Jack Klein is awarded the Tom Kindre Legacy Award by Bart Klion, Bill Fernekes, and Shaun Illingworth in 2025.

Jack Klein is awarded the Tom Kindre Legacy Award by Bart Klion, RC '48, past president of the Rutgers Living History Society, at the Annual Meeting on May 2, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Michael Paras Photography, LLC)

Every year, the Rutgers Living History Society chooses a current or past student to receive the Tom Kindre Legacy Award, in honor of Tom Kindre, Class of '42, who was one of the founders of the Rutgers Oral History Archives. The Kindre Award recipients are as follows:

  • Jack Klein, 2025
  • Isabella Kolic, 2021
  • Sofia Ruiz, 2020
  • Luz Sandoval, 2019
  • Avery Kelley, 2018
  • Andrew Sutphen, 2017
  • Jessica Renee Friedman, 2016
  • Saskia Kusnecov, 2016
  • Mohammad Athar, 2015
  • Nicholas Molnar, 2014
  • Kathryn T. Rizzi, 2013