An educator at heart, Dick used what he had learned as an editor and publisher of technical journals in establishing the Apartment House Institute (AHI) at CUNY’s NYC College of Technology (“City Tech”) in the mid-1970’s.  From here he led an important long-term effort, one of the first in the city, to spread the gospel of energy efficiency and its concrete practices. It was both timely and ahead of its time.  He became a trusted teacher and advisor to the nascent housing coop movement, where board members with little or no property management experience were faced with many hard decisions. Even though an ardent unionist – a union organizer earlier in his life - he recognized that a large portion of building superintendents remained un-organized, without access to union