Media & Events
MEDIA
The New York Times
Immigrants Take Oath at Monticello, Feeling the Weight of the Past
Just before 9 a.m. on the Fourth of July, the gong on Monticello’s roof rang, silencing the crowd that had gathered to celebrate those vowing to uphold and protect the ideals of the United States. The sound heralded the pageantry that was moments away, when nearly 70 people would ascend the stairs of Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop plantation in one of the country’s largest outdoor naturalization ceremonies. Read more here…
WINA Radio
67 people became newly naturalized Americans
On a red, white and blue Fourth of July at Monticello, 67 people ended their allegiance to 35 former homelands. U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen had the chance Wednesday to read the names of newly naturalized Americans. They came from places such as Honduras, Iraq, the United Kingdom, Sierra Leone, and New Zealand. Read more here…
The Daily Progress
67 Join ‘our American family’ at Monticello naturalization ceremony
Reidar Stiernstrand completed his interview for citizenship two weeks ago. “[I] asked the agent there,” he said, “‘There’s this event down at Monticello down in Charlottesville, where I live. It’s in two weeks, on the Fourth of July. Do you think there’s any chance I can get in there?’” The next day, Stiernstrand got a call that he could participate. Read more here…
Inside Edition
Dr. Oz Among Those Sharing Stories of Immigration in New Book
If the Statue of Liberty is the official greeter of America, the Emma Lazarus poem “The New Colossus” is her welcome song, asking for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses who are yearning to be free. Read more here…
Weill Cornell Medicine
Choi Family Featured in New Book About Immigrants to America
Included in the book is a contribution from Dr. Mary Choi, a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. In the essay, she and her husband, Dr. Augustine M.K. Choi, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine, recount their respective families’ histories, which are strikingly similar. Read more here…
Avenue Magazine
Journeys: An American Story… Then and Now
Rarely I have I been to a more timely book event. Journeys: An American Story, a new book compiled by Andrew Tisch and Mary Skafidas, is a collection of first person reflections of the American immigrant experience that are as diverse as the United States of America. Read more here…
Harvard Business School
An Unfinished Story: A new book celebrates the United States’ history of immigration
In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country three years earlier in hopes of building a better life for his family. Read more here…
Fox5NY
In new book, famous Americans reflect on immigrant ancestors
Bloomberg TV
VIDEO: Andrew Tisch, Mary Skafidas on New Book, ‘Journeys: An American Story’
Andrew Tisch, co-chairman of Loews, and Mary Skafidas, Loews investor relations head, discuss their new book “Journeys: An American Story,” which details the immigrant experience in the U.S. They speak with Bloomberg’s David Westin and Shery Ahn on “Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power.” Watch here…
The New York Times
VIDEO: Close Up with Sam Roberts: Give Us Liberty
A discussion with Sam Roberts of what independence means in our litigious climate. Andrew Tisch and Mary Skafidas, compilers of “Journeys: An American Story” describe some of the 72 Americans profiled in their book…and the influence of their families’ immigrations here. Read more…
The New York Times
In “Journeys: An American Story” (RosettaBooks), Andrew Tisch and Mary Skafidas have compiled 72 essays by immigrants or their descendants, some of whom are famous, like Michael R. Bloomberg, while others are everyday — albeit exceptional — Americans. Read more…
Fox News
Andrew Tisch, Mary Skafidas: America needs immigrants to be great
Among the daily noise of a dysfunctional government, the immigration debate has dragged on in Washington for so long that we have forgotten what’s really at stake.
America needs immigrants to be great. Read more…
EVENTS
July 4th at Monticello
On July 4, Andrew Tisch will speak at the oldest naturalization ceremony outside of a courtroom in the United States, the 56th annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and welcome our country’s new citizens from around the world. Read more…