service with Yale Medals
Five graduates of the University have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) to receive the Yale Medal in 2004.
This year's recipients are Robert Bonds '71, Mark R. Dollhopf '77, Christopher A. Forster '54, the Reverend Richard Mather Mapes '49, '52 Div, and David W. Wallace '48 E.
Inaugurated in 1952, the Yale Medal is the highest award presented by the AYA and is conferred solely to honor outstanding individual service to the University. Since its inception, the Yale Medal has been presented to 246 individuals, who have demonstrated both their devotion to the ideals of the University and their support of Yale through extensive, exemplary voluntary service on behalf of the University as a whole or one of its many schools, institutes or programs.
Bonds served as vice president of the Yale Club of Hong Kong for 25 years and is responsible for creating and sustaining an exemplary program for Yale alumni in the Far East. He was also instrumental in coordinating an extraordinary Yale Tercentennial Celebration in Asia.
Dollhopf conceived and helped develop the Yale Alumni Chorus, which has toured China, Russia, Great Britain and South America, including performances broadcast from the Kremlin, Tiananmen Square and St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Through this work, he has inspired hundreds of alumni to become international ambassadors of song for Yale.
Forster has served his class as secretary, treasurer, Class Council member, 45th reunion chair for the Class of 1954 and an active leader of his Class Reunion Gift Committees. His dedication extends to many areas of the University, including service to the Yale Club of New York City, athletics, Trumbull College, ROTC and Dwight Hall.
Mapes has been an active volunteer at Yale for over five decades. He has served as 50th reunion chair for the Class of 1949, class secretary, Class of 1949 agent for the Alumni Fund, AYA delegate, president of the Yale Club of the Southwest and board member for the Yale Club of New Haven.
Wallace is a Sterling Fellow and a member of both the Yale Development Board and the Executive Committee of the Class of 1948. His devotion to education at Yale has led him to endow three professorships at the School of Medicine, and to anchor the restoration and renovation of Branford College. He has also been actively involved with his class and the Yale Club of Greenwich.
The medalists will be honored at a ceremony on Nov. 12 on the Yale campus, in conjunction with the annual AYA Assembly.
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