Notable Alumni

The Delta Chapter of Zeta Beta Tau at Columbia University has a storied list of distinguished and notable Alumni known around the World.

Alexander Hamilton Medal List:

  • Alfred Lerner

    Alfred Lerner (May 8, 1933 – October 23, 2002) was an American businessman. He was best known as the chair of the board of credit-card giant MBNA and the owner of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL).

  • Robert Kraft

    He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate development, and a private equity portfolio. Since 1994, Kraft has owned the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He also owns the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer (MLS), which he founded in 1996, and the esport-based Boston Uprising, which Kraft founded in 2017.

  • Joseph Mankiewicz

    February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in consecutive years for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six.

John Jay Awards

Michael A. Gould

Stephen Solender

James Berick

Kenneth Lipper

Stephen Trachtenberg

Morton Halperin

Alfred Lerner

Harvey Krueger

Laurans Mendelson

Armand Hammer

Alan Altheimer

Daniel Edelman

Sid Luckman

Alan Cohen

Alan Friedberg

Mark Kaplan

Arthur Levitt Sr.