Our Achievements
An Award-Winning Program
Originally printed in fall 2014
Volunteer New York! established a noteworthy award in 2014 honoring volunteer achievement in literacy and education—and with impressive fanfare it gave its first-time award to Collegium! Think of it: Collegium was the first recipient of this first-time award! What an impressive tribute to the collective efforts of our founders, leaders, administrators, teachers, and members on behalf of our exceptional lifelong-learning collaboration.
Collegium’s board chair, David Oestreich, together with Edith Landau Litt, Collegium founder, and Clare Ahern, vice chair of the board accepted the award at United Way’s 34th annual Volunteer Spirit Awards breakfast in the presence of nearly 600 guests. Many of those present had themselves been recognized for extraordinary volunteer achievement or represented groups that had been so recognized in the Westchester and Mid-Hudson Valley region.
Collegium is in the company of a distinguished coterie of achievers, so congratulations to each of our volunteers. It is only because of your enthusiastic participation that Collegium has been able to reach, and will continue to sustain, this impressive, award-winning program in a singularly warm and welcoming social setting. Our success rests on you and on your saying those four invaluable words: “How can I help?”