feel like you have to know the things work; it’s about the ways things answer for everything. The whole world can’t work. I don’t have time to tell you 2 How did you break the news to your T : is inventing along with you. I had to all the reasons I heard, over 30 years, why employer, the global giant of film? have faith that microprocessors would digital would never exist. 19 “I just loved the idea of light, silicon, no moving parts, all digital.”

President Obama presents Steven Sasson with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation T2: How did that not stop you in your tracks expose it for a fraction of a second, get an convince them. That requires a different a thousand times? incredible image, store it in your camera set of skills. Your idea is only as good as A.: I would say, “OK, you are way smarter maybe for five years. Develop it, and your explanation of it – how clearly you than me.” I was never the smartest person project it. All for about half a cent. That’s demonstrate it, how convincing you are. in the room. I would listen to them and what we were trying to displace, We knew You work on an idea for five years, and then I’d say, “Go with me for a second. how good our system would have to be. you explain it to people for the first time Those three reasons you just told me in five minutes. And you’re disappointed why this won’t work. Just make believe T2: But at first it wasn’t. Low resolution, that they don’t get it. Just being right is somebody solved them.” And they would and no easy way to show and share. not enough. You have to tell your story. say, “Maybe you could do this, or maybe A.: When we built an experimental digital that.” All of a sudden, the expert’s a little camera that looked and acted a lot like T2: Difficult for some technology-centric bit outside the pie. Now he’s free to think today’s modern DSLRs, I asked Marketing people to do. a little more aggressively. if they could sell it and they said, “Yes, A.: It’s not what technical people do, but but not if it comes at the expense of one it’s so important: writing intelligently, T2: How does an inventor know if his or her film camera.” They asked me, “What making a presentation, letting your emo- idea is a good one? If the invention that the economic model are you proposing for tions and passions show through in a idea turns into is good? this new technology that will enhance our controlled way. A.: Remember, you can’t displace a tech- return?” I couldn’t come up with a good nology unless it is as good as the technol- business model. All I knew was that we T2: In your Commencement speech to the ogy you’re displacing in every aspect. And could do it, and that it indeed had several Tech grads, you encouraged them not to fear then, better in at least one. advantages over film. For the next 10 years failure. What were you getting at? Kodak spent a lot of money trying to A.: Failing is wonderful. It is totally T2: How did you demonstrate that in your figure out when it could happen, but they underrated. You learn so much more. company, decades before personal computers, didn’t really want to see it happen. The Thomas Edison was asked about the thou- cell phones, the Internet and selfies? irony was that there was more work going sand experiments he did before succeeding A.: People were very happy, thank you, on inside Kodak on at the electric bulb: “Wasn’t that a waste with photography. Film was really good. than anywhere in the world. of time?” His answer was, “Of course not. It was a highly profitable model that the I know a thousand ways how not to make consumer was very happy with. Think T2: What are some lessons from your experi- a light bulb.” That’s the process of success. As about it: Something this big (holds his ence that inventors can take away? people see the product the end result of a suc- fingers a few centimeters apart) you could A.: I learned over my career that not cess. They forget the process that led to it. manufacture for a tenth of a cent and everyone has your technical background buy for a few cents. Put it in any camera, or experiential base, yet you have to

