Timeline, 1975-2005

1975

January 22-24 -- Gordon Grand Visiting Fellow, Yale University (Calhoun College)

January 26 -- Joins American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science Local Advisory Committee

April 17 -- 1975 Business Statesman Award, Harvard Business Club of New York

July 29 -- Joins Iran-U.S. Business Council U.S. Section

1976

March 18 -- Joins Special Task Force on Taxation headed by Felix G. Rohatyn

May 6 -- Joins Board of Governors of New York Hospital

December 17 -- Becomes Federal Advisory Council District Representative (until 12/31/79)

1977

Citicorp Center (now Citigroup Center) opens at Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street in New York City. Designed by Hugh Stubbins & Associates, it is hailed as the third tallest building in midtown and the most dramatic skyscraper built in midtown since the Chrysler Building.

Becomes General Campaign Chairman - United Way of Tri-State, Inc.

April 7 -- Joins Board of Advisors - The Alliance to Save Energy (Charles H. Percy)

May 22 -- Trustee of the American Enterprise Institute

May 9 -- Receives Honorary LL.D. - Fordham University

June 2 -- Receives Honorary D.C.S. - New York University (Commercial Science)

June 6 -- Receives Honorary D.H.L. - Lafayette College (Humane Letters)

1978

February 15 -- Member of the Board of Directors, Associates of the Harvard Business School (until 3/9/83)

March 8 -- Dr. Henry Merritt Wriston [father] dies

May 23 -- Elected President of the International Monetary Conference (American Bankers Association)

September 11 -- Becomes Banking Industry Chairman - U.S. Industrial Payroll Savings Committee

1979

March 7 -- Joins Governor Carey's NYS Economic Development Advisory Committee

March 20 -- Receives 1979 Joseph Wharton Award, The Wharton Business School Club of NY, Inc.

December 12 -- Becomes Director - Minerals & Resources Corporation, Ltd. (until 10/20/82)

1980

Director & Member of Policy Committee, New York City Partnership, Inc. (until 9/1/84)

September 30 -- Joins President Reagan's Economic Policy Coordinating Committee (until 11/4/80)

1981

January 1 -- Becomes Chairman of The Business Council (until 2/10/83)

February 10 -- President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board (Chairman from 3/82-1/89)

August 17 -- Chairman, New York Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation (until 6/84)

1982

March -- Joins Kissinger Committee on East-West Trade (until 4/13/82)

April 18 -- Joins Board of Directors - Coalition of Service Industries, Inc.

1983

May 16 -- Becomes Director - Fremont Group, Inc. (until 12/31/94)

May 16 -- Becomes Director - Sequoia Ventures Inc. (until 12/31/94)

1984

January 18 -- Becomes Member - Board of Counselors/Bechtel Group, Inc. (until 12/31/94)

May 8 --Becomes Director - Reuters Holdings PLC (until 4/25/91)

May 24 -- Becomes Director - Pfizer Inc. (until 4/26/90)

June 3 -- Receives Honorary LL.D. - Wesleyan University

September 1 -- Retires from Citibank/Citicorp

October 29 -- Foreign Affairs Officer (Consultant WOC), Department of State (until the end of George P. Shultz's term 1/20/89)

November 5 -- Becomes Director - BRIntec Corporation (until 7/10/89)

December 10 -- Becomes Director - Universal Trading Exchange, Inc. (until 12/18/85)

1985

May 14 -- Becomes Director - Pan Am Corporation (until 1/9/92)

May 19 -- Receives Honorary LL.D. - Morehouse College

May 22 -- Becomes a Trustee of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

1986

"Risk and Other Four-Letter Words" published by Harper Collins

July 21 -- Becomes Director - Tandem Computers Incorporated (until 8/29/97)

1987

Trustees of the Manhattan Institute establish the Wriston Lecture Series

March 25 -- Becomes Director - AEA Investors Inc. (until 9/17/98)

April 8 -- Becomes Director - United Meridian Corporation (until 5/21/97)

July -- Joins Advisory Board of Cambridge Capital Fund

September 3 -- Joins President's Commission on Privatization (until 3/18/88)

October 7 -- Marguerite Woodworth Wriston [stepmother] dies

1988

May -- Advisory Board Member, IFT Investment Corporation (until 7/1/91)

1989

September 13 -- Joins the Special Advisory Board of CAI Capital Corporation

November 30 -- Becomes Life Governor of New York Hospital

1990

January -- Becomes Director - ICOS Corporation

April 26 -- Member - Corporate Advisory Council, Pfizer Inc. (until 5/31/95)

September 4 -- Becomes Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board, The Biotechnology Group

1991

March 11 -- Joins the Advisory Council of Yeagher, Wood & Marshall

April 1 -- Committee to Study Computer Technology and Service Sector Productivity of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (until 10/31/92)

1992

May 27 -- Becomes Director - Bio-Research Laboratories Ltd. (until 8/13/96)

July 15 -- Becomes Director - Cygnus, Inc.

September -- "The Twilight of Sovereignty: How the Information Revolution is Transforming our World" published by Charles Scribner's Sons

1993

May 1 --International Advisory Council of General Electric (until 10/16/93)

June 2 -- Becomes Director - Sky View Media Group, Inc. (until 9/27/99)

1995

February 2 -- Becomes Director - Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

1996

May 19 -- Receives Honorary LL.D. - Hamilton College

1997

January 21 -- Member - Board of Directors, School Choice Scholarships Foundation (until 12/3/97)

September 24 -- Diplomacy in the Information Age Advisory Panel Member, Center for Strategic and international Studies

November 7 -- Teleglobe International Advisory Board (until 2/28/00)

1998

March 31 -- Becomes Director - U.S. Global Leaders Growth Fund, Ltd.

July -- Joins The President's Council of the New York Academy of Sciences

July 29 -- Becomes a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association

October 8 -- Citigroup - combined Citigroup and Travelers Group, opened for business

2000

January 21 -- Joins the Advisory Council of HomeEquiVest.com Inc.

March 1 -- Joins the Advisory Council of PlusFunds.com, Ltd.

June 1 -- Becomes Director - Forbes.com

2001

April 21 -- Becomes a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

2003

December 18 -- Installation ceremony for Walter B. Wriston Chair of International Business Relations at The Fletcher School, Tufts University.

2004

June 23 -- Receives Medal of Freedom from President Bush

November -- Establishes Henry Merritt Wriston Professorship in Public Policy at Wesleyan University

2005

January 19 -- Walter B. Wriston dies at age 85