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JUNE 2007

Queens College

Max Kupferberg ’42
received the Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters

A native of Queens, Max Kupferberg has been exceptionally active in the religious, service, educational, and financial life of the borough. He is a spirited and generous alumnus of Queens College, providing annual scholarships to the physics department and long-time support to the performing art.

After completing his BS in physics at Queens College in 1942, Kupferberg attended New York University until World War II interrupted his graduate studies. He and two brothers became part of the Manhattan Project, conducting nuclear research at Los Alamos, New Mexico. After the war, the four Kupferberg brothers (Max, Ken, Jesse, and Jack) founded KEPCO, Inc., specializing in electrical equipment. The Flushing firm has grown into a successful and respected international business that is involved in research and development, manufacturing, and sales. Today KEPCO, with Max Kupferberg as chairman of the board, remains in Flushing and is still owned and operated by the Kupferberg family.

In February 2006, together with his wife, Selma, Max presented his alma mater with a $10 million gift, the largest single gift ever received by Queens College. In recognition of their generosity, the college renamed its Colden Center for the Performing Arts the Selma and Max Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. The money is used to fund an endowment that provides annual programming support for the arts at Queens College, as well as to provide much-needed support for renovations to the facility.

Susan Isaacs ’65: Commencement Speaker

Susan Isaacs is an award-winning novelist, essayist, screenwriter, political columnist and book reviewer whose fiction has been translated into 30 languages. All 10 of Isaacs’ novels have been New York Times bestsellers and main selections of the Literary Guild. Three of them, Compromising Positions, Hello Again and Shining Through, were turned into major feature films. Isaacs just published her 11th novel, Past Perfect.#

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