Academy of Achievement

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Academy of Achievement
Formation1961
TypeNon-profit organization
Headquarters Washington, D.C., U.S.
Chairman & CEO
Wayne R. Reynolds
Vice Chairman
Catherine B. Reynolds
Website www.achievement.org

The AmericanAcademy of Achievement, colloquially known as the Academy of Achievement, is a nonprofit educational organization that recognizes some of the highest-achieving people in diverse fields [1] and gives them the opportunity to meet one another. [2] The academy also brings together the leaders with promising graduate students for mentorship. [3] [4] It hosts an International Achievement Summit, which ends with an awards ceremony, during which new members are inducted into the academy. [1] [5] [6]

Contents

History

Chuck Berry presenting Golden Plate Award to Bob Dylan - 2003 Academy of Achievement Summit - DC Chuck Berry presenting Golden Plate Award to Bob Dylan - 2003 Academy of Achievement Summit - DC.jpg
Chuck Berry presenting Golden Plate Award to Bob Dylan - 2003 Academy of Achievement Summit - DC

Founded in 1961 by Sports Illustrated and LIFE magazine photographer Brian Reynolds, the Academy of Achievement recognizes high achievers in public service, business, science and exploration, sports, and the arts. [4] [7] Reynolds established the academy after realizing that the famous people he photographed from different fields did not usually get to meet one another. A 1989 San Francisco Chronicle article called the organization "little-publicized but immensely powerful". According to William DeVries, who helped develop the first artificial heart, "It is a social network. Like a club. Now I can call Chuck Yeager up, or Philip 'Bo' Knight, and they'll return my calls, ask me out places. I promised myself I would never ask the people here for money, but I know a lot of scientists who do." [2] Reynolds also wanted to bring together highly accomplished leaders with promising students, to inspire them. [8] [9] At the 1990 summit in Chicago, for example, student delegates "rubbed shoulders" with Ronald Reagan, Maya Angelou and Michael Jordan, [10] and in 1995, students met with inductees including George H. W. Bush, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lady Bird Johnson, Robin Williams, Mike Krzyzewski and Rosa Parks. [11]

Academy members and summit attendees have also included Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, Maya Lin, Barbra Streisand, Mikhail Gorbachev, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. [12] In 2005, The Washington Post called the summit "one of the world's most dazzling gatherings of international celebrities - Nobel Prize winners, heads of state, star athletes, titans of industry, scientists and entertainers." [13]

In 1985, Reynolds's son, Wayne Reynolds, took over the leadership, becoming the executive director of the academy. [2] In 1999, he was selected as the board chairman. [1] [7] [14] In the 1990s, Reynolds moved the organization's headquarters from Malibu, California, to Washington, D.C. [15]

In 2007, the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation donated $9 million to the academy. [15] [14] [16] [17]

Oprah Winfrey presents Sidney Poitier with the Gold Medal of the Academy of Achievement in Los Angeles in 2014. Oprah Winfrey presents Sidney Poitier with the Gold Medal of the Academy of Achievement in Los Angeles in 2014.jpg
Oprah Winfrey presents Sidney Poitier with the Gold Medal of the Academy of Achievement in Los Angeles in 2014.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Steven Tyler at dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the American Academy of Achievement's 2019 International Achievement Summit Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Steven Tyler at dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the American Academy of Achievement's 2019 International Achievement Summit.jpg
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Steven Tyler at dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the American Academy of Achievement's 2019 International Achievement Summit

Achievement Summit

2006 Summit Hosts Steven Spielberg and George Lucas welcome the academy delegates and members to the International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles 2006 Summit Hosts Steven Spielberg and George Lucas welcome the Academy delegates and members to the International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles.jpg
2006 Summit Hosts Steven Spielberg and George Lucas welcome the academy delegates and members to the International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles
2012 Aretha Franklin is joined onstage by Academy Awards Council member General Colin Powell during her performance to close the evening of the 50th annual Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in Washington, D.C. 2012-Aretha Franklin is joined onstage by Academy Awards Council member General Colin Powell during her performance to close the evening of the 50th annual Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in Washington, D.C.jpg
2012 Aretha Franklin is joined onstage by Academy Awards Council member General Colin Powell during her performance to close the evening of the 50th annual Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in Washington, D.C.

