[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 18 (Monday, January 30, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1792-S1794]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                              HEINZ AWARDS

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, this April will mark the fourth anniversary 
of the untimely passing of our friend and colleague, John Heinz. And 
those of us who were privileged to serve with this remarkable public 
servant continue to miss his friendship and his leadership.
  Many of John's friends gathered last Thursday in Statuary Hall for 
the presentation of the first Heinz Awards. These awards were 
established by Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation, and will 
be awarded to individuals who have made a difference in five issue 
areas where John was most active.
  It was a very moving and inspiring ceremony, and it reminded us again 
that, as John Heinz proved throughout his career, good people can do 
great things.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the very eloquent remarks 
delivered at the ceremony by Teresa Heinz be printed in the Record, and 
that they be followed by brief biographies of the six Heinz Award 
recipients.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

Remarks of Teresa Heinz at the Heinz Awards, Statuary Hall, January 26, 
                                  1995

       Thank you.
       This is a deeply gratifying and poignant day. It is the 
     culmination of nearly four years of careful thought about how 
     to pay tribute to the memory and spirit of my late husband 
     John Heinz. And it is the culmination of four years of hard 
     work toward that goal. I know John would be greatly honored 
     that we are all here today in this hallowed hall, to 
     celebrate his memory in a place that meant so much to him. I 
     want to thank Speaker Gingrich and our sponsor, Congressman 
     Curt Weldon, for making this possible. And I especially want 
     thank all of you for being here.
       If you have ever done it, you know that the making of a 
     tribute is a terribly difficult matter. That is especially 
     true when the goal is to honor someone as complex and multi-
     faceted as my late husband. I realized early on that, for 
     John Heinz, no static monument or self-serving exercise in 
     sentimentality would do. He would have wanted no part of such 
     things. The only tribute befitting him would be one that 
     celebrated his spirit by honoring those who live and work as 
     he did.
       To me, the value of remembering John Heinz is and always 
     will be in remembering what he stood for and how he stood for 
     it. His life said something important about how life can be 
     lived, and should be lived. I wanted to remember him in a way 
     that would inspire not just me, but the rest of us.
       And so the Heinz Awards were born. They are intended to 
     recognize outstanding achievers in five areas in which John 
     was particularly active. But they are meant less as a reward 
     for the people we will honor here today, than as a reminder 
     for the rest of us--a reminder of what can happen when good 
     people, regardless of who they are or where they come from, 
     set out to make a difference.
       There is a saying in the Heinz family that dates back to my 
     husband's great-grandfather, the founder of the Heinz 
     Company. Quite aside from his business acumen, H.J. Heinz was 
     an exceptional man who battled his food industry peers on 
     behalf of food purity laws, created the most progressive 
     workplace of his day, and fostered in his offspring an 
     abiding sense of social responsibility. And yet H.J. Heinz 
     dismissed the notion that he was truly exceptional. His aim, 
     he said humbly, was merely ``to do a common thing uncommonly 
     well.''
       In much the same way, H.J. Heinz's great-grandson never saw 
     greatness in his great accomplishments. For John Heinz, 
     public service was a common thing, one that he wanted to do 
     uncommonly well. He was a dedicated achiever, but he was 
     distinguished mostly by intangible qualities--qualities of 
     mind and spirit: intellectual curiosity; a love of people; an 
     informed optimism; a willingness to take risks; a passion for 
     excellence; a belief that he could make the world a better 
     place; the stubborn determination to make it so. And, above 
     all, a contagious, effervescent joy in life.
       These are the qualities celebrated by the Heinz Awards. 
     They are, in fact, in addition to excellence, the criteria. 
     In our first year, our nominators sent us some two hundred 
     nominations from across the country. And as we began culling 
     through these, we took excellence as a given. But then we 
     looked beyond achievement. We looked for vision, and 
     character and intent.
       And finally, after our jurors and board of directors had 
     met, we had settled on six remarkable individuals. They are 
     an eclectic group. To the extent they share world views, that 
     is more by accident than design. Their underlying spirit was 
     what we asked our nominators and jurors to assess. And it is 
     that spirit, a spirit that I regard as uniquely American, 
     that we are here today to salute.
       Many people in our society wish that they could make the 
     world a better place. Too few believe that they actually can. 
     And fewer still act on that belief.
       Many people have dreams. Too few pursue those dreams. And, 
     tragically, fewer still persist until dream becomes reality.
       We live in cynical times, and one aspect of that cynicism 
     is the corrosive notion that individuals are powerless to 
     make a difference. But history is still made by people, one 
     person at a time. Our first recipients of the Heinz Awards 
     illustrate just how much we can do when we apply ourselves 
     and care enough to try.
       They are an antidote, if you will, not just to cynicism, 
     but to the culture of powerlessness so ascendant now in our 
     society. These six have believed in the power of one. They 
     have dreamed great dreams. And they have made that belief and 
     that dreaming the basis of their life's work, to the 
     betterment of us all.
       Their stories, I hope, will remind Americans that we really 
     do have power as individuals, that good people still can 
     achieve great things. Our world has been improved by the six 
     individuals you are about to meet. But the secret of their 
     impact transcends their films, their books, their programs, 
     their treaties, and their microchips. These things 
     [[Page S1793]] were made great by the qualities of the people 
     who made them, by their joy, their love of people, their 
     optimism, their willingness to take risks, their passion for 
     excellence, their belief that they can improve the world, 
     their gritty determination. Their work, accomplished as it 
     is, has been the product of something internal--an 
     incandescence that burns brightly in the human spirit.
       Our faith in luminous qualities of heart and mind made this 
     a great country. And if there is to be any future for this 
     thing we so blithely call the American spirit, we must 
     embrace those qualities again. Can it be done? Is it 
     important? As evidence and proof, I offer you six 
     extraordinary people.
       Thank you.
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             Bibliographies of the Six Heinz Award Winners
                         paul and anne ehrlich

