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AROUND THE QUADS
Klein, McDavid, Lung, Johnson To Receive John Jay
Awards
By Alex Sachare '71
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Columbia College will honor four distinguished and successful
alumni — Joel I. Klein '67, William H. McDavid '68, Conrad
Lung '72 and Derek Q. Johnson '81 — at the John
Jay Awards Dinner, to be held on Wednesday, March 6, in the Grand
Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
The
John Jay Awards, named for the first chief justice of the United
States and a member of the King's College Class of 1764, are
presented annually in recognition of distinguished professional
achievement. Proceeds from the dinner support the John Jay National
Scholarship Program, which provides financial assistance and
special programming for College students.
The
four honorees have made their marks in fields ranging from law to
public service, banking, apparel manufacturing, media and
entertainment.
Joel I. Klein '67 is chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann,
Inc., and chief U.S. liaison officer to Bertelsmann AG, one of the
largest media companies in the world. He is responsible for
corporate functions in the United States. Previously, Klein served
as assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division
at the Department of Justice, where he led many landmark antitrust
cases, including monopoly challenges against Microsoft,
VISA/MasterCard and American Airlines, as well as numerous
successful prosecutions of international cartels. Klein was
appointed acting assistant attorney general in October 1996 after
serving as the Antitrust Division's principal deputy and deputy
counsel to President Clinton. A magna cum laude graduate of the
College and Harvard Law School, Klein practiced law in Washington,
D.C., for 20 years before joining the Justice
Department.
William H. McDavid '68 is general counsel for J.P.
Morgan Chase & Co., the conglomerate formed by the merger of
Chase Manhattan and J.P. Morgan in December 2000. Previously,
McDavid was general counsel for the Chase Manhattan Bank and served
on its management committee. He was an associate in the law firm of
Debevoise & Plimpton from 1972–81 before joining Bankers
Trust as vice president and assistant general counsel. In 1988, he
became general counsel of Chemical Banking, which merged with
Manufacturers Hanover in 1991 and Chase in 1996. McDavid has served
as chairman of The Financial Services Roundtable Lawyers Council,
which represents 100 of the largest diversified financial service
companies, and as a trustee of the French American School of New
York.
Conrad Lung '72 is the president and co-founder of
Sunnex, Inc., a New York–based company that manufactures and
markets apparel in the United States, Canada and Latin America. A
native of Canton, China, Lung taught at Yale before joining
Wrightfox International as a vice president in 1979. He also worked
at Maurice Sasson Jeans and New York Jean Co. before founding
Sunnex in 1985. Lung has co-founded four other successful
businesses as well as the Sun On Trust, an organization performing
charitable work in China. He was named one of the 50 outstanding
Chinese Americans in business by the Asian American Business
Development Center in 2001.
Derek Q. Johnson '81 was a senior vice president at AOL
Time Warner before becoming president and CEO of the Apollo Theater
Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the
preservation, restoration and revitalization of the world-famous
Apollo Theater on 125th Street in Harlem, on May 1. Johnson, a
seven-year veteran of Time Warner, the media and entertainment firm
that merged with AOL, has an extensive background in government,
politics and real estate and has long been associated with economic
development initiatives in the Harlem community. He holds a
master's degree in public administration and a law degree from
Columbia.
For
tickets or additional information about the black-tie dinner,
please contact Shelley Grunfeld in the Alumni Office at (212)
870-2288 or by e-mail at rg329@columbia.edu.
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