The annual summit is attended by graduate students and young innovators from the U.S. and overseas, like Sergey Brin and Larry Page, computer science graduate students who later founded Google. [18] [19] The summits were originally attended by high school students chosen for their academic achievement and extracurricular activities. [1] Preceding the awards dinner are three days of panels, presentations and informal dialogues between the students and inductees. Many inductees return multiple years to participate in the panels, programming and networking. [20]

On September 9, 1961, the academy hosted its first International Achievement Summit. [2] Held in Monterey, California, [21] it included a "Banquet of the Golden Plate" award ceremony, named for the gold-plate service used for special occasions by the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, which provided the service for the ceremony. Physicist Edward Teller was the keynote speaker, and warned of the United States' poor performance in the atomic arms race. Awardees at the inaugural ceremony included engineers Charles Stark Draper and Kelly Johnson, General Douglas MacArthur and film director William Wyler. [2] [22] Other attendees included Nobel laureate Willard Libby (Chemistry, 1960) and future Nobel laureate Luis Walter Alvarez (Physics, 1968). [23] The first honorees were chosen by a national board of governors, but subsequent honorees have been selected by the Golden Plate Awards Council, which consists of Academy awardees. [21] [22] [24]

At the 13th annual summit, held in June 1974 in Salt Lake City, Academy member Leon Jaworski, the Special Prosecutor overseeing the Watergate investigations at the time, said in his keynote address that he expected to win a Supreme Court case to get subpoenaed tapes from President Richard Nixon. [25] Among the awardees at the summit were actor James Stewart, professional athlete John Havlicek, [26] and Nobel Laureate chemist Paul Flory. [27]

The 25th annual American Academy of Achievement Summit took place in 1986 in Washington, D.C. [28] The ceremony was addressed by former inductees Chuck Yeager and Erma Bombeck, and was attended by a group of 390 high school graduates assembled from across the U.S. [28] New members admitted to the academy at the event included boxer Muhammad Ali, [28] filmmaker Steven Spielberg, Nobel Prize laureate Isidor Isaac Rabi, [28] opera singer Leontyne Price, [28] and country singer Loretta Lynn, [28] [29] the first country music artist ever admitted into the academy. [29]

The 2002 summit was held in Dublin, and was hosted by then-Taoiseach (prime minister) and inductee Bertie Ahern. Former President Bill Clinton held private talks during the summit with Irish nationalist politician John Hume that reportedly concerned the conflict in Northern Ireland as well as other international conflicts. [30] New inductees into the academy in 2002 included Clinton, U2 lead singer Bono, [31] and Afghan president Hamid Karzai. [30]

The 50th-anniversary American Academy of Achievement Summit was held in Washington D.C., in October 2012, and was attended by delegates from 29 countries. [32] The five-day event included a dinner at the Supreme Court of the United States, which four of the justices attended. [32] Newly inducted academy members who spoke at the meeting included then-United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Nobel laureates Roger Tsien and Adam Riess. [32] [33] In 2012, Ray Dalio received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein, during the International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C. [34] [33] [35]

Ray Dalio at the International Achievement Summit's 2012 Banquet of the Golden Plate reception in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Barbara, and two Academy of Achievement student delegates, Philip Thigo of Kenya and Julia Fan Li of Canada. DalioBall.jpg
Ray Dalio at the International Achievement Summit's 2012 Banquet of the Golden Plate reception in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Barbara, and two Academy of Achievement student delegates, Philip Thigo of Kenya and Julia Fan Li of Canada.

