Public Health Magazine: Winter 1995, Vol.5, No.1
Alumni Affairs

Alumni Day Conference and Awards Luncheon An overflow throng filled the Pfizer World Headquarters Conference Center in midtown Manhattan, the setting for the 1994 Alumni Day Conference and Awards Luncheon. The theme was "Children's Health Care: A Neglected Priority?" with the Alumni Association event focusing on a broad range of critical health issues affecting children and adolescents.

Keynote speakers included Judith E. Jones, M.S., the first director of the National Center for Children in Poverty, and former CSPH faculty member Linda A. Randolph, M.D., who is now clinical professor of community medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and Penny Liberatos, project director at the Medical and Health Research Association of New York City. In a break with tradition, the event took place in September rather than during the spring.

At midday, the assembly reconvened at the New York Helmsley Hotel for a luncheon where Jones was honored in recognition of her creative leadership and her continued crusade for the protection of children worldwide. Also honored was Margaret J. O'Brien, R.N., M.S., M.P.H., in recognition of a distinguished career "having demonstrated skill, diligence, forethought and outstanding achievements in public health nursing."

CSPH thanks Pfizer, Inc., for financial support of this event and especially Sal Giorgianni, Pharm.D., senior associate director, policy and planning, U.S. Pharmaceutical Group at Pfizer for his graciousness in seeing that the conference was the high point of 1994 for alumni.

CSPH's 75th Anniversary Nineteen ninety-seven will officially mark the 75th anniversary of the school. Plans are underway for a year-long celebration commemorating this milestone. Plan now to be a part of this landmark. Details will follow in future issues of the Chronicle.

Alumni support CSPH annual fund The 1994--95 Annual Fund totals as of January 31, 1995, at midpoint in the fiscal year, are at 379 donors and $43,186--translating into 12 percent more donors and 4 percent more dollars than January 1994. Jean M. G. Armitage, director of annual giving, reports that this reflects the desire of alumni, family and friends that CSPH should maintain its position at the forefront of public health education in the nation and the world.

This year's fund offers donors four choices of support:

• Faculty development
• Student aid
• Programs and research
• General purposes

DeLamar Society members ($250) receive the CSPH video "Making a Difference." This video, narrated by Bill Moyers and made possible by the generous support of the Engelberg Foundation, presents an overview of the school today as a leader in health care education.

Alumni must make their contributions before June 30 to be counted for the 1994--95 Annual Fund. "Donations of any size are valued by the School," said the alumni coordinator, Ginny Carolan. "Participation is what counts most, and gifts from family and friends of alumni are also welcome."

For information on the Annual Fund or on the DeLamar Society, call Jean Armitage at (212) 781-2100; for details on alumni affairs, visits to the school or named or planned gift opportunities, Carolan can be reached at (212) 305-6083.

Frank A. Calderone Lectureship and Prize

The lectureship and prize, held biannually, are made possible through the generosity of the Calderone family in memory of Frank A. Calderone, M.D., who was the first Deputy Commissioner of Health for the City of New York.

Joint reception with Pharmaceutical Sciences The second annual joint holiday reception took place on December 12 in the Faculty House on the Morningside campus, where alumni of CSPH and the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences met, renewed old friendships and acquaintances, and made new friends. The speaker for the evening, Allan Rosenfield, M.D., updated the guests on the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo which he attended as a representative of two United Nations non-governmental organizations. We are grateful to the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences alumni president, Joseph P. Tumelty, and to his board of directors, especially Howard Nadel, for making this event a success.

New England alumni meet at NEHA New England alumni gathered on April 12 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel for their annual luncheon held in conjunction with the New England Healthcare Assembly (NEHA). The alumni speaker was Sherwin Z. Goodblatt, M.S. ('61), C.E.O. of Westwood/Pembroke Corporation in Canton, Mass. Goodblatt is an expert in mental health care delivery and managed care. This luncheon is a spring high point and the New England colleagues extend an invitation for even greater alumni participation.

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