TECH TIMES

World Changers of 2036

Alum Makes Waves Tech’s NBA Superstar

6 8 161814They’re smart; they’re

committed; they’re aiming to

change the world they’ll inherit.

They’re today’s Technites.

Alex Elegudin ’03 is a

champion for the

handicapped.

“These are kids who plan to change the world.”

— JOSEPH KAELIN

Teacher

A tale of two Technites:

One’s journey ends at

Harvard, another’s at MIT.

Sam Schwartz ’65 coined the

term ‘gridlock.’ His cause ever

since: pedestrian-friendly cities.

A Tech alum drives the

NBA’s successful marriage

of technology and sports.

Wheeling Forward Going Places From Brooklyn

to Cambridge

Street Fighting ManHigh-Scorer

Fall 2016

The Magazine of The

Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation

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Contents

Inside Tech 2

From the Alumni Foundation President 5

Principal’s Letter 5

Superpowers 10

Smart Watch, Smart Kids 11

What Makes Them Special? 12

Calendar of Events 19

Class Notes 19

They Have Plans 21

Lifetime Giving Society 22

Last Word 25

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Cover: Some of Brooklyn Tech’s Future World Changers

1. Josephine Soddano, chemist

2. Daniel Alhadeff, inventor

3. Peony Wong, super-volunteer

4. Safwan Rahat, super-volunteer

5. Helen Ding, leader

6. Harith Morgan, inventor-athlete

7. Benjamin Spiegel, coder

Certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.

The Mark of Responsible Forestry.

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The museum Laurie Cumbo ’93

founded in 1999 opened with a genteel

exhibit on jazz culture. Soon after, a young

African immigrant named Amadou Diallo

was killed in a barrage of 41 police bullets

in The Bronx.

The shooting death shocked the

city, including the artists at her Museum

of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts

(MoCADA) in Brooklyn. “Somehow it felt

that if this is what’s happening, what artists

want to talk about, let’s do an exhibition on

it,” Cumbo recalls.

That transformative decision forged

a bond between art and politics that led

to MoCADA exhibits on gun violence,

capital punishment, gentrification and

other timely topics. The bond became a

bridge for Cumbo in 2013: she ran for and

was elected to the New York City Council,

representing Brooklyn Tech’s district.

Behind her career switch was a grow-

ing leadership role in the perennial battles

by the city’s smaller cultural institutions for

government funding: “I was spending so

much time running back and forth

to Albany and City Hall; I thought,

‘I’d rather devote my full time to that

effort.’”

Then came a surprise: Cumbo

was not assigned to chair the cul-

tural affairs committee, as observers

expected, but the committee on

women’s issues.

She had not previously been

highly visible on women’s issues.

Nudged from her comfort zone, she

recalls, it felt as though “some higher

power or force” was saying, “You

may not understand right now, but it

will make sense later.”

She has since stepped forward

on a broad spectrum of issues, no-

tably domestic violence, workplace

discrimination, girls’ education and

sex trafficking.

“It’s been an incredible learning ex-

perience and I’ve really embraced it,” she

says. “I feel that this where I am supposed

to be, need to be, and want to be.”

Also, notes Alumni Foundation Presi-

dent Larry Cary, “She has been a good

friend to Tech.”

Cumbo is Tech’s second alum Coun-

cil member, joining Jumaane Williams ’94.

Some 4.5 million Advanced Placement exams were taken by U.S.

high school students in 2015. Just 322 – seven-thousandths of one

percent – achieved a perfect score.

Among them: Brooklyn Tech’s August Trollback ’17.

Making the accomplishment even more impressive: August

did it as a sophomore – and in computer science, a course

normally reserved for the brightest juniors and seniors.

Having taught himself coding in elementary school,

August explains his gift: “I’m always preoccupied with

programming thoughts.”

That preoccupation has already led to an internship

in financial data operations with Bloomberg L.P., and

success as lead coder for Tech’s robotics team and in

national hacking competitions. He is a developer of

Mathpix, “the world’s first tool that understands

photos of handwritten math using state-of-the-art

deep learning algorithms.”

“August has a quality of genius that is in-

tangible,” says his computer science teacher,

Steve Goldman. “It’s not just that he is smart

and a perfectionist. It’s also his fascination with

the material. He is an original, creative thinker

who thrives on challenge. He is capable of

making unique contributions to the field.”

When Dr. Mathew M. Mandery ’61 was chosen to lead Brooklyn Tech in 1983, he became

the school’s first alumnus principal, a distinction that remains his alone.

The Alumni Foundation was formed during his tenure; Dr. Mandery moved on to other

positions in 1987 but eventually returned to head the Alumni Foundation. He still serves as its

Chief Educational Officer.

Until recently only two Tech principals had been honored with their portraits displayed

in the building: founder Albert Colston and William Pabst. Recently, Dr. Mandery became

the third when the Alumni Foundation commissioned artist Kerry

Brooks to paint his portrait. It was paid for through special dona-

tions from several alumni who wanted to honor Dr. Mandery.

Unveiled in a ceremony earlier this year, the portrait now hangs

in the library with the other two – a constant reminder to all stu-

dents of a lasting educational legacy.

New York City and State have recog-

nized, and expanded, the pioneering pro-

gram developed by the Alumni Foundation

to increase student diversity at Brooklyn

Tech and the city’s other specialized high

schools.

Both governments this year created

and funded diversity initiatives for the

specialized schools modeled after the

Alumni Foundation program, now in its third

year. The city allocated $15 million to the

Department of Education over the next four

years. The state allocated $2 million. Of

that, $250,000 was granted directly to the

Alumni Foundation to expand its success-

ful STEM Pipeline program, which works to

increase enrollment of students from com-

munities underrepresented in the school.

These efforts include a two year

program of admissions test preparation

and enhanced academics for students

in public middle schools that send few, if

any, children to Tech. Often these schools

lack advanced math and language arts

courses, and gifted and talented programs

are scarce in their districts’ elementary

schools.

Reflecting the inequality of educational

opportunities in New York City’s communi-

ties, a majority of students entering the

specialized high schools come from only 5

percent of the city’s public middle schools.

Brooklyn Tech’s STEM Pipeline, sup-

ported by National Grid, also features

proactive outreach to the underrepresented

middle schools, many of which in the past

sent significant numbers of students to

Tech. It has already yielded success, with

majorities of black and Latino participants

gaining entry to a specialized high school.

PIPELINEDiversifying the A PERFECT August The Art of Politics

Two years into a business

model so intriguing it made her a

Forbes’ “30 Under 30” honoree,

Deepti Sharma Kapur ’04 morphed it

into something even more ambitious.

FoodToEat originally gained

notice by introducing online order-

ing to New York’s burgeoning food

truck industry. Consumers liked the

convenience, but the immigrant

entrepreneurs inside those trucks

and carts loved it: It empowered

them for the first time to take the

business online, process credit card

payments and market themselves

professionally.

But the model had limits, so

Kapur reached farther: Why not bring

ethnic vendors and caterers inside

the office towers soaring above their

curbside stands, where a $5 billion

industry of special event and lunch-

time food service awaited?

In FoodToEat’s version 2.0,

Kapur’s business acumen and access

get her vendors in – especially into

companies hungry to offer their

employees fun, street-themed

ethnic food experiences as a perk.

And so workers at companies

like Tumblr are piling authentic gy-

ros, tacos or Indian food onto their

plates rather than another soggy

tuna sandwich. For a street food

vendor or caterer, the opportunity

can be game-changing.

And therein lies Kapur’s higher

aspiration. Introducing immigrant

newcomers to the mainstream

economy has long been her pas-

sion: “When you’re building a

company, your goal shouldn’t be

to make a billion dollars. It should

be to build a successful business

that makes a dramatic change in

peoples’ lives. That’s how I think of

my business.”

FoodToEat is growing, turn-

ing profitable, and raising venture

capital to expand in New York – and

other cities where food carts and

hungry office workers are waiting to

meet each other.

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Special Honor for Special Educator

Alumni Foundation President Larry Cary ’70 presents Dr. Mathew Mandery ’61 with his portrait.

So great is the skill and renown of

Maurice Ashley ’83, the first African

American chess Grandmaster and

an ESPN commentator, that he was

once a Valentine’s Day present to ac-

tor Will Smith from wife Jada Pinkett

Smith. Yet Ashley’s introduction to

the game, as a Tech freshman, had

been humiliating: “I got crushed, and

didn’t understand why.”

“But I knew I had to

get revenge on this

guy,” he recalls. “So I

read a book on chess

and played him

again. I got crushed

again – he had

read the same

book and maybe

100 others.”

Gifted and

persistent, Ash-

ley bloomed later

in mastering the game: He never even

made Tech’s chess team. But by 1999

he had achieved Grandmaster designa-

tion – one of just 45 in the United States.

This year he became the first

African American inducted into

the Chess Hall of Fame.

Ashley’s career centers

on teaching, coaching and

proselytizing for the game –

especially with young people.

He’s coached a team

of Harlem teens

to a national

championship;

he’s worked with

Harvard and

MIT to spread

chess’s appeal

via technolo-

gy. His dream:

to elevate

chess into

a kind of

highbrow

equivalent of poker, played by millions and

offering rich reward pots.

Ashley sees growth potential among

inner city teens – currently he coaches at

Automotive HS – and his style in introduc-

ing them to the game might make a pur-

ist blush. Think street-corner basketball

court trash talk. Think X-rated trash talk.

“Chess, he explains, “is mental war-

fare. I bring that mindset to the schools.

My style remains true to my (Brooklyn)

roots, and the kids love it.”

About that experience with Will Smith:

A lesson with Ashley was Ms. Pinkett

Smith’s Valentine’s Day gift to her chess

enthusiast hubby one year; a Beverly Hills

bungalow was rented for the occasion.

The session dragged into the wee hours

as Mrs. Smith waited patiently.

“I said, ‘Dude, it’s Valentine’s Day;

you’re wife’s here – you sure you want to

play more?’”

History will note that Jada Pinkett Smith

fell asleep before her husband tired of

playing chess with Maurice Ashley.

Today’s Technites are amazing. The competition to win admission is fiercer than ever. College level coursework is required of every student in the ninth grade. In the majors, required courses are so advanced that they go beyond what Advanced Placement exams cover. Many graduates enter college with enough AP credit to skip a full year. And yet, as one of the touted “crown jewels” of the New York City public school system, Brooklyn Tech and its students are being shortchanged by a funding allocation that admittedly provides only 87 percent of what is euphemistically called “fair.” At the same time other specialized high schools receive more than 100 percent of their “fair” funding. When the Brooklyn Tech PTA asks the City to explain why Tech is shortchanged, the answer they get is that historically that is what Tech receives. That’s right, you heard it correctly, Tech is getting less today than what it deserves because in the past it got less than what it deserved. And it’s no wonder we get less: Brooklyn Tech was always, and still is, the specialized school for the children of working class, immigrant and “outer borough” families. A large majority of today’s student body qualifies under Federal anti-poverty guidelines for free and subsidized lunch. A large major-ity of the students speak a language other than English at home. And with over 800 African American and Latino students, Tech has the largest number of students from underrepresented com-munities in the specialized high schools. Today’s Technites need your finan-cial support if they are to receive the exceptional education they deserve. There are two new ways that alumni can now help. Legacy giving allows you to do estate planning and give something back. In honor of Tech approaching its centennial in 2022, we are launch-ing an initiative so each month you can automatically make a small donation (less than $9) using a credit card or an automatic transfer from your checking account to contribute $100 a year. I urge you to consider these approaches to giving something back to the school that changed your life. Today’s students need your help; with it they will change the world!

