Marie Holley
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Marie Holley
Marie Holley spends thirty hours a week at The New Jewish Home’s Sarah Neuman Center, but the facility represents much more for her than a workplace. What began nearly 34 years ago as a job “without much heavy lifting” due to surgery became a home away from home.
Marie came to The New Jewish Home in 1986 to assist as a companion. She quickly realized “a lot of good things happen here.” Before long, Marie was assisting in so many areas the head nurse told her that she had to become a member of the staff. She quickly settled in to a role in recreation—where she remains today, working with residents on ceramics, Bingo and a host of programs—but also relieves at the switchboard, does rosary on Thursday, spends time with “wonderful families” and covers the floor until Jewish services on Fridays.
At the first event she attended with The New Jewish Home’s CEO, Dr. Jeffrey Farber, Marie went up and asked him to dance. She brings this energy and enthusiasm to everything she does at Sarah Neuman Center.
“Marie is reliable, always puts the resident first, and the amount of energy that she has for someone at 90 is incredible. She doesn’t look for people to help her—she looks to help them. She’s also a big advocate for the residents.”
–Vincent Bonadies, MS, CTRS Director of Therapeutic Recreation/Volunteers
The New Jewish Home has cared for Marie’s family and inspired her to keep going during difficult times. Most difficult was the loss of her husband, who came to Sarah Neuman Center, where he was cared for after a stroke until he passed away. Marie’s recreation groups and friendships at the center kept her going. This trusted home away from home has continued to be the place her family seeks comfort and care. In addition to her husband, Marie’s brother, sister, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law have all spent time at The New Jewish Home. Her niece even followed in Marie’s footsteps, and works at Sarah Neuman Center in the finance office. They live across the street and walk to work together each day.
A mother and grandmother, Marie is often asked when she plans to retire. “I don’t know the answer, because I’m happy to get up every morning and come here. When I leave here each day, I know that I did what I’m supposed to do. I would miss it terribly if I ever left.”
As our first staff member to be honored at Eight Over Eighty, Marie exemplifies what this event is a celebration of—individuals who personify the values and who are embracing life with meaningful intention, purpose and an expectation of continued accomplishment.
Madeleine Kunin
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Madeleine May Kunin
Madeleine May Kunin was the first female governor of Vermont and the first woman in the U.S. to serve three terms. She was a state legislator for three terms, and Lt. Governor for two terms.
Madeleine served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. department of Education and U.S Ambassador to Switzerland in the Clinton administration. She is currently a Marsh professor at the University of Vermont. She is the founder and board member of the global Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), a non-governmental organization, focused on climate change and civil society. She is also founder of Emerge Vermont, an organization that recruits and trains women to run for public office.
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Columbia University School of Journalism, Madeleine also received an MA degree in English Literature from the University of Vermont. She was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, a fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Her most recent book published by Green Writers Press, Coming of Age, My Journey to the Eighties, was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best books of 2018. In 2012, Kunin published The New Feminist Agenda, Defining the next Revolution for women Work and Family, with Chelsea Green. It was named a Notable Book by the New York Times. Her earlier books include: “Pearls, Politics and Power, How Women Can Win and Lead, “published by Chelsea Green (2008), and “Living a Political Life,”, published by Knopf (1994).
Sid Lapidus
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Sid Lapidus
Sid Lapidus retired at the end of 2007 as a long time partner of Warburg Pincus LLC, one of the country’s leading private equity firms. A graduate of Princeton and Columbia Law School, he was an attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York before leaving the practice of law in 1967 to join Warburg Pincus.
In the 1970s, Warburg Pincus and Sid were part of the generation that created the private equity business. Today, Sid still sits on the board of one New York Stock Exchange company, Lennar Corp., a Warburg Pincus transaction he led twenty years ago. Lennar is one of the nation’s largest home builders, and Sid has been lead director for many years.
Sid failed at retirement. He is a major collector of 17th and 18th century books and pamphlets, many of which concern the advancement of rights and liberties, including the secular advances and contributions of Jews in the United States and Western Europe.
