2007 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Lou Steinberg
B.A. Economics, 1968 School of Business and Economics, Vice President, ITM Commercial

Starting his career as the youngest Bank of America branch manager in California, Lou Steinberg worked in the banking industry for eight years before moving into residential and commercial real estate. He became a broker and partner in 1980 and specialized in commercial and land sales for residential subdivisions in California and Nevada.

In 1994 he joined Investors Trust Mortgage where he works with national lenders to place commercial loans. Steinberg has been a Petaluma School District trustee, including board president, for more than 18 years. He has also been an active member of the Petaluma Rotary Club for more than 25 years and will serve as the Club's president in 2007/2008. He has been the district chair for the Redwood Youth Leadership Awards for 15 years, and organizes the annual leadership camp for students representing 43 district clubs. In addition, Steinberg gives countless hours to Rotary's Interact Program to provide leadership and mentoring programs for local high school students.

An active community volunteer, Stienberg's love of sports has led to volunteerism as a soccer and basketball coach, and as a board member for SSU Athletics. He also served on the SSU Alumni Association board for four years and as president for two years. Steinberg was named SSU's 2007 Alumni Advocate of the Year in recognition of his service to the University.

Bill Reynolds
B.A. Management, 1969 School of Business and Economics, Emeritus Faculty, SSU School of Business and Economics

Bill Reynolds was the pilot and plane commander of the B-29 that was the first to photograph the damage to Hiroshima following the Enola Gay bombing in 1945. He left Purdue University in 1940 to fly airplanes, and flew photo reconnaissance in B-17s and B-24s over North Africa, India and China, and B-29s out of Guam and Saipan over Japan.

After the war, Reynolds flew B-47s and then B-52s for Strategic Air Command (SAC), carrying H-bombs during the cold war years, and was airborne in his fully loaded B-52 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. When he retired as Lt. Col. U.S. Air Force, Mr. Reynolds returned to college at Sonoma State. After graduation, he earned an M.B.A. from Sacramento State.

In 1970 he became an instructor in the Department of Management, and by the time he retired in 1990, he had served as a lecturer, assistant professor, department chair and associate dean. During his tenure as chair, the Department changed its name from Management to Business Administration and became part of the new School of Business and Economics.

Since his retirement, he has given more than 17 years of volunteer service to assist - among other things - in the maintenance of student records that provided essential documentation for the School's accreditation in April 2007. Reynolds has also dedicated over 40 years to the SSU Athletic Association and was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.

John Harrington
B.A. Political Science, 1970, President, Harrinton Investments Manager of Global Partners, LLC

John Harrington has been a leader in the socially responsible investment movement for over 30 years, and was a key architect of the divestment movement against the apartheid government in South Africa. Author of “Investing with Your Conscience,” he is also one of the founders and former chairman of the board of Working Assets and Progressive Asset Management.

Harrington’s public service includes board service for Global Exchange, CANICOR, an interfaith council on corporate responsibility, and the advisory boards of the Rose Foundation and Women for Women International. He is an honorary committee member of the National Center for Gay and Lesbian Rights, former chair of the Northern California Support Association for the Ecumenical Development Cooperative Society (renamed Oikocredit), former board member of the Filipino-American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, Northern California Community Loan Fund, former co-chair of the KPFA Radio Capital Campaign, and former treasurer for the Land Trust of Napa County. Mr. Harrington was the chairman of the California Governor’s Public Investment Task Force and is a member of the Sacramento Board of Administration, Investment, and Fiscal Management and the State Senate Committee on Energy and Public Utilities in the California Legislature.