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All right, hello, my name is Patrick Wallach and it is Tuesday, June 20th, 2023. And today we are interviewing Michael Brozinsky for the Queensborough Community College Retired Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty Oral History Project. So welcome, Michael. Thank you for participating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=0.0,23.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Thank you, Patrick.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=23.0,25.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: I guess, we can just, we'll start off with your early life in Brooklyn and if you have anything to say about your early interests in mathematics, if there are any. When did you start becoming interested in mathematics?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=25.0,40.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Let's see. I learned my multiplication tables pretty well in the third grade [P.S. 205]. In middle school, I did well on the whatever achievement test was. And in high school, for lack of better judgment, they elected me captain of the math team. That was Lafayette High School.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=40.0,70.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=70.0,71.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Then I did OK on the contest, but not like the real smart people. But then I went to Brooklyn College and I was exempt from first-semester calculus, but I had to take the second semester. I got an A there and then I took intermediate calculus and, you know, I was young and probably stupid. I got a B there. And then I took differential equations. On my first test, I got a 58 and my teacher wrote on the paper, \"SEE ME.\" Well, I was just a young kid. I wasn't gonna see any teacher, so. I think I got a 92 and a 93 and 100 on the final, and I got a B in the course. 'Cause, you know, they were strict then. And then, for the rest of my courses there, I got As. So, I guess I got smarter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=71.0,139.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=139.0,139.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So I graduated with honors in math, and then I went to NYU, the Courant Institute [of Mathematical Sciences]. And...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=139.0,147.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Why did you choose Brooklyn College over other colleges, by the way?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=147.0,152.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Oh. I applied to Yale and I applied to Columbia, and once they saw my SAT scores [laughs], they said, \"Bye.\" So...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=152.0,169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Do you remember any Brooklyn College professors that you worked with?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=169.0,174.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Not in particular. I mean, I didn't, I remember the teachers I had, yeah. I had Carl Boyer, who was a renowned mathematical historian. And he wanted me to do an honors project. And again, I was 16 years old and I didn't know from what the heck. And I had an idea about proving the Pythagorean Theorem, and he wasn't too interested in that. So, it turned out that in my later years, maybe 10 years ago, I had a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem that appeared on the Internet [https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/LipogrammaticProof.shtml]. It's called the Lipogrammatic Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. \"Lip,\" you know, liposuction is where they suck out the fat. So it's lacking, lipogrammatic -- like a lipogrammatic poem might be a poem without the letter E or without the word \"the.\" But this, this proof used the fact that if you have two right triangles with a common angle, then the legs are proportional without using similar triangles. So it lacked the similar triangles. So that was in, this guy had a website called cut-the-knot.org, Alexander Bogol... or something like that [Ed. note: Bogomolny]. He's passed away. But it's a very good website. I don't know if you're familiar with it: cut-the-knot.org. But, so that proof appeared there. And so that made me feel good, so to speak.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=174.0,293.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=293.0,293.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So, I guess around 50, 60 years later, I came up with a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem, which is no big...big deal. I almost said a word I shouldn't have said [laughs]. But it turns out that the Pythagorean Theorem is equivalent to lots of other things, like some trigonometric things, which, trigonometric identities. But we'll leave that out right now. And so then I went to the Courant Institute. Well, if you want to know about any other teachers there, at Brooklyn College, again, I had Boyer and, as I discussed with a fellow student at Brooklyn College, most of the teachers at that time were, you know, I guess nearing their retirement age, maybe within 10 years. So I don't think we got the current status of the courses. You know, they probably taught the way it was taught 20 years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=293.0,368.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=368.0,368.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So, my linear algebra course, I had Mrs. [May Hickey] Maria, which I did very well in, but I don't really think I learned linear algebra as it is taught today. She also taught a modern algebra course, which I did well in also. And then I took advanced calculus and partial differential equations at the same time. I remember when I was registering for them, my friends were on line, and I didn't want to get on line because I thought the courses would be too hard. But they convinced me. So I ended up getting A in both of those courses. And, after that I took an independent study in topology with a book by Kazimierz Kuratowski with Moses Richardson. And that was a good course, 'cause you taught yourself. The course that I took for partial differential equations, I had Margaret Woodbridge, and she also, she made you do all the work. She hardly did any teaching, but you learn more. So she was a good teacher in that respect.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=368.0,455.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: I also had a teacher, Larry Kennison, for solid analytic geometry. The first day of classes, he said something like, \"You can get exempt from the final if you have a 99 average at the end of the term.\" So I concentrated. I think I had two 98s and 100, so I didn't have to take the final. So, and that's pretty much -- I didn't, never took a statistics course there. I was just, I guess I just thought it was too real life. So, that was my failing. I guess I should have taken it. I took, I minored in physics. And I think my main contribution to physics at Brooklyn College was -- I don't know how I did it, but they -- you know, lab tables, they may have a three-pronged plug or a two-pronged plug? Well, I don't know how it's possible, but I think I stuck a three-pronged plug into a two-pronged outlet in the lab table, and blew the table. And the teacher was out of the room. And then when he came back in the next lecture, he said something to the effect, \"That's almost as stupid as sticking a three-pronged plug into a two-pronged table [laughs].