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JOSEPH D. LONGOBARDI

Joseph D. Longobardi died peacefully in his home on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at the age of 97. He was a veteran of World War II, and for three decades a member of the faculty at the State University of New York Maritime College.

Joseph was born on March 8, 1925, in Yonkers, New York. He attended Yonkers public schools and soon after graduation shipped out for basic training at Fort Reilly, Kansas. He served in the 14th Armored Division of the U.S. Army from 1943 to

1946, providing support to combat troops in France, Germany and Belgium, maintaining heavy equipment to ensure its quick return to the front lines. Joseph pursued degrees at Manhattan College and New York University. In the 1950s, he worked as an engineer at Aberdeen Proving Ground and Norden Laboratories, after which he joined the faculty of SUNY Maritime, where he was later appointed Professor of Physics. In 1978 he was named chairman of the college’s Science Department. His more than 30-year academic career, in which he taught and mentored scores of young merchant mariners, and developed a nuclear engineering curriculum to enhance their training, ended with his retirement in 1990.

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