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The Cooper Institute is dedicated to promoting life-long health and wellness through research and education. The Cooper Institute was founded in 1970 by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper as a nonprofit organization with a simple vision to prove that exercise is medicine.
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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO Laura F. DeFina, MD, FACP
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Cooper Institute
As we say goodbye to a decade, The Cooper Institute looks forward to 2020 and beyond. •
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In 1970, Dr. Cooper had a vision that physical activity and fitness would change the health of our world. In order to prove that, he established The Cooper Institute to develop a research study to demonstrate the health benefits of fitness and preventive medicine. In the 1980s and 1990s, The Cooper Institute did ground-breaking research that showed the incredible health benefits of being fit. In the 2010s, our efforts became laser-focused on the health of future generations. We expanded the FitnessGram platform for youth health-related fitness and now have approximately 10 million children undergo the health-related fitness assessment annually. This allows children, their parents, and teachers to ensure that the children understand their responsibility in managing their own fitness and health. In addition, schools, administrators, and legislators can gauge the success of school-based physical activity programming in helping children learn positive lifestyle behaviors that they take into life.
Given the on-going obesity crisis in children with ever-increasing diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, it is critical to work towards improving the health-behaviors of our children. The Cooper Institute advocates for maintaining physical education and health education in schools across the country. Just as reading, writing, and math are valued, educating children on self-care with a focus on physical activity and nutrition is critical.
We must have physical education and fitness assessment for every child in every state to help all our precious children start a healthy journey into life. The Cooper Institute appreciates our partnership with the National Football League Foundation and its NFL PLAY 60 partners, including the American Heart Association, in the development and implementation of the NFL PLAY 60 FitnessGram Project. In 2017, this program showed that children in schools utilizing either Fuel Up To Play 60 or the NFL PLAY 60 Challenge were actually fitter and leaner than those in schools that did not use this programming. Fun, active, and successful in a real world setting! On November 7, 2019, our Legacy Dinner brought together leaders in the relentless fight for youth fitness and wellness. The Legacy Award honors the visionary leaders who have improved the lives and health of men, women and children across the country and around the world. This year’s winner was the NFL Foundation, represented by Charlotte Jones Anderson, the NFL Foundation Chairman and Dallas Cowboys Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer. The Well.Hero. was Fort Worth Mayor and lifelong bicyclist Betsy Price for her efforts to transform health and wellness in Fort Worth through the Blue Zones Project. The youth of America were well represented by Jimena Tinoco, age 17, National Youth Council Member for the Fuel Up to Play 60 Program, who emphasized the need for good nutrition and activity to promote academic and physical success. The importance of using one’s position and name to motivate children and adults to live healthier lives was stressed throughout the wonderful evening. Sadly, another advocate for lifelong activity and friend of The Cooper Institute left us in November, the amazing Orville Rogers. While he is no longer running with us in body, his spirit and commitment to wellness will continue to guide The Cooper Institute’s activities going forward. Together with champions like these, we challenge all our supporters to join us on this important journey to raise healthier generations from 2020 and beyond so that all live Well. Into the future. Remember, the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans 2018 encourage adults to exercise 150 minutes a week and children to exercise 60 minutes a day – let’s all get moving in honor of Orville!
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Legacy Award Dinner Honoring The
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The greatest changes happen when people come together with a common vision. That was the continuing thread woven throughout the evening at the 2019 Legacy Award Dinner held in downtown Dallas at the historic Belo Mansion. The annual event is the premier fundraiser for The Cooper Institute, founded by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper nearly 50 years ago to prove through scientific research that exercise is the best preventive medicine.
This year’s event raised a record-breaking $740,000 to support our mission of research and education.
Kenneth H. Cooper presents the Legacy Award to Charlotte Jones Anderson in honor of the NFL Foundation.
The NFL Foundation has done more to improve youth health and fitness than almost any other organization across the country, which is why they are this year’s Legacy Award recipient. Charlotte Jones Anderson, Chairman of the NFL Foundation, accepted their award honoring the 11-year legacy to improve youth fitness through NFL PLAY 60.
“It’s all about prevention,” said Anderson at the 2019 Legacy Award Dinner. “We want to inspire young kids to do the right thing, to be active, to be motivated by playing.” Research from the NFL PLAY 60 FitnessGram Project with The Cooper Institute proves that the program works to help children achieve a healthier body weight and improve cardio fitness. Over 38 million children have participated in NFL PLAY 60 programs in 73,000 schools. The partnership to continue researching youth fitness has been renewed for another two years. Jimena Tinoco joins Angie and Arthur M. Blank, 2019 Legacy Award Dinner Executive Chair.
Stan Richards, Carol Murphy, Charlotte Jones Anderson
Executive chairs Arthur Blank and Roger Staubach are thankful for all of the support of this year’s event. “It’s phenomenal to be able to prove how exercise and fitness can help you live longer and more productively,” said Staubach, a long-time member of the board of trustees and the 2016 award recipient.
