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Kerry Washington
Honored at Lehman College 50th Anniversary
Celebration and Leadership Awards Dinner in New York
City
NEW YORK — Acclaimed
actress, activist and producer Kerry Washington
received the Lehman Award for Artistic Achievement
at the Lehman College 50th Anniversary
Celebration and Leadership Awards Dinner on April
11, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York. |
A Bronx native, Kerry Washington, said, “I have
many precious memories of Lehman College and its beautiful
campus. I’m honored to help usher in this next chapter in
Lehman’s history of service to the Bronx.”
Lehman College President José Luis Cruz, said,
“Ms. Washington is an outstanding role model for our students –
an accomplished artist who works tirelessly for equality and
education. We are thrilled to present her with the Lehman Award
for Artistic Achievement.”
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President José Luis
Cruz and his wife, Dr. Rima Brusi; honorees Christopher
Stavrou and Joanne Walsh Stavrou; honoree Kerry
Washington; honoree Wendy Lehman Lash; Lehman College
Foundation Chair Myrna Rivera; honorees Ivan and Phyllis
Seidenberg; and Lehman College Foundation Vice Chair Ira
Cohen |
Lehman College also honored philanthropists and
business leaders.
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Iven Seidenberg, the former
chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications and his wife
Phyllis, both Lehman College alums, received the
Distinguished Alumnus Award for their work with the
Seidenberg Family Foundation.
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Joanne Walsh Stavrou and
Christopher Stavrou received the Lehman Medal for Business,
Cultural and Civic Leadership, for their work promoting
educational opportunity for all.
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A special President’s Medal
was awarded posthumously to Edith and Herbert H. Lehman and
accepted by their granddaughter Wendy Lehman Lash. Edith
Lehman was a lifelong philanthropist. Herbert H. Lehman,
for whom the college is named, served as Governor and as
U.S. Senator from New York.
Lehman College is
The City University of New York’s only four-year college in the
Bronx, serving the borough and surrounding region as an
intellectual, economic, and cultural center. Lehman provides
undergraduate and graduate studies in the liberal arts and
sciences and professional education within a dynamic research
environment. With a diverse student body of more than 13,000,
Lehman offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs.
Ranked as having the fourth highest mobility rate in the nation
by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Equality of
Opportunity Project, Lehman is a proud catalyst for economic and
social mobility for its students, almost half of whom are first
generation college students.
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