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Wednesday, May 13, 1987 DAILY NEWS KL KSf 3 ij I-1 i i STUDENTS IN THE Ophthalmic intensive training on high-tech equipment Celebration will include dinner, dedication of renovated Voorhees Hall be honored at the dance. Each dinner guest will get a complementary copy of Professor Harvey Frommer's book, "City Tech; The First 40 Years." "We are delighted to celebrate 40 years of serving the people of New York in the area of career education," Schwerin said. "It means a lot to me personally because I was a student at this college, where the non-traditional students were far and few between." Dispensing Department at New York kun, the president of the Student Government Association on the Brooklyn Campus, and Earl Fletcher, the president of the Student Government Association on the Voorhees Campus. "This dedication will help us to consolidate all of our academic courses on the campus for the first time," said Ursula Schwerin, the president of the college. The renovation of Voorhees Hall, which will house the college's Division of Engineer the modernization, which has taken more than four years.

Damaged wall tiles along the sides where the Numbers 4 and 5 trains stop were removed by the contractor with new ones imported from Czechoslovakia. Too much to handle Robert Apfel, the assistant vice president of Station Maintenance for Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens, admits that the modernization project may be more than the Transit Authority could handle. "We started out working on 35 stations," explained Apfel, who has held his position for six months. "We should have City Technical College in Brooklyn get ing Technology, took a year. Architectural, automotive, environmental control, and machine-tool technology courses currently at the college's Midtown Manhattan campus will move to Voorhees Hall.

The public is invited to the dedication ceremony. Tonight, more than 500 alumni, faculty, family, and friends will attend a dinner and dance at the Brooklyn Museum at 6:30. Past college presidents and retirees will started slowly and then gained the experience as we went along. We tried to do too many stations at one time." He added that too much of the work was placed in the hands of consultants and contractors. "A lot of the attention went to bigger and more glamorous projects," Apfel explained.

He said problems included newly installed gray tiles not evenly spaced on the mezzanine below Court St and also cn the platform, at train level, where the floor tiles pop up periodically. "As far as we're concerned, a lot of time and money has been put into this station and dl iehy Glial Founded as the New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences in 1947, City Tech offered educational opportunities to veterans coming home after World War II. New York City Community College was the largest community college during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The college changed its name in 1980 from New York Community College to New York City Technical College. situated on an overpass, in full view of clerks working in a 24-hour token booth.

"Right now, we are waiting for a new shipment of tiles, which is expected to arrive any day now," Wenger ex- plained. Apfel said that, despite the problems, there is only a minimum amount of work left to be completed in the station. "With five or six men on the job, this work can be completed within 60 days," Apfel said. "I've got $100,000 of his money and am only willing to release it if I see some serious movement on the part of the contractor to correct the problem." By ROBERT FLEMING Daily News Staff Writer New York City Technical College in Downtown Brooklyn will celebrate its 40th birthday today with the dedication of a newly renovated educational facility and a gala dinner at the Brooklyn Museum. College officials plan to dedicate Voorhees Hall at 186 Jay Street, at 3:30 p.m., with a symbolic key exchange between Folashade Olanipe- By CHARLES EATON Daily News Staff Writer Poor planning, an over-ambitious work schedule, and the reported theft of handmade Czechoslovakian wall tiles have contributed to delays at the still unfinished Borough Hall Station of the IRT subway, according to the contractor and the Transit Authority.

The Transit Authority said it was contemplating legal action if the work is not soon completed. The mosaic tiles lining the station's walls have earned it landmark status, but they also have contributed to the delay in the completion of we didn't get $3 million worth of work," Apfel said. "The contractor has apparently lost interest on the job and does not assign the manpower necessary for a speedy completion." Stolen tiles Long Island-based contractor Lou Wenger, whose company, L.A. Wenger Contrac-tors, is doing the modernization work, disputes Apfel's claims. Wenger said that more than $20,000 worth of the special tiles disappeared from the work site about six months ago.

He said they were stolen from a construction locker.