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AROUND THE QUADSJohn Jay Awards To Honor Alumni, ParentBy Lisa Palladino
The 2004 John Jay Awards will honor four of the College’s most accomplished alumni, and, for the first time, a Columbia parent, in a black-tie celebration in the Grand Ballroom of New York City’s Plaza Hotel on Wednesday, March 3. This year’s honorees — Stephanie Falcone Bernik ’89, Peter S. Kalikow P’02, E. Javier Loya ’91, Phillip M. Satow ’63 and Jonathan S. Sobel ’88 — represent a range of careers: medicine, real estate, energy production, pharmaceuticals and finance, respectively. The awards, named for the first chief justice of the United States and a member of the King’s College Class of 1764, are presented annually in recognition of distinguished professional achievement. Proceeds from the dinner support the John Jay National Scholarship Program, which provides financial aid and special programming for College students. Bernik graduated magna cum laude from the College and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her medical degree from Yale, where she received a student research fellowship. Bernik completed her internship and residency in general surgery at Saint Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in New York. During her residency, she completed a one-year fellowship in surgical oncology at Saint Vincent’s, adding work directed at developing a melanoma vaccine. Upon completion of her general surgery residency, Bernik went on to a breast surgery fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In 2000, she became a clinical assistant attending surgeon at the Saint Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center and a clinical assistant professor of surgery at New York Medical College. Kalikow is president of H.J. Kalikow & Co., LLC, one of New York City’s leading real estate firms. His son, Nicholas, is a recent graduate of the College. Kalikow is chairman of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is a former commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He also is chairman of the Grand Central Partnership and a trustee of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. In 1997, the Peter and Mary Kalikow Pediatric Intensive Care Unit was established at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Kalikow serves the hospital as chairman of its Real Estate Committees. In addition, he is a board member of the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and chairman of the museum’s building committee. Kalikow is a former owner and publisher of the New York Post. He is a member of the College Board of Visitors. Loya has been the president and CEO of Houston-based CHOICE! Energy since 2000. He helped found the company in 1994, creating one of the first institutional natural gas brokerage houses following industry-wide deregulation. Prior to establishing CHOICE! Energy, Loya was a natural gas options broker with First National Crude Oil. In 2002, he founded CHOICE! Power and CHOICE! Energy Services. A first generation Mexican-American, Loya made headlines in 2002 when he signed on as a limited partner of the NFL’s Houston Texans and was appointed to the NFL’s diversity committee. Loya received Entrepreneur of the Year honors from the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in 2002 and the Young Entrepreneurs Organization in 2003. He serves on several boards and is an active member in the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Houston Minority Business Council, and Young Entrepreneurs Organization. Satow is former president of Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and former executive v.p. of Forest Laboratories, Inc., its parent company. He is a member of Forest’s Board of Directors. Satow founded the marketing and sales organization of Forest Laboratories after joining the firm in 1985. He retired in 1999 with Forest Laboratories’ place established as one of the leading specialty pharmaceutical companies in the United States. In 2000, Satow and his wife, Donna, co-founded The Jed Foundation, a public charity committed to reducing the young adult suicide rate and improving the mental health support provided to students by universities nationwide. It collaborates on mental health programming with more than 160 colleges and universities, serving nearly two million students. Satow is a former president of the Columbia College Alumni Association, fund chair of the Board of Directors and a member of the College Board of Visitors. Sobel is a managing director and head of the mortgage department at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He serves on the firm’s Risk and Capital Committees and Fixed Income Currency and Commodities Division’s Risk Committee. From 1990–97, he held various mortgage trading positions at Goldman, Sachs, and prior to that was an analyst on the Swaps Desk. He became a managing director in 1997 and a partner in 1998. Sobel is team captain for firm-wide Columbia recruiting. He is a member of the College Board of Visitors and the Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medicine Advisory Board. Sobel and his wife, Marcia, established a family foundation in 1999 to help fund cultural and educational institutions in New York City and the surrounding community. For tickets or additional information about the John Jay Awards dinner, please contact Shelley Grunfeld in the Alumni Office: (212) 870-2288 or rg329@columbia.edu.
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