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| Betty Dranow the Hollywood Model | |
It’s not every day that CEE is able to give something back to someone who’s given the organization so much. That’s why the Center jumped at the opportunity to host a special 90th (!) birthday party for one of the Center’s most longstanding supporters: the incomparable Betty Dranow.
Betty, and her late husband, Milton Dranow, have been a part of CEE since its founding. In 1983, Milton became a charter member of the CEE Board of Trustees. He was a friend of our founder, Admiral H.G. Rickover and worked with Joann and the Admiral to raise more than $1 million to establish CEE and the Research Science Institute (RSI).
After her husband’s passing in 1998, Betty continued the family’s commitment to supporting America’s top science and math students. Following in Milton’s footsteps, Betty sits on CEE’s Board of Trustees and serves as President of the Dranow Family Foundation. Every year, Betty spearheads efforts to raise funds for the Center from her extensive network of friends and contacts in California.
On Saturday evening, October 3, CEE hosted a birthday party in Beverly Hills, California. It came as no surprise that Betty refused gifts for herself; instead, she asked partygoers to make a donation to CEE on her behalf.
One of the night’s biggest highlights was a talk on the medical benefits of dark chocolate by Dr. Pam Taub, an alumna of CEE’s Research Science Institute (RSI) who is now a cardiologist at USCD. Taub is currently researching novel biomarkers, blood tests for early diagnosis of heart disease, and the cardiovascular benefits of dark chocolate on the human heart.
It was fitting, then, that Betty’s party featured an assortment of chocolate bars donated by Firefly Chocolate, an innovative start-up company founded by another RSI alumnus, Jonas Ketterleng.
Betty was clearly moved by the outpouring of support and thanked everyone for attending the event. But it is Betty who deserves the thanks for more than three decades of support for CEE’s ongoing mission to nurture high school and university scholars to careers of excellence and leadership in math and science.
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