Bosworth M. Todd, Jr., 93, chairman emeritus of Todd Asset Management, died on January 22, 2024. A steadfast civic and business leader, he founded a school and both a local and national organization for the treatment of mental illness institutions that all thrive to this day.
A native of Frankfort, KY, he graduated from the University of Kentucky, and was awarded a full scholarship to Harvard University Business School, where he earned a M.B.A. in 1954, then served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Returning to Louisville, he worked for Hilliard-Lyons before joining the Kentucky Trust Co. in 1958, and also taught at the University of Louisville Business School.
In 1964 after working with a citizens group advocating for increased public school funding, Todd co-founded St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal School in Goshen, KY, and served as its first board chairman.
In 1967, he founded an investment firm, initially as an affiliate of The Boston Co. In 1979, Todd purchased full ownership of his firm, which then became Todd Investment Advisors, succeeded now by the firm Todd Asset Management, LLC.
As a member of the Rotary Club of Louisville, Todd for 44 years delivered a very popular annual address forecasting economic trends. As the conclusion of his term as Rotary president in 2014 he received a standing ovation.
After his son Sam was hospitalized with schizophrenia, Bos with other parents formed the Schizophrenia Association of Louisville, later part of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). In 1980 Bos testified to a U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee in Washington, DC, on the need for residential care for people with schizophrenia.
In 1981, he joined attorney Phillip Ardery and Barry Bingham, Sr., to form the Louisville Schizophrenia Foundation, creating Wellspring, a 15-bed residential facility in Louisville.
Within a decade Wellspring was cited as a model program by the nation's most recognized authorities on schizophrenia. In 2011 the Lexington Herald-Leader recommended that "learning about Wellspring -- and how to duplicate the model elsewhere -- would be a good starting point for lawmakers." Wellspring has expanded to serve more than 1,500 people annually.
In 1981, Todd also co-founded what was to become the nation's largest non-governmental funder of scientific research in mental illness. He, Ardery and University of Louisville psychiatrist Herbert Wagemaker incorporated, in Kentucky, the American Schizophrenia Foundation. With Bingham they advocated for more research and on July 5,1984 at their request Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, hosted a meeting to coordinate support.
Todd addressed the meeting, which was attended also by Dr. Herbert Pardes, then the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. At its conclusion, in discussing the latest scientific discoveries Todd, Pardes and Graham decided to identify the foundation more precisely as the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, or NARSAD, and the legal name change was filed. In 1987, with Todd serving on the board, the foundation began to make grants.
Headquartered in New York, NY it has become "The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Awarding NARSAD Grants)" and has awarded more than $450 million to fund more than 6,500 grants to more than 5,400 scientists around the world.
An interview with Todd about his advocacy was featured in a documentary film, "When Medicine Got It Wrong," that aired on PBS stations in 2009. In a speech Todd once said that he and Ardery agreed "we would be happy if our epitaphs simply read, 'Co-founder of Wellspring and NARSAD.'"
Besides the board memberships noted above, Todd was a director of: American Life & Accident Insurance Co.; First Capital Bank of Kentucky; Hospice of Louisville; Investment Counsel Association of America; Kentucky Historical Society Foundation; Louisville Society of Financial Analysts; and the University of Louisville Board of Advisors.
Bos is predeceased by his son Sam who, hospitalized eight times before entering Wellspring, required no further hospital admission for mental illness thereafter; he died of lung cancer in 2004.
The legacy of caring for mental illness is shared by his other two sons who survive him: David, who served as the first publication director for NAMI's national headquarters, and James, who is a psychotherapist. They gathered at Wellspring in 2014 to celebrate the new naming of the Samuel B. Todd Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU).
With gratitude, Bos Todd's family recalls stimulating discussions he held at the supper-table -- about education, the economy, the world -- followed by, in summer, their father's gleeful spontaneity in gathering them for a ride to the nearest cinema where, choosing from the marquee at the ticket counter, they entered the middle of a film, watched to the end, and stayed through the next showing.
