Geoffrey Canada ’74 and Stanley Druckenmiller ’75 to Share Bowdoin’s Highest Honor (Bowdoin Daily Sun - 11/18/14) #HarlemEd, Harlem Childrens Zone, #Harlem EXCERPT: Geoffrey Canada of the Bowdoin Class of 1974 and Stanley F. Druckenmiller of the Class of 1975 will be awarded The Bowdoin Prize—the highest honor the College bestows upon its members—during a special ceremony on Tuesday, January 20, at the 1794 Society Reception for leadership donors to Bowdoin’s Annual Giving Program in the Grand Promenade of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. Canada is a visionary educator and passionate advocate for children, community redevelopment, and education reform. Druckenmiller is a legendary investor whose extraordinary success in the world of finance is matched only by his remarkable record of philanthropy. Together—with Canada as president and CEO and Druckenmiller as board chairman—they have been instrumental in the success of the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City, an organization that is helping thousands of children and families by disrupting the cycle of generational poverty in Central Harlem. . . . From 1990 to 2014, Geoff Canada served as president and chief executive officer of the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York City, an organization that targets a 100-block area in Central Harlem with a comprehensive range of services aimed at providing children and their families with support and resources that can transform lives and communities. He recently stepped down as CEO but continues as president of HCZ today. In October, the Harlem Children’s Zone headquarters building was renamed in honor of Canada. Canada grew up in the South Bronx. He graduated from Bowdoin in 1974 and earned his master’s degree in education at Harvard in 1975. After graduating from Harvard, he decided to work to help children who, like himself, were disadvantaged by their lives in poor, embattled neighborhoods. He is the author of two books: Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America, published in 1995 by Beacon Press, and Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America, published in 1998 by Beacon Press. In 2005, U.S. News & World Report named Canada one of “America’s Best Leaders.” A year later, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg chose him to co-chair a task force assigned to reduce poverty in the city. In 2011, Canada was named to the Time Magazine “Time 100” list of the most influential people of the year. Canada and his groundbreaking work have been featured on “60 Minutes,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “The Charlie Rose Show,” “Nightline,” and many other national television programs; and have been covered by a long list of national newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and others. His awards are many, including the first Heinz Award in 1994 and the Harvard Graduate School of Education Medal for Educational Impact in 2012. A former overseer and trustee of Bowdoin College, Canada was the first recipient of Bowdoin’s Common Good Award. In 2007 he was one of five honorary degree recipients at Bowdoin’s commencement. The National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol has called Canada “one of the few authentic heroes of New York and one of the best friends children have, or ever will have, in our nation.”
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