Beth S. Goldberg will receive the Hofstra George M. Estabrook Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award Dec. 4 at the 44th Annual Investiture Dinner. The event will take place at the Long Island Marriott hotel in Uniondale.

Goldberg is one of six recipients for the year 2004. The others are Robert Bernstein, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Diamond, attorney Ilene Cooper, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Spinola and Actor Thomas McGowan.

Goldberg is an artist, teacher and art therapist who has applied art therapy techniques with the elderly, disabled, and mentally challenged. She is an award winning artist whose works have been displayed at the National Arts Club, the Salmagundi and Cork Gallery in New York, the Heckscher Museum, Firehouse Gallery and Sumner Museum.

She is listed in the Who's Who in American Art and is the recipient of awards by the Town of Oyster Bay as a Woman of Distinction in the Arts in 2000, and Woman of Distinction in Civic and Community Affairs in 2003 for her artistry and community service. She is the current president of the New York State Association for the National League of American Pen Women.

Currently, her paintings can be viewed at the Nassau County Museum Café and Museum shop, where the works of Botero and Latin American artists are now featured.