5/5/11
State Treasurer Steven Grossman will receive an honorary degree and serve as commencement speaker at Curry College’s commencement ceremony Sunday, May 15.

The college will award Grossman a doctor of humanities.

Grossman was elected treasurer last year. Previously, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of the Grossman Marketing Group, and its predecessor Massachusetts Envelope Co., a 100-year-old, fourth-generation family business.

Grossman has a long history of public service. He served as the chairman of both the Massachusetts Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee under President Clinton. He is a leading figure in numerous charitable and community organizations, serving as an advisory board member of the Women’s Lunch Place and as a founding board member of Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth.

Grossman is also a former campaign chair of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, a founding board member of the Lenny Zakim Fund, and a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Grossman is an honors graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He and his wife, Dr. Barbara Wallace Grossman, share a commitment to higher education.

The treasurer previously served as the board chair of Brandeis University and was an advisor to ACCESS, a leading Boston provider of financial information and resources for young people seeking an affordable path to and through a postsecondary education. His wife is a professor at Tufts University, where she previously chaired the department of drama and dance.