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AROUND THE QUADS
Reuters executive Thomas H. Glocer '81, Bloomingdale's chairman Michael Gould '66, retired banker Carlos Muñoz '57 and Olympic swimmer Cristina Teuscher '00 will be honored with John Jay Awards for Distinguished Professional Achievement on Wednesday, March 7, 2001, at a black tie dinner at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. The John Jay Awards, which are named for the first chief justice of the United States (and a member of the King's College Class of 1764), are the College's highest honors for professional achievement. Proceeds from the dinner support the John Jay Scholarship program, which provides financial assistance to College students. For tickets or additional information, please contact Shelley Grunfeld in the Alumni Office at (212) 870-2288; e-mail: rg329@columbia.edu.
Glocer, who earned a law degree from Yale in 1984, worked for several years as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, Paris and Tokyo. He joined the Reuters Group in 1993 as a member of the general counsel's office of Reuters America and became active in business development activities. From 1996 to 1998, he served as executive vice president of Reuters America and CEO of Reuters Latin America. He filled the dual roles of president of Reuters Information-Americas and president of Reuters America from 1998 to 2000. Glocer became the chief executive of Reuters Information, which is part of the Reuters Group's core business division, Reuters Financial, in January 2000. In this role, he is responsible for the operation of Reuters's largest division, with revenues in 1999 of over $2.5 billion. In December 2000, Reuters announced that Glocer would succeed Peter Job as chief executive of the Reuters Group when Job retires in July 2001. Glocer is the first American and first non-journalist selected to run the 150-year-old company.
A native of Boston, Gould began his retail career while still pursuing his MBA at the Business School, with an internship with Abraham and Strauss in New York. In 1968, he went to work full time for A&S and quickly become the company's youngest merchandise vice president. In 1978, he left to join Robinson's Department Stores in Los Angeles as a senior vice president. He became the company's chairman and CEO in 1981, and was later appointed to the board of managers of its parent, Associated Dry Goods. Giorgio Beverly Hills hired Gould as its president and chief operating officer in 1986, and he was named CEO when the company was purchased by Avon Products a year later. Gould became chairman of Bloomingdale's department stores, a division of Federated Department Stores, in 1991. Bloomingdale's is one of America's premier retail chains, operating 23 stores in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and five other states. Among his many philanthropic activities, Gould is a member of the board of the Columbia Business School.
Muñoz, who was born in New York, earned a master's in economics from Columbia in 1961. He had an extensive career in the United States and abroad with Citicorp and Citibank, where he served most recently as senior vice president and a member of Citicorp's credit policy committee. In that position, Muñoz helped manage Citicorp's worldwide consumer banking activities, as well as commercial real estate in the United States and private banking and global finance in Latin America. Previously, he served in various positions for Citibank in New York, San Francisco and the Caribbean, including management of the bank's corporate lending activities in the western United States. He joined Dime Bancorp and the Dime Savings Bank of New York in 1995 as executive vice president for credit and risk management. He retired from Dime in December 2000. Muñoz is one of Columbia's most active alumni. He is a member of the College's Board of Visitors, serves on the Education Committee of the University Senate, is a board member of the Society of Columbia Graduates, and has been treasurer, vice president and president of the Columbia College Alumni Association. In 1998, the Columbia University Alumni Federation awarded him its highest honor, an Alumni Medal for Service to the University.
Columbia's greatest swimmer, Teuscher is a two-time Olympic medalist and one of the most successful athletes in Ivy League history. In 1995, Teuscher, a first-generation American from New Rochelle, N.Y., was a triple gold medalist and a silver medalist at the Pan American Games. In 1996, immediately before entering the College, she won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. 800-meter freestyle relay team at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Teuscher won a bronze medal in the 200-meter individual medley. During four years of NCAA competition for Columbia, Teuscher never lost an individual race; she set 14 Columbia records and seven Ivy League records, and was a national champion six times in various events. Columbia honored her with the Charles Roker Award, given to a student who epitomizes academic and athletic excellence. In June 2000, Teuscher was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation's outstanding female collegiate athlete, the only Columbian ever to win this award. She recently was honored with the creation of the Cristina Teuscher Women's Intercollegiate Sports Endowment, to benefit women's sports at Columbia.
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