The luncheon wasthe occasion for the presentation of this years Lou Theiss Award for Community Service,  and that the honoree was our member and Trustee, Judith Limpert, Manager of the Bayside branch of the North Fork Bank.  Click here to read more about Judy.

The 2001 recipient of the award was Police Officer Cosmo Camilliti.  In 2000, before the creation of the award, our honoree was New York City  PBA President Patrick J. Lynch.

At the Anniversary Luncheon we also recognized the achievements of the officers and faculty advisors of our Key Clubs, at Cardozo High School and at Bayside High School.

She’s now vice-president/branch manager for the Bayside branch of North Fork Bank. She thinks she knows why she so readily progressed from part-time teller to VP: “I was good in math and I love people, so the two went together.”

Did she find climbing the proverbial corporate ladder more difficult because she’s a woman? “The glass ceiling does exist,” she says, “But I don’t focus on limits. I just do my best.”

She was nervous about taking on more responsibility because of her other responsibilities at home, but she did it. “Banking is probably one of the easiest fields for women fields for women to excel,” she said.

Limpert is glad to be assigned to the Bayside Branch. “I consider it to be the best place in Queens to be,” she said. If her enthusiasm at work weren’t enough to prove it, Limpert is president of the Bayside Business Association. She also serves on the Board of the Bayside Historical Society, the Bayside Kiwanis Club and the Bayside Ambulance Corps.

She even turned her hobby of golf into a way to help the community—she arranges benefit golf outings.

When Judy’s not working or volunteering, she enjoys the company of her four children and seven grandchildren, and retreats to her upstate home for relaxation.

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