Larry Cary ’70PresidentBrooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation

To join this special giving program,

visit bthsalumni.org/donate

Technites need your help Larry Cary ’70

From

The Principal Randy Asher

R. Buckminster Fuller once said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Technites have built new models in a diverse array of fields that have changed the world for generations. Tech students today are being trained to think, problem-solve and in-novate – consistent with the philosophy of Brooklyn Tech instilled by visionary educator Albert Colston nearly a century ago. The tools used have evolved, as have many of the courses that provide a forum for the exploration of ideas in the 21st century. Our freshmen are taught Design & Drafting for Production at the college level, certified in state-of-the art industry software called Autodesk Inventor and experienced in using 3D printers to fabricate prototypes. This academic year, all sopho-mores have begun taking Advanced Placement Principles of Computer Science to provide a collegiate experience in programming and coding. Tech’s 18 majors, including many in the technical fields, also have evolved to include new course sequences and projects that are the envy of other secondary schools. These transformational learning opportunities alone make Tech stand out amongst even the most extraordinary schools. Additional programs like our competitive academic teams and our Weston Research Scholars provide students additional venues to display their extraordinary talents. Though I have been at the helm of this magnificent institution for a decade, the students continue to amaze me with their insight and achievement. Steve Jobs said, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a fol-lower.” Technites have led through innovation for generations, and the current students are poised to extend the legacy of excellence.

Randy J. AsherPrincipal

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“Do colleges have internships?”

“Can you fit in a social life with your

studying?”

“How does financial aid work?”

“Any advice for someone who wants

to be a cardiologist?”

Current Technites hurled their questions

across the classroom to up front, where they

were deftly fielded by Tech’s youngest alums

at the Alumni Foundation’s first-ever Recent

Alumni Day – bringing graduates from the

classes of 2011 through 2015 back to Tech.

For these new alumni – on winter break

from college – it was a return to hallways they

had roamed just a few years ago, and an op-

portunity to visit favorite teachers, reconnect

with old friends and impart sage advice to the

current generation of Technites.

For the current students, it was a day of

invaluable advice on the college application,

admissions and matriculation experiences

that will soon dominate their lives – advice

carrying maximum “cred,” coming from peers

just a few years ahead of them.

As president of a student club while at

Tech, Klaudia Kapo ’15 had brought alums

in as guest speakers. From one of them, she

learned about the college program she now

attends: CUNY’s Macaulay Honors Program.

“Now it is my time to give back,” she said

after spending a morning sharing experiences

with sophomores and juniors.

Nikita Dubnov ’13, now a senior at Cornell,

just wanted to revisit Tech for the first time in

nearly three years. “Homecoming and Career

Day give great insights to students, but these

events connect them with the people they can

relate to the easiest.”

“If I can give one small tip that helps a

student get into the college of their choice, I’ll

be very happy.”

The event was sponsored by Alumni Foun-

dation Board member Penelope Kokkinides ’87.

BEEN There, DOING That

TechMate!

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The chain of events leading to Ed Friedman’s exhilarating surf run starts in October 2003 when former Tech football quarterback Alex Elegudin’s car is struck by a deer, setting off a calamitous accident that paralyzes him. Pursuit of a degree from Carnegie Mellon in biomedical engi-neering devolves, after months of rehabili-tation, into earning a law degree closer to home, in Brooklyn: law, Elegudin reck-ons, being a more handicapped-accessible profession. Practicing law might be a living, but Elegudin also wants a life – for himself and others similarly situat-ed. Teaming with a fellow rehab pa-tient he forms Wheeling Forward, an organization to help people with disabilities lead fuller lives. Among its activities: providing subsidized power wheelchairs and running an exercise facility-cum-social center. One idea leads to another, and Adaptive Surfing Day is conceived.

Ed Friedman spots an announcement for it, and rolls his wheelchair onto the Rockaway sand to await his turn to surf.“I come out for this event and lo and be-hold, it’s a Tech guy behind it,” Friedman recalls. “That was quite a surprise.” The surprise continues as the young man also spots in the festive crowd ex-Tech football coach Jim DiBenedetto ’71, there to provide moral support for his for-

mer player….. and bringing along a small posse of Tech football alums as lifeguards. Lo and behold again, the beach is even more blue-and-white speckled: various of Alex’s Tech friends and relatives have also come to take part. It’s a mini-reunion on the beach, amid the exuberant whoops ris-ing above wheelchairs and surfboards. Technite Stefan Henry ’07, paralyzed since age 14 with a spinal cord injury, is

on the beach. He happily shouts over the DJ-programmed music blaring across the sand: “Being in a wheel-chair, you don’t get many opportuni-ties to be in the water. It’s an amazing experience – there’s something about water moving around you that is energizing. “If it wasn’t for this,” he explains, “I’d be just sitting at home.” Everyone would be sitting at home if not for the 200 volunteers guiding the surfing runs. One of

Alex Elegudin ’03 turned a life-changing

injury into a passion for serving

others. Along the way, some fellow

Technites jumped in the water in to help.

d Friedman ’14, born with ce-rebral palsy and in a wheelchair most days, could be found one July morning pretty much in

the last place you’d expect: Riding a surf-board through the cresting waves of Rock-away Beach, exhilarated and giddy.

Guiding and protecting him, to be sure, is a team of trained surfers and coaches. Ev-eryone is a part of Adaptive Surfing Day – a giant beach party of empowerment created by a quadriplegic Technite, Alex Elegudin ’03. It plunges dozens of quad-riplegics, paraplegics and other disabled people into the water for their first ocean fun in years, if ever. Among the nearly 200 experts at their side to ensure safety is a crew of Tech alums.

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To learn more about Alex Elegudin, visit wheelingforward.org

Alex Elegudin ’03 got wheelchairs onto the sand,

and paralyzed New Yorkers onto surfboards.

Three lifeguards from the Class of 2007: Javien Forbes,

Max Ferlesch and Dwayne Jones

Ed Friedman ’14 rides his wave.

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he largest of Brooklyn Tech’s 137 clubs is so big, at 1,000 members, that only the cavernous audi-torium can house its meetings. A service group, it

was created by a 14 year old freshman who thought students should engage more actively in the community. It brings as many as 300 Technite volunteers at a time to more than 60 charity races, neighborhood cleanups and similar activities around the city.

It’s a given that they’ll work hard and excel academically. Today’s Technites also want to enhance the world they’re about to enter.

Some of them already have.

This cornucopia of youthful activism, named HOPE by co-founder Helen Ding, is Exhibit A (but by far not the only evidence) of a spirit that seems to imbue the current post-Millennial inhabitants of Brooklyn Tech. Some express it through nearly obsessive volunteerism; others are steering their college level lab research internships toward projects with social implications. The class portrait that emerges is of a generation of Technites not unlike those before it – filled with the intensely aspirational children of immigrant families – but also fiercely eager to improve the world they are inheriting. “It seems to be part of the makeup of the kids who come to Tech. They feel a responsibility to give back,” says student activities coordinator Joseph Kaelin. “These are highly motivated kids who plan to change the world.” In uncanny validation of Kaelin’s assessment, Harvard-bound Catherine Hua ’16 (see p.16) is asked, a few days before graduation, to voice her future plans. Within minutes her e-mail reply flashes back: “Life goal: change the world.” Call them the World Changers of 2036: young people aiming to merge their two great gifts – innate intellect and a Brooklyn Tech education – to-ward a greater societal good one day. Or, today:• AlisonCollard,after three friendsdie in traficaccidents, leadsa teamof Technites to victory in a nationwide competition by devising an app that warns pedestrians of oncoming vehicles. (see p.11)• Matt Choy, exploring ocean wave energy-harvesting for his research

internship project, scales down when he envisions the vast potential for millions of families to produce their own energy at home. He creates an energy-harvesting kitchen sink that may become commer-cially viable.• EmigratingtotheUSatagenineknow-ing no English, Qingmei “May” Wu became Tech’s 2016 valedictorian. Now at MIT, she aims to create a high school outreach pro-gram that merges engineering and art.

Consider Karol Kowalczyk. A civil engineering major and Weston Research Scholar, he grows impassioned not only about load and stress analyses, but when

anticipating “being able to assemble phys-ical contributions to society.” He notices and admires the way iconic towers inter-act with and serve people. He hopes to one day create self-powering bridges with cables that harvest energy. Nearly every Weston research project contains a social benefit element, says Dr. Mathew Mandery, Alumni Founda-tion chief educational officer: “You hear it from the kids all the time. They appreciate the opportunity they have, and they are committed to making a difference.” The students on these pages are in-deed special, but they are not unique at today’s Tech. Through those who influ-

enced them and those whom they influ-ence, they all are just the latest links in the endless chain that is the Brooklyn Tech ex-perience. Consider HOPE founder Helen Ding’s final accomplishment before grad-uation: devising a 10 month succession and training process to ensure the group’s continuity after her departure. The successor to emerge from that pro-cess, chemical engineering major Court-ney Tse, says: “Whenever you help some-one, a little light goes on in you. I want to instill that feeling in others.”

Left to right:

Terrique Pinnock,

Helen Ding, Karol

Kowalczyk, Matthew

Choy, Josephine

Soddano

QINGMEI

“MAY’ WU

2016 Valedictorian

My eyes have a function where I can take an image, and REMEMBER it, and find it later.

Devastated when three friends were

hit by cars and killed, eighth grader Ali-

son Collard de Beaufort spent two days

fastening 40 teddy bears to street poles

in her Brooklyn neighborhood in what

became a crusade for road safety.

Then she entered Brooklyn Tech,

and …surprise! ... the campaign went

high-tech.

A team led by Alison, then a sopho-

more, invented a smartwatch app that

vibrates to warn pedestrians of a speed-

ing vehicle approaching them.

The device won a nationwide com-

petition last spring, bringing a prize of

about $200,000 in technology donations

from sponsor Samsung to Tech.

“It was just a matter of applying the

physics we already knew,” said lead

programmer Ben Spiegel ’17, who none-

theless had to grapple with heuristic

algorithms and the like.

Alison, Ben and two schoolmates

spent several weeks on the streets and

in a spare room in Alison’s home, fueled

by Thai takeout, developing the app.

They were picked over 50 student teams

to represent Tech in the Samsung com-

petition, which drew thousands of young

entrants nationally.

The app, one of five that won, works

by interpreting the sound waves an en-

gine emits. The team is now refining the

details and exploring ways to bring it to

market.

Alison, whose interests include the

sciences, coding and figure skating, is

just starting to focus on college selec-

tion, but already knows that “the amount

and quality of work required at Tech has

prepared me for college.”

ROAD STARS

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JANILL LEMA

Bioengineer

I’m really DETERMINED. If I don’t find one way, I’ll try to find another way.

It is a well-known fact that all Technites, past and present, possess superpowers.

How else to explain their ability to survive the rigors of a four year

Tech education, and go on to thrive in their chosen careers?

We asked some super-charged Tech students to reveal their secret powers.

WHAT’S YOUR

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DANIEL ALHADEFF

Inventor of energy-harvesting floor tile

I’ve always BUILT STUFF. When I was a little kid, I had an idea for eyeglasses that would hover in front of your face with electromagnets embedded under your skin. In sixth grade I invented a culinary tape for chefs. I called it Taco Tape.