Todd also enjoyed trading used cars. Family vehicles were replaced at random. Heading home from his office on impulse he would stop at the dealership where he'd worked as a college student and haggle a bargain.
Always he loved flying. While serving as a procurement officer in the air force he persuaded a test pilot to let him ride along in a fighter jet performing maneuvers. Decades later he hired a stunt pilot to take him through loops and rolls over the Ohio River. As a child in Frankfort, he constructed model propeller airplanes of balsa wood and tissue paper. After assembling each one he took it to the top of Berry Hill, set a match to the tail, and released the plane to fly over the valley until it dissolved in fire. "I didn't need to keep it," he explained. "The fun was in the making – and watching it go."
Bos Todd was kind, present, and gentle to everyone in his life. His first marriage, to Joan Henning, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, Sue Schickli Todd, by his and Joan's sons David (Shellie) and James (Rachel), his grandchildren Avery, Emma Grace and Jackson and stepson Davidson MacLaren (Gulhan) and their daughter Mirren.
A celebratory visitation will be held on Friday, January 26, 2024, from 5 to 7pm at the River Valley Club, 4701 River Rd, Louisville, KY 40222. There will be a private burial in Cave Hill Cemetery.
A native of Frankfort, KY, he graduated from the University of Kentucky, and was awarded a full scholarship to Harvard University Business School, where he earned a M.B.A. in 1954, then served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Returning to Louisville, he worked for Hilliard-Lyons before joining the Kentucky Trust Co. in 1958, and also taught at the University of Louisville Business School.
In 1964 after working with a citizens group advocating for increased public school funding, Todd co-founded St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal School in Goshen, KY, and served as its first board chairman.
In 1967, he founded an investment firm, initially as an affiliate of The Boston Co. In 1979, Todd purchased full ownership of his firm, which then became Todd Investment Advisors, succeeded now by the firm Todd Asset Management, LLC.
As a member of the Rotary Club of Louisville, Todd for 44 years delivered a very popular annual address forecasting economic trends. As the conclusion of his term as Rotary president in 2014 he received a standing ovation.
After his son Sam was hospitalized with schizophrenia, Bos with other parents formed the Schizophrenia Association of Louisville, later part of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). In 1980 Bos testified to a U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee in Washington, DC, on the need for residential care for people with schizophrenia.
In 1981, he joined attorney Phillip Ardery and Barry Bingham, Sr., to form the Louisville Schizophrenia Foundation, creating Wellspring, a 15-bed residential facility in Louisville.
Within a decade Wellspring was cited as a model program by the nation's most recognized authorities on schizophrenia. In 2011 the Lexington Herald-Leader recommended that "learning about Wellspring -- and how to duplicate the model elsewhere -- would be a good starting point for lawmakers." Wellspring has expanded to serve more than 1,500 people annually.
In 1981, Todd also co-founded what was to become the nation's largest non-governmental funder of scientific research in mental illness. He, Ardery and University of Louisville psychiatrist Herbert Wagemaker incorporated, in Kentucky, the American Schizophrenia Foundation. With Bingham they advocated for more research and on July 5,1984 at their request Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, hosted a meeting to coordinate support.
Todd addressed the meeting, which was attended also by Dr. Herbert Pardes, then the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. At its conclusion, in discussing the latest scientific discoveries Todd, Pardes and Graham decided to identify the foundation more precisely as the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, or NARSAD, and the legal name change was filed. In 1987, with Todd serving on the board, the foundation began to make grants.
Headquartered in New York, NY it has become "The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Awarding NARSAD Grants)" and has awarded more than $450 million to fund more than 6,500 grants to more than 5,400 scientists around the world.
An interview with Todd about his advocacy was featured in a documentary film, "When Medicine Got It Wrong," that aired on PBS stations in 2009. In a speech Todd once said that he and Ardery agreed "we would be happy if our epitaphs simply read, 'Co-founder of Wellspring and NARSAD.'"
Besides the board memberships noted above, Todd was a director of: American Life & Accident Insurance Co.; First Capital Bank of Kentucky; Hospice of Louisville; Investment Counsel Association of America; Kentucky Historical Society Foundation; Louisville Society of Financial Analysts; and the University of Louisville Board of Advisors.
