James D. Kuhn, 1970 (Fencing)
Jimmy Kuhn captained the fencing team during the 1967-68 season and was a three-time letterwinner (1968-1969-1970). He won the North Atlantic Collegiate Foil Championship in 1968 and went on to finish in the top 16 at Nationals that year. He earned his B.S. in finance in 1970 and his MBA in 1972 from SU.He began his career as a lender with Metropolitan Life, and then was an owner/manager with The Mendik Company, before selling it to Vornado. He is president and principal of New York-based Newmark Knight Frank, one of the largest global real-estate service providers, which he joined in 1992. He is a co-founder of New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate’s masters program and taught there from 1978-93. He founded the NYU Diversity Program for Studies in Real Estate.
At SU, Kuhn was a member of Tau Delta Phi fraternity. He has been honored as School of Management Alumnus of the Year (1988) and with the Leadership Award of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center (2004).
He is an active supporter of SU. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and chair of its Facilities Committee. He established the James D. Kuhn Real Estate Center at the Whitman School of Management in 2006 as well as the Leo and Sunnie Kuhn Scholarship for students interested in the studies of real estate. He helped fund the New York City branch of the SU School of Architecture program and the Student Film Fund in the SU School of Visual and Performing Arts. Kuhn is also a board member of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center.
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