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Photographs by Asiya Khaki and Robert DiScalfani
Shaping the Future Ellen V. Futter ’71, president of the American Museum of Natural History and Barnard president from 1980 to 1993, and Barbara Novak ’50, renowned art historian and Barnard professor emerita, received the College’s highest distinction, the Frederick A. P. Barnard Award, on May 6 at this year’s annual scholarship dinner and auction. The event raised a record-breaking $2.2 million. Stressing the focus on education, President Debora Spar said, “The evening benefits and celebrates the remarkable young women of Barnard who strive to shape a bolder, better future for themselves and the world.” Scholarships in varying amounts went under the auction hammer exclusively, as opposed to the various luxury items in the programs of previous auction dinners. Actress Greta Gerwig ’06, who appeared in the indie-hit Greenberg, and the big budget remake Arthur, served as mistress of ceremonies. Athena Scholar Marjorie Dugan ’11, a recipient of support from the Alan L. and Jacqueline B. Stuart Scholarship Fund and a human-rights and psychology major, reiterated the importance of scholarship aid to all the students who receive it. Taline Aynilian ’03, head of sales and specialist in Orientalist art at the British-owned auction house Bonhams, urged audience members to raise their hands to contribute to scholarship funding. Karen Fleiss ’68 who endowed the Barbara Novak Professor of Art History Chair presented the award to her, defining the impact Novak had on American art, “as one of its premier historians”; her scholarship “not only changed this field of study, [but] literally defined it.” Although an economics major, Fleiss attributed her own appreciation of art to Novak’s art survey course. Nancy A. Garvey ’71, the second award presenter, reminded the audience that 1969 marked the year Neil Armstrong landed on the moon and Futter arrived at Barnard, saying, “With all due respect to space exploration, for [Barnard], Ellen’s landing made all the difference.” Under Futter’s leadership, Barnard became a fully residential institution, embarked on a capital campaign, and negotiated the agreement between Barnard and Columbia that kept Barnard an independent institution. For more photos, go to barnard.edu/magazine Photos (read from left): 1 Brian O’Doherty and Barbara Novak 2 Diana Touliatou Vagelos ’55, Lisa Sprung Cohen ’80, and James Cohen 3 Gabrielle FitzGerald and Binta N. Brown ’95 4 Greta Gerwig, Marjorie Dugan, Cheryl Glicker Milstein ’82 P14, Debora Spar, Ellen V. Futter, Jolyne Caruso-FitzGerald ’81, and Taline Aynilian 5 Maria Baibakova ’07 6 Helene Finkelstein Kaplan ’53 and Virginia Bloedel Wright ’51 7 Ira and Ingeborg Rennert P93 95 8 Suzanne Vega ’81, Judith Shapiro, and Suki Kim ’92 9 Nina Weissman Fischman ’86, Carolyn Ferrara P12, and Sheryl Layne P13 10 Philip Milstein P14, James Dow and Lucille Zanghi P10, and Elizabeth Boylan 11 Elaine Schlozman Chapnick ’61 P93 and Patricia Harrigan Nadosy ’68 12 Members of the Class of 1963: Loretta Tremblay Azzarone, Joan Sherman Freilich, and Pola Auerbach Rosen 13 Elise Alberts Pustilnik ’53 and Louise Finkelstein Feinsot ’53 14 Anna Quindlen ’74, P. Roy Vagelos, Diana Vagelos, Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum ’50, and Gerald Krovatin 15 Avis Hinkson ’84 16 Jonathan and Sheryl Layne P13, and Joseph Ferrara P12 17 Nancy Garvey 18 Lloyd Blankfein and Laura Jacobs Blankfein ’75 19 Karen Fleiss 20 Frances Sadler ’72 21 Constance Hess Williams ’66 22 Toby Milstein ’14, Shelby Layne ’13, and Gabrielle Ferrara ’12 16
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