More than 400 donors and student award recipients greeted one another March 26 at Concordia’s Donor and Student Excellence Recognition Cocktail at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Montreal.

The annual event allows for scholarship recipients to meet and personally thank their benefactors for helping them fund their studies and to pursue excellence.

Kathy Assayag, Vice-President, Advancement and Alumni Relations, said benefactors are integral to Concordia’s success because they help the university attract and retain talented graduate and undergraduate students.

President Judith Woodsworth echoed Assayag’s sentiments, adding that “It takes a caring community to nurture and support our students and much of our motivation is inspired by the compassion we see in our donors.”

Director of News and Current Affairs Jed Kahane, Concordia President Judith Woodsworth, and CTV Montreal Bureau Chief Geneviève Beauchemin (GrDipl ’94) inducted the Hugh Haugland Memorial Bursary in memory of CTV cameraman Hugh Haugland.

From left to right: Michael D’Ambra, BComm ’75, Honours Economics, Vice-President, Private Client Services, TD Bank Financial Group, along with student award recipients Heather Bar-Or (PhD Business Administration), Prathima Muralidhara (MBA), and Adam Levitt (MBA).

Veronica Sahagun Sanchez, recipient of Frederick Lowy Scholars Fellowship and Anne Savage Memorial Scholarship, along with Kevin Austin, BA 05, Concordia Music Professor who inducted the Alcides Award in Electroacoustics earlier in the evening.

Richard Frazao, Customer Relationship Manager, Mechtronix Systems; Carissa Carman, recipient of the Mechtronix Graduate Fellowship for Innovative Excellence in Visual Arts. Carman is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Awards; and Xavier-Henri Hervé, Mechtronix World Corporation President.

For more information, contact Lucy Niro, Director, Communications Advancement and Alumni Relations at lniro@algol.concordia.ca.

Posted on March 29, 2010