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Legacy Society

National Academy of Kinesiology Legacy Society

Help PASS IT ON With an Estate Gift to NAK

The Legacy Society is the NAK’s planned giving program that helps ensure the long-term financial viability of the Academy. As the preeminent honorary, scholarly society in kinesiology, NAK serves the discipline and the world through integration and dissemination of arts and sciences on the personal and societal benefits of physical activity. Legacy Society support is essential to the research translation and advocacy activities of the Academy to advance the interdisciplinary impact of kinesiology. In  addition, Legacy Society fellows inspire other fellows to financially support the Academy and its mission.

Legacy Society membership is open to those who have designated a financial gift to the National Academy of Kinesiology in their estate plans. Any size commitment qualifies an individual for membership and givers can remain anonymous.

Current members of the Legacy Society that have not requested to remain anonymous are:

  • Dr. R. Tait McKenzie #2
  • Dr. C. Lynn Vendien #282
  • Dr. David H. Perrin #401
  • Dr. Duane Knudson #588

The National Academy of Kinesiology Legacy Society honors the five original members of the Academy: Clark W. Hetherington, champion of developmental play and educational athletics; R. Tait McKenzie, physician, scholar, and sculptor, who created the Academy medallion, the Gulick Medal, and many pieces of sport art; William Burdick, city recreation specialist and administrator; Thomas A. Storey, physician, health educator, and first New York State Supervisor of physical education; and Jay B. Nash, philosopher of recreation and advocate of the development of the “whole person” through creative leisure. These five individuals, whose names distinguish the history of American physical education, met in New York City in 1926 to initiate action which led to the founding in 1930 of what is now the  National Academy of Kinesiology.