Dick Ballard, '38, produces some of the Club's more colorful events - the Glee Club Dinner and Concert, Music by Yale Musicians at his home Carolina Meadows, and the Yale Russian Chorus, theatre events and Bulls baseball.

Dick was born making it happen, in White Plains, NY, won second in the National Soap Box Derby in 1937 taking home a brand new Chevrolet - except that he was only 11 and couldn't drive it. He was in and out of the Navy during and after World War II doing research and electronics, then completed his senior year at Yale in just six months. There he was Debating Society and cox'd the varsity 150lb. crew.

He met Pat, wife-to-be, while training for G. Fox in Hartrford, then the world's largest private store. Their first date was in a bar to prepare a graduation speech. Dick later became president/CEO of the historic Yale Co-op from '76 through '91, was House Chair of Mory's, was the first male member of the prestigious New Haven Garden Club.

He took up running at age 55 and became president of New Haven's National 20K Road Race. He ran marathons in London, Paris, Moscow, and five in New York City. Now he rests his feet at Carolina Meadows in Chapel Hill where he's brushed up on foreign languages at UNC and is a member of the Chancelor's Club there. He creates and manages much of the entertainment for the population of Carolina Meadows, as well as for the Triangle Yale Club. His energy is boundless and inexhaustable.

Dick collects Imperial Russian memorabilia, Yale memorabilia, makes large models of various things such as St. Basil's in Moscow, and as vice president, helps keep the Triangle Yale Club in overdrive.