{"id":1088,"date":"2015-12-08T13:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2015-12-08T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T18:49:11","slug":"memo-to-veterans-and-principals-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/08\/memo-to-veterans-and-principals-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Veterans and Principals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Veterans and Principals<br \/>\nFrom: John C. Bogle<br \/>\nDate: November 23, 2015<br \/>\nRe: \u201cDistinguished Service to Humanity\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday evening, November 19, I was honored by the National Academy of Social Sciences with their Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Humanity. (They\u2019ve been awarding these medals for 101 years.)<\/p>\n<p>The award was based (as the attached dinner announcement states) on my \u201cinvention of the first index mutual fund.\u201d I prepared my remarks well before the day of the dinner, and edited them to meet the time constraints of such events.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I\u2019ve had my talk reprinted in its entirety. I\u2019m guessing that many of you will be interested in the creation of Vanguard, which quickly led to the creation of the world\u2019s first index mutual fund.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. We at Vanguard have so much to be thankful for!<\/p>\n<p><em>Jack<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Gold-Medal-11-19-15.pdf\">John C. Bogle&#8217;s remarks upon accepting the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Humanity from the National Academy of Social Sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Veterans and Principals From: John C. Bogle Date: November 23, 2015 Re: \u201cDistinguished Service to Humanity\u201d Last Thursday evening, November 19, I was honored by the National Academy of Social Sciences with their Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Humanity. (They\u2019ve been awarding these medals for 101 years.) The award was based (as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memos-to-principals-and-veterans","category-recent-speeches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johncbogle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}