A two-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer will join three accomplished business executives in receiving John Jay Awards from their alma mater, Columbia College, on Wed., Mar. 7, in a black-tie event at the Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue at 59th Street. The evening will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m.

The John Jay Awards are presented annually to alumni of distinction and are named for John Jay, a graduate of the class of 1764 who became the first Chief Justice of the United States. The alumni who will receive the awards this year are:

Thomas H. Glocer ('81) became the chief executive of Reuters Information, part of Reuters Financial, in January 2000, and was recently selected to succeed Peter Job as chief executive of the Reuters Group when Job retires in July 2001. Glocer, who has a law degree from Yale, becomes the first American and first non-journalist to be appointed head of the Reuters Group. He joined Reuters in 1993 and became president of Reuters Information-Americas and president of Reuters America Inc. in 1999.

Michael A. Gould ('66), who also has an MBA from Columbia, was named chairman and CEO of Bloomingdale's Department Stores in 1991. He began his career at Abraham & Straus in New York and previously served as president and CEO of Giorgio Beverly Hills and as chairman and CEO of Robinson's Department Stores in southern California.

Carlos R. Muñoz ('57) retired last year as executive vice president for credit and risk management for Dime Bancorp and the Dime Savings Bank of New York. He joined Dime in 1995 after an extensive career in the U.S. and abroad with Citicorp and Citibank, where he served most recently as senior vice president and a member of Citicorp's credit policy committee. Muñoz is a member of the Columbia College Board of Visitors and a former president of the Columbia College Alumni Association.

Cristina Teuscher ('00) is a two-time Olympic medalist swimmer and one of the most successful athlete's in Ivy League history. In 1996 she won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the U.S. 800-meter freestyle relay team. In four years of NCAA competition for Columbia, she never lost a single individual race and in June 2000 she was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation's outstanding female collegiate athlete. In the 2000 summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the 200-meter individual medley.

Columbia University President George Rupp and Austin E. Quigley, dean of Columbia College, will present this year's John Jay Awards. Joseph Cabrera, Jerome Chazen, Gerald Sherwin, and Edward Weinstein are the event's chairs.

Past winners of the John Jay Awards include former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, ABC News Chairman Roone Arledge, poet Allen Ginsburg, filmmaker Ric Burns, ABC News commentator George Stephanopoulos, NBC correspondent Claire Shipman, Iran-Contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and playwright Tony Kushner.

Thomas H. Glocer	Michael A. Gould
Carlos R. Muñoz	Cristina Teuscher