ALUMNI HOLIDAY LUNCHEON

Banfield Award 2022

To the alumnus who has selflessly devoted himself to the development of Landon School and the well-being of its boys. The award is named in honor of Dr. W. Landon Banfield ’50 for his tireless dedication to the preservation of the Landon tradition.

Joseph A. Kenary, Jr. ’82 has spent his entire career in finance. He currently serves as an independent advisor to several specialty finance (non-bank) businesses.

Previously, he was an EVP at Alliance Partners, an asset manager that provides commercial loans for a network of community banks. Prior to joining Alliance Partners, he was one of the founding employees of CapitalSource. CapitalSource grew to become a publicly traded non-bank lender with more than $10 billion in assets. Prior to CapitalSource, Mr. Kenary worked in various specialty finance and private equity roles in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Baltimore, before returning to the Washington area in 1997.

Mr. Kenary entered Landon in 1976 as a Form I student and graduated in 1982. Since 2009, with his wife Cecilia Bonanni, he has been an enthusiastic Landon parent of Nico ’18, Tommy ’20 and Sebby ’23. In addition to his three sons, he is the proud father of his daughter, Sofia.

Mr. Kenary served as a Trustee of Landon from 2007-2017. He served as the Board Chairman from 2014-2017. During that time, he was actively involved in the leadership transition that led to Jim Neill becoming our sixth Head of School and oversaw Landon’s first Strategic Plan in twelve years. Since 2018, he has served on the board of the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart.

Mr. Kenary received his AB from Harvard College and his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Kupka Award

The Anthony Edward Kupka ’64 Distinguished Alumnus Award is presented each year to an alumnus who has demonstrated the ideals for which Landon stands for through service to Landon, his community, his profession, or his country. The award was established in 1981 in memory of Buddy Kupka, who was killed in the Vietnam War.

Lynn Wilson ’80, MD, MPH, Executive Vice Chairman and Director of Clinical Affairs of Yale Medicine’s Therapeutic Radiology Department, cares for patients with cutaneous lymphoma and breast cancer at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven.

Dr. Wilson also serves as Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the Smilow Cancer Hospital and Smilow Cancer Hospital network (radiation oncology).

In addition to providing clinical care, Dr. Wilson is also a professor of therapeutic radiology and dermatology. His primary research focus is related to outcomes and treatment-related factors for patients receiving care for cutaneous lymphoma and breast cancers.

Dr. Wilson has served on the board of trustees for the American Board of Radiology and is a former member of the American Society for Radiation Oncology board of directors.

Dr. Wilson’s awards are numerous, including being named to America’s Top Doctors twelve times and one of America’s Top Doctors for Cancer fourteen times.

After graduating from Landon School in 1980, he attended Denison University, received his MPH from Yale University School of Medicine in 1986, and his Doctor of Medicine from George Washington University in 1990. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Yale in 1991, his residency in radiation oncology at Yale in 1994, and was chief resident. He then joined the Yale faculty in 1994.

Kenary and Wilson with their awards.