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ALUMNI BULLETINS

ARLEDGE JOINS TRUSTEES: Roone Arledge '52, television innovator and chairman of ABC News, has been elected University Trustee. In 1998 Arledge was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Medal, the College's highest honor, for his contributions to the College. Arledge, who became president of ABC Sports in 1968 and ABC News in 1977, has received 36 Emmy Awards and 20 Peabody Awards during his broadcasting career and was named one of Life magazine's 100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century.

ACHIEVING ALUMNA: Columbia College Women is currently seeking nominations for the ninth annual Alumna Achievement Award. The award is presented annually to a College graduate who has demonstrated excellence in her field and has made a significant contribution to the Columbia College community and the community at large. If you are interested in nominating an alumna for the 1999 Award, please call the CCW hotline at (212) 870-2745 or send an e-mail to ccw@columbia.edu. Please include the name and class of the nominee, as well as your name and daytime phone number.

For all other inquiries about CCW, contact Gabrielle Kleinman '91, executive committee chair, at gabby9@concentric.net.

NEW GOVERNOR: Victor Futter '39 was elected as a member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors at the organization's 1999 meeting. Formerly the chair of the ABA Senior Lawyers Division, Futter serves on the division's council. He has been active in the Association's Business Law Section and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Futter has worked at Allied-Signal for more than 30 years, serving as vice president and secretary from 1978 to 1984. Previously, he was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell and served of counsel at Sills Cummis Zuckerman Radin Tischman Epstein & Gross. He has been a special professor of law and special consultant to the Dean of Hofstra University Law School since 1997. He is the general editor of Nonprofit Governance: The Executive's Guide and appears in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in American Law.

Futter is a former president of the Columbia College Alumni Association who received the Association's President's Cup in 1999. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he earned his law degree from the Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and served on law review.

GEHRIG IS NO. 1: Lou Gehrig '25, who attended Columbia for one year and hit home runs for the Lions when they played their games on South Field, was the leading vote-getter in the fan balloting for baseball's All-Century Team. The Hall of Fame first baseman received 1,207,992 votes, out-polling New York Yankees teammate Babe Ruth (1,158,044). Hank Aaron, Ted Williams and Willie Mays completed the top five.

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