Restired state appellate judge
William T h o m p s o n , Brooklyn College
graduate and father of New Yo r k
City Comptroller Bill T h o m p s o n .
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ful careers in real estate and engineering
as well as, of course, in parenthood. H i s
s o n , E l l i o t , the New York State A t t o r n e y
G e n e ra l , is very much mindful that his
f a t h e r ’s City College education is part of
a legacy that helped him attend
Princeton and Harvard Law School and
ascend to high public office.
It is because of institutions like
CCNY that “I am persuaded that this
city will continue to thrive,” Spitzer said
during a lecture at City College two
years ago, as he reminisced about the
public university education of his father
B e r n a r d , who was in the audience.
But the very word “ o p t i o n ” s u g g e s t s
that while some children of successful
alumni go on to prestigious private col-
l e g e s, as Eliot Spitzer did, others choose
to stay close to home and get their
degrees on the campuses of City College
and Brooklyn College and elsewhere in
the CUNY family.
One outstanding legacy family is a
m o t h e r-daughter pairing: the renowned
C h a n c e l l o r : 2005 Inaugurates
C U N Y ’s Decade of Scientific Research
Chancellor Matthew Goldstein
announced the kickoff of a ten-year peri-
od of expansion that will see hundreds
of millions of dollars invested in the sci-
ences throughout the University, w i t h
special emphasis on scientific research.
“This will be the decade for the
investment in science at CUNY,” t h e
chancellor told a luncheon gathering of
education advocates at the Harvard Club
r e c e n t l y.
“Modern facilities and equipment are
essential to our campuses, not only to
accomplish truly innovative research but
also to attract the best faculty
researchers and to encourage and nur-
ture the best students… That is why we
will be investing more than $360 million
to build new facilities or modernize
existing science buildings at Hunter,
L e h m a n , Q u e e n s, and City Colleges over
the n