Robert Guillot of the Class of 1963 is Queensborough's own Rocket Man! Growing up in Queens Village, he earned his Associate in Science degree4 in Chemistry at Queensborough, and then went on to The City College of New York. He became a NASA physicist working on the Apollo Moon Landings. For the past 30 years he has been an intellectual property lawyer in the Silicon Valley, but in these days as we celebrate the 40th Anniversary.. Read More
of the Apollo 11 triumph of Armstrong on the moon, Robert takes great pride in his part in that landing. During an interview for the CUNY Press, he told us, "Just as the Apollo Moon Landing instilled a permanent awareness of our country's awesome potential, so did Queensborough change my life because there I was made to feel that I could learn anything... and do anything."
Cheryle Werner Levine. ’75, President of the Queensborough Community College Alumni Association
In this day and age, I think of Queensborough as a personal stimulus package for each of our students. It is a vibrant and nurturing place. Over the past 50 years, Queensborough has evolved into this community of learners and leaders doing something new every day and creating a marvelous legacy of which all alumni can be proud!