A CUNY Life

Adewale Troutman told the CUNY School of Public Health’s 2014 graduates. The mean streets of the 1960s Bronx claimed his closest friends: “Ray was shot and killed at a party in Harlem, Rensselaer became a drug dealer and was sent to prison, and my friend Moe’s body was found floating in the East River … [But] My girlfriend heard about a new college, Bronx Community … and they accepted me with a 69 high school average. That single act changed the trajectory of my life.” A graduate of Bronx and Lehman Colleges, Troutman became a physician, a professor and associate dean at the University of South Florida, and head of the American Public Health Association.”

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