Selection Committee
Dan Aron
Selection Committee Chairman
From 1989-2019, Dan was a Partner and Head Trader at Levin Capital Strategies. Dan started his Wall Street career as an equity sales trader at Salomon Brothers in New York, Chicago, and Tokyo. He serves as a member of several nonprofit organizations including the Dean’s Council of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, the Board of Levitt Pavilion in Westport, CT, and the Board of the Music Theatre of Connecticut. Dan is a 1983 graduate of Indiana University, where he remains involved through mentoring 45 students a year affiliated with the Undergraduate Investment Management Workshop.
Appointed in 2007
Karen Bass
Selection Committee Member
Karen retired from Syracuse University after 23 years in the Office of Admissions, where her most recent position was as Director of International Undergraduate Admissions. A graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Karen and her husband reside in Syracuse, New York.
Appointed in 2016
Steven DelVecchio
Selection Committee Member
Steve is the Senior Assistant Director for International Admission in the Office of Undergraduate Admission at Fordham University. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he returned home to Long Island to begin his career in university admission and receive his MA in Psychology from Adelphi University.
Appointed in 2014
Laurie Derringer
Selection Committee Member
Laurie is the Preschool Master Teacher for Hamilton Township Schools. She completed her undergraduate studies at Seton Hall University and has a Master’s degree from St. John’s University. Laurie was a Jefferies Family Scholarship recipient from 1995-1998. She resides in Mays Landing, NJ with her husband and two daughters.
Appointed in 2019
Alyssa Frank Reichman
Selection Committee Member
Alyssa is currently the Director of the Schawbel College Resource Center at the Boston Latin School, which is the oldest public school in the nation. Prior to her current position where she directs college counseling programming, she was a Senior Assistant Director of Admission at Fordham University. She is a member of National Association of College Admission Counselors (NACAC), and a gradute of Barnard College as well as NYU, where she received an MPA in Public and Nonprofit Management, and an MA in Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
Appointed in 2012
Jefferies Family Scholarship
Receiving the scholarship while I was an undergraduate was instrumental in my making the decision to go to law school. The school year after I first received the scholarship, I transferred from the state school I was attending to a private university and from there pursued my legal education. I am delighted to now be a part of the Scholarship that encourages others to follow their dreams as it encouraged me.
Sally Morris
Esq., Legal Counsel, Jefferies Family Scholarship and JFS Alumni