20 Westons (Continued from page 9) Shadae Boakye-Yiadom ’14 sports seasons woman in the room. But my mentors at • Get home about Brooklyn Tech encouraged me to express Shadae’s Career 10 p.m. during my interests, and go after what I aspired to Plan, As of Now: robotics season achieve. At Tech I learned to have confi- 1. major in mechani- • squeeze in 3-4 dence in myself.” cal engineering and hours of homework Japanese • Get about ½ hour Alexander Chong ’15 2. Work in Japan for of free time before bedtime and Eva Justo ’15 an employer that builds high-speed bullet trains (which are more common “I always liked to build things. The Weston Big Plans: in that country). program got me interested in research as Their Weston project’s 3. return home with the expertise she well. More generally, Tech has increased my purpose was to explore acquires in Japan; join the team that interest in STEM subjects.” concerns that storm- builds the first bullet train in the U.S. caused sewage overflows might pollute Victoria Majarali ’14 recreational waters. The study concluded Co-published in the Annual Conference that recovery levels were adequate. Proceedings Journal of the American As- Activist Scientist: sociation of Zoo Veterinarians; semi-finalist, Victoria collected 100 Alexander: “Tech has taught me time man- Junior Stockholm Water Award, 2012 samples over three agement skills and how to be independent.” years and discovered His current interests: Jonathan Cheng ’14 evidence of possible soil • On the track team contamination in the aftermath of Hurri- • studying telomeres* Beyond the Book: cane Sandy, which she reported to the His post-Tech plan: Jonathan designed Parks Department. • Earn a Ph.D. in biochemistry and built his inven- • Pursue a career in medicine tion from scratch, at Emma Costa ’14 Brooklyn Tech. He has Eva: “I have teachers who know what it been designing robots Class of 2014 means to be in a college class.” since age 12. Valedictorian Her research resume so far: Career Interests: • rutgers University “With the facilities, teachers and resources Oncology and neuro- • science Research Mentoring Program, Tech provided me, I was able to understand science American Museum of Natural History complex engineering concepts that went • Black Rock Forest Consortium beyond the book. With so many hands-on Emma won Tech’s highest student honor, Her post-Tech plan: activities at Tech, I could see how concepts the Blue and White Award, for outstand- • study biochemistry; “Get a good basis and formulas apply to real-life projects.” ing overall achievement; she scheduled in all the sciences.” each 10-hour day of classes and extracur- • Work in gene therapy Sarah Panitz ’15 ricular leadership meticulously with a bound planner: “I organize my life so I * At the tips of chromosomes, they prevent the loss of DNA during cell division Sarah’s Typical Day: don’t have to plan at the last minute.” • Enter the Brooklyn Tech gates by 8 a.m. “Being a woman in science isn’t the easiest • Get home about 6 or 7 p.m. during path. Often I am the only, or the second,

Why I Give Why I Give Willard Archie ’61 Bonnie Kong ’08 Headed the nation’s largest Financial Analyst, JP Morgan Chase minority-owned CPA firm “Even a small donation makes a difference. “Tech gave me an introduction to the world. I I remember how $50 could buy a whole chemistry didn’t have family members who were profession- set for one class.” als, who could talk about architecture or engineering.” How Bonnie gives: Marked her first year of post-college How Willard gives: “I keep up with what’s happening at Tech, fulltime work with her first donation:“I intend to give annually.” and I hear good things. I’ve made a gift every year since the Alumni Foundation began.”

21 Lifetime Giving This list reflects total lifetime giving through July 1, 2014 above $1,000. Many thanks to all the contributors who have not yet reached that level but whose contributions are making a difference at Brooklyn Tech.

