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Alumni Association Elects Officers at 2007 Annual Meeting
The New York City College of Technology Alumni Association re-elected its sitting president and elected both a new vice president and secretary at its 2007 Annual Meeting on September 19. Nearly 100 alumni, College and City Tech Foundation administrators and other guests attended the catered event.
Association President Yvonne Riley-Tepie, a 1992 graduate of City Tech’s hospitality management baccalaureate program, ran unopposed and was re-elected to a second term. Riley-Tepie is assistant vice president for marketing with Commerce Bank in Brooklyn and Queens.
“City Tech is for me one of my most prized personal experiences,” she told the audience. “Here, I formed many lasting relationships with other members of the College community. I want to continue serving as president so that I can be a voice for City Tech students – past, present and future – and influence their lives in every way possible. This was done for me and I want to do more to return the favor.”
Frank DeMarco, a 1975 graduate of the College’s automotive technology program, was elected vice president and has been a member of the Alumni Association’s board of directors for several years. He is a retired educator and former owner of TriBeCa’s historic Puffy’s Tavern. After graduating from City Tech, he went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Boston University.
“I have greatly profited from a long association with City Tech,” said DeMarco, “first as a student, then as a college laboratory technician and faculty member, and later as a member of the Alumni Association board and a mentor with the association-sponsored City Tech/George Westinghouse High School Mentoring Partnership program. City Tech gave me a real start in my professional life and I want to do whatever I can to help provide the same kind of opportunity for today and tomorrow’s students.”
The association’s new secretary, Robert Nadel, a 1972 liberal arts graduate, went on to continue his studies at Brooklyn College and the College of Staten Island and to launch a successful career as national sales manager for BEI Corporation. He is currently vice president of Energy and Lighting Systems, Ltd., where he is in charge of technical sales and marketing.
“I believe that my extensive experience in the public and private sectors in fundraising, public relations and dealing with people and organizations of all types and sizes,” said Nadel, “will serve the City Tech Alumni Association well in the many services it provides both graduates and current students. I will certainly give my all in helping the association and the College meet their missions and advance their goals.”
The current association treasure, Gerald Singh, is in the midst of a three-year term and no election for that post was held this year. Singh is a professor in City Tech’s Department of Business.
“With a full roster of dedicated officers now in place,” said Helen Covington, director of the College’s Office of Alumni Relations, “the associations can move full steam ahead with its expanding program of services and related activities for City Tech’s nearly 80,000 graduates.”
In other business, City Tech President Russell K. Hotzler talked about the new academic building that will rise on the Klitgord Center site following final approval by the City University of New York Board of Trustees of CUNY’s first public/private construction partnership. The new building will house the College’s healthcare, biological sciences and advertising design and graphic arts programs, and provide much-needed space for City Tech’s rapidly growing student population and instructional staff.
10/05/07
