2017
Charles Spaulding, Chair, Bailey Place Insurance
Harwood Spaulding, Former Part Owner, Peck's Furniture
2016
Harry Bellardini ’56, M ’64, Former Account Executive, New York State Fair
2015
Amy Simrell, Former Executive Director, Cortland YWCA
2014
Robert C. Howe, Republican election commissioner, Cortland County; board member Cortland College Foundation
2013
Victor Siegle, owner, Management Software; board member, Cortland College Foundation
2012
James Yaman ’40, founder and broker, Yaman Real Estate
2011
Bernard E. Thoma ’78, M ’80, founder and owner of Thoma Ltd.
2010
Dorothea “Dottie” Kreig Allen Fowler ’52 M ’74, retired teacher and owner and CEO of R.H. Fowler
2009
Martin J. Mack M ’76, New York State Governor’s Appointments Secretary
2008
Barbara Lifton, New York State Assembly, 125th District
2007
Fred A. Amante, Former Principal, Barry Elementary School, and Kevin M. Yard, Principal, Parker Elementary School
2006
Jami Bistocchi, YWCA Child Care Program Director
2005
Linda Dickerson Hartsock, Former Executive Director, Cortland County BDC-IDA
2004
James L. Seward, New York State Senate, 51st District
2003
Charles A. Gibson, Former Cortland College Foundation Board Member
2002
James C. Nichols, Former Police Chief, City of Cortland
2001
Jean Cadwallader, Former President, Cortland College Foundation
2000
Joan Poskanzer, Former College Council Member
1999
Kevin R. Howe, Publisher, Cortland Standard
1998
Rev. Donald Wilcox, Former Protestant Campus Minister, Interfaith Center
1997
Marian Natoli Atkinson ’54, Cortland College Alumni Association Board Member, Former College Council Member
1996
David Farber, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon and Former SUNY Cortland Team Physician
1995
Walter Smigel, Local Industrialist and Philanthropist
1994
Patricia A. Clark, Former Board Member, Cortland College Child Care Center and Nu Sigma Chi
1993
Donald F. Ames, Former Owner, Ames Linen Service, and Donald “Bud” Ames, President, Ames Linen Service
1992
Eduardo J. Marti, Former President, Tompkins Cortland Community College
1991
Estella Eckler Vangeli ’47, Past President, Cortland College Alumni Association
1990
Leland B. Taylor, Attorney, Former Board Member, Cortland College Foundation
1989
Joseph Coleman, Former Director of Secondary Education, Cortland City Schools
1988
Louis J. Wolner, Former Supervising Principal,
Homer Central School District
1987
James H. Sarvay, Former Member, Cortland College Foundation Board and College Council
1986
Francis “Bud” Quinlan, Former Fire Chief and Mayor, City of Cortland
1985
Philip A. Cinquanti, Former Police Chief, City of Cortland, and Esther Twentyman, Former Member, Cortland County Legislature, College Council and Cortland College Foundation