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

Bernard D. Lloyd, B.S.Ed.: I graduated from DeWitt ClintonHigh School. (No pretty girls there, but Walton High School—allgirls—was just a few blocks away.) I chose CCNY because there wasno cost for the tuition. Also, because my brother had gone there. Iwas on four athletic teams at City: football; captain of the wrestlingteam; swimming; and track and field. I was a member of the ROTCand House Plan. The professor that was most significant in my lifewas Joseph Sapora, the wrestling coach. He and his wife, Marguerite,kept in touch with me their whole lives. Marguerite continued tophone until her death at 102 in 2012.Other colleges I attended: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford Graduate Division, certificatein engineering; Hillyer College (University of Hartford), B.S. in Engineering; Texas Woman’s College,Master’s in Education (Major: Learning Disabilities).Career Highlights: As an engineer, I:Worked on the Bathescape Trieste, which plumbed the ocean depth deeper than man hadever gone before.Worked at Princeton University’s Forestal Research Center with the physicists, doing theengineering with the Hydrogen Bubble Chamber, doing basic research into the basic natureof matter, atom tracks, which was later used as a basis for some cancer cure development.Princeton U. sent me to Johns Hopkins to learn to use a new invention…the defibrulator.The Kendall Park, New Jersey First Aid and Rescue Squad sent me to be trained in another“new” procedure in 1958: mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, to then train the others on our localsquad.In Arlington, Texas, and in Dover, Delaware in the 1960s, working for I.L.C Industries andthen Ling Tempo Voight, I was hired to develop and test the space suit for the landing onthe moon. One day, the astronauts complained of a blur on the right side of the clear helmet,so I wore it home, driving my car, to check it out. Imagine my wife’s surprise when I steppedout of the car, wearing the helmet!Developed an escape system for downed pilots trapped in helicopters during the VietnamWar. If plane doors were jammed, they had only bowie knives to hack their way out. I linedthe rubber window surrounds with explosives, so the pilot could turn a handle and the windowswould explode out, away from the plane. The invention is still in use.I also worked as an engineer at Bendix, and Westinghouse in Baltimore in the 1980s.