$1,000,000 + Chase Manhattan Bank Arthur H. Kettenbeil ’67 Robinson Silverman Pearce Joseph A. Cavallo ’58 Isaac Heller ’43 Friends of Tech Computer Associates Anthony P. Schirripa ’67 aronsohn & Berman LLP Joseph B. Ciccone ’58 Norman K. Keller ’54 Dorcey Chernick International, Inc. William C. Wurst ’67 Textron Charitable Trust Barry D. Epstein ’58 Leandro P. Rizzuto ’56 Jason Haitkin Cowles Media Foundation Lloyd Zeitman ’69 The Jay Chiat Foundation, Stanley M. Ferber ’58 Leonard Riggio ’58 Penny Haitkin Durst Group Charles J. Rose ’70 Inc. Kenneth D. Greene ’58 Charles B. Wang ’62 Betty J. Mayer FIRST Robotics Roger E. Schechter ’70 James H. M. Malley ’58 GameStop Corporation Barry Sohnen ’70 $2,500 + Stuart Schube ’58 $500,000 + Organizations Goldman Sachs Marty Borruso ’71 Louis K. Robbins ’30 Donald J. Stahl ’58 Fred M. Grafton ’44 American Express Heritage Mechanical Steven A. Hallem ’72 Virgil V. Chiavetta ’35 Thomas V. Delfina ’59 Josh S. Weston ’46 Foundation Services, Inc. Arnold Goldman ’73 L. Remsen Skidmore, Jr. ’37 Robert Ennis ’59 BTHS Alumni John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Jonathan D. Dubin ’74 Ernest E. Pearson Jr. ’40 Richard R. Ferrara ’59 Organizations Long Island Chapter Mancini Duffy Edward M. Rosensteel ’74 James E. Amrhein ’41 Zachary C. Fluhr ’59 Goldman Sachs Gives C. R. Bard Foundation Marathon Bank Seth Ruzi ’76 Rudolph Bahr Jr. ’41 Stephen A. Levine ’59 Annual Giving Fund Keyspan Math For America Inc Elizabeth M. Wieckowski ’79 Joseph P. Barbieri ’41 Valentine P. Povinelli, Jr. ’59 National Grid MBS Textbook Exchange Hau Yee Ng-Lo ’80 Eugene L. Fieldhammer ’42 Robert J. Stalzer ’59 $200,000 + Simpson, Thacher & Merrill Lynch & Co. Wilton Cedeno ’82 Robert W. Mann ’42 Michael A. Antino ’60 Erik Klokholm ’40 Bartlett LLP Foundation Margaret Murphy ’83 J. L. Snoke ’43 Michael T. Cohen ’60 Harold Antler ’46 The Segal Company Joel M. Fields ’60 Mary & Richard Schnoor ’49 John Klvac ’60 Victor Insetta ’57 $10,000 + Walter Skuggevig ’60 Achilles Perry ’58 Louis Walkover ’37 Richard E. Sorensen ’60 James Fantaci ’64 Frederick H. Ajootian ’41 Anonymous ’61 Floyd Warkol ’65 Roy B. Simpson ’41 Robert H. Digby ’61 John A. Catsimatidis ’66 Daniel K. Roberts ’43 Kenneth A. East ’61 Armand J. Valenzi ’44 Warren L. Gutheil ’61 Organizations Sidney A. Mayer ’46 Robert F. Kelly ’61 Con Edison Ronald P. Stanton ’46 Frank R. Luszcz ’61 Wesley E Truesdell ’46 John R. Murphy ’61 $100,000 + Joseph N. Sweeney ’48 Joel A. Aragona ’62 Frederick C. Meyer ’40 LeRoy N. Callender ’50 Warren Christie ’62 Charles A. DeBenedittis ’48 Lawrence Sirovich ’51 Joseph Macnow ’62 Alfred Lerner ’51 Michael D. Nadler ’52 Samuel D. Cheris ’63 Lee James Principe ’56 George Suffal ’53 Vincent DeLuca ’63 Michael F. Parlamis ’58 Lawrence C. Lynnworth ’54 Ed R. Diamond ’63 Jeffrey M. Haitkin ’62 Len Edelstein ’55 John Glidewell ’63 Herbert L. Henkel ’66 John Moy ’58 SIAC Kenneth D. Daly ’84 Oscar A. Levi ’44 Steven Protass ’63 Michael Tannenbaum ’58 T.E.C. Systems, Inc. John Liu ’98 Al Roffman ’44 Jeffrey A. Stein ’63 Friends of Tech William A. Davis Jr. ’59 TD Bank, NA Kaeisha T. O’Neal ’99 Dominic N. Castellano ’45 