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2009 Award
Peter Bastone '80 was the recipient of the Princeton Club of Orange County's third service award, presented at the club's annual dinner on November 5, 2009 at the Newport Harbor Yacht Club in Newport Beach, CA.
Reflecting the university's motto - "In the Nation's Service and in the Service of All Nations" - the award is presented each year to a deserving individual living in Orange County who has demonstrated a commitment to serving our country. That service can represent efforts on a local, regional, national or global level.
For the last 13 years, Peter has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mission Hospital, where he is directly responsible for providing leadership, accountability, coordination, and communication consistent with tradition of
the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange by continually improving the health and quality of life of people in the communities they serve. Under Peter's leadership, Mission Hospital has received numerous awards for quality of care and service to the community.
Peter serves on the board of a number of local and state organizations, has been involved with the Boy Scouts of America, Summer Olympic Games Organizing Committee, and serves on the JSerra High School Board of Trustees. In service to Princeton, Peter has been a long-time member of the Alumni Schools Committee here in Orange County and Princeton's National School Committee. Peter is a member of the Princeton Club of Orange County, and serves as Vice President of the Princeton Football Association.
The 2009 Tiger Tribute dinner was the club's largest event in recent history, with more than 60 alumni, current students and Princton parents attending. The evening also included a presentation on "Political Bubbles" by Professor Nolan McCarty, the associate dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Karen Ketchum '84, Ed Thurber '62 and Ann Thurber |
Carter Greenbaum '12, Jodi Greenbaum P'12, Jennifer Sakioka '08, Martin Greenbaum P'12 and Katlin Poladian '12 |
Nazanin Saedi '03, Joe Dolan '07 and Michael Eidam '96 |
Professor Nolan McCarty, Larry Van Pelt '80 and Linda Van Pelt |
Professor Nolan McCarty and Chris Looney '95 |
Chris Looney '95 and award recipient Peter Bastone '80 |
Antoinette Philips and Roger Philips '67 |
Amit Lal '88, Rachna Lal, Mary Ann Poladian P'12, Katlin Poladian '12 |
Roger Philips '67, Katlin Poladian '12, Professor Nolan McCarty and Carter Greenbaum '12 |
Chris Looney '95 and Chris Porter '98 |
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2008 Award
Ellen Junn *84 was the recipient of the Princeton Club of Orange County's second service award, presented at the club's annual dinner on October 30, 2008 at the Newport Harbor Yacht Club in Newport Beach, CA.
Reflecting the university's motto - "In the Nation's Service and in the Service of All Nations" - the award is presented each year to a deserving individual living in Orange County who has demonstrated a commitment to serving our country. That service can represent efforts on a local, regional, national or global level.
Ellen was recognized for her tremendous contributions to the Club, including establishing the Princeton Book Award for Secondary Schools, her efforts as coordinator for the graduate school alumni and Princeton in Education series, and for her extensive interviewing of high school seniors for the Alumni Schools Council.
In 2008, largely due to Ellen's efforts, the PCOC was a co-winner of the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Regional Association Award for increasing participation of Princeton graduate alumni in its regional activities and fostering the cause of graduate education.
The annual dinner, which was one of the best-attended events in the Club's history, also featured an insightful and entertaining presentation by Professor Lawrence Rosen from Princeton's Anthropology department on Arab culture and politics.
2007 Award
At the first Princeton Club of Orange County Annual Dinner and Tiger Tribute in October 2007, the PCOC recognized George McKee Elsey '39, former Senior White House Advisor and retired President of the American Red Cross as the 2007 "In the Nation's Service" Award recipient.
The 2007 recipient, George Elsey, was a small-town kid from western Pennsylvania who graduated from Princeton in 1939 and received an A.M. from Harvard one year later. At the age of 24, Elsey was assigned to Franklin Roosevelt's top-secret intelligence and communications center in the White House.
As an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, Elsey helped brief the president and his senior associates on war events. He and his map room colleagues acted as the secretariat for Roosevelt's cabled exchanges with Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek; filed records of "summit conferences"; and stored in safes plans for future operations.
Elsey's duties continued with Harry Truman's succession to the presidency. In 1947, he shed his Naval Reserve uniform and joined the White House's civilian staff as assistant to the special counsel to the president. In 1949, he became administrative assistant to the president, and, in 1952, he became a member of the Mutual Security Agency staff.
Elsey later became the Vice President of the American Red Cross and in 1970 became its President, a position he held for 12 years. During his tenure, Red Cross income increased more than four-fold, and Elsey re-directed the agency's principal activities from service to the armed forces to community-based programs of health, disaster relief and blood donation.
His memoir, "An Unplanned Life," is a fascinating and invaluable read for anyone with an interest in history.
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