College honors Stephen Siegel for business, civic leadership.Baruch College Baruch College: see New York, City University of. president Kathleen Waldron Dr. Kathleen M. Waldron is an American author, financial executive and educator. Since August 2004, she has been the president of Baruch College of the City University of New York, succeeding Edward Regan, the former New York State Comptroller. Dr. announced honors for two distinguished friends of Baruch College, Stephen B. Siegel DCSc (Hon.) '03, a real estate executive, and Max W. Berger '68, an attorney. The awards were bestowed on May 3 at the 17th Annual Bernard Baruch Dinner held at Cipriani 42nd Street. Over $1 million was raised at the dinner to benefit the Baruch College Fund, a record-setting fundraising amount for the dinner. Gretchen Morgenson, the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times assistant business and financial editor and columnist, emceed. Morgenson has covered the world financial markets for the New York Times since 1998 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her coverage of Wall Street. Baruch College hosts this dinner to benefit the Baruch College Fund and to honor the friends, colleagues and alumni that have made the College great. Baruch College awarded Stephen B. Siegel the Baruch Medal for Business and Civic Leadership Siegel is CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. , Inc.'s global chairman. He is widely regarded in commercial real estate circles as one of the industry's most talented and prolific professionals. Siegel oversees worldwide brokerage operations and is involved in major corporate transactions. Among a host of other honors, he was named by Crain's last year as one of the 100 most influential business leaders in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . One of Siegel's closest friends, Jon Mechanic, the chairman of Fried Frank's top-rated real estate law practice, introduced him at the dinner. Siegel is involved in a number of charitable and civic affairs. He is chairman of the YMCA's Capital Campaign and the general chairman of the Association for the Help of Retarded Children (AHRC-NYC). AHRC-NYC's "Stephen B. Siegel Adult Day Care Center" is located in Fulton Landing, New York. The Baruch College Fund was founded in 1970 as a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. whose purpose is to promote the educational welfare of the students of Baruch College. |
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