Keller’s Recognition Dinner: A unique photo album
Apart from grainy newsletter and book illustrations, there are not too many photos from the early years of alcohol studies, let alone color pictures. This is why the album Photos: Mark Keller’s Recognition Dinner from 1977 is extremely important: it contains pictures of many who were or had become celebrities in the field.
The first page of the album features Keller with his gift, a Haggadah
The professionally designed, large photo album contains nearly one hundred colorful snapshots taken at various moments at an unorthodox event, Keller’s Recognition Dinner, which was held on October 7, 1977 in the Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club, Lamington, NJ (a part of Bedminster township).
The first and last pages feature a single picture, starting with a snapshot of Mark Keller with his new Haggadah and concluding with a candid photo featuring Keller with the “Bunky,” i.e., Jellinek’s bust, which comes with the Jellinek Memorial Award, the highest-ranking recognition in the field of alcohol studies. Ms. Surry looks pleased as Keller shares the moment with her and her husband. The remaining 24 pages contain four images each. Photography by Dick Zylman.
Established by representatives of several international organizations in the alcohol field in 1964 as the Jellinek Memorial Fund, the organization presents the Jellinek Memorial Award for outstanding work of scholarship each year.
Keller showing off his "Bunky" to Bunky’s daughter, Ruth Jellinek Surry on the last page
Chaired by R. Brinkley Smithers, a major benefactor of CAS on behalf of the Christopher D. Smithers Foundation, the event was a spectacular demonstration of appreciation and support from various scholarly, government, and other organizations from all over the world, such as the Addiction Research Foundation, the Jellinek Memorial Fund, the National Council on Alcoholism, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the International Council on Alcohol and Addiction. The impressive list of attendees is not to be shared in public, as it contains contact information for all the illustrious guests, however, the photos are labeled with names in the album.
- Browse the 26 pages of the album and the pictures scanned separately
Keller receiving the Jellinek Award
Program brochure
Program brochure outside
This copy was sent to Sheila Blume, long-term instructor at the Summer School, by Mark Keller
Program brochure inside
The brochure attests to the illustrious guests chairing the event
Candid shots
Marty Mann and Keller
Selden Bacon at the podium
KellerBand Brinkley Smithers