Robert Scherago:
CLASS OF 1957

Clifton High SchoolClass of 1957
Clifton, NJ
Rutgers University Class of 1961
New brunswick, NJ
Clifton City Elementary School 13Class of 1953
Clifton, NJ
Thomas Jefferson Elementary SchoolClass of 1953
Passaic, NJ
Clifton City Elementary School 9Class of 1949
Clifton, NJ
Robert's Story
Life
I was married to the former Patti Molodowitz, CHS Class of 1958. We were married in April, 2003, in Las Vegas in our penthouse suite at Belaggio, overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Patti died on October 24, 2023.
I've lived in the Washington, DC area (Northern Virginia) since 1978; before that, Hartford, CT, and Bay Shore, Long Island. I retired in May, 2006 from The International Broadcasting Bureau/Voice of America. I still play tuba - in the 65-member Kings Park Concert Band, where I'm also the webmaster, (kingsparkband.org) and a 10-piece German band. I also played with the Manassas Symphony Orchestra from 2004 until 2019. Patti also played clarinet in the concert and German bands with me, as well as in the 50-member Washington Balalaika Orchestra, a woodwind ensemble, and a trio. We moved into a new home built for us in 2006 in the same area. I serve on the neighborhood's communications/newsletter committee.
I was previously married for nearly 39 years, to Marcia Goldstein, of Paterson (Eastside, '57) and widowed in 2000. I have a son, Mike, who is retired in Hawaii. My older son, Steven, died when he was 16.
College
I majored in sleeping, eating, and partying. That's how I finished in one year! My roommat...Expand for more
e was Norm Rosenthal, CHS Class of '57. I heard he died some years ago; I have no other information.
I graduated from the now defunct RCA Institutes, where I studied electronics engineering and broadcasting.
Workplace
Worked at CBS TV while going to RCA Institutes in NY. Upon graduation, I went to work for a small radio station on Long Island, WGLI. While there, we built WTFM (Later WAPP, now WKTU 103.5 - in New York; I subsequently became chief engineer of both stations.
In 1963 I moved to Hartford, CT, where I worked for WTIC-AM-FM-TV. In 1977, I left there to join Connecticut Public Radio/TV, where I built their radio studios.
I left for Washington, DC, in 1978 to work for the Voice of America. I was branch chief for a number of years, then an engineer and project manager in a special projects division where I designed radio and tv studios, domestic and overseas bureaus, and broadcast automation systems, and supervised their construction and installation. One of the highlights of my career was to travel to Peshawar, Pakistan for a month in 1991 to teach a group of Afghan refugees to be radio broadcast technicians.
For the last few years I was a space management design specialist. I retired in May, 2006.
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