Benjamin E. Feller ’64 Richard Mack Richard E. LaMotta ’60 The Lotos Foundation Arthur A. Feder ’45 Michael Greenstein ’65 Stephen C. Mack Patricia Vasbinder & The New York Community Friends of Tech Henry H. Frank ’45 Frederic H. Jacobs ’65 Victor B. Montana ’60 Trust Randell Barclay Robert W. Citron ’46 Joel Seidner ’65 Organizations Bernard R. Gifford ’61 The Durst Organization Syd Blatt Irwin Dorros ’46 Stephen L. Shupack ’65 BTHS Parent Teachers Michael Levine ’61 Time Warner Brian Cosgrove Gerard Hirschhorn ’46 Paul J. Angelides ’66 Association Mathew M. Mandery ’61 Lucia DeSanti Erwin L. Schaub ’46 Vincent D’Onofrio ’66 George W. Moran ’61 $5,000 + James Dimon Arnold Jaffe ’47 Samuel Estreicher ’66 $50,000 + John B. Rofrano ’61 Ernest R. Schultz ’25 Al Ferrara Saunder Schaevitz ’47 Mike L. Johnson ’66 Joseph J. Jacobs ’34 Edward R. Rothenberg ’61 Allan C. Johnson ’28 William L. Haines Joel F. Lehrer ’48 Chester Lee ’66 Martin V. Alonzo ’48 Douglas Besharov ’62 Charles Kyrie Kallas ’37 Kiseon Ko Frank S. Vigilante ’48 Michael J. Macaluso ’66 Thomas J. Volpe ’53 Murray Dropkin ’62 Frederick DeMatteis ’40 Thomas Lowry Harry H. Birkenruth ’49 Louis G. Adolfsen ’67 Anthony J. Armini ’55 Joseph Angelone ’63 Eugene V. Kosso ’42 Stephen Mazur Stephen P. Cuff ’49 Al D’Elia ’67 Peter A. Ferentinos ’55 Thomas C. DeCanio ’63 David W. Wallace ’42 Joan Riegel James E. Dalton ’49 Jerry M. Friedman ’67 Joseph J. Kaminski ’56 Steve H. Kaplan ’63 Lawrence G. Rubin ’43 Jonathan Riegel Stanley D. Margolin ’49 Donald P. McConnell ’67 Richard M. Kulak ’56 Edward P. Salzano ’64 Bertram Quelch ’45 Randi Rossignol Saul Muchnick ’49 Alfred J. Mulvey ’67 William L. Mack ’57 William H. Wong ’64 Robert Gresl ’46 John Thonet Gerald F. Ross ’49 Ron S. Adler ’68 Michael A. Weiss ’57 Alan M. Silberstein ’65 Irwin Smiley ’46 Charles J. Sisti ’49 Kenneth S. Albano ’68 Robert C. Ochs ’59 Ned Steele ’68 Robert J. Domanoski ’47 Organizations Chester P. Soling ’49 Richard S. Feinstein ’68 Jacob Feinstein ’60 John DiDomenico ’69 Gordon H. Hensley ’47 Air Products Joseph J. Kohn ’50 Richard W. Turnbull ’69 Louis H. Siracusano, Sr. ’60 Jeffrey L. Goldberg ’69 Robert J. Pavan ’47 Bonanza Productions, Inc. Arthur M. Dinitz ’51 Lance Turner ’70 Willard N. Archie ’61 Alan S. Natter ’69 Irwin Shapiro ’47 Burson-Marsteller John J. Huson ’52 James Ellerbee ’71 Michael Minikes ’61 William J. Rouhana Jr. ’69 Donald Bady ’48 Cary Kane LLP Sheldon Katz ’52 Alan Flash ’71 Rande H. Lazar ’69 Tony Bartolomeo ’70 Herbert A. Granath ’48 Cellini Fine Jewelry Kenneth E. Batcher ’53 Frederick A. Frenzel Jr. ’71 Carmine A. Morano ’72 Larry L. Cary ’70 Bert Krauss ’50 Chicago Bridge & William J. D’Antonio ’53 Allan Chong ’72 George Graf ’70 Lee H. Pomeroy ’50 Iron Company Robert J. Heilen ’53 Victor J. Dasaro ’72 Organizations George L. Van Amson ’70 Ralph B. Wagner ’51 Credit Suisse Securities Sidney Levitsky ’53 Robert Femenella ’72 Ingersoll Rand James DiBenedetto ’71 Murray Farash ’52 Deutsche Bank Stuart K. Pertz ’53 Robert M. Ianniello ’72 Domingo Gonzalez ’72 Carl H. Kiesewetter ’55 Duggal Color Projects, Inc. Robert H. Tuffias ’53 Robert E. Kupiec ’72 $25,000 + Keith Forman ’76 