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PRESIDENT OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ WILL RECEIVE ALBERT SCHWEITZER
HUMANITARIAN AWARD ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989 AT 7:00 P.M. AT THE
CATHEDRAL OF SAINT HOHN THE DIVINE. AWARD TO BE PRESENTED BY HIS
HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA XIV OF TIBET. BOTH LEADERS WILL DELIVER WORLD
MESSAGES.
President Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of the Republic of Costa
Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner will receive the 1989
Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award of the Human Behavior
Foundation in a ceremony bosted by The Cathedral of Saint John the
Divine on Friday, September 29, 1989 at 7:00 p.m. It will be
President Arias' first U.S. address since he and four other heads
of state made public their recommendation for a Contra cease-fire
in the interests of Peace. The public is welcome. Admission is
free.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV of Tibet, who received the Award
in 1987, will present this year's Award to President Arias, and
His Holiness will also deliver a World Message. It will be His
Holiness' only public appearance during this New York trip. The
Right Reverend Desmond M. Tutu Archbishop of Capetown, South
Africa, who received the Award in 1988, will send his special
World Message through his daughter, Mpho Tutu, of the Tutu
Scholarship Fund. Rhena Schweitzer Miller and David C. Miller,
who won the Award in 1986, will open the Ceremony. This Award is
presented to individuals whose life work exemplifies a dedication
to the principles of the Foundation--Human Betterment and Human
Understanding--carried out within the framework of Dr. Albert
Schweitzer's philosophy--Reverence for Life.
An overwhelming number of requests to attend this Ecumenical event
to recognize man's highest strivings have been received. Four of
the worlds' greatest humanitarians are represented at this year's
ceremony and each represents crucial areas and interests in the
world--President Arias, the Latin and Catholic world; His Holiness
the Dalai Lama, the Eastern and Buddhist World and the hopes for
justice in Tibet; Rhena Schweitzer Miller, the international
world, cultural and medical and philosophical, influenced by the
great work of Dr. Schweitzer, and; Mpho Tutu, daughter of
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Anglo Catholic and Third World,
especially in its struggle for human rights against Apartheid.
Archbishop Tutu is also an honorary Canon of the Cathedral of
Saint John the Divine, where this year's ceremony is being held.
Three Nobel Peace Laureates (Schweitzer '52, Tutu '84, Arias '87)
and one Nobel Peace Prize Nominee (His Holiness the Dalai Lama
'89) are represented by! these four individuals.
The Award includes an honorarium, a contribution to the
recipient's favorite charity, and a gold plaque, sculpted in the
likeness of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, by internationally acclaimed
sculptor Lloyd Glasson.
The Human Behavior Foundation was founded in 1968 by Albert Crum,
M.D., through the inspiration and funding of the founder's
mother. Dr. Crum is Medical Director of Psychiatric Services
International, Clinical Professor of Behavioral Sciences, New York
University; and Fellow, Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons in
Psychiatry.
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