“I want to encourage everybody to consider how they can get more involved in their own school districts and governments to use FitnessGram,” said Blank who was last year’s award recipient for helping transform youth health and fitness in his home state of Georgia with the FitnessGram assessment. Charlie Duke and Roger Staubach, 2019 Legacy Award Dinner Executive Chair
Kenneth H. Cooper, Tony Evans
Improving public health can be a daunting task, but Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price earned the Well.Hero. Award for inspiring an entire city to get active, eat better and live healthier. Fort Worth is now the largest city in the U.S. to join the Blue Zone Project, a strategic partnership backed by Texas Health Resources. The program makes healthy choices the easy choice so residents can live longer and better with less chronic disease.
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NFL PLAY 60 FITNESSGRAM PROJECT
11 YEARS Jerry Jones, Charlotte Jones Anderson
2015 Legacy Award Recipient, Lyda Hill joins Bobbie Sue Williams.
WORKING TOGETHER TO IMPROVE STUDENT HEALTH AND FITNESS
Presenting Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Kenneth and Millie Cooper
AT&T
David and Ruth Glass
Troy Aikman
Drayton and Elizabeth McLane
Charles Anderson/Tedd Mitchell, MD
Platinum Sponsors
Sandra and Elmer Doty Gene and Jerry Jones Family Foundation
Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation
The Richards Group
Lyda Hill
Margo and James W. Keyes
The Men and Women of Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
Orville C. Rogers
Roger and Marianne Staubach
Gold Sponsors PwC/Tom and Shelly Codd
Sweet Treat Sponsor Arthur J. Gallagher
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Special Thanks
Oncor
Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
Gail and Steve Reinemund
2019 Legacy Award Dinner Executive Chairs
Arthur M. Blank
Chairman, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation and Blank Family of Businesses
Roger Staubach 15 Partners
Daniel Driensky The Voom Group, Inc.
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IT’S A FACT. Research from the NFL PLAY 60 FitnessGram Project proves that students who participate in school-based fitness initiatives like NFL PLAY 60 have:
FOX 4 KDFW reporter Steven Dial interviews Roger Staubach.
Betsy Price Mayor of Fort Worth receives the 2019 Well.Hero. Award.
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Improved cardio fitness Healthier body weight
Roger Staubach, Laura F. DeFina, Jimena Tinoco, Betsy Price, Kenneth H. Cooper, Charlie Duke, Scott Murray
“As a nation, a city and a state, we still have a lot of work to do,” said Mayor Price. “We can make people’s lives better.”
The city is already seeing a positive change in the battle against childhood obesity. Over 20,000 Fort Worth students using FitnessGram who are at-risk for diabetes have shown a 6% reduction in their risk factors in just 3 years. Shy Anderson Jr., Haley Anderson, Charlotte Jones Anderson, Gene Jones
David and Becky Matthews join Anna and Lance Clemens.
“With a healthy body and mind, we can accomplish anything,” said special guest Jimena Tinoco who reinforced the positive impact of FitnessGram and NFL PLAY 60 programs on today’s youth.
Tedd L. Mitchell, Barclay Berdan, Jeff Williams, Karen Williams
At only 17 years old, Tinoco has emerged as a voice for change and for the health of her generation as a member of the national youth council for Fuel Up to Play 60. Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, the youngest man to walk on the moon, wrapped up the event by sharing stories about the the physical challenges of the space program and the powerful impact of people working together. “It showed what teamwork, dedication and commitment can doc” said Duke. Altogether, it was a powerful and inspiring evening that showed how we can all make an impact on public health and change people’s lives by working towards a shared vision for the future.
Millie Cooper, Kenneth H. Cooper
VISION FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE CONTINUES... The Cooper Institute is excited to continue raising awareness about the importance of healthy vision through a grant provided by The Rosewood Foundation. In honor of the late Caroline Rose Hunt, The Cooper Institute and the Vision Impact Institute, supported by Essilor, will continue to share her passion for better vision as part of our FitnessGram health and wellness program.
“A child needs many tools to succeed in school and good vision is one of them. We are pleased to support the ‘whole child’ approach of The Cooper Institute’s FitnessGram program which assesses the level of fitness needed to succeed in school and build healthy habits for the entire family.”
Left to Right: Portrait of the late Caroline Rose Hunt; Amy Johnson, Chief Development Officer of The Cooper Institute; Julia Sands, Trustee of The Rosewood Foundation; Lynn Mahurin, Vice President of The Rosewood Foundation; Judith Williams, Program Manager - Americas of The Vision Impact Institute; Andrea Kristen-Coleman, Global Communications and Awareness Manager of The Vision Impact Institute
Lynn Mahurin Vice President of The Rosewood Foundation
Orville C. Rogers
USATF World Record Runner (1917-2019)
IN MEMORIAM:
ORVILLE ROGERS INSPIRATION COMES IN MANY FORMS. Orville Rogers found his inspiration 50 years ago reading Aerobics by Dr. Cooper and never looked back. This WWII veteran and commercial airline pilot took up running to see if exercise could really keep him healthy and strong. He went on to break over 18 world records in track after the age of 90 and run over 43,000 miles in his life. Even at the age of 101, our beloved Well.Hero. recipient and Meyer Society member never lost his inspiration to stay physically active.
He will be dearly missed, but his spirit and determination will live well into the future.
