Thalers of Bronxville to Receive
Concordia’s 2010 President’s Award for Service to Education
Bronxville residents Mary and Richard Thaler, Jr. have been selected as recipients of Concordia College-New York’s 2010 President’s Award for Excellence in Educational Service to the Community.
Commenting on the Award, President Viji George said: “I am deeply impressed by Mary and Richard’s dedication to helping expand opportunities for young people both in our local community and far beyond. In addition, they are involved in countless facets of life in Bronxville, including the Bronxville Historical Conservancy. I’m thrilled that this year’s Community Dinner will honor the Thalers on the occasion of the centennial of the College’s arrival in the Village. They are the perfect couple to help us celebrate this anniversary.”
Mary and Richard Thaler were married in 1980, and have lived in Bronxville since 1985, raising three daughters, now aged 26, 23, and 19.
Mary has combined life experiences as a mother, community leader, wife, and professional on Wall Street. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Psychology. Prior to having children, she worked in public relations for Oppenheimer and Co. For more than ten years she has served as a volunteer with the All Stars Project’s Development School for Youth (DSY) in New York City. The DSY is an outside-of-school program that offers supplemental educational, social and internship experiences for inner-city youth. Mary helps plan and implement weekly workshops for young people aged 16-21 to introduce them to the business world and make them more worldly and cosmopolitan.
Mary has served on the Vestry of Christ Church in Bronxville, on the Board of the Counseling Center (where she developed the Concert Series and the Lunch and Learn Series), and for two terms on the Board of the Bronxville Historical Conservancy. She was the 2004 President of Bronxville’s Non-Partisan Committee, and has been an active volunteer at the Bronxville School.
Richard Thaler has an equally wide range of interests. He holds a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Following 16 years with Lehman Brothers, where he was a Managing Director in Corporate Finance, and 12 years with Deutsche Bank Securities, where he became Vice Chairman, in 2008 Richard founded Lieutenant Island Partners. He consults for BMO Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank, and other clients. Richard is Adjunct Professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he created and teaches the nation’s first college-level course on private equity and leveraged buyouts. He brings in guest presenters, including a number of his fellow Bronxville residents, from top banking, private equity, and law firms, and provides ongoing mentoring to students seeking careers in finance and alumni working on Wall Street.
Richard is President of the Board of Trustees of The Daily Princetonian, one of the country’s oldest college daily newspapers; a director of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, and a trustee of Plimoth Plantation, a leading historical museum. He has served as a trustee of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA and both he and Mary are active in the Chapel of St. James the Fisherman in Wellfleet, MA, where they spend their summers.
Concordia invites all members of the community to join in honoring Mary and Richard at the 29th Annual Community Dinner on Wednesday, November 3, 2010, in the Schoenfeld Campus Center. For reservations and information, contact Emma Oxford, Director of Community Relations, at emma.oxford@concordia-ny.edu
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