STATE OF NEW JERSEY

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

WHEREAS, those who dedicate their time, effort and skills to help others are among the most valued members of any community; and

WHEREAS, the State of Israel Bonds in Highland Park, New Jersey, will honor Howard M. Schoor with its State of Israel Peace Medal on June 19, 2003; and

WHEREAS, the State of Israel Peace Medal is awarded to an individual whose commitment and contributions to the State of Israel and the community at large has been demonstrated through continual giving of themselves; and

WHEREAS, a man of many talents and accomplishments, Mr. Schoor is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Schoor DePalma, Inc., the Founder of SGS Communities, and Founder and Chairman of the Community Bank of New Jersey. An active participant in numerous local charitable and civic community activities, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Collier Services and the Regional Board of the American Heart Association. In addition, he has served as Honorary Campaign Chair of Centra State Healthcare Foundation’s Radiation Therapy Center, Trustee of the Centra State Hospital Foundation, the Monmouth County .iultiple Sclerosis Foundation, and as a Director and Vice President of the Jewish Federation of Monmoutiz County; and

WHEREAS, he has lived by the principals of brotherhood, benefiting all in the community;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES E. McGREEVEY, Governor of the State of New Jersey, do hereby recognize and commend

HOWARD M. SCHOOR

as an individual who best exemplifies the true meaning of public service to his community and the State of Israel, and join with the State of Israel Bonds to congratulate him and extend best wishes for the future.

GIVEN,    under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey, this nineteenth day of June in the year two thousand three and of the Independence of the United States, the two hundred and twenty-seventh.

Sr. Carol Beairsto Postgraduate Assistance Fund

This fund is meant to assist former graduates of Collier High School and Collier Group Home who have reached age 21, have not qualified for other assistance, and may have had to postpone their plans for postgraduate studies due to personal difficulties such as health concerns or financial hardship. The intention of the fund is to augment one’s ability to enter a training program or school which will further one’s education or job readiness or advancement. $500 Scholarship.

PFC Grad to Grad Scholarship

This scholarship was created by a former student to honor Collier High School graduating seniors who have displayed perseverance and resilienc’~ and to assist them in pursuing their education beyond high school. The scholarship is awarded to a student, with financial need, who will attend a technical, vocational or two-year college. $300 awarded one-time only.

Sr. Eileen Groogan Scholarship

The purpose of the scholarship is to promote post high school collegiate opportunity for seniors who are students at Collier High School or seniors in residence at Collier Group Home. This renewable scholarship is awardec on the basis of academic merit and financial need. $500 renewable up to four years.

Howard M. Schoor Humanitarian Fund

The Fund, established in honor of Mr. Schoor’s outstanding contribution to Collier Services as the first President of the Collier Services Foundation Board, is used to assist children and families, in any of the Collier programs, who have a compelling need not addressed by other resources.

Campership

The Campership program provides the means for at-risk, economically-disadvantaged children, who live in Monmouth County, to attend Collier’s Kateri Day Camp. $310 per two-week session.

Project Eco Scholarship

The scholarship provides special education students, who have financial need that is not addressed by other resources, with the opportunity to attend a special education, counseling and camp program at Kateri Environmental Center. $3,150 for six weeks.

Eugene F. Croddick Memorial Fund

The Fund, established to honor Mr. Croddick’s dedication to the mission of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and Collier Services, is used to assist graduates of Collier High School or Collier Group Home in achieving their educational goals. $500 Scholarship.

JET Scholarship

The scholarship pays for an at-risk teenager to participate in a Job Experience and Training program, under the supervision of a professional social worker, at Kateri Day Camp. $3,150 for eight weeks.

For more information, contact the Development Office.

http://www.colierservices.com

ASBURY PARK PRESS

By ROBIN KEATS
CORRESPONDENT

MANALAPAN – This week marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 attack by Nazis upon the Jews that is widely considered the presage to the Holocàust.

Last night, many of New Jersey’s political, business, religious and civic leaders recalled the era of the Holocaust at a testimonial dinner and tribute to Howard M. Schoor by the Center for Holocaust Studies at Brookdale Community College.

The evening was also a fundraiser for the Holocaust center’s various programs.

Center officials said they expected to raise about $100,000.

The event, held at the Excelsior banquet hail, honored Schoor’s commitment and contributions to the Holocaust center.

“Howard Schoor. is one of the extraordinary, quiet leaders in our Jewish community who has never sought recognition and is a man who lives by his actions,” said David Nussb~um, executive threetor of the Jewish Federation of Greater Monmouth County.

Schoor, a Colts Neck resident, is the founder of the engineering and design firm Schoor DePalma and is founder and principal of SGS Communities, a residential construction company.

He is also the chairman of Community Bank of New Jersey.

“I went to Vad Yashern (the Israeli memorial to the Ho]ocaust) in 1978, to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., shortly after it opened and, recently, to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York,” Schoor said.

“And I came away with the overriding thoughts of ‘How could the Holocaust have happened and where was America while it was taking place?’”

Schoor said he believes these questions should never have to be asked again.

“It doesn’t matter if it is the persecution of blacks or whites or any race or Jews, Christians or Muslims. No ethnic cleansing anywhere! We need to stand up against such things, whether they are in Kosovo or East Timor,” he said.

“It’s essential that we remember the tragedy of the Holocaust, but what is distinctive about the Holocaust center at Brookdale is that it applies the lessons learned from it to America’s past and present,” said state Sen. Joseph M. Kyrifios Jr., R-Monmouth, one of the evening’s featured speakers.

Money raised at last night’s event wifi be used to help send four American teachers each year to Vad Yashem, where they wifi learn to teach about the Holocaust tostudents in the United States.

Funds also will be used to underwrite the Howard Schoor Film Series.

Four films, most likely including “Farewell: The Last Jews of Corfu,” about the decimation of 90 percent of Greece’s Jewish popula-. tion by Nazi Germany, will be presented at the center at Brookdale next year.