Jacques d’Amboise
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Jacques d’Amboise
Jacques d’Amboise is recognized as one of the finest classical dancers of our time, Jacques d’Amboise now leads the field of arts education with a model program that exposes thousands of school children to the magic and discipline of dance. In 1976, while still a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, Mr. d’Amboise founded National Dance Institute in the belief that the arts have a unique power to engage and motivate individuals towards excellence. Mr. d’Amboise is most remembered for his portrayal of what critics called “the definitive Apollo.” As a choreographer, Mr. d’Amboise’s credits include almost twenty works commissioned for New York City Ballet.
Harry Belafonte
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Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte is known worldwide for his achievements as a singer, actor and producer, and for his commitment to human rights. Beginning with the American civil rights movement in the 1950s, he has established a long and distinguished record of human rights advocacy, and in 1987 was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Born in Harlem, New York, Belafonte moved to his mother’s native Jamaica where he discovered the folk music that became his trademark. His third album, Calypso, became the first recording in history to sell more than a million copies. Mr. Belafonte started the campaign and was the organizer of the multi-artist recording “We Are the World” which won the 1985 Grammy for record of the year and raised millions of dollars for emergency assistance in Africa. In 1989 he received the Kennedy Center Honors award and in 1994 was presented with the National Medal of the Arts from President Bill Clinton for outstanding contribution to the arts in the United States.
Bob Appel
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Bob Appel
Bob Appel is President of Appel Associates, a money management and investment firm in New York, and was formerly a partner of the investment advisory firm Neuberger Berman for 20 years. He is chairman of the board of Jazz at Lincoln Center, and in 2014 with his wife, Helen, made the largest individual gift in the organization’s history. He is also a trustee emeritus of his alma mater, Cornell University, and deeply involved with fundraising for Weill Cornell Medical College, where he and Helen have created a legacy of advancing neuroscience initiatives at the Medical College, establishing the Helen and Robert Appel Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease Research.
Fred and Rita Richman
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Fred and Rita Richman
Fred Richman developed Richloom Fabrics Group, a family run textile company, into a converter of curtain and drapery market cloths for manufacturers, book jobbers and retailers. Today, the company has grown into a multi-faceted global firm supplying home products to customers worldwide and is now run by his son Jim (Great Neck) Richman. Together Fred and Rita, avid art collectors, have collected Greek, Roman and Middle Eastern antiquities in addition to work from Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Indian oceans, manuscripts, jewelry and architectural fragments. They have endowed the African Art department and a curatorial position at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and are responsible for the Art of Island Southeast Asia Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Pat Jacobs
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Pat Jacobs
Pat was the hostess of the television and then radio show The Jewish Home Show for 43 years. After her retirement, she became a volunteer at Jewish Home Lifecare’s Sarah Neuman Center and fell in the love with the residents. At the time, her husband, Dick Jacobs, was serving a term as President of the Board of Sarah Neuman. Pat wrote and directed shows, hosted English Tea Parties, Barbeques, holiday celebrations and much more for our residents. She was also a board member of Sarah Neuman, co-founded the Friends of Sarah Neuman and chaired its tasting event for 15 years, raising thousands of dollars to enrich the lives of residents. Additionally, Pat served on the Board of Trustees of Purchase College, worked with schools in Westchester, Lower Connecticut and the Upper Bronx to engage thousands of students in grades K-12 to experience dance, music and theater programs at Purchase College through the Arts-in-Education program. Pat was married to Dick Jacobs for 65 years. She is survived by two children, Diane and Suzanne, two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Irwin Hochberg
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Irwin Hochberg
Irwin is a co-founder and president of the accounting firm, Bloom Hochberg & Co., P.C. He was chairman of the board of UJA-Federation of New York from 1991 through 1994, is a former national campaign chairman of State of Israel Bonds and is currently a member of its executive committee. He is vice-chairman of the board of the Zionist Organization of America, an honorary vice-chairman of the Anti-Defamation League, a founding trustee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and chairman of the executive committee of the Middle East Forum.
Joel Grey
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Joel Grey
In a career that was launched in the early 1950’s, Joel Grey has created indelible stage roles each decade since. Joel received the Academy Award, the Golden Globe and the British Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1972 film version of Cabaret (directed by Bob Fosse). He is one of only nine actors to have won both the Tony and Academy Award for the same role. His television appearances include “OZ,” “Law and Order: CI,” “House,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “Private Practice,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Nurse Jackie” and “Warehouse 13.” He was recently honored for his illustrious television career by The Paley Center for Media in both NYC and Los Angeles. Joel is also an accomplished photographer. He has four books of photographs, Pictures I Had to Take (2003), Looking Hard at Unexamined Things (2006), 1.3 – Images From My Phone (2009), and The Billboard Papers, which was released in fall 2013 in conjunction with an exhibition at The Steven Kasher Gallery in NYC.
Milton Glaser
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Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. He has had the distinction of one-man-shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center. He was selected for the lifetime achievement award of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (2004) and the Fulbright Association (2011), and in 2009 he was the first graphic designer to receive the National Medal of the Arts award. As a Fulbright scholar, Glaser studied with the painter, Giorgio Morandi in Bologna, and is an articulate spokesman for the ethical practice of design. He opened Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and continues to produce a prolific amount of work in many fields of design to this day.