Arnold Burns Named Chairman of Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Board of Governors

Boys & Girls Club of America
Wednesday, 17 January 2001

ATLANTA – January 17, 2001 – After serving on the Board of Governors for Boys & Girls Clubs of America (B&GCA) for more than 18 years and spearheading a number of groundbreaking initiatives, Arnold I. Burns has been named chairman for the nation's fastest-growing youth organization. Burns assumes the position of chairman, following the two-year term of Peter Haynes, former president and CEO of Portland, Maine-based Consumers Water Company, Quality Logistics Management and NYNEX Enterprises.

Burns is managing director of Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Inc., an international investment banking firm, and has been a practicing lawyer for more than 45 years. As chairman of B&GCA's National Planning Commission, he oversaw creation of a new strategic plan to lead B&GCA into the 21st century. Burns also chaired the Government Relations and the Major Gifts committees. He is credited with recruiting Ret. Gen. Colin L. Powell and Harvey Schiller, chairman and CEO, YankeeNets, LLC, to serve on B&GCA's Board of Governors. For his unyielding dedication and support of B&GCA, Burns received the Herbert Hoover Humanitarian Award, the organization's highest volunteer honor, in 1997.

Prior to joining Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Burns was senior partner in the corporate and litigation departments at Proskauer Rose LLP. He served as deputy attorney general of the United States from 1986 to1988. In this capacity, he supervised the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Prisons and Marshall's service, as well as overseeing all civil and criminal litigation of the United States. A graduate of Union College and Cornell Law School, Burns founded and led a 100-attorney firm in New York City before his deputy attorney general post.

"As we strive to serve young people in the new millennium, I am proud to have Arnold Burns leading that charge," said Roxanne Spillett, B&GCA president. "For almost 20 years, he has been an advocate for America's youth through this organization. With Arnold Burns at the reins, there is no limit to what Boys & Girls Clubs of America can achieve."

For more information, or to contact Boys & Girls Club of America, see their website at: www.bgca.org