S-Z ALPHABETHICAL LIST OF NAMES TOWNSEND HARRIS MEDALS

Jonas E. Salk ‘34

Your brilliant intellect, your incisiveness, your indefatigable devotion to your work, your resourcefulness, and your steadfast refusal to be satisfied with anything except a successful conclusion to your efforts for the benefit of humanity -these traits characterize the immortals of scientific research. Your place is with the great healers of all time. Humble though you are, men can never fully appreciate how great a debt humanity owes to you. They can only hope that in the full life, which still lies ahead, you will find the answers to yet other medical mysteries, which scourge us and help to bring better health and happiness to the world. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Peter Sammartino '25

Former instructor at New College and in our own Townsend Harris high school, for the past ten years you have devoted yourself to a unique task: the creation and development of a community college. The Fairley Dickinson College at Rutherford, New Jersey, was founded by you to enable boys and girls of the local community to continue their education after high school, while living at home. You have demonstrated that the ideals, which animated Townsend Harris in the founding of the Free Academy more than one hundred years ago, are alive today. You have had the joy of seeing the Fairley Dickinson College develop under your guidance as President into a fully accredited institution with an enrollment of more than two thousand students. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

David Saperstein '59

A novelist, feature film director, screenplay writer and librettist David Saperstein is a product of City College’s Film Institute the College's first film production program. He began his career at CBS-TV, working with Edward R. Murrow on the renowned series, Person to Person. Mr. Saperstein wrote produced and directed documentaries first for the United States Information Agencies then through Skyline Films Inc., where he created television specials commercials, syndicated programs and music videos. These garnered him the HUGO (Gold Award), the New York Art Directors Club Award the Chris Award and prizes at the American Film Festival and at festivals in San Francisco. Venice, Melbourne and New York. In 1980 he began to write novels feature films and television films. His first novel, “Cocoon.” was on The New York Times hest seller's list for weeks in 1985. Translated into seven languages it was made into a highly praised feature film, which won two Academy Awards. Mr. Saperstein was nominated by the Writers Guild of America, for Outstanding Achievement for writing the original stores directly for the screen. His novel. "Fatal Reunion," was Bantam's lead hook for September 1987 and a Book of the Month Club Selection in Sweden. He wrote the screenplay. Roamers, from "Fatal Reunion. His other novels include: "The Red Devil. Dark Again. Metamorphosis: The Cocoon Story Continues,” “Butterfly: The last of this Cocoon Trilogy,” and "Fatal Reunion's” sequel, “Fune-A-Rama.” Mr. Saperstein has written several successful Screenplays directed feature films and written and directed television and cable films and episodic series. He is working on a pilot far a projected series, Stories of the Holocaust on a far lighter note, his music video work includes directing popular Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles videos.

An accomplished lyricist of over 60 published songs he worked with the late Jules Styrne on “Cocoon: The Musical,” and wrote the libretti for the musicals, "Blue. Planet Blue," with Joe Messina and "Clowns,” with Ralph Siegel and Bernhard Meinunger. He has taught at New York University’s Graduate School of Film and Television, Marymount Manhattan College and the New York Film Academy and serves on the Directors Guild of America's New Technology Committee and on its Directors' East Coast Council. A multi-talented creative force he has brought laughter music and food for thought to us all. In you David Saperstein Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Emanuel Saxe '23B, '25

Your name has become synonymous with exemplary devotion to the advancement of the professional standards of the field of accountancy. You have implemented that high purpose both at the practitioner's level, in tern's of your work and your influence as a teacher, and as Chairman of the Department of Accountancy of the Bernard M. Baruch School of Business. Your editorship of the accountants' publication for the State of New York has been especially distinguished. No man needs higher praise than to have it said that his actions equal his standards, and that he works to the last full ounce of his energies with care and with sympathetic understanding to teach others to do likewise. Your boundless enthusiasm for life and your concern for your fellowmen ha", in a sense, made you a "contradictory" man--exact, rigid, and vigorous as an accountant and as an attorney; yet tender, concerned, and inspiring as a teacher and as a leader in community welfare. It is a wonderful "contradiction," and you have fused these many qualities into one personality, which in the years ahead will make even more important contributions to your profession, to your College, and to your fellow citizens. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Jacob Salwyn Schapiro '04

For more than forty years a teacher of history in your Alma Mater, gifted interpreter of the ideas as well as of the events of the past, you have been an inspiration to the students privileged to sit in your classroom. Your research on the intellectual history of Europe, particularly of France and Great Britain, has brought you wide and deserved repute and reflected honor on the College. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Philip Scheffler ‘50

“60 Minutes,” the nation’s most watched news magazine, of which Philip Scheffler is executive editor, has set the standard for broadcast investigative journalism. Since 1968, the program has been one of the nation’s top sources of information, delving with integrity into issues left untouched by the quick sound bites of ordinary newscasts.