\" So...but, you know, I did OK in physics. I got, I guess As and Bs, but I was not a rocket scientist.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=455.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=570.0,573.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And, nothing else of...I took a symbolic logic course at, also, with a professor whose name escapes -- oh, Salvator Cannavo, who also taught physics. But that was good later on, you know, when I had to teach truth tables and stuff. So, that was good. Moving on to NYU, I guess I was always afraid to write. I couldn't type at all and footnotes scared the daylights out of me. So they had an option where you could take an exam instead of writing a thesis.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=573.0,620.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=620.0,620.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: If you got an A or a B on the exam, you could not have to write the thesis. And you could go on to a doctorate. I got an A, but I didn't go on there for various reasons. Namely, they didn't want to give me any money. 'Cause again, I was naive, after I found out I got the A on the exam, I called them up and found out, asked them, \"Can I get any money? You know, scholarship money?\" And they said -- I forget the timeframe, maybe I didn't know I got the A yet -- and they said, \"You have to register now.\" And I just took courses that would get me out of there in one year. And so that's what happened there in some degree.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=620.0,680.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: OK. I don't know if you happen to know -- I interviewed a Martin Braun over at Queens College, who was also at the Courant Institute, I think around the same time. I don't know if you happen to...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=680.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Martin Braun? No, I don't know the name. No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=690.0,693.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: I think he worked with Jürgen Moser at the time, who was also at the Courant Institute.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=693.0,699.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: I heard of Moser. But...I'm trying to think. You know, I had these teachers, like the first teacher I had for linear algebra was this guy Herb Keller. And when I walked into the class, he wasn't wearing a tie. This is 1963, and I'm saying to myself, \"Wow! This guy's not wearing a tie.\" You know? Cool! And, I corrected him a couple of times in class when he got -- or I helped him, when he got stuck in a proof. But when I was asking for recommendations after I was graduating, again, none of the teachers knew me. 'Cause that's the way it was at NYU, unless they took you under their wing. And no one took me under their wing. Again, it was very like a big factory. So I went into their office, you know, to ask for a recommendation. I'll get back to Brooklyn College also. So I was sitting in Keller's office and he's talking about somebody, and he said, some other colleague, and he says, \"What does he know about partial differential equations?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=699.0,776.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And I'm thinking, \"I don't know what he's going to write about me. He doesn't know me.\" But, I also had, what's his name? Kurt Friedrichs. He was an OK teacher. He had a great sense of humor, but he also had asthma, as I later found out. And the class used to count how many times he would clear his throat, in class. But, to point out his sense of humor, there was something called the Hahn-Banach Theorem. And he gave a homework problem, prove this without calling, without using the Hahn-Banach Theorem. And no one could do it. And he said, \"There's only one way to do it.\" He said, \"Prove the Hahn-Banach Theorem. Don't call it the Hahn-Banach Theorem...\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=776.0,832.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: [laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=832.0,833.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: \"...and then use it.\" And, I had also, again, when I signed up at the Courant, this guy, when the advisor there told me that they have a teacher, his name was Harold Weitzner, who was teaching a mechanics course. And he said, \"he's a very excellent\" -- I don't know, theoretical or mathematical physics person. I took the course and after the final of the first term, I was sure I got an F. And, so, turns out I got an A, and I said, \"There's something fishy here.\" But, you know, I figured I got an A, I'll take the second course. Which I did, and I got an A there too. But again, I got the impression that at NYU in those days, you either got an A or a B...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=833.0,898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=898.0,898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: ...if you were registered in the class. Backtracking, at Brooklyn College, when you had to, you know, ask for recommendations to graduate school. Again, I was very shy. There was no way I was going to ask any of the teachers for a recommendation. I just stuck an envelope in their mailboxes, you know, fill that out. And, I did get a scholarship offer from Penn State, but I never went there. I ended up going to Courant.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=898.0,936.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=936.0,939.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And, so after Courant, I got a job teaching at a community college called the Academy of Aeronautics. 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LaGuardia Airport.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=954.0,958.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=958.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So, after three years, I was making $5,700, I think, or maybe $7,200. And I asked for a raise, and they weren't giving raises. So I said, \"Well, if you're not going to give me a raise, sayonara.\" So I applied to Queensborough. My resume was like, maybe six lines.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=960.0,984.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=984.0,985.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: But, I got the job. There was a guy at Queensborough who was the assistant head of the department, Tony Behr. He was, you probably, you may have heard his name, maybe not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=985.0,999.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=999.0,1000.