JOHN NGUYEN

Storm sewer system engineer

I’m always ANALYZING things. If I’m waiting for the train, I’d look at the tracks and try to think, “How does this work?” Or I look up at pipes and, think, “I wonder where this goes; how does this work? Is this carrying water? Is it carrying wires?”

Ben Spiegel and Alison Collard de Beaufort are out to make streets safer

To learn more about them, visit www.bthsalumni.org/RoadStars

WHY I do WHAT I do

CATHERINE HUA

Biochemist working on new cancer chemotherapies

“As I worked on countless pro-

cedures, I began to appreciate

nature’s true artistry. As I ana-

lyzed my failed reactions, I was

absolutely amazed by nature’s

infinitesimal precision and our

planet’s ability to preserve and

destroy. Chemical synthesis is

truly a humbling art.”

QINGMEI “MAY” WU

Electrical engineer; runs art club

“When I first came to America, I

didn’t know any English. Art became

a way for me to communicate with

other people. That has stayed with me.

When I get to MIT, I want to open an

engineering-art outreach program for

local high school students. I’m going to

introduce engineering art.”

PEONY WONG

Super-volunteer

“I went with a church group to serve

Native American tribes in South Dakota.

We built and installed outhouses for

families that had no bathrooms.

Those people lived in the middle of

nowhere, no society around them. They

cried when we came and said, “Thank

you, no one else is helping us.”

I mean, there we are, worrying about

whether we have Wi-Fi…”

MATTHEW CHOY

Inverted a household alternate energy device built into a

kitchen sink

“My entire life I’ve felt a split -- a pull

between, am I going to do research

when I get older, or am I going to pursue

this whole social justice/law thing that

I feel strongly about?”

HELEN DING

Created 1,000-member student service club.

“One person can do

a lot, but teamwork

can do a lot more. “

TERRIQUE PINNOCK

Developing alternatives to pills for ingesting medicine

“I was always fascinated with the human body: So

many systems fit in one space, so many reactions.

Then you add a pill, and something gets fixed.

How does that happen? I started wondering about

that when I was ten. “

KAROL KOWALCZYK

Bridge engineer

“In my Tech internship I worked on an elec-

trochemical bridge fatigue sensor. It was eye-

opening to see what I was capable of, and to

see the next step in [learning] engineering. We

study physical concepts, but the bigger picture

is seeing myself in the future helping a major

project in a city…having a social impact.”

JOSEPHINE SODDANO

Chemist

“One time in my internship lab I saw a yellow

gas waft out of the vessel inside the fume

hood. It was chlorine. I realized, that’s a thin

barrier between me and a potentially toxic

gas. My Tech research internship was the

first time I worked with hazardous chemicals.

It was exciting. I felt a sense of responsibility.”

ANDREW PALACIOS

Organizes cancer research fund drives

“My aunt was a survivor of breast cancer but

unfortunately the cancer recurred. I wanted to

continue her mission of fighting. I didn’t want

her passing away to just be the end of it.”

SAFWAN RAHAT

Organizes cancer research fund drives

“My family took me to Bangladesh when I was

seven or eight. I saw a lot of people in poverty. My

dad and uncles said, It is better to give something

to them; they need it more than we do. With that

single act of kindness, I got interested in helping

others.”

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My Memorable Moment

To learn more about these Technites, visit www.bthsalumni.org/worldchangers

T2: Why is the NBA so aggressive about introducing new technologies to the game?A.: We have the youngest fans among the four big sports. They are constantly on the cutting edge of technology. They’re pushing us, saying, “Here’s where we are; here’s how we like to consume content – we expect you guys to be right there with us.” We have owners who are successful in the technology sector; they push us again and again to think about what the future looks like. This is all about growing the game, getting more people en-gaged with the NBA. Technology is a great facilitator and enabler of that.

T2: The other sports must think similarly. Why is the NBA often out front?

A.: We’re comfortable taking risks, doing things no one’s done before. That fosters an environment of entrepreneurs and tech people coming to us [first]. The venture funds too – they’re constantly bringing us new ideas around technologies that are

applicable to sports. So there’s a pipeline, and we take every meeting.

T2: And what’s the latest new thing?A.: The hottest right now is vir-tual reality. It’s going to change

the fan experience. Very few fans have the opportunity to go to an NBA game and even fewer to sit courtside: You are feet on the floor, hearing the players. You can’t get any closer to the action. Well, virtual real-

ity allows you to get that experience from anywhere in the world. The sounds, the view; you get to see how fast, how skilled these players are. And you can change the viewing angle – hover above the backcourt, feel like you’re floating above the court. Then turn and see the crowd reaction. It’s an amazing experience, and today is the worst it’s ever going to be. The technology’s only going to get better.

T2: How close is this to “ready for primetime?”A.: A lot of people much smarter than me are investing tens, hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get that technology up and running ASAP. We’ve already demonstrated we can shoot and stream a live game. So I think it’s going to grow pretty quickly in the next couple of years.

T2: It’s been reported the league is testing mini-GPS devices in player uniforms – to track player movements and generate all kinds of new statistics.A.: Yes, it’s one of those things we’re obvi-ously looking at. Anything that has to do with GPS or wearable devices, we’d have to talk to our players association about. So I don’t want to say it’s inevitable, but I’ll tell you there’s definitely more of a trend of capturing that kind of data and information. There’s [already] so much tracking going on today. It’s basically cameras in the arenas tracking player movements. We have a partnership with SAP. They’re synthesizing that information and providing enormous amounts of information to our fans.

T2: It seems there’s already a stat for everything. What’s left?A.: You might want to know, who runs the most miles up and down the court during a game? You could map out things like, what is the best two or three person combination of players to have on the court at any one given time.

T2: Keeping track of just points and re-bounds is starting to feel old-fashioned.A.: Today’s consumers – particularly that younger demographic – have an insatiable thirst for insight and data and informa-tion.

T2: And will this join the game narrative on TV? A.: The broadcasters and analysts will use that data. Certainly, our teams are using it now on a consistent basis. That’s how it started – our basketball operations people taking that data, that analysis, and applying it to the court. We’ve now made it available to the consumer.

T2: How much is too much? Does human judgment get sacrificed? A.: The data is helpful information, but at the end of the day I still think you need that human element, those intangibles that help you make certain decisions. I don’t think we’ll ever get to the point where some computer says, “Okay, now you send in Lebron James.”

T2: But maybe the TV commentator tells viewers the computer said that. And maybe someday there’s such detailed data that a team doesn’t want its competitors to get, or that a player doesn’t want his team to see.A.: Well, if you wanted to take the time to do it, you could track and measure everything happening on the court. So our view is, let’s be transparent about it. Let’s share the information. You and I may have the same data, but we may not come to the same conclusion on how we use it. The data is the data. The secret sauce is, how do you interpret that information, and what do you do with it?

T2: How is the NBA using social media?A.: We heard from our audience, “It would be nice if I saw a highlight on Twitter, and I was able to buy just that.” So this year for the first time, we have that. It’s all about us-ing social media to give you a little bit of a taste, then giving you the opportunity and making it easy to go and consume more if you want to. We were the first sports league to pass the one billion views mark on Vine.

T2: What else does technology hold in store? A.: One thing we’ve been looking at is the whole eSports phenomenon. There’s a growing industry around people watching other people play games. It’s fascinating. A lot of these events are held in NBA

Mark’s Hall of Fame

Mark Tatum has an MBA from

Harvard, and his business acu-

men is legendary. We asked him

whom he’d put in an NBA hall of

fame for athlete-entrepreneurs.

Kobe Bryant: “He went out and started his own

company, Kobe Inc. He hired a CEO and he’s got

a staff. I know for a fact that he spent a lot of time

talking to other successful CEOs, and he is think-

ing long-term about how he builds his [post-NBA

career] global brand.

Lebron James: “A very savvy businessperson.

He recently announced a lifetime deal with Nike.

From the time he was very young in the league,

he has always thought about building his global

brand and he’s done an incredible job at it.”

Magic Johnson: “A consummate entrepreneur

and a terrific businessperson.”

Michael Jordan: “He translated his on-court

success into incredible off-court success, to the

point where he is one of our owners and a global

icon not just in sports but in business.”

Rising Stars:

Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh “There are

guys like them who are very interested in tech-

nology, and have invested in various technology

companies – and venture funds that invest in

entrepreneurs and tech companies. These guys

are very sophisticated; they surround themselves

with sophisticated investors. It’s never too early

to start thinking about your post-NBA career, and

this generation of players is doing that.”

Virtual reality that turns your home sofa into a courtside seat... Data-dense algorithms to let fans second- guess the coach instantly... Tiny GPS devices embedded in player uniforms... It’s all coming.

With owners like Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Mark

Cuban (cable TV) and Vivek Ranadivé (data technology), it’s no

surprise that the NBA leads the field in sports-tech.

Mark Tatum ’87 is Deputy Commissioner and second in com-

mand of what is now a $5 billion multi-media, content-streaming

global juggernaut with a 215 country footprint -- the NBA. His

portfolio includes the league’s accelerating new-technology push.

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Talking With…. Mark Tatum

A technology revolution is transforming

how we watch professional sports.

Guiding it at the National Basketball

Association is… Who else? A Technite.

Continued on page 20

(Editor’s note: at presstime, Kobe Bryant announced a $100

million venture capital fund to focus on media and technology)

“Technology is a great enabler.”

“I went to a parochial Islamic middle school; 200 kids. I knew that coming to a

large public school, I would face challenges to my faith.

My kufi is like an anchor point for me. In my freshman year some people would

see it and say, “Why are you wearing that

hat? You’re Black, you’re not Muslim.”

But the biggest thing was that one of

the five prayer times coincides with the

middle of the day. At my other school

they made time for that, but here…

I had to decide it was something I

was going to do, and I had to go out of

my way to figure out a way. To muster

the confidence to tell teachers, ‘I need a

space to pray during lunch.’

Sophomore year, I even got my

schedule changed so I could

make the prayer at the

appropriate time.

The encounter with di-

verse ideas and people was

[also] a challenge for me,

but a welcome one. Even

as someone decided in my

beliefs, I think it’s important

to see other beliefs.

I joined the track team.

When I was a sophomore one

of the seniors got into Stanford,

MIT, Harvard and Yale. I thought,

‘Wow. That’s excellence. He’s my

friend. Maybe I could do that.’ He

became my role model. He pointed

me to a teacher who pointed me to

the Alumni Foundation’s Weston re-

search program, which pointed me

to a research opportunity, which

formed my desire to go to MIT.

Brooklyn Tech was a huge part

of why I’m going.”

“Go for it,” urged her math teacher, a Harvard alum; as did a former Tech buddy, now a Harvard freshman.

“No I’m done,” she replied. “I applied to 21 colleges including every other Ivy.”

Then, as December application deadlines approached, she saw an interview with a famed author. In it,

Elizabeth Gilbert told of the Ivy League rejection letter she’d kept for years – as an

incentive to always try harder.

“A Harvard rejection,” Catherine thought. “That would always motivate me

to reach for the stars.”

At the 11th hour, encouraged by the teacher and the friend, Catherine

speedily crafted a 22nd application, basing it on her Brooklyn Tech research

project abstract and adding some extraordinarily poetic words (See p. 12)

about her awe of science.

The day when all eight Ivies simultaneously announce acceptances is

called Ivy Day. Catherine spent it in a coffeeshop, checking online updates

anxiously, and often.

By dinnertime, she was in at six Ivies. Not wanting the expected

rejection to spoil her happy mood, she headed home without check-

ing Harvard’s announcement.

