The 54th Spirit of Achievement of Award SPIRIT OF ACHIEVEMENT PAST HONOREES
2007
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan
Lois Pope
Alma Powell
Margaret Russell
Lynn Sherr
Sharon Stone
2006
Candace Bushnell
Christiane Celle
Deirdre Imus
Elizabeth Stribling
Fran Weissler
Nina Zagat
2005
Lidia Matticcio Bastianich
Fran Drescher
Midori
Judith Ripka Berk
Dr. Judith Rodin
2004
Tovah Feldshuh
Patricia Field
Susan Lucci
Trisha Meili
The Hon. Ann Richards
2003
Christie Brinkley
Sarah Hughes
Susan Isaacs
Betsey Johnson
Trish McEvoy
2002
Judith Miller
Libby Pataki
Daryl Roth
Susan Stroman
Vera Wang
2001
Marie Brenner
Blythe Danner
Pamela Dennis
Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey
Liz Smith
2000
Senator Barbara Boxer
Iris Cantor
Abby Joseph Cohen
Cindy Crawford
Judge Judy Sheindlin
1999
Penny Marshall
Leslie Stahl
Meryl Streep
Lilly Tartikoff
Julie Taymor
1998
Rosamond Bernier
Carolyn McCarthy
Susan Molinari
Liz Tilberis
1997
Sarah Brady
Linda Ellerbee
Rosie O'Donnell
Dr. Carolyn Runowicz
Sylvia Weinstock
1996
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Zoe Caldwell
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Rachael Worby
1995
Dr. Susan Love
Paige Rense
Marlo Thomas
Heather Whitestone
1994
Mary Higgins Clark
Katie Couric
Linda A. Fairstein
Lauren Hutton
1993
Dr. Ellen Baker
Dr. Susan Band Horwitz
Paula Zahn
Eugenia Zukerman
1992
Tina Brown
Judith Jamison
Dr. Ruth Macklin
Jehan Sadat
1991
June Anderson
Donna Karan
Evelyn H. Lauder
Anna Quindlen
Faye Wattleton
1990
Nien Cheng
Nora Ephron
Jessye Norman
Sally Jessy Raphael
Wendy Wasserstein
Marion Wiesel
1989
Gertrude B. Elion
Joan Hamburg
Sherry Lansing
Carroll Petrie
1988
Barbara Goldsmith
Nancy S. Graves
Gov. Madeleine M. Kunin
Diane Sawyer
Marie Schwartz
1987
Gail Lumet Buckley
Kitty Carlisle Hart
Lena Horne
Joan Lunden
Dr. Isabelle Rapin
Susan Rothenberg
Adrienne Vittadini
1986
Glenn Close
Hon. Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Betty Friedan
Hon. Amalya L. Kearse
Judith Leiber
Bernadette Peters
1985
Pat Harper
Senator Paula Hawkins
Paloma Picasso
Eve Queler
1984
Ellen V. Futter
Mrs. William Linder
Shirley MacLaine
Judith Rossner
Diane Von Furstenberg
1983
Elizabeth Ashley
Georgette Klinger
Jessica Savitch
Gloria Steinem
Twyla Tharp
1982
Jane E. Brody
Margaret L. Kempner
Patricia McBride
Jane Pauley
Elsa Peretti
1981
Pia Lindstrom
Natalia Makarova
Mary McFadden
Joyce Carol Oates
Shelley Winters
1980
Suzanne Farrell
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Dr. Sarah A. Nunneley
Liv Ullman
1979
Dr. Frank Field
Pamela Field
Dr. Storm Field
Anne Jackson
Eli Wallach
1978
Dorothy Loudon
Colleen McCullough
Dr. Lucille Shapiro
1977
Pat Collins
Cynthia Gregory
Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman
Muriel Siebert
1976
Shana Alexander
Gov. Ella T. Grasso
Roberta Peters
Lola Redford
1975
Mrs. Walter A. Hirsch
Geraldine Page
Dr. Martha Peterson
Shirley Verrett
Judith Viorst
1974
Charlotte Curtis
Coleen Dewhurst
Dr. Matina S. Horner
Louise Nevelson
Dr. Ora Mendelsohn Rosen
1973
Martina Arroyo
Joan Ganz Cooney
Frances Fitzgerald
Billie Jean King
Dr. Berta Scharrer
1972
Marilyn Horne
Ada Louise Huxtable
Dr. Mathilde Krim
Sada Thompson
Liz Trotta
Dr. Marina Whitman
1971
Dr. Ida F. Davidoff and Dr. Leo M. Davidoff
Mary Rosenwald and William Rosenwald
Eunice K. Shriver and R. Sargent Shriver
Beverly Sills and Peter B. Greenough
1970
Dr. Virginia Apgar
Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell
Lucy Jarvis
Alice Tully
Jacqueline Grennan Wexler
1969
Mrs. Vincent Astor
Dr. Mary S. Calderone
Hon. Shirley Chisholm
Julie Harris
Marianne Moore
1968
Dr. Sibylle Escalona
Rebekah Harkness
Hon. Patricia Roberts Harris
Estee Lauder
Patricia Neal
1967
Dorothy Maynor
Melina Mercouri
Anna Moffo
Mrs. Henry L. Moses
Dr. Salome Waelsch
Barbara Walters
1966
Gertrude Berg
Hon. Constance Baker Motley
Jane Pickens
Sylvia Porter
Aline Saarinen
Dr. Helen B. Taussig
1965
Carol Channing
Nancy Dickerson
Mrs. Avraham Harman
Mrs. Albert D. Lasker
Rise Stevens
Dr. Jane C. Wright
1964
Oveta Culp Hobby
Mrs. Lytle Hull
Leontyne Price
Inez Robb
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rodgers Dorothy Sarnoff
1963
Rachel Carson
Nanette Fabray
Mrs. Henry Ittleson
Mrs. Serge Koussevitzky
Dr. Pierra Vejjabul
1962
Jacqueline Cochran
Tobe Coller Davis
Melissa Hayden
Helen Hayes
Sen. Maurine B. Neuberger
Mrs. David Sarnoff
1961
Betty Comden
Pauline Frederick
Lillian Hellman
Dame Alicia Markova
Helena Rubinstein
Caroline K. Simon
Dr. Janet G. Travell
1960
Anne Bancroft
Jean Dalrymple
Dr. Margaret Mead
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gertrude Samuels
Pauline Trigere
1959
Dr. Sara M. Jordan
Mary G. Roebling
Alta Grant Samuels
Kim Stanley
Geraldine Stutz
1958
Agnes DeMille
Sophie Gimbel
Jean Kerr
Mrs. David M. Levy
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith
1957
Mrs. Moses L. Annenberg
Pearl Buck
Mrs. Ira Haupt
Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid
Mrs. Lee Strasberg
Susan Strasberg
Sally Victor
1956
Mrs. Ralph Bunche
Joan Harris Bunche
Susan Fonda
Heller Halliday
Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein
Mrs. Arthur S. Lall
Karen Lall
Mary Martin
Jinx Falkenberg McCrary
Dr. Fannie L. Thompson
Isobel Thompson Kogel
Mrs. Leroy Wagstaff
1954
Marlene Dietrich
Maria Riva
Mrs. Charles S. Guggenheimer
Mrs. Sophie G. Untermeyer
Nettie Rosenstein
Claire Rosenstein
Dr. Virginia Travell Weeks
Dr. Virginia Davidson Weeks