february
2010
In This
Issue:
1. New Alumni Directory
Coming
2. Homecoming 2010 to be Held April
23-24
3. Hoopsters Head to
Playoffs
4. Floyd Orr '55 Gives from his
Heart
5. Teacher Awarded Innovation
Grant
6.
Alumni News
New Alumni
Directory Coming
If
you are eager to reconnect with old friends and classmates,
and network with the larger Brooklyn Tech community, you’ll be
pleased to hear that the Alumni Foundation has anticipated your needs. A new
alumni directory, now in production, will include up to date contact
information of thousands of Technites.
Harris
Connect, LLC, a trusted partner of the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation, has
been chosen to produce our publication. Harris Connect is one of the leading
alumni directory publishers for high schools, colleges and universities. Their
client list includes the University of Chicago, Duke University and many high
schools
Read the full article...
Homecoming 2010 to be held April 23-24
Make your plans now to
join fellow Technites and faculty
members at the Homecoming 2010 festivities scheduled for Friday April 23rd and
Saturday April 24th.
You
will get to retrace the steps of your high school glory days as you walk the
hallways of Tech and share old stories with classmates and teachers. Special
events are planned for the anniversary classes of 1940, 1950, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1980,
1985, 1990 and 2000.
Read the full article...
Hoopsters Head to Playoffs 
The scoreboard
showed a 93-87 defeat to Brooklyn Collegiate,
but it hardly seemed like a loss at all. A standing-room only crowd in
Tech’s Blue Dungeon gym had roared their approval throughout the
thrilling triple-overtime final season game between two evenly matched
teams.
The Tech Engineers and Brooklyn Collegiate had both been
assured Brooklyn A East Division playoff spots as they entered the
season’s final game on February 3rd with identical 10-3 records. This
game’s winner would be seeded second in the playoffs, the loser
third. For the Tech Engineers, the season marked a tremendous turnaround from
their 10 loss 2009 season, as they finished with their best record since 2002.
Read the full article...
Floyd Orr '55 Gives from his Heart
When Floyd Orr
’55 talks about Brooklyn Tech, it
sounds like he’s describing a high school romance. You fall in love
and then break up, but you never forget your first love. And so it was for Mr.
Orr who moved to California in April of his junior year. He never had the
chance to graduate from Tech, but he never forgot the place or the people or
the things he learned.
Mr.
Orr, the son of a traveling Navy man, rarely spent more than a year at any
school until Brooklyn Tech. Then Floyd got to call Tech home. Orr embraced the
high standards and expectations, appreciated the commitment his teachers made
to their students, and made lifelong friends. As he put it, “Once the
soil was watered, the roots went deep.” And then, in April 1954, his
father was reassigned to Riverside, California and Orr was forced to say
goodbye to the place he loved.
Read the full article...
Teacher Awarded
Innovation Grant
Tech teachers, like
Clarence McCollum '69, don’t allow
little things like recessions and budget cuts to hamper their effectiveness in
the classroom. They find the resources they need to enhance their courses. The
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering has just announced that
Mr. McCollum has won a 2010 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM) Innovation Grant.
The
STEM Innovation Grant program is designed to “provide teachers with
funding for projects that make students aware of the excitement and opportunity
to be found in the field of engineering – transforming classroom
theory into real-world applications that bring science, technology, engineering
and math concepts to life.”
Read the full article...
Alumni News
Joseph M. Colucci
’54, Brooklyn Tech Hall of Fame member and President of
Automotive Fuels Consulting, Inc., is the
recipient of the 2010 SAE International Medal of Honor. SAE International is a
global association of more than 121,000 engineers and related technical experts
in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries.
Oana Pascu ’98, now a math teacher
at Stuyvesant High School, has received the 2009 Edyth May Sliffe Award for
“Distinguished High School Mathematics Teaching” from the Mathematical
Association of America. She cited her Tech math teacher Larry Zimmerman, a past
winner of the Sliffe Award, as her inspiration for becoming a teacher. Glad we
could help our Stuyvesant colleagues!
Read the full article...
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Bellevue pathology laboratory manager, Mr. Peter
Jung '90, discusses his profession with Tech students at Career Day 2009.
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