C.W. Post Campus to Unveil State-of-the-Art Lecture Hall
Named for Co-Benefactors Astoria Federal Savings and its
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer George L. Engelke, Jr.

The C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville will celebrate the opening of the state-of-the-art George L. Engelke, Jr./Astoria Federal Savings Lecture Hall on Wednesday, October 8 at 4 p.m. The renovated 195-seat room features a high-tech audiovisual system and new seating, flooring, lighting and stage area. The Lecture Hall, located in C.W. Post’s Humanities Hall, is used daily for academic lectures, classes, seminars and workshops.

Joseph Shenker, provost of the C.W. Post Campus said, "These renovations will certainly have a tremendous impact on the quality of learning that takes place within the walls of the Lecture Hall for many thousands of students each year."

The fully modernized hall will be named for George L. Engelke, Jr., Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Astoria Financial Corporation and its subsidiary, Astoria Federal Savings, whose continued generosity made the modernization project possible.

"This lecture hall is the heart of Humanities Hall and its renovation will greatly benefit the C.W. Post campus faculty and its 13,000 student community. Long Island’s premier community bank, Astoria Federal Savings, and I are honored to co-underwrite this project. It is another example of how we work hard to support important education-based projects in the communities we serve and live up to our brand promise of ‘Putting people first,’" said Engelke, a resident of Garden City.

Engelke, a certified public accountant, joined Astoria Federal as Vice President and Treasurer in 1971, after specializing in audit and tax work for savings and loan associations for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., predecessor to KPMG, LLP. Engelke was named Executive Vice President in 1974, a member of the Board of Directors in 1983, Chief Operating Officer in 1986 and President and Chief Executive Officer in 1989. He was elected Chairman of the Board in 1997.

Engelke is a member of the Board of Trustees of Long Island University. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Community Preservation Corporation and a member of the Advisory Board of Directors of Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City, Inc., both non-profit housing consortiums, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. He also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Thrift Institutions Advisory Panel, is a past chairman and current member of the Community Bankers Association of New York State, and is a member of various committees of America’s Community Bankers. He previously served as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council.

Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association, with assets of $22.3 billion, is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Astoria Financial Corporation (NYSE:AF). It is the second largest thrift institution headquartered in New York and fifth largest in the United States. Astoria Federal embraces its philosophy of "Putting people first" by providing its 700,000 customers and the local communities it serves with quality financial products and services through 86 convenient branches and multiple delivery channels, including its enhanced website, www.astoriafederal.com. Astoria commands the third largest deposit market share in the attractive Long Island market, which includes Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties with a population exceeding that of 38 individual states. Astoria originates mortgage loans through its branches and loan production offices in New York, an extensive broker network in 19 states, primarily on the East Coast, and through correspondent relationships in 44 states.

C.W. Post is one of six campuses of Long Island University, the seventh largest private university in the United States. With more than 13,000 full- and part-time students, C.W. Post offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in accountancy, business (AACSB accredited), computer science, liberal arts and sciences, library and information science, education, health professions and nursing, public service, and visual and performing arts. C.W. Post also offers doctorates in information studies and clinical psychology as well as an extensive continuing education program.