Past Citizen Laureates

The University at Albany Foundation Citizen Laureate Awards Dinner Laureate Family

Year

Community Laureates

Academic Laureates

1977The Honorable Samuel S. StrattonIvar Giaever, Ph.D.
1978The Honorable Francis BerganWilliam N. Fenton, Ph.D.
1979Clarence ParkerStuart Bondurant, M.D.
1980The Most Reverend Howard HubbardVincent Schaefer
1981Lewis A. SwyerJohn F. Dewey, Ph.D.
1982Clifton C. Thorne, Ed.D.James W. Corbett, Ph.D.
1983Katherine S. RozendaalGeorge M. Low
1984Matthew Bender IVJohn C. Gerber, Ph.D.
1985Lee D. LindstromRichard T. Beebe, M.D.
1986Peter D. KiernanJoseph C. Palamountain, Jr., Ph.D.
1987Morris MassryRalph D. Alley, M.D.
Margaret M. Stewart, Ph.D.
1988The Honorable Jacob H. HerzogReverend Thomas Phelan
1989Victor J. Riley, Jr.William Kennedy
1990Elizabeth A. SonnebornVincent O’Leary
1991Alan V. IselinBernard Pollara, M.D., Ph.D.
1992Carl E. TouheyWalter M. Gibson, Ph.D.
1994Lewis GolubJoseph J. Bulmer, Ph.D.
1995J. Spencer StandishSara S. Chapman, Ph.D.
Alain E. Kaloyeros, Ph.D.
1996Charlotte S. Buchanan, Esq.
Gary R. Allen ’70, Alumni Laureate
Louis C. Vaccaro, Ph.D.
Douglas M. Windham, Ph.D.
1997Honorable John E. Holt-Harris, Jr., Esq.
The Picotte Family
Roland W. Schmitt, Ph.D.
1998Daniel J. Hogarty, Jr.Anthony P. Tartaglia, M.D.
1999Kenneth T. and Thelma (Perkins ’48) Lally
The Honorable Thomas M. Whalen III
David H. Porter, Ph.D.
2000The Honorable Arthur J. Roth
The Honorable Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr., Millennium Laureate
Shirley J. Jones, DSW
2001The Honorable Joseph L. BrunoDavid O. Carpenter, M.D.
2002Alan GoldbergMary C. Kahl, Ph.D
2005John C. Egan
John E. Kelly III
Morris “Marty” Silverman
Meredith A. Butler
2006Richard C. Liebich
R. Mark Sullivan
Frank J. Thompson, Ph.D.
2007Neil and Jane Golub
George M. Philip, Esq. 
Paul A. Leonard, Ph.D.
Leonard A. Slade, Ph.D.
2008E. Stewart Jones, Jr. Esq.
Edward P. Swyer
Helen R. Desfosses, Ph.D.
2009The Honorable Hugh L. Carey, 30th Anniversary Laureate 
2010John J. NigroSally Temple, Ph.D.
2011Wallace W. Altes
Robert M. Curley
John Balint, M.D.
2012I. Norman and Micki MassryKatharine Briar-Lawson, Ph.D.
2013James J. BarbaStephen M. Berk, Ph.D.
2014Phoebe Powell Bender
Daniel P. Nolan ’74 
Fr. Kevin J. Mullen, O.F.M., Ph.D.
2015William J. Cromie
I. David Swawite 
Vincent P. Verdile, M.D.
2016Angelo Mazzone
Walter L. Robb
Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
2017Rev. Kenneth J. Doyle
The Honorable Gerald D. Jennings ’76 
Andrew J. Matonak, Ed.D.
2018Richard Kotlow
Peter M. and Barbara J. Pryor
Karen R. Hitchcock, Ph.D.
2019David Alan Miller
Harry & Anne Rosenfeld
Marlene Belfort, Ph.D.
2022Chet & Karen Opalka
Alice Green ’83 & Charles Touhey ’91 
Alicia Ouellette, J.D.
2023Robert Lazar, CPA MS ’77 
Dr. James K. Reed
Roberta Bernstein, Ph.D.