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  • Oscar de la Renta, Attorney Joseph Flom ’48, Food Bank President Lucy Cabrera Honored at CCNY Commencement

    NEW YORK, June 3, 2005 – The City College of New York (CCNY) today conferred honorary degrees on fashion designer Oscar de la Renta and prominent attorney Joseph H. Flom, Class of 1948, at its 159th Commencement Exercises.

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  • FORENSIC EXPERT MICHAEL M. BADEN TOPS CCNY CLASS OF ’55 GOLDEN REUNION

    NEW YORK, June 2, 2005 — Renowned forensic expert Dr. Michael M. Baden, a medical examiner for 45 years who investigated the deaths of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and examined the remains of Russia’s last Tsar, will be the keynote speaker at The City College of New York Class of 1955’s 50th Reunion, 10 a.m. Sunday, June 5, in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall.

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  • BERNARD SOHMER TO RECEIVE CCNY ALUMNI
    ASSOCIATION FACULTY SERVICE AWARD
    Special Recognition for “Exemplary and Unparalleled Service” to Abraham Tawil ’55BBA

    NEW YORK, June 2, 2005 — In recognition of his over 50 years of service to CCNY, retired Math educator and university administrator Bernard Sohmer will receive the 2005 Faculty Service Award from the Alumni Association of The City College of New York at its 153rd Annual Meeting, Thursday, June 9, in the Great Hall.

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  • THREE CCNY GRADS RECEIVE SALK
    SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL

    NEW YORK, June 2, 2005 -- Hyesin (Joy) Kang, a Korean immigrant led to medicine by the death of her infant brother, and Luz E. Liriano, an asthmatic from the Dominican Republic whose ailment inspired her to become a physician, are City College’s 2005 Jonas E. Salk Scholarship recipients. Each will receive a $6,000 stipend for medical school.

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  • TWO CCNY ART STUDENTS EARN HAYS- BRANDEIS FELLOWSHIPS FOR ART PROJECTS ABROAD

    NEW YORK, June 1, 2005 – Ayame Mizutome, ’05, and Jennifer Simon, ’02, (MFA ’05) graduates of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) undergraduate arts program, have been chosen Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellows for 2005-06. They will each receive $16,000 toward travel and living expenses to to do research and produce art work outside the United States for up to a year.

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  • 11 PROVOCATIVE AND CULTURALLY DIVERSE FILMS TO DEBUT AT CCNY’S ‘CITYVISIONS’ FILM FESTIVAL

    NEW YORK, May 27 2004 – What do the global water crisis, a would-be baseball hero and Harlem poets have in common? They are among the subjects for the 11 documentary and short fiction films debuting at the Seventh Annual Cityvisions Film and Video Showcase. The juried festival presents films produced by members of the Class of 2005 in The City College of New York’s MFA in Media Arts Production. It runs 6 – 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, and Thursday, June 2, at Clearview Cinemas 62nd St./Broadway theater.

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  • CCNY’S 159th COMMENCEMENT SET FOR JUNE 3 City College President Gregory Williams to Address Graduates

    NEW YORK, May 23, 2005 – The City College of New York (CCNY) will confer honorary degrees on fashion designer Oscar de la Renta and prominent attorney Joseph H. Flom, Class of 1948, at its 159th Commencement Exercises, Friday, June 3, 2005. The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. at the College’s Herman Goldman Center, 133rd Street and Convent Avenue, Manhattan.

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  • BRONX PRESIDENT ADOLFO CARRIÓN TO SPEAK
    AT CCNY CONVOCATION

    New York, May 17, 2005 -- Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Jr., will be the guest speaker at The City College of New York’s 23rd Annual Honors Convocation on Thursday, May 26, 2005.

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  • CITY COLLEGE SOPHOMORE DENISE ST. JUST

    CHOSEN AS GALBRAITH SCHOLAR FOR 2005

    NEW YORK, May 16, 2005 – Denise St. Just, a sophomore majoring in history and political science at the Herman Muehlstein Honors College at The City College of New York, has been selected as one of 16 Galbraith Scholars who will participate in a special multidisciplinary summer program at Harvard University.

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  • CCNY'S BLACK STUDIES PROGRAM HOSTS INSTITUTION BUILDING IN HARLEM SYMPOSIUM THE MALCOLM X LEGACY: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

    New York, May 13, 2005 - City College’s Black Studies Program will host its Third Annual Symposium on “Institution Building in Harlem” 9 a.m. to 5 p.m Friday, May 20, 2005 in the North Academic Center ballroom, 138th Street at Convent Avenue.

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  • CCNY SENIOR NATALIE WAUGH EARNS RANGEL FELLOWSHIP

    New York, May 11, 2005 – As a child, CCNY graduating senior Natalie Waugh crisscrossed the United States, attending schools in Texas, Missouri, Maryland, Indiana and other places her father’s engineering job took the family. The itinerant life will serve her well as a budding diplomat; Ms. Waugh is one of 10 recipients nationwide of the 2005 Charles B. Rangel Fellowship in International Affairs, which provides participants direct entry into the Foreign Service upon completion of graduate school.

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