Princeton Review Selects CCNY as One of Nation’s Best Colleges

For the first time, The Princeton Review will add The to its roster of the nation’s best colleges. The prestigious selection earns CCNY a place in The Princeton Review’s annual “Best Colleges” guidebook, The Best 377 Colleges: 2013 Edition, published this week.

City College joins five other schools from across the country newly inducted into the guide. “Only about 15% of the four-year colleges in the

nation are in this book,” said Robert Franek, senior vice president and publisher of The Princeton Review. “In our opinion, these are ‘the cream of the crop’ institutions for undergraduates in America."

The announcement of City College’s inclusion in the Best Colleges guide comes just weeks after the news that the school rose 200 spots in the ranks of “Forbes” magazine’s list of “America’s Top Colleges.”

Mr. Franek noted that the educational services company chooses exceptional undergraduate institutions based on several factors, in particular citing the selection committee’s “high regard for their academic programs and other offerings.” Institutional data and undergraduate students’ responses to surveys were also weighted heavily in the selection process.

THE 132ND ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER

Thursday November 8, 2012 The New York Hilton 6th Avenue and 53rd Street, Reception 6:00pm Dinner & Program 7:00pm

If you have never attended an Annual Alumni Dinner, make this the year you participate in this gala event honoring the best of the best! If you are a graduate of one of the reunion classes, this is your opportunity to celebrate, reminisce and share experiences with your classmates.

Special Receptions and Reunions: Diamond(60th) Anniversary, Class of 1952 ; Golden(50th) Anniversary, Class of 1962; Silver(25th) Anniversary, Class of 1987

Five Year Reunions: 1947, 1957, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007

THE 65TH John H. Finley Award

In recognition of exemplary dedicated service to the City of New York, while enhancing the quality of life of its people will be presented to:

Bert Brodsky ’64 Founder & Chairman of SANDATA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, one of the nation’s premier providers of advanced computer, telephone, and Internet based technologies for the health care industry. Also founded & served as Chairman of the Board of both the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America and National Medical Health Card systems, which managed prescription drug programs for more than 9 million plan members and 53,000 network pharmacies.

Established in 1933 by a gift from the class of 1906 for outstanding postgraduate achievement in their chosen fields, the Townsend Harris Medalists include:

James L. Schatz ’43B World War II veteran and former City

College Fund head who has led many community, education and trade Ralph Blumenthal ’63 groups. Award-winning investigative journalist and author whose 45-year NY Times career spanned the Vietnam War, the World Trade Center bombing and the hunt for Nazi war criminals.

Seymour L. Gartenberg ’52B Visionary recording industry executive who had an illustrious 32-year career at CBS Inc. and built its Columbia House Division into the largest record club in Dr. Harold Kobliner ’50, ’52MSE the nation. Educational innovator who served the city’s public schools for more than four decades as a distinguished teacher, assistant principal, principal, and chairman of the Board of Examiners.

Henry H. Plotkin ’46 Renowned physicist who pioneered laser technology and optical sensors for NASA.

John M. Dionisio ’71CE

Chairman and CEO of AECOM, an $8.1 billion world-wide provider of professional, Greta Schiller technical and management support services. ’78BFA, ’02MA Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker and science educator who has received multiple National Education Association film awards and the first Fulbright Arts Fellowship in Film.

Special appearances by Dr. Lisa S. Coico, the 12 th President of CCNY and Chris Cimino ’83, Meteorologist for NBC TV’s Today in New York

$178 per person includes full open bar cocktail hour, dinner choice: chicken or fish w/wine. If you would like to support our efforts by purchasing a full($500), half($300) or Quarter($200) page ad or Business Card ($100) in the Dinner Journal, contact our office for details. For information or to make a reservation with your MasterCard or Visa call:212-234-3000

We hope to see you on November 8!

5th Annual Simon Bolivar Career Achievement Awards Dinner

The Latino Alumni Group held its 5th Annual Simon Bolivar Career Achievement Award Dinner on September 20, 2012 in the Faculty Dining Room at CCNY. Awards were presented to Laura Osorio, a 1976 graduate of the School of Architecture and Environmental Studies, now renamed the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture.

From left to right: Don Jordan, Laura Osorio ‘76, Rafael Rivera-Viruet ‘64B, Edward Corcino ’07

Ms. Osorio is a registered architect in the state of New York with expertise in both the Private and Public Sectors. She has worked at an executive level for the New York City Buildings Department for the last 20 years. In the history of the department, Laura has been among the first women as well as the first Hispanic registered architect to hold such high level technical positions, most notably the head of the Manhattan Borough Office as Borough Commissioner. Her skill and knowledge serve as the backbone of the agency and her work leads directly to the creation of new homes, new offices and new job. Rafael J. Rivera-Viruet ‘64B: After graduating from the School of Business in 1964 with a B.S. in Business Administration and Finance, Rivera-Viruet became the first Puerto Rican to be hired by the prestigious accounting firm Price Waterhouse & Co. Rivera- Viruet was later assigned to be part of the Executive Management team at ICM where he served as Treasurer, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He is the author of the Award winning coffee table book , “Hollywood- Se Habla Espanol”. Mr. Rivera is currently the Vice President of Finance and Administration at Dramatists Play Service, Inc., the leading publisher and performance licensing organization in the American theatre and the President of Terramax Entertainment, LLC. Edward Corcino ’07 is the President of the Latino Alumni Group. Anyone interested in Joining the group or the Board of Directors, please contact the Alumni Office at 212-234-3000 or Email [email protected].

