Trustees Scholarship Award Gala
The Iona University Trustees Scholarship Award Gala celebrates Iona’s devotion to service and scholarship, and pays tribute to those who embody our mission of transforming lives through the power of education. Proceeds from this event directly go to supporting student success.
Save the Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
2025 Legacy Award Recipient
Steven J. Corwin, m.d.
President and Chief Executive Officer
NewYork-Presbyterian
Steven J. Corwin, M.D., is President and Chief Executive Officer of NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the nation’s largest, most comprehensive healthcare systems.
BSM, 1977 from Northwestern University
MD, 1979 from Northwestern, Feinberg School of Medicine
In 2011, he was named Chief Executive Officer of New York-Presbyterian Hospital — the same hospital where he started his internal medicine residency and cardiology training in 1979.
Under his leadership, NewYork-Presbyterian has nearly doubled in size and now comprises more than 47,000 employees and affiliated physicians, providing world-class care at 10 hospitals and 200 primary and specialty care clinics and medical practices across Greater New York.
As President and CEO, Dr. Corwin led the way in establishing the NewYork-Presbyterian Regional Hospital Network and NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Groups, which enable patients to receive NewYork-Presbyterian’s renowned care in their communities. He has launched groundbreaking initiatives such as NYP OnDemand, a suite of digital health services that increases access to NewYork-Presbyterian’s expert care, and the nation’s largest fleet of Mobile Stroke Treatment Units, which provide faster stroke care to patients in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.
In 2021, New York Presbyterian gave $20M to launch the New York Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences to train the next generation of healthcare professionals and support the communities we serve.
Past Honorees
1961 Francis Cardinal Spellman ’49H
1962 John A. Coleman
1963 The Hon. Owen P. McGivern
1964 Richard Cardinal Cushing
1965 James M. Slattery ’57H
1966 Most Rev. John J. Wright, DD
1967 Myles B. Amend ’56H
1968 His Excellency Frederick H. Boland ’57H
1969 The Hon. Erskine B. Childers, TD
1970 Senator Edward M. Kennedy
1972 Richard V. Guerin ’54
1973 The Hon. Peter J. Brennan
1974 The Hon. Malcolm Wilson ’70H
1975 Arthur J. Rooney
1976 Roy Wilkins ’65H
1977 Joseph P. Donelli
1978 Rear Admiral John J. Bergen, USNR (Ret.)
Arthur A. Loftus, CFC ’69H
1979 The Hon. Robert F. Wagner, Sr.
1980 John R. Torell III
1981 Stephen M. Blacker
Dr. Allen Hammond
Kathy Keeton
Charles Mandel
1982 Patrick Falvey ’48
1983 John G. Driscoll, CFC, PhD ’54, ’95H
1984 John W. Kluge
1985 Williard C. Butcher
1986 Richard Waters
1987 Joseph M. Murphy ’59, ’83H
1988 Edward F. Arrigoni ’56, ’91H
1989 John F. McGillicuddy ’94H
1990 Peter R. Scanlon ’52, ’92H
1991 The Congregation of Christian Brothers
1992 Alan E. Harazin
1993 Fred Lebow
Charles H. McCabe ’68MBA, ’88H
Jack Rudin ’86H
The Hon. Percy Sutton
1994 Edward J. Robinson ’62
1995 Stanley W. Hill ’59
John J. Sweeney ’55
1996 Allen J. Krowe
1997 William J. Flynn
1998 The Hon. Albert Reynolds
Kathryn and Kenneth Chenault
1999 Edward A. Riguardi
2000 Andrew Dolce ’57 & Thomas Hales ’58
The AACSB Accreditation of the School of Business
2001 George R. Lewis ’68MBA
2002 15 Iona Alumni lost in the World Trade Center
Tragedy on 9/11/01 (posthumously)
2003 Vincent D. Farrell, Jr. ’72MBA
2004 Catherine R. Kinney ’74
2005 J. Frank Brown
2006 Ronald M. DeFeo ’74, Philip D. DeFeo ’68
and Neil P. DeFeo
2007 Mr. & Mrs. Alfred F. Kelly, Jr.
(Al ’80, ’81MBA & Margaret ’81, ’84MBA)
2008 Charles W. Schoenherr ’82
2009 Roger Staubach
2010 Julia Considine Greifeld ’79 & Robert Greifeld ’79
2011 Br. James A. Liguori, CFC ’65EdD
2013 Patrick C. Dunican, Jr., Esq. ’88 & Mario J. Gabelli
2014 Robert V. LaPenta ’67, ’00H
2015 James P. Hynes ’69, ’01H
2016 Joseph J. DePaolo ’81
The Catherine H. McCabe ’71MA &
Hugh J. McCabe ’49 Family
2017 Albert J. Mellina ’63, ’68MBA
Eugene P. Conese SR. ’51, ’01H posthumously
2018 Armando C. Rodriguez Jr. ’86
Joseph A. Armentano ’88MBA
2019 Ronald DeCicco ’70
2020 JoAnn Mazella Murphy '98H
2022 Peter G. Riguardi ’83, ’16H
Karen D. Seitz ’84
2023 Jerome C. Cifarelli ’77
Daniel F. Doyle ’93, ’95MBA
2024 Robert J. Deluccia '67, '79MBA
Edward R. McNally Jr. '78
Monica L. '70 & John C. Judge '71
2013 The Honorable Raymond W. Kelly ’08H and the New York City Police Department
2014 Mr. & Mrs. Mariano Rivera P’15
2015 His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan ’14H
2016 Patrick Quinn ’06
2017 Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New York
2018 David A. Pope ’07H and the Generoso Pope Foundation
2019 Thomas A. Davenport, MD, FACS, ’88
2022 Dr. Bill Magee and Kathy Magee, Operation Smile
2023 The V Foundation for Cancer Research and the Valvano Family
Linda M. Bruno '76, '79MSEd
Cathy L. Cogan-Kelly '81
Theresa A. Gottlieb, Esq., '78
Flory Netsch Hiatrides '83, '86MBA
Anna Filipkowski Houlihan, MD, '77
Eileen Ivers '87, '19H
Rita C. Mabli '74, '76MBA
Catherine A. Vitali Mayus, Esq., P.C. '72
Catherine R. McCabe '85
Amy Torigian Parise '03MST on behalf of Butterflies from Jodie, Jeanne Morris (posthumously) and Jeanne Torigian '74 (posthumously)
Caress A. Penelton '87
Ingrid N. Thompson-Sellers, Ph.D., '95MS
Margaret C. Timoney '89, '92MBA