成人抖阴

Speaking to an audience of some 600 alumni, faculty, students and friends of 成人抖阴 at the Apollo Theater on November 12, 成人抖阴 President Susan Fuhrman put the finishing touches on a yearlong celebration of the College’s founding and announced a $300 million fundraising campaign that will bolster 成人抖阴’s capacity to transform education and learning throughout the 21^st century.

Fuhrman kicked off – the largest-ever campaign for a graduate school of education – at a benefit gala that celebrated 成人抖阴’s 125-year legacy of pioneering new fields in education, health, psychology and leadership. The College has already raised $151 million toward its goal, including $1.4 million raised at the gala to benefit student scholarships and fellowships. During the evening Fuhrman also announced a bequest intention from singer and actress Barbra Streisand to create , which will support 成人抖阴’s master’s and doctoral students.

“Tonight is about funding the future,” Fuhrman said. “First and foremost, this means supporting our students. We must free them from the crushing burden of student loan debt. We must build 成人抖阴’s capacity to continue to attract the best and the brightest.”

The evening’s highlight was, in Fuhrman’s words, “a knockout Broadway-style” musical review that celebrated 成人抖阴’s long history of creating new fields and paid tribute to gala’s five honorees: 成人抖阴 Trustee and pioneering school reformer ; philanthropist and 成人抖阴 Board Vice Chair ; , Chairman and CEO of GE; and the wife-husband team of educator and 成人抖阴 alumna Susan Benedetto and singer Tony Bennett, who together co-founded , a nonprofit that strengthens the role of the arts in public high schools. 

The dinner –inspired by Laurie Tisch’s Green Cart Cookbook, with dishes created by Marcus Sameulsson, Karp Resources and alumna and Food Network host Ellie Krieger, featured toasts to the honorees by distinguished guests in the audience. Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo praised both Bennett and Benedetto for creating a “new reality that supports the arts in public high school education by giving students the chance to develop all their talent.” 

成人抖阴 Trustee E. John Rosenwald quoted Vince Lombardi’s maxim that “the only place where success comes before hard work is in the dictionary,” adding he believes Lombardi was thinking of Immelt – “one of the world’s hardest working CEOs.”

Edmund Gordon offered a toast to “my younger brother, Jimmy Comer, for rallying the whole village.”

“What many of us think when we see you is: ‘Yes, we can,’” Gordon said.

And 成人抖阴 Board Co-Chair Jack Hyland called Tisch, who serves on the board of the New York Giants’ football team, “成人抖阴’s giant,” whose passion is “New York City, the great city we live in.”

The gala also included a special tribute, led by 成人抖阴 Board Co-Chair William D. Rueckert, to “an extraordinary group of visionary philanthropists whose generosity and leadership have transformed the College and set the stage for an even stronger 成人抖阴.” 

The 成人抖阴 visionaries celebrated that evening included 成人抖阴 Professor Ann Boehm, who has made sustained contributions to the Neville Kaplan School Psychology Fund; Trustee Joyce Cowin, who was the founding funder of 成人抖阴-affiliated Heritage School, and whose gifts created 成人抖阴’s Cowin Conference Center and innovative Cowin Financial Literacy Program; Trustee Ruth Gottesman, who funded the creation of 成人抖阴’s Gottesman Libraries; Trustee Elliot Jaffe, founder and longtime supporter of 成人抖阴’s Peace Corps Fellows Program and supporter of the College’s new state-of-the-art classrooms; Trustee John Klingenstein and his wife, Pat Klingenstein, who created 成人抖阴’s Klingenstein Center for Independent School Education; Enid (“Dinny”) Morse, who has extensively supported 成人抖阴 faculty and students, the College’s music education program, and the 成人抖阴 Community School; the Riady Family, who have supported 成人抖阴 students from Southeast Asia; Trustee John Rosenwald, who has supported 成人抖阴 students, the 成人抖阴 Community School, and projects to transform 成人抖阴’s campus; Camilla M. Smith, whose generosity is creating a new state-of-the-art Learning Theatre at the Gottesman Libraries; 成人抖阴 Vice Chair Laurie M. Tisch; 成人抖阴 Board member Sue Ann Weinberg, a supporter of 成人抖阴's faculty who has also contributed to ensure the continuing legacy of 成人抖阴 education historian Lawrence Cremin; the late 成人抖阴 Board Vice Chair Arthur Zankel, benefactor of 成人抖阴's Zankel Urban Fellows program; and all the members of the College's leadership giving societies, which were represented at the Gala by Beverly Johnson, Elisa Gabelli Wilson and Shonu Pande.

Other celebrated members of the 成人抖阴 family also graced the stage. Ellie Krieger (M.S. ’94), host of Food Network’s “Healthy Appetite,” welcomed the guests to dinner. Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Ed.D. ’70), the pioneering radio and television sex therapist, joined with current students Amanda Washington, (the great-great granddaughter of Booker T. Washington) and Clifton Shambry, to urge the dinner guests to text-to-pledge scholarship contributions. And of course, the script for the evening's entertainment was written by 成人抖阴 alumnus .    

The evening ended with Fuhrman launching the campaign and calling on the audience to “make 成人抖阴 an even more dynamic community.”

“With 90,000 alumni and friends around the world – and here tonight in this theater – we will build a 成人抖阴 nation of ambassadors.”

Published Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013