ADVISORY/MESAB to Honor Lloyd G. Trotter and Donald Gordon at Award Dinner; Henry Schein, Inc. and 3M to Co-Chair Event.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (April 1) --(BUSINESS WIRE) The Medical Education for South African Blacks (MESAB MESAB Middle East Studies Association Bulletin ), a non-profit institution that provides scholarships, advanced training, and academic support to black South African medical students, invites you to attend its annual fund-raising and award dinner.
WHAT: The 2003 MESAB Awards for Service will be presented to Lloyd
G. Trotter, President and Chief Executive Officer, GE
Industrial Systems and Donald Gordon, Founder and Former
Chairman, Liberty Life.
WHO: Stanley Bergman, Chairman, CEO and President, Henry Schein,
Inc., and W. James McNerney Jr., Chairman and CEO, The 3M
Company, will co-chair the award dinner. Entertainer Ossie
Davis will serve as master of ceremonies.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 1, 2003 at 7 p.m.
WHERE: The Pierre Hotel
2 East 61st St (between 5th Ave. & Madison Ave.)
New York, N.Y.
Major American corporations and foundations support MESAB through participation at the awards dinner. The MESAB dinner also attracts many members of Congress and academic observers of South African affairs African Affairs is a peer reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press on behalf of the London-based Royal African Society. The journal's articles cover any African topic: political, social, economic, environmental and historical. . MESAB is a collaborative American and South African effort to improve the health of South Africa's black majority by training black health professionals. Based in New Brunswick New Brunswick, province, Canada New Brunswick, province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada. , N.J., MESAB is the largest source of private funds for students of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color preparing for healthcare careers in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. . For more information on MESAB, please visit www.mesab.org. To RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. for press passes or to book individual interviews, please contact James Scott or Alfie DeMoss at (732) 745. 1292 / mesab@mesab.org. |
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