Sid has been and is still involved in numerous non-profit organizations. In the Jewish world, Sid, although no longer active in UJA Federation of NY, has been a board member and Chair of its Network Commission, and a member of the Finance and Executive Committees. He remains Chair of the American Jewish Historical Society, and is on the board of the Center for Jewish History. In the non-Jewish world, Sid has just retired as the long-time Chair of the American Antiquarian Society; he is on the board of the New-York Historical Society and Chair of its Library Committee. He sits on the Advisory Council of the Princeton University History Department, and is the founder of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center in Harlem, an affiliate of the New York Public Library.
He and his wife Ruth live in Harrison, New York. They have three married children, Gail, Janet, and Roy, and six grandchildren, Sara, Eric, Kate, Henry, Jessica and Zack.
Ruth W. Messinger
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Ruth W. Messinger
Ruth Messinger is the Global Ambassador for American Jewish World Service, an organization she ran from 1998-2016 that advances human rights and fights poverty around the world. She is directly involved with their rabbinic education program, teaching leadership and moral courage.
Messinger is the Social Justice Activist at the Meyerson JCC Center for Social Responsibility teaching and helping plan programs on such issues as immigration, voter rights, race and the environment.
Messinger is, also, the Social Justice Fellow at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America; a consultant and teacher for the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York and the Jewish Social Justice Round Table; and has recently completed the development of a social justice curriculum for Melton Schools. Previously Ruth was in elected office in New York City for 20 years.
Messinger serves on boards for several domestic and international organizations; has received honorary degrees in recognition of her long-term commitment to social justice; and is an active member of her synagogue, the Society for the Advancement of Judaism. She holds a BA degree from Radcliffe College and an MSW from the University of Oklahoma; is married and has three children, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Ruth’s dad, Wilfred Wyler, was on the board of the Home for more than half a century and served as its Treasurer for much of that time.
Tao Porchon-Lynch
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Tao Porchon-Lynch
In Memoriam
Tao Porchon-Lynch (August 13, 1918 – February 21, 2020) was the world’s oldest yoga teacher at 101. She trained and certified hundreds of yoga instructors since founding the Westchester Institute of Yoga in 1982. Tao had over 70 years of yoga practice and more than 45 years of yoga teaching experience. She worked with students in India, France, Dubai, China, Russia and throughout the United States. In 1995, Tao attended the Yoga for Peace International Peace Conference in Israel with Indra Devi to try to help bring peace to the Middle East through yogic principles. Before teaching yoga, Tao had a long and varied career. She was an actress in the 1940s and ‘50s, then wrote screenplays and made documentaries in the 1960s and ‘70s. She also received several hundred first-place titles in competitive dancing. Tao’s philosophy was “There is nothing we cannot do if we harness the power within us.”
Daniel Rose
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Daniel Rose
Daniel Rose was presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, in 2018. Mr. Rose celebrates many years’ experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field.
A seasoned professional with more than five decades of experience in his industry, Mr. Rose is a leader in real estate and urban development. He has studied at Yale University and Sorbonne University in Paris, and he has multiple honorary doctorates from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Long Island University, and the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Mr. Rose’s expertise in urban development has afforded him a successful career throughout which he has held positions such as chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Rose Associates, Inc., and other organizations. His most notable professional endeavors include the development of Pentagon City in Washington, DC, and many office buildings in Boston, MA, including the One Financial Center office tower. As a consultant, he created the concept of housing for the performing arts for New York’s Manhattan Plaza complex.
A leader in his local community as well, Mr. Rose is active civically, having previously served with the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence analyst and Russian language specialist during the Korean War. He has sat and continues to sit on several professional, educational, and community boards including the Real Estate Board of New York, the Foreign Policy Association, the Center for New York City Affairs, the Helping Africa Foundation and the MBA of New York Scholarship Foundation, Inc, among others. Mr. Rose is also a founding board member of the EastWest Institute, the FC Harlem Lions youth soccer program, the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, the Urban Design Dorum, and the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Mr. Rose has been honored for his professional and community achievements by many organizations. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2003 and has received the Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts and Culture from the City of New York, the Community Service Award from the Building Owners & Managers Association International, several Cicero Speechwriting awards, and the Business Leadership Award from the National Committee on Foreign Policy. His book, Making a Living, Making a Life, was named a Best Book of the Year in 2015 by the Kirkus Review of Books. Mr. Rose was also inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences alongside his wife, Joanna Semel. Additionally, in 1999, the Catalina Sky Survey discovered the main-belt asteroid 70712 and named it Danieljoanna, after Mr. Rose and wife.
