Donor Biographies and Quotes
William
and Anita Newman
The
Newmans' gift of $25 million is their largest to date (as
well one of the largest in the history of private gifts to
public colleges in New York State) and is in support of the
award-winning Newman Vertical Campus facility, which opened in 2001,
housing the Zicklin School of Business and the Weissman School
of Arts and Sciences, and which will be re-named the William
and Anita Newman Vertical Campus .
Quotes:
“First
my father, and my mother, both immigrants newly arrived on
these shores, and then I and my late brother Joseph, as well
as many of the people who would become my colleagues, all
attended Downtown City, earning degrees and setting the stage
for productive careers in business. I'm grateful for what
this school, now Baruch, has given me, and I welcome the opportunity
to help to do the same for a new generation of young people.”
Anita
Newman adds: “I feel that the youth of America are our future
and education is so very important to them and to all of us.
I am very proud that we can do something to help.”
Bios:
William
Newman
graduated in 1947 from Baruch College with a BBA and received
an honorary doctorate from the College in 1997. His
support for Baruch is extensive: he has funded the Steven
L. Newman Real Estate Institute as well as, in the curriculum,
the Newman Real Estate programs, comprising Master's and undergraduate
programs in the School of Public Affairs and the Zicklin School
of Business at Baruch. He also provided key support for the
reconstruction of the William and Anita Newman Library, which
was named the best college library in the nation for 2003
by the academic arm of the American Library Association.
Newman
is the founder and chairman of New Plan Excel Realty Trust.
New Plan Excel Realty Trust, one of the nation's largest real
estate companies, focuses on the ownership, management, acquisition,
development and redevelopment of community and neighborhood
shopping centers. The Company operates as a self-administered
and self-managed REIT, with a national portfolio of more than
400 properties, total assets of approximately $4.0 billion.
Marking
his prominence in the real estate industry, Newman has received
the Wall Street Transcript's gold, silver, and bronze medals
for national leadership in the real estate industry, and Ernst
& Young's Real Estate Entrepreneur of the Year Award in
1998. He is also the former Chairman of the National
Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, which position
he occupied from 1990 to1992.
Anita
Newman attended Hunter College. She and William
Newman both attended Evander Childs High School in the Bronx.
The Newmans have a grown daughter, Debra.
Lawrence
N. Field and Eris Field
The
Fields are making a gift of $10 million in support of the
future renovation of 17 Lexington Avenue, Baruch's original
academic building. The site is historically significant for
being the location of the Free Academy, which opened at the
corner of Lexington and 23rd Street in 1847. The Free Academy
was America's first free public institution of higher learning
and the precursor to City College and later the City University
of New York. The Fields' longtime friend, the architect Frank
Gehry, has expressed his commitment to being involved in the
renovation/design. The building will be named the Lawrence
and Eris Field Building.
In
addition, the Fields also are donating $2 million to fund
the Larry and Eris Field Family Chair in Entrepreneurship,
expanding the scope of Baruch's Field Center in Entrepreneurship,
which the Fields endowed in 1999.
Quote:
“Half
a century ago, when I walked into the 17 Lex building, those
doors literally opened the way to a new life for me. My parents,
like the parents of many of today's students, were immigrants.
Their dream was that I could be a mail carrier or school teacher.
Baruch showed me a much wider world. It gave me both the education
and the self-confidence to create for myself and my family
a future I could never have imagined. For me, this opportunity
to give back to Baruch College is both a privilege and an
obligation. It acknowledges the deep gratitude and affection
I feel to this unique and wonderful institution. It also allows
me help make sure that today's young students can step through
the doors of Baruch to a brighter future for themselves.”
The
founder and principal of NSB Associates, Lawrence
Field has more than three decades of experience
in the real estate development and investment business both
in New York and Southern California. Since 1968, Mr. Field
has been involved in the acquisition and development of more
than 2 million square feet of real estate in Southern California
in the name of Southland Investment Company, The Richlar Partnership
and now NSB Associates.
Field
is a founding director of the California Housing Council and
is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the International
Council of Shopping Centers and the National Association of
Industrial and Office Parks. He is on the Executive
Committee of the Baruch College Fund and on the boards of
Girls and Boys Town USA, Fraternity of Friends of the Music
Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and The Jewish Home for
the Aging. Other charitable and community affiliations
from the past and present include: Jewish Federation
Council, American Associates Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Stephen S. Wise Temple, UCLA/Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art and The Magic Castle. He holds a Bachelor's
(B.B.A.) from The Baruch College of the City of New York and
a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from New York Law School.
Eris
Field has been
active in leadership roles in a number of Los Angeles-area
civic and arts organizations. The Fields have two grown children,
Robyn and Lisa, both of whom live in Southern California.
Marvin
Antonowksy
Marvin
Antonowsky is giving $2.5 million in support of the new and
expanded Baruch Performing Arts Center in the Newman Vertical Campus,
which will be named the Marvin Antonowsky Performing Arts
Complex.
