The Mercury Club is celebrating its 102 nd anniversary and is proud to announce this year’s winners of what is believed to be the longest running Jewish scholar-athlete award in America. William Silton from Breck is the 86th winner of the Hy Truman/Donald Goldberg Memorial Award and Macy Iyer from Edina is the 35 th winner of the Hy Truman/Rae Kleinbaum Memorial Award. Both will receive $1000.00 scholarships from The Marvin Wolfenson Family Foundation. William Silton Silton was a captain of the Breck baseball team. In his senior year, he had a .357 batting average with 18 RBI’s; he had 34 strikeouts in 26 innings pitched; and, he was a first team All-Conference and All-Section selection. Silton also had a very successful junior year where he registered the most wins in the IMAC conference. William was a 3-year letter winner. He plans to play baseball next year at St. Olaf College. Macy Iyer Iyer competed in both cross country and track at Edina. She was captain i...
Longest-running Jewish scholar-athlete award in the United States