Edward Bass named Yale trustee
Edward P. Bass of Fort Worth, Texas has been named a Successor Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the University's governing board, President Richard C. Levin has announced.
Bass is a 1967 graduate of Yale College who also studied at the graduate level of the Yale School of Architecture. He is involved in a variety of business, environmental and nonprofit interests.
Bass is chair and chief executive officer of Fine Line Inc., a diversified venture and investment capital company. He is also an officer and/or director of various other corporate entities through which he manages investment holdings and participates in a variety of business enterprises. These include many family business interests.
He is a committed environmentalist who is a cofounder of Biosphere 2, one of the world's largest laboratories dedicated to studying, managing and sustaining the Earth's ecosystems. He chairs the executive committee of the World Wildlife Fund, founded the Philecology Trust and serves on the executive committees of the New York Botanical Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Inc.
Bass is also an avid rancher who is particularly concerned with Fort Worth's heritage as a cultural center of the Texas cattle industry. Through the Blue Stem Cattle Company, he manages ranchland holdings in Texas and the Flint Hills of Kansas, where the focus is on the sustainable management of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem using controlled burning and seasonal cattle grazing as rangeland management tools. He is chair of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, a major 17-day cultural event in Fort Worth. He also has ranching interests in Australia.
Over the past decade, Bass has led his family's efforts in what is now recognized as one of the most successful urban revitalization achievements in the United States. The capstone of those efforts was the 1998 completion of the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in downtown Fort Worth, which was named "one of the top 10 opera houses in the world" by Travel and Leisure magazine. The Bass family's mixed-use developments in the historic Sundance Square area of downtown Fort Worth include offices, housing, retail and entertainment destinations.
At Yale, Bass has been an active volunteer, currently serving as co-chair of the Leadership Council of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Bass has also been a member of the University Council, chair of the University Council Committee on the Peabody Museum, and founding chair of the external advisory board of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
Bass is married to Vicki Skinner Bass. His family has many ties to Yale. His brothers Sid ('65 B.A.), Robert ('71 B.A.) and Lee ('79 B.A.) went to Yale College, and Sid Bass served on the Yale Corporation from 1982 to 1994 and as senior fellow for the last year of his term; their father, Perry, is a member of the Class of 1937.
The Yale Corporation, the University's governing body, consists of 19 members: 10 who are appointed by the board itself as successor trustees; six who are elected by alumni; the governor and lieutenant governor of the State of Connecticut, who are members ex officio; and the president of the University, who is the board's presiding officer.
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