Jay Feinberg '90 received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University on Sunday, December 11, 2005. Feinberg, the founder and executive director of the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, received the degree during the Annual Hanukkah Dinner and Convocation at The Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Other honorary degree recipients included U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Jay Feinberg '90 with fellow honorary degree recipient Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
and Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel.

A political-science major at Dickinson, Jay Feinberg was diagnosed with leukemia at age 22 and told that a bone-marrow transplant was his only hope. Friends and family organized donor drives to collect blood samples to test for matching tissue types. The testing added thousands of donor names to various registries around the world. After his successful transplant in 1995, Jay continued the efforts to identify donors. He organized the Gift of Life Foundation, which became an official bone-marrow registry in 1997.

For more information:

• Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry
• Yeshiva University Convocation
• Alumni in the News: Jay Feinberg (April 2004)

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