BS '57
Once I graduated high school, as long as CCNY was willing to accept me, that's where I'd be going. My favorite professor was the one in my last semester of French. He left a deep impression on me, and he was a very entertaining individual, exhibiting a persona reminiscent of the cinematic Maurice Chaevalier. His name was Professor Rene Eugen Gavriel Vaillant. I subsequently took German for reading comprehension only. It was a low key course that ran for a year. That professor's name was Sol Liptzin who was entertaining in his own right, often discussing experiences he'd had with earlier classes for our amusement. Those were the people who impressed me the most. I became a chemist with the government. First I was in the FDA and then with DEA. My specialty was nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. I returned to CCNY several years after graduation in order to take a graduate course in organic chemistry. CCNY gave me the education I needed to be able to deal with the world. It gave me a good, well-rounded education in many respects.