Washington for Riverdale Country Day School: Gregg Hymowitz
The Riverdale Country Day School offered the junior class an exciting adventure last week. As a culmination to their American studies course and as an end-of-the-year treat, they went to Washington D.C. Certainly, this is the type of enrichment activity encouraged by Board and Trustee members such as Gregg Hymowitz of EnTrust Capital.
Head of Upper School Kent Kildahl explained that the trip was as much as celebration of the end of the junior year as it was an educational outing. As he said, “It’s a logical, fun way to end the year with a group of students who have taken the same course together all year.”
The students enjoyed tours of the U.S. Capitol, the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court, while meeting with Capitol Hill correspondent Jonathan Karl from ABC News and enjoying a musical.
Gregg Hymowitz Speaks at BALCONY Conference
Gregg Hymowitz was a featured speaker at the BALCONY (Business and Labor Coalition of New York) Conference which was held in New York City, at the Hard Rock Cafe, on December 4, 2009, discussing world economic issues and the impact they will have on the future economy of New York, the United States, and the world.
Listen to the full presentation made by Gregg Hymowitz at the conference.
BALCONY Featured Speaker Gregg Hymowitz
At the end of 2009 Gregg Hymowitz was a featured speaker at the BALCONY conference discussing current issues in the global economy. Of special concern to Mr. Hymowitz was the extreme worldwide debt facing a large number of industrialized countries around the world. Despite the fact that Gregg Hymowitz considers himself an optimist, his analysis was decidedly grim as far as the prognosis for the global economy to recover from its current state of extreme debt.
BALCONY is an acronym for Business and Labor Coalition of New York. On Friday, December 4, 2009 they held a panel discussion-forum-seminar entitles “Wall Street and the New York Economy One Year After…”
The forum took place at the Hard Rock Café on 43rd St and Broadway in New York City. Among the many participants were the co chairman of BALCONY, Bruce Ventimiglia; the New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli; and New York City Comptroller John C. Liu.
Gregg Hymowitz of EnTrust Capital and Investment Strategies Presentation
Gregg Hymowitz of EnTrust Capital explains the concept of portable alpha and its effect on investment strategies in the following presentation.
Enrichment at the Riverdale Country School
The Students of Color (SOC) group at The Riverdale Country School recently hosted an African Clay Mask and Dance Workshop. The Lower School Coordinator of Community Developing and first grade teacher Latoya Allen has created several weekend events of this sort so that parents can meet and mingle and so that kids can learn something fun together.
During this recent event on March 13th, the parents enjoyed a pot luck meal while the kids learned a few African dances and made clay masks with the help of Ivy Omere from the Little Steps Workshop.
This event is one example of the creative ways that Riverdale Country School, where Gregg Hymowitz is on the Board of Trustees, works to bring parents together and to enrich student learning opportunities.
Gregg Hymowitz on Cavuto
In a “head-to-head” panel discussion on “Cavuto on Business” from Fox News, Gregg Hymowitz explained that it makes no sense to say that unions are 
deliberately causing economic hardships to the companies their union members work for.
Hymowitz argued that since the companies are the entities that are providing the jobs that the union members work at, why would the unions deliberately try and shut down those companies?
