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About the Boypower Dinner
The Boypower Dinner is where the Council raises 26% of its annual budget. Your attendance will assist in the Boy Scouts' continued success. Plus, with a contribution of $1,250 or more, you'll get to meet Bob Costas at a private VIP reception before the dinner. You can contribute to the Boypower Dinner 2010 by contacting the Longhouse Council office to purchase tickets. Contributions may be made in cash or as a pledge.
Announcing our 2010 Speaker, Honoree and Chairman
Speaker: Bob Costas
NBC Sportscaster
Bob Costas. It’s a name synonymous with sports broadcasting. Bob has been with NBC Sports since 1979. He has covered nearly every major sport, though he is perhaps most identified with the Olympics and baseball.
He has won 20 Emmy awards—16 for outstanding sports host or play-by-play, two for writing, one for his late night interview show, “Later...with Bob Costas” on NBC, and one for feature reporting. Bob has also been named “National Sportscaster of the Year” an unprecedented eight times by his peersÑin 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, and 2000.
Nowadays, Bob hosts NBC’s “Football Night in America” and recently signed a long-term deal to join the MLB Network. Bob’s love for baseball is no secret. His book, “Fair Ball, A Fan’s Case for Baseball” published in 2000, earned excellent reviews and remained on the New York Times best seller list for several weeks. Bob has been involved in the coverage of ten League Championship Series, and seven World Series for NBC, and even said the eulogy at Mickey Mantle’s funeral.
And to think, he got his start in Syracuse at WSYR-TV while attending Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Publication and Communications (Class of ’74).
Honorees: Jim and Juli Boeheim
SUNY Upstate Medical University
About our 2010 Distinguished Citizen Honorees
Most people around Central New York know Jim Boeheim as Syracuse University’s Hall of Fame basketball coach. And rightfully so. SU has made 25 trips to the NCAA Tournament, including Final Four appearances in 1987, 1996 and 2003 during his 34-year run (and counting). As head coach at his alma mater, Boeheim has won more than 800 gamesÑincluding a National Championship in 2003.
Coach Boeheim is also a champion of many charitable causes. Most recently, he and wife, Juli, formed the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation - a local campaign to enrich the lives of children in need within our community and to provide support for eliminating cancer through research and advocacy.
Jim and Juli have also donated their time to Crouse Hospital’s Kienzle Family Maternity Center, the Children’s Miracle Network, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Pioneer Center for the Blind and Disabled, Lighthouse, People in Wheelchairs, Easter Seals, the Special Olympics, the Rescue Mission and the Jack Bruen Fund. The Crouse Health Foundation chose Jim Boeheim as its honoree for Tribute Evening 2003, the Foundation’s annual fundraising gala. In May 2005, he received the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center Inspiration Award from the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Chairman: Orrin B. MacMurray
Chairman, C&S Companies
About our 2010 Chairman
Orrin B. MacMurray, P.E., or “Mac” as his friends call him, is chairman of the C&S Companies. Mac got his start in engineering with the United States Corps of EngineersÑperforming active duty tours at Fort Drum, New York, and in Vietnam. Soon after, he was hired as an assistant engineer with C&S Engineers and progressed to where he was elected president of the company in 1994, serving in that role until 2008.
Mac has held numerous positions and served on several boards outside of C&S — as a member of his town planning board for over 20 years (14 as chairman), the Advisory Board for Syracuse University’s School of Engineering, the Manufacturers Association of Central New York and Presidents Council at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He is also on the advisory board for the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, is active in the National Society of Professional EngineersÑhaving received the 1997 Engineer of the Year Award for Central New York — and is chairman of the Health Advancement Collaborative of Central New York.