Book Awards Blast

Yale Book Awards

This is light-duty, seasonal, fun, and personally rewarding.

The Yale Book Award is given to high school juniors, selected by their guidance counselors, in conjunction with the History &/or English Departments. We generally ask for the "best all-round" student in the area of literature and history, as the book given is a leather-bound "The Yale Shakespeare."

The AYA office sends us a self-adherent placard which proclaims "Presented by The Triangle Yale Club to So and So of Such and Such High School For Outstanding Personal Character and Intellectual Promise on...date." Each volunteer should become familiar with one high school (close to their work or home), find the Junior class counselor(s) and explain the gift and the qualities which we wish to incentivize by the selection of the recipient. When apprised of the name of the awardee and the Awards Day date, one should make arrangements to be present, and to let me know so I can get an "engraved" book to them. The Yale volunteer will have to pay TYC (charitable deduction) the $25 cost of the book.

All this is a great deal of fun and puts the volunteer back in touch with the youth of NC. We are heartened by the numbers of students getting prizes and proud to see old Eli stand tall at the various schools where we have been presenting recently.

Call Book Award Chairman Vertrees Hollingsworth in Pinehurst, home 910/215-9612, cell 910/603-1803

The award this year is The Yale Shakespeare, the complete works of William Shakespeare in a spectacular leather binding. Following are the winners in 2010, now seniors in their respective schools.

TRIANGLE YALE CLUB OF NORTH CAROLINA

YALE BOOK AWARDS 2010