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2004 Vessel of Life Recipient President's Award
Mr. Kellett receives MCG Vessel of Life Award
The Medical College of Georgia has presented a Vessel of Life Award to Samuel B. Kellett, chair and president of SBK Capital, LLC.
MCG President Daniel W. Rahn presented the award, which honors support for the university’s advancement, during MCG’s Oct. 23 President’s Dinner.
“The MCG community gathers to honor you for your resolute support of the education, research and clinical missions of Georgia’s health sciences university,” President Rahn said in presenting the award. MCG also presented Mr. Kellett with its first honorary doctorate in 2001.
Mr. Kellett, a native Georgian, earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His career has included nursing home management, real estate and telecommunications.
“Sam is a prescient entrepreneur and has generously lent us his significant financial acumen as a member of the Board of Directors of the MCG Foundation,” said President Rahn. “He has played an immeasurable role in the growth and development of an expanded research mission for MCG by establishing in the late 1990s the first endowed chairs in the MCG Schools of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing. And it is no coincidence that our School of Nursing’s satellite campus in Athens, Ga., is located in the Kellett Building.”
His daughter, Margaret (Mari) Varnado Smith, earned a master’s degree from the MCG Department of Physical Therapy in 1999.
Mr. Kellett is a founding member and board member of the Community Foundation of Southwest Georgia.