       Paul and Anne Ehrlich receive the Heinz Award in the 
     Environment in recognition of their thoughtful study of 
     difficult environmental issues, their commitment to bringing 
     their findings to the attention of policy makers and the 
     public, and their willingness to suggest solutions.
       Anne and Paul Ehrlich have been producing important 
     scientific research for over three decades. But they are 
     distinguished by their passionate determination to 
     communicate their findings to non-scientific audiences. They 
     have long seen it as their responsibility to alert humanity 
     to the dangers of ecological carelessness and arrogance. This 
     perspective, uncommon among scientists, has made them the 
     target of sometimes strident criticism, which they accept 
     with grace as the price of forthrightness.
       They are distinguished as well by their willingness to 
     offer and seek solutions to the problems they identify. Their 
     prescriptions, sometimes misrepresented as draconian, are 
     rooted in the same Judeo-Christian principles that are the 
     source of the Ehrlich's profound ethic of stewardship. It 
     would be difficult to name any other couple who have made 
     such a long-standing and substantive contribution to 
     scientific and policy understanding of population, 
     environment, and resource issues.
       As scientists, authors and educators, Paul and Anne Ehrlich 
     have for 30 years devoted themselves to enhancing public 
     understanding of a wide range of environmental issues, 
     including conservation biology, biodiversity and habitat 
     preservation.
       The basis of the Ehrlichs work has always been their 
     science, and they have compiled an important body of 
     scientific research over the years. But it is for their 
     environmental advocacy, particularly in the area of 
     population, that the Ehrlichs are most well known to the 
     general public, and little wonder. Paul Ehrlich made a 
     memorable debut on the world scene with the publication of 
     his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, in which he warned that 
     the Earth's resources could not indefinitely support the 
     planet's growing population. In a 1990 sequel, The Population 
     Explosion, Anne and Paul Ehrlich provided an unflinching 
     update.
       Setting forth challenging but prescient work was to become 
     a hallmark of the Ehrlich's careers. Several decades ago, the 
     Ehrlichs were the first to raise the alarm about a possible 
     resurgence of infectious diseases, another controversial 
     theory now taken seriously.
       Paul Ehrlich, who is Bing Professor of Population Studies 
     in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford 
     University, and Anne Ehrlich, senior research associate in 
     biology and policy coordination at Stanford's Center for 
     Conservation Biology, which the couple founded, have never 
     suggested that population issues represent the whole of the 
     planet's problems. In fact they have been forceful advocates 
     for broadening the agenda of the environmental movement to 
     include such issues as biodiversity, poverty, consumption, 
     carrying capacity, energy supplies, agriculture and food, 
     global warming, nuclear weapons, international economics, 
     environmental ethics, and sustainable development.
       The Ehrlichs have displayed rare leadership in seeking to 
     translate meaningful science into workable policy. Far from 
     being prophets of doom, they are spirited optimists, whose 
     unrivaled contributions have flowed from a belief that the 
     future is still ours to make.
                            geoffrey canada

