Friday, November 23, 2018
I knew Dean Hollander when I was an engineering student at The Cooper Union from 1979-1983. But I first met him in the spring of 1979 when I went with my parents to tour the school. We were checking in at the Dean's office, when all of a sudden my father exclaimed "Hollander!". Little did I know that my father Albert, who recieved his engineering degree after many years of night school at NYU in 1965, had known Dean Hollendar well. I'm just cleaning out papers of my parents, and came across letters from Dean Hollender thanking my dad for helping out with various events in 1963/64. I remember fondly his "Dean's Hour" classes where he tried to reassure and guide us nervous Cooper freshmen through the rigorous program. And I had reconnected with him in recent years on LinkedIn--happy to hear that he was enjoying retired life to its fullest. Sorry to hear of his passing, but a bit of him lives on in a lot of people he influenced over his long career.
