Donor Citations
Lawrence Zicklin '57
Lawrence Zicklin, over the years you have
made extraordinary contributions to the world around you.
You have given generously of your time, your wisdom, your
resources, and your spirit. When you endowed the Zicklin School
of Business, you credited your success in life to the education
you received, and the enduring relationships you made, at
Baruch. “No Baruch,” you famously said, “no Zicklin.” Your
ongoing commitment to the deepest principles of philanthropy
has helped transform those words into “No Zicklin, no Baruch.”
From your start at your parents' candy store
in Flatbush, Brooklyn, to your celebrated career as managing
partner and chairman of Neuberger Berman, you have rarely
sat still. You have been a student of life, a wise teacher
of business ethics, a devoted family man, and a trusted friend
and donor to many important causes. You have found the time
to teach at New York University's Stern School of Business
and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, where
you received your MBA, and to volunteer for a number of causes.
When you recently stepped down from your three-year term as
president of UJA-Federation of New York, you advised your
successor to “select priorities and concentrate on them—then
be flexible enough to completely change course.” As a business
leader and as a citizen of the world, you have remained dedicated
and open-minded, and you have had a profound influence on
the lives of many.
When you visited the Baruch campus in 1996,
you were galvanized by the energy and motivation of the students
and by the College's unwavering commitment to provide excellent,
affordable education. Your immediate response was to make
a generous gift to the Campaign for Baruch in honor of your
friend, partner, and fellow Baruch alumnus, Marvin Schwartz.
In 1998 you became a Trustee of The Baruch College Fund, and
from 2001 to 2003 you served as the fund's president. You
have understood that no one achieves alone—and that no one
should have to. In your actions and your words, you have exemplified
the root meaning of “philanthropy”: loving people.
In 1998 you and your wife, Carol, made an
historic gift to the College that has helped elevate the quality
of a Baruch education in unprecedented ways. To honor your
generosity and your ongoing commitment to public higher education,
the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York approved
the naming in perpetuity of the Zicklin School of Business.
Today, the Zicklin School is the largest and one of the most
esteemed business schools in the country, and the value of
a Baruch degree is at an all-time high.
When you gave your most recent gift to Baruch—an
endowment for the Center for Financial Integrity—you honored
your cousin Robert Zicklin, because, you said, “Bob was in
the 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.” For Baruch, Larry Zicklin
is the model of integrity. Throughout your career, you have
demonstrated uncommon commitment to the values of philanthropy,
public service, personal morality, and corporate accountability.
You have remembered your roots and displayed an unusual and
sustained level of empathy for those less fortunate than yourself.
You have never forgotten that education is a journey, not
a destination, and to that end you have been tireless in your
social, corporate and educational commitments.
You have been a student, a teacher, a donor,
and a friend. You have upheld the values and core mission
of public education in exceptional ways. In deeply-felt recognition
of your continued support, and in honor of the cousin whose
values helped shaped your own, we are proud to rename the
Center for Financial Integrity the Robert Zicklin
Center for Corporate Integrity.
September 28, 2004
William '47 and Anita Newman
William and Anita Newman are a remarkable
couple who exhibit a loving devotion, a spirit of generosity,
and an unwavering concern for the welfare of Baruch College
and its students.
Bill, you followed in your father's footsteps,
entering Baruch College (at that time, the School of Business
and Civic Administration of City College). You were only 15
years old. You left to serve in the U.S. Navy during World
War II and received your degree after you returned, in 1947.
You and Anita Eagle, a classmate at Evander Childs High School
in the Bronx, were married that same year. You became a certified
public accountant and joined your father's accounting firm.
You have worked for only one firm, founded
by your father, a small family enterprise that through your
foresight and keen business intuition grew into a publicly
traded billion-dollar corporation. Although trained
as an accountant, you persuaded your father to buy the office
buildings and factories left empty by the Depression. Your
hard work and meticulous standards turned these purchases
into the real estate company that became New Plan Excel Realty
Trust, which today manages 23 shopping centers in New York
State alone and many more in virtually every state east of
the Mississippi. You have reaped many honors and financial
rewards. Four times you were awarded the Wall Street Transcript
's gold, silver, or bronze medal for national leadership
in the real estate industry. Your success in business and
life can be summed up by your favorite quote from Shakespeare's
Julius Caesar: “There is a tide in the affairs of
men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. Omitted,
all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in misery.”
You have always remembered the foundation
of your success: “Choosing Baruch proved to be one of the
smartest decisions I ever made,” you have said. “It has affected
almost everything that has happened to me since.” In 1993
your fondness for your alma mater ignited into a renewed commitment.
Your goal: to help Baruch help a new generation of young people.
To that end, you and your wife made a remarkable first gift.
With great humility, you claimed you were simply paying back
your tuition. Your words created the theme and your generosity
spurred the success of Baruch's capital campaign. In 1994
Baruch named its since-award-winning library the William and
Anita Newman Library in your honor.
In 1995 together you and the College helped
realize one of your lifelong dreams by creating the Steven
L. Newman Real Estate Institute, a place where the next generation
of leaders in the real estate profession could be educated.
You endowed it in memory of your son, Steven, who was your
partner at New Plan Excel Realty. The institute, in conjunction
with the College's new Bachelor of Science degree program
in real estate and metropolitan development, has established
Baruch as a leader in the field of real estate education.
Your newly endowed chair in real estate finance will further
propel the new real estate program into national prominence.
Over the years, the College has variously
recognized your abiding commitment to higher education as
well as your leadership and vision. You have served as Trustee
of The Baruch College Fund since 1993 and chairman of the
Board of Advisors for the Newman Real Estate Institute. In
1993 you were the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award
and in 1997 of an honorary doctorate. But some people cannot
be recognized or thanked enough. For all that you have done
and continue to do, we proffer our thanks again .
