Tom,
As much as I admire Peter K., this is some kind of put on. The award was given this year to Kenneth J. Bialkin and with all admiration for Peter, his name appears nowhere on the list of past recipients. See here:
http://www.ajhs.org/
Cheers!
David
David G. White Burlington, VT
Tom Sanders wrote:
> It has been reported on the IBOB List that our own Peter Koskinen has won
> the prestigious Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award. I have no way of
> confirming this, but the post goes on to say that "The Emma Lazarus Statue
> of Liberty Award is given to an American who
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>> first recipient of the award was Dr. Abraham L. Sachar, founding
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>> president of Brandeis University. More recently the award has gone to
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>> Dr. Armand Hammer, Edgar M. Bronfman, Sylvia Hassenfeld, Aaron
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>> Feuerstein, Beverly Sills, Sanford I. Weill, 2000, Ambassador Felix G.
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>> Rohatyn, 2001, Elie Wiesel, 2002, Mortimer B. Zuckerman, 2003, Hon. Edward
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> I. Koch, 2005, Hon. George P.
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>> Shultz, 2007, and Sid Lapidus, 2008.
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>> Peter was nominated for his immense contribution to society and his
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>> recent work in conjunction with several presentations and works on
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>> behalf of the society. ?Please join me in offering Peter our deepest
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> salutations."
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> I can say that Peter sure has made Cirque a lot more interesting in recent
> years, and is a really fun guy.
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> Perhaps someone knows just what Peter's contribution that he was awarded
> this for might be? Again, I am merely passing this information on and have
> no other confirmation of it. I am hoping that it is not a put on of some
> sort.
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> Tom Sanders
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> Lansing, MI USA