ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
The listed local students have been recognized by their colleges or universities for the following achievements:
PRESIDENT’S LIST (Summer 2010)
Berkeley College
Lisa Maria Dmello; Krystal Dubose; Visnja Kreiser; Edward Lizotte; Keiko Okada;
Nicolas Pettersson; Diana Shirer and Ulises Taveras of Astoria; Chathurika Lokuge and Marisa Rodriguez of East Elmhurst; Hyo Jung Kang and Kelly Murcia Echeverry of Elmhurst; Sherryann Persad of Far Rockaway; Carmen Arevalo; Saba Tariq and Linda, Tran of Flushing; Sukhdeep Hayer of Fresh Meadows, Avery Jones and Sumera Tariq of Hollis; Anila Mesarea of Howard Beach; Andres Suarez and Alexandra Viola of Jackson Heights; Necrecia Fletcher; Emily Gonzalez; Mohammed Islam; Merri Malone; Samantha Pinnock, Michelle Samuels-Smith; Luis Villarreal and Kimberly-Ann Wisdom of Jamaica; Veronica Leto of Laurelton; Kharamanah Elsayed; Fatma Kara and Alina Kasyanova of Long Island City; Yasmin Cruz; Sylvia Duarte; Alyssa Rich,; David Santana and Jason Urena of Ozone Park; Nyla Seetaram of Queens Village; Ying Xu of Rego Park; Haidy Alvarez; Michelle Rivera and Tatiana Vasquez of Richmond Hill; Barbara, Quinn of Rockaway Park; Mahendra Budhu of South Ozone Park; Dominic Okonta of South Richmond Hill; Diana Pfaff of Sunnyside and Anthony Cosme of Woodside.
DEAN’S LIST (Summer 2010)
Berkeley College
Christopher Bodden of Arverne; Saliam Bein; Ozgehan Cakir; Estefania Chenoll; Melissa Daddio; Julia Gaspar; Jinny Germosen; Heesang Kim; Unji, Kim; Patricia Lal; Ellese Launer; Lyasia Lowery; Eleonora Luna; Tekin Mangut; Monica Nascimento; Chisato Ohara; Lisa Papiersky; Penelope Rodriguez; Jose Salas; Hyunmin Shin; Yukino Suzuki and Eva Tounas of Astoria; Sohee Kim of Bayside; Gabriela Roman of Bellerose; Chinweta Onwualu and Chastain Smith of Cambria Heights; Victor Macias and Luis Rojas of College Point; Haizhou Chen and Bintou Toure of Corona; Catherine Castellanos; Joanna Dje; Elisabeth Frogner and Paula Zamora of East Elmhurst; Victoria Acosta; Hai Hyun; Yun Lin; Yagnesh Mehta; Elizabeth Parra; Vrunda Sateesh Purao and Monica Vargas of Elmhurst; Jacqueline Amaya; Aneesa Chopdat; Norris Keene and Da-Ron Thompson of Far Rockaway; Chunxiao Cai; Junchen Chang; Christopher Coury; John Kian; Salma Noor; Cazmiera Wise and Jinyang Zhu of Flushing; Daniel Bragdon of Forest Hills; Samantha Naidu and Ufuq Tariq of Hollis; Andres Guarin; Jose Sanchez; Marvin Tejada and ITing Wu of Jackson Heights; Marcia Alleyne; Jenifer Alvarenga; Mayon Baijnauth; Ann Marie Bernard; Diana Chafla; Wanda Henrybarrow; Shamaine Jagai; Stephanie Lue; Sobia Nazir; Shakeisha Oneal; Ranjeeta Ramdhan and Jennifer Surujballi of Jamaica; Kosei Shido of Kew Gardens; Yan Cao; Xiao Feng Li and Ardijana, Muminovic of Long Island City; Amy Alix; Ashrafuz, Mutlib; John Pistikakis and Shariza, Ramroop of Ozone Park; Christine Laurent; Ashley Schunk and Lori Williamston of Queens Village; Susan Leviyev and David Quansah of Rego Park; D’Arcy George of Richmond Hill; Nora Candelari of Ridgewood; Yurky Reyes and Rosemary Valentin of Ridgewood; Dianna Simmons of Rockaway Beach; Natalee Beaufort; Jennifer Jean; Rosie Leroy and Richard Watson of Rosedale; Aliyah Mohammed; Veann Ramdath and Renita Singh of South Ozone Park; Anzalene Khan and Amritpal Singh of South Richmond Hill; Vermarie Petit-Frere and Deanett Watson-Gayle of St. Albans; Mohammed Amin; Ramona Hollstein and Jiravadee Luekrachangtum of Sunnyside; Shirley Alvarez; Kevin Lopez and Andrew Lovett of Whitestone; Adriana Perez-Khan; Jonathan Ramsumare and Luis Vega of Woodhaven; Sharjel Ali,; Ivonne Ardila; Yoon Ki Kim; Dessy Liem; Junghwan Moon; Shiva Rawat; Mohammad Sabuz and Freddy Valle of Woodside
APPOINTMENTS
