Yale Air Force ROTC launches Tuskegee Airman Enoch Woodhouse II ’52 award

Every year the President’s Review at Yale draws a crowd. This annual campus event, held at the John Lee Amphitheater at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium, and organized by Yale’s Naval and Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) units, features Navy midshipmen and Air Force (and Army) cadets in full dress uniform on parade in front of the Yale community, family members, dignitaries, and invited guests.

The recent 2024 President’s Review offered a special surprise. Among the honors conferred upon select cadets and midshipmen at the event was a newly-created Air Force ROTC award named after Yale alumnus and retired Brigadier General Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse II ’52, a World War II veteran and one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen.

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