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In addition to serving as a Board member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Mr. Zuckerman is involved in a wide range of other organizations and institutions. He is a trustee of New York University, the Aspen Institute, the Hole in the Wall Gang Fund, Inc. and the Center for Communications. He is also a member of the J.P. Morgan National Advisory Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. He is a former lecturer of City and Regional Planning at Yale, and a past president of the Board of Trustees of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Mr. Zuckerman was awarded the Commandeur De L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France, received five honorary degrees, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Guild Hall and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architecture in New York.

"Anyone who knows Mort Zuckerman--either personally, or through his writings--can appreciate his incisive intellect and the remarkable breadth of his interests," said Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., vice-chairman of the MSKCC Board and co-chairman of the capital campaign. "Memorial Sloan-Kettering is a better place because of everything he has done here. We are indebted to him for the confidence he has shown in the Center and its people."

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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
10-May-2006