BS '65; BS
My father and I attended the City College of New York. I'm a college professor teaching mathematics and doing research in mathematics. I was a math major, and the math professors were a very supportive group of people for the most part. The support I got from CCNY teachers helped to get me through graduate school. Without them I wouldn't have made it to my PhD in 1974. My teacher who made the biggest impression by their teaching was Professor Fred Supnick, who helped me learn to do research, and inspired, both directly and indirectly, much of my future research work, and the one who taught ancient and medieval history. The latter was an excellent teacher; he brought ancient and medieval history alive to the extent that I re-read the books that he had chosen and many other books in the same areas of scholarship because I became so interested. The English teacher who spoke with a Middle English accent got me excited about early English literature; that helped me a lot in my subsequent life. CCNY was very stimulating intellectually in some ways. I had a number of excellent classes. The things that I learned in some of these classes that were most interesting enriched my life a great deal because I've continued to be reading about them and interested in them ever since.