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,…
MoreI 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…
MoreWe 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,…
MoreI 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…
MoreAfter 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…
MoreI’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…
MoreI 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…
MoreThough 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.…
MoreI 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…
MoreMy 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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