Common Wealth Awards

Date: 2002

Description

This packet includes a list of winners and promotional headshots of each winner for the 2002 Common Wealth Awards. According to Wikipdeia:

The Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service (or Common Wealth Awards) were created under the will of the late Ralph Hayes, an influential American business executive and philanthropist. Hayes conceived the awards to reward and encourage the best of human performance worldwide...Through the Common Wealth Awards, he sought to recognize outstanding achievement in eight disciplines: dramatic arts, literature, science, invention, mass communications, public service, government and sociology.

In this particular year, Fred Rogers received the Common Wealth Award in Mass Communications.

Notes

Other 2002 winners included Julie Andrews (Dramatic Arts), Carlos Fuentes (Literature), George Mitchell (Government), and Lonnie Thompson & Ellen Mosley-Thompson (Science and Invention).