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: But he taught at the Academy of Aeronautics. So I got a, maybe that was good. So I got hired, but I was full-time at night 'cause they wanted a full-timer at night. So I taught there for three years at night. And, so I got to know most of the adjuncts, which is good, because full-timers should be equivalent to adjuncts. In other words, a lot of full-timers, I think, looked down their noses at adjuncts and it shouldn't be like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1000.0,1043.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1043.0,1043.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: But, anyway, I taught three years there at night, and I was one of the \"Queensborough 11.\" This is 1971. Let's say 50 people were recommended for tenure. And the president went along with it. And the Board of Higher Ed told him, \"Cut 11 people from the list, any 11 you choose.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1043.0,1074.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Wow!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1074.0,1074.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So I was one of the 11, and we had a lawsuit, and it took like, three quarters of a year to win. During that time I was teaching in a junior high school. So when we won, I came back to Queensborough for the spring term, but I was still teaching in a junior high. I was teaching at night and in the daytime. And when I put that down on the multiple position thing [workload reporting form], they said...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1074.0,1107.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Oh, they did that back then too?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1107.0,1109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. They said, \"You can't do that.\" So I said, \"OK. I'll stick with the junior high school and I'll come back later.\" So that really turned me off as there was the -- the politics was very distressing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1109.0,1129.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1129.0,1129.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: You know, especially having to get a job. And teaching in a junior high school is no picnic. And the junior high school I taught at was like the worst one in Brooklyn. So...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1129.0,1147.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Which junior high school was that in Brooklyn?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1147.0,1149.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: At that time it was called Sands Junior High School [Ed. note: Now named Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts]. One of the adjuncts taught, I forgot his name -- he's still teaching, I think, at the school [Queensborough]. He taught in a bad junior high school. He says, \"That was the worst.\" And I said, \"Well, I taught at Sands.\" He says, \"Oh, yeah, that was the worst.\" So, a little bit of affirmation. Like, the first day of classes in the junior high, I saw a teacher's desk go out of a third-story window.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1149.0,1184.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1184.0,1184.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And when it landed in the school yard, it had aluminum legs, it did like a controlled collapse. It was like a thing of beauty.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1184.0,1194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1194.0,1194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Things went downhill from that point on. So the next year I was back at Queensborough. They had promoted me to Assistant Professor. And I think during that year I had gone to -- during my last year teaching at night at Queensborough, I went to school at Fordham; I took courses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1194.0,1224.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1224.0,1226.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: But their math courses were given in the daytime. So the next year since I was teaching in the daytime, I had to discontinue that Ph.D. program. And I never got back to it, in math anyway. And so at Queensborough, you know, I basically taught the intermediate algebra [MA-010: Elementary Algebra or MA-020: Intermediate Mathematics], the calculus [MA-441: Analytic Geometry and Calculus I], the pre-calculus [MA-440]. A couple of times I taught [MA-] 442 [Analytic Geometry and Calculus II] and a couple of times [MA-] 443 [Analytic Geometry and Calculus III]. I taught a BASIC computer course [MA-341/CS-100: Introduction to Computers \u0026 Programming] once or twice. And statistics, my first couple of years at Queensborough, I taught statistics [MA-32/MA-332: Elements Of Mathematical Statistics]. But after, let's say the third year, I never taught it again. Which is good [laughs], you know, I never...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1226.0,1287.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: They started charging tuition, I guess sometime in the early '70s when you were there? [Ed. note: Tuition was instituted in 1976.]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1287.0,1291.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: No, I don't remember. I remember when they started open admissions. I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1291.0,1298.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: That was later. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1298.0,1299.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So that, open admissions, I think started in 1970, I think, around that time. 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I think in the '70s, in '76, I think there was also the retrenchment at CUNY as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1330.0,1334.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Oh yeah. We lost around six people from our department. If I'm not mistaken, that's the time that President Ford said, \"Drop Dead!\" to the city. I'm not sure. [Ed. note: October 1975]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1334.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Yes, well, maybe a little earlier, but '76 I think was the retrenchment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1350.0,1354.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. So, yeah, we lost six people in our department. I don't remember. I remember Marty Peres was one, and a couple of others. [Ed. note: Brian Hotaling, Karl Klee and Mary Prunty also left at this time.] And, you know, it really wasn't -- I mean, he was a guy who did a lot of work, especially with this guy, Ed Cohen, who ran the testing office. He did all that work and then they said, you know, \"Goodbye!\" It just was not right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1354.0,1386.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: But you were protected 'cause you had seniority...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1386.0,1388.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah, I had tenure already.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1388.0,1389.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1389.0,1391.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: When I came back after that decision I had tenure, you know that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1391.0,1399.