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

Norman Bachrach, B.B.A., CPA: studied accounting at the College. He is currently a partnerat the firm of Bachrach, Waschitz & Waschitz, LLP. He is a former past president of the LivingstonManor Rotary Club, and a current member of NYSSCPA-AICPA.***Trevor Bain: I grew up in the Bronx and went to De Witt Clinton. Ichose CCNY because it was “free” and had a great reputation for academicsand basketball.At City, I was class secretary, participated in the Business and EconomicsReview and Cohen ‘53. I clearly remember the day Eleanor Rooseveltmet with the History Society. Later, at Cornell, I had a coursewith Francis Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor.After serving in the Army, I went to Cornell, under the GI Bill, for aMasters in Industrial and Labor Relations and then to the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley for a PhD in Economics.This led me to an academic career of teaching at the University of Arizona, the University of Michiganand Queens College. I came to the University of Alabama in 1974 and served as the John R. MillerProfessor of Management and Director of the Human Resources Institute. I have authored about 100journal articles, book chapters, books, federal reports, and delivered papers here and abroad. On a tripto Chiba University, my Japanese hosts took me to a Buddhist Temple and the first U. S. Embassy, onthe coast where Admiral Perry, had come ashore. To my delight, along one wall were yellowed Englishlanguage newspaper articles about Townsend Harris, first US Ambassador to Japan, particularly hisrole in establishing the City College of New York.I retired in 2000 and continue to engage in research in international labor. I also serve as a labor arbitratorand mediator and work on a terrible backhand. During my teaching years, I thought that the bestway to use my time was to do research and receive grants from such organizations as the Departmentof Labor, the International Labor Organization and the Ford, Rockefeller and Upjohn Foundations.Now, I find that it is visits to and from former students that gives me the greatest satisfaction.My wife, Helena is a graduate of Queens. She has retired as Associate Director of the Career Center atUA. Our son Peter is a graphic designer and teaches at Mississippi State University. Our daughter Jenis at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. To borrow a thought from an army of City graduates,This full life would not have been possible without the foundation of considerable help from the taxpayersof New York, the faculty, students and friends on the Hill.