That night the toll from too much coffee consumption struck

hard. Catherine tossed sleeplessly. Around 1 AM, bored, she

gave in and logged on to the Harvard site. The first word she

saw was “Congratulations…”

Catherine slipped from bed and shook her mother

awake in the next room to share the news. Tears of joy

flowed freely.

Everyone who knew Catherine Hua implored her: apply to Harvard.

“I won’t get in,” she thought for months. “Why bother?”

TEACHERS AND FRIENDS ALTER A TECHNITE’S IVY QUEST

F r o m B r o o k l y n . . . . . . T O C A M B R I D G E

Call Her CATHERINE

2011:

Joins track team; goes

on to captain it to city

championship.

2012:

Enters Tech’s Weston

Research Scholars

program.

2013:

Weston teacher

guides her to college

biochemistry lab

internship; she excels.

2013-15:

Holds leadership posts

in two scholastic

honors/service

organizations.

Fall 2015:

Teachers and

friends urge her:

apply to Harvard.

She declines.

Dec. 2015:

Finally heeding the

advice, files an

11th hour Harvard

application based

largely on her Weston

research abstract.

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Harith Morgan ’16 came to the nation’s largest, most diverse high

school from a tiny parochial middle school. He adjusted; he thrived...

all the way to MIT... with a teammate and a teacher providing assistance.

A Diversity ENCOUNTER

The Hua/BTHS formula for

admission to Harvard:

HUA

To learn more about Catherine Hua, visit www.bthsalumni.org/Hua

Talking With….

SAM SCHWARTZ

T2: It’s constantly getting harder to navigate around town, isn’t it?A.: Maximum mobility in New York City was around 1970, then it went downhill. But we confuse mobility and accessibil-ity. We think that mobility means we can go fast. But if you can walk to the corner store, your accessibility is much better.

T2: One sees new bike lanes, and reads that millennials are driving less. Are these real progress, or fads that will fade when the 20-somethings reach middle age?A.: It’s not just a blip when we have ten straight years of reduction in vehicle miles driven. I think the desire is long-term among millennials. There’s a study that shows when they have children, they still

use transit.

T2: Many still drive.A.: The majority will still drive, but we’ve seen a 20% shift, which is dramatic. We’ve never seen a 20% shift away from driving. That means 20% less energy use, 20% fewer people obese, 20% fewer crashes. Wonderful changes that will help society.

T2: New York has bike lanes, pedestrian zones and now the Vision Zero plan to reduce traffic fatalities. Is this enough progress?A.: Those move the needle, but they haven’t dealt with the congestion problem. None of it radically changes what the av-erage New Yorker does during the course of a day. We need more of a master plan,

more area-wide improvement.

T2:A master plan might include what?A.: If we are smart as a society, we will encourage walking, biking, active trans-portation and transit. I don’t see the big thinkers out there. We have not built a bridge to Manhattan since 1909. That’s 107 years ago. Other cities are proposing pedestrian and bike bridges. I’ve proposed one from Red Hook to Governor’s Island and lower Manhattan, one from Hunters Point or Greenpoint to Roosevelt Island and midtown, another from Jersey City or Hoboken into midtown. But I don’t see anyone in the city or state saying “Hey, let’s build a bridge.”

’65If New York City’s vehicle-clogged streets increasingly resemble a dense swamp to you, the facts suggest you are correct. But beware the trap of confusing mobility with accessibility, says Gridlock Sam — Sam Schwartz ’65. Flee your car, hop on a bike or lace up your walking shoes and you’ll encounter a far friendlier-feeling city.

Schwartz, a former New York City traffic commis-sioner who actually invented the word “gridlock,” is vocal in the nationwide push for improving urban life by relying less on autos. He’s written a book about it: “Street Smart.” But now, emerging technology threat-ens to actually increase urban street congestion.

Schwartz has a plan for dealing with that, too.

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September 16, 2016 Dedication of Main Gymnasium in

Memory of Conrad McRae

October 26, 2016 Career Day

October 30, 2016 Long Island Chapter Breakfast,

Cradle of Aviation Museum

November 30, 2016 Titans of Tech Awards Dinner,

Pier Sixty – Chelsea Piers

January 5, 2017 Recent Alumni Day

February 15, 2017 Tech Celebration Recognition Dinner,

Gargiulo’s Restaurant

March 11, 2017 Ruby Breakfast Celebrating

Class of 2017 Young Women

March 30 - April 1, 2017 Homecoming

New Directions Lecture Series – Speakers To Be Announced

Start times – 3:45 in the Library

October 26, 2016 (Career Day)

December 7, 2016

March 22, 2017

April 26, 2017

Calendar of EventsT2: And if we are not smart as a society?A.: If we’re dumb, we’re going to let the autonomouscarsandtheUberstakeoverto the point where we become very lazy and it mirrors WALL-E in that film.

T2: Wait, will driverless cars actually function in the craziness of Manhattan traffic?A.: Yes. It’s easy.

T2: Really?A.: Yes. You have to realize that all the decisions we make as a driver [in urban traffic] probably add up to hundreds of thousands at most. For a computer that’s not a lot. A dime can contain all the in-formation for 100,000 decisions.

T2: How far in our future is this?A.: Austin will have about 100 [driverless cars] in the next couple of years. In a place as complex as New York City: probably the 2030 to 2040 decade.

T2: And you think this not a good thing?A.: It creates a lot of problems in cities. Most studies show we’ll have more vehicle miles traveled. The autonomous car doesn’t go the parking garage. You go to your meeting, and it circulates. You see the parking lot costs $60, so you tell your car, “Just drive around the block.”

T2: And your solution is…?A.: We need a pricing strategy.

T2: Congestion pricing, tolls to cross the East River bridges? You’ve been advocating that for years.A.: I have been. For 45 years.

T2:What’s going to soften resistance?A.: We’re going to need pricing or we’ll be crippled. We’re already getting crippled withtheadventofUber,LyftandVia.Also I would lower tolls on the outer borough bridges – the Whitestone, the Verrazano – so the boroughs get relief. We need leadership: You go to London, Paris, almost any Asian city and they’re all recognizing that cars aren’t the answer to urban traffic.

Class Notes

Dr. Allen Lee ’70 received a LEO

Award for Lifetime Exceptional

Achievement in Information

Systems. The award is given

to distinguished members of

the research community whose

contributions have changed the

field and influenced others. Dr. Lee is a professor

in the School of Business at Virginia Common-

wealth University in Richmond, VA.

Sharmella Riggs ’81 is the propulsion & power inte-

grated product team lead at the Naval Air Warfare

Center, Aircraft Division.

Denisha McPherson ’04 won an Emmy for “out-

standing technical team” for her work with NBC at

the XXII Olympic Winter Games.

Andrea Wangsanata ’07

took an early career sab-

batical to see the world,

covering 22 countries in

16 months and blogging

about it before settling

in Sydney, Australia. She met up with classmates

Kristi Ann and Aliya Codrington in Bali, and un-

expectedly encountered another Tech alum deep

inside a national park in Brazil.

Bryan Bautista ’10, who won the BTHS talent

competition in 2008, finished in the top eight in the

2016 season of television show The Voice.

Nikita Dubnov ’13, a senior at Cornell University’s

college of engineering, interned last summer at

Apple working in software development. He is

majoring in information science and minoring in

business. “All based on the skills that I learned at

Brooklyn Tech, I am looking forward to a career in

technology project management,” he reports.

Emma Costa ’14 is an undergraduate research

assistant at the Synthetic Neurobiology Group,

MIT Media Lab, and a junior at MIT. She designed

and implemented a technology-based curriculum

for secondary school students in rural Kenya, and

won the MIT Freshman Award for Distinguished

Achievement in Entrepreneurship.

Yejin Lee ’14 is a dual degree honors student at

Syracuse University in Information Management

and Technology and Supply Chain Management,

and is a student peer mentor.

Bilal Nadeem ’15 is studying at Harvard and has been

a research analyst intern at Concept Capital Markets.

Angela Zeng ’16 went on a summer educational

expedition in the Arctic as the first Asian-American

scholarship recipient of the Beatrice Snyder Founda-

tion, through the Students on Ice program, a global

initiative to educate students about the polar regions.

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Surf’s Up Tatum

them, hanging with Henry, is his former classmate Julia Shuliko ’07, who hasn’t seen him since back in the day. Her job: to transfer participants from their wheel-chairs onto the adaptive surfboards they will lie on. “We are seeing people who are non-mobile live life to the fullest,” she says. “Seeing them in the water, fearless, inspires me. If they can go out there, I should be living my life to the fullest too. Maybe there’s something that I haven’t been doing that I should try.” Around then, Ed Friedman emerges dripping wet and beaming from his surf-ing run: “It’s adrenalin. It’s a nice rush. It’s empowering,” he says. Empowerment is the point of it all for Elegudin. In an interview later, he recalls his dismay at seeing his post-accident rehab buddies shunted off to nursing homes because they couldn’t live independently: “I started to think, ‘One day when I’m better, I want to help

people like my friends deal with lack-of-access issues.’” He began volunteering as soon as he could, and launched Wheeling For-ward in 2012. The organization teams with other groups to pull off some of its major events, like the surfing day, but concentrates on the daily essentials: “Helping people have active, meaningful lives. Helping them go back to school, to work. To improve their quality of life.” He does it, according to those who know him, to the max: “He is always there for you, he always finds a way – and he pushes himself to the limit,” says surfing day volunteer Jane Sosland ’08 – who is Elegudin’s cousin. But what matters to the appreciative participants here on this July afternoon is that they have just had one of their best days ever. Still dripping drops of ocean water, Ed Friedman smiles again. “I caught some of the biggest waves,” he says happily.

Tech Teams

Are Champs

Brooklyn Tech’s athletes col-

lectively set a school record in

2015-16 when eight teams won

city championships. Tech’s

student athletes have a mean

grade average in the mid 90s.

WHAT’S NEXT for the Technites featured in this issue? We asked them….

Continued from page 7

Ben, whose programming résumé dates back to elementary school and who can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 11.4 seconds, is interested in Stanford, MIT, or another top engineering school. “I walked into a land of opportunity when I came to Brooklyn Tech,” he said. “It is

the perfect place for me.” Skeptics who point out that electric carsaresilent,pleasenote:by2018,USnon-combustion autos must have an audible engine sound to enhance pedes-trian safety.

Road stars

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buildings. Time Warner has invested in a league. We’re seeing EA Sports creating a whole division focused on eSports. It’s one of those things I think has potential to be pretty game-changing.

T2: Would that be soon, or down the road a bit? A.: It’s happening now. Some of these global tournaments are attracting mil-lions of viewers online.

T2: The NBA’s multi-year, multi-billion dollar new TV deal is taking effect now. But traditional TV is no longer the whole pie. What about the proliferation of new digital platforms for distribution and viewing?

A.: Many in the younger generation are never signing up [for cable or satellite service. They’re consuming their content today in much different ways. At the local and the global level we’re making invest-ments in marketing and customer data strategies — identifying who is coming to our games, who’s watching on television, who’s interacting with us in social and digital media, and trying to figure out: how do they want to continue to interact with us, how do they want to consume our content, where are they consuming our content, when do they consume it? Those are things we try to get smarter about every single day.

T2: How did Brooklyn Tech help prepare you for bringing the world of cutting-edge technology into the NBA?A.: Brooklyn Tech taught me to be curious and showed me how to solve problems cre-atively. The lessons I learned there have helped prepare me to engage with and embrace emerging technologies in our business today.

