CLASS OF 1953 WHO'S WHO & WHERE - The City College Fund

Albert M. Levenson, Ph.D.: While at City College, I went toBaruch College one summer and met Evelyn, the love of my life. We weremarried in 1954. We have two children, Ira, a periodontist, married andpracticing in Columbus, Ohio, and Beth, a grade school teacher, married andworking in Washington State.After graduation from City College, I was employed for a couple of yearsin industrial economics. I then entered the Ph.D. Program in Economics atColumbia University and received that degree in 1959.My first teaching experience was as a lecturer in the School of Gen. studiesat City College in 1954. My first full-time teaching job began in 1956 at ina hostile University economics department, where I remained until 1960. In 1960, I moved to Queens Collegeas an assistant professor and ultimately became a full professor and served as dean of social sciences for 10years.My fields of specialization were Micro Economics and Finance in which I published scholarly research. I havealso acted as an economic consultant in antitrust, commercial litigation and tort cases. In 1998, I retired fromQueens College as Professor of Economics, Emeritus.***Gerald A. Levine, B.M.E.: I was born in Brooklyn and attendedBrooklyn Technical High School, where I graduated in 1949. I was amember of Pi Tau Sigma and Tau Beta Pi while at City College, whereI graduated with honors along with my degree in mechanical engineering.I received my Master’s degree in 1960 from the University ofMaryland. From 1953-1955, I served in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corp.;there, I repaired radar-directed anti-aircraft fire control systems.From 1955-1960, I was the Assistant Supervisor of Flight Control Servomechanismsin the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns HopkinsUniversity. I worked at Corning Glass Works from 1960-1988; when Ileft the company, I was President of Nutrisearch, which was a joint venture between Corning, TheKroger, Co., and Eastman Kodak.I directed Corning’s business development program in biotechnology. It was one of three corporatecommercial thrusts, each with a goal to create a $500 million annual sales business in 10 years. Thetechnology origin was Ralph Messing’s failure to prevent proteins from sticking to Pyrex glass. Thegenius was Messing’s asking if proteins are immobilized, could they be used in biological productionprocesses? Others joined at the research level. They immobilized enzymes, microbes, and human cellsonto various Corning materials and we explored for commercial opportunities. We operated lactose hy-