Manhattan College To Honor Robert L. Reynolds, Vice Chairman And Chief Operating Officer Of Fidelity Investments, At Annual De La Salle Medal Fund-Raiser

De La Salle Medal Dinner is the College’s key annual fund-raising event.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College will present Robert L. Reynolds, vice chairman and chief operating officer of Fidelity Investments, with the De La Salle Medal at the College’s annual fund-raising dinner on Wednesday, January 24, 2006.

The ceremony will be held at New York City’s Cipriani.

A 1974 graduate of West Virginia University, Reynolds was appointed to his current position in 2000. He also serves as head of the Fidelity Management Committee, is a member of FMR Corporation’s board of directors and a trustee for the Fidelity family of mutual funds. 
Privately owned Fidelity Investments is the largest mutual fund company in the U.S. and the leading provider of workplace retirement savings plans. 

Reynolds began his career as a trust officer at Wheeling Dollar Bank in West Virginia.  He joined NCNB Corp. of Charlotte, N.C. in 1977 and later became senior vice president of NCNB (which is now Bank of America). He was also executive vice president of Fidelity Management Trust Company and president of Fidelity Institutional Retirement Services Company.

Reynolds has also served on the board of directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the American Cancer Society.

The De La Salle Medal Dinner remains the College’s top fund-raising event. Proceeds from the $750-per-plate fund-raiser are applied to academic and co-curricular programs, scholarship assistance and library resources. The black-tie event begins with a cocktail reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner and dancing at 7:30 p.m. For more information regarding the De La Salle Media Dinner, please call 718-862-7837 or e-mail dlsdinner@manhattan.edu.

The De La Salle Medal was established in 1951 in honor of John Baptist de La Salle, founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and one of the world’s great educators. The Order founded Manhattan College in 1853. Since 1977, the De La Salle Medal has been conferred annually by the College’s board of trustees to honor executives who exemplify the principles of excellence and corporate leadership. Past recipients include New York Life Insurance Chief Executive Sy Sternberg, former Mayor of New York City Rudolph W. Giuliani ’65 and Con Edison Chairman Eugene R. McGrath ’63.

Members of the media who would like to cover the dinner can contact Scott Silversten at
(718) 862-7232 or e-mail scott.silversten@manhattan.edu.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.