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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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