million endowment. Goodale has also served on the boards of The New York Times, New York Times Foundation, New York Observer, Human Rights Watch, Media Law Reporter, Paris Review Foundation, and the International Center for Journalists. Controversy In 2005, Goodale criticized Time editor Norman Pearlstine's decision to turn over reporter Matthew Cooper's notes to the grand jury investigating the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to the press. "A public company must protect its assets even if that means going into contempt," Goodale said. "It has an obligation under the First Amendment to protect those assets, and it's in the interest of shareholders to protect those assets. Goodale called Pearlstine's decision "disgraceful" and attempted to have him removed from the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Pearlstine published his account of the controversy in a 2007 book Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources. Personal life Goodale, an accomplished athlete played hockey and baseball at Yale and maintains a lifelong interest in skating and hockey. He played football and basketball as well as hockey and baseball at Pomfret School and was inducted into the Pomfret School Athletic Hall of Fame 2022. He owned the Sky Rink, a full-sized skating rink on 33rd Street in Manhattan. It later became the centerpiece of Chelsea Piers, one of the most visited sites in New York City. From 1998 to 2014 he published a digital newsletter for hockey hobbyists titled MMMCS. Its name was an acronym for the "Murray Murdoch Marching and Chowder Society." Murray Murdoch, a former member of the New York Rangers, was Goodale's college coach. In 1973 he founded Washington Gunnery Hockey & Skating Association, a youth hockey organization in Washington, Connecticut. James Goodale is married to the former Toni Krissel of New York City who was President of an international fund-raising firm, T.K. Goodale Associates. They are the parents of Tim (Principal, Founder and CEO of Keel Capital Ltd., and Ashley (formerly of the NYC Office of Legal Counsel), and the foster parents of Clayton Akiwenzie, a Native American (Managing Director, Mortgage Banking, Berkadia, San Francisco). Awards and Honors • 'Columbia Journalism Review has listed James Goodale as one of 200 who shaped New York Media. • Named by Time'' magazine in 1974 as one of the rising leaders in the United States along with Joe Biden. • Recipient of the "Champion