In sixth grade, I made a Van de Graaf generator. I found a video on how to build it, and I just followed it.

Sophomore year, I built a piezo-electric energy harvesting floor tile. Step on it, and it produces electricity. It’s been installed in Tech several times, and it is completely economically viable. I’m looking to install it in office buildings, malls and subway stations.

In my research internship we’re working to prolong insulin’s life at room temperature. Because it is unstable at room temperature, insulin has to be stored in a refrigerator. Our work will help hospitals.

HARITH MORGAN

Inventor-athlete

DANIEL ALHADEFF

Inventor

TULSI PATEL

Lab researcher

A Cool Thing I did...

DANIEL ALHADEFF

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. Aiming to bring his energy tile to market; also developing a mobile phone app with commercial potential.

MATTHEW CHOY

Talking to patent at-torneys, including Tech alumni, about his home alternative energy inven-tion.WilldoublemajoratNYUinscienceand sociology: “I feel it’s feasible to have a career that focuses on both. The track of science throughout history is finding innova-tive ways to help people.”

ALISON COLLARD

Wants to develop a flight simulator-type app that can teach aspiring motorists to drive.

HELEN DING

John Jay College, major-ing in political science. Undecidedwhethertojoin a student organiza-tion or start one. Plans to study law and become a prosecutor.

CATHERINE HUA

“Study abroad or travel to at least 3 different continents... Con-centrate at Harvard in chemical and physical biology; minor in physics…Research, most definitely!! … Life goal: to change the world.”

KAROL

KOWALCZYK

City College, majoring in civil engineering. Hopes to start his own structural engineering firm and “accomplish projects that will leave a great social impact.”

JANILL LEMA

ColumbiaUniversity.“What I really want to do is tissue engineering. This is creating organs from stem cells. It is an emerging field.”

HARITH MORGAN

“MIT is a place where opportunities abound; where you set up the dominoes for the rest of your life. I want to study mechanical engineering and ultimately help people and the world by making stuff. And I want to have fun at the same time.”

JOHN NGUYEN

CooperUnion,tomajorin chemical or mechani-cal engineering. Hopes to join Engineers With-out Borders, attend graduate school, serve in the Peace Corps and start his own company.

ANDREW

PALACIOS

Macaulay Honors Col-lege,CUNY.Planstomajor in either engineer-ing or political science.

TULSI PATEL

Considering Boston University,DukeandCUNY;hopingtomajorin biomedical engineer-ing and minor in litera-ture. “I am leaning toward being a doctor. I hope to start an organization in which athletes team up with centers for autistic children to help them play sports.”

TERRIQUE

PINNOCK

Considering college study in chemistry, biol-ogy or medicine. Also anticipates engaging in

“some kind of leadership and volunteer-ing organization to help the community.”

SAFWAN RAHAT

Major in biomedical engineering, minor in businessatUniversityof California - Berkeley

JOSEPHINE

SODDANO

Setting sights on majoring in meteorol-ogy or chemistry at theUniversityofCalifornia-Berkeley or MIT: “The large and competitive environment of Tech has really prepared me for college:”

BENJAMIN

SPIEGEL

Hoping to study pro-gramming or computer science at Stanford or MIT

PEONY WONG

VillanovaUniversitypsychology/pre-med, then attend medical school and “maybe join a few missionary trips before I completely settle down” as a psychiatrist.

QINGMEI WU

MIT. “I want to work in the third world on environmental energy and power grids. I’ll start in the kitchen. Where I came from, many people had inefficient fireplace stoves. I’ll go to a third world country, sit in their homes, and turn my observations into new stove designs or a new kind of grid.”

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James H. Lantelme ‘46Velio A. Marsocci ‘46Leonard Matin ‘46Norman Moskowitz ‘46Lewis G. Nieberg ‘46Frank L. Peishel ‘46James Spool ‘46Bertram H. Stiller ‘46Jerome Tiegel ‘46William J. Anton ‘47Harry Bernstein ‘47John A. Caruso ‘47Robert R. Detwiler ‘47Melvin Elfin ‘47Charles D. Federico ‘47Arnold W. Frank ‘47Fred A. Grauman ‘47Richard J. Katucki ‘47Stephen J. Keane ‘47Abraham L. Landis ‘47Edward W. Lewison ‘47Marvin I. Mazur ‘47Arthur Miller ‘47Stuart Pivar ‘47Jerome L. Sackman ‘47George W. Smith ‘47Norman Y. Zelvin ‘47Donald J. Bachrach ‘48Sheldon Batterman ‘48Roger E. Beutner ‘48John W. Chromy ‘48Bernard Friedland ‘48John A. Garstka ‘48Kenneth L. Goldman ‘48Lino A. Graglia ‘48Louis Gross ‘48William K. Kramer ‘48Murray A. Luftglass ‘48Irwin B. Margiloff ‘48Richard F. Marsh ‘48Irwin Medoff ‘48Joseph A. Parrella ‘48Morton Povman ‘48Leonard Shapiro ‘48Harold Sobol ‘48David Weild III ‘48George A. Yabroudy ‘48Hermann F. Anton ‘49Klaus Bergman ‘49Richard M. Ehrlich ‘49Leonard Ehrman ‘49Murray H. Feigenbaum ‘49Alvin R. Finkelstein ‘49Philip M. Fleiss ‘49Alan E. Goldberg ‘49Barry D. Greene ‘49Richard J. Harper ‘49Pazel G. Jackson, Jr. ‘49Stratos G. Kantounis ‘49Allan W. Lyons ‘49Lionel A. Marks ‘49Sidney S. Paul ‘49R.A. Satin ‘49Alvin M. Silver ‘49Walter J. Smith ‘49Edward P. Taudien ‘49Robert J. Anders ‘50Anonymous ‘50William H. Chamberlain ‘50Robert T. Cole ‘50Rasmus A. Erdal ‘50Frank J. Farella ‘50Richard G. Ramge ‘50Bert W. Wasserman ‘50F. Richard Zitzmann ‘50Albert R. Adelmann ‘51Noah M. Berley ‘51Lawrence D. Brown ‘51Frank A. Cipriani ‘51David A. Citrin ‘51Morton Corn ‘51Gordon Davidson ‘51Kenneth A. Griffin ‘51Walter G. Jung ‘51M. Robert Kestenbaum ‘51Angel Martin ‘51Robert A. Meyers ‘51Arno A. Penzias ‘51

Richard J. Pressel ‘51Norman Reinertsen ‘51Calvin H. Reing ‘51Robert M. Rosen ‘51George C. Stoutenburgh, Sr. ‘51William Assiff ‘52Gordon Baym ‘52Richard B. Brandt ‘52Hank E. Carillo ‘52Victor J. Caroddo ‘52Alan B. Dolmatch ‘52Alan Drucker ‘52Karl E. Fritsch ‘52Lester A. Hoel ‘52John M. Jeffords ‘52David Kliot ‘52Robert E. Melnik ‘52Edward M. Messina ‘52C. Raymond Nelson ‘52James P. Popino ‘52Stuart J. Rothkopf ‘52William Scales ‘52Steven P. Shearing ‘52Theodore Thomte ‘52Michael A. Turin ‘52Vincent Volpicelli ‘52Allen L. Wasserman ‘52Raoul Alvarez ‘53Gerald K. Bergh ‘53Roger S. Blaho ‘53Alexander N. Casella ‘53William Cullen ‘53Clifford J. Daly ‘53Sheldon W. Dean Jr. ‘53Anthony R. Fandozzi ‘53Carl D. Harbart ‘53Joel J. Levitz ‘53Charles F. Muller Jr. ‘53Lowell M. Rubin ‘53Jerome I. Sharrin ‘53William M. Slyman ‘53Ron Tevonian ‘53Richard J. Zaloum ‘53Bernhard E. Deichmann ‘54Robert T. Franco ‘54Franklin J. Gladstone ‘54Ronald Haggett ‘54Thomas W. Hall ‘54Heinz A. Hegmann ‘54Norman D. Henderson ‘54Albert LoSchiavo ‘54Robert F. Lynch ‘54Peter F. Margulen ‘54Jon Mulford ‘54John C. Munnelly ‘54Hans R. Naumann ‘54George R. Nelson ‘54Kurt R. Willinger ‘54Fred H. Woodruff ‘54Lawrence M. Baskir ‘55Joseph A. Castellano ‘55W. Philip Johnson Jr. ‘55Eugene Kremer ‘55Carl J. Lange ‘55John Leary ‘55Joseph D. Monticciolo ‘55Eric C. Olsen ‘55Paul I. Olsen ‘55Irving Rozansky ‘55Joel M. Spiro ‘55Robert J. Sywolski ‘55Edward R. Wolpow ‘55John H. Andren Jr. ‘56Anthony J. Balsamo ‘56Joel B. Chase ‘56Avram Cooperman ‘56Marvin C. Gersten ‘56Bruce L. Hollander ‘56Joseph T. Kavanagh ‘56William B. Knowlton ‘56Peter A. Lopes ‘56Peter L. Norgren ‘56Michael J. Pisani ‘56Joseph F. Plummer ‘56Robert Rung ‘56Bernard Schwartzman ‘56Saul C. Shenberg ‘56

Stanley Skalka ‘56Philip G. Taylor ‘56Jack H. Willenbrock ‘56Elkan Abramowitz ‘57Robert H. Buggeln ‘57Louis P. Crane ‘57William F. Dworsak ‘57Frederick J. Dymek ‘57John A. Finguerra ‘57Arthur Fontaine ‘57Bernard H. Friese ‘57Victor F. Germack ‘57Martin L. Goldfarb ‘57Ed Goldman ‘57John F. Harte ‘57Robert Hoch ‘57Jack Karczewski ‘57Joseph M. Moran ‘57D. Robert Oppenheimer, Jr. ‘57Kenneth M. Rosen ‘57John J. Tomaszewski ‘57Allan Abramson ‘58Edward J. Antonio ‘58Anthony R. Baldomir ‘58David Berman ‘58Joel D. Citron ‘58Sal Dunn ‘58Bernard Greenberg ‘58Edward Haleman ‘58Gilbert Jackson ‘58Arthur W. Kirsch ‘58Marvin L. Meistrich ‘58Ronald Morony ‘58Steven J. Nappen ‘58Anthony C. Nicoletti ‘58Ronald Olson ‘58Robert Raifman ‘58Raymond Reilly ‘58Stanley M. Rogovin ‘58Lester A. Rubenfeld ‘58Richard K. Ruff ‘58Robin J. Russo ‘58Jack B. Shaifer ‘58Alvin J. Siegartel ‘58Paul B. Thorn ‘58Thomas E. Waber ‘58Richard F. Worsena ‘58Stephan Ariyan ‘59Melvin J. Band ‘59Robert S. Comparato ‘59Steven M. Darien ‘59Clifford H. Fisher ‘59Robert A. Grossman ‘59Arnold Katz ‘59Fred K. Kies ‘59Marshall J. Levinson ‘59Charles J. Luchun ‘59Dennis J. Moran ‘59Andrew G. Mueller ‘59Kenneth A. Ness ‘59Albert F. Neumann ‘59Bruce N. Newrock ‘59Edward A. Oxer ‘59Alan J. Sheldon ‘59Ira N. Slow ‘59Chuck Spillert ‘59Stanley Steinberg ‘59Louis P. Torre ‘59Francis J. Voyticky ‘59Jack S. Bakunin ‘60Louis R. Comunelli ‘60Nicholas J. DeCapua ‘60Robert W. Donohue ‘60Allen F. Goldman ‘60Bernard Grossman ‘60James L. Iskiyan ‘60Steven Koestenblatt ‘60Derek I. Lowenstein ‘60Ray A. Lynnworth ‘60Paul B. Mentz ‘60Robert O. Mercer ‘60Eugene B. Michaelsen ‘60Edwin Neff Jr. ‘60William H. Otto ‘60Paul Pliester ‘60John H. Powers ‘60Arthur P. Rea ‘60

