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Academy of Achievement

April 04, 2023

The American Academy 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]

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

History

 
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.
 
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
 
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]

The 2021 awards ceremony took place in Los Angeles on December 23. Among the awardees was Katalin Karikó,[34] a biochemist whose research with Drew Weissman underpins the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.[35]

Notable recipients of the Golden Plate Award

Recipient Category Year inducted Notes
Hank Aaron Sports 1977 [36][37]
Muhammad Ali Sports 1986 [5][38]
Neil Armstrong Science & Exploration 1973 [39][37]
Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. Business 1976 [40]
Jeff Bezos Business 2001 [41][38]
Simone Biles Sports 2017 [42][38]
Sergey Brin Business 2004 [5][43][38]
Bear Bryant Sports 1979 [44]
Jimmy Carter Public Service 1984 [45]
Ray Charles The Arts 1975 [46][37]
Bill Clinton U.S. President 2002 [47][48]
Francis Crick Science 1987 [6][38]
Joan Didion The Arts 2006 [49]
Bob Dylan The Arts 2003 [1][38]
Clint Eastwood Cinema and the Performing Arts 1980 [50][48]
Henry Fonda Cinema and the Performing Arts 1979 [51][48]
Gerald Ford Public Service 1971 [52][38]
Aretha Franklin The Arts 1999 [1][38]
Bill Gates Business 1992 [53][38][54]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Public Service 1995 [11][1][38]
Jane Goodall Explorer 1987 [55][48][56]
Mikhail Gorbachev Public Service 2000 [12][38]
Wayne Gretzky Sports 1982 [57][38]
Alex Haley Author 1977 [46][48]
Jim Henson The Arts 1987 [58][37]
Audrey Hepburn The Arts 1991 [59][38]
Sir Edmund Hillary Science & Exploration 1973 [30]
Grace Murray Hopper Science & Exploration 1983 [60]
Kazuo Ishiguro The Arts 2017 [61]
Steve Jobs Business 1982 [62][63][38]
Michael Jordan Sports 1990 [64][48]
Jack Kilby Business 1970 [65]
Coretta Scott King Public Service 1997 [1][6][38]
Ralph Lauren Business 1989 [42][38]
Richard Leakey Science & Exploration 2007 [66]
George Lucas The Arts 1989 [2][1][67][38]
John D. MacArthur Business 1977 [46][37]
Mickey Mantle Sports 1969 [5][38]
Willie Mays Sports 1975 [46][48]
Toni Morrison The Arts 2005 [68]
Tenzing Norgay Science & Exploration 1973 [69][37][70]
Sandra Day O’Connor Public Service 1987 [71]
Larry Page Business 2004 [5][38]
Rosa Parks Public Service 1995 [67][11][38]
Dolly Parton Cinema and the Performing Arts 1992 [72][64]
Linus Pauling Science & Exploration 1979 [39][37]
Shimon Peres Public Service 2003 [1][38]
Ronald Reagan U.S. President 1990 [73][48]
Jonas Salk Medicine 1976 [46][48]
Martin Scorsese Cinema and the Performing Arts 1991 [74][48]
Stephen Sondheim The Arts 2005 [68]
Steven Spielberg The Arts 1986 [75][63][6][38]
Elizabeth Taylor The Arts 1985 [76][77][37]
Wayne Thiebaud The Arts 1987 [78]
Desmond Tutu Champion of Human Rights 2003 [32][48]
John Wayne The Arts 1970 [79][62][38]
Elie Wiesel Public Service 1996 [41][38]
Oprah Winfrey Business 1989 [2][38]
Henry Winkler The Arts 1980 [80]
John Wooden Sports 1976 [40][81]
Stevie Wonder The Arts 1977 [46][37]
Vladimir K. Zworykin Science & Exploration 1967 [82]