       Geoffrey Canada receives the Heinz Award for the Human 
     Condition in recognition of his battle against what he calls 
     the ``monsters'' preying on the children of the depressed 
     inner-city. As President and CEO of the New York-based 
     Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, he not only has 
     created model programs, but sets an example for all adults 
     wanting to protect children from crime, drugs, lawlessness 
     and despair.
       Geoffrey Canada knows life in the inner city at first hand. 
     It's where he grew up, and he remembers what it's like to be 
     a child there. ``I haven't forgotten about the monsters,'' he 
     says. ``I remember being small, vulnerable and scared.''
       Geoffrey Canada was one of those rare and fortunate young 
     men and women who are able to rise above and move beyond the 
     inner city. Once they leave, they rarely return. But Canada 
     did return, motivated by a desire to save young people whose 
     lives might otherwise be snuffed out by bullets or smothered 
     by hopelessness. He decided to live in Harlem, the community 
     in which he works, in order to provide what, in his own 
     youth, he so wished for: a role model. He is optimistic in 
     seeking practical answers to what pessimists view as 
     intractable problems. The fact that he has no illusions is 
     the very thing that makes him so effective.
       Geoffrey Canada grew up poor on welfare, in a household 
     headed by a single woman in the blighted tenements of New 
     York's South Bronx. Despite the many things he did not have, 
     he realized what he did have: a hard-working and loving 
     mother who gave him a strong set of values, a deep sense of 
     responsibility, a belief in the importance of education, and 
     an almost ardent commitment to make things better not only 
     for himself, but for those around him.
       In 1963, having completed his graduate education, he joined 
     the staff of the New York-based Rheedlen Centers for Children 
     and Families. He was named its President/CEO in 1990. At 
     Rheedlen, he has been instrumental in creating or developing 
     such programs as Rheedlen's Beacon School, Community Pride, 
     the Harlem Freedom Schools, and Peacemakers.
       The Beacon Schools program uses public school buildings to 
     provide inner-city families with safe shelters and 
     constructive activities 17 hours a day, 365 days a year. 
     There are now 37 Beacon Schools in New York. The program has 
     been replicated in Connecticut, Illinois, and California.
       To combat the culture of violence in the inner-city, Canada 
     conceived of the Peacemakers Program. He was concerned by the 
     media's easy promotion of violence as a way of settling 
     disputes, and he set out to develop an alternative: a program 
     to teach children how to use communication to resolve 
     conflicts. His Peacemakers curriculum trains young people in 
     conflict resolution, mediation, and violence prevention and 
     reduction techniques. He is the author of the forthcoming 
     Fist Stick Knife Gun, a book on conflict resolution.
       Geoffrey Canada believes that, if today's urban youth are 
     to be convinced that a disadvantaged background does not 
     demand despair or dictate defeat, they must have real role 
     models and real heroes. And they need them on the spot: 
     successful, educated men and women who continue to live 
     alongside them in their communities, shop at their stores, 
     play in their parks, and ride the buses and subways just as 
     they do. Geoffrey Canada's life teaches by example.
                        ambassador james goodby

