[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 2 (Thursday, January 6, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E20-E21]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  IN RECOGNITION OF BARUCH COLLEGE AND ITS 2010 BERNARD BARUCH DINNER 
                                HONOREES

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, January 6, 2011

  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Baruch 
College of the City University of New York. Last year the College 
honored several remarkable leaders on the occasion of the 21st Annual 
Bernard Baruch Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street in Manhattan.
  A senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY), Baruch 
College is ranked among the top 15% of U.S. colleges and was named one 
of the 50 public colleges offering the ``best value'' to students. 
Currently led by Interim President Stan Altman, Baruch College honored 
five distinguished women in 2010, for the first time ever. Each is a 
prominent leader in New York City's real estate industry, chosen by 
Baruch College's trustees for their remarkable achievements in 
professional life and their extraordinary devotion to serving their 
communities. In addition, the Bernard Baruch Dinner last year honored 
the women of the College's Class of 1940, who were the first female 
students admitted after a 1933 ban on women students was ended in 1936, 
and who served as pioneering trailblazers for the generations of women 
who followed in their footsteps at Baruch. Appropriately, the former 
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Donna 
Shalala, a former President of Hunter College at CUNY, served as a 
dinner presenter.
  The five women who were recognized at the 2010 Bernard Baruch Dinner 
are truly deserving honorees. The Bernard Baruch Medal for Business and 
Civic Leadership was presented to four outstanding leaders, Suzanne 
Sunshine, Louise M. Sunshine, Sylvia J. Smith, and Doris W. Koo, and 
the Distinguished Alumna Award was presented to Dolly Lenz.
  Suzanne Sunshine is the President of S. Sunshine & Associates, which 
provides commercial and residential real estate brokerage and 
consulting services to non-profit organizations and their personnel, 
donating a percentage of its fees back to each non-profit client.
  Louise M. Sunshine has enjoyed extraordinary success in the worlds of 
business, politics and government. After serving as a trusted top 
advisor to New York State Assembly Majority Leader Al Blumenthal and 
New York Governor Hugh Carey, in 1986, she launched the Sunshine Group 
firm focusing on residential real estate, where she coined the phrase, 
``All Square Feet Are Not Created Equal.'' Today, she serves as a 
consultant to Alexico Group, LLC, and is playing a leading role at 
Domineum, a firm offering global real estate solutions.
  Sylvia Smith, FAIA, LEED AP, is a Senior Partner at FXFOWLE 
Architects, a leading firm that also provides planning and interior 
design services. She is the founder of the firm's Cultural & 
Educational Studio and is currently leading the redesign of public 
spaces at Lincoln Center, the Juilliard School expansion, and the Alice 
Tully Hall renovation, and recently completed award-winning Bronx Zoo 
projects.
  Doris W. Koo is a nationally respected leader with nearly three 
decades' experience in affordable housing and community development.

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President and CEO of Enterprise Community Partners, she also chairs the 
board of the Enterprise Community Loan Fund, a national leader in 
providing development capital, financial solutions, public policy 
advocacy, and technical expertise to create affordable housing.
  Dolly Lenz is the Vice Chair of Prudential Douglas Elliman, one of 
the leading real estate firms in our Nation's greatest city. The 
daughter of an immigrant from Spain, she has risen to dizzying heights 
in her profession and is truly a worthy recipient of Baruch College's 
Alumna of the Year Award.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that my distinguished colleagues rise to join me 
in paying tribute to Baruch College of the City University of New York 
and the five outstanding honorees it recognized at the 21st Annual 
Bernard Baruch Dinner.

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