{"id":3338,"date":"2021-09-02T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/?page_id=3338"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:51:15","slug":"september-11th-remembrance-event","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/september-11th-remembrance-event\/","title":{"rendered":"September 11th Remembrance Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Honoring the 20th Anniversary of September 11th\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Friday, September 10, 2021 at 11 a.m.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Angelica and Russ Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Sharp Theatre\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/607640533?h=e1edf8c8ca&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Ramapo College community gathered together for a remembrance ceremony honoring the 20th Anniversary of September 11th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/09\/Presidential-Speaker-Series-Lockup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3374 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/09\/Presidential-Speaker-Series-Lockup-300x102.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/09\/Presidential-Speaker-Series-Lockup-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/09\/Presidential-Speaker-Series-Lockup-1024x347.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/09\/Presidential-Speaker-Series-Lockup-768x260.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/09\/Presidential-Speaker-Series-Lockup-1536x520.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/09\/Presidential-Speaker-Series-Lockup-2048x693.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This event featured remarks from <strong>keynote speaker, Jack Jacobs, Retired Colonel in the United States Army and Medal of Honor recipient<\/strong>. Colonel (Retired) Jacobs was the first speaker to serve in this year&#8217;s Presidential Speaker Series.<\/p>\n<p>Additional event speakers included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ramapo College President <strong>Cindy R. Jebb, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ramapo College Student <strong>Daniel Maher-Gurniak<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>New Jersey State Senator <strong>Holly T. Schepisi<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bergen County Executive <strong>James J. Tedesco, III<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mayor of Mahwah <strong>James J. Wysocki<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event concluded with a moment of silence at the Arch, and attendees were invited to join President Jebb and Colonel (Retired) Jacobs in the Padovano Commons for beverages and fellowship.<\/p>\n<div class=\"infoBox col-sm-12 col-lg-12 \"><div class=\"boxContent\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3343\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/09\/headshot-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3343\" class=\"wp-image-3343 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/09\/headshot-2.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker Jack Jacobs \" width=\"186\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Jack Jacobs<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jack Jacobs<\/strong> was born in Brooklyn, New York. He holds Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degrees from Rutgers University and entered the U.S. Army in 1966 as a Second Lieutenant through the ROTC program. He served as a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division, executive officer of an infantry battalion in the 7th Infantry Division, and commanded the 4th Battalion 10th Infantry in Panama. A member of the faculty of the U.S. Military Academy, Jacobs taught international relations and comparative politics, and he was a member of the faculty of the National War College in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>He was in Vietnam twice, both times as an advisor to Vietnamese infantry battalions, earning three Bronze Stars, two Silver Stars and the Medal of Honor, the nation\u2019s highest combat decoration. Jacobs retired as a Colonel.<\/p>\n<p>He was a founder and Chief Operating Officer of AutoFinance Group Inc, one of the firms to pioneer the securitization of debt instruments; the firm was subsequently sold to Key Bank. He was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust, where he ran foreign exchange options worldwide and was a partner in the institutional hedge fund business. Jacobs subsequently founded a similar business for Lehman Brothers and then retired again.<\/p>\n<p>He is a principal of The Fitzroy Group, a firm that specializes in the development of residential real estate in London and invests both for its own account and in joint ventures with other institutions, and he is the Director of Veterans\u2019 Advancement at the New York Film Academy. He serves on a number of charitable boards of directors and is a Director Emeritus of the World War II Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs is the Senior Fellow in the Department of Social Sciences at the U.S. Military Academy and is the Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rutgers. An on-air analyst for NBC News, he was a member of the team that produced the 2011 Murrow Award-winning Nightly News segment \u201cIraq: The Long Way Out.\u201d Colonel Jacobs is also the co-author of the memoir, <em>If Not Now, When?, <\/em>published by Penguin and winner of the Colby Award. His second work of non-fiction is <em>Basic,<\/em> released by St. Martin\u2019s Press in 2012, and he is an Executive Producer of the series <em>Ten Weeks<\/em>, which will air on Hulu.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring the 20th Anniversary of September 11th\u00a0 Friday, September 10, 2021 at 11 a.m. The Angelica and Russ Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts, Sharp Theatre\u00a0 The Ramapo College community gathered together for a remembrance ceremony honoring the 20th Anniversary of September 11th. 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