Bos is predeceased by his son Sam who, hospitalized eight times before entering Wellspring, required no further hospital admission for mental illness thereafter; he died of lung cancer in 2004.
The legacy of caring for mental illness is shared by his other two sons who survive him: David, who served as the first publication director for NAMI's national headquarters, and James, who is a psychotherapist. They gathered at Wellspring in 2014 to celebrate the new naming of the Samuel B. Todd Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU).
With gratitude, Bos Todd's family recalls stimulating discussions he held at the supper-table -- about education, the economy, the world -- followed by, in summer, their father's gleeful spontaneity in gathering them for a ride to the nearest cinema where, choosing from the marquee at the ticket counter, they entered the middle of a film, watched to the end, and stayed through the next showing.
Todd also enjoyed trading used cars. Family vehicles were replaced at random. Heading home from his office on impulse he would stop at the dealership where he'd worked as a college student and haggle a bargain.
Always he loved flying. While serving as a procurement officer in the air force he persuaded a test pilot to let him ride along in a fighter jet performing maneuvers. Decades later he hired a stunt pilot to take him through loops and rolls over the Ohio River. As a child in Frankfort, he constructed model propeller airplanes of balsa wood and tissue paper. After assembling each one he took it to the top of Berry Hill, set a match to the tail, and released the plane to fly over the valley until it dissolved in fire. "I didn't need to keep it," he explained. "The fun was in the making – and watching it go."
Bos Todd was kind, present, and gentle to everyone in his life. His first marriage, to Joan Henning, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, Sue Schickli Todd, by his and Joan's sons David (Shellie) and James (Rachel), his grandchildren Avery, Emma Grace and Jackson and stepson Davidson MacLaren (Gulhan) and their daughter Mirren.
A celebratory visitation will be held on Friday, January 26, 2024, from 5 to 7pm at the River Valley Club, 4701 River Rd, Louisville, KY 40222. There will be a private burial in Cave Hill Cemetery.
Bosworth M. Todd, Jr., 93, chairman emeritus of Todd Asset Management, died on January 22, 2024. A steadfast civic and business leader, he founded a school and both a local and national organization for the treatment of mental illness institutions that all thrive to this day.
A native of Frankfort, KY, he graduated from the University of Kentucky, and was awarded a full scholarship to Harvard University Business School, where he earned a M.B.A. in 1954, then served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Returning to Louisville, he worked for Hilliard-Lyons before joining the Kentucky Trust Co. in 1958, and also taught at the University of Louisville Business School.
In 1964 after working with a citizens group advocating for increased public school funding, Todd co-founded St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal School in Goshen, KY, and served as its first board chairman.
In 1967, he founded an investment firm, initially as an affiliate of The Boston Co. In 1979, Todd purchased full ownership of his firm, which then became Todd Investment Advisors, succeeded now by the firm Todd Asset Management, LLC.
As a member of the Rotary Club of Louisville, Todd for 44 years delivered a very popular annual address forecasting economic trends. As the conclusion of his term as Rotary president in 2014 he received a standing ovation.
After his son Sam was hospitalized with schizophrenia, Bos with other parents formed the Schizophrenia Association of Louisville, later part of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). In 1980 Bos testified to a U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee in Washington, DC, on the need for residential care for people with schizophrenia.
In 1981, he joined attorney Phillip Ardery and Barry Bingham, Sr., to form the Louisville Schizophrenia Foundation, creating Wellspring, a 15-bed residential facility in Louisville.
Within a decade Wellspring was cited as a model program by the nation's most recognized authorities on schizophrenia. In 2011 the Lexington Herald-Leader recommended that "learning about Wellspring -- and how to duplicate the model elsewhere -- would be a good starting point for lawmakers." Wellspring has expanded to serve more than 1,500 people annually.
In 1981, Todd also co-founded what was to become the nation's largest non-governmental funder of scientific research in mental illness. He, Ardery and University of Louisville psychiatrist Herbert Wagemaker incorporated, in Kentucky, the American Schizophrenia Foundation. With Bingham they advocated for more research and on July 5,1984 at their request Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, hosted a meeting to coordinate support.