As executive editor, Philip Scheffler plays a key role in determining what issues will be explored and in doing so influences what Americans will be discussing and acting upon. Long years of training as a working journalist in the trenches prepared him for this important function

After leaving City College, where he was managing editor at Observation Post and president of the Student Council, he earned a master’s degree at Columbia University’s prestigious Graduate School of Journalism, which, in 1981, presented him with the Alumni Award for distinguished contributions to journalism.

In 1951, Mr. Scheffler began his lifetime career with CBS as a writer, reporter and editor with the “CBS Evening News.” He went on to become a reporter and associate producer of the award winning weekly program, “Eyewitness.” In 1964, Mr. Scheffler became a producer of documentary and special news broadcasts, including “CBS Reports.” He produced more than 100 such broadcasts, many of which remain etched in our national memory. As producer of “60 Minutes” when it became a weekly series in 1971, he covered such diverse areas as politics and government, medicine, social issues, law and military affairs before being appointed senior producer in 1980 and executive editor in 1996. Over the years, he has reported from all but three states in our country and from over 50 foreign countries, including Vietnam where he carried out six assignments. His broadcasts have received Emmys, Peabody and Columbia-du Pont Awards, and awards from the National Education Association and the University of Missouri. As the many viewers of “60 Minutes” can readily see, Mr. Scheffler has carried out journalist’s mission seeking out and conveying the truth by shining the light of day on information our democracy needs to stay alive. In you, Philip Scheffler Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Harold A. Scheraga, Ph.D. '41

You have been fruitfully engaged in a busy career as researcher and teacher. In pursuance of your studies in the physical chemistry of proteins, you were an American Chemical Society Fellow at Harvard Medical School and a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the Carlsberg Laboratories in Denmark. You have published over 70 research papers and have authored a full-length text. In recognition of your scholarly endeavors, you were the recipient of the Ely Lilly Award in Biochemistry' from the American Chemical Society in 1957, an honorary doctorate in science from Duke University in 1961, and served as the Buell G. Gallagher Visiting Professor of Chemistry at your Alma Mater in 1968. Currently, you are the Chairman of the Chemistry Department at Cornell University. In you, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Dr. Jacob T. Schwartz ‘48

You have traveled that long theoretical road from Euclid’s thirteen elements to the ethereal realm of modern computer and systems mathematics, achieving universal recognition for forging conceptual innovations leading to subsequent applications in business and technology. You served on the faculty at Yale University and were honored with a Sloan Fellowship. You are currently professor of mathematics at New York University, busily engaged in prolific production of books and articles for scholarly journals. In you Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Frank Schlesinger '90

Worthy successor of Copernicus and of Galileo, leading scholar in the great University of Yale, you have helped men to understand the expanse and the mystery of the universe. What your own eyes have seen and what, through the medium of great telescopes from New Haven to Johannesburg, you have enabled other men to see has vastly enriched the world's knowledge of the most ancient of the sciences. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Irving Schneider ‘39B

Executive Vice President and Director of Helmsley-Spear Real Estate Company and philanthropist (1996)

George Schoepfer '51T

You have emulated the late David B. Steinman '06 as the master bridge builder in our community. Currently the Executive Officer and Chief Engineer for the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, you have had the major responsibility for building the Throgs Neck Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge. You directed the installation of the tuned mass dampers to restrict the aerodynamic motion of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. As secretary and treasurer of the Javits Convention Center, you participated in its planning and design. You gained international recognition for serving as consultant for construction of the suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina in Sicily, Italy. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice

Daniel Schorr ‘39

Emmy and Peabody Award winning journalist (1995)

Robert M. Schwartz '41T

Truly a sturdy Son of City College, you undertook an assignment to develop a new weapon for your Country's defense. Not only were you faced with technical problems; you also knew of the urgency for prompt results of your studies. You combined the warm enthusiasm of youth with the intellect and tenacity, which might have been expected of one much older. Honored by a grateful nation, deeply respected by your colleagues, you are deserving of the homage of ~ College. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason rejoice

Dr. Jerome M. Schweitzer ‘27

This is the first award in over four decades to an alumnus in the dental profession. Your recognized preeminence in the field of restorative dentistry can be attested to by the several textbooks and learned articles which you wrote: by your teaching record at New York University, where you are Clinical Professor of Removable Prosthodontics, and the vast schedule of guest lectures you fulfill each year: by your role as Chief of the Dental Department at both St. Luke’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital and the many consultant assignments you hood at several other hospitals: and by the awards and honorary memberships conferred upon you in this country and abroad. In you, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Frank. Sciame '74 Arch

Throughout our town we see signs proclaiming "Sciame." Clearly. Frank J. Sciame, a member of the Board of Trustees of The City College School of Architecture has become the builder of choice for some of our city's most complex, high profile projects. In the past few years alone, he has been responsible for major work on The New Windows on the World Restaurant at the World Trade Center: the Times Square Visitors Center; the Warner Brothers' One Times Square Studio Store; the New Victory Theater on 42nd Street: the Virgin Records Megastore at Times Square: Warner Brothers' Fifth Avenue Studio Store. Casa Italiana at Columbia University and the New York City offices of the Governor. Much of the renovation of Times Square is the product of Mr. Sciame's widely recognized hard work and talent. In 1997, he received the prestigious Chairman's Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy honoring his commitment to preserving the city's treasures. The Construction Management Association of America accorded him the Construction Manager of the Year Award. In 1996 Ernst & Young chose him for its New York City Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the construction division,

Mr. Sciame's five-story headquarters at 247 Water Street in Manhattan won the 1993 Certificate of Merit Award from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The interior and exterior received an Excellence in Design Award from the American Institute of Architects, New York State. The interior won the Outstanding Achievement Award in the National Contract Interior Design Competition. He won awards for his work at the Seamen's Church institute the Kathryn Bache Miller Theater at Columbia University the Warner Brother Studio Store and extensive renovation at the Union Theological Seminary.

A leader in many civic initiatives, Mr. Sciame chairs the Seaport North Community Business Association which he helped organize to help property and business owners in the South Street Seaport Historic District improve its economic development and quality of life He is public director of the board of the American Institute of Architects' New York City Chapter, a board Member of the South Street Seaport Museum, and. we are proud to say, president of the Alumni Association; Architecture Alumni affiliate group. Frank J. Sciame is a builder not only in the literal sense but in the broader sense actively preserving our city's past and forging its future. In you Frank J. Sciarne, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Dr. Harold N. Shapiro '42

A gifted mathematician since your honors program work as an undergraduate at City College, you have gained an international reputation in both the theoretical and applied fields of mathematics. As teacher and research scholar, most notably at the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York University, you have advanced man's knowledge of number theory, combinational mathematics and decision theory. As teacher, you have supervised the research training of many distinguished mathematicians. As consultant and practitioner in industry and government, you have developed navigation systems for space vehicles, computer-related linear programming for the oil industry, systems models for grading of cotton and the application of mathematical methods in psychology. Through your prolific writings, your scholarship has gained worldwide recognition. In you, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

David Shemin ‘32

You are honored on this fiftieth year of graduation from City College as an internationally acclaimed pioneer researcher in biochemistry and molecular biology with special interest in the etiology of cancer cells. Professor Emeritus and former department chairman of biochemistry and molecular biology at Northwestern University, you currently serve as deputy director of its Cancer Center. Your publications and lectures have garnered for you many awards including two Guggenheim fellowships, membership in the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, designation as Fogarty International Scholar, the Pasteur Medal, and honorary membership in the Japan Biochemical Society. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

George Sherry ‘44

Former Assistant Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, United Nations (office which developed U. N. Peacekeeping Operations) (1993)

Dr. Joseph T. Shipley ‘12

You are truly the dean of theatre criticism in this country with nearly six decades on the aisle reviewing Broadway productions for media agencies in New York and abroad. Your peers elected you to three terms as president of the Drama Critics Circle while the London critics conferred on you honorary membership. Since your doctorate in dramatic criticism at Columbia, your writings on the theatre include works on Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill and a guide to 670 plays written since Greek theatre. In you, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Dr Hirsch L. Silverman ‘36

Your career has been dedicated to caring for the emotionally disturbed through enlightened humanistic programs. An eminently successful psychologist, educator, and author as well as a recognized poet with three published volumes, you have brilliantly sought to introduce poetry as a tool in mental health, thereby demonstrating its usefulness in emotional, psychological and rehabilitation programs. You have been justly acclaimed by leading associations of both poets and psychologists, too numerous to cite. In you, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Sidney I. Silverman '34

As research professor in the fields of prosthodontics and rehabilitative medicine at New York Medical College and at New York University's College of Dentistry, you have pursued a multifarious career in dentistry. Through your studies you have perfected advanced techniques for the reconstruction and replacement of missing teeth and developed innovative treatment programs for dental dysfunctions, which adversely affect speech patterns. Under a recent grant from the National Institutes of Health, you are devising an experimental clinic care and dental program for the aging. Through your writings, which include several textbooks and numerous articles in professional journals and periodicals, as well as your extensive program of lectures and clinics both here and abroad, you have shared your vast experience with an international audience. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Upton Sinclair ‘97

Author (1936)

Alexander Smallens '09

Conductor of notable orchestras and opera companies in your own country and abroad, interpreter skilled to reveal the wide range of symphonic music from the stately architectural harmonies of Bach to the strident folk melodies of Gershwin, you bring to the podium an authority which arises from ripe knowledge as well as from eclectic experience. Your baton recreates with equal understanding the classic works of the indisputable masters and the most daring experiments of the aspirants in the noblest of the arts. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Dr. Carl H. Smith ‘15

The record of City College men in the field of medicine is a glorious one: surely herein Alma Mater is justified of her children. You are one of the bright stars in our constellation of Aesculapius. You have advanced the study of childhood blood diseases, and have contributed many articles in medical journals on pediatrics and hematology. You established the first outpatient blood transfusion clinic in this country over thirty years ago and were responsible for the organization of the Children's Blood Foundation. As chairman of a committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics, you provided medical care for orphaned and other displaced children brought to this country. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Janet Marie Smith '84 MUP

Janet Marie Smith 84 MUP has long been committed to the rejuvenation of our nations downtown areas. One of her principal ways of achieving this goal has been supervising the planning designing and building of two of our most commented on Major League ballparks. Her work on Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore drew raves from architects urban planners and baseball fans. Columnist George Will said the two most important things to happen to baseball were Jackie Robinson and Camden Yards.

Ms. Smith’s work in Baltimore was imitated in other cities. It attracted attention for the reason she wanted it too. It was in a downtown area and became the draw that revitalized that area, expanding the definition of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Noting her achievement. Stan Kasten, president of the Atlanta Braves and the basketball team the Atlanta Hawks, hired Ms. Smith to oversee the development of Atlanta’s' 1996 Olympic Stadium, which she then took charge of converting into the Braves' baseball park. She is now President of Turner Sports and Entertainment Development a Time Warner Company and Vice President of Planning and Development for the Atlanta Braves. She is currently planning a 20,000-seat arena for the Hawks and the renovation of CNN's corporate headquarters.

A native of Jackson, Mississippi Ms. Smith acquired her bachelor's degree at Mississippi State University. She headed for the Big Apple and has been an advocate for urban life ever since. She earned a master's degree in urban planning at City, while working as coordinator of architecture and design for Battery Park City, a 92-acre $3 billion development, which includes the World Financial Center. She then went to Los Angeles serving as Pershing Square management Association's president and chief operating officer charged with redeveloping the central park downtown. From there it was off to Baltimore as the Orioles' Vice President of Planning and Develop merit. In working on Camden Yards, her concern for urban development led her to study the team's objectives historical parks the ballpark; civic image arid its relationship to nearby buildings and public transportation. She received Loyola College's Andrew White Medal for her contribution to Maryland. The book, "A Woman's Path," by Jo Giese includes a profile of Ms. Smith. Her work has been cited nationally in the press. She has said that cities represent our need for community. Her practical approach has set the standard for bringing our urban areas back to life. In you Janet Marie Smith, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Col. Morton Solomon ’25, ‘26T

Not since George Washington Goethes 77 undertook after the turn of the century to complete the Panama Canal did an engineer face a more ominous mission than your assignment by the Corps of Engineers. Overcoming the hazards of the elements in the frigid North, you formulated brilliant solutions to new engineering problems, and evolved an ingenious logistical system to build the most important base of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line in the Arctic Region an essential link in America’s defense against nuclear attack. Coordinating personnel and supplies, you ran ahead of on-site assembly schedules while maintaining a near-perfect, low accident rate. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Howard M. Squadron '46

Deemed one of nation 100 most powerful attorneys by The National Law Journal and a human rights activist, Howard M. Squadron was a leader from the start. At 15 he salutatorian of the Bronx High School of Science’s; first full senior class. Five years later he earned both his bachelor's degree from CCNY and his law degree from Columbia, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. He is senior partner of the law firms he helped to form in 1954-- Squadron. Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld where he has represented The News Corporation and News America for over 20 years, the international photography agency. Magnum Photos Inc., since l955 and many other clients of major stature.

But it is his involvement on behalf of civil rights and liberties that has brought him his greatest distinction. Mr. Squadron was recently a public member of our nation's delegation to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva and spearheaded the effort to include for the first time in 50 years, a condemnation of anti-Semitism in the Resolution on Racism. In 1963 he represented on a pro bono basis the defendants who blocked the Rutgers Eastside Housing Project for not hiring minorities. That year he led the American Jewish Congress delegation in the March on Washington. He later became president of the American Jewish Congress, where he formed a coalition in I978 with Vernon Jordan and the Black Forum in a successful effort to defeat the Bayh resolution to eliminate the Electoral College.

Mr. Squadron was chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations from 1980-82. In 1978 he visited China with a delegation of American civic leaders and was among the first to raise the issue of China's relations with Israel. His meeting with President Mubarak helped initiate negotiations resolving the deadlock between Egypt and Israel over Taba. Mr. Squadron has chaired the Policy Committee of the National Jewish Democratic Council's Executive Committee.

He also chaired the Ad Hoc Committee for the City University of New York in the 1970's, fighting for free tuition and the Open Admissions Programs, served on the committee screening members of the Board of Higher Education, taught at Brooklyn College and established Cardozo Law School's Howard M. Squadron Communications Law Program. A cultural leader he chairs the City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation, is founding president of the International Center of Photography and organized the Alvin Alley Company's multi-racial Board of Directors. His tireless pursuit of justice has made our world a freer arid nobler place for all of us. In you Howard M. Squadron Alma Mater has reason to rejoice.

Robert Stein '47

From your early days as editor of City College's ALUMNUS magazine until your present assignment as editor of McCall's Magazine, you have demonstrated your commitment to enlighten your readers with timely, honest, intelligent and well-written articles. Your impact is best reflected in the words of the citation when you were the first recipient of the Neuberger Award of the Society Magazine Writers, "as the editor who did most to raise the standards of magazines as a medium of democratic communication." Equally significant have been your continuing efforts as editor, teacher and civil leader to widen the opportunities for minority group employees in the news media. In you, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

David Bernard Steinman, '06

You have realized the highest achievement in that field of engineering to which you have devoted your life by showing in every corner of the world that the greatest of men irrespective of the kind of endeavors in which they engage join imagination with skill and vision with practical understanding. If you were Roman you would be called pontifex maximus. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice

Henry Stern ‘54

New York City Parks’ Commissioner (1995)

Martin L. A. Sternberg '49

For you, the word "handicap" is synonymous with challenge and opportunity. The second deaf person to have been graduated from City College in its long existence, you devoted your career to the training of sign language interpretations and the acceptance of sign language as a discipline. Influenced and encouraged by your sign language teacher, Dr. Elizabeth Peet of Gallaudet College, you devoted yourself for two decades to the preparation of your definitive work, American Sign Language: A Comprehensive Dictionary which is the Thesaurus for the deaf. You co-starred in the nationally televised series, "Speaking With Your Hands," which earned Emmy and Peabody nominations. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Alfred Stieglitz ‘84

Engineering leader in the appreciation of contemporary painting, founder of a place for the presentation of modern art as American in spirit as in name, maker of vital pictures which reveal with masterly insight the wonder of nature and of the common life of man, creator of subtle beauty who uses a palette of black and white, you are the alchemist of modern art. You have transformed a mechanism, in other hands used to reproduce literal reality, into a medium, at once powerful and delicate, for the making of vivid pictures quick with that clear understanding which is the genius of art. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Bernard Strauss ‘47

Internationally acclaimed geneticist and a pioneer in the molecular basis of mutation (1996)

Stanley S. Surrey '29

You rank among our nation's foremost authorities on federal tax law, having served initially as Tax Legislation Counsel for the U.S. Treasury Department and subsequently as its Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. While holding the Jeremiah Smith Chair at Harvard Law School for the past decade, you have become, through your lectures and writings, the leading proponent of tax reform in this country. As consultant to our government and advisor at the United Nations, you have been instrumental in formulating tax treaties between developed and developing countries and have assisted many nations in their tax reform programs. In you, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Alexander R. Surry ‘34

You have demonstrated the patience of the consummate scientific researcher who has labored long and arduously to advance man's knowledge of medicinal chemistry. Over a period of four decades as chief scientist for the Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, you were responsible for the synthesis of antimalarial drugs used by American troops during World War II for which you received the Distinguished Service Award; for the development of Plaquenil for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other collagen diseases; for the discovery and introduction of anti-amoebic drugs and advanced muscle relaxants. Holder of 80 patents, the author of more than 130 scientific publications and a standard text on Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry, your achievements have won you international acclaim. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Walter Timme ‘93

When Geoffrey Chaucer said of his Doctor of Physik that he knew the cause of every malady - were it of hot, or cold, or moist, or dry -and where they engendered, and of what humor, he little knew that his words foreshadowed an important field of modern medicine the study of glandular secretions and their balance in the human body. In this field of endocrinology you are a pioneer. As teacher, hospital consultant, and specialist in practice, you have made rich contribution to the art and science of healing. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice

Honorable Edwin Torres '55

“One of the city most experienced and sternest judges and a man known for a crackling eloquence both in and out of the courtroom," was a description in " The New York Times,” of Justice Edwin Torres of the State Supreme Court. He was born and bred in the barrio of Spanish Harlem. Encouraged by his father to succeed, he attended Stuyvesant High School, City College and Brooklyn Law School. In 1958 he became the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in Manhattan. As defense attorney he represented without fee, scores of indigent defendants over a period of 16 years. In 1977 he became a Judge of the Criminal Court in 1979 he was appointed acting Justice of the Supreme Court, and in 1990, he was elected Justice to the Supreme Court a position to which he has recently been reelected. In 1991, The City College awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.

Justice Tortes has written and published three novels on the criminal Justice system in New York City that have worldwide circulation. The first one to be made into a movie, was Q & A, directed by Sydney Lumet and released in 1990. The other two books, “Carlito's Way” and the sequel “After Hours” were fused into one screenplay and made into a movie entitled "Carlito's Way”, directed by Brian De Palma and starting Al Pacino which was released in 1993.

What he brings to his job as a judge and as a novelist, Justice Tortes has said, is "33 years in the criminal justice system and nearly 30 years before that on the street.” He is totally committed to the citizenry and the city, which spawned, nurtured and made possible his career.

Gerald B. Tracy ‘39

President of Gerard B. Tracy Associates, and knighted by Pope John XXIII to the Knights of Malta (1995)

Jerome I. Udell'18

You have applied the Ephebic Oath and have brought statesmanlike vision to your business and to your philanthropic work. You helped set high standards of labor relations for your entire industry. Every enterprise to which you have lent your support has been improved through your influence. Your diligence and integrity in communal work is worthy of emulation by all who are motivated by the same high principles as yourself. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice

Dr. Sidney Udenfriend '39

As director of the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, you have achieved preeminence as one of our nation's foremost biomedical scientists. Your research findings led to the discovery of important enzymes involved in the formation of neurotransmitters in the nervous system, which are critical components in the control of blood pressure, behavior, reproduction and movement. You are also responsible for the development of the most widely used drugs for the treatment of hypertension and collagen formation. For these efforts, you were elected to the National Academy of Sciences and have been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. You have been a member of the faculties of leading universities and have served on the editorial boards of several professional journals, most notably as executive editor of Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In you, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Robert Ferdinand Wagner '98

If the College had been permitted to choose the kind of statesmen it would desire to produce it would have chosen you. Un-academic in the best sense, you have none the less shown high regard for good tradition in the fact pre-eminent in your career, that all your works have been dictated by heart as well as by mind. You are a tribune of the people in the fullest sense of that ancient and honorable title and of no other states-man could a college like ours be so peculiarly proud. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Eli Wallach '38MSE

Eli Wallach made his stage debut-and met his wife, Anne Jackson in an Off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' "This Property is Condemned" A leading interpreter of Williams' work, he appeared in "The Rose Tattoo” for which he received the Tony and Donaldson Awards, and also appeared in "Camino Real." On Broadway, he has appeared with his wife in a number of plays including "Major Barbara," "Lov" and "Waltz of The Toreadors.” They have also appeared together in Off- Broadway productions such is "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "Cafe Crown." Mr. Wallach has appeared in many other plays, including "Henry VIII"" Mr. Roberts" and "Alice in Wonderland," Born in Brooklyn, Eli Wallach studied at the University of Texas and received a Masters Degree in Education from The City College of New York. He began his training for the theater it the Neighborhood Playhouse and is an original member of the Actors' Studio. He continues to act in plays and recently appeared in New York on the stages of the Roundabout, the Martin Kaufman and the Lyceum Theaters.

Among his numerous television credits are: "Kojak," "Batman," "Murder She Wrote" and "The Executioner's Song." He has also appeared in many television specials including "I, Don Quixote” and "For Whom the Bell Tolls.” For his first film, "Baby Doll," Eli Wallach won the English equivalent of the Academy Award in 1956. Since then he has appeared in many movies, among them are “The Magnificent Seven,” “The Misfits," and “The Good and the Bad and the Ugly." His most recent films include "The Two Jakes," "Godfather III" and "Night and the City.”

Dr. David Wechsler '16

Yours is a household name in the field of educational psychology. The Wechsler Intelligence Tests, which you developed four decades ago, have been studied and utilized by clinicians throughout the world. As chief psychologist at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and clinical professor at N. Y. U. College of Medicine, you imparted your knowledge and skills to generations of newly trained psychologists and psychiatrists. Your book, The Measurement of Adult Intelligence, is an accepted classic in its field. For all these achievements you have been similarly honored by a plethora of outstanding organizations. In you, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Herbert Wechsler Ph.D. ‘28

You have devoted the past four decades. productively and most effectively, to the complexities of modern law. After your days as law review editor at Columbia, you became secretary to the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone and now hold the distinguished chair in constitutional law bearing his name at Columbia's Law School. In the intervening year you assumed diverse legal assignments including executive secretary, Board of Legal Examiner, U. S. Civil Service Commission; technical adviser to American Judges, International Military Tribunal; assistant U.S. Attorney-General, and visiting professor, Harvard Law School. Among the nation's legal scholars, you are renowned for your several books and numerous articles on the administration of criminal law, the development of a model penal code and the federal court system. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Dr. Myron E. Wegman ‘28

In the tradition of Drs. Schweitzer, Seagraves and Dooley you have dedicated yourself to advancing medical care for the underprivileged of the world. Teacher, researcher, and inveterate traveler, you have concentrated your talents to conquer infant disease: in Finland, you were special consultant to WHO for a study of infant diarrhea for four years you served 35 Chief, Division of Education and Training fur the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, where you conducted programs to improve health standards in Latin American countries. These and similar assignments over a thirty year span won you the coveted Grulee Award for Distinguished Service, the highest honor which can be conferred by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Currently the Dean of the School of Public Health for the University of Michigan, you have enjoyed faculty assignments at the medical schools of Yale: Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Puerto Rico and Louisiana State. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice

Josh S. Weston ‘50

In his 27 years in senior positions at Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Josh S. Weston has guided that company’s growth in revenues from $40 million to $4 billion dollars. He became chairman of the board and chief executive office of the company in 1982. ADP has over 30,000 employees.

Mr. Weston actively leads other enterprises as well. He is research chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and is chairman of the Yeshiva University Business School. He formerly chaired the New Jersey Business Partnership and is vice chairman of the Tri-State United Way. He serves on the board of directors of five major corporations—J. Crew, Olsten, Public Service Enterprise Group, Shared Medical Systems and the Vanstar Corporation

Mr. Weston also devotes much time to public service, as a member of the boards of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, the Liberty Science Center, the National Conference of Christians and Jews and as Chairman of the Board of Boys Town of Jerusalem. Over the years, he has also served on the boards of the National Bureau of Economic Research, of the Rutgers Graduate School of Management the Montclair State University Business School, the New Jersey Quality Education Commission and of Haifa University. His cultural and philanthropic interests led him to become an active board member for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, WNET-TV (Channel 13), the I Have a Dream Foundation and the Montclair Art Museum, Mr. Weston received the early training which paved the way to his business success as an economics major at CCNY. He received a master's degree as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of New Zealand. The eclectic nature of his accomplishments has led to his receiving honorary doctorates in law from Fairleigh Dickinson University, in humane letters from Montclair State University and in engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. His enormous corporate success, coupled with his activism in the business, educational. philanthropic and cultural communities embody the ideal of today's enlightened executive whose success is a springboard to service. In you Josh Weston, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Lillias White '78

Lillias White's acting, singing and dancing talent has dazzled audiences and garnered her some of the highest honors in the performing world. She took Broadway by storm as Sonja in '”he Life.' and walked off with the 1997 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a musical. Her work in "The Life" also brought her the Outer Critics Circle, the Drama Desk and the People's Choice Awards.

She received an Emmy Award for her work on "Sesame Street." Her performance in "Dreamgirls" in Los Angeles brought her that city's highest theatrical prize, the Dramalogue Award. Ms. White received Off-Broadway's Obie Award for her role in "Romance in Hard Times," and hold's a Gold CD as the voice of Calliope for the animated film, "Hercules."

Ms. White's appearance as guest soloist at the White House was broadcast on PBS. She knocked 'em dead as Miss Jones in the revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and portrayed Dinah Washington in the Off Broadway production, "Dinah Was."

This past year, she made several major concert appearances. She was a lead singer in a gospel version of Handel's "Messiah" Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. The New York Times singled out her performance at Carnegie Hall this past February as the high point in a star studded tribute to Hollywood song lyrists Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Only weeks ago Ms. White returned to Carnegie Hall as one of the artist in another all-star tribute, this time for lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Ms. White is now co-starring with Jim Carrey in the film, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," currently in production and directed by Ron Howard.

In countless press interviews, Ms. White has made a point of mentioning that she got her dramatic training at City College where she was a member of the student theatre group. The Demigods. She received much of her musical training at City as well. Shortly after she left CCNY, she landed the role of Dorothy in the national tour of "The Wiz." Lillias White's dynamic stage presence and her command of her craft have repeatedly brought audiences to their feet, begging for more of her music and of the magic she brings to her performances. In you, Lillias White, Alma Mater has reason to rejoice.

Murry L. Wiedenbaum Ph.D., ‘48

As the first post World War II alumnus to receive this award, we honor you for a distinguished career in helping to shape our nation's economic policy. While an economist for the Bureau of the Budget in Washington, you earned a doctorate at Princeton, Your subsequent positions included service as corporate economist for the Boeing Company, director of the NASA Economic Research Program, professor arid chairman of the Economics Department at Washington University, St. Louis, and now Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. Your scholarly writings on public finance, defense and disarmament economics, and industrial economics, and your extensive service as an economic consultant to task forces and study groups indicate the wide scope of your abilities. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Honorable Lottie E. Wilkins ‘72

New York Supreme Court Judge (1993)

Henry Wittenberg '40E

City College's only Olympic Gold and Silver Medallist Henry Wittenberg is one of our nation's greatest wrestlers. He won 400 consecutive matches between 1938 and 1952 and was the Amateur Athletics Union's national champion eight times.

Mr. Wittenberg achieved his Olympic Gold Medal victory in London in 1948 under adverse circumstances. In the match preceding his triumph. Mr. Wittenberg suffered severe tearing of muscle tendons in his chest. The coach almost pulled him out but CCNY's champion insisted on going for the gold--and got it. He received a hero's welcome when Henry Wittenberg Day was declared in the Bronx. In 1952 Mr. Wittenberg won the Silver Medal at the Helsinki Olympics. In 1959 he led the first American team to visit the Soviet Union on a cultural exchange program. And in 1968, he was coach to the U.S. Olympic wrestling team in Mexico City. Henry' Wittenberg did not think of himself as athletic when he arrived at City College but Joe Sapora, then coach of City's well known intercollegiate wrestling team recognized his talent and became his mentor.

Mr. Wittenberg earned a master's degree in health education at Columbia University’s Teachers College. He later became a New York City Police Officer, won five commendations for bravery and was actively involved in building up the Police Sports Association. He was also active in developing Israel's Maccabiah Games held every four years for Jewish athletes from around the world. At these Games, Mr. Wittenberg won two gold medals for wrestling and a silver medal for weightlifting. He returned to Alma Mater from 1967-80 as the College's wrestling coach and also coached at Yeshiva University In addition, he wrote a best-selling book. "Isometric Exercises," which has been through five printings. Mir. Wittenberg was the first inductee to the CCNY Alumni Varsity Association Hall of Fame. He was elected to the National Wresting Hall of Fame and to the Jewish-American Sports Hall of Fame. His determination to persist against all obstacles to achieve his own personal best and the best performances from his students are an inspiration to us all. In you Henry Wittenberg Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice.

Isaac Ogden Woodruff ‘00

Professor at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and leading specialist in the study and treatment of respiratory diseases (1939)

Lorande Loss Woodruff '00

Teacher in the venerable University of Yale, zoologist of national eminence, painstaking scholar in a basic field of biology, contributor to the learned periodicals in your own and allied subjects, member of the National Academy of Sciences, you have manifested that disinterested love of learning toward the attainment of which all true centers of advanced study constantly strive. You have taken to another campus the tradition that has given vitality to the academic life of your College. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Samuel Johnson Woolf '99

Scion of a famous City College family, you developed, as an undergraduate, the marked talent in the graphic arts, which has won for your works a place in many public and private collections. Since that early day when you brought Mark Twain into perpetual remembrance on the lithographer's stone, you have immortalized the leaders of the modern world. Skilled writer as well as portrait artist, you have attained pre-eminence in a new field of journalism. In the interviews you contribute to the press both the physical features and the thoughts and moods of your subjects are preserved for posterity. What you have drawn from life you have returned to living men in double measure. In you Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Avraham Yarmolinsky ‘16

Director of the Slavonic division of the New York Public Library and foremost authority on Russian literature (1993)

Arthur Zeikel '54B

Arthur Zeikel '54B spearheaded the growth of Merrill Lynch's hugely prosperous Assets Management Group. During the 20 years he was the Group's- president, he built it into the third largest asset management firm in the world. As a member of Merrill Lynch's Executive Management Committee, he has played .1 leading role in making decisions boosting the financial well being of clients in many nations. He has served as senior advisor to the Chairman and President of Merrill Lynch and as director of Corporate Strategy.

Mr. Zeikel introduced the concept of mutual funds to millions of investors. Under his guidance, the firm's client assets grew from 5300 million to 5300 billion. He oversaw the expansion of a vast range of services, including worldwide private portfolio services to individuals, corporations and governments. Mr. Zeikel oversaw more than 200 mutual funds active in virtually every' capital market.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Zeikel was president, chief executive officer and senior portfolio manager for institutional accounts for Centennial Management, and previously, was chairman of the board and a founding principal of Standard & Poor's/Intercapital, Inc.

A respected author, Mr. Zeikel co-wrote the leading texts, "Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management," and "The Guide to Intelligent Investing." He received the Graham & Dodd scroll twice for his contributions to The Financial Analysts Journal, and served on the journal's editorial board. His expertise led to his appointment as co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Financial Analysts Federation Investment Management Workshop. Mr. Zeikel is a trustee of Common fund, a non-profit corporation enhancing financial institutions resources through fund management. A corporate member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Corporation, he is also a member of the Economic Club of New York and of the Council on Foreign Relations. By assuring the financial security of individuals, institutions, and entire nations, Mr. Zeikel has built a safer world for us all. In you, Arthur Zeikel, Alma Mater has particular reason to rejoice

Dr. Mark W. Zemansky ‘21

Your vitality and understanding of the physical laws in our universe have been a source of inspiration to City College students since 1922. As professor and former chairman of your Alma Mater’s Physics Department, Lecturer at the New School and at Columbia University, you helped train researchers and classroom teachers for your country. More directly, you aided in our nation’s defense since World War II as advisor to the Atomic Energy Commission and consultant to the Office of Naval Research. Recognizing in you a magnetism that is personal, forces that rout student inertia, and an equilibrium of keen mind and warm heart, your colleagues elected you president of the Physics Teachers Association. In you, Alma Mater finds particular reason to rejoice.

Dr. Benjamin W. Zweifach ‘31

Pre-eminent Physics (1993)