Jimmy Roberts, Paul Murphy Join Board of Rye Fund for Education

Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster Jimmy Roberts, and Wall Street veteran and Houlihan Lawrence agent Paul Murphy, have joined the Rye Fund for Education as Trustees, the group announced.

Murphy and Roberts join the four other trustees of the Fund, Dr. Frank Alvarez (School Superintendent and non-voting trustee), Mary Payton Emery, Kim Abate and Richard Slack.

“We are looking forward to working with Paul and Jimmy to make the Rye City School District the best it can possibly be,” said Mary Payton Emery, President of the Rye Fund for Education, in a statement.

The Rye Fund for Education, launched in September 2014, is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) educational foundation established “to raise and distribute tax-free funds for the use by the Rye City School District.”

Since its inception, the Fund has raised more than $700,000 from the Fund’s generous Founding Donors and through its popular “Got a Brick?” fundraiser, accessible on the Fund’s website: www.ryefundforeducation.org

Background on the two new Trustees:

JIMMY ROBERTS

Jimmy Roberts is a 13-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and writer known most recently for his work on NBC and Golf Channel as an essayist, interviewer, feature reporter and studio host. Roberts is a fixture on NBC and Golf Channel’s coverage of the PGA Tour and other high-profile golf events, including the Ryder Cup. He is also a feature reporter at the Olympic Games for NBC and often serves as a weekend Sports Desk host for NBC Sports.

Roberts joined NBC Sports in May 2000 after a long career at ABC and ESPN, including stints as a SportsCenter correspondent covering the World Series, NBA Finals, heavyweight championship bouts, Super Bowl and the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. In 1987 and 1988, Roberts served as a writer and producer of features at ABC Sports. Prior to that, he was an assignment editor and producer for ABC News (1985-87), where he coordinated and supervised coverage of sports for the division, and produced stories for ABC News. In 1984, he worked for Howard Cosell on ABC’s SportsBeat, writing and producing features for the Emmy Award-winning show.

Roberts earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland in 1979.

Jimmy lives in Rye with his wife, Sandra, and their three sons.

PAUL MURPHY

A 28 year Wall Street veteran, Paul Murphy worked for Paine Webber Inc, Deutsche Bank, CanaccordGenuity and Morgan Stanley in equity sales. He now works as a residential real estate agent for Houlihan Lawrence Inc.’s Rye office.

A longtime active member of the Rye community, Murphy served for many years as coach for Resurrection’s Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) basketball and Rye Little League. He runs the annual golf outing for his Indian Village neighborhood. He is a member of the Board of Governors at the Apawamis Club and currently serves as Head of the Membership Committee.

Paul Murphy graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a degree in Business Administration. He also holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

Paul lives in Rye with his wife, Lisa. They have three sons.

About the Rye Fund for Education

The Rye Fund for Education is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation operating as a non-partisan public charity in Rye, New York. The Fund’s Certificate of Incorporation was filed on March 1, 2013 and the Fund’s Employer Identification Number is 46-2481911. The Fund received confirmation of its tax-exempt status by letter dated June 3, 2014, retroactively providing such tax-exempt status effective March 1, 2013, the date of the Fund’s incorporation.

The Fund is independent from the Rye City School District, but its sole purpose is to support Rye’s public schools and educational excellence in our community. The Fund seeks to raise money through donations from community members, alumni, corporations and others to fund grants to help maintain the excellence of Rye City Schools.

www.ryefundforeducation.org

Photo 1: Jimmy Roberts; Photo 2: Paul Murphy. Photo credit: Contributed

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