Valleau Wilkie, Jr. – The Sid Richardson Foundation
– Fort Worth
Valleau Wilkie was born in Summit, in 1923. He received his BA in History from Yale University where he played freshman football, Varsity football, and served as President of DKE. He later received his MA in history from Harvard in 1953.
After attending one year of college at Yale, Mr. Wilkie served his country in WWII in the US Army Air Corps 1942-45 to rank as 1st Lieutenant, and in the 8th Air Force - England, B-17 pilot. He was a Prisoner of War in Germany 1944-45. He then returned to college to finish his degree.
Mr. Wilkie served in several capacities including Instructor of History and football and baseball coach at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. from 1948–59. He the became headmaster and Director of Development at Governor Dummer Academy in Byfield, Mass. From 1959-73. While there the Academy conducted two national capital campaigns.
In 1973 Mr. Wilkie moved to Fort Worth to assume the position of Executive Director of the Sid Richardson Foundation.
He has served on the National Association of Independent Schools 1962-68 in Boston, Massachusetts, New England Association of Schools and Colleges in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Office of Education in Washington, D.C., Southwest Educational Development Laboratory in Austin, Conference of Southwest Foundations in Corpus Christi, Texas, Council on Foundations in Washington, D.C., Foundation Center in New York, and the National Charities Information Bureau in New York.
Val Wilkie lives in Fort Worth and enjoys two children Janice and Robert and four grandchildren.
