S. Frederic Guggenheim receives Stevens Alumni Award
HOBOKEN, N.J. - S. Frederic Guggenheim of Teaneck, N.J., was recognized Oct. 11, 2003, for his outstanding loyalty and devotion to Stevens Institute of Technology when the Stevens Alumni Association (SAA) bestowed upon him its 2003 Alumni Award at its annual gala Alumni Banquet on the Stevens campus in Hoboken. The award was presented by Dr. Harold J. Raveche, President of Stevens, and Marty P. Valerio '68, President of the Stevens Alumni Association
As a volunteer with Stevens Institute of Technology, Mr. Guggenheim (Class of 1939, M.S. '46) took a distinguished career with the U.S. Department of Energy and generously shared his professional expertise and insight with others. But Mr. Guggenheim didn't stop there. What have made his volunteer efforts and dedication to the Institute and the Stevens Alumni Association so outstanding are the great variety and depth of his activities over 20 years - which have helped make Stevens a better place.
Mr. Guggenheim is the Old Guard representative on the SAA's Executive Committee and faithfully attends SAA events to represent this venerable group. He serves as secretary for his class, a job he has held for more than a decade; Mr. Guggenheim can always be counted on to contribute interesting and informative class logs for The Stevens Indicator (the SAA's magazine), a job he pursues with much passion. He previously served as a longtime decade representative to the SAA, and is a member of the Stevens Metropolitan Club. Mr. Guggenheim has also been a generous supporter of Stevens, as a member of the Edwin A. Stevens Society (an elite society of annual contributors of $1,000 and up) and as a class agent and telethon worker for the school's fund-raising efforts.
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But this retired senior engineer with the Department of Energy also wished to share his professional expertise and insight with others. So he served on the Machine Systems Group, an advisory committee to Stevens' Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the early 1980s. And in 1990, he co-founded the Stevens Alumni Environmental Professionals, which helps professionals in environmental engineering network and stay informed about developments in their field.
Mr. Guggenheim worked for the Environmental Measurements Laboratory of the Department of Energy in New York City from 1967 to 1997, when it was known as the Health and Safety Laboratory of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. There, he was responsible for the research and development of instrumentation. He has also been an adjunct professor of mechanical engineering with the City University of New York and The Cooper Union. Mr. Guggenheim holds 15 patents related to environmental instrumentation and control, including one for a monitoring device used by uranium miners to detect the levels of radiation they are exposed to on the job. He has also published a variety of books and articles in his field.
Mr. Guggenheim has been much honored for his volunteerism and work. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded him the Dedicated Service Award and the designation of Life Fellow. In addition, Mr. Guggenheim is active in his community of Teaneck, N.J., where he is vice chairman of the Teaneck Environmental Commission. He also serves as a commissioner with the New Jersey State Park Commission for Historic New Bridge Landing. As a Stevens student, Mr. Guggenheim was founder and president of the Astronomy Club, worked on The Stute (the student newspaper) and participated in the endowment fund drive.
He and his wife, Nancy, live in Teaneck and have three children and five grandchildren.
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