Calvin Trillin
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Calvin Trillin
CALVIN TRILLIN has been acclaimed in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. As someone who has published solidly reported pieces in The New Yorker for more than fifty years, he has been called “perhaps the finest reporter in America.” His wry commentary on the American scene and his books chronicling his adventures as a “happy eater” have earned him renown as “a classic American humorist.” His ABOUT ALICE — a 2007 New York Times best seller that was hailed as “a miniature masterpiece” — followed two other best-selling memoirs, REMEMBERING DENNY and MESSAGES FROM MY FATHER.
Trillin was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo., and now lives in New York. He graduated from Yale in 1957, did a hitch in the army, and then joined Time. After a year covering the South from the Atlanta bureau, he became a writer for Time in New York.
In 1963, he became a staff writer for The New Yorker. From 1967 to 1982, he produced a highly praised series of articles for The New Yorker called “U. S. Journal” 3,000 word pieces every three weeks from somewhere in the United States, on subjects that ranged from the murder of a farmer’s wife in Iowa to the author’s effort to write the definitive history of a Louisiana restaurant called Didee’s “or to eat an awful lot of baked duck and dirty rice trying.” Some of the murder stories from that series were published in 1984 as KILLINGS, a book that was described by William Geist in the New York Times Book Review as “that rarity, reportage as art.” It was republished, with added material, in 2017.
From 1978 through 1985, Trillin was a columnist for The Nation, writing what USA Today called “simply the funniest regular column in journalism.” From 1986 through 1995, the column was syndicated to newspapers. From 1996 to 2001, Trillin did a column for Time. His columns have been collected in five books. His QUITE ENOUGH OF CALVIN TRILLIN was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2011.
Since 1990, Trillin has written a piece of comic verse weekly for The Nation. His books of what he calls deadline poetry have all been New York Times best sellers.
Trillin’s books have included three comic novels (most recently the national best-seller TEPPER ISN’T GOING OUT) and a collection of short stories and a travel book and an account of the desegregation of the University of Georgia. Three of his antic books on eating AMERICAN FRIED, ALICE, LET’S EAT and THIRD HELPINGS were compiled in 1994 into a single volume called THE TUMMY TRILOGY.
He lectures widely, and has appeared often as a guest on television. He has written and presented two one man shows at the American Place Theater in New York both of them critically acclaimed and both sell outs. In reviewing “Words, No Music,” in 1990, New York Times theater critic Mel Gussow called Trillin “the Buster Keaton of performance humorists.” His play “About Alice,” inspired by the memoir, was produced by Theatre for a New Audience in 2019.
Trillin has been a trustee of the New York Public Library and of Yale. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Roy Zuckerberg
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Roy Zuckerberg
Roy Zuckerberg is currently a Senior Director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. after stepping down as Vice Chairman of the Firm, a member of the Executive Committee, and head of the Equities Division in November of 1998. He joined the firm in 1967 and in 1976 became a General Partner. In 2001, he created a private investment company, Samson Investment Partners. Roy is former Chairman of the Board of Trustees and presently a member of the Executive Committee of Northwell Health, formerly North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Inc. Roy is past Chairman of the Board of Governors of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel where he served from 2004 to 2012. Roy is also Honorary Chairman of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research. The Zuckerberg Institute, now in its eleventh year of operation leads interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research and graduate education in water sciences, aimed at improving human well-being in drylands through technologies and policies for sustainable use of water resources. In 2009, he received an honorary doctoral degree from Ben-Gurion University. A Trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the New York Historical Society, Roy is a Director of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties. Roy served on the Board of Trustees of the Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc. from 1999 to 2012. Roy chaired the investment committee of the University of Massachusetts Foundation from 2000 to 2009 and supports the Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair. The University of Massachusetts has honored him with their Distinguished Alumni Award, a doctor of humane letters and the President’s Medal. Roy received a B.S. from Lowell Technological Institute (now U Mass) in 1958. In the spring of 2017, “The Roy J. Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences” was named at the University of Massachusetts.