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Dr. Deborah M. DiCroce, President and Chief Executive Officer for the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. Photo courtesy: http://www.hamptonroadscf.org/about/pr/dicroce.html
Dr. Deborah M. DiCroce, President and Chief Executive Officer for the Hampton Roads Community Foundation. Photo courtesy: http://www.hamptonroadscf.org/about/pr/dicroce.html
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Updated: Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 10:48 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 10:48 AM EDT
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) - Dr. Deborah DiCroce is being honored for making her hometown of Chesapeake a better place to live and work.
The Chesapeake Rotary Club named DiCroce, President and Chief Executive Officer for the Hampton Roads Community Foundation , Chesapeake's First Citizen for 2012.
She will be presented the award at a banquet on September 13.
DiCroce served as President of Tidewater Community College from 1998 through February 2012 and was instrumental in a decade-long expansion of the college.
She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Urban League of Hampton Roads, the Future of Hampton Roads and the Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance.
The First Citizen award is the latest honor bestowed on DiCroce. She has also received the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, the Humanitarian Award by the Virginia Conference for Community and Justice, the Distinguished Alumni Award by Old Dominion University, among others.
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