{"id":12861,"date":"2019-07-31T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/president-ramsammy-among-honorees-at-inaugural-proctors-event\/"},"modified":"2019-07-31T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T16:05:27","slug":"president-ramsammy-among-honorees-at-inaugural-proctors-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/president-ramsammy-among-honorees-at-inaugural-proctors-event\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ramsammy among honorees at inaugural Proctors event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Roger Ramsammy will be among 20 local business leaders, executives and educators, who will be honored at the Immigrants\u2019 Ball: Celebrating the American Dream upcoming on Sunday, Aug. 18 at Proctors in Schenectady.<\/p>\n<p>The event is planned to celebrate America as a &#8220;nation of newcomers&#8221; and will highlight the inspiring diversity of the Capital Region, honoring contemporaries who have come to the United States to fulfill their dreams, and now share their skills and talents for the benefit of many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American Dream, shorthand for our ethos of equal opportunity for all, has served as a beacon of hope for generations of immigrants seeking life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,\u201d said Philip Morris, Proctors Collaborative CEO.<\/p>\n<p>The event will feature the varied cultures, customs, food, drink, music, dance and ideas that are the fabric of America, and will benefit the School of the Performing Arts at Proctors, which delivers programs to thousands of students throughout the region each year.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of honorees includes:<br \/>\nOluwaseun (Seun) A. Adetayo MD, FACS, FAAP (Albany Medical Center) &#8212; Nigeria<br \/>\nVikash &amp; Vikram Agrawal (Levrx Technology Inc.) &#8212; India<br \/>\nGuha V. Bala and Karthik V. Bala (Velan Ventures) &#8212; India<br \/>\nIsabel Lim Byon (NewsChannel 13 WNYT) &#8212; South Korea<br \/>\nMuhsin Celik (Global Foundries) &#8212; Turkey<br \/>\nAntonio Civitella (Transfinder) &#8212; Italy<br \/>\nRifat Filkins (RISSE) &#8212; Pakistan<br \/>\nJorge G\u00f3mez (Tiempo Libre &amp; Alta Havana) &#8212; Cuba<br \/>\nRuth Mahoney (KeyBank) &#8212; Ireland<br \/>\nAngelo &amp; Jerry Menagias (Blue Ribbon Family Restaurant) &#8212; Greece<br \/>\nJean-Remy Monnay (Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY) &#8212; Haiti<br \/>\nSteady H. Moono, ED.D. (SUNY Schenectady County Community College) &#8212; Zambia<br \/>\nChef Yono Purnomo (Yono\u2019s) &#8212; Indonesia<br \/>\nRoger A. Ramsammy, Ph.D. (Hudson Valley Community College) &#8212; Trinidad<br \/>\nJennifer Clark Rao (Emma Willard School) &#8212; Mexico<br \/>\nDeryck Singh (Stewart\u2019s Shops) &#8212; Guyana<br \/>\nAlex J. Tronco (Northwestern Mutual) &#8212; Italy<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the Immigrants&#8217; Ball on Aug. 18 are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/proctors.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proctors.org<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:05:27 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; President Roger Ramsammy will be among 20 local business leaders, executives and educators, who will be honored at the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}