The Livingston Hall of Fame will induct five new members during Homecoming Weekend this October. The LHS alumni honored have an impressive list of accomplishments, including have the ear of the president and writers and scholars with far-reaching influence on economic and health issues.

The Livingston Education Foundation on Monday announced this year's inductees into the Livingston Hall of Fame: Robert E. Grady, class of 1975; Charles “Chuck” Jaffe, class of 1980; Alan B. Krueger, class of 1979; Alfred Savia, class of 1971; and Joanne Silberner, class of 1973.

The distinguished alumni will be honored during the Second Annual Homecoming Weekend 2011 scheduled for Oct. 14-Oct. 16.

Speaking at both the Board of Education and Township Council meetings, the Education Foundation presented snapshots of this year’s recipients:

Bob Grady has been a top aide in Congress, the Governor’s Office and the White House; a highly successful investment banker and venture capitalist; and a close personal advisor to Presidents and Governors over the course of three decades.   

He is a frequent commentator on public affairs and economic policy in both print and televised media. He has served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Pardee RAND Graduate School and the International Advisory Board of the Harvard Center for Environmental Economics.  He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Grady will be visiting Livingston from Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Chuck Jaffe is a senior columnist for MarketWatch, writing three columns per week that are syndicated nationally to an audience of more than 20 million readers. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Nightly Business Report, Fox Business News, National Public Radio (NPR) and more, and is the author of three books: “Getting Started In Finding a Financial Advisor,” “The Right Way to Hire Financial Help” and “Chuck Jaffe’s Lifetime Guide to Mutual Funds.” 

A past president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Jaffe joined MarketWatch after nine years as personal finance and mutual funds columnist at The Boston Globe.  Jaffe will be visiting during the Homecoming Weekend from Boston’s South Shore. 

Alan B. Krueger is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Princeton University.  He has published landmark studies on unemployment, labor demand, income distribution, social insurance, labor market regulation, education, terrorism, environmental economics, and “rockonomics.”

Since 1987 he has held a joint appointment in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center.  He is the author of What Makes A Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism and Education Matters, and co-author of Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, and co-author Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? He is a trustee of the MacArthur Foundation.  Professor Krueger served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2009-10.  In 1994-95 he served as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor.  Professor Krueger will be visiting from Princeton.

Alfred Savia is an award-winning music director who has an internationally respected career as conductor, orchestra builder and teacher. He is a frequent guest conductor throughout North America and around the globe.

His American appearances have included performances with the St. Louis, Detroit, Phoenix, Savannah, Alabama, Southwest Florida (Ft. Myers), Columbus, Illinois, Memphis, Winston-Salem, Roanoke, Battle Creek, San Antonio, Spokane, Duluth-Superior and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestras. 

Internationally, he has conducted the Korea Philharmonic Orchestra, State of Mexico (Toluca) Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina in Florence, Radio & Television Serbia (Belgrade) Symphony Orchestra, Denmark’s Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Ankara, Turkey, the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra in Germany and the Symphony Orchestra of Xalapa, Mexico. Under his leadership, Maestro Savia has expanded the Evansville Philharmonic to include youth and family programming.  Maestro Savia will be visiting from Indiana.

 Joanne Silberner has served as a health policy correspondent for NPR for 18 years covering everything from health care reform issues to the earthquake in Haiti.  She has a special focus on medical and health policy issues, mental health, FDA, Medicare and international health and neglected diseases.

She has also worked for U.S. News & World Report and the Science News.  Silberner is an Artist-in-Residence for the Department of Communication at the University of Washington.  With an educational foundation in the sciences, and specifically biology, Silberner’s career in journalism is a wonderful story to share with current Livingston students that the blending of one’s interests and talents can lead to an unexpected and interesting journey. Silberner will be visiting from Washington State.

Heidi Cislo, president of LEF; Amy Saffer, co-chair of the Hall of Fame Committee, and Walter LeVine, vice president of FEF, announced this year’s recipients and weekend preview.

The new members of the Hall of Fame will visit Livingston High School, where they will meet with students, and attend the Hall of Fame Dinner at the Cedar Hill Country Club on Friday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m.

Weekend events will also include the Homecoming Football Game on Saturday, Oct. 15. Proceeds from the weekend will go to the foundation’s campaign of providing technology for schools. This past April, LEF donated $18,000 for the purchase of document cameras.

This year, the Livingston 5-K Run will be Sunday, Oct. 23, presented by LEF, the Big ‘L’ and the West Essex YMCA and proceeds for that event will go to each individual organization.

For more information on Homecoming Weekend, visit the Livingston Education Foundation's  website.