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For Immediate Release

Contact:Teresa Lyles Holmes
914-282-5317
tlhcomm@aol.com

Balm In Gilead Founder and CEO Receives Honorary Degree

The College of New Rochelle conferred an honorary degree to Balm In Gilead Founder and CEO Pernessa C. Seele during its 100th Commencement Exercises Thursday, May 24, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. In addition, the College conferred honorary degrees on Brother Rick Curry, S.J., Ph.D., Founder & Artistic Director of the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped and John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO.
Above: The honorees pose with President Sweeny and
Board of Trustees Chair Michael Ambler (left).

About The Balm In Gilead
The Balm In Gilead is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to improve the health status of people of the African Diaspora by building the capacity of faith communities to address life-threatening diseases, especially HIV/AIDS. For 18 years, The Balm In Gilead has mobilized The Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS, which engages Black churches to become centers for education, compassion and care in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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