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FOR
24 years the nonprofit Citizens Committee for New York City has been
paying tribute to local citizens who make a difference. This year’s crop
of honorees consisted of such stalwarts as Sy Sternberg, Michael R.
Bloomberg, The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr., Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell and
George Trescher.
Two
civic action groups, the Friends of Marine Park-Gerritsen Creek and
Helping Hands Food Pantry-Fresh Youth Initiatives, also received
recognition at the New Yorker for New York Awards dinner at the
Waldorf-Astoria.
Michael
E. Clark, Citizens Committee president,
presented the awards “to people who have done so much for our city –
promoting education and the arts, business opportunity and medical
research, spiritual well-being and social justice.”
Sy
Sternberg, chairman, president and ceo of New York Life Insurance Company,
is passionately involved with organizations such as Big Brothers Big
Sisters of New York City, the United Way of Tri-State, and the City
University of New York’s Business Leadership Council.
Michael
Bloomberg, founder of the Bloomberg news giant, serves on the board of 20
organizations, including John Hopkins University, Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts, and the New York Police and Fire Widows’ and
Children’s Benefit Fund.
The
Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr., retired Episcopal Bishop of New York, has
been at the service of New Yorkers since the 1950s, when he began his
ministry at St. Peter’s Church in Chelsea.
George
Trescher raised millions when he ran the Metropolitan Museum’s
centennial celebration, staged 15 cabarets for New York Hospital/Cornell
Medical Center, and guided the Citizens Committee through many successful
fundraisers.
Dr.
Campbell, a former city cultural affairs commissioner, now dean of the
Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, devotes her time to the
New York Shakespeare Festival and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
“This
year’s honorees have committed their considerable resources and
dedication to the basic goal of the Citizens Committee,” chairman Osborn
Elliott said, “which is to make New York City a better place to live,
work and raise a family.”
Lesley
Stahl was master of ceremonies of the
awards program. Presenters included Schuyler Chapin,
commissioner of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; civic leader
Elizabeth Rohatyn, financier
E. John Rosenwaldt Jr., First Deputy
Commissioner Joseph P. Dunne of
the New York City Police Department.
Brooke
Russell Astor – whom Elliott calls the Citizens Committee’s
“founding angel” – served as honorary chair of the benefit along
with Lena Horne, E. John Rosenwald Jr. and Stephen H. Weiss.
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