Navy Pier Heritage Project.

Navy Pier Hall of Fame Inductees

Inducted in 2006

Julian Frazin '48­'50 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Attorney; Cook County judge; UIC Criminal Justice lecturer; lyricist for Chicago Bar Association's famous shows
Robert Janowiak* '55 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '57 ENG (UIUC)
International Engineering Consortium president; executive director of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head's Association
Lester H. McKeever Jr. NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '55 BUS (UIUC)
Managing partner at Washington, Pittman & McKeever CPAs; chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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
Oscar Miller NAVY PIER ATTENDEE Faculty 1948 - 2000
UIC faculty member, 1948-2000; economics professor ; dean of students; associate vice chancellor for student services
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
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
Tony Podesta '61 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '67 LAS (UIC)
Adviser, organizer and operator of political campaigns; co-chairman or Podesta-Mattoon lobbyists
Dr. Joyce Schild '49-'52 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE, '51 MED, MD '56 (UIC)
UIC professor of otolaryngology and researcher

 

Inducted in 1996

Micki Grant '65 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Lyricist, composer, writer and performer on Broadway and across the country

Dr. Leo M. Henikoff Jr., MD '63 (UIUC)
Professor or medicine and pediatrics; president of Rush University

Richard Hunt '65 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Created more than 100 monumental public-square commissions
  Dr. Marshall Irwin Matz, MD '64
Clinical associate professor in the College of Medicine at UIC; head of a private group practice
George A. Paulikas '57 ENG (UIUC), MS '58 ENG (UIUC)
With Aerospace Corporation and at the forefront of advances in space science
Roger Plummer '64 ENG (UIUC)
Engineer-turned-businessman at Illinois Bell, Ameritech; CEO of his own consulting company
Cordell Reed '60 ENG (UIUC)
Led Commonwealth Edison Co. to become the nation's leading nuclear energy utility company
Meyer Seltzer '50 ­ '53 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Writer and illustrator of children's books; art director and designer at publishing company

 

Inducted in 1991

  Joseph D. DiLeonardi Sr.
City, county and federal law enforcement official, including U.S. marshal of the Northern District of Illinois
  Carl L. Eichstaedt Jr. '57 ENG (UIUC)
Professor of health, physical education, recreation and dance at Illinois State University
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
Dr. Robert J. Freeark* '48 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
Helped Cook County Hospital establish nation's first trauma center; head of Loyola Hospital Surgery Department
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
  Jerry W. Kolb '57 BUS (UIUC)
Partner and vice chairman at Deloitte & Touche LLP, an international public accounting firm
  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
Leo Melamed, HON '99 (UIUC)
Primary force in the U.S. futures industry; Chicago Mercantile Exchange chairman; lawyer
  William F. O'Conner*
Chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade and Mid-America Commodity Exchange
Bernard Shaw, HON '93
CNN anchor-reporter; broke into broadcasting at Chicago's first news radio station, WNUS

 

Inducted in 1981

  Jerome R. Butler Jr. '52 FAA (UIUC)
City of Chicago architect; City of Chicago commissioner of Department of Public Works
John Chancellor* '50 NAVY PIER ATTENDEE
NBC-TV anchor; journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times
Ramsey Lewis, HON '95
Jazz Pianist and composer who popularized easy-listening jazz, most often leading to a trio
William Russo* Attended '47
Composer in Residence at Columbia College and the City and County of San Francisco
William J. Small Attended '47
President of NBC-TV News; president of United Press International; dean at Fordham University
The Hon. James R. Thompson, HON '02 UIS
Longest serving governor of Illinois, 1977-91; chairman of Winston & Strawn law firm.
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