Todd addressed the meeting, which was attended also by Dr. Herbert Pardes, then the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. At its conclusion, in discussing the latest scientific discoveries Todd, Pardes and Graham decided to identify the foundation more precisely as the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, or NARSAD, and the legal name change was filed. In 1987, with Todd serving on the board, the foundation began to make grants.
Headquartered in New York, NY it has become "The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Awarding NARSAD Grants)" and has awarded more than $450 million to fund more than 6,500 grants to more than 5,400 scientists around the world.
An interview with Todd about his advocacy was featured in a documentary film, "When Medicine Got It Wrong," that aired on PBS stations in 2009. In a speech Todd once said that he and Ardery agreed "we would be happy if our epitaphs simply read, 'Co-founder of Wellspring and NARSAD.'"
Besides the board memberships noted above, Todd was a director of: American Life & Accident Insurance Co.; First Capital Bank of Kentucky; Hospice of Louisville; Investment Counsel Association of America; Kentucky Historical Society Foundation; Louisville Society of Financial Analysts; and the University of Louisville Board of Advisors.
Bos is predeceased by his son Sam who, hospitalized eight times before entering Wellspring, required no further hospital admission for mental illness thereafter; he died of lung cancer in 2004.
The legacy of caring for mental illness is shared by his other two sons who survive him: David, who served as the first publication director for NAMI's national headquarters, and James, who is a psychotherapist. They gathered at Wellspring in 2014 to celebrate the new naming of the Samuel B. Todd Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU).
With gratitude, Bos Todd's family recalls stimulating discussions he held at the supper-table -- about education, the economy, the world -- followed by, in summer, their father's gleeful spontaneity in gathering them for a ride to the nearest cinema where, choosing from the marquee at the ticket counter, they entered the middle of a film, watched to the end, and stayed through the next showing.
Todd also enjoyed trading used cars. Family vehicles were replaced at random. Heading home from his office on impulse he would stop at the dealership where he'd worked as a college student and haggle a bargain.
Always he loved flying. While serving as a procurement officer in the air force he persuaded a test pilot to let him ride along in a fighter jet performing maneuvers. Decades later he hired a stunt pilot to take him through loops and rolls over the Ohio River. As a child in Frankfort, he constructed model propeller airplanes of balsa wood and tissue paper. After assembling each one he took it to the top of Berry Hill, set a match to the tail, and released the plane to fly over the valley until it dissolved in fire. "I didn't need to keep it," he explained. "The fun was in the making – and watching it go."
Bos Todd was kind, present, and gentle to everyone in his life. His first marriage, to Joan Henning, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, Sue Schickli Todd, by his and Joan's sons David (Shellie) and James (Rachel), his grandchildren Avery, Emma Grace and Jackson and stepson Davidson MacLaren (Gulhan) and their daughter Mirren.
A celebratory visitation will be held on Friday, January 26, 2024, from 5 to 7pm at the River Valley Club, 4701 River Rd, Louisville, KY 40222. There will be a private burial in Cave Hill Cemetery.
A native of Frankfort, KY, he graduated from the University of Kentucky, and was awarded a full scholarship to Harvard University Business School, where he earned a M.B.A. in 1954, then served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Returning to Louisville, he worked for Hilliard-Lyons before joining the Kentucky Trust Co. in 1958, and also taught at the University of Louisville Business School.
In 1964 after working with a citizens group advocating for increased public school funding, Todd co-founded St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal School in Goshen, KY, and served as its first board chairman.
In 1967, he founded an investment firm, initially as an affiliate of The Boston Co. In 1979, Todd purchased full ownership of his firm, which then became Todd Investment Advisors, succeeded now by the firm Todd Asset Management, LLC.
As a member of the Rotary Club of Louisville, Todd for 44 years delivered a very popular annual address forecasting economic trends. As the conclusion of his term as Rotary president in 2014 he received a standing ovation.
