Press Releases

June 1, 2001
College to Honor Hospital's Top Leaders

R. Peter Sullivan and Donald Louchheim to Receive 2001 Distinguished Citizen Award

Contact:
Patricia Conway
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081

Southampton College of Long Island University will present its 2001 Distinguished Citizen Award to R. Peter Sullivan and Donald Louchheim, Chairman and Vice Chairman, respectively, of the Southampton Hospital Board of Directors, for their active involvement in governance and strategic planning on behalf of the hospital.

Sullivan and Louchheim will be honored on Friday, June 22 at 5:30 p.m. at the Meadow Club of Southampton at an event that benefits the College's Scholarship Fund. The Distinguished Citizen Award recognizes a member of the year-round East End community who has contributed significantly to the cultural, educational and professional quality of life on eastern Long Island.

Sullivan was the former Senior Managing Member of Wagner, Stott, Mercator, LLC, a New York Stock Exchange specialist firm. He served on both the Executive Committee and Management Committee. He has been a member of the New York Stock Exchange since 1964 where he served as a Floor Official, Governor, Director, and Vice Chairman of the Board.

In addition to serving on the Southampton Hospital Board, Sullivan serves on the Board of Peconic Health Corporation, the umbrella organization of the East End's three hospitals, and is a member of both the President's Council of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the New York Archdiocese Cardinal's Committee of the Laity. In 1989 he was the recipient of the Good Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.

Sullivan attended Spring Hill College and served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. He and his wife Margaret live in Southampton and New York City.

Louchheim, a journalist and businessman, served as president and publisher of The Southampton Press from 1971 to 1998. Prior to acquiring the Press and moving to Southampton Town, he worked as an editor and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, serving as a roving reporter in Africa, an economics reporter throughout Europe and as chief of the Post's Paris bureau. Louchheim started his newspaper career as a political reporter and state house correspondent for The New Haven Journal Courier.

In 1998, Louchheim sold The Southampton Press to his son but remains president and owner of Graphics of Peconic, a company that prints the Southampton Press, The East Hampton Star, The Riverhead News Review, The Suffolk Times, and the Shelter Island Reporter.

A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Louchheim received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. He was named to the Southampton Hospital Board of Directors in 1996 and has been Vice Chairman since 1998. He also serves on the board of Peconic Health Corporation. He and his wife, Pingree, live in Sagaponack and have three children.

For tickets or more information about the event, please call Carol Gilbert at (631) 287-8347.