Mark Newman
My name is Mark Newman, I graduated in 1971. I am Chairman, President, CEO of DRS Technologies.
I think the biggest thing about the education that I had here was the ability to think broadly about problems, analyze problems. Everything that I have done in my life goes back to that original focus. Maybe it is buried in philosophy somewhere, maybe a little bit in economics, maybe some history. But all those fields kind of came together in anything that I have done in my life, all the interests that I've had later on in my life.
The single most important thing that I learned in Binghamton was probably to respect my fellow man. I think going to school between 67 and 71 was a very tumultuous time in the history of United States and I gained real respect for different opinions, different philosophies, different thoughts and that's something that has stayed with me my whole life.
My fondest memory of Binghamton was the Grateful Dead concert in 1970. It was a blast. Otherwise it was working hard, trying to live in an incredibly oppressive weather condition, and just meeting a lot of pretty neat, smart people.