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: OK. So, yeah. So there was the -- they released the untenured in the department.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1399.0,1405.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1405.0,1405.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: All untenured people. OK. And I think later in the '70s they started charging tuition as well, maybe in response to the budget crisis. Do you remember how students reacted to that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1405.0,1421.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: I can't say I do, no.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1421.0,1425.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: OK. All right. I just, you know, focus on some of the earlier years. Do you remember there being student protests in the late '60s or '70s?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1425.0,1434.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yes. Well, I, [laughs] there was a protest. I wonder if it was a faculty protest. There was some guy from the History Department that led some type of protest. I forgot his name, but I remember he was up on a stage. Oh yeah. I think they, let me backtrack. I think some students took over some administration offices. Again, my memory is, it could have been faculty that took over. [laughs] I think it was students. But I remember this guy in the History Department who was subsequently let go because he led some type of protest.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1434.0,1478.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm. I see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1478.0,1478.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: He was up on stage somewhere, in dungarees. And, to me, that was very unprofessional to see a teacher in dungarees. And then later on I wore dungarees and I even wore shorts. So, you know, times changed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1478.0,1502.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm. OK. Do you, in the early years, do you remember any kind of construction that took place and the buildings being built, or...?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1502.0,1517.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Well, when I applied for the job, the Science Building was, they had -- you press a button by the water fountain. It was like, out of like a silver hole, water shoots out. I said, \"Wow, this is, I gotta teach here.\" [laughs] You know, that was simple. So I think, yeah, the Science Building was up. The Humanities Building was up; I'm pretty sure. But we also had classes in portables. You know where the York Building is?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1517.0,1555.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1555.0,1556.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Well, they had, between the York Building and that building where the Art Department is [C Building], they had like shacks. They were called portables, and we had classes in there. I think even before that, they even had classes in buses. But I'm not positive on that. Because I think Helen Blecher, I don't know if you remember her...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1556.0,1587.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: I remember the name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1587.0,1588.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. I think she almost fell out of the front door of a bus or something.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1588.0,1593.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm. Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1593.0,1596.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1596.0,1599.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: So, once the Science Building was built, was the Math Department essentially where it is now in S-245?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1599.0,1607.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: It was on the fourth floor. And S-430 was the room. I remember it because 43 is my lucky number.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1607.0,1622.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Oh, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1622.0,1626.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So that was S-430. And I shared an office with Bernie Bernstein and Whitney Harris. Even though they taught in the daytime, I might have seen them at night. I mean, they taught in the day, I taught at night. I probably saw them, you know, late in the day. And Bernie tried to get the department to, you know, to solve math problems collectively. And I remember Whitney was very good at it. Excellent. And one of the adjuncts at that time was Alan Wayne, who was a prolific math problem proposer and solver. And he was the chair at Eli Whitney Vocational High School. [Ed. note: Now called Williamsburg High School for Architecute and Design.] And he took me under his wing a little bit. I never heard of -- it's hard to believe that here I am with a master's degree in math, I had never heard of the Fibonacci numbers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1626.0,1695.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1695.0,1697.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: He explained it, what it was, to me. And, when I moved to Melville later, you know, in 1973, he had retired. I opened up the School Science and Math Journal they had on the shelves there, and I see problems by Alan Wayne there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1697.0,1723.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1723.0,1723.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Hey. So that, I got to try to solve, 'cause it's, you know, I knew him. And that got me on solving problems in School Science and Math. And I had, as I mentioned, or written to you, I proposed over 80 problems, or around 80 problems. 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Oh, there you are.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1771.0,1772.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So this list was made years ago, and most of these people are dead. So I would, because I continued proposing problems through 19-, 2022, that's like 45 years of longevity for me...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1772.0,1793.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Wow!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1793.0,1793.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: ...which makes me third on the all-time list of proposers. And I, again, I'm a nobody and to be -- this journal's been around since 1905. So that made me feel good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1793.0,1811.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Well, that's a great achievement.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1811.0,1812.