The New York Community College Trustees (NYCCT) recognized the leadership, dedication, and service of MCC Trustees Howard Konar and Barbara Lovenheim, Ph.D., and Trustee Emeritus Richard Warshof at its annual conference in September in Cooperstown, N.Y. Danny Wegman also received an award for his partnership with MCC and the MCC Foundation in advancing the cause of community college education in New York state.
Trustee Konar, president of Konar Properties, received the Marvin A. Rapp Award for Distinguished Trustee Service in recognition of his extraordinary dedication and service. He has served as an MCC trustee since 2008 and as a director of the MCC Foundation Board since 1977. At MCC, he helped establish the country’s first endowed chair for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies at a community college. Konar also chairs the Rochester Management, Inc. Board of Directors and is a trustee of the Farash Foundation. In 2008, Konar was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Council of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Trustee Lovenheim received the Donald M. Mawhinney Trustee Leadership Award for her professional contributions and commitment to the community college mission. Lovenheim has been an MCC trustee since 2012, following a 17-year teaching career in MCC’s English and Philosophy Department and Honors Institute. A published writer, Lovenheim is active in Rochester Arts and Lectures and MCC’s Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project Advisory Board. She is a former member of the University of Rochester Library Advisory Board and the Friends of Eastman Opera Board.
Trustee Emeritus Warshof received the Alice Holloway Young Award for Distinguished Service by a Retired Trustee. Prior to his retirement in 2002, Warshof served as area vice president for marketing and business development for Paychex, Inc. He was appointed to the MCC Board of Trustees in 2005 and became an honorary trustee at the end of his term in 2010. He has served on the MCC Foundation Board of Directors since 1991, and in 1995 was inducted into the MCC Alumni Hall of Fame. He has also served on the boards of the Center for Governmental Research, Junior Achievement, and the United Way of Greater Rochester.
Mr. Wegman, CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., received the NYCCT’s Friend of Community Colleges Award, the organization’s highest award bestowed to a non-trustee. He serves as co-chairman of the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council, as a University of Rochester trustee, and as a member of the Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection Board of Directors, a program founded by Wegmans in 1987 to reduce the dropout rate within Rochester city schools.
NYCCT is a voluntary nonprofit consortium of community college trustees established to strengthen the effectiveness of trustees as an active force in the development and implementation of public policy impacting community colleges. NYCCT represents the appointed board members who govern the 30 community colleges in the SUNY system.
Anne M. Kress
Office of the President
10/07/2015 |