Allen Jones with co-author, Mark Naison
The Bulldogs Care Foundation held its third annual fundraising event, Tip Off To Success, on Thursday, September 24, 2009, at the Altman Building in Manhattan. The foundation was founded in memory of four Yale University Bulldogs and seeks to support disadvantaged youth as they pursue personal development through programs in athletics, education and mentoring. At the event several outstanding individuals were honored including Allen Jones, author of The Rat That Got Away.
Allen Jones receiving 2009 Pillar of Strength award on September 24, 2009.
Dear Allen,
Congratulations to you, and to the fact that there is a recognition for one man’s life, and his actions, and some of the hardship and difficult times he had to face, both in the US, and internationally.
We all are proud to have been tought and influenced by you in our lives, both in the US, but also in Europe.
You have left a consederable positive mark on a lot of youngsters growth and learning, like me, when since the mid 70′s we were lucky to call Allen Jones as one of freinds, leaders, teachers and mentors, and looked up to the athlete, Allen Jones, and wanted to be like him, and later, to the coach and life coach Allen Jones, and took a lot of his learned lessons of life, and applied them, in order to make our lives more meaningful and culturally colorful.
I am proud and happy to have been lucky to have learned from you, ad to have been your friend, and can only wish you the best, and a happy 2nd Half of your life, and I hope to still be part of that one.
Congratulations my friend,
Carlo R. Besenius
Dear Allen,
Congratulations to you, and to the fact that there is a recognition for one man’s life, and his actions, and some of the hardship and difficult times he had to face, both in the US, and internationally.
We all are proud to have been taught and influenced by you in our lives, both in the US, but also in Europe.
You have left a considerable positive mark on a lot of youngsters growth and learning, like me, when since the mid 70’s we were lucky to call Allen Jones as one of friends, leaders, teachers and mentors, and looked up to the athlete, Allen Jones, and wanted to be like him, and later, to the coach and life coach Allen Jones, and took a lot of his learned lessons of life, and applied them, in order to make our lives more meaningful and culturally colorful.
Your advice, your friendship, and a lot of your guidance lead in part to, as you called it,
“our trading places” and the result of me moving from Luxembourg to NYC and fighting my way through the concrete jungle of Manhattan, and the battles and challenges of my career in Capital Markets on Wallstreet, for over 25 years.
I am proud and happy to have been lucky to have learned from you, ad to have been your friend, and can only wish you the best, and a happy 2nd Half of your life, and I hope to still be part of that one.
Congratulations to you my friend, life was irrefutably better due to you and your influence, keep the good work up and I am looking forward to seeing you in Luxembourg, NYC or wherever our journey will take us.
Carlo R. Besenius