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. So, you know, with $2 I can get on the subway maybe [laughs]. But, I also met Jack Garfunkel. He was an adjunct at Queensborough. He was, he's another prolific problem proposer and solver, especially in geometry. And he took me under his wing a little also. And he was the, they named the auditorium at Forest Hills High School after him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1812.0,1848.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Oh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1848.0,1848.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: He was a math teacher there. And he told me he was a better ping pong player than a geometer. So I managed to stall off playing him ping pong until he was 78 years old. And we went over to the gym and he said, \"Walk slowly.\" 'Cause he was not doing that well at that time. But I think he served over the table. You know, he made, he lost points on five serves. But I managed to beat him. But I'm sure he probably was going easy on me [laughs]. But again, Alan Wayne and Jack Garfunkel; I was very fortunate to have encountered them during my career at Queensborough or else I never would've got into problem-solving.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1848.0,1908.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1908.0,1908.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: But, interesting. When I was at Brooklyn College, I used to look at the School Science and Math, at the people who proposed. And this same guy on the list [holds up list]. They had a lot of problems by Brother Felix John.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1908.0,1927.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1927.0,1929.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And I always remembered that name. And here I am. And you know, he's like 10th and I'm third or something. So that made me feel good. So, next. I don't know what else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1929.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: OK. Well, what sort of, do you remember, what sort of duties you had for the department or the college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1950.0,1958.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: I did very little. I played, as Al...do you remember Al Anderson? No?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1958.0,1965.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1965.0,1965.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: He was the chair, and he said I...he also didn't like the politics. And he said I was \"a clean liver.\" I stayed away from all those things. Again, I was probably turned off by, a lot by that Queensborough 11 thing in the first place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1965.0,1989.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1989.0,1990.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: You know, how it affected, let's say, my subsequent life to some extent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1990.0,1995.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1995.0,1996.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: But I never got involved. I was the chairman of the Advanced Committee for many years. And all you had to do was modify the syllabus as they went from one calculus book to another one. So...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=1996.0,2011.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2011.0,2012.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Usually the topics were the same. The pages were different and the title was different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2012.0,2019.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Change the edition from third edition to fourth edition.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2019.0,2021.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: That's right. So I, that was all I could handle, as far as, what do you call it? Any administrative task, that was beyond my...my mind just doesn't work that way. I couldn't. If a student had a question, I didn't want to misadvise them. So I used to go to Sandy Peskin 'cause she knew everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2021.0,2052.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2052.0,2052.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: In fact, when I went to Brooklyn College, I didn't know what I wanted to become at that point. Could have been a doctor. I really wanted to become a cop, but I wasn't tall enough. You had to be 5' 8\" at that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2052.0,2067.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Oh!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2067.0,2067.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So anyway, this history teacher, I said, \"Maybe I want to be an archaeologist.\" And who knows, she's a -- she starts drawing a diagram of the Great Pyramid. So she really knew her stuff. And she says, \"You probably want to get your...your language out of the way first.\" So, instead of taking a chemistry course, I took, I finished my French, and I never did take chemistry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2067.0,2097.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2097.0,2097.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And so, I never became a doctor, if that might have happened. But we'll never know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2097.0,2106.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm. Do you remember when the department started doing computer science classes in the '80s?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2106.0,2115.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: As a date? I couldn't say what date it was. But I know Frank Scalzo, Whitney Harris started to teach the computer science classes. The -- again, I taught one course in BASIC, and I had a student there who was far and above, you know, much smarter than the rest. And I subsequently found out she didn't go to Queensborough. She went to [Benjamin N.] Cardozo High School. She was just like, taking an extra credit course or what have you across the street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2115.0,2157.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2157.0,2159.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. And, I did have a student in statistics and another course; her name was Debbie Tesler. And she eventually taught chemistry -- what is it? You know, how to give injections, phlebotomy. She became...and she came to school like, 10, 20 years after graduating. And she's coming up the hall in the Science Building. Not the Science Building, the Medical Arts. 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I had these two students in a calculus class at night, Bennett and Berkowitz. And I see this guy, we were on a cruise, and I see this guy, his head had a certain shape. And I said, that looks familiar. And finally it came to me. Berkowitz. So I went to the, wherever you go on the ship to find out who's on the ship. I said, \"There's a guy Berkowitz?\" Yeah [laughs]. And when I saw him again, we connected again, so that made me feel good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2217.0,2269.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: That's nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2269.0,2271.