lauded for their leadership
Five former Yale athletes who have gone on to become prominent leaders in their fields or communities will be honored with the H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award, presented by the Yale Athletic Department.
The honorees will be recognized at the gala Blue Leadership Ball to be held at the William K. Lanman Center in Payne Whitney Gymnasium on Nov. 18, the night before the 122nd Yale-Harvard football game.
The award winners are William S. Beinecke '36, Roland W. Betts '68, Edgar M. Cullman '40, Dr. Kristaps J. Keggi '55, '59 M.D., and Susan D. Wellington '81.
"Yale's proud legacy of leadership shines through with this class of honorees," says Tom Beckett, director of athletics. The H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award recognizes Yale alumni athletes "who in their lives after Yale have successfully satisfied the leadership needs of their professions and their countries." The recipients were chosen by a selection committee comprised of other Yale alumni.
Beinecke was a Yale football player and is the former chair of the board for The Sperry & Hutchinson Company. He has been an ardent advocate for business support of charitable and educational institutions, and he led his own company to set the pace for corporate charitable giving in the United States.
Betts, a former Bulldog hockey player, spent nearly a decade as a teacher and administrator in the New York City public system after graduating from Yale. He is currently the senior fellow of the Yale Corporation and the chair of Chelsea Piers L.P. He is also a director of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is charged with rebuilding lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center site.
Cullman, a track and field athlete while at Yale, is the former chair of General Cigar and a managing partner of Culbro Corporation. He is responsible for the Louise B. and Edgar M. Cullman Foundation, which supports wildlife preservation, healthcare and education.
A former Yale fencer who has become a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon, Keggi has been director of the Orthopaedic Center for Joint Reconstruction at Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut, since 1992. He created a program that trains Latvian doctors who go back to Europe to practice medicine. The Keggi Orthopedic Foundation has helped wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wellington, a former All-American swimmer for Yale, was president of U.S. Beverage, the Quaker Oats Company division of Pepsi, from 1998 to 2002. A supporter of girls' and women's athletics, she serves on the board of trustees of the Women's Sport Foundation. She is also a founding member of Yale's WISER Fund, which aims to enhance opportunity for Yale's female athletes.
"The development of a competitive temperament to ignite the trained intellect may explain many of the contributions this University has made to our planet's insatiable appetite for global leadership," says Jack Embersits '58, the chair of the leadership honors selection committee and the captain of the 1957 Yale football team. "These selected recipients echo the successful and selflessly committed lifetime of leadership which George H.W. Bush -- the 41st president of the United States -- embodied."
Tickets for the Nov. 18 gala are $150; $125 for graduates from the Yale classes of 2000-2005. In addition, the purchaser will receive two general admission tickets for the Yale/Harvard Football Game with each dinner ticket. Call (203) 432-1434 to order tickets. For more information, visit www.yalebulldogs.com.
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