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Global Leadership Gala Honors Cardinal McCarrick

December 6, 2006

Cardinal McCarrick receives the School's Global Citizen Award.

Students meet with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

Friends and benefactors of the Whitehead School gathered at Cipriani’s -- Wall Street in New York City on December 1st for a benefit honoring Cardinal Theodore McCarrick for his international humanitarian work, and kicking off the School’s year-long celebration of its tenth anniversary.

 Among the nearly 300 guests who attended were the School’s namesake, John C. Whitehead, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, United Nations Association president Ambassador William H. Luers, and Annette de la Renta, the Gala’s co-chair.

NJN News Senior Anchor and University Regent, Kent Manahan was the emcee for the evening. Manahan presided over a program that featured presentations by John Bailye, chairman of the Whitehead School’s Board of Overseers, Seton Hall president Monsignor Robert Sheeran, and Reverend Paul A. Holmes, University vice president and the School’s interim dean. “It was a truly stellar event for all those associated with the Whitehead School,” Father Holmes commented. “From our dedicated supporters, to our students and members of the University staff, we were all there to take measure of what this School has achieved, and what it has to look forward to accomplishing in the years ahead.”

The program also included a recognition of Thomas and Ruth Sharkey for their generosity in supporting the Whitehead School’s Center for the Study of the United Nations, and an acknowledgment of three students’ “Commitment to Peace.” Honoring Cardinal McCarrick, Holmes added, “ was a special reminder to everyone of the work that we are all called to do in support of peace and human rights.”

Present at this year’s festivities were previous Gala honorees John C. Whitehead, former Deputy Secretary of State in the Reagan administration; Fred Hassan, Chairman of Schering Plough; and Raymond M. Pocino, vice president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America.

Funds raised at the Gala will help support the Whitehead School’s endowment that has enabled the School to serve as a forum in which world leaders convene to discuss critical global issues on the Seton Hall campus and thus ensure the success of such a young School.