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: He became an accountant.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2271.0,2275.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm. OK. Well, over the years, how do you feel that the students changed from when you started to, you know, when you were...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2275.0,2287.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Well, they...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2287.0,2287.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: ...from the '70s to the '80s and so on?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2287.0,2291.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: There's no question that they got much worse.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2291.0,2298.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2298.0,2298.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And in fact, they got so bad, I, we used to talk to the other teachers. Juliana Corn, I found out, was giving like, sample tests to the students to try and increase their marks. So finally I said, \"You know, I'm going to do the same thing.\" And I guess it helped a little. But, it's, you're, in my thinking, I was really relaxing my standards a little. But that's the way it was. OK.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2298.0,2337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Did our curriculum change over the years in terms of what we were teaching?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2337.0,2345.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: I think, I can only comment really on the first-semester calculus. They, we used to cover arc length and I think surface area. But then Queens College didn't; so we degraded our course so it, we didn't cover it anymore. We did that in the second semester. Maybe even volumes of revolution. I don't remember. But we did cut out some of the original content of our 441 course. Calculus I. I think someone had mentioned that, in pre-calculus, we cover something that Queens College doesn't. I don't remember the topic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2345.0,2417.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm. And how did you see remediation change over the years? We had the remediation at -- even when you started, there were remedial courses, yes?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2417.0,2428.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. There were. I think there was even an arithmetic -- yeah, there was an arithmetic course. I forgot what they called it. [Ed. note: MA-005: Basic Mathematics and Problem Solving started 1999 and ran until 2013.] Yeah. Arithmetic. And, so they cut that out. I know in the late 1930s, they had remediation at Brooklyn College. It was trigonometry. That's what the remediation was. So, go figure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2428.0,2459.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: And certainly the number of students needing remediation increased over the years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2459.0,2464.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. Well, interesting thing. I once had to do a subtraction, let's say, of two four-digit numbers on the board...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2464.0,2481.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2481.0,2481.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: ...at Queensborough. And I'm doing it, you know, probably talking out loud, and the students would say, \"Wait! What are you doing? What are you doing?\" There are two ways to do subtraction. And the way they teach it, the way they -- the way I learned it, I think they call the South American method, and the way the students learned it, you know, let's say 20 years ago, was something else. So that amazed me a little bit that there was another way to do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2481.0,2514.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm. How did you see yourself and the department using technology to teach the courses change over the years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2514.0,2530.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Well, when they started using, I guess, Maple [software] in calculus?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2530.0,2547.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Did it help?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2547.0,2548.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: I don't think it helped. I mean, it gave them something to do with at the table. You know, you could show the, our Riemann sum change if you added more intervals and stuff. But I don't really think it was necessary at that level. Although it did enhance my problem-solving ability because it's so powerful. You know, some of the things, interestingly enough...I once, there once was a problem in School Science and Math that was proposed by the problem editor. And it said, \"Where does y equals a to the x and y equals log(x)?\" They say, \"Where do they intersect?\" So he, the problem editor, proposed it. And usually the timeline to get a solution in is like, three or four months. I worked on it for six months. So I finally got a solution. It's handwritten, 'cause that's what I -- I sent it in anyway. I said, \"I worked on it for six months, I'm going to send it in.\" And then -- you remember Allen Barnes?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2548.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2640.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And Eizo Nishiura?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2640.0,2643.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: He retired before I was hired, but I remember Allen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2643.0,2646.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So they caught me in the hallway, and they said, \"They got your solution in there and you're the only one who solved it.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2646.0,2654.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Oh, that's great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2654.0,2656.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So that made me feel good. You know, because the editor says at the end, \"Brozinsky's was the only correct solution, including the proposer.\" So that made my day. And also, I think the number of the page that it was on had a 43 in it or something -- you know, my lucky number. So it was like, interesting. Again, 43s abound in my life. My telephone number at Queensborough [718-281-5173], if you add up the digits, added up to 43.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2656.0,2696.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm. Yeah. I have similar things happening with me with 42. 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For you, Calc III [MA-443], you'd always see the 43 in it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2715.0,2721.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2721.0,2722.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: [Laughs] So what drove your decision to retire, in 2012?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2722.0,2733.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: The coup de grâce, so to speak, was the...well, I retired in 2012, I think, but then I took part-time for nine years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2733.0,2753.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2753.0,2753.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: The reason I retired, because the union wasn't doing anything with the contract, getting money. And I saw I could make the same money teaching two days a week instead of four.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2753.0,2769.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2769.0,2770.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So that's pretty much why I did that. And then, I probably would've continued to teach adjunct, but after teaching the online [classes]...it was just such a -- it was combination of, it was a fraud, it was unrewarding, and I just had enough of it finally. So.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2770.0,2799.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: All right. So, yeah, I was going to ask you about your reaction to COVID. How did you find the transition to online teaching? And how were you teaching your courses when you were doing online courses?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2799.0,2811.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: How was I? OK, how was I teaching it? I used, what'd they call that? Whatever, I forget what...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2811.0,2823.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Well, Blackboard had a version called Blackboard Collaborate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2823.0,2825.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. I was using Blackboard. And if it wasn't for one of my students who helped me get acclimated originally, it really would've been bad news. But she, not that she knew it, but she helped me. You know, she called, I gave her my phone number, and because she was a good student, and she helped me really get started. I was proficient. I could upload my notes and stuff like that. 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Each other. And it wasn't worth it to...some of the stuff that they put down -- where did this come from? And it turned me off.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2897.0,2919.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=2919.0,2919.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: But had they not had that, I don't know. I might still be teaching, but maybe not. 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The communication wasn't always so good about closing or not closing, I recall. 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LaTeX file or something?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3195.0,3197.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah, no. It was just on the tip of my tongue. It's, oh God. It's some like programming language, \"export as...\" In any case, I'm not going to learn that thing even though people...so I asked if anyone could help me with it. And Andrew Bulawa, who I don't know, kindly converted three of my solutions into it. So it got into the, I think the January 2022 issue, three solutions, thanks to him. 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On [Facebook], I do \"Happy Birthdays\" with Jay Appleman. I see Roza [Rusinek] around once a year or twice a year. In fact, we go over to each other's houses. And also, who do I see? Joe Bertorelli's wife Anna. And, I saw, we saw, Carol [Schilling] two weeks ago because we all got together at Anna's house. 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We were supposed to go to Israel and we got COVID just before, so we couldn't do either. 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They made it difficult for a number of...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3390.0,3392.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. Now I saw that I can actually use the library there if I want to. I don't know if I do, but I can. Maybe I can get onto Brooklyn College's campus also with -- maybe I can't use the library, but maybe they'll let me in, you know? I mean, I don't think they should turn away an 80-year-old guy trying to use the library. 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So I may do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3423.0,3430.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Well, I did manage, I managed to get -- my wife works at Queens College, and I did manage to get onto campus this semester just with my ID. So they let me in. 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So.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3442.0,3448.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Has anyone else in your family taken an interest in mathematics, for the next generation perhaps?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3448.0,3459.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: No. No. My son did OK. He has a Ph.D. in cognitive science but he's doing accident reconstruction. 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[Laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3495.0,3497.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: But then she had to take a calculus course. She had to take, she started at, what do you call it, Farmingdale, when it was a two-year college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3497.0,3509.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Mm-hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3509.0,3509.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: She started, she had to take one math course there. I don't, maybe a finite math course, and she failed it. And then I guess she took it again, or a statistics course; she passed it. And then she transferred to [SUNY] Old Westbury and, in her major, she had to take a calculus course. So I said to myself, \"My money's going down the drain. There's no way she's going to pass a calculus course.\" But I helped her, and she got by. So...I think maybe 10 years ago, I showed her an integral sign. I said, \"You ever see this before?\" \"No.\" [Laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3509.0,3552.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: You have to use it or you forget it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3552.0,3553.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Right. But when she was very young, she could do a couple of those puzzles. So she has the brains, but she, for whatever reason, she never went that way. She, there used to be a puzzle. I don't know if you see this [displays Pyraminx puzzle].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3553.0,3576.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Oh yes, I remember that. Pyraminx, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3576.0,3578.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah, the Pyraminx, yeah. There was something called the Whip-It. It was, I guess it was a [unclear]. And she could do it. I couldn't do it. 