After his son Sam was hospitalized with schizophrenia, Bos with other parents formed the Schizophrenia Association of Louisville, later part of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). In 1980 Bos testified to a U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee in Washington, DC, on the need for residential care for people with schizophrenia.
In 1981, he joined attorney Phillip Ardery and Barry Bingham, Sr., to form the Louisville Schizophrenia Foundation, creating Wellspring, a 15-bed residential facility in Louisville.
Within a decade Wellspring was cited as a model program by the nation's most recognized authorities on schizophrenia. In 2011 the Lexington Herald-Leader recommended that "learning about Wellspring -- and how to duplicate the model elsewhere -- would be a good starting point for lawmakers." Wellspring has expanded to serve more than 1,500 people annually.
In 1981, Todd also co-founded what was to become the nation's largest non-governmental funder of scientific research in mental illness. He, Ardery and University of Louisville psychiatrist Herbert Wagemaker incorporated, in Kentucky, the American Schizophrenia Foundation. With Bingham they advocated for more research and on July 5,1984 at their request Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, hosted a meeting to coordinate support.
Todd addressed the meeting, which was attended also by Dr. Herbert Pardes, then the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. At its conclusion, in discussing the latest scientific discoveries Todd, Pardes and Graham decided to identify the foundation more precisely as the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, or NARSAD, and the legal name change was filed. In 1987, with Todd serving on the board, the foundation began to make grants.
Headquartered in New York, NY it has become "The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Awarding NARSAD Grants)" and has awarded more than $450 million to fund more than 6,500 grants to more than 5,400 scientists around the world.
An interview with Todd about his advocacy was featured in a documentary film, "When Medicine Got It Wrong," that aired on PBS stations in 2009. In a speech Todd once said that he and Ardery agreed "we would be happy if our epitaphs simply read, 'Co-founder of Wellspring and NARSAD.'"
Besides the board memberships noted above, Todd was a director of: American Life & Accident Insurance Co.; First Capital Bank of Kentucky; Hospice of Louisville; Investment Counsel Association of America; Kentucky Historical Society Foundation; Louisville Society of Financial Analysts; and the University of Louisville Board of Advisors.
Bos is predeceased by his son Sam who, hospitalized eight times before entering Wellspring, required no further hospital admission for mental illness thereafter; he died of lung cancer in 2004.
The legacy of caring for mental illness is shared by his other two sons who survive him: David, who served as the first publication director for NAMI's national headquarters, and James, who is a psychotherapist. They gathered at Wellspring in 2014 to celebrate the new naming of the Samuel B. Todd Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU).
With gratitude, Bos Todd's family recalls stimulating discussions he held at the supper-table -- about education, the economy, the world -- followed by, in summer, their father's gleeful spontaneity in gathering them for a ride to the nearest cinema where, choosing from the marquee at the ticket counter, they entered the middle of a film, watched to the end, and stayed through the next showing.
Todd also enjoyed trading used cars. Family vehicles were replaced at random. Heading home from his office on impulse he would stop at the dealership where he'd worked as a college student and haggle a bargain.
Always he loved flying. While serving as a procurement officer in the air force he persuaded a test pilot to let him ride along in a fighter jet performing maneuvers. Decades later he hired a stunt pilot to take him through loops and rolls over the Ohio River. As a child in Frankfort, he constructed model propeller airplanes of balsa wood and tissue paper. After assembling each one he took it to the top of Berry Hill, set a match to the tail, and released the plane to fly over the valley until it dissolved in fire. "I didn't need to keep it," he explained. "The fun was in the making – and watching it go."
Bos Todd was kind, present, and gentle to everyone in his life. His first marriage, to Joan Henning, ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, Sue Schickli Todd, by his and Joan's sons David (Shellie) and James (Rachel), his grandchildren Avery, Emma Grace and Jackson and stepson Davidson MacLaren (Gulhan) and their daughter Mirren.
A celebratory visitation will be held on Friday, January 26, 2024, from 5 to 7pm at the River Valley Club, 4701 River Rd, Louisville, KY 40222. There will be a private burial in Cave Hill Cemetery.
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