| Year |
Recipient |
Achievement |
| 2009 |
Steven Chu '70 |
Secretary, United States Department of Energy; winner, 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics |
| 2008 |
Robert B. Goergen '60 |
Chairman and CEO of Blyth Inc., and Founder and Chairman of The Ropart
Group |
Joseph B. Martin '71M (PhD) |
Former Dean, Harvard Medical School |
| G. Robert Witmer Jr. '59 |
Former Chair, Management Committee,
Nixon Peabody |
| 2007 |
Michael Gottlieb '73M (MD) |
Trustee, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance |
| Edmund Hajim '58 |
Chairman and CEO, MLH Capital |
| 2006 |
James S. Gleason '68S (MBA) |
Chairman, Gleason Corporation |
| Martin E. Messinger '49 |
Managing Partner, Neuberger Berman, LLC |
| Michael G. Rosenfeld '66M (MD) |
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, School of
Medicine |
| 2005 |
William A. Peck '60 M (MD), '00 (HNR) |
Founding Director of the Center for Health Policy, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Donald (D. A.) Henderson ’54 M (MD), ’77 (HNR) |
Resident Scholar, Center for Biosecurity; 21st Century Professor
of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
| 2004 |
Barry Meyer '64 |
Chairman and CEO, Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc. |
| 2003 | Dr. Myles Brand '67 (Ph.D.) Philosophy | President, National Collegiate Athletic Association |
| 2002 |
Ron Carter '59 (ESM) |
Jazz musician, Professor of Music City College of New York |
| Dr. Paul Horn '73 (Ph.D.) Physics (CAS) | Sr. V.P. of IBM Corporation and
Director of Research |
| 2001 | Galway Kinnell '49 (Mas) | Enrich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1983 |
| 2000 | William F. May '37 | Chairman, Statue of Liberty
Ellis Island Foundation |
| 1999 | Jay T. Last '51 | President, Hillcrest Press |
| 1998 | Mary-Frances Winters '73, '82 S (MBA) | Founder and President of The Winters Group (Rochester-based Consulting Firm) |
| 1997 | Herbert York '42, '43 (MS) | Physicist/Advisor to four presidents
Retired Director, Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation |
| 1996 | David T. Kearns '52 | Retired Chairman & CEO, Xerox Corporation |
| 1995 | Doriot A. Dwyer '43E | Retired Principal Flutist, Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| 1994 | Walter Cooper '57 (PhD) | Member, New York State Board of Regents and
Retired Researcher, Eastman Kodak Company |
| 1993 | Adam Urbanski '69, '75 (PhD) | President, Rochester Teachers Association |
| 1992 | Richard T. Kennedy '41 | U. S. Representative,
International Atomic Energy Association |
| 1991 | Bernard W. Harleston '55 (PhD), '72 (ScD)* | President, City College of New York |
| Florence Cawthorne Ladd '58 (PhD) | Administrator, Radcliffe College |
| 1990 | Michael A. Telesca '52 | U. S. District Court Judge |
| 1989 | Helen Crouch '50 | President, Literacy Volunteers of America |
| 1988 | George Abbott '11 '61 (LHD)* | Playwright |
| 1986 | Virginia A. Dwyer '43 | Retired Senior VP/Finance AT&T |
| 1985 | Roger J. Robach '66 | New York State Assemblyman |
| 1984 |
Arthur R. Miller '55 |
Law Professor, Harvard University |
| 1983 | David W. Stewart '41 | Retired President, Genesee Valley BC/BS |
| 1981 | Herbert Scoville, Jr. '42 (PhD) | Physicist |
| 1980 | Charles L. Strouse '47E | Composer of Annie |
| 1978 | Samuel S. Stratton '37 | U.S. Congressman |
| 1977 | Burnett Anderson '40 | U. S. State Department |