Columbia College alumni award
The John Jay Award is presented annually by Columbia College of Columbia University to its alumni for distinguished professional achievement. It is named for Founding Father of the United States John Jay , Columbia College Class of 1764.[1] The first awards were handed out in 1979.
As of 2020, the awards have been presented to 220 honorees.[2]
Notable former recipients are shown below and are grouped in cohorts by the decade when they received the award. The list of recipients include many well-known professionals in a wide variety of fields.[3] [4] Among the recipients are eight Pulitzer Prize winners, five Nobel Prize laureates, five Tony Award winners, five billionaires, four Academy Awards winners, three Golden Globe Awards winners, two United States Attorneys General , a President of Estonia , a Chairman of the Federal Reserve , an administrator of the National Aerospace Development Administration , a United States Secretary of Defense , a Senator of the United States, and numerous other accomplished businessmen, journalists, politicians, athletes, playwrights, and literary figures.
1979
Roone Arledge (1952), former president of ABC News and winner of 36 Emmys ; creator of 20/20 , Nightline , Monday Night Football , ABC World News Tonight and Primetime
James C. Fletcher (1940), president of the University of Utah and administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Max Frankel (1952), Pulitzer Prize winning executive editor of The New York Times
Mark N. Kaplan (1951), CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert and Engelhard
Arthur Levitt Sr. (1921), longest-serving New York State Comptroller ; father of Arthur Levitt , Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Franklin A. Thomas (1956), former president of The Ford Foundation
1980
1981
Sidney Sheinberg (1955), head of MCA Inc. and Universal Pictures
George Segal (1955), star of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , Ship of Fools and Just Shoot Me! , winner of the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1965 and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 1973
Armand Hammer (1919), philanthropist, chairman of Occidental Petroleum , namesake of Hammer Museum and Armand Hammer United World College of the American West , great-grandfather of actor Armie Hammer
Robert F. Blumofe (1930), producer of Bound for Glory , nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
S. Marshall Kempner (1919), American investment banker and founder of Bank of the West , brother-in-law of Peggy Guggenheim
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
Robert A. M. Stern (1960), traditionalist architect, dean of the Yale School of Architecture , designer of 15 Central Park West , 30 Park Place , 520 Park Avenue , 220 Central Park South , Comcast Center in Philadelphia, Mandarin Oriental, Atlanta , Tour Carpe Diem in Paris, the George W. Bush Presidential Center , and two new residential colleges of Yale University .
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1935), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
William Campbell (1962), chairman of the board of Intuit , former board director of Apple Inc. ; founder of Claris
José A. Cabranes (1961), judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals ; first Puerto Rican to sit in a U.S. District Court ; current Trustee of Columbia University
Gedale B. Horowitz (1953), former executive committee member of Salomon Brothers , founding chairman of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
Paul Marks (1945), geneticist, president emeritus of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Investigation
Eric Holder (1973), United States Attorney General under Barack Obama , Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton , United States Attorney for the District of Columbia , judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Henry S. Coleman (1946), former dean of students of Columbia College, Columbia University held hostage during the Columbia University protests of 1968
Philip L. Milstein (1971), American real estate developer, former chairman of Emigrant Savings Bank , son of Seymour Milstein
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Li Lu (1996), former student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , and American investment banker , founder of Himalaya Capital
Daniel S. Loeb (1983), billionaire, hedge fund manager, founder of Third Point Management
Ben Horowitz (1988), technology entrepreneur, co-founder of software company Opsware and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz , son of conservative writer David Horowitz '59
Ellen Gustafson (2002), businesswoman, social entrepreneur, food activist, co-founder of FEED Projects and former spokesperson for the World Food Programme
Dede Gardner (1990), Academy Award -winning producer of 12 Years a Slave ; president of Plan B Entertainment
2013
2014
2015
2016[5]
2017[6]
2018
2019
A dinner, during which the award would be bestowed upon the recipients, is usually held to raise scholarship and support money for the John Jay National Scholars Program.[2] The dinner was cancelled in 1989, when alumni awardee Frank Lorenzo , then Chairman of Eastern Air Lines , was widely criticized for his treatment of Eastern Air Lines ' striking machinists and for his controversial managing techniques.[7] [8] [9] [10]
In 2004, the award was given to American real estate businessman Peter Kalikow , who was serving as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and was the former owner and publisher of the New York Post . Kalikow's son graduated from the college in 2002 and he had been a major donor to the university. His selection marked the first time since 1979 that the award was given to a non-alumnus of the college.[11] His receipt had generated controversy among professors and alumni, among them Professor Michael Rosenthal and former Alumni Association President Harvey Rubin, an independent publisher who is the father of college alumni James and Elizabeth Rubin . Since then, only alumni of the college are eligible for the award.[12] [13] [14]