Lawrence Woodmere Academy, also known as "LWA", and "Woodmere Academy", is an

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located in

Woodmere, New York Woodmere is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 17,554 at the 2016 census. Woodmere is one of the Long Island communities known as the Five Towns, w ...

, United States. It is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools and the New York State Board of Regents.

History

The history of the Academy began with the founding of Lawrence Country Day School in 1891 and Woodmere Academy in 1912. The institutions merged in 1990. The founders of Woodmere Academy adopted a motto of Disce Servire, "Learn to Serve". When Woodmere Academy and Lawrence Country Day School merged, this motto was expanded to Veritas, Integritas, Servitium, "Truth, Integrity, Service". The students come from all parts of Long Island, Brooklyn, and Queens, as well as countries abroad.

Notable alumni

* Andrew Barth-Feldman, winner of best actor at the 2018 Jimmy Awards and star of

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on broadway *

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(Class of 1948)

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and long-time board member of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc, a founders f

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in 1960, a company that would later through

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become Shearson Loeb Rhoades, which was eventually sold to

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in 1981 for approximately $930 million in stock. *

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(Class of 1950) chairman of the

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from 1977 to 1981 and a commissioner until 1984, he worked to strengthen the FTC's consumer protection powers. In 1985, Pertschuk was elected to the

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National Governing Board. He was also co-founder and co-director of the Advocacy Institute. He founded the Smoking Control Advocacy Resource Center, which as part of the Advocacy Institute (see above) provided guides, training, strategic counseling, and other resources to combat the tobacco industry. On May 1, 2013, he received the Champion Award from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids for his five decades of leadership in the fight against tobacco. *''Steven Ross (Class of 1955), military historian,''

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''Chair in Military History at the''

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, ''awarded the United States

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.'' *Jay Robbins (Class of 1952) Former Senior investigator the Federal Centers for Disease Control *William Silver (Class of 1955) Founding partner Weiskopf Silver; Former member of the Board of the American Stock Exchange where he has been a member since 1963 *Ruth Levin Edenbaum (Class of 1955), author of ''Chow, Venice!'' *Andrew Warshaw, M.D. (Class of 1955) Surgeon-in-Chief, Emeritus; Director, Pancreatic Biology Laboratory, Mass General Cancer Center; Director, Andrew L. Warshaw Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Research *James Dalsimer, M.D. (Class of 1955) Trustee Emeritus Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute * Stuart Beck (1946–2016, Class of 1964), Lawyer and

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for

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who helped negotiate the

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, which established Palau as an independent nation in free association with the United States in 1994. * Matthew Blank, (Class of 1968), CEO of Showtime Networks *

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in 1994. * Michael Cohen (Class of 1984), Executive Vice-President, Trump Organization; Special Counsel to Donald Trump. *

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, (Class of 1969) Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner and best-selling author *

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(Class of 1991), Author * Richard LeFrak (Class of 1963), Real-estate developer *

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(1954–2001, Class of 1972), Executive Director of the

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, killed during the

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on the

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(Class of 2006) Professional basketball player *

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(Class of 1979), Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball
Elizabeth Tisch
(Class of 1990) Philanthropist, Clothing designer
Zara Tisch
(Class of 2003) Clothing designer * Robin Wagner (class of 1975) Olympic figure-skating coach. *

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(1920–2017, class of 1938), sports radio broadcaster. * Barbara Heldt (Class of 1958), emerita professor of Russian and Slavic studies.

References

External links

Official website
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