February 22, 2012
 

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Bruce Wright Literacy Awards
Benefit Breakfast
                                             ~PAST HONOREES~ 

2010

Sister Maria Goretti Mannix~ FHM, former Principal of St. Aloysius School

Elizabeth J. McCormack~ Former President ofManhattanvilleCollege

Jane B O'Connell~ President of the Altman Foundation

 

2009

TroyBowers~ Community Relations and Field Marketing Specialist for theNew York Knicks

Vincent Dotoli~ Head of School,HarlemAcademy

Crystal McKay~ Site Manager and Supervising Librarian, NYPLHarlemBranch

 

 

2008

Honorable Lottie E. Wilkins~ NY State Supreme Court Judge, First Judicial District (NY County)

Dr. Sandye Poitier-Johnson~ Principal,ThurgoodMarshallAcademyfor Learning and Social Change

Sylvia and the late Herbert Woods~ Founders of Sylvia's Restaurant and the Sylvia and Herbert Woods Scholarship Endowment Foundation

 2007

Wally Amos ~ Entrepreneur ("Famous Amos" Cookies), Actor, Writer, and Literacy Advocate

Brother Brian Carty ~ Founder / Headmaster, De La Salle under, George Jackson Academy

Carol Foster ~ Principal, P.S. 175

Oppenheim Toy Portfolio ~ The only independent consumer children's media
 

2006

Ruth Graves ~ Past President and CEO, and Director Emeritus of Reading is Fundamental (RIF)

Verne Oliver ~ Associate Director, The Gilder Foundation

William C. Rhoden ~ Sports Writer, The New York Times