Millicent Anisfield Scholarship

An astute businesswoman, civic and community leader, Millicent Anisfield served as a member of the Ramapo College Board of Trustees from 1985 to 1997, chairing the Board from 1992 to 1994. She then served on the College Foundation Board of Governors from 1998 to 2012 and was the Founding Chair of the Board’s Planned Giving Committee.

In 2006, Mrs. Anisfield and her husband Richard made the largest gift in the College’s history to strengthen the business program and the Anisfield School of Business was named in their honor. Mr. Anisfield witnessed many positive changes in the Anisfield School, including AACSB accreditation, until his death in October 2011.

Between 1977 and 1984 Mrs. Anisfield was a trustee at Montclair State College. She was actively involved in a number of charitable organizations, including the Valley Hospital Foundation, Gilda’s Club, the Greater Montclair Urban Coalition, the League of Women Voters and Hadassah. Mrs. Anisfield received the Outstanding Philanthropist Award by the New Jersey Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 2008. Also that year, the Board of Trustees awarded Millicent and Richard honorary degrees from the College.

In the 1970s Mrs. Anisfield played an active role in the community of Montclair, serving as campaign coordinator of the 1976 municipal election, on the Advisory Committee to the Commissioner of Public Safety and as a member of the high school’s Advisory Committees on Title VII and Interracial Affairs. During that time she was also systems manager at Kurt Versen Company, a lighting fixtures manufacturer.

Mrs. Anisfield created this endowed scholarship in 1988 to recognize students who demonstrate outstanding scholastic achievement. Mrs. Anisfield is greatly missed as she passed away on December 30, 2017 at the age of 92.