Memories
I commuted to Tech from Glendale, Queens by bus and/or subway, including the Myrtle Ave. El until 1969. It was a distance of about 5.5 miles, as the crow flies,…
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I grew up in Manhattan, but chose to go to Tech because of its dedication to engineering. I graduated from Tech mid-year in a rapid advancement program; this turned out…
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We travel through life with various and sundry crises happening to make life more interesting. I’m a California CPA who ‘escaped’ Los Angeles in 1981, followed by California in 1990,…
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I would love to be able to contact Robert (Bob) Brant. He would have graduated in ’59 or’60. Bob bowled with me under the coaching of Mr. Martin Lefkowitz and…
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After graduating from Tech in 1963 in architecture, I started college at the University of Oklahoma as an architecture major, and after one semester, transferred to Pratt Institute as a…
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I’m a kid from Harlem who went to a Special Progress (SP) class at JHS 115, combining 7th and 8th grades into one year. In 9th grade, I was encouraged…
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I so remember coming to Tech for the entrance exam. Walking into that amazing building and then into the auditorium. I was somewhat shy and a good student in elementary…
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Though I lived in the Bronx and most of my junior high school friends were admitted to Bronx Science, I decided to attend Brooklyn Tech because of Tech’s Electronics major.…
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I grew up in Brooklyn, attending PS 169 and then Pershing Junior High School, PS 220. I had a three-year hiatus from Brooklyn, when my father had to move the…
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My Tech education helped me first by qualifying me for a partial scholarship at Purdue in Indiana. This led to a first job as a “boiler maker”/engineer in New York.…
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