Stephen L. Richter ‘60Bruce Rubinger ‘60Ronald H. Schmahl ‘60Miles A. Slater ‘60Steven Stark ‘60William J. Tinston Jr. ‘60Nicholas P. Trentacoste ‘60David H. Abramson ‘61Irving M. Adler ‘61Thomas R. Alcamo ‘61Richard P. Anastasio ‘61Peter J. Balestiero ‘61Sheldon Bernstein ‘61Alan I. Brooks ‘61Peter J. Coppolino ‘61Peter L. Cuneo ‘61Elliott J. Dubin ‘61Dennis E. Ellisen ‘61Paul D. Felder ‘61Marshall N. Gartenlaub ‘61Peter N. Geornaras ‘61John Hahn ‘61Franz J. Hoge ‘61Thomas J. Hughes ‘61George B. Johnson ‘61Ilan M. Levi ‘61Gordon A. Lewandowski ‘61William D. Livesey ‘61Eric M. May ‘61James P. McNamara ‘61Joseph J. Merenda Jr. ‘61Joseph Nalven ‘61Marvin Pflaum ‘61Lawrence J. Simon ‘61Mark C. Stern ‘61Michael F. Trachtenberg ‘61Norman Weinstein ‘61Douglas B. Woessner ‘61Michael E. Zall ‘61Steven M. Bauman ‘62Arnold S. Berger ‘62Richard J. Cusick ‘62William B. Follit Jr. ‘62William M. Gelbart ‘62Curtis K. Goss ‘62Philip M. Katcher ‘62Stanley Keyles ‘62Peter Konieczny ‘62Allan A. Koslofsky ‘62Pete Kudless ‘62Michael Lamoriella ‘62Robert Levine ‘62Frank Lynch ‘62Dennis A. Paoletti ‘62Arthur N. Peterson ‘62Joel Zizmor ‘62Neil Bromberg ‘63Alan R. Cravitz ‘63Michael DeFazio ‘63Jeff Erdel ‘63Joel M. Feldschneider ‘63Bradley B. Fordham ‘63William P. Fox ‘63Peter Gamba ‘63Donald Gaylord ‘63Andrew Kohl ‘63Lloyd J. Lazarus ‘63Herbert J. Marks ‘63Emil Monda ‘63David A. Rosenzweig ‘63Chet Singer ‘63Bernard M. Spiegel ‘63Mark Weiss ‘63Stephen N. Weiss ‘63Arnold Zimmerman ‘63Robert Filosa ‘64Richard D. Firestone ‘64Richard Gaccione ‘64William J. Gallo ‘64Gabriel Goldberg ‘64Louis D. Greenzweig ‘64Thorsteen K. Hervold ‘64Eliot Hess ‘64Neal Klinger ‘64Peter Kunka ‘64Kenneth R. Pierce ‘64Jeffrey B. Sameroff ‘64Steven Schlosser ‘64

$1,000,000 +

IndividualsIsaac Heller ‘43Norman K. Keller ‘54Leandro P. Rizzuto ‘56Leonard Riggio ‘58Charles B. Wang ‘62

$500,000 +

IndividualsFred M. Grafton ‘44Josh S. Weston ‘46

OrganizationsGoldman Sachs Gives Annual Giving Fund

$200,000 +

IndividualsErik Klokholm ‘40Harold Antler ‘46Mary Jane Schnoor & Richard H. Schnoor ‘49Victor Insetta ‘57Achilles Perry ‘58James Fantaci ‘64Floyd Warkol ‘65John A. Catsimatidis ‘66

OrganizationsBTHS Parent Teachers AssociationCon Edison

$100,000 +

IndividualsFrederick C. Meyer ‘40Charles A. DeBenedittis ‘48Alfred Lerner ‘51Lee James Principe ‘56Michael F. Parlamis ‘58Louis H. Siracusano Sr. ‘60Jeffrey M. Haitkin ‘62Herbert L. Henkel ‘66

Friends of TechRichard MackStephen C. Mack

OrganizationsNational Grid

$50,000 +

IndividualsJoseph J. Jacobs ‘34Sherman Rigby ‘46Stuart Kessler ‘47Martin V. Alonzo ‘48Thomas J. Volpe ‘53Anthony J. Armini ‘55Peter A. Ferentinos ‘55Joseph J. Kaminski ‘56Richard M. Kulak ‘56William L. Mack ‘57Michael A. Weiss ‘57Robert C. Ochs ‘59Jacob Feinstein ‘60Willard N. Archie ‘61Michael Minikes ‘61Larry Birenbaum ‘65Rande H. Lazar ‘69Carmine A. Morano ‘72

OrganizationsC. R. Bard FoundationIngersoll RandBTHS Alumni Long Island Chapter

$25,000 +

IndividualsJohn C. Siltanen ‘31Arnold J. Melloy ‘40Patrick Romano ‘43Murray H. Neidorf ‘45Robert Marchisotto ‘47David Abraham ‘48George E. Safiol ‘50Joseph M. Colucci ‘54Robert F. Davey ‘58William Sheluck Jr. ‘58Howard Fluhr ‘59Eric Kaltman ‘60Bert Reitman ‘63Alan M. Silberstein ‘65Anonymous ‘67Andy Frankl ‘67Peter J. Cobos ‘72Chester Wong ‘94

Friends of TechDorcey ChernickJason HaitkinPenny HaitkinBetty J. Mayer

OrganizationsAmerican Express FoundationKeyspanSimpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLPThe Lotos FoundationThe Segal Company

$10,000 +

IndividualsCharles Kyrie Kallas ‘37Louis Walkover ‘37Frederick H. Ajootian ‘41Roy B. Simpson ‘41Daniel K. Roberts ‘43Armand J. Valenzi ‘44Sidney A. Mayer ‘46Ronald P. Stanton ‘46Wesley E Truesdell ‘46Joseph N. Sweeney ‘48LeRoy N. Callender ‘50Lawrence Sirovich ‘51Michael D. Nadler ‘52George Suffal ‘53Lawrence C. Lynnworth ‘54Leonard Edelstein ‘55John Moy ‘58Michael Tannenbaum ‘58William A. Davis Jr. ‘59Glenn Y. Louie ‘59Richard E. LaMotta ‘60Patricia Vasbinder & Victor Montana ‘60Bernard R. Gifford ‘61Michael Levine ‘61Mathew M. Mandery ‘61George W. Moran ‘61John B. Rofrano ‘61Edward R. Rothenberg ‘61Douglas Besharov ‘62Murray Dropkin ‘62Joseph Angelone ‘63Thomas C. DeCanio ‘63Steve H. Kaplan ‘63K. Steven Horlitz ‘64Edward P. Salzano ‘64William H. Wong ‘64Edward T. LaGrassa ‘65John M. Lyons ‘66John V. Cioffi ‘67Ned Steele ‘68John di Domenico ‘69Jeffrey L. Goldberg ‘69

Alan S. Natter ‘69William J. Rouhana Jr. ‘69Tony Bartolomeo ‘70Larry L. Cary ‘70George Graf ‘70George L. Van Amson ‘70James DiBenedetto ‘71Domingo Gonzalez ‘72Keith Forman ‘76Susan Mayham ‘76Nicholas Y. Chu ‘77Franklin F. Lee ‘77Wilton Cedeno ‘82Margaret Murphy ‘83Penelope Kokkinides ‘87

Friends of TechEmanuel BeckerElizabeth KorevaarEllen Mazur ThomsonDaniel StahlJonnie StahlRandi Zinn

OrganizationsB T Alex BrownBDO Seidman, LLPCare2Charles B. Wang Associates, IncChase Manhattan BankComputer Associates International, IncCon EdisonCowles Media FoundationDurst GroupFIRSTGameStop CorporationGoldman Sachs Matching Gift ProgramHeritage Mechanical Services, IncJohn Wiley & Sons, IncMancini DuffyMarathon BankMath For America, IncMBS Textbook ExchangeMerrill Lynch & Co FoundRaytheon CompanySIACT.E.C. Systems, IncTD Bank, NAThe Durst OrganizationThe New York Community TrustTime Warner

$5,000 +

IndividualsErnest R. Schultz ‘25Allan C. Johnson ‘28Frederick DeMatteis ‘40Eugene V. Kosso ‘42David W. Wallace ‘42Lawrence G. Rubin ‘43Dominic N. Castellano ‘45Bertram Quelch ‘45Robert Gresl ‘46Irwin Smiley ‘46Robert J. Domanoski ‘47Gordon H. Hensley ‘47Robert J. Pavan ‘47Irwin Shapiro ‘47Donald Bady ‘48Herbert A. Granath ‘48Harry H. Birkenruth ‘49James E. Dalton ‘49Bert Krauss ‘50Lee H. Pomeroy ‘50Ralph B. Wagner ‘51Murray Farash ‘52

Carl H. Kiesewetter ‘55Floyd R. Orr ‘55Les P. Kalmus ‘56Edward D. Miller ‘56Salvatore J. Vitale Jr. ‘56William H. Henry ‘57Stephen J. Lovell ‘57Francis C. Moon ‘57Anthony Borra ‘58Raymond M. Loew ‘58Robert J. Ciemian ‘59Richard R. Ferrara ‘59Valentine P. Povinelli Jr. ‘59Robert J. Stalzer ‘59Michael A. Antino ‘60John R. Murphy ‘61Robert C. DiChiara ‘63Joseph F. Azara Jr. ‘64Domenick J. Esposito ‘65Peter Kakoyiannis ‘65Marvin J. Levine ‘65Kenneth D’Alessandro ‘66Steven Wishnia ‘66Arthur H. Kettenbeil ‘67Anthony P. Schirripa ‘67William C. Wurst ‘67Lloyd Zeitman ‘69Charles J. Rose ‘70Roger E. Schechter ‘70Barry Sohnen ‘70Marty Borruso ‘71Steven A. Hallem ‘72Arnold Goldman ‘73Jonathan D. Dubin ‘74Edward M. Rosensteel ‘74Eugene Picone ‘76Seth Ruzi ‘76Grayling G. Williams ‘76Douglas Yagilowich ‘76Keith Franklin ‘78Elizabeth M. Wieckowski ‘79Deirdre D. Cooke ‘80Hau Yee Ng-Lo ‘80David L. Fung ‘81Kenneth D. Daly ‘84Mario Guerrero ‘86Joy H. Hsiao ‘87Adrienne D. Gonzalez ‘94John Liu ‘98Kaeisha T. O’Neal ‘99

Friends of TechRandell BarclaySyd BlattCharles Cahn Jr.Brian CosgroveJoseph Cuzzocrea Sr.Lucia DeSantiJames DimonAl FerraraWilliam L. HainesJohn HensleyKiseon KoThomas LowryStephen MazurJoan RiegelDavid RiosRandi RossignolJohn Thonet

