Thank you for a fantastic Annual Dinner!

 
Annual Dinner Co-Chairs, Brigitte Anderson '02 at brigitteranderson@gmail.com and Al Chan '91 at akcp91@gmail.com, or Club President, Yung Bong Lim '87 at yungblim@alumni.princeton.edu.

 

 

 

The Princeton Club of Chicago 

cordially invites you to the 
 

2025 Annual Dinner

Welcome Back Tigers!

 

Monday, April 28th, 2025

 

City Hall / Recess

838 W Kinzie

Chicago, IL 60642


5:00 p.m. Sponsor and Friends of the Dinner Cocktail Reception

5:30 p.m. - Doors Open with Food Stations and Open Bar

7:30 p.m. - Program Begins 

9 p.m. - After Party and Cash Bar


This year’s program will feature a keynote on 

 

"The Science of Longevity"

by

Professor Coleen T. Murphy

Princeton University

Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

 

In addition, the Club will honor two outstanding alumni.

 

James Yeh ’87 P18 P20

Retired, Former President and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Citadel

Arnold M. Berlin ’46 Distinguished Service to Princeton Award Recipient

 

Sally Blount ’83 P12 P14 

CEO, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago

Michael L. Nemmers Professor of Strategy, J.L. Kellogg School of Management

John Fish '55 Distinguished Service to the Community Award Recipient

 

And finally, Princeton's Deputy Vice President for Alumni Engagement Jennifer Caputo will present the Austin P. Leland Award to the Princeton Club of Chicago in recognition for general excellence in regional alumni activities in 2024.

 

 

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More about Our 2025 Presenters and Honorees

ProfCTMurphy-ad250428Coleen T. Murphy

James A. Elkins Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences in Molecular Biology

Director of Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

Director of the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and Aging in the Brain

Director of the Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research

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Coleen T. Murphy is the James A. Elkins Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, where she has been a faculty member since 2005. She was appointed the Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics in 2023. Additionally, she is the Director of the Glenn Foundation for Research on Aging at Princeton and the Director of the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity in the Aging Brain. In Dr. Murphy’s lab, her team’s research into the science of longevity includes identifying genetic pathways that can extend cognitive and reproductive processes with age. Her book, “How We Age” (Princeton University Press, 2023), provides a guide to the science behind longevity and aging research.
 
Professor Murphy’s awards for her research include being named a Pew Scholar, March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Scholar, Keck Scholar, McKnight Fellow, Sloan Fellow, Glenn Medical Research Foundation awardee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Simons Faculty Scholar, and she was awarded the New Innovator, Transformative R01, and two Pioneer awards from the NIH Director’s office. She has won both the Women in Cell Biology Junior and Mid-Career Awards for Excellence in Research from the American Society for Cell Biology.

 

 

 

James Yeh ’87 P18 P20
 
James Yeh has served as a Princeton University trustee, Co-Chair of the Venture Forward steering committee, and a director of PRINCO.
 
James recently retired as President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Citadel, a leading global financial institution now headquartered in Miami. He was one of Citadel’s first employees and spent more than 25 years in the firm’s leadership.
 
At Princeton, he earned an A.B. in Physics, with a certificate in Engineering Physics, and then received a Ph.D. in Physics from University of California-Berkeley. He is a member of the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton and has served on the Alumni Schools Committee.
 
James and his wife, Jaimie, made a leadership gift to Venture Forward, naming one of the new residential colleges. Yeh College, previously known as New College East, opened in the 2022-2023 academic year.

 

 

 

Sally Blount ’83 P12 P14

CEO, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago

Michael L. Nemmers Professor of Strategy, J.L. Kellogg School of Management

 

Sally Blount is honored to serve as CEO of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, one of the largest private, human services providers in the Midwest and among the largest nationally. In 2024, Charities served more than 370,000 people -- regardless of their faith, ethnicity, gender, or nationality -- across 20 outreach programs and 100 service sites spanning Chicago, Cook and Lake counties.  

 

Since accepting the call to serve in 2020, Blount has led this $180 million, 108-year-old organization through a five-year, capabilities-building and strategic realignment process. Working together, Blount and the Board have reimagined Charities’ governance, streamlined its structure, and strengthened its operating model – all in service of creating more impact today for the people and communities it serves, while assuring its mission and sustainability for generations to come.

 

Blount is also proud to hold the Michael L. Nemmers Professorship in Strategy at the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she is a proud 1992 alumna and former dean (2010-2018). An internationally recognized thought leader in management and business education, Blount is a highly rated professor and sought-after speaker on leadership, governance, and organizational transformation.

 

Blount sits on the boards of Abbott Laboratories (ABT-NYSE) and the Joyce Foundation. She previously served on the boards of Ulta Beauty (ULTA-NASDAQ), the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Economic Club of Chicago, and the Finance Council for the Archdiocese of Chicago.

 

Sally is mother to three adult children, including two Princeton tigers. She grew up in New Jersey, moving to Chicago after graduating from Princeton. She loves hiking, leisurely meals with family and friends, and reading -- modern fiction mixed with writings by Catholic and Eastern mystics. 

 

 

Jennifer Caputo
Deputy Vice President for Alumni Engagement
 
Jennifer Caputo became Deputy Vice President for Alumni Engagement on July 1, 2023 after more than a decade in alumni engagement leadership roles at Princeton.

In her role as Deputy Vice President, she serves as director of the Alumni Council and also oversees the departments of Advancement Events, Affinity Programs, Alumni Communities, Alumni Council Operations, Alumni Education and Travel, Reunions, and Volunteer Engagement.

Prior to joining Princeton University, Caputo served in several roles at Major League Baseball, including as vice president of human resources for MLB Advanced Media. She has a bachelor’s degree in communications from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana.