Mack-Cali CEO honored

Real Estate Weekly, March 12, 2003

Mitchell E. Hersh, chief executive officer of Mack-Call Realty Corporation, was honored as recipient of the 2003 Hebrew Academy for Special Children (HASC) Humanitarian Award at the HASC Inaugural Benefit Dinner on March 3 at the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St.

Proceeds from the dinner benefitted Camp HASC, an award-winning summer camp of the Hebrew Academy of Special Children in New York's Catskill Mountains where children with cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome and autism spend seven weeks in a caring, loving and warm environment.

The dinner was co-chaired by Charles Kushner, chairman of Kushner Companies; Richard Stadtmauer, vice chairman and managing partner of Kushner Companies; and Bruce Schonbraun, managing partner of Schonbraun Safris McCann Bekritsky & Company. Barry Lefkowitz, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Mack-Call Realty Corporation, was the event journal chairman.

Hersh served as Regional Corporate Chairman of the American Heart Association's 2001 New Jersey Heart Walk

In 2002, he was the recipient of the Monmouth University Real Estate Institute Leadership Excellence Award and the Hamilton Township, New Jersey Economic Development Advisory Commission Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Hersh is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable and serves on the Board of Trustees of the New York University Real Estate Institute and on the Board of Directors for both the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties.