WABC-TV anchors, seven distinguished alumni, receive CCNY honors

 Eyewitness News co-anchors Bill Ritter and Sade Baderinwa are this year’s John H. Finley Award recipients. The award is given out by the Alumni Association of The City College of New York for exemplary and dedicated service to the City of New York.

In addition, the association has honored seven City College alumni for outstanding post-graduate achievement. They received the Townsend Harris Medal at CCNY’s 137th annual alumni dinner in Manhattan.

The seven are:

  • Bernard S. Cohen, Esq. ’56B, the renowned lawyer who successfully argued the landmark civil rights case Loving vs. Virginia before the U.S. Supreme Court;
     
  • Jacob (Jack) Feinstein ’65EE, a retired VP for Consolidated Edison and prominent energy consultant;
     
  • Judge Stuart S. Levy ’72, a retired administrative patent judge and expert in patent law, practice and procedure;
     
  • Dr. Naomi Conn Liebler ’66, a distinguished scholar, author and one of America’s pre-eminent experts on Shakespeare;
     
  • Dolores Allen Littles ’59, a trailblazing photography editor for Life Magazine and Time Life Books;
     
  • Dr. Augustine L. Moscatello ’69, the award-winning Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at Westchester Medical Center; and
  • Dr. Stanley I. Sandler ’62ChE, a world renowned chemical engineer and researcher in applied thermodynamics.

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