WCSU scholarship to honor Dr. Goldstein

The Greater New Milford Spectrum

September 14, 2007

Western Connecticut State University, News Channel 8-WTNH and MyTV9 will honor Dr. Mel Goldstein Sept. 28 with the establishment of a scholarship for meteorology students.

Dr. Goldstein taught at WestConn for 27 years and has been chief meteorologist at WTNH and MyTV9 since 1986.

He also has inspired countless people as a survivor of multiple myeloma, a type of bone cancer.

"Dr. Mel is a treasure to this community, to WestConn and to the state of Connecticut," said Dr. G. Koryoe Anim-Wright, vice president of institutional advancement at the university.

"His many years in meteorology have made him a household name in Connecticut and beyond," Dr. Anim-Wright said in a press release.

"Finding a way to appropriately say thank you is not easy, but we hope this event conveys, in a small way, to Mel and his family the love, respect and admiration the university and the community at large have for him and his work," Dr. Anim-Wright said.

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