The Princeton Varsity Club welcomed Jack Bogle ’51 back to campus as the keynote speaker for the Spring 2009 edition of the PVC Jake McCandless ’51 Speaker Series. Mr. Bogle delivered his address entitled “Aspiring to Build a Better Financial World” on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 7:30pm in McCosh Hall 10 to a diverse audience.
John C. Bogle, 79, is Founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000. He had been associated with a predecessor company since 1951, immediately following his graduation from Princeton University, magna cum laude in Economics. He is a graduate of Blair Academy, Class of 1947.
The Vanguard Group is one of the two largest mutual fund organizations in the world. Headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Vanguard comprises more than 120 mutual funds with current assets totaling more than $1 trillion. Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the largest fund in the group, was founded by Mr. Bogle in 1975. It was the first index mutual fund. The story of his life and career is told in John Bogle and the Vanguard Experiment: One Man’s Quest to Transform the Mutual Fund Industry, by Robert Slater (1996).
In 2004, TIME magazine named Mr. Bogle as one of the world’s 100 most powerful and influential people, andInstitutional Investor presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1999, Fortune designated him as one of the investment industry’s four “Giants of the 20th Century.” In the same year, he received the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University for “distinguished achievement in the Nation’s service.” In 1997, he was named one of the “Financial Leaders of the 20th Century” in Leadership in Financial Services (Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997). In 1998, Mr. Bogle was presented the Award for Professional Excellence from the Association for Investment Management and Research (now the CFA Institute), and in 1999 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Fixed Income Analysts Society, Inc.
Mr. Bogle is a best-selling author, beginning with Bogle on Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor(1993); Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor (1999); John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years (2000); Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group (2002); Battle for the Soul of Capitalism (2005); and The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007). His seventh book, Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life, was published by John Wiley and Sons in November 2008.
Mr. Bogle served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute in 1969-1970, and as a member of the Board in 1969-1974. In 1997, he was appointed by then-U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt to serve on the Independence Standards Board. In 2000, he was named by the Commonwealth’s Chamber of Commerce as Pennsylvania’s Business Leader of the Year.
He served as Chairman of the Board of the National Constitution Center from September 1999 through January 2007, and was a Director of Instinet Corporation until December 2005. He was a member of The Conference Board’s Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise, and is a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A Trustee of Blair Academy, he served as Chairman in 1986-2001. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Delaware, University of Rochester, New School University, Susquehanna University, Eastern University, Widener University, Albright College, Pennsylvania State University, Drexel University, Immaculata University, Princeton University, and Georgetown University.
Mr. Bogle was born in Montclair, New Jersey, on May 8, 1929. He now resides in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Eve. They are the parents of six children and the grandparents of twelve.
The Jake McCandless ’51 PVC Speaker Series began in 2004 with a lecture from NCAA President Myles Brand. The series was endowed in the name of J. L. “Jake” McCandless ’51, who coached Princeton to the 1969 Ivy League football championship during the Tigers’ centennial year of football.
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Join fellow Princetonians on Tuesday, October 10th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. for the fall edition of the PVC Luncheon series, where you will hear updates from several fall season Tiger head
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Join fellow Princetonians on Tuesday, October 10th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. for the fall edition of the PVC Luncheon series, where you will hear updates from several fall season Tiger head coaches and student-athletes, as well as remarks from Ford Family Director of Athletics, John Mack ’00.
The event will take place at the Friend Center (Convocation Room 113) with lunch to be provided. Please RSVP below (or reach out to 609-258-8955) if you plan to attend the Fall Coaches Luncheon – we look forward to seeing you!
FEATURED FALL HEAD COACHES & PROGRAMS Sean Driscoll | Women’s Soccer Sabrina King ’01 | Women’s Volleyball Dustin Litvak | Men’s Water Polo Bob Surace ’90 | Football Note: featured coaches subject to change
Time
(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
Friend Center Convocation Room
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On behalf of the Princeton Varsity Club and our esteemed co-hosts, Monica Moore Thompson ’89 S88 P20 and John Thompson, III ’88 S89 P20, we invite you to
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On behalf of the Princeton Varsity Club and our esteemed co-hosts, Monica Moore Thompson ’89 S88 P20 and John Thompson, III ’88 S89 P20, we invite you to join us on Thursday, October 12th for a special evening in Washington D.C. at the new Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) location in Dupont Circle. The night will include a complimentary reception and conversation and Q&A with three accomplished leaders, including Ford Family Director of Athletics John Mack ’00 and two-time defending Ivy League champion head coaches Mitch Henderson ’98 (men’s basketball) and Lisa Van Ackeren (softball).
PVC members are invited to a Fall Gameday Reception in the Class of 1956 Lounge located high above Powers Field, to cheer on Princeton football as part of their
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PVC members are invited to a Fall Gameday Reception in the Class of 1956 Lounge located high above Powers Field, to cheer on Princeton football as part of their match-up with the Harvard Crimson on Homecoming weekend. The ’56 Lounge (accessible via the stadium concourse elevator near Section 10) will open at 12:00 p.m. in advance of the 1:00 p.m. kickoff. Tailgate food and drinks will be provided.
Complete list of home Tiger competitions on Homecoming (10/21) Football vs. Harvard (1:00 p.m.) Men’s Soccer vs. Brown (4:00 p.m.) Women’s Ice Hockey vs. Brown (6:00 p.m.)
*Additional games may be added as winter sport schedules are announced
Time
(Saturday) 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Class of 1956 Lounge, Princeton Stadium
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Tiger Athletics Give Day (#TAGD) returns for Year No. 10 on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 (National Giving Tuesday). Through the first nine years of TAGD, Princeton Athletics and
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Tiger Athletics Give Day (#TAGD) returns for Year No. 10 on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 (National Giving Tuesday). Through the first nine years of TAGD, Princeton Athletics and its Tiger community have raised more than $24 million across nearly 67,000 gifts in support of its varsity student-athletes and teams.
We encourage you to show your support and make a gift online at TAGD.Princeton.edu or call 609-986-TAGD (8243) on November 28th between the hours of 12:00 a.m. – 11:59 p.m. EST. All gifts of $20 or more will count toward the various competitions among the Athletic Friends Groups detailed on the TAGD website.
Thank you to the PVC Board of Directors whom have generously contributed more than $1.7 million in cumulative Bonus Funds to-date to continue to drive this impactful initiative for Princeton Athletics.