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FEATURES
Rupp Receives Hamilton Medal
Just months after leaving Low Library, George Rupp returned on
November 14 to accept the College’s highest honor, the Alexander
Hamilton Medal, at a black-tie dinner that attracted some 400 Columbia
alumni, students, faculty and staff. Rupp, who served as president
from 1993-2002, is the seventh Columbia president to receive the
medal, which honors a member of the College alumni, faculty or administration
for distinguished achievement.
In honoring Rupp, the dinner became a celebration of Columbia’s
achievements and growth over the past decade, including the construction
of new facilities such as Alfred Lerner Hall and the renovation
of Butler Library, a successful $2.8 billion fund-raising campaign
and significant improvements in the College’s admissions rates.
“We are in the midst of one of the College’s greatest
moments,” said Dean Austin Quigley, noting that one of Rupp’s
tenets was to place undergraduate education and the College at the
center of the University. Rupp’s successor, Lee C. Bollinger,
praised Rupp’s passion for the institution and noted how Rupp
always “wanted Columbia to be as good as it could possibly
be.”
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