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Basically it was memorizing the moves. 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I could never.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3624.0,3626.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: ...given enough time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3626.0,3627.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3627.0,3628.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: And I still have the moves in my head that I could still do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3628.0,3632.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: OK, good, good. That was always beyond me, but OK.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3632.0,3639.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Any other funny stories of the department or Queensborough?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3639.0,3644.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Well, one funny story, it made The New York Times. 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She was texting. So I gave her a look. So she stopped. And, you know, the course again cost $600. Twenty minutes later she's texting again. 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I don't know if you remember him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3708.0,3722.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: I remember the name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3722.0,3723.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: OK. Well, you know that I was very active in getting no smoking at Queensborough. And eventually...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3723.0,3735.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Eventually we got it. [Ed. note: CUNY adopted a no tobacco policy in 2011.]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3735.0,3737.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. But I used to tease him about smoking. And so, he wrote to the Metropolitan Diary, and he said, Michael Brozinsky teased him because he was always smoking. And, he said to me that, \"My mother's 80 years old and she's still smoking.\" And he said I said, \"Well, if she wasn't smoking, she'd be 90 right now\" [laughs]. So that was in The New York Times [April 4, 2005, issue]. And, I'm trying to think what else. Yeah, well, other things that happened...you know, now they have so much security at Queensborough. In the early days, there was a rumor that somebody was going around with a gun. I was teaching a calculus class. So, I left the class and went chasing the person with a gun or something. And so, I think it was a girl with a guy. I think I tackled one of them and, if memory serves. And then I went back to class.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3737.0,3832.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3832.0,3832.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And I also testified; they used to sell drugs in the Science Lounge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3832.0,3841.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Oh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3841.0,3842.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: It was like a supermarket. And I testified against -- you know, I made a big stink to [Vice President and Dean Howard] Lapidus. I said, \"Why don't you put up a sign on there?\" No smoking and stuff. And I made a big stink and testified against one of the guys and, driving to school the next day, I'm a little bit scared because who knows what can happen. And, one other thing, I once got beat up by a student's boyfriend.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3842.0,3873.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Oh, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3873.0,3874.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. This girl was failing and her boyfriend comes into the classroom after class and says he wants to see my grade book. So I'm not showing him my grade book. And he tells me he's a fighter, not a talker. So I go to leave the classroom and he gets in between me and the door. And so what do I do? I punched him in the head and then he beat the daylights out of me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3874.0,3909.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3909.0,3909.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: And then one of my students came back in the room and grabbed him off of me. So, and they told me if I'm going to -- well, the thing that really made me angry: the school doctor had to certify me OK to drive home because he had banged my head into the floor. So he said, \"OK.\" And then I saw my own doctor. The copayment, I think, was $8. The school wouldn't pay the copayment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3909.0,3941.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: Ahh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3941.0,3942.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: So, that didn't make me too happy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3942.0,3945.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: No. When was that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3945.0,3947.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Oh, geez. Tony Behr was still there [Behr retired in 1982], so that had to be, I'd say, maybe 1980 or so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3947.0,3963.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: All right. Way before me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3963.0,3964.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: Yeah. In fact, I don't know if you remember this guy from the Chemistry Department, Anatol Mancott? You may not.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3964.0,3974.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3974.0,3974.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: He, every time he saw me, he said, \"There's Battling Mike!\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3974.0,3979.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: [Laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3979.0,3979.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: But, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3979.0,3989.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: OK. Well, thanks for sharing everything, Michael. This was really great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3989.0,3994.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: OK.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3994.0,3994.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: It was great hearing all the stories. I'll pause the recording and we can just talk for a moment or two...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=3994.0,4002.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Michael Brozinsky: OK.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=4002.0,4003.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232/transcript/74388/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Patrick Wallach: ...about the details.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/140803/file/260232#t=4003.0,4004.096"}]}]}]}