The Manhasset Times, Friday, December 12, 2014
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Herricks named to GRAMMY semifinals
Adelphi appoints first female president
education programs for their students,” Neil Portnow, president of The Herricks High School Mu- the GRAMMY foundation, said in sic Department was selected as a the release. Arnold said that in the past the GRAMMY Signature School semifinalist in mid-November, placing in it school was awarded the Presidenamong the top 120 music education tial Citation of Excellence by the programs in the United States, ac- New York State School Music Association. The high school has also cording to a news release. “I’m very proud and honored of been awarded as a GRAMMY sigthis acknowledgement,” said Anissa nature school in 2002, 2003, 2004 Arnold, director of Herricks High and 2005 according to the school’s website. School’s music department said. “Herricks High School boasts Arnold said the school placed as a semifinalist last year as well and high levels of performance in band, even placed in 2001 as one of the orchestra, and chorus,” Arnold said. top 16 schools in the country for “Herricks High School is very proud to be among the GRAMMY semifinalmusic education. The GRAMMY Foundation ists.” The Herricks High School music program was established in 1988 and provides grants ranging from department consists of a ninth grade $1,000 to $10,000 to benefit high band, a ninth grade orchestra, a comschool music programs that are out- bined 11th and 12th grade chorus, a standing in their music programs, chamber orchestra and a show choir. “We offer a lot of opportunities according to the foundation’s webfor music,” Arnold said. site. The school will be notified in “Our GRAMMY Signature Schools program provides an ideal March of whether it has made it to platform to raise awareness of pub- the finals, he said. “We’re at the last stage in this,” lic high schools across the country Ad 8.75 x 5.6 Ver 6_Layout 1 said. 12/5/14 6:07 PM Page 1 Arnold thatNewspaper are providing excellent music
B Y B R Y A N A H R E N S ried that selecting candidates 2013, Riordan served as dean
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Adelphi University announced last week that University of Kentucky provost Christine Riordan will become its 10th president and first woman to hold the post in the school’s 118-year history. Riordan will succeed Robert Scott, who served as the Garden City university’s president since 2000. “This is a breathtaking moment for me,” Riordan said. “I feel so very privileged and honored to be named as the 10th president of Adelphi University and as the first woman president.” Riordan, whose term starts on July 1, 2015, was chosen unanimously out of more than 125 applicants by a search committee that included university trustees, students and faculty, according to a news release from the school. Robert Willumstad, chairman of Adelphi’s board of trustees, said he was wor-
would be a difficult process, noting that the search committee was tasked with narrowing potential candidates down to four. “As it turned out, I was wrong, because I expected this process to be arduous and take a long time,” Willumstad said. “We were able to easily select the top four candidates and it wasn’t even close.” Willumstad said he was surprised again when it came time to chose from the four candidates. “At the end of the day, once again, I was wrong,” Willumstad said. “We wound up with overwhelming support for one candidate, and that was Dr. Riordan. “My fear was if she wasn’t going to take the job I didn’t know what we were going to do.” Riordan has served as provost at the University of Kentucky since 2013, overseeing all of the university’s academic operations. From 2008 to
of the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, Willumstad said. Riordan has written more than 28 articles for various media outlets and academic journals, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review and Wall Street Journal. She graduated from Georgia State University with a Ph.D. and an MBA and from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Textile Engineering degree, according to her website. “We felt very strongly that we wanted to find the right person and I believe we have,” Willumstad said. Reach reporter Bill Bryan Ahrens by e-mail at bahrens@ theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x204 and on Twitter @ BryanSAhrens. Also follow us on Twitter @theislandnow and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.
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