The 2021 awards ceremony took place in Los Angeles on December 23. Among the awardees was Katalin Karikó, [36] a biochemist whose research with Drew Weissman underpins the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. [37]

Notable recipients of the Golden Plate Award

RecipientCategoryYear inductedNotes
Hank Aaron Sports1977 [38] [39]
Muhammad Ali Sports1986 [5] [40]
Neil Armstrong Science & Exploration1973 [41] [39]
Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. Business1976 [42]
Jeff Bezos Business2001 [43] [40]
Simone Biles Sports2017 [44] [40]
Sergey Brin Business2004 [5] [45] [40]
Bear Bryant Sports1979 [46]
Jimmy Carter Public Service1984 [47]
Ray Charles The Arts1975 [48] [39]
Bill Clinton U.S. President2002 [49] [50]
Francis Crick Science1987 [6] [40]
Joan Didion The Arts2006 [51]
Bob Dylan The Arts2003 [1] [40]
Clint Eastwood Cinema and the Performing Arts1980 [52] [50]
Larry Ellison Business1997 [53]
Henry Fonda Cinema and the Performing Arts1979 [54] [50]
Gerald Ford Public Service1971 [55] [40]
Aretha Franklin The Arts1999 [1] [40]
Bill Gates Business1992 [56] [40] [57]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Public Service1995 [11] [1] [40]
Jane Goodall Explorer1987 [58] [50] [59]
Mikhail Gorbachev Public Service2000 [12] [40]
Wayne Gretzky Sports1982 [60] [40]
Alex Haley Author1977 [48] [50]
Jim Henson The Arts1987 [61] [39]
Audrey Hepburn The Arts1991 [62] [40]
Sir Edmund Hillary Science & Exploration1973 [30]
Grace Murray Hopper Science & Exploration1983 [63]
Kazuo Ishiguro The Arts2017 [64]
Steve Jobs Business1982 [65] [66] [40]
Michael Jordan Sports1990 [67] [50]
Jack Kilby Business1970 [68]
Coretta Scott King Public Service1997 [1] [6] [40]
Phil Knight Business1989 [69]
Ralph Lauren Business1989 [44] [40]
Richard Leakey Science & Exploration2007 [70]
John Lewis Public Service2004 [71] [72]
George Lucas The Arts1989 [2] [1] [73] [40]
John D. MacArthur Business1977 [48] [39]
Mickey Mantle Sports1969 [5] [40]
Willie Mays Sports1975 [48] [50]
Toni Morrison The Arts2005 [74]
Tenzing Norgay Science & Exploration1973 [75] [39] [76]
Barack Obama Public Service2007 [77] [78]
Sandra Day O’Connor Public Service1987 [79]
Larry Page Business2004 [5] [40]
Rosa Parks Public Service1995 [73] [11] [40]
Dolly Parton Cinema and the Performing Arts1992 [80] [67]
Linus Pauling Science & Exploration1979 [41] [39]
Walter Payton Sports1988 [81]
Shimon Peres Public Service2003 [1] [40]
Wendell Phillips (archaeologist) Oil Concessionaire and Archaeologist1972 [82]
Ronald Reagan U.S. President1990 [83] [50]
Bill Russell Sports2008 [84] [85]
Carl Sagan Science & Exploration1975 [86]
Jonas Salk Medicine1976 [48] [50]
Martin Scorsese Cinema and the Performing Arts1991 [87] [50]
Stephen Sondheim The Arts2005 [74]
Steven Spielberg The Arts1986 [88] [66] [6] [40]
Elizabeth Taylor The Arts1985 [89] [90] [39]
Wayne Thiebaud The Arts1987 [91]
Desmond Tutu Champion of Human Rights2003 [32] [50]
John Wayne The Arts1970 [92] [65] [40]
Elie Wiesel Public Service1996 [43] [40]
Oprah Winfrey Business1989 [2] [40]
Henry Winkler The Arts1980 [93]
John Wooden Sports1976 [42] [94]
Stevie Wonder The Arts1977 [48] [39]
Vladimir K. Zworykin Science & Exploration1967 [95]

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