BA '48
I was an identical twin and I had a younger brother who was three years younger. All three of us went to CCNY. My younger brother went uptown CCNY, the twin brother and I went downtown. I studied accounting. I was a CPA. My twin brother was a CPA. Now I specialize in municipal accounting in New Jersey. You have to have a separate license to be a registered municipal accountant and that's what I did. My specialty was municipal accounting. I was able to use a lot of what I learned in CCNY. In fact, surprisingly, there was one course on municipal accounting. Not knowing that I would eventually end up in that area, I took that course. It helped a bit when I went into PR. I started as a junior accountant too, because I knew the principles of municipal accounting. We had a House Plan. We were very close bunch of fellows. We started out before the war with about a dozen and then we all came back except for one. We ended up with about 20 people in our House Plan and we were very close. We had a number of unions and we got together a number of times. I was in a class of 45. We were sophomores. They have a very active intramural program, downtown CCNY and using any intramural program. The juniors and seniors generally ran the interviewer program. My twin brother and I were very active on all the activities in the intramurals. We were on the basketball team, the softball team, and the water polo team. We were both pretty athletic and over six feet tall, so we were quite active. I remember how tough it was to commute the first year I commuted from Hortonville and Staten Island, an hour and 40 minutes each way. When I came back in 1946, my family had moved to Perth Amboy, New Jersey. I continued to Sydney College under the GI Bill and from Perth Amboy, the commute was only an hour and 20 minutes. That's the toughest part about going to college.