At Harcum College's annual Homecoming Craft Fair & Family Day on Saturday, October 22, three alumni were recognized for their outstanding professional and personal achievements.
Marvin Levitties, former Harcum faculty member in the Retail Merchandising Department, received the Harcum’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor given by the Alumni Association. Levitties has demonstrated steadfast commitment and loyalty to Harcum for more than 40 years through his teaching, leadership and generous financial support. He continues to serve the Harcum community as a trustee and through the Jean S. Levitties Scholarship Fund, which he established in memory of his late wife, who led the social work program at Harcum.
Alexis Pew received the Outstanding Young Alumna Award, which recognizes an alumnus who has made extraordinary advancements in his or her career. Although she just graduated in 2010, Pew has already built a name for herself in the Philadelphia design community, being named one of the “next generation up and comers” by Philadelphia magazine. She is currently the lead designer at Busy Bee Home Store & Design Center in Philadelphia and was instrumental in opening the company’s first retail
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A graduate of the class of 1958, Mitzi Snyder Forman of Langhorne, Pa. received Harcum’s Community Service Award for her dedication and involvement in community organizations. Inspired by her father, an amateur magician, Forman went to “clown school” and became a performer. Every Thursday for the past eight years, she has volunteered as a clown at St. Mary’s Hospital in Langhorne, Pa., visiting, talking to and entertaining patients.
