some news related to Teresa on the Heinz Family Foundation awards

[JI7]

< The Heinz Awards, named for the late Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, will be handed out Monday to winners in five categories.

Sculptor Mark Di Suvero will receive the 11th annual Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities today, the Heinz Family Foundation announced.

"For almost 50 years, the works of Mark Di Suvero have stopped us in our tracks, confronting us with audacious colors and shapes and mesmerizing us with subtle energy and intricate proportion," said Teresa Heinz Kerry, the chairwoman of the foundation, Heinz's widow and the wife of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.

The other winners are: Jerry Franklin, a forest ecologist, the environment award; Joseph Rogers, a mental health administrator, the human condition prize; Sidney Drell, a theoretical physicist and arms control adviser, public policy; and Mildred Dresselhaus, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the category of technology, the economy and employment for her work as a trailblazer for women in the sciences.

The winners will get $250,000 each.

Heinz also handed out its Chairman's Medal, an award established to "recognize profound contributions across a spectrum of activity," to Richard Goldman, a philanthropist and chairman of Goldman Insurance Services from San Francisco.

There is no monetary prize with the award, the Heinz Foundation said.

The Heinz Awards will be presented at a private ceremony in Washington, D.C. on May 24. >

http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2005/05/02/daily3.html

[JI7]

1. there are other articles which give more info on people

who are getting the awards. they are some good and interesting people.

[globalvillage]

2. This is the best part.

When Teresa Heinz Kerry first established a $1.25 million awards program in memory of her late husband, Sen. John Heinz, she knew she didn't want the honors to be about mere excellence in the arts or the environment or technology. There had to be something else motivating the awardee's work: a nurturing instinct, a desire to empower, to coach and improve the lot of others.

Eleven years later, Heinz Kerry believes she has stuck to that rule.

"It's actually written into the awards," she said in a telephone interview last week. "Say you have a painter, who is the 'best' painter. To us, if that painter was a nasty person who treated everyone like scum, who didn't share, who didn't teach, well, he's not a Heinz Award painter, period."

http://post-gazette.com/pg/05122/497699.stm

[LeftyLizzie]

3. LOL

That's hilarious. I love Teresa - no matter what some people say, she's got her head and her heart in the right place.

[ginnyinWI]

4. I miss her

She's been doing what a First Lady does for years--she's the Shadow First Lady!

[TayTay]

5. She is a pistol and a great lady.

She is very, very popular here. I still remember the Medford Ladies who were somewhat disappointed that they didn't get to see her and had to 'settle' for seeing her husband instead. That was kind of cool. They liked Teresa because she is a warm, caring and outspoken person. I concur.

[karynnj]

6. Juxtapose their actions this week

Teresa gives out awards that require not only excellence in their field, but require the recipients to be nurturing of others. That is an incredible, beautiful idea form a gracious lovely woman.

Laura, on the other hand, gives a tasteless, vulgar comedic presentation which, if he had a brain, would have embarrassed her husband.

The media, outside of Pittsburgh, ignored the first and oddly expects us to be impressed by the second.

[JI7]

7. that's one of the things that really get to me

the first lady position is pretty powerful in that they can bring attention to important issues. hillary did this with health care, women's rights issues and other things.

and i just know there is so much Teresa could have done in all parts of life. and she speaks many languages and could really contribute to uniting people.

but Laura just comes out whenever they order her to and usually to try to help the idiots poll numbers. she then sinks back until they let her out again.

[politicasista]

8. I miss Momma T

She would have made a cool First Lady.