OrganizationsAir ProductsBonanza Productions, IncBurson-MarstellerCary Kane, LLPCellini Fine JewelryChicago Bridge & Iron CompanyCredit Suisse SecuritiesDeutsche BankDuggal Color Projects, IncEastern Metalworks, Inc

El Paso Energy FoundationGateway Institute for Pre-College EducationHaights Cross Operating CompanyITW FoundationLaura Berdon FoundationLucent TechnologiesM & I Electric Industries, IncMorgan Stanley CybergrantsNational Hockey League FoundationPennoni Associates, IncPension ReviewPolytechnicUniversityRidgewood Savings BankRobinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman, LLPTextron Charitable TrustThe Jay Chiat Foundation, IncThe McGraw-Hill Companies

$2,500 +

IndividualsLouis K. Robbins ‘30Virgil V. Chiavetta ‘35L. Remsen Skidmore Jr. ‘37Ernest E. Pearson Jr. ‘40James E. Amrhein ‘41Rudolph Bahr Jr. ‘41Joseph P. Barbieri ‘41Eugene L. Fieldhammer ‘42Robert W. Mann ‘42Eugene Miritello ‘42David S. Hacker ‘43J. L. Snoke ‘43Oscar A. Levi ‘44Al Roffman ‘44RobertU.Schoenfelder‘44Arthur A. Feder ‘45Henry H. Frank ‘45Robert W. Citron ‘46Irwin Dorros ‘46Gerard Hirschhorn ‘46Erwin L. Schaub ‘46Alfred Schroeder ‘46Arnold Jaffe ‘47Saunder Schaevitz ‘47Joel F. Lehrer ‘48Frank S. Vigilante ‘48Stephen P. Cuff ‘49Stanley D. Margolin ‘49Saul Muchnick ‘49Gerald F. Ross ‘49Charles J. Sisti ‘49Chester P. Soling ‘49Joseph J. Kohn ‘50Arthur M. Dinitz ‘51John J. Huson ‘52Sheldon Katz ‘52Kenneth E. Batcher ‘53William J. D’Antonio ‘53Robert J. Heilen ‘53Sidney Levitsky ‘53Stuart K. Pertz ‘53Richard Schwartz ‘53Robert H. Tuffias ‘53Erwin Zeuschner ‘53Peter J. Kolesar ‘54Ivan D. Steen ‘54Robert B. Bruns ‘55Vincent R. Damiano ‘55Donald Lanier ‘55Owen D. McBride ‘55Jean G. Miele Jr. ‘55Robert F. Dendy ‘56Joel O. Lubenau ‘56Dan M. Ruesterholz ‘56

Bernard J. Stein ‘56Robert B. Bell ‘57David J. Bershad ‘57Peter Dornau ‘57Donald C. McCann ‘57Zdzislaw Mikolajczyk ‘57Thomas J. Mitchell ‘57Joseph Riggio ‘57Leon C. Silverman ‘57Richard S. Taylor ‘57Joseph A. Cavallo ‘58Joseph B. Ciccone ‘58Barry D. Epstein ‘58Stanley M. Ferber ‘58Allan R. Ginsberg ‘58Kenneth D. Greene ‘58James H. M. Malley ‘58Edward Rogas Jr. ‘58Stuart Schube ‘58Donald J. Stahl ‘58Thomas V. Deffina ‘59Robert Ennis ‘59Zachary C. Fluhr ‘59Arnold A Gruber ‘59Stephen A. Levine ‘59Joel S. Levy ‘59Michael T. Cohen ‘60Asher Etkin ‘60Joel M. Fields ‘60John Klvac ‘60Walter Skuggevig ‘60Richard E. Sorensen ‘60Anonymous ‘61Lawrence A. Baker ‘61Robert H. Digby ‘61Kenneth A. East ‘61Warren L. Gutheil ‘61Clifford A. Hudsick ‘61Robert F. Kelly ‘61Frank R. Luszcz ‘61Joel A. Aragona ‘62Warren Christie ‘62Steven Heymsfield ‘62Joseph Macnow ‘62Samuel D. Cheris ‘63Vincent DeLuca ‘63Ed R. Diamond ‘63John Glidewell ‘63Steven Protass ‘63Jeffrey A. Stein ‘63Benjamin E. Feller ‘64Barry Zemel ‘64Ronald E. Brandt ‘65John J. Eschemuller ‘65Michael Greenstein ‘65Frederic H. Jacobs ‘65Joel Seidner ‘65Stephen L. Shupack ‘65Paul J. Angelides ‘66Andrew W. Au ‘66Vincent D’Onofrio ‘66Samuel Estreicher ‘66Mike L. Johnson ‘66Alan W. Kramer ‘66Chester Lee ‘66Michael J. Macaluso ‘66Gabor Rothauser ‘66William B. Siegel ‘66Louis G. Adolfsen ‘67Al D’Elia ‘67Jerry M. Friedman ‘67Donald P. McConnell ‘67Alfred J. Mulvey ‘67Kenneth R. Adamo ‘68Ron S. Adler ‘68Kenneth S. Albano ‘68Richard S. Feinstein ‘68Edward Roffman ‘68Richard W. Turnbull ‘69Lance Turner ‘70Fred M. Del Gaudio ‘71James Ellerbee ‘71

This list reflects total lifetime giving through June 30, 2016 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.

Lifetime Giving

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Board of Directors

Larry Cary ’70President

Susan Mayham ’76Anthony Schirripa ’67Donovan Wickline ’88

Vice Presidents

Carmine Morano ’72Treasurer

Horace Davis ’84Secretary

Wilton Cedeno ’82Jim DiBenedetto ’71

Norman Keller ’54Penelope Kokkinides ’87

Edward LaGrassa ’65Salvatore Lentini ’79

John Lyons ’66Margaret Murphy ’83

Bola Oyedijo ’92Mark Perelman ’03

Achilles Perry ’58Ned Steele ’68

Denice Ware ’83Michael Weiss ’57

Laurie Zephyrin ’92Directors

Leonard Riggio ’58Honorary Director

Husna Ellis ’17Tousif Khan ’18

Valmira Popinara ’18Tiffany Voon ’17

Student Representatives

Foundation Office

Elizabeth A. SciabarraExecutive Director

Mathew M. Mandery ’61Chief Educational Officer

Rikhia ChowdhuryResearch Analyst

Ina CloonenOffice Manager

Suzanne HausmanGraphics Administrator

Liliya Magalnik Nissen ’01Special Events and Projects

Coordinator

Vance Toure ’06Special Assistant

Tech Times Staff

Editor In Chief and Chief Writer:Ned Steele ’68

Graphic Design: Robert Horansky

Creative Consultant: Chelsea Erin Vaughan

Editorial Direction: Elizabeth A. Sciabarra

Photography: Ron Glassman, Principal Photographer (pages C1, C2, 2, 3, 8-13, 16, 17, 20, 21 )

Kayla Flynn, Photography Coordinator Nathaniel S. Butler, NBAE/Getty Images (page 15) Sulav Darnal (page 3)Megan Garrison (page 19)Steve Kelly (pages 1, 18)Marquee Photography (page 18)Jennifer Pottheiser, NBAE/Getty Images (pages C2, 14) Ned Steele (pages 4, 7, 10, 13, 21)Be Aware Photography/Simone Yhap ’15 (page 2)

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The Magazine of

The Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation

Fall 2016

Randy J. Asher, Principal BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL

This issue of TechTimes is a testament to

the power of a Brooklyn Tech education. All

our alums, no matter what field they entered,

can look back and find some way Tech

impacted their choices and their successes.

In the pages of this issue, you’ve been intro-

duced to Tech alumni who are at the forefront

in their fields. You’ve been introduced to

alumni who know the importance of “paying

it forward.” You’ve been introduced to current Tech students, whose super

contributions have made them powers to be reckoned with in our school.

These young people are you.

I am proud to be the Executive Director of your Alumni Foundation. Our

office, located in the school, serves the needs of our current students and

teachers by enhancing the instructional experience. This may be in the form

of providing instructional resources for teachers through our Jeffrey Haitkin

Faculty Grant Program, or special activities and resources for students in

their classes. We actively support many co- and extra-curricular activities

including robotics, debate, chess, research through our Weston Research

Scholars Programs, internships through the Leandro P. Rizzuto Internship

Program, young women’s leadership through our Ruby Engineers program,

student government, mentoring, middle school outreach and a host of

other activities including PSAL athletics and special programs such as

Relay for Life and Room to Read.

The Foundation has been responsible for upgrading facilities in the

building by using alumni dollars as well as grants from the Brooklyn Bor-

ough President’s Office and the New York City Council.

On a daily basis, our students learn about the Foundation and the way

in which it has helped develop the Tech experience into an experience of a

lifetime.

Everything we do is consistent with our mission: “to support Brooklyn

Technical High School as the premier specialized high school for science,

technology, engineering and mathematics by harnessing the intellectual

and financial power of Tech alumni.”

Each alumni engagement activity is designed to bring alums together

and at the same time showcase our school, which has changed with the

times but has retained its educational core of excellence.

Remember your time at Tech, revel in TechTimes and stay in touch with

your alumni office. Please also consider making a gift at this time, so we

may continue all that we do -- and more.

With much pride,

Liz Sciabarra

Executive Director

Closing CommentGlenn C. Seale ‘64Wayne L. Taylor ‘64Damon S. Williams ‘64William J. Aghassi ‘65Ronald B. Alexander ‘65John Berenyi ‘65Bruce A. Brice ‘65Charles Buckley ‘65Vincent Cavaseno ‘65George M. Chan ‘65Jack A. Cuneo ‘65Vincent J. DeSantis ‘65Charles S. Di Marco ‘65John J. Fahner ‘65Alan S. Fitter ‘65Melvin Gadd ‘65Jeffrey Greenberg ‘65Mark Hauerstock ‘65Sandor J. Kovacs ‘65Ta Mei M. Li ‘65Thomas G. May ‘65Daniel McGlynn ‘65Paul E. Mendis ‘65Leonard P. Morse ‘65Joseph Napoleon ‘65Elby M. Nash ‘65Rodman K. Reef ‘65Norman B. Ringel ‘65Fred Rosen ‘65Ronald C. Ruoff ‘65Samuel I. Schwartz ‘65Pat T. Seccafico ‘65Steven A. Shaya ‘65Richard O. Sponholz ‘65Raymond S. Stefanowicz ‘65James W. Thomas ‘65Salvatore T. Troiano ‘65ReinUibopuu‘65Stephen F. Woolbert ‘65Norman L. Zlotnick ‘65Anthony Agnello ‘66Michael C. Alavanja ‘66Steven Bauml ‘66Robert E. Browne ‘66Steven A. Carlsson ‘66Paul Ellingsen ‘66Thomas F. Fagan ‘66Howard Fluhr ‘66Neil W. Gafney ‘66Laurence Greenberg ‘66Michael T. Hoffman ‘66John S. Klinger ‘66Nicholas Koopalethes ‘66Joseph D. Korman ‘66Richard A. Laskowski ‘66Harry A. Laster ‘66Bruce S. Lederman ‘66Russell Liddle ‘66Michael M. Liu ‘66Edward R. Lubitz ‘66Peter Z. Mantarakis ‘66Vincent Massaro ‘66Kevin McPartland ‘66Kenneth Nisbet ‘66Steve J. Roppolo ‘66Mark H. Scherwin ‘66Abraham M. Akselrad ‘67Steven Berkowitz ‘67Joseph M. Calabro ‘67Marc F. Colman ‘67Joseph P. Crosson ‘67Joseph S. Cusumano ‘67Mark L. Kay ‘67Alfonso Lau ‘67Raymond C. Martinez ‘67Jeffrey Nathan ‘67Joseph Pellegrino ‘67Mark S. Rosentraub ‘67Stanley Rowin ‘67Anonymous ‘68Martin S. Brooks ‘68Mitchell Fine ‘68Stanford Glasgow ‘68Lawrence Gulotta ‘68Andrew A. Janczak ‘68Zbigniew R. Jankowski ‘68