Floyd R. Orr ’55 Eastern Metalworks, Inc. Erwin Zeuschner ’53 Robert J. Paterna ’72 John C. Siltanen ’31 Susan Mayham ’76 Les P. Kalmus ’56 El Paso Energy Foundation Peter J. Kolesar ’54 Eric D. Barthell ’75 Arnold J. Melloy ’40 Nicholas Y. Chu ’77 Edward D. Miller ’56 Gateway Institute for Pre- Ivan D. Steen ’54 Bradford R. Jones ’75 Murray H. Neidorf ’45 Franklin F. Lee ’77 William H. Henry ’57 College Education Donald Lanier ’55 Gerard Justvig ’75 Stuart Kessler ’47 Stephen J. Lovell ’57 Haights Cross Operating Owen D. McBride ’55 Thomas Breglia ’76 David Abraham ’48 Friends of Tech Raymond M. Loew ’58 Company Jean G. Miele Jr. ’55 Eugene Picone ’76 George E. Safiol ’50 Emanuel Becker Robert J. Ciemian ’59 ITW Foundation Robert F. Dendy ’56 George S. Cuhaj ’77 Joseph M. Colucci ’54 Elizabeth Korevaar Glenn Y. Louie ’59 Laura Berdon Foundation Joel O. Lubenau ’56 Marc B. Mazur ’77 Robert F. Davey ’58 Ellen Mazur Thomson Robert C. DiChiara ’63 Lucent Technologies Dan M. Ruesterholz ’56 George Mejias ’77 William Sheluck, Jr. ’58 Daniel Stahl Joseph F. Azara Jr. ’64 M & I Electric Industries, Bernard J. Stein ’56 Keith Franklin ’78 Howard Fluhr ’59 Jonnie Stahl K. Steven Horlitz ’64 Inc. Salvatore J. Vitale Jr. ’56 Michelle Y. Johnson-Lewis Eric Kaltman ’60 Randi Zinn Domenick J. Esposito ’65 Morgan Stanley Cybergrants Robert B. 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22 Norbert F. Giesse ’83 Carl V. Pernicone ’42 Lino A. Graglia ’48 William Cullen ’53 Edward Haleman ’58 Curtis K. Goss ’62 Horace H. Davis ’84 Karl M. Sandbo ’42 Louis Gross ’48 Clifford J. Daly ’53 Marvin L. Meistrich ’58 Steven Heymsfield ’62 Robert B. Liebowitz ’84 William J. Stolze ’42 William K. Kramer ’48 Sheldon W. Dean Jr. ’53 Arthur W. Kirsch ’58 Stanley Keyles ’62 Julia C. de la Garza ’86 Salvatore J. Azzaro ’43 Murray A. Luftglass ’48 Anthony R. Fandozzi ’53 Ronald Morony ’58 Peter Konieczny ’62 Mario Guerrero ’86 Norman W. Castellani ’43 Richard F. Marsh ’48 Carl D. Harbart ’53 Steven J. Nappen ’58 Allan A. Koslofsky ’62 Joy H. Hsiao ’87 David S. Hacker ’43 Joseph A. Parrella ’48 Charles F. Muller Jr. ’53 Anthony C. Nicoletti ’58 Pete Kudless ’62 Penelope Kokkinides ’87 Alfred L. Haffner ’43 Morton Povman ’48 Richard Schwartz ’53 Ronald Olson ’58 Michael Lamoriella ’62 Leslie D. Wade ’87 Norman A. Schefer ’43 Leonard Shapiro ’48 Jerome I. 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Mentz ’60 Vincent Cavaseno ’65 J.P. Morgan Chase Bertram H. Stiller ’46 Robert M. Rosen ’51 Elkan Abramowitz ’57 Robert O. Mercer ’60 Charles S. Di Marco ’65 Foundation William J. Anton ’47 George C. Stoutenburgh , Sr. Robert H. Buggeln ’57 Eugene B. Michaelsen ’60 John J. Eschemuller ’65 Johnson and Johnson Harry Bernstein ’47 ’51 Louis P. Crane ’57 Edwin Neff Jr. ’60 John J. Fahner ’65 Langenscheidt Publishing Paul Pliester ’60 Alan S. Fitter ’65 Group John H. Powers ’60 Jeffrey Greenberg ’65 Merck Company Foundation Arthur P. Rea ’60 Mark Hauerstock ’65 New York City College of Stephen L. Richter ’60 Sandor J. Kovacs ’65 Technology Bruce Rubinger ’60 Ta M. Li ’65 Opus Northwest, LLC Ronald H. Schmahl ’60 Thomas G. May ’65 Pfizer Inc. Miles A. Slater ’60 Paul E. Mendis ’65 PSEG William J. Tinston Jr. ’60 Leonard P. Morse ’65 Raffles David H. Abramson ’61 Joseph Napoleon ’65 Reed Business Information Richard P. Anastasio ’61 Elby M. Nash ’65 SUNY Farmingdale Irving M. 