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Bi-Cultural Day School celebrates 55 years

STAMFORD – Dr. Paul and Dina Berger of Westport and Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, Chief of Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State, are among the honorees at the Bi-Cultural Day School 55th Anniversary Dinner to be held on Monday, May 30, 5 p.m., at the Greenwich Hyatt Hotel.

Dina and Paul Berger

The Bergers, the parents of three Bi-Cultural alums, are long time leaders at the Stamford school.  In appreciation of their dedicated leadership they have been selected the evening’s Guests of Honor. Ambassador Benjamin, a member of the Bi-Cultural Class of 1975, will receive the 2011 Alumni Award.
Paul Berger is immediate past president of the Bi-Cultural board of trustees. Prior to that, he served for ten years in key positions on the school’s executive board.  A prominent radiation oncologist, he holds three post-graduate degrees; in addition to a medical degree, he holds a law degree and an MBA. Among other distinctions, he is a past Chief of Radiation Medicine at Bridgeport Hospital and past director of its Norma Pfriem Cancer Center.
Dina  Berger is an attorney, community leader and business owner.  She has served on the board of Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, is a longtime leader of UJA/Federation of Westport-Weston-Wilton-Norwalk, and is a past member of the town of Westport’s Conservation Commission.

Ambassador Benjamin

A native of Stamford, Daniel Benjamin’s State Department post comes with the title of Ambassador-at-Large.  He is a graduate of Harvard University and Oxford.  His extensive foreign policy experience includes positions at the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and on the National Security Council staff (1994-1999), where he rose to Director of Counterterrorism in the Office of Transnational Threats.  Earlier in his career, he was a foreign policy speechwriter and special assistant to President Clinton.  He is also co-author of two highly-acclaimed books: “The Age of Sacred Terror” (Random House, 2002) and “The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right” (Holt/Times Books, 2005).
Ambassador Benjamin and his wife reside in the Washington, DC, area, where their two children attend Jewish day school.
With 365 students, Bi-Cultural Day School is Connecticut’s largest private Jewish school.

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