Jack C. Jawitz ‘68Sholom Sanders ‘68Mark Seratoff ‘68Roger L. Shields ‘68Carlton P. Tolsdorf Jr. ‘68Robert Trentacoste ‘68Stephen Wanderman ‘68Anonymous ‘69Charles Arcadipane ‘69Steven L. Denker ‘69Raoul G. Farrell ‘69Sandy Fein ‘69John P. Fillo ‘69Robert M. Krasny ‘69Richard P. Lampeter ‘69Robert Leibenluft ‘69Benjamin Moreira ‘69Daniel K. Moy ‘69Carl W. Ordemann ‘69John M. Picariello ‘69Norman D. Romney ‘69Roger S. So ‘69Frank P. Szaraz ‘69Andrew B. Alper ‘70Anonymous ‘70Christopher J. Cavallaro ‘70Thomas M. Giusto ‘70Steven Glasser ‘70Carmine R. Inserra ‘70Michael R. Krieger ‘70Parkin Lee ‘70Isaac A. Lewin ‘70Fred Parise ‘70James F. Reda ‘70Eliseo Rosario Jr. ‘70Francis J. Sanzillo ‘70Kenneth Arbeeny ‘71James E. Brennan ‘71David Gerson ‘71Thomas M. La Guidice ‘71Steven Mayo ‘71Steven A. Mirones ‘71Kevin G. Montgomery ‘71Daniel R. O’Connor ‘71Raymond C. Stewart ‘71John C. Sweeney ‘71Barton A. Chase III ‘72Yuon Chiu ‘72Ben J. Hauptman ‘72Costantino Lanza ‘72James Murphy ‘72Charles A. Pomaro ‘72Michael Reiff ‘72Carl M. Renda ‘72Alfredo Sardinas ‘72Robert E. Borowski ‘73James G. Calderone ‘73Vincent W. Chin ‘73Marshall Haimson ‘73William Lee ‘73Mark V. Lindstrom ‘73Gary J. McDonagh ‘73Richard E. Mikaelian ‘73Russell M. Price ‘73Justin O. Schechter ‘73Robert H. Shullich ‘73John W. Bellando ‘74Kenneth E. Chapin ‘74Thomas E. Cuhaj ‘74Isaac B. Honor ‘74Raoul D. Ilaw ‘74Raymond P. Jones ‘74Greg Kaufman ‘74Tony H. Lawrence ‘74James W. McClean ‘74Edward Mecner ‘74Anthony P. Nuciforo ‘74Albert Rodriguez ‘74Felix L. Rodriguez Jr. ‘74Frank Scipione ‘74Barry A. Callender ‘75Keith K. Chan ‘75JoAnne Kana ‘75Albert H. Ziegler ‘75Gary Chan ‘76Michael F. DeVoy ‘76

Carlos Garcia ‘76Arlene Isaacs-Lowe ‘76Faryce B. Moore ‘76Sharon P. Munroe ‘76Anthony Pino ‘76Juan B. Roman ‘76Giovanni Tafa ‘76Pam D. Taylor Hurst ‘76Mitchell J. Weitz ‘76Kershaw L. Weston ‘76Duncan Wong ‘76Allen V. Zollo ‘76Ralph C. Baione ‘77Vance B. Barbour ‘77Susan L. Downing ‘77Mitch Friedman ‘77Nicholas O. Kallas ‘77Richard T. Konig ‘77Howard L. Millman ‘77Wayne P. Naegele ‘77Richard Puswald ‘77Peter M. Taras ‘77Robyn V. Allen-McKinnon ‘78Aubrey Braz ‘78Robert S. Bright ‘78Carl E. Brown Jr. ‘78Althea Evans ‘78Vanessa Fulston-Thomas ‘78Glennis R. M. Hall ‘78King C. Ng ‘78Enold Pierre-Louis ‘78Wai Nam Tam ‘78Charles Tepper ‘78George Yanakis ‘78Walton D. Pearson ‘79Lancelot Williams ‘79Judith A. Woods ‘79Anonymous ‘80Audrey C. Churchill ‘80Brian Clark ‘80Anthony Cooper ‘80Andrea Currie-Wigfall ‘80Lenworth A. Daley ‘80Leslie Osei-Tutu ‘80Janet E. Schwartz ‘80Parameswar Sivaramakrishnan ‘80Alex Sosa ‘80Adam Stoller ‘80Anonymous ‘81Nathalie M. Augustin ‘81John K. Goudelias ‘81Derrick A. Hostler ‘81Ira S. Krolick ‘81Dana S. Newbauer ‘81Anelle E. Patron-Anderson ‘81Sharmella A. Riggs ‘81David W. Robinson ‘81Vera L. Admore-Sakyi ‘82Anonymous ‘82Stephen Blanchette Jr. ‘82Marion Bobb-McKoy ‘82Beverley A. Madden ‘82Frank S. Viola ‘82Andrea Allard ‘83Mark Arzoomanian ‘83Carmen M. Colon ‘83Carol Cunningham ‘83Selena Lee L. Holmes ‘83James J. McCarthy ‘83Eric Polite ‘83Afshan Bokhari ‘84Mark S. Christopher ‘84Joseph C. Cuzzocrea Jr. ‘84Raymond Feige ‘84Sean C. Forbes ‘84Yanique LeCadre ‘84Gretchen Mullins-Kim ‘84Lauren Nassau ‘84Pamela Rumph ‘84David L. Yang ‘84Francine Arias ‘85Jane Heaphy ‘85Cherryann Joseph ‘85Janice Keller-McDowall ‘85Carla Middough ‘85

Dionne G. Sinclair ‘85Anthony Whiteman ‘85Travis Wiltshire ‘85Lynda P. Wyatt ‘85Cindy L. Bird-Kue ‘86Kirwin Gibbs ‘86Dionne Henry ‘86Margaret Mullins ‘86Gurpreet S. Pasricha ‘86Kyle D. Plant ‘86Michael V. Swabowicz Jr. ‘86Rory A. Anglin ‘87Virginia-Marie M. Chan ‘87Sharlene R. Forbes ‘87Michelle Gay ‘87Randolph B. Houston Jr. ‘87Paul W. Katzer ‘87Richard Lukaj ‘87Jason Orefice ‘87Rodney L. Shannon ‘87Janet Sosa ‘87Anonymous ‘88Christine M. Bennett ‘88Robert W. Berger ‘88Peter Glavas ‘88Wing Lok Lee ‘88Victoria Reyes ‘88Craig A. Westcarr ‘88Donovan Wickline ‘88Andrew Beyzman ‘89Petula K. Lee ‘89Luke Mangal ‘89John P. Albert ‘90Eric M. Howard ‘90Brian Kaplan ‘90Matthew A. Paskin ‘90Scott Rozany ‘90Leon Nash ‘91Susan Voyticky ‘91George Bougiamas ‘92Carl Erik Heiberg ‘92Emrah Kovacoglu ‘92Nathan Lipke ‘92Oyebola Oyedijo ‘92Suman Sabastin ‘92Erika Terebessy ‘92Laurie Zephyrin ‘92Robert Roswell ‘94Katrina Burton-Nichols ‘95Seth C. Flash ‘95Maria L. Diaz ‘96Steven A. Khan ‘96Carina Lucia L. Kim ‘99Taahira Maynard ‘99Vadim Verkhoglyad ‘02Charles P. Naut ‘08

Friends of TechHarriet AinbinderJohn AldermanAnonymousAnonymousBruce BaskindJohn L. BattaglinoJames BattermanNoreen BegleyJames M. BerginLeonard BernerMichael E. BillettAllyson BrennerPhilip E. BruggeMatthew BurkleyCarla BurnsRobin CalitriThomas CallahanChun Mable ChengMorris ChernickLillian Cincotta-FioreJames CroweArt DauberCharles M. DauberRosanne D’AugustaJoseph D. D’EspositoThomas A. EvangelistMaryann M. FeeneySarah Flanagan

Barbara FriedmanPeter GethersKenneth GreenbergSusan HarmonMiesha HaydenPaul S. HoftyzerMark HoyJerry M. HultinElizabeth IshilHenry JacksonJoseph KaelinIrwin KallmanJohn D. KaltmanLauren KaltmanRichard KaltmanMary Ellen KeatingHoward KellyMitchell KlipperJodi KoelschRichard KornRichard LatteyRicardo LezamaConcetta LicitraEvelyn MaloneyPatrick MaloneyMary Ann MarranoAnna Mateo-JerezVergenia McRaePeter MenikoffIrene MillerLorraine C. NankoDavid NewmanRichard NicotraMiriam NightengaleLinda NoonanKecia O’NealJoan M. O’SheaElaine OsterweilHoke PeacockJames G. PepperAchilles M. PerryAlex PicozziIsaiah PrattWilliam PrenskyBruce RatnerWilliam ReillyBernice RighthandFrank RitotaMax RobertsEnrique R. RodriguezLori Roland-PlonskiSteve RosemanRobert RothbergAlice RubenfeldCarleton SchadeAngelique SchipaniDalila SerranoAndrew T. SilvermanNorman S. SternManette H. ThomasAlice TimothyJohn P. TobinMarie J. ToulantisBarbara L. TrommerGeorgene C. TufoJanet TweedJack S. VanderrynLeonard J. VerebayRobert VillencyMargaret WaltherScott WinstonDon ZachariaEdwin Zarowin

OrganizationsAllied Signal Found, IncAtlantic Bank of New YorkBaltimore Community FoundationBank of AmericaBelmet Products, IncBP Amoco Foundation, IncBristol-Myers Squibb FoundationBrooklyn College Auxiliary Enterprises

BWD Group, LLCCenter For Educational Innovation, IncCarter-WallaceColgate-Palmolive CompanyConairCouncil of School Supervisors & AdministratorsEthicon, IncFioriGilletteHoneywell International FoundationHSBCJewish Communal FundJP Morgan ChaseLogiconM. Shanken Communications, IncMillennium Capital Markets, LLCMotorola FoundationNBC Studios, IncNew Jersey Brooklyn Tech Alumni GroupNew York Chapter Association of Energy EngineersNorthrop GrummanPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & GarrisonPerseus Books, LLCSonenshine & Pastor, CoSorrentino Development CorpSt. Francis Food Pantries & SheltersSt.John’sUniversityThe Bank of New YorkThe Benevity Community Impact FundThe Marketplace RealtyThe Prudential FoundationThe Scout Company, IncTomkins Corporation FoundationTurner Construction, CoUnitedDefenseFMCFoundationUnitedWayofNewYork CityVanguard ConstructionVerizon Foundation, IncWaldner’s Business Environments, Inc

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An evening to support Brooklyn Tech – the nation’s leading public STEM high school – and to honor three of its distinguished alumni.

For more information, visit bthsalumni.org/titansoftech

or Email: gala@cmaddenproductions.com

Meet the TITANS of TECH: an extraordinary philanthropist, an NBA superstar-in-a-suit and a construction industry giant.

Josh Weston ’46

Mark A. Tatum ’87

The late John Cavanagh ‘54