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23 Joseph M. Calabro ’67 Justin O. Schechter ’73 Brian Clark ’80 Paul W. Katzer ’87 James Crowe Jack S. Vanderryn Marc F. Colman ’67 Russell M. Price ’73 Andrea Currie-Wigfall ’80 Richard Lukaj ’87 Art Dauber Leonard J. Verebay Joseph P. Crosson ’67 Robert H. Shullich ’73 Lenworth A. Daley ’80 Jason Orefice ’87 Charles M. Dauber Robert Villency Joseph S. Cusumano ’67 John W. Bellando ’74 Leslie Osei-Tutu ’80 Rodney L. Shannon ’87 Rosanne D’Augusta Scott Winston Mark L. Kay ’67 Kenneth E. Chapin ’74 Alex Sosa ’80 Janet Sosa ’87 Joseph D. D’Esposito Don Zacharia Raymond C. Martinez ’67 Thomas E. Cuhaj ’74 Adam N. Stoller ’80 Robert W. Berger ’88 Thomas A. Evangelist Edwin Zarowin Jeffrey Nathan ’67 Isaac B. Honor ’74 Kenneth Wong ’80 Victoria Reyes ’88 Maryann M. Feeney Norman L. Zlotnick Joseph Pellegrino ’67 Raoul D. Ilaw ’74 Anonymous ’81 Donovan Wickline ’88 Sarah Flanagan Mark S. Rosentraub ’67 Raymond P. Jones ’74 John K. 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24 From Tech Times 2 The Foundation Office Board of Directors As the 2014-15 school year opens, the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation has much to celebrate. Larry Cary ’70 During the last school year, we helped Brooklyn Tech in a number of President ways, thanks to your support and your donations. We provided the faculty Susan Mayham ’76 with over $100,000 in grants. Their projects included the purchase of special Anthony Schirripa ’67 instructional materials and equipment, professional development workshops Donovan Wickline ’88 The Magazine of and conferences and sponsorship of academic and athletic teams. Vice Presidents The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation Fall 2014 We partnered with various corporations and universities to directly impact Horace Davis ’84 school programs and student opportunities. National Grid, Makerbot, Secretary Stevens Institute of Technology, Pennoni Associates and Drexel University Tech Times Staff Carmine Morano ’72 are but a few of these. Editor In Chief and Chief Writer: Treasurer We sponsored a lecture series that focused on all areas of STEM (Sci- Ned Steele ’68 ence, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics); these lectures highlighted Wilton Cedeno ’82 Graphic Design: innovative programs to pique the intellectual curiosity of our students. We Jim DiBenedetto ’71 Robert Horansky expanded our Weston Research Scholars Program to include new place- Jack Feinstein ’60 ments at Stevens Institute of Technology, NYU-Poly and CUNY. We continued Norman Keller ’54 Editorial Direction: to work with the school on the modernization and upgrade of the auditorium Penelope Kokkinides ’87 Elizabeth A. Sciabarra Amy Kong ’99 and the first floor gymnasium. We secured Capital Project money to renovate Edward LaGrassa ’65 Writer: and upgrade the Tech Athletic Field. We funded an outstanding public rela- John Lyons ’66 