[Upbeat Music plays]

>> ROBERT V. LAPENTA: Tonight we're here to celebrate, a new era, for Iona College.

[Crowd Applauds]

>> ROBERT V. LAPENTA: I, in many ways, represent what Iona is all about: providing a quality
education to many students who are the first in their family to attend college.
Then, to enable them, to go out, give them the keys to open the doors, to become
successful and fulfill their dreams. And to have the LaPenta name attached to
some of that...I cannot describe what it means to me and my family. Thank you so
much.