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4 Baltimore Sun Media | Sunday, September 12, 2021
BALTIMORE SUN’S 2021
BUSINESS AND CIVIC HALL OF FAME
LEADING BY EXAMPLE
IN 2021 HALL OF FAME CLASS
We are pleased to introduce you to our 2021 Baltimore
Sun Business and Civic Hall of Fame inductees. This marks
our sixth year of recognizing individuals who have built
their careers in the Baltimore region and have strived to
make it a better place to live, work and lead. The Sun began
this effort in 2016 to highlight various achievements of
women and men in Maryland who rose to the top of their
fields.
As a news organization with support from this community for 184 years, we recognize the important responsibility we have in the region to hold institutions, leaders and
other decision makers accountable and to identify solutions
to the region’s challenges. We also realize that it’s our job
to celebrate the many achievements of community leaders,
and we do that through annual publications such as this
Hall of Fame, along with our Women to Watch and Top
Workplaces magazines.
This year’s Hall of Fame class is being recognized for
career achievements in business, philanthropy, public
service, education, media and more. Our editorial board
collaborated with past Hall of Fame inductees to choose
this class of 2021. Last year, we unveiled the permanent
Hall of Fame installation at the Center Club in downtown
Baltimore. That display recognizes our past honorees, and
we will add new class members each year.
Since its founding in 1837, Baltimore Sun Media has
dedicated itself to leadership in business, journalism and
debate, and it has chronicled the lives of the extraordinary
women and men whose achievements define our city and
region. The Sun’s Hall of Fame is designed to recognize
Maryland’s modern-day leaders who have helped to set a
standard for future generations.
Thirteen individuals were chosen for this year’s class,
and we officially inducted them this week into the Hall
of Fame. They join 58 people who made up the first five
classes, including the late U.S. Rep. Helen Delich Bentley (2016) and John Paterakis Sr. (‘16), as well as current
business and civic leaders such as Eddie and Sylvia Brown
(‘16), former U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (‘17), Joseph
Haskins (‘18), former
Baltimore Mayor and
current University of
Baltimore President
Kurt L. Schmoke (‘19)
and UMBC President
Freeman Hrabowski
(‘20).
We sought nominations from our readers
to identify a diverse
group of women and
men who should
be considered. Our
selection committee
assisted our editorial
board in studying each nominee, discussing their accomplishments and helping to choose the members of the class
of 2021.
The selection panel considered various criteria, including a nominee’s business success, their influence in building
and helping to expand organizations, community leadership, support for various causes and detailed achievements
in leading Maryland and this region forward. Members of
the editorial board made final decisions. As we have in the
past, a portion of the proceeds from this Hall of Fame publication will be donated to charity; this year’s partner is the
Greater Baltimore Urban League. We are pleased to thank
our sponsors whose advertising can be found throughout
this publication and at baltimoresun.com.
Profiles of this year’s Hall of Fame inductees appear
throughout the pages of this section. We offer our thanks
to each of them for their leadership and commitment to
Baltimore and Maryland and hope that their stories will
serve as an example and inspiration.
Congratulations to the class of 2021.
INDEX
Trif Alatzas
Publisher and editor-in-chief
COVER ILLUSTRATION BY
KEVIN RICHARDSON/
BALTIMORE SUN
PAGE 6:
SELECTION COMMITTEE
PAGE 10:
JAMES PIPER BOND
PAGE 16: THOMAS AND
BARBARA BOZZUTO
PAGE 20:
DONALD C. FRY
PAGE 24:
R. MICHAEL GILL
PAGE 26:
LINDA R. GOODEN
PAGE 30:
ALVIN C. HATHAWAY SR.
PAGE 34:
JEANNE D. HITCHCOCK
PAGE 36:
CATHY L. HUGHES
PAGE 40:
DONALD P. HUTCHINSON
PAGE 44:
PREVIOUS WINNERS
PAGE 46:
SABINA KELLY
PAGE 48:
JAY A. PERMAN
PAGE 52:
DAVID K. WILSON