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MANHATTAN COLLEGE HONORED OLD WESTBURY, NEW YORK, RESIDENT JOHN L. PALUSZEK ’55 AT ANNUAL ACADEMIC EVENT

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College recently presented alumnus and trustee emeritus of the College John L. Paluszek ’55 with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at this year’s Fall Honors Convocation. The event was held Sunday, October 17 on campus in the College’s Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers. During the ceremony, some 70 seniors were inducted into prestigious Epsilon Sigma Pi, the oldest college-wide honor society on campus.

Epsilon Sigma Pi recognizes seniors who have earned at least a 3.5 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) for six consecutive semesters with no academic failures.

In his acceptance speech, Mr. Paluszek congratulated the seniors and encouraged them to use their “Manhattan education – the intellectual development, the initial professional preparation, and, most of all, the humanistic values of Manhattan” as past graduates have done. He spoke of the decades of “Manhattan giants and heroes” that the College has produced who have ultimately become today’s “leaders in the church, in business and the professions and in government and education … some celebrated, some unsung.”

Mr. Paluszek, who served on the College’s board of trustees from 1989 to 2001, is senior counsel at leading public relations agency Ketchum, based in New York and Washington, D.C. He specializes in client counseling for corporate responsibility and governance.   As a board member, Mr. Paluszek, also a former journalist, served on the student life and admissions committee, the Catholic identity committee and the College’s sesquicentennial planning committee. Throughout his board tenure, he served as chief consultant to the College’s public relations program and assisted in developing strategies in the areas of marketing and media relations.

Along with Mr. Paluszek, who graduated from the College in 1955 with a bachelor’s degree in management, four additional trustee members were honored for their years of dedicated service to Manhattan. Michael F. Bette ’59, George F. Knapp ’53, John P. Lawler ’55 and Valentine A. Lehr ’62 also were awarded honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees at the Fall Honors Convocation.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853 in the Lasallian heritage of excellence in teaching inspired by the Christian Brothers. The College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the area of the arts, business, education, engineering and science.

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