Academy of Achievement

The Academy of Achievement, officially known as the American Academy of Achievement, was founded in 1961 by Sports Illustrated and LIFE magazine photographer Brian Reynolds to bring together accomplished people from diverse fields in order to exchange ideas and to encourage the next generation of young leaders.[1][2]

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

The first annual Summit hosted by the Academy culminated with a “Banquet of the Golden Plate” awards ceremony on September 9, 1961, in Monterey, California,[3] which was named after the hotel's "gold plate service" that was only used for special occasions.[4] The Golden Plate is awarded for an individual's contributions to science, the arts, public service, sports and industry.[5][3][2][6][7][8] The first honorees were chosen by a national board of governors but, for more than fifty years, have been selected by the Golden Plate Awards Council, which consists of prior Academy awardees.[9][3][2][10]

Golden Plate Awardees who have participated in the Academy’s Achievement Summits over the past six decades include: Jonas Salk, Sally Ride, Francis H.C. Crick, James Watson, Frederick Sanger, Linus Pauling, John Bardeen, Sir Edmund Hillary, Neil Armstrong, Jimmy Doolittle, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, James Lovell, Chuck Yeager, Maya Lin, Bryan Stevenson, Rosa Parks, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, Mikhail Gorbachev, John Hume, Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, Tim Berners-Lee, Claude Shannon, Grace Murray Hopper, Charles Stark Draper, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Edward Teller, Wernher von Braun, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, Jane Goodall, Michael DeBakey, Douglas MacArthur, Helen Keller, Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alex Haley, John Updike, Wallace Stegner, Michael Jordan, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, John Wooden, Bear Bryant, Tom Landry, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Sir Roger Bannister, Wayne Gretzky, Simone Biles, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving, Bill Russell, Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, Walter Payton, Peyton Manning, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Bart Starr, Norman Borlaug, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, Stephen Bechtel Sr., John D. MacArthur, Carlos Slim, Michael Dell, Phil Knight, Akio Morita, Chung Ju-yung, Katharine Graham, David McCullough, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Muhammad Ali, John Lewis, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Coretta Scott King, Desmond Tutu, Sidney Poitier, August Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Itzhak Perlman, Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jimmy Page, Roger Daltrey, Michael Caine, Quincy Jones, Leontyne Price, Audrey Hepburn, Ralph Lauren, Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, John Wayne,[11] James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, Elizabeth Taylor, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton, Chuck Berry, John Williams, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Elie Wiesel, Shimon Peres, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Gehry, Buckminster Fuller, Anthony M. Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor, Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.[12][13]

In 1985, Reynolds' son, Wayne, and his son's wife, Catherine B. Reynolds assumed the leadership.[1][14][15][16] In the 1990s, Reynolds moved the organization from Malibu, California, to Washington, D.C.[17]

In 2007, the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation donated $9 million to the Academy.[17][14][18]

The Academy of Achievement celebrated its 50th anniversary Summit in Washington, D.C., which concluded with the Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies on October 27, 2012.[19][20] The 2014 International Achievement Summit was held in San Francisco and Napa Valley, California.[21] The Academy held its 2017 International Achievement Summit in London and Oxfordshire, England, and the 2019 Summit in New York City.[22][23][24]

The Academy hosts the annual International Achievement Summit, which brings together visionaries and pioneers from diverse fields of accomplishment with graduate students and other young leaders from around the world.[25][26][27][28][29][30] In addition, the Academy produces the “What It Takes” podcast series featuring the personal journeys and interviews of Academy members. The "What It Takes” podcast received the 2020 Webby Award for Best Series.[31]

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