Clara and Morton Richmond Scholarship
Morton Richmond, an impoverished 23-year old, immigrated from Russia in 1926. He married Clara Richmond, who was born in Clinton, CT, and the two were married for 62 years. Morton became a prominent real estate investor who owned properties in Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens, NY. In addition to managing her husband’s office, Clara was a homemaker who raised her four sons in New Rochelle, NY. She was also a talented mezzo-soprano who performed in numerous community productions and conducted the Women’s Westchester Chorale.
Mr. Richmond passed away in 2002 at the age of 100, and Clara died at age 98 in 2017.
Their son Stan is a longtime member of the Ramapo College Foundation Board of Governors, and serves on the advisory boards of the Friends of Ramapo and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
He created this scholarship to honor the memory of his parents, and to support students who are interested in understanding the origins, theory and practice of international human rights and the treatment of genocide as a crime under international law.