Nazareth College Honors Naomi Silver with Woerner Kollmorgen Award
Nazareth College is pleased to announce that Rochester Red Wings President, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Naomi Silver is this year’s recipient of the Woerner Kollmorgen Award for Community Service. This year’s breakfast and award ceremony takes place on Thursday, April 28 at 8:00 a.m. in the Forum of the Otto A. Shults Center. Nazareth College is located at 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, N.Y. 14618.
Since 2008, Nazareth College has had the privilege of administering The Woerner Kollmorgen Award for Community Service. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the greater Rochester community, thereby improving the quality of life.
Community leader and philanthropist Naomi Silver has been involved with the Rochester Red Wings her entire life. The daughter of the late Morrie Silver, savior of Rochester baseball, Silver grew up with the game and has taken an active role in Rochester Community Baseball for more than three decades. Beginning as an intern in the 1990s, she assumed roles of increasing responsibility, eventually becoming the country’s first and only female at the helm of a professional minor league baseball franchise. As President, CEO and COO of the organization, she has overseen the Red Wings’ most successful period in its history. Her devotion to Rochester has made the city’s franchise among the most revered, respected, and longest continuously operating franchises in all of baseball.
Silver also believes strongly in giving back to her community. She currently serves on the boards of or is deeply involved with a variety of local, regional, and national organizations, including Monroe Community College, Special Olympics, United Way, First Niagara Bank, Jewish Community Federation, Rochester Riverside Convention Center, and Hillel Community Day School. Her awards and recognitions are numerous and tell of her dedication to her profession and her community. Among others, they include the PRism Award CEO of the Year, St. John Fisher Sports Manager of the Year, Minor League Executive of the Year, and Rawlings Woman Executive of the Year. She has been honored by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Athena Awards, March of Dimes, and Rochester Press Radio Club. In 2004, she was inducted into the Frontier Field Walk of Fame, and in 2007, she joined the Hall of Fame for her own beloved Red Wings.
Her hard work and community dedication make Naomi Silver a deserving recipient of the prestigious Woerner Kollmorgen Award. Previous award winners include Richard Constantino, M.D., Gary Rogers, Walter Cooper, Ph.D., Robert Wayland-Smith, J. Christine Wilson, Justin Vigdor, T. Franklin Williams, M.D., and Carter Catlett Williams, C.S.W., A.C.S.W.
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Julie Long, Chief Public Relations Officer, (585) 389-2456, jlong2@naz.edu
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