1964
I graduated from Bronx Science in 1960 and went to CCNY following in the footsteps of my father. They were four exhilarating years and as a political science and history major, they paralleled the Presidency of JFK, whom I had seen in person at a campaign rally in the Bronx the Saturday before his election. I joined the campus newspaper and became the business manager. As a cub reporter I covered a Thursday club presentation by then-unknown Malcolm X. Walking to the 137th Street subway station after an evening class in the summer of 1963, I was lucky enough to come upon the young Cassius Clay, later to be known as Muhammed Ali, entertaining the world in the Triangle Park. I was fortunate to have many outstanding professors in many departments, but I was especially lucky to be a student of Professor Stanley Feingold, which turned into a lifetime of friendships and learning as a member of the Feingold Group. We are still meeting, still arguing politics, and still supporting CCNY. I was in the campus newspaper office on the fourth floor of Finley Hall when we heard that JFK had been assassinated. I went on to receive an MA in 1966 and a JD in 1969 from Columbia Law School. I was among the first women from CCNY to be admitted to an Ivy League law school. I became deputy counsel to the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs in 1971 and was involved in the drafting of the first-open dating of perishable foods and unit pricing regulations. After working in the area of continuing legal education, I spent over two decades as an administrative law judge with the New York City Department of Finance, Department of Health, and the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, or OATH. My years at CCNY were a central experience of learning and life and a fine preparation for what was to come. I am reminded favorably almost every day of that experience.