Medalists

Tina Brown
Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek Magazine and The Daily Beast. Former Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker. Founder of Women in the World Foundation, which drives solutions for advancing women and girls. award-winning pioneer in print journalism and online media influential advocate for womens social, political and economic empowerment committed to using inspired journalism as a catalyst for change

Jennifer Buffett
Co-Chair and President of the noVo Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on creating a more just and balanced world based on cooperation and partnership, primarily through the empowerment of girls and women. visionary leader lifelong commitment to building a world based on peace, compassion, justice & love devoted to improving the status and well-being of girls and women worldwide

Sheila Johnson
Founder and CEo of Salamander hotels & resorts. Vice Chairman of Monumental Sports & Entertainment and President and Managing Partner of the WnBas Washington Mystics, with ownership in the nBas Washington Wizards and the nhls Washington Capitals. Producer of critically acclaimed films, including A Powerful Noise and The Other City. Founding partner of Black Entertainment Television. impassioned philanthropist champion of women and youth in underserved communities around the world devoted patron of education and the arts

Muriel Mickie Siebert

Founder, President and Chief Executive officer of the new York Stock Exchange (nYSE) brokerage firm that bears her name, Muriel Siebert & Co, inc. ardent advocate for women in business & promoter of personal financial literacy for youth and adults first woman to own a seat on the new York Stock Exchange first woman Superintendent of Banks with responsibility for the safety and soundness of all banks in the state.

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Peter Buffett
Emmy award Winning Musician, Composer and Producer as well as Co-Chairman of the noVo Foundation. Best-selling author of Life Is What You Make It noted philanthropist visionary leader committed to meaningful social action

Joel Miller
new York State assemblyman since 1995. Currently serves on the health and higher Education committees and is the ranking minority member of the Education Committee. independent thinker, conservative and social liberal outspoken advocate for marriage equality & womens right to choose, and affordable health care champion of compromise

2012 ElEanor rooSEVElT Val-kill MEdal CoMMiTTEE

Stone Cottage at Val-Kill

ElEanor rooSEVElT CEnTEr 2012 Board oF dirECTorS

Mary Jane Von allmen, Chair dana vanderheyden, 1st Vice Chair Mary louise Van Winkle, 2nd Vice Chair Tina Chirico, Treasurer Michael doyle holly Feirstein Jack Gagliardo Toyanna Mayo Padmini Murthy Emily oneill kip oneill Manuela roosevelt Michell Speight Edward Summers Marc vanderheyden EMEriTuS: Joanne Myers Jane Plimpton Plakias adViSorY: Bobbie Birleffi Blanche Wiesen Cook Wendy roosevelt Fahy richard kaplan Madeline kunin Timmian Massie Frances Taft

The Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Center at Val-Kill Invites You to the

Co-ChairS Matilda Cuomo Eileen Fisher honorarY CoMMiTTEE Sheila appel lisa anastos nancy & danny aronzon richard & donna Blackwell kip Bleakley oneill Ginny & Tony Campilii Michael duPree & Michael Fleischer Wendy roosevelt Fahy Margo Feiden Barry & holly Feirstein Meera & Vikram Gandhi honorable & Mrs. John Garrity Jay & diana Goldin Clara Gould Shirley & Bernard handel Catharine Bond hill Jeh & norma Johnson James Earl Jones & Cecilia hart Colette laFuente Judith & david lewittes Mary Madden karen Markeloff Marianne McEnroe honorable Marcus Molinaro Patrick McMullan Toyanna Mayo

EVEnT ChairS david & Manuela roosevelt Marc & dana vanderheyden dr. & Mrs. arthur Menken dennis & Marilyn Murray her Majesty Queen noor Emily oneill hannah Pakula ann & John Pinna lorraine roberts Everett rood Curtis roosevelt Christina roosevelt nancy Shear kate r. Whitney honorable Judge albert rosenblatt amy rosi Susan Sarandon Ellie & Van Seagraves Elayne & hal Seaman Joan Sherman dr. ruth Simmons Mr. & Mrs. George Stuts Franny & Seth Taft Marie Tarver Franklin a. Thomas Barbara Tober Bill & Melinda vanden heuval Margaret Zamierowski

Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal Ceremony & Luncheon

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine ones position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:00 noon Luncheon Ceremony Eleanor Roosevelt Historic Site {under the heated tent} Route 9G, Hyde Park, NY

kathleen durham, Executive Director

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believe and had done the very best you could.