September/October 2010
Around the Quads
Rothfeld To Receive Hamilton Medal
Michael B. Rothfeld ’69, ’71J, ’71 SIPA, ’71 Business will receive the 2010 Alexander Hamilton Medal on Thursday, November 18, at the Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner, an annual black-tie event held in Low Rotunda. The medal, the highest honor paid to a member of the Columbia College community, is awarded annually by the Columbia College Alumni Association to an alumnus/a or faculty member for distinguished service to the College and accomplishment in any field of endeavor.
Rothfeld, a 1970–71 International Fellow at SIPA, is a University trustee and a director of the Columbia Alumni Association. He is a former chair of the Columbia College Board of Visitors and also has served on the advisory board of the Journalism school’s Knight-Bagehot Program in business and financial journalism.
A theatrical producer and private equity investor, Rothfeld has been an associate editor of Fortune, assistant to the chairman and CEO of Time, Inc., an investment banking v.p. of Salomon Brothers, a managing director in the investment banking division of The First Boston Corp. and, through private corporations, a general partner of Bessemer Capital Partners and Bessemer Holdings. He was a director of The Overhead Door Corp., Graphic Controls Corp. (non-executive chair) and Kelly Oil & Gas.
Rothfeld was a member in 1979 of the first cultural delegation from the United States to the People’s Republic of China. He received the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards and was nominated for a Tony for the revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Rothfeld’s production company received the Lucille Lortel Award for the New York revival of Our Town. He also is a director of The Jed Foundation and a trustee of Second Stage Theatre.
Rothfeld is married to Ella M. Foshay ’71 GSAS, ’79 GSAS, who holds a Ph.D. in art history. They are the parents of Ella M. Foshay-Rothfeld ’06 and Augusta F. Foshay-Rothfeld ’08.
For more information on the dinner, contact Meghan Eschmann, associate director for College events and programs: 212-851-7399 or me2363@columbia.edu.