2015 Adelphi President's Gala Honors Outstanding Executives and Alumni

Adelphi University is proud to announce its 15th annual President’s Gala to be held on March 21, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at the Garden City Hotel, 45 Seventh Street, Garden City, NY. The evening will honor: Phyllis and Frank Angello ’77, Carmine J. Pizzo and Esther Siegel ’69, M.S. ’72, with a cocktail reception followed by dinner and dancing. The Gala supports the University’s ability to remain competitive in attracting the brightest and most qualified students by funding the scholarships and institutional aid awarded by the University, which total over $50 million annually. In addition, there will be a very special tribute at the Gala to President Robert A. Scott.

Honorees:

Phyllis Angello has held a variety of executive and administrative positions within the Internal Revenue Service, retiring in 2011 after 37 years. Since 1993, she has volunteered at Abilities Inc. at the Viscardi Center, and has served as a member of the Abilities Corporate Board and co-chair for their annual golf outing. Frank Angello ’77 is the former chief financial officer of JPMorgan Treasury & Securities Services and former chief financial officer of Lighthouse International. Since Mr. Angello was elected to Adelphi University’s Board of Trustees in 2007, he has served on nearly every Board Committee, and as the chair of the Finance & Administration Committee and secretary of the Board. The Angellos also served on the Adelphi Parents Council when their son, Peter Angello ’11, was a student and have been members of the committees for the Golf Classic and the Annual President’s Gala. The Angellos were also active in their parish community. They have co-chaired the Pastoral Council and Marriage Preparation program. Mrs. Angello has also been involved in religious instruction and served as a Eucharistic minister while Mr. Angello had been the chair of the Finance committee. Frank Angello earned his undergraduate degree at Adelphi in 1977 and went on to earn an M.B.A. in finance from Pace University. Phyllis Angello is a graduate of Dowling College.

Carmine J. Pizzo is the president of INTELLI-TEC Security Services, LLC, which is a provider of technically advanced electronic security solutions for life safety, personal, and property threat or thief protection. Mr. Pizzo started his career in 1974 as an apprentice with Honeywell Security in New York City where he began to learn his trade in the field. He moved on to a position as a service technician for Eastern Alarm in Harrison, New York where he quickly moved up to the position of service manager. As Eastern Alarm was acquired by ADCO Federal and ADCO Federal in turn acquired by Alarmguard, Mr. Pizzo moved into the sales field as he consistently excelled as a salesman in the companies. In early 1999 when Alarmguard was sold to an ADT, Mr. Pizzo founded INTELLI-TEC with Marty and Matt McMillan. Today, INTELLI-TEC has more than 55 employees and thousands of clients over the Tri-State Area. Much of the cliental includes universities, hospitals and high end residences. Mr. Pizzo remembers his late partner and co-founder, Marty McMillan as someone very close to the Adelphi community and thanks the University family for their support. INTELLI-TEC currently provides the security cameras and door controls for Adelphi University’s campus.

Dr. Esther Siegel ’69, M.S. ’72 has taken on many leadership roles within the fields of healthcare and nursing education. She began her career at Hillside Hospital, a then prestigious psychiatric environment, where she began a project that allowed nursing clinical specialists to be therapists on the psychiatric units. After being promoted to assistant director of nursing, she decided to leave the hospital in 1979 to start her own practice and earn her doctorate. During the time she was working on her doctorate, Dr. Siegel served as a consultant at NYU Medical Center. Following the completion of her studies, she was recruited in 1986 by the dean of Health Sciences at Long Island University for the position of Chairperson of the Division of Nursing at the Brookville Campus of the Nursing Program. Eventually when asked to assume the position of director at the Brooklyn Campus of the Nursing Program, Dr. Siegel was only willing to remain if the University established a School of Nursing with a dean. The President of LIU agreed and she served the 1st dean for the school. Dr. Siegel has also expanded her private practice in psychotherapy and consulted at various hospitals. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Adelphi University in 1969, a master’s degree as a psychiatric clinical specialist from Adelphi in 1972 and a doctorate from Columbia University Teachers College in 1985.

For more information or for tickets, please contact Jessica Foglietta, assistant director of special events, at (516) 877-3155 or jfoglietta@adelphi.edu, or visit adelphi.edu/gala.

About Adelphi University: Adelphi is a world-class, modern university with excellent and highly relevant programs where students prepare for lives of active citizenship and professional careers. Through its schools and programs—College of Arts and Sciences, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Honors College, Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, University College, College of Nursing and Public Health and the School of Social Work—the coeducational university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as professional and educational programs for adults. As a nationally-ranked, doctoral research university, Adelphi University currently enrolls nearly 8,000 students from 43 states and 45 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and its centers in Manhattan, Suffolk County, and Poughkeepsie, the University, chartered in 1896, maintains a commitment to liberal studies, in tandem with rigorous professional preparation and active citizenship.