Bank Street College Honors Sandy & Joan Weill

More than 400 people attended Bank Street’s annual gala at The Pierre Hotel recently. The event honored Sandy and Joan Weill, who were presented honorary doctorates.

“I couldn’t be more pleased that Joan and Sandy are joining an ever-growing list of friends of Bank Street, an institution that plays a leading role in the education of young children and the teachers who serve them,” said Richard Parsons, Co-COO at AOL TimeWarner, a benefit co-chair for this event, and a recipient of this honor in 1999.

Sandy Weill is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup Inc. and a recipient of the McGraw-Hill Prize in Education. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall, and is Chairman of the Board of Overseers for the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, which they established. Long a proponent of education, Sandy Weill instituted a joint program with the New York City Board of Education in 1980 that created the Academy of Finance, which trains high school students for careers in financial services. He serves as Chairman of the National Academy Foundation which oversees more than 394 academies that operate across the country, and is the principal sponsor of New York City’s High School of Economics and Finance.

Joan Weill serves as Chairman of the Board of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Foundation Inc. She is Co-Chairman of the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center Women’s Health Symposium.

“It is clear that the level of the Weills’ commitment to New York, to education, and to social welfare is in keeping with Bank Street’s mission,” said Dr. Augusta Souza Kappner, President, Bank Street College of Education.#

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