Science Alumni Hold Lecture

Members of the Science Alumni Group met in the Faculty Dining Room on September 19, 2012 to hear a lecture entitled “ Protein Structure as Seen by a Physical Chemist” given by Prof. Harold Scheraga ’41. Prof Scheraga is a professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. He has spent much of his life working out the physical chemistry, organization, dynamics and structure of proteins. Combining instrumental and theoretical approaches he has developed many profound insights into these remarkable molecules. Dr. Scheraga told the audience how his ideas have evolved through his 92 years. He has been the recipient of nearly every major award in the field including the Pauling Medal, National Institutes of Health Special Fellow, Nichols Medal, the Mobil Award, IBM Award in addition to his election to

the National Academy of Science.

Message from CCNY President Lisa S. Coico

Dear Alumni and Friends,

The 2012-2013 academic year has gotten off to an exciting and productive start. We welcomed more than 1400 freshman this year, meeting our target, and our Macaulay honors class is the largest in our history with 88 highly qualified students joining us this September, up from just 40, two years ago. The incoming Class of 2016 had mean SAT scores 45 points higher than last year’s entering class. We also have grown the Presidents Community Scholars program, which I established just three years ago and we now have a total of 26 dynamic, accomplished and driven students from local high schools who had been recommended by their principals, advisors and teachers for such recognition. To meet the needs of our entire student body, we have added a total of 33 new faculty on board with the majority being women and underrepresented minorities. We also welcomed two new deans, Dr. Eric Weitz, the new Dean of Humanities and the Arts who comes to us with impeccable academic credentials from the University of Minnesota and Dr. Mary Erina Driscoll, our new Dean of Education who was most recently chair of the Department of Administration, Leadership and Technology at NYU. Also joining us is a new Chief Information Officer, our new Vice President of Information Technology, Praveen Panchal, who joins us from John Jay College.

The flow of accolades and awards continues for the faculty as well. Award-winning filmmaker and City College MCA Department Adjunct Kavery Kaul has been awarded a 2012-2013 Fulbright Fellowship. Also of our distinguished MCA faculty, internationally acclaimed director, Chantal Akerman was featured at The New York Film Festival as it celebrated its 50th year. A student and faculty team from City College won top honors for their work in a National Park Service competition to reimagine America’s National Parks. Denise Hoffman-Brandt, director of the landscape architecture graduate program at CCNY’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture accepted the “Award of Excellence” along with colleagues from Rutgers University.

On campus, inyourclass.com has been launched at five CUNY schools thanks to the efforts of Arber Rici and 2 other recent graduates of City College. During the summer, they completed the technology backbone of this academic social network while working at Stanford and with our support and CUNY’s assistance, the pilot program was launched in September. The first week in October, we are celebrating our “ in the City” cornucopia of activities, presentations and seminars highlighting the social, political, and cultural impact Harlem has had on the city, the nation and the world – while highlighting City College’s historical and ongoing kinship with the local community.

We look forward to an exciting and productive 2012-2013 academic year!

Sincerely,

Lisa S. Coico

Attention Recent Grads!!!

A Young Alumni (graduates of the last 10 years) group of 20 met in June 2012 to discuss forming an Affiliate group focusing on needs and interests of recent grads. They developed By-Laws, which were approved by the Alumni Association Board of Directors at their meeting in September 2012. The Group plans on doing Social and Professional activities which will involve Alumni of the last 10 years as well connect with today’s students as mentors etc. Anyone interested in being on the group’s mailing list or would like to be involved in the decision making of the group by serving on their Board of Directors, Kindly E-mail your interest to [email protected] or call 212-234-3000.

Profiling a Distinguished Alum Walter Mosley, Class of 1991 MA

It has been sixteen years since Walter Mosley’s first published mystery; “” hit the stands. Walter has become one of the best known and most prolific writers of all time, not to mention being President Clinton’s declared favorite mystery writer. The first in a series of Easy Rawlins Mysteries “Devil in a Blue Dress” became particularly well known after it was made into a hit movie starring as Mr. Mosley’s popular hero Easy Rawlins “A Red Death”, “White Butterfly”, “Black Betty”, “ A Little Yellow Dog”, “Gone Fishing” and “ Bad Boy Brawly Brown” have all been best sellers and translated into many languages. Other novels include: “RL’s Dream”, “ The Man in My Basement”, “ Working on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History”, “ , Always Outgunned” and most recently “Twelve Steps Towards Political Revelation”. Mr. Mosley is the first person

to hold the post of artist-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of Afro-American Affairs. Mr. Mosley received the 1996 Literary Award in Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. He received the O’ Henry Award for one of his Socrates Fortlow stories. He is very active in the literary world, having served as President of the Mystery Writers of America on the board of directors of the National Book Awards. Mr. Mosley’s prodigious literary works are in and of themselves great contributions. His efforts to bring many cultural and individual perspectives onto center stage of the American literary scene promise to enrich us all. Mr. Mosley received the Townsend Harris Medal from the Alumni Association of CCNY in 1996.

Architecture Alumni DiverCity Speed Mentoring Event

The Architecture Alumni held their third semi-annual DiverCity Speed Mentoring event for the students of the Spitzer School of Architecture on Monday, September 24th. Eight alumni mentors spent two hours speaking with architecture majors. The students were broken up into small groups and spent 20 minutes with each mentor in order to get different perspectives. The mentors went over resumes and portfolios, which the students were asked to bring, and answered all questions as they came up. The response from the students has been very positive. They were excited to have the opportunity to ask questions from members of the field they wish to enter. They also expressed their gratitude and wish for many more sessions to follow. Another DiverCity mentoring session has been scheduled for February 2013. If you are interested in being a DiverCity mentor, please contact the Alumni Office at [email protected].

WE NEED YOU TO JOIN THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013…

to help us to continue promoting the interests of your College, to support today’s students and to service Alumni. We’ve been around for 159 years. Lets keep the dream going of 16 young men who formed the alumni in 1853.

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