and recognizing
the Raymond E. Miles Alumni Service Award Recipients
and the Haas Alumni Network Chapter of the Year.

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(Previous winners)
Peter E. Haas, BA 40, is one of the most admired Sons of California. The California Alumni Association named him Alumnus of the Year in 1996. This year his alma mater recognizes him as Business Leader of the Year and winner of its Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in business, philanthropy and community service – a life-time of leadership that today stands as a model.

Peter Haas went to work at Levi Strauss & Co. in 1945 and together with his father and brother transformed a small successful company into the world’s largest garment manufacturer, and made it an exemplar of corporate citizenship. He served the company as its President, CEO, and is now Chairman of the Executive Committee.

On the campus, his quiet, assured leadership has become a Berkeley legend. As a trustee of the U.C. Berkeley Foundation, he was instrumental in planning and carrying out the successful Campaign for the New Century. With his brother and sister, he made the cornerstone gift that named the School of Business for their father, Walter Haas, Sr., class of 1910. Inspired by their example, more than 2,000 people joined to make the building project a success.

He has been honored with the Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award for his philanthropy and service by the United Way of California; Financial World magazine named him CEO of the Year; Time Magazine named him as Leader of Tomorrow. At the Haas School we know him best as friend and valued colleague.

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Previous recipients of the
Haas School Alumnus of the Year /
Business Leader of the Year Award

1970 Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr.
1971 William M. Witter
1972 Daniel E. Koshland
1973 Michael N. Chetkovich, BS 39, MBA 40
1974 E.T. Grether, MA 23, PHD 24
1975 William Burns, Sr.
1982 James R. Harvery, BS 56, MBA 63
1983 Robert A. Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62
1984 Leo B. Helzel, MBA 68
1985 Steven V. White, BS 51
1986 Donald G. Fisher, BS 50
1987 Theodore J. Saenger, BS 51
1988 W. Michael Blumenthal, BS 51
1989 Clarence W. Houghton, BS 60
1991 Gerson P. Bakar, BS 48
1992 Paul H. Stephens, BS 67, MBA 69
1993 William F. Cronk, BS 65
1994 Richard C. Blum, BS 58, MBA 59
Eugene E. Trefethen, BA 30
(Lifetime Achievement Award)
1995 Paul M. Hazen, MBA 64
1996 Thomas W. Tusher, BA 63
1997 Richard A. Clarke, BA 52, JD 55
1998 Warren E. Spieker, BS 66
1999 Thomas C. Schneider, BA 58, MBA 62
2000 Stephanie G. DiMarco, BS 79

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