LIU PROFESSOR ENTERS HALL OF FAME
--Phil Wolitzer, of Sheepshead Bay, Honored by Accounting Society--

Brooklyn, N.Y. — Philip Wolitzer, Professor Emeritus of Accounting at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, has been selected by The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) to receive the society's 2002-2003 Hall of Fame Award for “the prominence you have attained in your professional career."

"Being named to the society's Hall of Fame is especially gratifying," says Wolitzer, "inasmuch as it is an honor conferred by my peers," adding, "Since the award was established in 1896, only 15 people have been inducted, almost all of them posthumously. I'm the second living person to be so honored."

A long-time resident of the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, Wolitzer has been a professor at the Brooklyn Campus for more than 50 years, including 20 years as accounting department chair. He has served as financial consultant to many businesses and as officer of many faculty organizations. "If I could start again," says Wolitzer, "I'd still be an accountant.” “ My students are proud to have chosen accounting as a career,” he adds,”and are determined to change the profession for the better."

The Hall of Fame award, to be conferred at a gala dinner in May, is but the latest of a long list of honors received by Professor Wolitzer over the years. These include being named "Accountant of the Year" by the Accounting Society of Adelphi University and receiving the NYSSCPA's Outstanding CPA in Education Award.

Long Island University President David Steinberg, on learning of Wolitzer's upcoming honor, expressed the feelings of the entire University community in his letter of congratulations: "Phil, your career of teaching and  professional service is one that cannot be matched by anyone, anywhere."

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including nearly 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus