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Five Alumni Receive John Jay Awards

(Top) Board of Trustees Chair Bill Campbell ’62 congratulates McCormick, whom he coached on Columbia’s varsity football team.

(Bottom) Among those attending the dinner were (from left) Professor Emeritus of History Henry Graff, SIPA Professor of Professional Practice and former NYC Mayor David Dinkins and CC Alumni Association Vice President of Athletics Marc Mazur ’81.

Lisa Landau Carnoy ’89, Eric Foner ’63, Paul C. McCormick ’78, David A. Paterson ’77 and Charles W. Santoro ’82 received John Jay Awards for distinguished professional achievement at a black-tie celebration at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City on March 1. The dinner was attended by almost 650 people and raised $1.2 million for the John Jay Scholarship Program, which honors the College’s most outstanding first-year students.

“Our honorees combine remarkable career success with active promotion of the public good,” observed Dean Austin Quigley. “Individually and collectively, they have advanced the state of the College community.”

The honorees at the festive event represented a range of careers: banking, teaching and writing, medicine, politics and finance.

Carnoy is a managing director and co-head of Equity Capital Markets Americas for Merrill Lynch. Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia and one of this country’s most prominent historians. McCormick is the Herbert and Linda Gallen Professor of Neurosurgery at P&S and medical director of the Columbia-Presbyterian Comprehensive Spine Center. Paterson was elected New York’s lieutenant governor in 2006, the first nonwhite to hold that position, after serving in the State Senate for two decades. Santoro is managing partner and co-founder of Sterling Investment Partners, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of equity capital under management.

Dinner co-chairs were Eliza Armstrong ’89, Sean D’Arcy ’81, John R. MacArthur ’78 and Eugene W. Schatz ’79. Trustees Chair Bill Campbell ’62 welcomed the guests and speakers included Quigley, President Lee C. Bollinger and CC Alumni Association President Brian C. Krisberg ’81. Several of the John Jay Scholars spoke to the guests or introduced the honorees, including Addison Anderson ’07, Samantha Elghanaian ’09, Shounan Ho ’07, Marcus Johnson ’07, Jun Hyuk (Jason) Kim ’08, Julia Kite ’07 and Alexandra Reisner ’07. Following the citation ceremony, Carl Rosenthal ’07 led the audience in “Roar, Lion, Roar” and “Sans Souci.”

Dean Austin Quigley (left) and President Lee C. Bollinger flank the honorees: (from second to left) Eric Foner ’63, Lisa Landau Carnoy ’89, Paul C. McCormick ’78, David A. Paterson ’77 and Charles W. Santoro ’82.

 

(Left) Paul C. McCormick ’78 (second from right) and his family: (from left) son, Paul; wife, Doris; and daughters, Kaleigh (front) and Kyle.

(Right) Lisa Landau Carnoy ’89 and her husband, David.

Dean of Alumni Affairs and Development Derek A. Wittner ’65 (right) joins some of the many students who attended the dinner.

 

(Left) Paul C. McCormick ’78 (second from right) and his family: (from left) son, Paul; wife, Doris; and daughters, Kaleigh (front) and Kyle.

(Right) David A. Paterson ’77 (right), former CC Alumni Association Board of Directors President Charles J. O’Byrne ’81 and Patrice M. Le Melle, special deputy secretary of New York state.

Eric Foner ’63 and his daughter, Daria Rose.

“I bleed Columbia blue. My husband knew the way to my heart … an engagement ring that was Columbia blue and a house in Columbia (N.Y.) County.”
Lisa Landau Carnoy ’89

“When I entered Columbia College, tuition was $800 a year and students respected authority. That all changed a few years later.”
Eric Foner ’63

“As a physician, people come to me because they know they are coming to Columbia, the best.”
Paul C. McCormick ’78

“Some people graduated magna cum laude, some graduated summa cum laude, then there were people who like me who found so many other
things to do at Columbia that we
graduated thank-you Lord-y.”
David A. Paterson ’77

“I wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t been for my Columbia experiences. Those experiences changed my life profoundly and forever.”
Charles W. Santoro ’82

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