Rebecca T. Kaplan ’09 tions campaign that bought air time for Brooklyn Tech on public television; Margaret Murphy ’83 Achilles Perry ’58 Photography: the segment on STEM was part of the Breakthrough Series. We purchased Ron Glassman (pages C1, C2, 7-9, 12-15, 21) six 3-D printers and supported the Robotics Team in its quest for the national Ned Steele ’68 Denice Ware ’83 Robert Horansky (pages 2- 4, 10-11) championship. We expanded our National Grid STEM Pipeline Program Michael Weiss ’57 Steve Kelly (pages 1, 18) and middle school outreach efforts to educate prospective students about Be Aware Photography/Simone Yhap ’15 Marc Williams ’90 (pages 2, 3, C4) Brooklyn Tech. We supported such student events as the American Cancer Laurie Zephyrin ’92 Society’s Relay for Life, Banner Day and Senior Awards Night. Directors We connected graduating seniors with the Alumni Foundation through Tech Times Zeshan Gondal ’15 our Homecoming, Career Day and Ruby events. We think it important for © 2014 Brooklyn Tech Alumni Student Representative Foundation, Inc. seniors to understand the role the Foundation plays in our school and how instrumental your dollars are to making their time at Tech truly extraordinary. Foundation Office Tech Times is published annually by the Finally we lauded several alumni at our annual dinner; recognizing our Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation. Articles alumni and sharing their achievements with the larger school community are Elizabeth A. Sciabarra may be reprinted with its permission. Executive Director essential components of our strong partnership with Tech. To receive the Technite Online e-newsletter Looking ahead, we will continue to ask for your support. We are spon- Mathew M. Mandery ’61 by email, contact [email protected]. soring a facilities feasibility study to develop a full-fledged strategic plan for the Chief Educational Officer Tech of the future. This study will look at all the spaces in the building that have Please send class notes and updates, letters not yet been re-tooled by the Foundation, so we can plan for future upgrades Rikhia Chowdhury to the editor, address changes and other Research Analyst communications to: and re-purposing. We have to take care of Tech so that Tech will take care of our future generations of Technites! Ina Cloonen Brooklyn Tech Thank you for all you have done for Tech! Office Manager Alumni Foundation 29 Fort Greene Place Elizabeth A. Sciabarra Suzanne Hausman Brooklyn NY 11217 Graphics Administrator 718-797-2285 Executive Director www.bthsalumni.org Liliya Magalnik Nissen ’01 [email protected] Special Events and Projects Coordinator The Blueprint Society Randy J. Asher, Principal Vance Toure ’06 Brooklyn Technical Please consider including Brooklyn Tech in your estate and tax Special Assistant High School planning through a bequest or other form of planned gift.

To learn more, please contact [email protected] or call the Alumni Intel School of Distinction Finalist – Science Foundation Office inside Brooklyn Tech, 718-797-2285. Your inquiry will Project Lead the Way Model School be treated with respect, appreciation and strict confidentiality.