AYA awards Yale Medals
If a Yale alumnus had never visited the minority-heavy Theodore Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles in the 1960s, Don Nakanishi ’71 said he might not have come to Yale.
But on Friday night, Nakanishi was one of five alumni to receive the Yale Medal, given by the Association of Yale Alumni in recognition of their outstanding individual service to the University.
Nakanishi, the chair of the Alumni Schools Committee of Los Angeles County, said at a reception Friday that he hoped through his work on the committee to increase the level of diversity at Yale.
“I...
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