{"id":16360,"date":"2015-02-23T19:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/23\/david-strassler-m-b-a-11-honorary-trustee-and-clark-champion-receives-adl-honor-for-lifetime-achievement-leadership\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:46:05","slug":"david-strassler-m-b-a-11-honorary-trustee-and-clark-champion-receives-adl-honor-for-lifetime-achievement-leadership","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/23\/david-strassler-m-b-a-11-honorary-trustee-and-clark-champion-receives-adl-honor-for-lifetime-achievement-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"David Strassler, M.B.A. ’11, honorary Trustee and Clark champion, receives ADL honor for lifetime achievement, leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

From left, Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, Barbara B. Balser, past ADL National Chair, Ronald D. Balser, ADL National Commissioner, David Strassler, who was presented with the Barbara B. Balser ADL Lifetime Achievement Award, and Barry Curtiss-Lusher, ADL National Chair. (Photo courtesy ADL)\r\n\r\nDavid H. Strassler, M.B.A. ’11, honorary member and former chair of the Board of Trustees and longtime supporter of Clark University<\/a>, recently was honored by the Anti-Defamation League<\/a> (ADL) in recognition of his dedicated commitment to the fight against ant-Semitism and for his decades of leadership in the service of ADL’s mission to combat hate.\r\n\r\nStrassler, of Great Barrington, was presented with the Barbara B. Balser ADL Lifetime Achievement Award on February 6, during ADL’s National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Florida.\r\n<\/p>

​”David Strassler is living proof that one person can make a difference. Thanks to his generosity, Clark University launched what has grown into a hugely successful doctoral degree program in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies.”\r\n\r\n