Benefactor receives UD Medal of Distinction

R.R.M “Ruly” Carpenter III

3:58 p.m., Sept. 15, 2005--R.R.M “Ruly” Carpenter III, longtime University of Delaware benefactor and member of the UD Board of Trustees, was awarded the University’s Medal of Distinction on Saturday, Sept. 10, in Delaware Stadium during halftime at the season football opener against Lehigh University.

One of three generations of his family with close ties to UD and its Intercollegiate Athletics Program, Carpenter was elected to the UD Board of Trustees in 1990. Currently serving as chairman of the board’s Committee on Student Life and Athletics and the Nominating Committee, Carpenter also heads the Athletics Visiting Committee.

Carpenter, whose family owned and operated the Philadelphia Phillies for nearly 40 years, served as that organization’s president from 1973-81.

UD President David P. Roselle and Board of Trustees Chairman Howard E. Cosgrove joined Carpenter on Tubby Raymond Field, where they presented the 1962 graduate of Yale University with the award and a citation praising him as “a longstanding friend of the University of Delaware” who “has been instrumental in raising funds to support Delaware’s athletic programs and who chaired the fund-raising efforts for the University facility named for his father, The Bob Carpenter Sports/Convocation Center.”

The Medal of Distinction is presented to individuals of the state and region who have made humanitarian, cultural, intellectual or scientific contributions to society; have achieved noteworthy success in their professions; or have given significant service to the University, the state and the region.

Photo by Duane Perry

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