Quote:
“I'm delighted to lend my name to a first-rate arts center
at a college that's home to the nation's largest business
school,” said Antonowsky. “My career has flourished
by being able to bring good business sense to the production
of culture and entertainment, and Baruch is the institution
that launched me on this road. I hope the Antonowsky
Performing Arts Complex will enable today's students to pursue
a love of theater and music as they learn to make their living
and to realize the two ends are not mutually exclusive.”
Marvin
Antonowsky received his BBA in 1947 from City College
School of Business and Civic Administration, which in 1953
became Baruch College, and took his MS in 1952. Antonowsky
went on to a long and successful career in entertainment and
marketing and has supported Baruch in its performing arts
programs as well as through his membership on the school's
nongoverning board, The Baruch College Fund.
Antonowsky
served as executive vice president and assistant to the chairman
of Columbia Pictures from 1990 until 1993, when he went with
Columbia chair Frank Price and helped form and manage Price
Entertainment. His projects there included “A Bronx Tale,”
“Shadowlands,” and “Circle of Friends.” During his Columbia
years he worked on “Prince of Tides,” My Girl,” “Radio Flyer,”
and “Sleepwalkers,” among others.
In
1989 and 1990, Antonowsky worked as a marketing consultant
to Tri-Star Pictures, where he managed marketing campaigns
for “See No Evil, Hear No Evil,” “Look Who's Talking,” “The
Bear,” and “Steel Magnolias.”
Prior
to that, Antonowsky was at MCA/Universal Pictures, where he
was named president of marketing in 1984. He joined
Universal after serving as head of Columbia Pictures marketing
from 1980 to 1984. In these two positions he oversaw marketing
campaigns for many of the most successful motion pictures
of the time, including “The Breakfast Club,” “Fletch,” “Out
of Africa,” “Stir Crazy,” “Absence of Malice,” “Ghandi,” “Tootsie,”
“The Big Chill,” and many others.
Antonowsky
began his career with the advertising agency, Kenyon and Eckhart,
where he was media research director before becoming marketing
vice president in 1957. He then joined Norman, Craig
and Kummel, where he was vice president of marketing services.
In 1965, Mr. Antonowsky was named vice president in
charge of media research and spot buying at J.Walter Thompson,
a position he held for four years. He then joined the
ABC television network, where he was vice president in charge
of research, culminating his network career at NBC, where,
as vice president of programming, he was instrumental in starting
“Saturday Night Live,” among other successful shows. In 1976,
he joined Universal Studios, where he was senior vice president
for Universal Television before moving over to the movie industry
in 1980.
Lawrence
and Carol Zicklin
Zicklin,
who endowed the Zicklin School of Business with an $18 million
gift in 1997, has donated $2 million as an endowment of what
was Baruch's “Center for Financial Integrity ” , which was
founded in 2000 with Zicklin's help by Accounting Prof. Douglas
Carmichael, now on leave to head the auditing division of
the SEC's new accounting enforcement arm, the PCAOB (Professional
and Corporate Accounting Oversight Board). The Center now
is named The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity.
Quote:
The renaming of the center, Zicklin says, “reflects the ethical
standards taught to me by my cousin Robert Zicklin, who was
in the very best sense a stickler for ethics and the law;
he never cut corners, he always played down the middle, and
for me he was the model of integrity. I think everyone's
vision for the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity
is that it be a place which upholds that model, a place that
has the courage to bring forward and debate cutting-edge issues
of ethics and integrity in business.”
Lawrence
Zicklin
graduated in 1957 from Baruch College with a BBA and earned
an MBA from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
in 1959. Currently Zicklin is chairman of Baruch's
non-governing board, The Baruch College Fund, where he has
also served in the capacity of president. Professionally,
Zicklin was managing principal and chairman of Neuberger Berman,
an investment management firm that is now part of Lehman Brothers.
He began his career in the institutional sales department
at Merrill Lynch. He is married to Carol Zicklin
, who is also a graduate of New York City's public
higher education system.
Zicklin
is a former president of the UJA Federation of New York.
He is a Clinical Professor at the Stern School at New York
University and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School.
Larry
and Carol Zicklin have been married since
1960. They have a son, Eric, living in Southern California,
and a daughter, Andrea, living in Israel.
William
F. Aldinger
Aldinger
is donating $2 million for The William F. Aldinger Chair in
Banking and Finance.
Quote:
“My hope is that the Aldinger Chair in Banking and Finance
will enable a professor to inspire students with the challenge
and excitement of emerging theories and methods in finance,”
said Aldinger. “My professional life has been profoundly
impacted by the excellent education I received at Baruch,
and I want to make sure the same holds true for today's students.”
William
F. Aldinger III
is chairman and CEO of HSBC North America Holdings Inc., a
wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc, one of the worlds'
largest banking and financial services organizations.
His previous positions include chairman and CEO of Household
International and vice chairman of Wells Fargo Bank.
Aldinger
serves as a director of MasterCard International, Illinois
Tool Works, and AT&T Corp. He also holds a seat
on the combined board of the Children's Memorial Medical Center/Children's
Memorial Hospital and the Children's Memorial Foundation in
Chicago.
Aldinger
graduated in 1969 from Baruch College with a BBA and earned
a JD degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1975. In 2004,
he was honored as Outstanding Alumnus at the annual Bernard
Baruch Dinner.
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