The Hundred Year Association of New York
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The Hundred Year Association of New York, founded in 1927, is a non-profit organization in New York City aimed at recognizing and rewarding dedication and service to the City of New York by businesses and organizations that have been in operation in the city for a century or more and by individuals who have devoted their lives to the city as city employees.
The association also provides services to its members to promote to the public their history and contributions to the educational and civic affairs of New York and to preserve, foster and perpetuate high ideals and worthy traditions that have been handed down through the years in the business and professional life of the city. It also stands ready to use the background of experience of its members for the common good as opportunity arises; and to aid and counsel those less experienced whose success would contribute substantially to the city's business and civic fabric.
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Membership[edit]
Any association, corporation, partnership or individual proprietorship whose continuity in its own right, or as successor to an organization in business for over 100 years is eligible for membership. Organizations 75 years or older may join as associate members.
Individuals can join the association's 'Century Society.'
Notable current members include ConEdison, National Grid, The Chief-Civil Service Leader, The Brooklyn Bar Association, Rosenwach Tank Company, John Gallin & Son, Hagedorn & Company, Leys, Christie & Company, Modell's Sporting Goods, Henry W. T. Mali & Company, New York University, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Bowne & Co., General Tool & Instruments, The New York Post, Dancker, Sellew & Douglas, James Thompson & Co., The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Richmond County Savings Bank, E. J. Electric, Emmet, Marvin & Martin, Scientific American, STV Group, The Hotel Wales, The Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York and Ferrara Cafe.
Officers[edit]
The association is led by elected officers and a board of governors. The most recent chairman, Richard A. Cook, died in June 2007 after a long illness. The current president is Clinton W. Blume, III. The association's executive director is Luke Vander Linden.
Past presidents have included James A. Farley.
Public service awards and college scholarships[edit]
Initiated in 1958, the association grants the 'Isaac Liberman Public Service Awards' annually to career New York City civil servants who have excelled beyond their normal duties during the course of the year. Employees are nominated by their supervisor and department's commissioner or director and awards are determined by the association's Awards Committee in conjunction with the City of New York's Department of Citywide Administrative Services.
The public service awards are named for Isaac Liberman, founder of The Hundred Year Association when he was president of Arnold Constable Stores in Brooklyn.
The annual 'E. Virgil Conway College Scholarships' are awarded to the sons and daughters of New York City employees every year. They are named after E. Virgil Conway, who conceived of the scholarship program in 1971.
More than $1,200,000 has been granted since the awards program's inception.
Gold Medal Awards[edit]
Each year since 1930, the association has presented its 'Gold Medal Award' "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York." While typically presented to a single individual, the award has been granted on occasion to more than one person or an organization.
Past winners have been:
- 1930 Julius Miller
- 1931 Harvey Dow Gibson
- 1932 Justice Samuel Seabury
- 1933 Grover A. Whalen
- 1934 Robert Moses
- 1935 John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- 1936 Thomas E. Dewey
- 1937 James Speyer
- 1938 Eleanor Robson Belmont
- 1939 Cleveland E. Dodge
- 1940 Fiorello H. La Guardia
- 1946 Francis Spellman, Helen Rogers Reid
- 1947 Frederick H. Ecker
- 1948 William O'Dwyer
- 1949 Millicent C. McIntosh
- 1950 Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
- 1951 Alfred P. Sloan
- 1952 Howard S. Cullman
- 1953 John Hay Whitney
- 1954 Arthur Hays Sulzberger
- 1955 Brigadier General David Sarnoff
- 1956 Robert J. Wagner
- 1957 Keith S. McHugh
- 1958 Samuel D. Leidesdorf
- 1959 John D. Rockefeller III
- 1960 Howard A. Rusk
- 1961 Minnie Guggenheimer
- 1962 James A. Farley
- 1963 Paul R. Screvane
- 1964 Edmund F. Wagner
- 1965 David Rockefeller
- 1966 Austin J. Tobin
- 1967 John A. Coleman
- 1968 Gustave L. Levy
- 1969 J. Victor Herd
- 1970 Jack I. Straus
- 1971 William S. Renchard
- 1972 Robert S. Curtiss
- 1973 Gilbert W. Fitzhugh
- 1974 Leonard H. Goldenson
- 1975 George Champion
- 1976 William M. Ellinghaus
- 1977 Ellmore C. Patterson
- 1978 J. Henry Smith
- 1980 Harry Helmsley
- 1981 Richard R. Shinn
- 1982 Museum of the City of New York
- 1983 Edward J. Mortola
- 1984 J. Peter Grace
- 1985 Gene F. Jankowski
- 1986 E. Virgil Conway
- 1987 Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.
- 1988 Delbert C. Staley
- 1989 John J. Phelan, Jr.
- 1990 Felix G. Rohatyn
- 1991 Carnegie Hall
- 1992 William R. Chaney
- 1993 Tony Randall
- 1994 John F. McGillicuddy
- 1995 David A. Olsen
- 1996 Kenneth J. Gorman
- 1997 Simon J. Critchell
- 1998 Rudolph W. Giuliani
- 1999 Robert R. Douglass
- 2000 Robert M. Johnson
- 2001 Robert B. Catell, Charles J. Hamm
- 2002 Charles J. Urstadt
- 2003 Mark S. Sisk
- 2004 The New York Post
- 2005 Robert M. Morgenthau
- 2006 Raymond W. Kelly
- 2007 John C. Cushman III
- 2008 Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg
- 2009 The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
- 2010 Ralph K. Smith
- 2011 The Crew of US Airways Flight 1549
- 2011 Dominick M. Servedio. P.E.
