Honoree-
Eugene H. Luntey

Born and raised in Idaho, Eugene H. Luntey earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Idaho and completed graduate work at Illinois Institute of Technology and the Harvard Advanced Management Program. After serving as an officer in the Naval Air Corps during World War II, he moved to New York in 1948 to work for the Brooklyn Union Gas Company (now KeySpan Energy Corporation). He started as a junior engineer, rising through the ranks to become vice president, president, chief executive officer and chairman. He retired in 1986.

Mr. Luntey became chancellor of the Brooklyn Campus in 1986. He has been a member of the University’s board of trustees for 18 years, serving as chairman from 1993-1998. In 1997, as part of a $12 million gift to the University, Mr. Luntey’s dear friend, Edmund T. Pratt Jr. (page 47), chairman emeritus of Pfizer Inc and his wife, Jeanette, funded the naming of the student union at the Brooklyn Campus in honor of Mr. Luntey and his wife, Beverly (now deceased). Over the years, Mr. Luntey has given very generously of his time and financial resources to support the institution. He received an honorary doctorate from the Brooklyn Campus in 1998.

Throughout his career, Mr. Luntey has served in top leadership positions on boards and committees of numerous companies and organizations. He currently chairs the Nominating Committee for the Friends of Thirteen, Inc., where he has been director since 1988. He is deputy mayor and chief police commissioner for the Village of Sands Point, where he has lived since 1959. In addition, he is an alumni mentor for Rockefeller Fellows; an honorary member of the New York City Partnership; member emeritus of the Regional Plan Association; an elder in the Roslyn Presbyterian Church and a trustee of Union Chapel on Shelter Island.

On June 9, 2001, he married longtime friend, Betty Brodie. The couple expects to reside on Shelter Island, New York and in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

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