The Yale Book Award
The Yale Book Award for Secondary Schools (Yale Book Award) is an annual prize presented to high school juniors that demonstrate "outstanding personal character and intellectual promise.”
The Yale Book Award is a keepsake book from Yale University, a recruitment tool for Yale College, and a means for high school juniors to distinguish themselves from their peers.
Attention: High School Faculty, Staff and Students
Each year, a committee of The Yale Club of South Texas collaborates with counselors, faculty and administrators at public and private high schools to publicize the Yale Book Award, determine the award criteria and competition process, and publicly recognize the winning students’ achievements.
At an awards ceremony, the recipient of the prestigious Yale Book Award is given a Yale University book engraved with his/her name on the bookplate (i.e. inside front cover). The book attached to the award is picked by the local Yale Book Award Committee on an annual basis and is given as a lifelong treasure for the award winner's library.
Books awarded through the Yale Book Award program have included the leather-bound Yale Shakespeare, the complete works of William Shakespeare; publications by renowned cultural and literary critic Harold Bloom; the Cold War masterpieces of pre-eminent historian John Gaddis; and James Gustave Speth’s Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment.
The Yale Book Award is sponsored nationally by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) and locally by individual Yale Clubs and alumni in nearly 70 different cities around the world.
High School faculty, staff and students can contact Jeanne Devine, Chair, Yale Book Award Committee, Yale Club of South Texas, to see if your high school participates in this program, or if you are interested in establishing the Yale Book Award at your school.
Attention: Yale Alumni of South Texas
Local Yale alums sponsor Book Awards for high schools from which they have graduated, schools where their children attend, and promising schools where Yale college might broaden its outreach to deserving students.
To "adopt" a school, you as a Yale alum can pay a minimum of $30 towards the cost of the Yale Book Award. Alumni may sponsor more than one book at separate high schools in the region. If you would like to sponsor a Yale Book Award(s) today, please print and postal mail the attached membership form. Once we receive your sponsorship payment, an ASC member will contact the designated high school on your behalf to coordinate the Yale Book Award program with their staff.
The Yale Club of South Texas utilizes the Yale Book Award to not only recognize high-achieving juniors for what they have accomplished to date, but to inspire award-winners and their peers to further excellence as they progress into their Senior year and beyond.
The Yale Book Award raises Yale's profile in the community, and in turn, shines the light on the best and brightest young minds as they arrive at the crossroads of college.
Please contact Jeanne Devine, Chair, Yale Book Award Committee, Yale Club of South Texas, to see if your preferred high school participates in our program, if you are interested in establishing the Yale Book Award at your school of choice, or if you need further information.