Guild for the Arts holding annual gala

Oct. 10 event will raise money for the arts in Rockville Centre

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This year marks the 36th anniversary of the Rockville Centre Guild for the Arts and the 31st year of the South Shore Symphony, which moved to Rockville Centre in 1991. This year the Guild for Arts will honor Molloy President Drew Bogner and Dr. and Mrs. Thierry Duchatellier at its third annual Gala. The black-tie event will take place at the Atlantic Beach Club on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m.

Bogner assumed the presidency of Molloy College in 2000. Under his 15 years of transformational leadership, Molloy College has reformed itself from a predominantly baccalaureate undergraduate institution into a comprehensive, graduate-granting institution, adding numerous Masters programs and tracks, and three doctoral programs. Bogner is also credited for increasing the college’s enrollment from 2,200 to approximately 4,500 students. Most notable in the visual changes to the college is the Public Square, which houses the Madison Theatre, the performance home of the South Shore Symphony. Molloy also recently launched a theatre arts degree in partnership with New York City’s CAP21, one of the country’s leading musical theatre conservatories, another example of Molloy College’s commitment to the arts under Bogner.

“When we first spoke to Drew about the honor, he mentioned that this year he was going to be honored by a few different local organizations and ours was toward the end of the schedule,” said Wayne Lipton, president of the Guild for the Arts. “But we felt that the support that Molloy College and its president have given us could not go unrecognized.”

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