Manhattan College Student
Veterans Organization receives
local community service award
Group Picture of all the volunteers and MC students and faculty members that helped in the clean up Cortesy of Brian Asare/Manhattan College
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Manhattan College’s Student
Veterans Organization
has earned the Irving Ladimer
Community Service
award, presented by Community
Board 8.
The CB8 Parks & Recreation
Committee and Special
Committee on Veterans Services
nominated Manhattan
College’s Student Veterans
Organization for beautifying
and cleaning Van Cortlandt
Park’s Memorial Grove and
other green spaces, participating
in the American Red
Cross Blood Drive, organizing
an annual Toys for Tots collection
drive and for organizing
events that help those in need.
Manhattan College’s Veterans
Success Programs facilitate
the successful transition
from military to civilian and
academic life as well as the
successful transition from academic
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life to post-collegiate
life. The program achieves
this through connecting veterans
with stress reduction
techniques, student veteran
peer bonding, academic support
and career preparation.
Earlier this year, Manhattan
College was one of 52 colleges
and universities nationwide
to earn gold-level status
from Military Friendly.
Named for Irving Ladimer,
a longtime community advocate
who died in 2018 at 102,
the CB8 Community Service
award is designed to acknowledge
the many volunteer efforts
of groups and individuals
within the neighboring
community.
The only criteria for the
award is that the nominee has
acted on a volunteer basis to
improve or enhance the quality
of life of those living or
working within the CB8 area,
which includes the neighborhoods
of Fieldston, Kingsbridge,
Kingsbridge Heights,
Marble Hill, Riverdale, Spuyten
Duyvil and Van Cortlandt
Village.