       Ambassador James Goodby receives the Heinz Award for Public 
     Policy. Virtually unknown to his countrymen or to the world, 
     Ambassador Goodby is a quiet titan in the delicate, high 
     stakes arena of international nuclear weapons negotiations.
       Both the esoteric and security-sensitive nature of his 
     specialty have required him to work almost entirely behind 
     the scenes. But for more than four decades, under nine 
     Presidents, James Goodby has made the world a safer place, 
     beginning with his leadership of the effort to achieve a 
     nuclear test ban treaty in the 1950s and 1960s. After 
     retiring from the foreign service in 1989, Ambassador Goodby 
     was called back into service in 1993 to serve as Chief U.S. 
     Negotiator for the Safe and Secure Dismantlement of Nuclear 
     Weapons. He negotiated over 30 agreements with several former 
     Soviet Republics to assist in the dismantling of nuclear 
     weapons, preventing weapons proliferation and converting 
     military facilities to civilian enterprises.
       As Secretary of Defense William Perry has written, ``Jim's 
     life has been dedicated to serving the public and humanity. 
     He is an unselfish individual who is touched by the needs of 
     others and responds in a vigorous way to bring about 
     change.''
       James Goodby came of age in the shadow of the atomic bomb. 
     The post-war years--the late 1940s and early 1950s--saw the 
     disintegration of wartime alliances and the escalation of 
     East-West tensions. Goodby graduated from Harvard in 1951 and 
     entered the foreign service in 1952. With the exception of 
     the two years he served as U.S. Ambassador to Finland (1980-
     1981), most of his career has dealt with international peace 
     and security negotiations.
       His reputation as a negotiator quickly spread through 
     foreign policy and government circles: he was strong and 
     dependable; he was smart; and he seemed to have the knack for 
     devising creative solutions to complicated questions. While 
     assigned to the U.S. Mission to NATO in the early 1970s, he 
     negotiated alliance positions on human rights and security 
     provisions for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in 
     Europe, many of which became part of the Helsinki Final Act. 
     After a stint as vice chairman of the U.S. delegation to the 
     Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), he became head of the 
     U.S. delegation to the Stockholm Conference on Confidence and 
     Security Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe in 1984. 
     In that position, he negotiated the framework that laid the 
     basis for negotiations on conventional force reductions in 
     Europe. Former Secretary of State George Shultz, who 
     describes Goodby as a ``thoroughly laudable person,'' has 
     written that ``Ambassador Goodby got the ball rolling very 
     effectively, standing up to the Soviets and rallying our 
     allies.''
       Praise for his accomplishments makes James Goodby, now a 
     Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University 
     in Pittsburgh, Pa., uncomfortable. A native New Englander, he 
     modestly demurs: ``Where I come from, we don't feel 
     comfortable with 
     [[Page S1794]] such talk * * * I had a lot of people to help 
     me do it.''
       It may surprise some that a single individual, bucking 
     modern media worship by purposely eschewing publicity, could 
     make such a difference to the fate of the world. But James 
     Goodby, compelled to a life of public service by a desire to 
     make the world a safer place, offers reassurance that there 
     still exist in America men and women with brilliant minds and 
     distinguished careers who need nothing more than the inner 
     satisfaction of a vision fulfilled and the knowledge that 
     they have truly made a difference.
                            andrew s. grove

