Our Mission

To stimulate, encourage, and promote the educational welfare of students and alumni of Hunter College through establishing, maintaining, and awarding scholarships and other grants.

Our Story

A Progressive Vision

The Scholarship and Welfare Fund of the Alumni Association of Hunter College (S&W Fund) was established in 1949 when five alumnae came together to help many intelligent, motivated students who could not afford necessities like transportation to school, lunch, or even a coat. That year, each of our founders donated $100 to assist high-performing Hunter College students with these expenses.

While much has changed since 1949, our mission to support dedicated students and alumni as they pursue their degrees remains the same. Through the generous support of Hunter College alumni the S&W Fund currently awards more than $1,000,000 in scholarships and grants to qualified Hunter College students every year.

Learn About Scholarships

Our Story

A Progressive Vision

The Scholarship and Welfare Fund of the Alumni Association of Hunter College (S&W Fund) was established in 1949 when five alumnae came together to help many intelligent, motivated students who could not afford necessities like transportation to school, lunch, or even a coat. That year, each of our founders donated $100 to assist high-performing Hunter College students with these expenses.

While much has changed since 1949, our mission to support dedicated students and alumni as they pursue their degrees remains the same. Through the generous support of Hunter College alumni the S&W Fund currently awards more than $1,000,000 in scholarships and grants to qualified Hunter College students every year.

Learn About Scholarships

Our Story

A Progressive Vision

The Scholarship and Welfare Fund of the Alumni Association of Hunter College (S&W Fund) was established in 1949 when five alumnae came together to help many intelligent, motivated students who could not afford necessities like transportation to school, lunch, or even a coat. That year, each of our founders donated $100 to assist high-performing Hunter College students with these expenses.

While much has changed since 1949, our mission to support dedicated students and alumni as they pursue their degrees remains the same. Through the generous support of Hunter College alumni the S&W Fund currently awards more than $1,000,000 in scholarships and grants to qualified Hunter College students every year.

Learn About Scholarships

Board Leadership

Driving Us Forward

The S&W Fund is led by dedicated alumni with experience across a variety of fields, including journalism, education, medicine, and business.

 

The Alumni Association of Hunter College (AAHC) is a separate, 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization. For more information about the AAHC, please click here.

Virginia (Ginny) completed a five-year term as president of the S&W Fund (2014-2019), served as First Vice President of the S&W Fund (2019-2022), and is Assistant Treasurer of the Alumni Association of Hunter College Board. She is a member of the Hall of Fame and recipient of a Distinguished Service Award to the Association and the College. She is a retired advertising executive who spent approximately $100,000,000 a year buying network ads for clients such as Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Black & Decker, and Taco Bell.
Joseph is the president and CEO of Soli Deo Gloria, Inc., an international organization dedicated to the enhancement, promotion, and preservation of the classical sacred music repertoire. He was the founding executive and artistic director of the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College from 1992 to 2001. He is a longtime member of the S&W Fund and previously served as Secretary. He currently serves as First Vice President of the Fund.
Leslie served as co-chair of the S&W Fund’s Graduate Awards Committee as well as chair of the Nominating Committee. She serves as Second Vice President of the Fund. Leslie holds a master’s degree in nursing education from Teachers College. Leslie became a pediatric nurse practitioner in 1975. She was a pioneer in the field and worked for most of her life in various hospitals in New York City.
Helene has served on the board of the S&W Fund for over 20 years and was the president of the Fund for five years. She previously served as the Treasurer and currently serves as Third Vice President of the Fund. She is a member of the Hunter College Hall of Fame and is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award. She has a longstanding interest in the arts and worked at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center as the administrator of the National Critics Institute for 25 years.
Norman Goldsmith received the BA degree cum laude, with Honors, in Chemistry from Hunter College in 1959 and the MS degree in Physical Chemistry from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1964. He began his career working for RCA in 1959. Between 1959 and 1967 he developed key semiconductor processing methods for integrated circuits. The semiconductor industry honored his contributions in 1997 with the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) award, the industry’s equivalent of an Oscar. He left RCA in 1967 to help found Laser Diode Laboratories. He re-joined RCA Laboratories in 1967 as a manager of multi-million-dollar technology projects for clients in the US, Japan and Korea. He also was the program manager for HDTV, Iris Identification, Virtual Reality and DirectTv™ development. He is member of Hunter College’s Hall of Fame and received the college’s Outstanding Professional Achievement Award.
Currently an online program facilitator and consultant at Leaders Excellence, Inc., Bill recently retired from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business Administration (HBS) where he held international client relations positions in both the Executive Education and Harvard Business Review Publishing divisions. Prior to joining Harvard, he worked at Coopers & Lybrand LLP as a senior consultant. Bill also spent over seven years with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) where he established and served as Managing Director of CCL’s first European branch office in Brussels, Belgium. Bill holds a BA from Hunter, an MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a long-standing member of the Association for Talent Development (formerly ASTD) and has served on ATD’s national board of directors. He has served as a member of the board of directors of AAHC and, in 1998, was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Vera’s teaching career, including 25 years in the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College, has been central to her life. She has been seriously committed to academic and professional activities and responsibilities for decades, particularly in Phi Beta Kappa, the American Association of Teachers of French and, of course, the Alumni Association of Hunter College.
Dr. Halley-Boyce has been a registered nurse and a seasoned healthcare executive for decades. She has served in several offices in the Hospital’s C-Suite including CEO, COO and Chief Nurse Executive Officer. PhD-prepared in Health Services Administration at Walden University, her doctoral dissertation and subsequent research interests are in Continuous Quality Improvement and Strategic Management and Planning. A 1969 Hunter BSN graduate, she was inducted into the Hunter’s Hall of Fame in 2020. She completed her master’s in 1973 at the NYU College of Nursing and has served for the past five years as a member of its Alumni Board. From 2005 to 2019, Dr. Boyce served as Associate Professor and Director of the Health Systems Administration (HSA) Program in the Graduate Nursing Department at Seton Hall University; that program was recognized in 2017 as #16 in the Nation by the Healthcare Management Guide’s 20 Best Online Programs in Nursing Administration and Leadership. Jamesetta also maintains her own consulting firm.

Board Members

Dedicated to Our Community

  • Mrs. Amy Barash
  • Prof. Elizabeth K. Beaujour
  • Dr. Arline L. Bronzaft
  • Ms. Bettina Damiani
  • Ms. Veronica A. Farje
  • Mr. Gerald E. Gollub
  • Dr. Marilyn JS Goodman
  • Ms. Rosemary Gould
  • Ms. Kimberly Hafner
  • Mr. Dave S. Hattem, Esq.
  • Ms. Marcia Kaplan-Mann
  • Dr. Mary C. Keane
  • Mrs. Barrie J. Kelly
  • Ms. Barbara J. Leader
  • Mr. Larry Lee
  • Mr. John Leubsdorf
  • Ms. Eunice Lewis-Broome
  • Mrs. Ann S. Lewyn
  • Mrs. Barbara Lustig
  • Mrs. Barbara A. Poseluzny
  • Ms. Alisa Schierman
  • Ms. Grace Smallwood
  • Ms. Frances A. Taber
  • Ms. Elizabeth Wilson-Anstey
  • Mrs. Judith M. Zabar