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Navy Pier Hall of Fame Inductees
Inducted in 2006
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Julian Frazin '48‚'50 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Attorney; Cook County judge; UIC Criminal Justice lecturer; lyricist for Chicago
Bar Association's famous shows |
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Robert Janowiak* '55 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '57 ENG (UIUC)
International Engineering Consortium president; executive director of Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department Head's Association |
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Lester H. McKeever Jr. NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '55 BUS (UIUC)
Managing partner at Washington, Pittman & McKeever CPAs; chairman of Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago |
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Lester Miller* NAVY PIER
ATTENDEE, '48 ALS, AM '50 ED (UIUC)
Physical education teacher and baseball coach at UIC, 1948-79; co-founder of UIC
Athletic Club |
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Oscar Miller NAVY PIER ATTENDEE Faculty 1948 - 2000
UIC faculty member, 1948-2000; economics professor ; dean of students; associate
vice chancellor for student services |
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James Montgomery '49-'52 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '53 LAS, JD '56 (UIUC)
Trial lawyer; Chicago corporation counsel; assistant U.S. attorney; managing partner
of Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Montgomery LLC |
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Harry Newman '51 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '55 FAA (UIUC)
Architect for recording studios and homes of the famous, including Steven Spielberg,
Meryl Streep, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis |
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Tony Podesta '61 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '67 LAS (UIC)
Adviser, organizer and operator of political campaigns; co-chairman or Podesta-Mattoon
lobbyists |
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Dr. Joyce Schild '49-'52 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '51 MED, MD '56 (UIC)
UIC professor of otolaryngology and researcher |
Inducted in 1996
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Micki Grant '65 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Lyricist, composer, writer and performer on Broadway and across the country |
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Dr. Leo M. Henikoff Jr., MD '63 (UIUC)
Professor or medicine and pediatrics; president of Rush University |
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Richard Hunt '65 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Created more than 100 monumental public-square commissions |
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Dr. Marshall Irwin Matz, MD '64
Clinical associate professor in the College of Medicine at UIC; head of a private
group practice |
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George A. Paulikas '57 ENG (UIUC), MS '58 ENG (UIUC)
With Aerospace Corporation and at the forefront of advances in space science |
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Roger Plummer '64 ENG (UIUC)
Engineer-turned-businessman at Illinois Bell, Ameritech; CEO of his own consulting
company |
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Cordell Reed '60 ENG (UIUC)
Led Commonwealth Edison Co. to become the nation's leading nuclear energy utility
company |
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Meyer Seltzer '50 ‚ '53 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Writer and illustrator of children's books; art director and designer at publishing
company |
Inducted in 1991
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Joseph D. DiLeonardi Sr.
City, county and federal law enforcement official, including U.S. marshal of the
Northern District of Illinois |
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Carl L. Eichstaedt Jr. '57 ENG (UIUC)
Professor of health, physical education, recreation and dance at Illinois State
University |
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Ray B. Essick III '55 AHS
(UIUC), MS '58 AHS (UIUC)
Swim coach at New Trier High School,
Southern Illinois-Carbondale and Harvard
University; CEO of the National Swimming
Pool Foundation |
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Dr. Robert J. Freeark* '48
NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Helped Cook County Hospital establish nation's first trauma center; head of Loyola
Hospital Surgery Department |
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Dr. Stuart M. Kaminsky '57 COM (UIUC), MA '60 LAS (UIUC)
Award-winning author of more than 50 published novels, five biographies, four
textbooks and 35 short stories |
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Jerry W. Kolb '57 BUS (UIUC)
Partner and vice chairman at Deloitte & Touche LLP, an international public accounting
firm |
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Park Livingston* '69 LAS
(UIUC)
Chairman of the University of Illinois
Board of Trustees; presented a special
award for help making UIC what it
is today |
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Leo Melamed, HON '99 (UIUC)
Primary force in the U.S. futures industry; Chicago Mercantile Exchange chairman;
lawyer |
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William F. O'Conner*
Chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade and Mid-America Commodity Exchange |
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Bernard Shaw, HON '93
CNN anchor-reporter; broke into broadcasting at Chicago's first news radio station,
WNUS |
Inducted in 1981
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Jerome R. Butler Jr. '52 FAA (UIUC)
City of Chicago architect; City of Chicago commissioner of Department of Public
Works |
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John Chancellor* '50 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
NBC-TV anchor; journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times |
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Ramsey Lewis, HON '95
Jazz Pianist and composer who popularized easy-listening jazz, most often leading
to a trio |
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William Russo* Attended
'47
Composer in Residence at Columbia College and the City and County of San Francisco |
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William J. Small Attended '47
President of NBC-TV News; president of United Press International; dean at Fordham
University |
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The Hon. James R. Thompson, HON '02 UIS
Longest serving governor of Illinois, 1977-91; chairman of Winston & Strawn law
firm. |
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The Hon. Warren D. Wolfson '55 COM (UIUC), JD '57 LAW (UIUC)
Criminal defense attorney; Cook County Circuit Court judge; professor at IIT-Chicago
Kent College of Law |
*Deceased

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