BE '53
I chose the City College of New York because it was free. The professors were really tough. I joined something called The House Plan. The [House] Plan was a group was a group put together by the faculty and the staff of CCNY. The male housing and female housing was attached because CCNY had no fraternities or sororities. They used the House Plan as a social organization for students to meet other students and for girls to meet boys and boys to meet girls. They had a big kitchen and two dining rooms. You could prepare lunches there and meet other people. It was nice. I got a job in an oil refinery in Brooklyn as a chemical engineer, and I worked for the Mobil oil corporation, which owned the refinery. When the refinery shut down, I moved to their headquarters, which was on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. I was the president of the engineering alumni.