Alumni Leaders

The Suffield Academy Alumni Association created the Alumni Leadership awards to honor Suffield Academy graduates who have displayed notable leadership in their professional careers or in a humanitarian endeavor.

Jody Cranmore ’73, P’10
Jody Cranmore ’73, P’10

2024 Alumni Leadership Award Recipient 


Jody Cranmore ’73, P’10 has been a leader in the legal field since beginning in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 1979. In his corporate law career Jody has represented financial institutions and their affiliates in all operational and regulatory matters and has represented more than 50 financial institutions in successful merger and acquisition transactions. Jody played a lead role in starting Suffield’s Alumni Association and establishing the Alumni Leadership Award in 2003. In recognition of both his honorable and successful professional career, and his enthusiastic and steadfast support of Suffield, Jody has been selected as the 2024 Alumni Leadership Award recipient.

Watch Ceremony: May 6 @ 1:00 pm

Past Alumni Leadership Award Recipients

| 2019 |
| 2019 |

David Holdridge ’62 • May Chow ’03

| 2017 |
| 2017 |

David Holmes ’60 • H. Janice Lee Logan ’99

| 2016 |
| 2016 |

David Celentano ’69 • Ben Diep ’85
Michelle Kaminsky ’84

| 2015 |
| 2015 |

Gerard Hall ’77 • Joseph Tompkins ’58
Michael Sheridan ’58

Alumni Leadership Awards- 2014 winners Tom Greene '87 and Kristen Hostetter Pandit '87
| 2014 |

Thomas Greene ’87 • Kristin Hostetter Pandit ’86

Tor Peterson ’82, Gretchen Schwabe Wilcox ’77, Dr. Paul Sullivan ’58, Dr. Richard A. Wahle ’73
| 2013 |

Tor Peterson ’82 • Gretchen Schwabe Wilcox ’77
Dr. Paul Sullivan ’58 • Dr. Richard A. Wahle ’73

| 2012 |
| 2012 |

Saudia Davis ’96 • Peter Kinnear ’65
Jeffrey White ’65

| 2011 |
| 2011 |

Dr. Sarah Birmingham Drummond ’89
Michael Daly ’59 • Thomas West ’61
Joseph Alsop ’63

| 2010 |
| 2010 |

Bill Macartney ’60 • Barry Scherr ’63
Dr. Tener Goodwin Veenema ’76
Rear Admiral Dennis Moynihan ’82

| 2009 |
| 2009 |

Samuel Fuller ’41 • Andrew Kotchen ’90
Grace Oboma-Layat ’87 • Neil Smit ’76

| 2008 |
| 2008 |

John Moritz ’74 • Jackson Robinson ’60
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff ’89

| 2007 |
| 2007 |

Roger Faxon ’67 • Mark Hosenball ’69
James Morin ’71

| 2006 |
| 2006 |

Harold Geneen 1926 • Pia Bungarten ’75
Leigh Perkins ’71 • Leopoldo Fernández Pujals ’64

| 2005 |
| 2005 |

H. Meade Alcorn 1926 • Joseph Campanelli ’75
Archer Mayor ’69

| 2004 |
| 2004 |

Stewart Alsop II ’71 • Charles Prouty ’63
James Tisch ’71

| 2003 |
| 2003 |

The Honorable George B. Daniels ’71
Dr. John Adler Jr. ’72 • Gerald L. Parsky ’60