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Columbia College will honor five of its most accomplished alumni -- Dean P. Baquet, Martin J. Cicco, '78, Alexis Donnelly Glick, '94, Richard M. Ruzika, '81, and Jonathan D. Schiller, '69 --with John Jay Awards for distinguished professional achievement in a celebration at Cipriani 42nd Street on March 1.
The 2006 honorees represent a range of careers: print journalism, commercial real estate, broadcast journalism, global commodities and law, respectively.
Dean P. Baquet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who became editor of the Los Angeles Times in August 2005, having been managing editor since 2000. He joined the Times in 2000 after serving as national editor of The New York Times since 1995. He came to The New York Times in 1990 as an investigative reporter, focusing on local and Washington, D.C., investigations.
While at The New York Times, he was a finalist, with another reporter, for another Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for a series of stories about substandard care in New York City's public hospitals.
Martin J. Cicco is a vice chairman of Merrill Lynch's Global Commercial Real Estate business. He has enjoyed a 28-year career with Merrill Lynch and has extensive experience in all aspects of real estate finance in the public and private markets. In addition to having relationship responsibility for the real estate, lodging and gaming industries on a global basis, Cicco works closely with the Merrill Lynch Industrial Banking Group in structuring real estate financings for major corporations. He also is a member of the Columbia Business School–Milstein Real Estate Center.
Alexis Donnelly Glick is a correspondent and 9 a.m. anchor for NBC's Today show. Prior to joining Today, she was a senior trading correspondent for CNBC, reporting on institutional traders, and reported live from the New York Stock Exchange, where she covered breaking news for CNBC's morning program, Squawk Box. She was a regular contributor to CNBC's Street Signs and Closing Bell.
Glick previously worked for Morgan Stanley, where she was head of the NYSE Floor Operations and became the first woman to manage a floor operation for a bulge bracket firm. A member of the NYSE since September 2002, she was one of the youngest women to become an executive director at Morgan Stanley and was one of the top producers on the company's Listed Equity Trading Desk from 1998–2001. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of the College Alumni Association.
Richard M. Ruzika is a managing director and head of Global Commodities for Goldman Sachs. Ruzika is a member of Goldman Sachs' Partnership Committee, Firmwide Risk Committee and Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity and Equities Operating Committee. He also serves on the College Board of Visitors.
Jonathan D. Schiller, a member of the 1967–68 Ivy League championship basketball team and the Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame, is a co-founder and managing partner at Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, a firm that has grown from six lawyers in 1997 to more than 200 today. A 1973 graduate of Columbia Law School, Schiller tries cases throughout the United States and before arbitral tribunals in Europe, Asia and the United States. He was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation "in recognition of professional attainment and distinguished service" and a member of the Milan Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Club of Arbitrators.
Schiller's work as co-lead counsel for the class action plaintiffs in In Re Vitamins antitrust litigation "uncovered illegal actions of vitamin manufacturers across the globe," according to the presiding judge. Schiller has represented the Law School faculty, on a pro bono basis, submitting an amici curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court this term in the F.A.I.R. litigation. He serves on the Law School Dean's Council.
The John Jay Awards are named for the first chief justice of the United States, a member of the King's College class of 1764, and are presented annually. Proceeds from the dinner support the John Jay National Scholarship Program, which provides financial aid and special programming for College students. |
