Applause
Staten Island Advance - January 23, 2005
Robert D. Diamant of New Springville was honored as
Mentoring Coordinator of the Year by the New York City Department of
Education during a ceremony in Manhattan.
The award, presented by Carolyn Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of
former President John F. Kennedy, was given in conjunction with
National Mentoring Month, which is marked in January.
Diamant is the economic Education specialist for the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York and manager of the bank’s High School Mentoring
Program. He has been employed by the bank since 1998.
The program currently has 45 personnel mentoring students from
Curtis High School and James Madison High School., Brooklyn.
Prior to working at the bank, Diamant was the assistant principal of
social studies at Susan E. Wagner High School. He also was a dean of
students at Port Richmond High School.
He was co-organizer of the Honors College at the College of Staten
Island, Willowbrook.
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