       Andrew Grove receives the Heinz Award for Technology and 
     the Economy in recognition not just of his astounding 
     technological and business accomplishments, but also of his 
     determination and vision. In a story as old as America, those 
     traits transformed him from a young immigrant into a leading 
     figure in the birth of the information society.
       His accomplishments range from the technical to the 
     commercial, from contributing to the development of the 
     microprocessor chip--perhaps the most important advancement 
     in the history of computing--to helping create the personal 
     computer industry. As more Americans start traveling down the 
     information highway, at speeds and prices to their liking, a 
     tip of their symbolic hats to Andy Grove would be in order.
       More than an engineering genius, he is an enlightened 
     corporate executive and employer whose ability to nurture 
     talent is legendary. His peers as well as his employees call 
     him Andy, and that speaks volumes about the man's character, 
     about his approach to business and, most certainly, about his 
     approach to life.
       A native of Hungary, Andrew Grove fled during the 1956 
     Soviet invasion. When he arrived in New York, he was twenty 
     years old, had only a few dollars in his pocket, and knew 
     even fewer words of English.
       The boy from Budapest has lived the quintessential American 
     success story. By working any job he could find, he put 
     himself through New York's City College, earning a BS. in 
     Chemical Engineering. He received his masters and Ph.D. from 
     the University of California at Berkeley.
       Andrew Grove has played perhaps the pivotal role in the 
     development and popularization of the 20th century's most 
     remarkable innovation--the personal computer. The 
     technologies pioneered by Grove and his associates, first at 
     Fairchild Semiconductor and then at Intel, which he co-
     founded in 1968, made the entire personal computing 
     revolution possible. The world has barely begun to scratch 
     the surface of the technological and economic benefits that 
     revolution can bring.
       No stranger to controversy, Andrew Grove has shown an 
     ability to learn from experience. And, while others panicked 
     over problems or setbacks, he has always managed to maintain 
     his focus on what is important and what he does best: 
     developing even faster, more affordable and more powerful 
     technology.
       Thanks in large measure to Andrew Grove's genius and 
     vision, millions of people now have instant and inexpensive 
     access to the kinds of information and entertainment about 
     which even the elites of previous generations could only 
     dream.
                             henry hampton

       Henry Hampton receives the Heinz Award in Arts and 
     Humanities for his creativity, his curiosity and his 
     seriousness of purpose, as manifested in the outstanding 
     contributions of Blackside, Inc., the independent film and 
     television company he founded in 1968.
       From modest beginnings, Blackside has become one of the 
     successful independent production companies in the world. But 
     success hasn't changed Henry Hampton, who, remembering his 
     early struggles, regularly mentors young minority filmakers.
       Among Blackside's productions are the landmark television 
     series Eyes on the Prize I and II. Other Blackside 
     documentaries have included The Great Depression, Malcolm X, 
     and the recently-broadcast America's War on Poverty.
       Hampton's work and that of his producing team, has been 
     described as ``history as poetry''--but it is not the kind of 
     poetry that sugar-coats difficult and divisive issues. He 
     believes that Americans of all races must truly understand 
     their past before they can deal with the present, much less 
     master the future.
       Henry Hampton grew up in St. Louis. After deciding against 
     a career in medicine, he went to work as an editor, and later 
     as director of information, for the Unitarian Universalist 
     Church. When a Unitarian minister was killed in Selma, 
     Alabama, the churchleaders, including Hampton, went to the 
     South to join Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march.
       During this first visit to the deep south, Hampton started 
     to think about capturing the struggle for civil rights on 
     film. He had no experience, but he set about learning. 
     Questioning the conventional approaches, he and his 
     colleagues slowly began devising a unique style for 
     Blackside's work. Finally he was ready to make exactly the 
     kinds of documentaries he envisioned.
       Eyes on the Prize has received six Emmys, a Peabody, and an 
     Academy Award nomination. It has been broadcast around the 
     world, and is used as a teaching tool on as many as half of 
     four-year college campuses in the U.S.
       Henry Hampton pushes his company to deal with what he calls 
     ``messy history''--the kind that doesn't supply the neat 
     conclusion the public so often wants. He believes that media 
     can help people use the perspective history offers as they 
     deal with contemporary problems.
       Depsite the weighty issues with which his films deal, Henry 
     Hampton remains an optimistic man. He is undeterred by the 
     effects of both childhood polio and of a more-recent cancer. 
     His vision of a just and compassionate future for all 
     Americans fuels his spirit and permeates his work.

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