THE TICKER MUSEUM NEWS
MoAF Announces 2019 Gala Honorees
It has been a busy year of public pro-
grams at the Museum, despite our exhibit
gallery remaining closed due to the flood
in January. We have hosted 15 events
this year—including six programs in our
Evening Lecture Series—at outside venues
around the city. This has enabled us to
expand our audience, as our programs are
now more easily accessible to those who
live and work in midtown and uptown, in
addition to Lower Manhattan.
Schwab IMPACT conference in Wash-
ington, DC, this October (see article, page
8). Also this fall, we were represented on
an international stage at the International
Federation of Finance Museums (IFFM)
Annual Meeting in Brussels. MoAF Vice
Chair Andrea de Cholnoky spoke about
our plans for the future, as more than 20
finance museums from around the world
discussed “Financial Education: Global
Perspectives & Challenges.”
As we look towards
the future, I am excited
to announce that we have
secured our 2019 Gala hon-
David J. Cowen | President and CEO
orees, each of whom have
made important contribu-
tions to the world of finance
We were also fortunate to be able to con-
and economics. The Whitehead Award for
tinue our premier education program—the
Distinguished Public Service and Finan-
Museum Finance Academy—with sessions
cial Leadership will recognize the sig-
held on Thursday and Friday afternoons
nificant contributions of Dr. Janet Yellen,
at our temporary offsite location. More
former chair of the Federal Reserve Board
than 40 high school students are currently
and distinguished fellow in residence at
enrolled in this free eight-week personal
The Brookings Institution. The Charles
finance course, which combines class-
Schwab Financial Innovation Award,
room instruction with interactive events
which recognizes individuals who have
and trips. The top performers will receive
introduced new markets or new financial
partial college scholarships, and we will
instruments to our financial system, will
announce their names on our website and
be presented to Laurence D. Fink, chair-
in the next issue of Financial History.
man and CEO of BlackRock.
We also recently expanded our exhibit
The 2019 Gala will be held on February
outreach, as we showed more than 40
5 at Cipriani Wall Street. For information
highlights from our permanent collection
on how you or your firm can participate,
in our new travelling exhibit, “Out of the
please see www.moaf.org/2019gala. We
Vault,” which we displayed at the 2018
hope to see many of you there.
Message to Members
Top to bottom: Dr. Janet Yellen; Laurence D. Fink; David Cowen (center) with
Dan Varley and Matthew Hamilton from BNY Mellon, sponsors of the Museum’s
“Out of the Vault” exhibit at the 2018 Schwab IMPACT conference.
4 FINANCIAL HISTORY | Fall 2018 | www.MoAF.org