The George Arents Pioneer Medal
The George Arents Pioneer Medal is named for George Arents, former chairman of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees. In 1939 Arents endowed a fund to provide for the Arents Pioneer Medals to be awarded annually. Alumni of the University are eligible for the award, based on excellence in their field of endeavor. Recipients of the award, which is the highest alumni honor the University bestows, are selected by the Alumni Association Board of Directors.
October 2, 2009
Karen L. DeCrow L’72
Samuel V. Goekjian ‘52
Frank A. Langella ‘59
Donald G. McPherson ‘87
Joyce Carol Oates ‘60, H’00
September 19, 2008
Edwin N. London '49
Andrea Davis Pinkney '85
Daniel H. Present '55
Shirley Jackson '40 (Posthumous)
April 26, 2007
Lou Reed '64
October 26, 2006
Edwin L. "Ned" Rifkin '72
October 10, 2006
Richard Gluckman '70, G'71
June 3, 2006
Gerald B. Cramer '52
David M. Crane L'80
Ali Khalif Galaydh G'69, G'72
Kathrine V. Switzer '68, G'72
November 9, 2005
Albert Maysles '49
June 4, 2005
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. G'68
Nicholas M. Donofrio G'71
Joyce Hergenhan '63
Ted Koppel '60, H'82
Michael T. Tirico '88
Rev. Joseph C. Ehrmann, Jr. '73
Carole Wolfe Korngold '57
Chancellor Emeritus Kenneth A. Shaw H'04
Mary Ann Shaw H'04
Kenneth R. Sparks '56, G'61, G'64
Martin J. Whitman '49
Gil Cates '55, G'65
Nina V. Fedoroff '66
Ralph Ketcham G'56, H'99
Joseph O. Lampe '53, G'55
Roger S. Berkowitz '74
Walter H. Diamond '34
Warren Kimble '57
Roberta "Bobbie" C. Schofield '57, G'77
Marilyn Smith Swift Tennity '42
Aaron Sorkin '83
Bruce S. Fowle '60
Lansing G. Baker G’64, Ph.D ‘72
Walter D. Broadnax Ph.D. ‘75
Elsa Reichmanis ‘72, Ph.D.’75
Bob Costas ‘74
Robert B. Fagenson '70
Jim Boeheim '66 G '73
Renee Schine Crown '50
Antje Bultmann Lemke G'56
Charles V. Willie PhD '57
Lynn Ahrens '70
Bradley Anderson '51
Molly Corbett Broad '62
Bernie Wohl '51
M. Elizabeth Carnegie G'52
David Falk '72
Marty Glickman '39
Alan Rafkin '50
Irma Ginsberg Kalish '45
F. Story Musgrave '58
Arthur Rock '48
William L. Safire '49
Lt. Col. Eileen Collins '78
Ruth Johnson Colvin '59
Marshall Gelfand '50
Vanessa Williams '85
Dick Clark
Martin N. Bandier
David Bing
Joann Heffernan Heisen
George W. Campbell Jr.
Mary Schmidt Campbell
John A. Couri
Marvin K. Lender
Steve Kroft
Susan Penny
Robert Rigolosi
Anthony Y.C. Yeh
L. Ross Love
Joan Lines Oates
J. Robert Tomlinson
Diane Camper
Theresa Howard-Carter
Eleanor A. Ludwig
Albert Murray
Richard Pietrafesa
Peter Guber
Luise Kaish
John L. Martin
Candace Bahouth
Douglas D. Danforth
Robert Phillips
Peter W. Yenawine
George H. Babikian
Robin R. Burns
Anthony C. Chevins
William J. Smith
Robert A. Beck
Vincent H. Cohen
Michael 0. Sawyer
Senator Alfonse D'Amato
Richard Hayden
Betsey Johnson
Dick Stockton
H. Douglas Barclay
Mel Elfin
Robert Pietrafesa
Maxine B. Singer
Stella Biercuk Blum
William J. Brodsky
Sidney L. Krawitz
Hon. Tarky J. Lombardi
Dr. P. Gordon Gould
Eva Holmes Lee
Dr. George A. Sisson
Lewis Slingerland
Marcus A. Clements
Carlisle Floyd
Christian X. Kouray
Athena C. Kouray
Robert B. Menschel
Chester Soling
Lora S. Flanagan
James A. Britton
Louis F. Bantle
Charles E. Boddie
Gerald Stiller
Dorothy E. Rowe
Seymour Leslie
L. Douglas Meredith
Robert W. Cornell
Gerald J. Leider
Susan Reid Greene
Harry A. and Dorothy Wende Devlin
Nancy Harvey Steorts
Floyd D. Little
Lee J. Topp
Horace J. Landry
Rosemary S. Nesbitt
Lawrence R. White
Phyllis Hickman Demong
Raymond T. Schuler
Demetria M. Taylor
Arthur J. Barry
Marjorie Reeve Elliott
Howard F. Miller
Elizabeth Barstow Alton
Albert W. Brown
Kenneth E. Buhrmaster
Martine Burdick Clayton
John D. MacDonald
Bernard M. Singer
Louis R. Bruce
Julie Chase Fuller
John A. Olver
Franklyn S. Barry
Donald S. MacNaughton
Cornelia T. Snell
Robert W. Cutler
Delmont K. Pfeffer
Dr. Madeline J. Thornton
Jean DuBois Galkin
Sheldon Leonard
Joseph H. Murphy
James F. Bunting
Helen R. Hagan
Dr. Millard G. Roberts
Donald Jay Grout
Dr. J. G. Fred Hiss
Dr. Frances Clark Dietzold
Dr. Samuel Rosen
Lewis P. Andreas
Mary Caroline Egan
Frederick G. Vosburgh
Margaret Long Arnold
Norris O. Johnson
Eric W. Will
William G. Atwell
Harvey O. Banks
Marion Clayton Link
Donald Q. Faragher
John Burch McMorran
Eloise Andrews Woolever
Vernon L. deTar
Eric H. Faigle
Clara Brown Williams
Darius A. Davis
Elizabeth Sweeney Herbert
Lester O. Schriver
Walter S. Bourlier
Agnes E. Law
Pyo Wook Han
Florence Kerins Murray
D. Kenneth Sargent
Clarence L. VanSchaick
Leslie A. Bryan
June Buchanan
Malcolm P. Ferguson
Gertrude Skerritt Brooks
Edward C. Reifenstein
William P. Tolley
Mary Ames Becker
Martha Keefe Phillips
Carleton F. Sharpe
Evelyn Millis Duvall
Edgar B. Ingraham
William D. Lewis
T. Frank Dolan
Helene W. Hartley
Gordon D. Hoople
Harry J. Carman
Clara Bannister Congdon
Florence Bailey Crouse
Hilda Grossman Taylor
Harry E. Weston
Nelia Gardner White
LeGrande A. Diller
Welthy Honsinger Fisher
Drew Middleton
T. Aaron Levy
Harry L. Upperman
J. Roscoe Drummond
Winifred Fisher
Neal Brewster
Ernest G. Hawkins
Katharine Sibley
J. Winifred Hughes
Edmund H. Lewis
Carl L. Bausch
Dewitt T. Mackenzie
Marguerite W. Wriston
Cora D. Graham
William P. Graham
Lurelle V. Guild
Cecilia B. Martin
J. Robert Rubin
Frank J. O'Neill
Anna V. Rice
Herman G. Weiskotten
William M. Smallwood
Dorothy C. Thompson
John S. Young