CUAA Alumni of the Year Award Winners.

The Alumnus of the Year Award is presented annually to an outstanding alumna or alumnus for their longstanding dedication and commitment to the Cooper Union Alumni Association and The Cooper Union.

2025	Douglas Sharrott EE’83
2024	Laura Spinner A’90
2023	Kelly Occhiuzzo- Zack Art ’90	Kelly Occhiuzzo-Zack Art’90
2022	Kay Nordstrom ME’77	Kay Nordstrom ME’77
2021	Susan Shaw A’72	Susan Shaw A’72
2020	Darrell Low EE’89	Darrell Low EE’89
2019	Robert Tan AR’81	Robert Tan AR’81
2018	Nils Folke Anderson A’94	Nils Folke Anderson A’94
2017	James Liubicich ChE’83	James Liubicich ChE’83
2017	Carol E. Wolf A’84	Carol E. Wolf A’84
2016	Adrian Burton Jovanovic BSC ’89	Adrian Burton Jovanovic BSE ’89
2015	Mary K. Lynch, ChE’82	Mary K. Lynch, ChE’82
2014	Sean Cusack, BSE ’98	Sean Cusack, BSE’98
2013	MaryAnn Nichols, A ’68 Dean Stephen P. Baker (Honorary)	MaryAnn Nichols A’68	Dean Baker, Honorary Alumnus of The Year
2012	John Leeper AR’85	John F. Leeper AR’85
2011	Mina Greenstein A’56	Karina Tipton CE’99 and Mina Greenstein A’56
2010	Charles Cassella EE’68,Eleanor Baum (Honorary)	Charles Cassella EE’68 Eleanor Baum
2009	John Huddy AR’85	John Huddy, AR’85
2008	Ron Weinstein CE’67	Ron Weinstein CE’67
2007	Ronald W. Drucker CE’62	Ron Drucker CE’62
2006	Martin Trust ME’56	Martin Trust ME’56
2005	William Sandholm CE’63,Robert Bernhard (Honorary)	William Sandholm CE’63
2004	Benjamin Eisenberg ChE’61, Susan Eisenberg CE’62
2003	Willard Warren EE’50	Willard (Bill) Warren EE’50
2002	Mark Epstein A’76, Art Zigas ME ’44	Mark Epstein, A’78
2001	Richard Schwartz ME’57	Richard Schwartz ME’57
2000	John Jay Iselin (honorary)	John J. Islelin
1999	Peter Torraco ME’28	Peter Torroco, ME’28
1998	Albert Carnesale ME’57	Albert Carnesale ME’57
1997	Howard Flagg EE’75 Benedict Itri EE’75	Howard Flagg EE’75
1996	Michael Borkowsky ME’61,Cecily Fox (honorary)	Michael Borkowsky ME’61
1995	Larry Ng EE’78	Larry Ng EE’78
1994	Barbara White Fishman A’60
1993	Carl Selinger CE’67	Carl Selinger CE’67
1992	George Hecht EE’30
1991	Albert Nerken ChE’33 (Alumnus-of-the-Decade)Marylyn Gore (honorary)Vera Neumann A’28 Clarence Hornung A’19 (Bicentennial Award)	Vera Neumann A’28
1990	Alan Green (Honorary) **
1989	Frank Miner ChE’47
1988	John Clarke AR’66	John Clarke AR’66
1987	Clarence Michalis (Honorary)
1986	Jack Yogman ChE’48	Jack Yogman ChE’48
1985	H.Carl Bauman EE’36
1984	Robert Wagner ME’59
1983	Bernard Levine EE’44
1982	Richard Bowman (Honorary)Irwin Chanin BSE’15	Irwin Chanin BSE’15
1981	D. Bert Haring ME’46Frank Stanton (Honorary)
1980	Herbert Lubalin A’39Louis Dorfsman A’39	Air Mail Stamp designed by Herb Lubalin
1979	Rudolph Aronson AR’29John F. White (Honorary)Irwin Appel EE’26
1978	Howard Silfin ME’49	Howard Silfin ME’49
1977	Jack Glicksman A’31 John Carroll CE’33	John Carroll CE’33
1976	Albert Nerken CHE’33
1975	Paul Parisi CE’50
1974	Arnold Levien AR 1910
1973	Charles Schaffner CE ’41	Charles Schaffner CE’41
1972	Herman Jessor BSE 1917
1971	George Fox CE’40
1970	John Lanigan CE’32
1969	Marilyn Hoffner A’48 Al Greenberg A’48
1968	Martin Weissburg EE’29
1967	Frederick Krug Eng 1917
1966	Benjamin Gross EE 1913	Bemjamin Gross EE’33
1965	Philip Brueck Eng’33
1964	Herbert Roemmele Eng 1925
1963	William Lukacs A’28
1962	James D. Carroll ME’29	James D Carroll ME’29
1961	David Samson Eng 1924
1958	Pearl Greenberg A’48 George Burrows Eng 1907 Matthew Becker EE 1921
1957	Joseph Rofman Eng’28Jack Gould ME 1927Frederick Caiola Eng 1917	Jack Gould ME 1927
1956	Irving Fisher Eng 1917 J. Johnson Eng 1905 Anthony Daidone Eng 1923
1955	Charles Goodman Eng 1905 Leo Wallerstein Eng 1904 Joseph Meltzer Eng 1910
1954	Christian Weaver Eng 1903 Carl Bussow Eng 1922 Meyer Meadow Eng 1918
1952	Hudson Searing Eng 1916	Hudson Searing Eng’16

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