[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 59 (Tuesday, May 12, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4743-S4744]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         PRESIDENT OF SUNY FARMINGDALE CELEBRATES TWENTY YEARS

 Mr. D'AMATO. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to Dr. 
Frank A. Cipriani, whose long and outstanding career as president of 
SUNY Farmingdale will be celebrated with much pomp on Wednesday, May 
20, 1998.
  Dr. Cipriani's outstanding qualities of enlightened leadership and 
innovation brought unprecedented success to SUNY Farmingdale. Dr. 
Cipriani took the school from a two year agrarian institution to a 
four-year college, one of the largest of the nine Colleges of 
Technology in the New York State University system.
  His great success is readily visible on the SUNY Farmingdale Campus. 
Mr. Cipriani's other associations and affiliations are not as well 
known but are worthy of commendation. They include: Team Chairman for 
the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Evaluation; 
Chairman of the Board, Regional Industrial Technical Education; Member, 
New York State-wide Job Training Partnership Council; Member, New York 
State Education Department's Advisory Council on Postsecondary 
Education; just to name a few of the associations and affiliations that 
demonstrate the special concern that Dr. Cipriani has for education.
  Born in New York of immigrant parents, Dr. Cipriani has been a New 
Yorker all of his life, with the exception of

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a stint in the United States Air Force. He attended PS 14 in Corona, 
Queens, and Brooklyn Technical High School, and holds the A.B. degree 
from Queens College and the M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees from New York 
University.
  Dr. Cipriani was an officer in the United States Air Force who 
achieved the rank of Captain and the rating of Navigator-Flight 
Instructor before receiving an honorable discharge. As a member of the 
American Society of Safety Engineers, he pursued his graduate studies 
while employed in the Engineering Department of an international 
insurance company. He speaks Italian and French fluently, and has been 
a strong advocate of international education and a strong supporter of 
a humanities component in technical education curricula.
  Dr. Cipriani is married to Judith M. Pellathy and has four children--
Maria, Frank, Michael and Dominique.
  His accomplishments are varied and great and we might say that Dr. 
Frank A. Cipriani is the salt of the earth. He has done much for SUNY 
Farmingdale and for the state of New York. It is no wonder that such a 
fine celebration is being prepared to commemorate his twenty years of 
service to such a fine institution. Frank, I salute you and wish you 
much health and happiness in the days to come.

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