Alum Notes
We take pride in celebrating the good news of our fellow alumni. Where has life taken you since graduation? Tell the Tech alumni community about career changes, achievements, family news, awards, and more by submitting an alum note using the form below.
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Class of 1978
Robert Ripps
March 30, 2026
I am honored to have been chosen to be a part of The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, one in a series international of art fairs, which is happening April 16-19th at Agger Fish in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I will be exhibiting a selection of my Negativityness images, as dye sublimation prints on aluminum.
If any alumni or students are attending, please come by and introduce yourself!
Class of 1976
David C Linton
March 19, 2026
After a 40-plus-year career as a radio and music executive., I was inducted into the National Black Radio Hall of Fame. The radio station I started at Elizabeth City State University (WRVS-FM) in 1986 turns 40 this year as we celebrate our BTHS 50th Class Reunion. The same year, two of the groundbreaking artists I worked with entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! The lessons learned at Tech prepared me for all of it!
Class of 1948
Lloyd Kishinsky
March 3, 2026
I received a U.S. patent for a test device for signal-radiating and receiving equipment (Filed Oct. 19, 1962, Ser. No. 231,781). Started Micromint, Inc. as Vice President in 1979.
Class of 1966
Alan A. Pfeffer, Esq.
February 24, 2026
Brooklyn Tech prepared me for law school, teaching me how to study and think. After college at SUNY Oneonta, I attended Albany Law School in Albany, N.Y., graduating cum laude. After law school, I stayed in the Albany area and had a wonderful career, retiring in April 2008. I worked in private practice; served as Counsel to a New York State Senator for two legislative sessions: and later worked as Executive Director of a small public-benefit corporation housed in the Department of Social Services while simultaneously heading a legal unit that defended the State from federal audit disallowances in various welfare programs, most prominently including Medicaid.
My greatest and most personally rewarding, achievements came after retirement, working as a volunteer.
Unfortunately, my only daughter recently died of Huntington’s disease. I was an advocate for people with HD for many years. After a year of meetings with the Governor’s Deputy Secretary for Health, Governor Cuomo in 2014 announced a special nursing home program, Centers of Excellence for Neurodegenerative Diseases. I served on the Department of Health advisory committee. We wrote the regulations and guidelines. Three nursing homes stepped up and created a special unit only for Huntington’s Disease and ALS patients. This is my most rewarding achievement. One of the nursing homes now has 66 beds in the unit and is the largest Huntington’s nursing home in the U.S. Last year I self-published, Charise, A Woman with Huntington’s Disease Who Changed the World: Her Poetry and Memoir, on Amazon (paperback or Kindle e-book. Besides her deeply emotional and wonderful poetry, I share her Peace Corps story, teaching English to children in rural Turkmenistan. She also volunteered to teach English at a foster care center in Israel and taught in Thailand, Argentina, and Manhattan. When children in underdeveloped countries can speak and read English, his or her life is transformed.
The book includes wonderful pictures, small-world stories, and details everything from how she inspired me to become an advocate to advice on nursing homes.
So, my thanks to Tech for preparing me for this journey.
Class of 1960
Jerome Krase
February 24, 2026
A new award has been established in the name of Jerome Krase BTHS Class of 1960 by the Academy for the Humanities and Sciences of The City University of New York. The Jerome Krase Awards are to be presented each year to associate professors at CUNY in recognition of outstanding research in the humanities or sciences, including social and life sciences. The awardees are selected among a large group of nominees of associate professors from all CUNY campuses and receive university-wide recognition of their work. The award is named after Jerome Krase, founding member of the CUNY Academy and a longstanding member of the board. After the awardees are selected they will also give a research talk, virtually or in person, presenting their research.
Class of 1981
Phil Andrews
January 14, 2026
I was named to the Long Island Business News’ Top 100 Long Islanders 2025 List. Previously known as the Most Influential Long Islanders, this year’s section was renamed Top 100 Long Islanders to reflect the breadth of talent of those striving to make Long Island the best place to live, work, and socialize.
I currently serve as President of the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (LIAACC)-the largest African American Chamber of Commerce in the State of New York-and a transformative force in building sustainable pathways for minority-owned businesses to grow and scale. I am also the Founding President of the 100 Black Men of Eastern New York, Inc.
Class of 1965
Raymond Slesinski
December 3, 2025
Classmates might remember me as Raymond Slesinski, but I legally changed my name to Raymond (Ray) Anthony. I ran for Senior Class President and was in the College Prep Program. I went to CCNY and initially studied electrical engineering but switched to economics and got a BS and MA in that area. I sold computers and banking equipment for Burroughs Corporation on Wall Street, selling to banks and brokerages houses. I then got a job with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) selling PDP11 and VAX 11/780 computer systems to banks in NYC. I was later promoted into their sales training group in beautiful Merrimack, New Hampshire to teach a number of skills programs. I left in 1989 to start my own training, consulting and coaching business in The Woodlands, TX. While I initially focused on developing and instructing my sales and presentation training courses, the last two decades I consulted and trained people in Fortune 500 companies, the CIA, NASA and USSOCOM on applied creativity, innovation and innovative leadership. Along the way, I wrote nine business books and over 100 articles on various strategic topics. I joined the Army National Guard and left as a Sargent in an Armored Cavalry Unit. I’m still working because to me, it’s play now! I so fondly remember my wonderful times at Tech and cherish the many fine friends I made there. May God bless all who have attended and will attend long into a bright future!
Class of 1981
Phil Andrews
November 3, 2025
Long Island Business News has selected Phil Andrews, President of Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. and 100 Black Men of Eastern New York, Inc. as a 2025 Icon Honors recipient.
Icon Honors recognizes Long Island business leaders, over the age of 60, for their notable success and demonstration of strong leadership within and outside their fields.
The honorees have moved their businesses and Long Island forward by growing jobs and making a difference in the community.
To be eligible for Icon Honors, honorees must have a long-standing commitment to the Long Island business community. Honorees must also have a sustained dedication to community service and mentoring.
They may be in the workforce (or retired) and must hold (or have held) senior management-level positions with significant authority in decision-making for their organization. The winners were selected by the editors of Long Island Business News.
Class of 1957
Stu Schuster
September 26, 2025
I am retired (2002) and living fulltime in the south Florida area. Are there other Technites in the area?
Class of 1976
Frank Robertazzi
September 26, 2025
Promoted to Senior VP at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and named to the 2025 Forbes “Best-in-State Wealth Advisors.”
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