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The American Academy 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 Academy of AchievementFormation1961TypeNon profit organizationHeadquartersWashington D C U S Chairman amp CEOWayne R ReynoldsVice ChairmanCatherine B ReynoldsWebsitewww wbr achievement wbr org Contents 1 History 1 1 Achievement Summit 1 2 Notable recipients of the Golden Plate Award 2 References 3 External linksHistory Edit 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 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 Edit 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 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 The 2021 awards ceremony took place in Los Angeles on December 23 Among the awardees was Katalin Kariko 34 a biochemist whose research with Drew Weissman underpins the mRNA COVID 19 vaccines 35 Notable recipients of the Golden Plate Award Edit Recipient Category Year inducted NotesHank Aaron Sports 1977 36 37 Muhammad Ali Sports 1986 5 38 Neil Armstrong Science amp Exploration 1973 39 37 Stephen D Bechtel Sr Business 1976 40 Jeff Bezos Business 2001 41 38 Simone Biles Sports 2017 42 38 Sergey Brin Business 2004 5 43 38 Bear Bryant Sports 1979 44 Jimmy Carter Public Service 1984 45 Ray Charles The Arts 1975 46 37 Bill Clinton U S President 2002 47 48 Francis Crick Science 1987 6 38 Joan Didion The Arts 2006 49 Bob Dylan The Arts 2003 1 38 Clint Eastwood Cinema and the Performing Arts 1980 50 48 Henry Fonda Cinema and the Performing Arts 1979 51 48 Gerald Ford Public Service 1971 52 38 Aretha Franklin The Arts 1999 1 38 Bill Gates Business 1992 53 38 54 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Public Service 1995 11 1 38 Jane Goodall Explorer 1987 55 48 56 Mikhail Gorbachev Public Service 2000 12 38 Wayne Gretzky Sports 1982 57 38 Alex Haley Author 1977 46 48 Jim Henson The Arts 1987 58 37 Audrey Hepburn The Arts 1991 59 38 Sir Edmund Hillary Science amp Exploration 1973 30 Grace Murray Hopper Science amp Exploration 1983 60 Kazuo Ishiguro The Arts 2017 61 Steve Jobs Business 1982 62 63 38 Michael Jordan Sports 1990 64 48 Jack Kilby Business 1970 65 Coretta Scott King Public Service 1997 1 6 38 Ralph Lauren Business 1989 42 38 Richard Leakey Science amp Exploration 2007 66 George Lucas The Arts 1989 2 1 67 38 John D MacArthur Business 1977 46 37 Mickey Mantle Sports 1969 5 38 Willie Mays Sports 1975 46 48 Toni Morrison The Arts 2005 68 Tenzing Norgay Science amp Exploration 1973 69 37 70 Sandra Day O Connor Public Service 1987 71 Larry Page Business 2004 5 38 Rosa Parks Public Service 1995 67 11 38 Dolly Parton Cinema and the Performing Arts 1992 72 64 Linus Pauling Science amp Exploration 1979 39 37 Shimon Peres Public Service 2003 1 38 Ronald Reagan U S President 1990 73 48 Jonas Salk Medicine 1976 46 48 Martin Scorsese Cinema and the Performing Arts 1991 74 48 Stephen Sondheim The Arts 2005 68 Steven Spielberg The Arts 1986 75 63 6 38 Elizabeth Taylor The Arts 1985 76 77 37 Wayne Thiebaud The Arts 1987 78 Desmond Tutu Champion of Human Rights 2003 32 48 John Wayne The Arts 1970 79 62 38 Elie Wiesel Public Service 1996 41 38 Oprah Winfrey Business 1989 2 38 Henry Winkler The Arts 1980 80 John Wooden Sports 1976 40 81 Stevie Wonder The Arts 1977 46 37 Vladimir K Zworykin Science amp Exploration 1967 82 References Edit a b c d e f g h i j Roberts Roxanne May 4 2003 You Have a Dream Achievement Summiteers Bask in The Past and Presence of Greatness The Washington Post a b c d e f g Nix Shann June 26 1989 Looking Up to the Stars Where 50 top celebs dazzle 400 students PDF San Francisco Chronicle Retrieved December 15 2020 Reilly Jerome Clinton and Gorbachev at secret Dublin summit independent Retrieved December 15 2020 a b Wallace Mike December 15 2002 Catherine B Reynolds 60 Minutes Retrieved July 1 2021 a b c d e Warren Ellen June 14 2004 A 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