2017 Gold Award & Scholarship Ceremony
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2017 Gold Award & Scholarship Ceremony Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Our Mission Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. The Girl Scout Promise On my honor, I will try: To serve God and my country, To help people at all times, And to live by the Girl Scout Law. The Girl Scout Law I will do my best to be honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong, and responsible for what I say and do, and to respect myself and others, respect authority, use resources wisely, make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout. Our Vision Be the premier leadership organization for girls in New York City. 2017 Gold Award & Scholarship Ceremony May 16, 2017 - 7-9pm Baruch College Welcome ................................................................................................................Carmen Dubroc Flag Ceremony .............................................................. Gold Award & Scholarship Recipients CEO Remarks .................................................................................. Barbara Murphy-Warrington Keynote Address ....................................................................................Madelyn Antoncic, PhD Gold Award Presentations ..................................................................................Carmen Dubroc • Advocates • Educators • Humanitarians A Tribute to My Mentor ......................................................................... Gold Award Recipients Future Woman of Distinction Scholarship Remarks ........................................Janice Wang Scholarship Presentations ......................Carmen Dubroc & Barbara Murphy-Warrington • Dr. Harry Britenstool Scholarships • Carmen Dubroc Bright Future Scholarship Closing Remarks ...................................................................................................Carmen Dubroc Flag Ceremony ............................................................. Gold Award & Scholarship Recipients “God Bless America” .....................................................................................................................All GSGNY At-A-Glance 22% % 28,866 12 NYC Girls Served in 2016 25% 23% 15% Independent/Other: 5% 8,224 adult volunteers. girls attend 5,000+ Camp Kaufmann. % of girls come from 70 low to moderate-income families. The Gold Award At-A-Glance NYC girls are receiving the Gold Award – 48 the highest honor in Girl Scouts – tonight. hours to design and implement 80+ a community service project. hours of community service performed by this year’s 3,700+ NYC Gold Awardees. 70+ college scholarships are available to Girl Scouts who complete their Gold Award. of girls come from low to moderate-income families. Welcome! We are delighted to welcome you to our 2017 Girl Scout Gold Award and Scholarship Ceremony Presentation. At the Girl Scouts, we strive to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. The remarkable young women we celebrate this evening are shining examples of these ideals. We are proud to bestow on them the Gold Award. Earning the Gold Award is no easy feat – only 6% of eligible Girl Scouts achieve this prestigious honor. We are thrilled that 47 girls here in New York City demonstrated real leadership as they devoted at least 80 hours to enact lasting change in their communities by devising and implementing a Take Action service project. The number of awardees and the impressive reach of their projects reflect our girls’ initiative and community spirit. We are confident that they are on their way to becoming leaders of tomorrow – the kind of leaders we need in our diverse society. This year’s Gold Awardees have collectively devoted over 3,700 hours of service. They are a credit to our organization and to the great city of New York. On behalf of the girls, volunteers, board, and staff of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York, we congratulate all of our extraordinary Gold Awardees and Scholarship recipients. Yours in Girl Scouting, Michelle R. Clayman Barbara Murphy-Warrington Board President Chief Executive Officer About Tonight’s Awards Girl Scout Gold Award The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest and most prestigious award a young woman can earn in Girl Scouting. A young woman who has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award can look forward to greater access to college scholarships, paid internships, and community awards. More than 5,500 Girl Scouts design, implement, and complete Gold Award projects every year. Each girl is required to design and complete an 80+ hour Take Action project that will have a great impact on her community. Dr. Harry Britenstool Scholarships The Britenstool Scholarship is endowed in honor of Dr. Harry Britenstool for the Girl Scouts of Greater New York. It is designed for those young women with high scholastic ability, strong dedication to serving their communities, and career goals oriented toward the fields of medicine, science, or civic affairs. The scholarship is an award for the first year of college and is renewable for three years, provided that all renewal eligibility requirements are met. The award may be applied to the college of the recipient’s choice. The number of awards and the amounts vary each year, since the available funds are based on the annual income from the Dr. Harry Britenstool Trust. Carmen Dubroc Bright Future Scholarship The Carmen Dubroc Bright Future Scholarship is presented in honor of Carmen Dubroc, President and Chair Emerita of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York’s Board of Directors. It is designed for a young woman interested in pursuing a career in the arts, education, civil service, STEM, or the non-profit sector. The Girl Scout awarded with this scholarship has demonstrated a commitment to community service, participation in extracurricular activities, leadership ability, and the values of Girl Scouting and the Girl Scout Promise and Law. Future Woman of Distinction Award Each year the Future Woman of Distinction Award is given to one Ambassador Girl Scout in New York City who has earned her Gold Award, and who represents the ideals inherent in Girl Scouting through her participation in and commitment to community service, high academic achievement, leadership skills, and ability to communicate the values of Girl Scouting, and who provides an exemplary example of Girl Scouting for all Girl Scouts and the Council’s constituents. This Award, together with a scholarship to continue her education, was presented to Janice Wang at our annual Women of Distinction Breakfast in October 2016. In addition to receiving this Award at the Breakfast, Janice shared her Girl Scout experience with our 500+ person audience. She also has attended Girl Scout events as a representative of all NYC Girl Scouts throughout the 2016-2017 year. Our Emcee Carmen Dubroc Carmen Dubroc has over twenty-five years of senior marketing and management experience at some of America’s best known brand leaders including Calvin Klein, Godiva Chocolate, Charles of the Ritz Cosmetics, Avon Products, Inc. and Weight Watchers International. Over the years, she has been a guest speaker and lecturer to business associations, women’s organizations, and marketing conferences. Earlier in her career Ms. Dubroc was a teacher for five years and was a Committee member for the New York State Commission on the Status of Women. Ms. Dubroc is a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts and a member of the Juliette Low Society. She was introduced to the Council in 1993 and quickly became enthralled with the organization’s mission. She joined the Board of Directors in 1997, was elected Board President from 2004 until 2008, and then served as Board Chair from 2008 to 2012. As such, she has served as ex-officio chair of all of the Council’s Board committees. Ms. Dubroc holds a B.A. in Languages from Benedictine College and completed her Post-Graduate Degree at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She resides in New York City with her husband, Lewis Haber. She considers the Girl Scouts to be her “life’s work.” Keynote Speaker Madelyn Antoncic, PhD Former Vice President and Treasurer The World Bank Madelyn Antoncic, Ph.D. is the former Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank, where in addition to her financial responsibilities, she oversaw technical assistance and capacity building programs working with developing and emerging economies. During her tenure at the World Bank, Dr. Antoncic’s financial responsibilities included overseeing the management of $145 billion in assets for the World Bank, its affiliates, over 700 trust funds, and over 55 other official-sector institutions; the $22 billion World Bank Group’s (WBG) pension; the WB’s $135 billion derivatives portfolio; its $45 billion annual financing program; its $40 billion equity capital; and over $30 billion in daily cash payments and disbursements for the WBG. Among many initiatives which Dr. Antoncic led was financial innovation including implementing a new World Bank Capital-at-Risk Bond and Facility for catastrophic risks such as Ebola. She also led the development of catastrophic risk structures to help countries mitigate and transfer climate-related catastrophic risk. Under her leadership, the World Bank completed the largest weather and energy derivative transaction the market has ever seen ($450 million) to help a member country hedge against droughts and high energy prices. Dr. Antoncic has held leadership roles spanning global markets for more than 30 years. She