Alumni Association presents service awards

Dr. E. Maudette Brownlee, chair of the SEEK department, and Sue (Roberta Turner) office manager in the physics department, are this years’ CCNY service award honorees at the Alumni Association of The City College of New York’s 164th annual meeting, June 9.

Brownlee, in her 20th year as chair of SEEK, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, will receive the Faculty Service Award. She is also director of the City College’s Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program.

Turner will receive the Administrative Service Award. She has worked at CCNY since 1988 and is hailed by physics faculty as the “soul” of the department.

The program in CCNY’s Faculty Dining Room at 7 p.m. includes Alumni Service Awards presentations to the following:

  • Basil Phillips  ’66ME, Engineering Alumni Group;
  • Lenny Z. Portorreal ’08, Business & Economics Group;
  • Sergio Villaverde, Esq ’93, Latino Alumni Group;
  • Peter Goodman ’61, Education Alumni Group;
  • Alexis Thompson-Middleton '84, Black Alumni.

In addition, City College President Lisa S. Coico will give highlights of the 2015 – 2016 academic year.

A buffet dinner at 6 p.m. precedes the meeting. Tickets are $40 per person and can be ordered through the Alumni Association at 212-234-3000. The meeting is free and open to the public.

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