Big Apple Badgers of the Year
2023
Jody Gottfried Arnhold BA '65 - Badger of the Year
Founder of Dance Education Laboratory (DEL)
Kathy Chazen BS '74 - Lifetime Achievement
2019
Paul Leff BBA '83, MS '84
Co-founder of Perry Capital
2018
Troy Vincent BA ’92
Executive VP of Football Operations – NFL
Libby Geist ’02
Oscar Award-winning producer of “O.J.: Made in America”
2017
Peter Greenberg ’72
Emmy Award-winning Investigative Reporter and Producer
Andrew Bergman MA ’66 PhD ’70
Screenwriter, director, and novelist
2016
Gabriel Stulman ’03
Restauranteur and Founder of Happy Cooking Hospitality
2012
John L. Hirsch
2011
James Goetz ’64
Curtis Trinko ’71
2010
Doris Weisberg ’58
2007
Peter Leidel ’78
2006
Jerome ’48 and Simona ’49 Chazen
Lifetime Aceivement Award
2005
Ruth Gruber ’31
Author and Photographer
2002
Joshua Sapan ’73
Rainbow Media Holdings
2000
Andre De Shields ’70
Emmy Award-Winning Actor
1997
Robert D. McFadden ’60
New York Times Company
1996
Paul J. Collins ’58, Vice Chairman
Citicorp/ Citibank
1995
Bruce R. Ellig ’59, VP & Dir.
Pfizer, Inc.
1994
Barry Freedman ’70, EVP & Dir.
Mount Sinai Medical Center
1993
Lance Primis ’68, President
New York Times Company
1992
Jerome A. Chazen ’48, CEO
Lis Claibourne, Inc.
1991
Carleton A. Holstrom ’57
Holstrom & Company
1990
Hon. Richard Lowe ’64
New York Supreme Court
1989
Alair Townsend ’64, Publisher
Crain’s New York Business
1988
LLee Raymond ’60, President
Exxon
1987
Edward Heberlein ’30
Mobil Oil Company
1986
Robert Froehlke ’49, CEO
Equitable Life
1985
Pat Richter ’64, Personnel Dir.
General Foods
1984
Jeff Greenfield
ABC News Analyst
1983
Russell Christesen ’46, CEO
EBASCO Services, Inc.
1982
Kay Kaplovitz, CEO
USA Cable Network
1981
Robert Turell ’28, MD
Surgeon, Professor
1980
Donald Procknow ’47, President
Western Electric Company
1978
Prof. Stefan H. Robock ’38
Columbia University
1977
Edwin Newman ’40
NBC News Correspondent
1976
Hugh L. Rusch ’23, President
Hugh L. Rusch Associates
1975
Eugene F. Kinkead ’28
New Yorker Magazine
1974
Dr. Emanuel R. Piore ’30
IBM
1973
Lewis G. Weeks ’17, CEO
Weeks Natural Resources
1972
Karl M. Mann ’11, CEO
CSM Publications
1971
Charles F. Luce ’41, CEO
Consolidated Edison Co.
1970
Charles Vevier ’48, President
Adelphi University
1969
David Susskind
Talent Associated, Limited
1968
Arthur F. Wadsworth, EVP
Dillon Read & Company
1967
H.I. Romnes ’28, CEO
AT&T
1966
Kenneth Wachman, President
James Talcott, Inc.
1965
William B. Murphy ’28, President
Campbell Soup Company
1964
Ralph B. Johnson
Smith Barney & Company
1963
Leroy Petersen, CEO
Otis Elevator Company
1962
Dr. John A. Keenan, President
WAA & Standard Packaging
1961
Whitney N. Seymour ’20, President
American Car Association
1960
Frederic March ’20, Actor
Oscar Winner, ’32 & ’47
1959
Dr. Edward Tatum ’32
Nobel Prize ’58 Medicine
1958
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Merchandising/ Advertising
1957
T.E. Brittingham, Jr., President
Wis. Alumni Research