List of John Jay Award recipients

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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.

1979-1989[]

1979

1980

  • Harold Brown (1945), U.S. Secretary of Defense and president of the California Institute of Technology
  • Emanuel Ax (1970), Grammy Award-winning concert pianist

1981

1982

  • Morris Schapiro (1923), American investment banker, grandfather of painter Jacob Collins '86 and brother of art historian Meyer Schapiro '24
  • Martin Meyerson (1942), president of the University of Pennsylvania
  • John Kluge (1937), billionaire, chairman and founder of Metromedia; America's richest person from 1989–1990; namesake of the John W. Kluge Center and Kluge Prize at the Library of Congress

1983

  • George Starke (1971), offensive lineman for the Washington Redskins
  • Joseph Kraft (1947), American journalist and speechwriter for John F. Kennedy
  • Lawrence K. Grossman (1952), president of PBS from 1976 to 1984 and NBC News from 1985 to 1988
  • Robert Neil Butler (1949), president of the International Longevity Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
  • Arthur F. Burns (1925), Chairman of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Ambassador to West Germany

1984

1985

  • Art Garfunkel (1965), singer of Simon and Garfunkel, famous for the song The Sound of Silence
  • Leon Cooper (1951), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972
  • Harvey M. Krueger (1951), former CEO of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and vice chairman of Lehman Brothers

1986

1987

  • Archie Roberts (1965), former football player for the Miami Dolphins and cardiac surgeon
  • Alvin F. Poussaint (1956), professor of psychiatry and dean of freshmen at Harvard Medical School
  • Robert Kraft (1963), American billionaire, chairman and CEO of The Kraft Group; owner of the New England Patriots
  • Hugh H. Bownes (1941), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

1988

1989

1990-1999[]

1990

  • Jeremiah Stamler (1940), epidemiologist, expert in the field of preventive cardiology, professor emeritus at Northwestern University
  • Sid Luckman (1939), NFL Hall of Fame Chicago Bears quarterback
  • Daniel Edelman (1940), founder of the world's largest public relations firm Edelman
  • Mortimer Adler* (1923), philosopher and Great Books pioneer

1991

1992

  • Russell F. Warren (1962), surgeon-in-chief of the Hospital for Special Surgery from 1993 to 2003 and team doctor for the New York Giants
  • Terrence McNally (1960), Tony Award-winning playwright; author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime (musical)
  • Richard Axel (1967), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying the operations of the olfactory system

1993

  • George Stephanopoulos (1982), ABC News personality; senior advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration
  • Richard Ravitch (1955), former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Bowery Savings Bank
  • Judd Gregg (1969), United States Senator from New Hampshire; Governor of New Hampshire; United States Congressman
  • Allen Ginsberg (1948), Beat generation poet; author of Howl
  • Caitlin Bilodeaux (1987), Olympic fencer

1994

1995

  • Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (1959), former president of the University of Hartford and of George Washington University
  • Kenneth Lipper (1962), financier and deputy mayor of New York City; Academy Award-winning producer of The Holocaust documentary The Last Days
  • Milton Handler (1923), antitrust expert and Columbia Law School professor

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000-2009[]

2000

2001

2002

  • Joel Klein (1967), assistant Attorney General of the United States; Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education

2003

2004

  • Peter Kalikow, 8th chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, former owner and publisher of the New York Post
  • E. Javier Loya, co-founder of OTC Global Holdings & minority owner of NFL's Houston Texans.

2005

2006

  • Alexis Glick (1994), anchorwoman for the Fox Business Network
  • Dean Baquet (1978), Pulitzer Prize-winning executive editor of The New York Times

2007

2008

2009

  • Greg Wyatt (1971), sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, known for designing the Peace Fountain
  • Benjamin Jealous (1994), former president of the NAACP
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal (1999), Golden Globe-winning actress for The Honourable Woman, and star in Secretary, Stranger than Fiction and The Dark Knight

2010-2019[]

2010

  • Julia Stiles (2005), star of Save the Last Dance and Mona Lisa Smile
  • David Rosand (1954), Art historian at Columbia University

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

  • George Yancopoulos (1980), American billionaire, biomedical scientist and CSO of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
  • Kai-Fu Lee (1983), Taiwanese IT Venture Capitalist, founder of Google China and Microsoft Research Asia
  • Katori Hall (2003), American playwright, The Mountaintop

2014

  • Mozelle W. Thompson (1976), commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission from 1997 to 2004
  • James Melcher (1961), Olympic fencer, president of Fencers Club and hedge fund manager
  • Robert Lefkowitz (1962), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2015

  • Andrew W. Marlowe (1988), creator of Castle; writer of Air Force One, End of Days, and Hollow Man
  • Ira Katznelson (1966), American political scientist and historian, professor and interim provost at Columbia University
  • Kyra Tirana Barry (1987), team leader for U.S. Women's National wrestling team

2016

2018

2019

2020-2029[]

Controversy[]

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.[5][6][7][8]

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.[9] 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.[10][11][12]

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References[]

  1. ^ "What you should know about forgotten founding father John Jay". PBS NewsHour. 2015-07-04. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  2. ^ a b "2020 JOHN JAY AWARDS DINNER". Columbia College Alumni Association. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  3. ^ "John Jay Awards". Columbia College Alumni Association. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  4. ^ "2020 John Jay Awards Dinner". Columbia College Alumni Association. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  5. ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator 20 March 1989 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  6. ^ "FRANK LORENZO'S SAD LEGACY | JOC.com". www.joc.com. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  7. ^ Salpukas, Agis (1991-01-20). "Eastern Airlines Brought Down by a Strike So Bitter It Became a Crusade". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  8. ^ "Eastern Airlines once flew high over Miami. Then came the day it was grounded forever". Miami Herald. February 24, 2019. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  9. ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator 2 March 2004 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  10. ^ "John Jays Honor College". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  11. ^ Dougherty, Philip H. (1984-12-03). "Advertising; Magazine for Youth in Sports". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  12. ^ "WEDDINGS; Jamie Rubin, Christiane Amanpour". The New York Times. 1998-08-09. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
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