Amalgamated Bank – which has four locations in Queens – recently appointed banking veteran John J. Governale First Vice President where he will focus on commercial and industrial lending to middle market companies. Formerly of State Bank of Long Island, Governale is the Board President of the Queens Centers for Progress and is a board member of the Queens Chamber of Commerce. He hopes to build the Amalgamated Bank brand in Queens and Brooklyn through constant networking and good business opportunities. Governale is native of Richmond Hill and attended the City University of New York – Queens College. He looks forward to the opening of a new Amalgamated branch in Jackson Heights in 2011.
TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, has named Richard F. Hay a Senior Loan Officer-Vice President in Commercial Real Estate in New York City. He will manage TD Bank’s multifamily financing business, providing customized lending solutions to clients throughout the bank’s footprint from Maine to Florida. Hay has 30 years of experience in banking and lending. Prior to joining TD Bank, he led the multifamily warehouse lending division at GMAC and Washington Mutual in Maryland, and before that held a similar position at Chase Manhattan in New York City. Hay is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association.
A resident of Garden City, N.Y., Hay is a 1972 graduate of Pace University. He is a native of Jamaica, N.Y. and graduated from Brooklyn Prep High School.
TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, has named Thomas C. Murray the Managing Director in TD Equipment Finance in New York City. In his role as an Equipment Finance Team Leader, he will lead his department’s large corporate equipment financing and capital markets initiatives, focused on growing and building both across TD Bank’s footprint from Maine to Florida. A New York City resident, Murray has more than 26 years of experience in structure leasing and commercial lending.
HONORS & AWARDS
Allstate agency owners Siniata and Ramdial Kishun, whose offices are located at 110-09 Liberty Avenue in Jamaica, were recently named Agent Heroes by Allstate Insurance Company’s New York Region, and awarded $500 grants each for a local youth program, for a total donation of $1,000. The Kishuns donated the grants to the South Queens Boys & Girls Club (SQBGC) in Richmond Hill, to support afterschool activities at the Club.
Raj K. Narayan, M.D., chair of neurosurgery at the North Shore University Hospital and LIJ Medical Center, and director of the North Shore-LIJ Health System’s Cushing Neuroscience Institutes, was recently honored by The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin of Queens and Long Island (AAPI-QLI). The prestigious award, presented at AAPI’s 15th Annual Gala on November 13, was conferred to Dr. Narayan in recognition of his many professional accomplishments over the course of his career.
As part of the Police Department’s regular outreach to the Muslim community, an open forum was held at the local Muslim Center of New York in Flushing at 137-58 Geranium Avenue on December 1. Approximately 150 residents, cops from the 109th Precinct and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly were present. The Muslim Centered honored five cops including Police Officers Bilal Ishaq and Mohammad Qureshi from the 109th Precinct; Detective Faisal Khan of the department’s Hate Crime Task Force; Sergeant Tahir Javid from the Counterterrorism Division and Sergeant Mohammad Nomani from Patrol Borough Queens North. – Natasha M. Velez
HOLIDAY PARTIES
Various Queens County bar associations held their annual holiday party on Wednesday, December 8. They collected gifts for the children of Forestdale, the over 150-year-old multi-service non-profit foster care and adoption agency in Forest Hills.
