BA '73
I heard the story that the City College of New York was the only team in the history of college basketball that won both the National Invitation Tournament and NCAA. These kids were a bunch of smart kids who had a chance to go to college because of CCNY. It made sense for me to choose CCNY because all of my friends, who graduated there, became engineers. I didn't really make much of a choice, so it was really God's grace and God's choice that designed everything my whole life. It was free at CCNY. I remember paying just a few fees, so that's doable. When a professor of Chinese history wrote a letter on my behalf, he wrote a glowing report about me. I was not that good, but he saw a lot of faith in me. I was with a Christian group, and I think they were very friendly and diverse groups there. CCNY had a mixture of all kinds of people from all kinds of places. I guess it was very advanced in thinking and allowed people to have a good education, no matter where they came from. I think CCNY helped me see things from a wider way of looking at things. Some of the associates that I made there were good. We enjoyed playing ball there, and we took second place in intramurals. There were some great people who came from CCNY. Colin Powell was one of them, who became the secretary of state and also a high-ranking General Officer in the US Army. CCNY helped me get some training that really helped me with a job I retired with, which had to do with labor relations and representing the postal service. I was able to do all of those because I think CCNY helped me shape my writing. I worked in the Labor Relations Department at one time. There were about a hundred of them in the whole country, and my name has been the only Asian name there. I think that it was the Lord that arranged everything, but he definitely used CCNY to build that base for me from the English courses and writing for my courses. My CCNY experience helped me grow as a person.