Today, we name our award winning new building the William
and Anita Newman Vertical Campus in your honor.
September 28, 2004
Lawrence N. Field '52
Your life has been enormously successful.
You manifest a magic equilibrium that balances a career, which
engages your passionate intelligence, with a deep commitment
to your family and friends as well as to the many fortunate
communities that call you a member.
You are an unrivaled entrepreneur, building
your successful career through fearlessness, hard work, and
creative vision. The only child of Hungarian immigrants who
owned a neighborhood grocery store in the East Bronx, you
learned firsthand about the rigors of life as a small-business
entrepreneur. As a young scholar at Christopher Columbus High
School, you received a medal in history, prompting your parents
to advise you to become a history teacher. However, you chose
a more familiar path, that of entrepreneur, like your father.
Only you had bigger dreams, and in 1952 you graduated with
a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baruch College,
having formed lifelong friendships with the members of your
Houseplan, Ketchum '52.
After a stint in the Army, you began pursuing
entrepreneurial ventures at an unlikely place. In two weeks'
time, while promoting Lever Brothers' new product, Dove soap,
you outsold the other 19 salespeople combined by 225 percent.
With Baruch classmate and fellow Ketchum member Al Bronstein,
you became partners in a Bronx-based real estate brokerage
firm. In 1963 you earned a Juris Doctor from New York Law
School.
In 1965 you relocated with your beloved wife,
Eris, and children to the West Coast. Since 1968 you have
been involved in the acquisition and development of more than
$400 million of real estate in Southern California, most recently
as the founder and principal of NSB Associates. During your
career, you have helped develop some of the most important
real estate in the United States, transforming Los Angeles
into an emblematic American landscape.
A noted philanthropist, you are deeply dedicated
to your community—on both coasts. Your alma mater, for one,
is grateful for your abiding commitment. In 1998 you endowed
Baruch's Small Business Lab, which was renamed the Lawrence
N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship. As a result of your
gift, the center's community impact grew tenfold and remains
the most valued resource for entrepreneurs in New York City.
In 1999 you became a Trustee of The Baruch College Fund.
In recognition of your stellar achievements,
on June 1, 2004, at Baruch's Commencement Ceremony, the College
was proud to bestow upon you the degree of Doctor of Commercial
Science, honoris causa . Your acceptance address
shared the wisdom that lies behind your success and will forever
remain a gift to the 3,600 new graduates:
The lessons I learned at Baruch taught
me the traits of successful people. Those traits never change:
positive thinking, persistence, hard work, innovation, and
integrity… Go out into the world and realize your dreams.
Put your whole heart into everything you do—in every area
of your life—and you will be rewarded.
Today, with deep gratitude, it is the College's
pleasure to announce that you have created the Field
Family Chair in Entrepreneurship . In recognition
of your unfailing devotion to Baruch College, we are honored
to place your family's name on the College's first building
at 23rd Street and 17 Lexington Avenue. Generations of students
have received their education at ‘17 Lex.' Future generations
will refer to the College's most historic location as Eris
and Lawrence N. Field Hall.
September 28, 2004
Marvin Antonowsky '49, MBA '52
Marvin Antonowsky, over the years you have
helped bring dreams to life, first as creative business executive
and producer in the film and television industries and more
recently as warm-hearted double alumnus of and philanthropist
to Baruch College.
You established the foundation of your tremendous
business successes in the classrooms of Baruch College, then
City College Downtown. In 1949 you earned a Bachelor of Business
Administration degree and in 1952 a Master of Business Administration
in marketing and statistics.
You began your career with the advertising
agency Kenyon and Eckhart, where you were media research director
before becoming marketing vice president in 1957. Next you
joined Norman, Craig and Kummel, where you were vice president
of marketing services. In 1965 you were named vice president
in charge of media research and spot buying at J. Walter Thompson.
Four years later, you joined ABC-TV as vice president in charge
of research. The pinnacle of your career in network television
came in your role as vice president of programming at NBC-TV,
where you conceived of the idea for the groundbreaking, long-running
late-night comedy showcase Saturday Night Live.
In 1976 you made the transition from television
to motion pictures as a senior vice president for Universal
Studios. From 1980 to 1984, you headed Columbia Pictures Marketing
and Research. You have also worked as a marketing consultant
to Tri-Star Pictures and oversaw marketing operations at Universal
Pictures. In 1990 you were named executive vice president
of Columbia Pictures. In 1993 you became executive vice president
at Price Entertainment. During your film career, you helped
bring to local and international theatre screens such artistically
successful and memorable Hollywood blockbusters as Out
of Africa, The Big Chill, Tootsie, and Gandhi.
In 1999, on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee
Reunion of your undergraduate class, you returned to your
alma mater ready to lend it your intellectual acuity, warmth,
and tenacious integrity as well as shower it with generosity.
You became a Trustee of The Baruch College Fund and founder
of Baruch's Marketing Committee, which helped the university
better position itself in the educational marketplace. Soon
you endowed the Marvin Antonowsky Chair in Theatre. Its current
holder has led the arts revitalization and transformation
of this institution, now a choice professional venue for New
York's theatre community. Only time—and vision—can predict
the transformative value of your extremely generous recent
gift.
In recognition of your deep commitment to
the students and the cultural life of Baruch College and for
making creative and educational aspirations a reality for
many, we are proud to name the Marvin Antonowsky Performing
Arts Complex , in our magnificent Newman Vertical Campus,
in your honor.
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