Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor Caswell Holloway and Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Edna Wells Handy joined representatives of the Hundred Year Association of New York on Wednesday, December 21st to honor 10 outstanding civil servants and 15 academically talented children of City employees, who received $17,500 in cash awards and $27,000 in college scholarships from the Association’s members.

Joining Commissioner Handy for the awards ceremony at Police Department headquarters were Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe; Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Seth Diamond; Department of Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty; Small Business Services Commissioner Robert Walsh; Human Resources Commissioner Robert Doar; and representatives of the Hundred Year Association and its 200 member organizations. more »

Hundred Year Association Board Member Eric Modell was appointed president of jewelry pawnbrokers Modell Financial, the company announced Feb. 10.

Founded in 1893, the company currently has ten locations in New York City.

Current president Gerald Modell will assume the role of chairman.

After working as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Eric Modell joined Modell Financial ten years ago.  He currently serves as a director of the National Pawnbrokers Association. In 2010, he was elected president of the Collateral Loanbrokers Association of New York.

The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce sent us this announcement over the weekend and we would love it if one of our members could qualify!  Please read on below:

If your business has seriously been thinking about Going Green, a unique opportunity has just emerged.  A Certified Green Consultant in New York City is working with CNBC on a career transition segment, possibly called “From Wall Street to Green Street”.  There will be two pieces to the segment: the transition interview and a walk-through with a client of the process to green a business – from assessment through certification.  Each piece will air 1-2 minutes.

This is therefore a request to find a business not just for the show but to actually sign on as a client and go through the process of earning your certification for greening your business practices. more »

The Hundred Year Association of New York honored the 2009 winners of the Isaac Liberman Public Service Awards and E. Virgil Conway College Scholarships in a special ceremony on December 16, 2009. Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Martha K. Hirst lead the event, held at One Police Plaza.

Each year, the Hundred Year Association reviews the achievements of City employees to identify those who, through dedication beyond their job descriptions, have provided outstanding service to the people of New York City. The Association also awards scholarships for the children of career civil servants. Winners are chosen by an Awards Committee. Recipients of the awards receive between $1,000 and $6,000. The 25 winners this year were granted $54,000.

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Tiffani Branch
Charles E. Inniss College Scholar

National Grid
$6,000
Tiffani Branch is the daughter of Noreen Branch, a paraprofessional at the Department of Education. Ms. Branch is a graduate of Townsend Harris High School and a student at Stony Brook University.

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Sharraine Franklin
Public Health Educator
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

$6,000
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

Sharraine Franklin works in the Public Health Detailing Program, which sends field workers out to the City’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods to improve the health of residents. Ms. Franklin visits doctors’ offices in the South Bronx to share techniques for helping patients with critical public health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and depression. Her daily efforts embody the agency’s mission to promote the health and mental health of all New Yorkers.

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The Hundred Year Association has selected The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America as this year’s recipient of its annual Richard A. Cook Gold Medal Award.  Guardian President and CEO Dennis J. Manning accepted the award at a fundraiser gala on December 10th 2009 at the Union League Club.  Presented to remarkable leaders and contributors to the city of New York, the award has been granted every year since 1930 (except during WWII) “in recognition of outstanding contributions to the city.”

The Hundred Year Association is granting the 76th annual award to Guardian in recognition of its 150th year of service to the population it serves as well as its strong tradition of public involvement and giving back to the communities in which they operate.  more »

In 1859, Scottish fisherman Caleb Haley began selling all varieties of fish and seafood in the historic Fulton Fish Market underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. William Smith purchased Haley’s eponymous company in 1938 and grew it into the largest seafood company in the largest consortium of seafood wholesalers in the country. more »

Krista Behrens, an employee of the Bank of New York (1785), and Sergei Mizevych from the Ukraine, met through mutual friends in Moscow.

They married during their lunch hour at City Hall on December 18, 2006.

As they walked around the city in the evening, the poster for the Oratorio Society of New York (1873) Messiah performance caught their eye. They had never heard the Messiah before and decided it was the perfect way to spend their first evening as husband and wife together. They bought tickets for the upper balcony and pronounced the performance “Beautiful” and “Affordable.”

Best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Mizevych!

In the first of a new series of programmatic get-togethers focused on educational topics of benefit to members, the Association hosted noted investor and entrepreneur Rob Slee on Wednesday, April 14th. Several dozen members and friends enjoyed complementary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres while listening to Mr. Slee’s presentation. more »