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Leading by example
On October 15, 2012
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SKS Trustee JosephW. Blount ’74 was honored by The Elton John AIDS
Foundation with an “Enduring Vision Award” in recognition of 30 years of supporting organiza-
tions that combat the AIDS crisis both here in America and worldwide. The award was bestowed
during the Foundation’s “An Enduring Vision” gala fundraiser and was hosted by CNN anchor
Anderson Cooper. Rock legend Steevie Nicks performed, and SKS’s own Paul and Dale Domingue
were in attendance as well.
In addition to his current tireless efforts supporting and guiding Storm King, Joe is also the
founder of The JosephW. Blount Center for Health and Human Rights at the Rollins School of
Public Health at Emory University. Founded in 2009, the Blount Center focuses on challenges
faced by the world’s most underserved populations. Its programs focus on HIV/AIDS, LGBT and
women’s health, health advocacy, and the empowerment of women and girls.
It is for these reasons and more that Joe was recently invited to attend a series of roundtable
discussions with President Obama in New York City and Miami. The discussions covered a variety
of topics and were attended by a veritable “Who’s Who” of business and political leaders.
From all of us here on the
Mountain, congratulations Joe
on these well deserved honors.
You’ve once again made Storm
King proud!
Top: Joe Blount ‘74 (far left) sits
at a roundtable discussion with
President Barack Obama. Right:
Joe Blount ‘74 (center) with
Elton John and David Furnish.
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Reading with a
critical eye
By John Meynardie ‘77
When I look back
on the four
years I spent at Storm King there are a
lot of happy memories and a lot to be
grateful for. Friendships mostly, but it
is the lifelong lessons that ultimately
had the greatest bearing on my life and
career. In the years after Watergate but
before the rise of Fox News, it was, we
thought, still possible to believe what
you were told in the media or even
by the government. Ned Farman was
my history teacher and while I don’t
remember which courses or even the
specific history he taught (I went on
to get a degree in history), I remember
vividly how he taught us to read
everything with a critical eye for bias, a
skill that has been immeasurably valuable
in my profession and in my life.
