ACADEMIA. I graduated with BSEE (from CCNY)in 1960, MSEE (from Columbia U.) in 1961 and PhD (from USC) in 1965. My company sent me for my PhD while I was an engineer employee (46 years) at STL - Space Technology Laboratories (now part of Northrop Grumman Corporation). I taught courses part-time at USC in engineering for 2 years.
CAREER. My career began in 1961 at STL. I am well known as a visionary technologist, enabling new military and NASA spacecraft missions, driven by leading edge microelectronics technology. I managed the Microelectronics Center for 20-25 years, a leading creator of new digital and microwave chip technology. I also enabled a $1.5B spinoff profit for my company during the tech bubble, by creating single chip microwave transmitters for cellphones in the world. etc. etc. My retirement party will be the week before the ZBT reunion party. Se la vie. Tough but inevitable.
FAMILY: From ZBT Spring Flings and Fall Balls, my girlfriend Harriet married me in June 1961. We love each other forever. Two days later, we drove to Las Vegas for honeymoon, then to Los Angeles for my 46 year career at STL. We went to LA because my family moved there in 1958. I drove my family (mother, daughter, brother) from the Bronx. Then I drove back cross country with 2 ZBT brothers - Carl Hammerschlag and Stu Black; what a good experience. Now we can finally reconvene at the reunion.
PERSONALITY. Besides being a part-time administrative nerd, I consider myself a future visionary, a writer, a physically strong gymnist (like my dad), and a lucky-bucky. Attitude is important. Actions speak louder than words. I look foward to the ZBT reunion to interact with my brothers, to discuss the meaning of life, to vote on the methods for happiness and bravery for seniors that we now all are, rather than students. Last year I attended a Bronx High School of Science 50 year reunion in New York at the Yale Club in Manhattan. It was great.
See you all soon
The ZBT Donebridge
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