[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 21 (Monday, March 4, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S1414]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              HEINZ AWARDS

  Mr. SPECTER. Mr. President, after the sudden and untimely death of 
our colleague--and my friend--Senator John Heinz, in 1991, his wife, 
Teresa Heinz, set about devising a suitable and characteristic memorial 
to his memory. As she has said, such a task is especially difficult 
when the goal is to honor someone as complex and multi-faceted as 
Senator Heinz was. She realized that no static monument or self-serving 
exercise in sentimentality would do, and that the only tribute 
befitting Senator Heinz would be one that celebrated his spirit by 
honoring those who live and work in the same ways he did.
  Those of us who had the privilege of knowing Senator Heinz remember, 
with respect and affection, his tremendous energy and intellectual 
curiosity; his commitment to improving the lives of people; and his 
impatience with procedural roadblocks when they stood in the way of 
necessary progress. For Senator Heinz, excellence was not enough; 
excellence was taken as a given. What made the difference was the 
practical--and, yes, pragmatic--application of excellence to the goal 
of making America a better nation and the world a better place. 
Although John Heinz thought and worked on a grand scale, he understood 
that progress is more often made in small increments: one policy, one 
program, even one person, at a time. We also remember the contagious 
enthusiasm and palpable joy with which he pursued his goals and lived 
his life.
  Teresa Heinz created the Heinz Awards to celebrate and carry on these 
qualities and characteristics--five awards in each of five categories 
in which John was especially interested and active during his 
legislative and public career: Arts and Humanities; the Environment; 
the Human Condition; Public Policy; and Technology and the Economy. In 
each of these areas, the Heinz Awards recognize outstanding 
achievements. In fact, the annual Heinz Awards are among the largest 
individual achievement prizes in the world.
  The six men and women who are being honored with this year's Heinz 
Awards--the eighth annual Awards--have just been named. They are a 
distinguished and accomplished group of men and women whose lives and 
work have truly made a difference.
  This year the Arts and Humanities Heinz Award is shared by Dudley 
Cocke and Rick Lowe. Mr. Cocke, with his Roadside Theater company based 
in Whitesburg, KY, has worked in hundreds of communities in 43 States. 
He is a leader in the movement to cultivate locally based art all 
across America. Mr. Lowe is an artist and activist who founded Project 
Row Houses in Houston as a way to bring a world-class art project to a 
low-income neighborhood where such art is rarely seen and experienced.
  The Heinz Award in the Environment is conferred on Dr. Jane 
Lubchenco. An expert in biodiversity, conservation, and global change, 
Dr. Lubchenco, of Oregon State University, is one of the most 
influential and respected voices in environmental policy.
  Cushing Dolbeare receives the Heinz Award for the Human Condition. 
For five decades, as many members of this House well know, Ms. 
Dolbeare, the founder of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, has 
worked across party lines to make low-income housing a government 
priority. I am proud to say that Ms. Dolbeare is a resident of 
Philadelphia, PA, my home city.
  The Heinz Award for Public Policy is awarded to retired Air Force 
General Lee Butler, of Omaha, NE. General Butler's efforts to end 
nuclear proliferation and change America's nuclear deterrence policy, 
have resulted in increased global awareness of the threat of nuclear 
war and nuclear weapons.
  Dr. Anita Borg, of Palo Alto, California, receives the Heinz Award 
for Technology, the Economy and Employment. The creator of the 
``Systers'' information-sharing Internet network for women, she has 
been in the forefront of promoting women's participation in the 
advancement and uses of technology, and particularly computing.
  Occasionally the Heinz Awards program bestows a special honor--the 
Chairman's Medal--on a truly exceptional nominee whose career has been 
distinguished by a pattern of singular accomplishment and character. 
This year a Chairman's Medal has been awarded to Dr. Ruth Patrick--who 
is, I am again proud to say, a resident of Philadelphia, PA--who is 
truly a scientific pioneer. Still actively working and contributing at 
the age of 93, Dr. Patrick is one of the world's leading biologists and 
a pioneer in predicting ecosystem risks at a time before such risks 
were a part of general scientific knowledge. I had the opportunity to 
meet with her relatively recently, and she is really a dynamo at 93.
  I know that every Member of this body joins me in saluting Teresa 
Heinz for creating such an apt and appropriate way of honoring the 
memory of our late colleague; and also in congratulating these 
distinguished Americans, recipients of the eighth annual Heinz Awards, 
for the way their lives and contributions have--and continue to--carry 
on the spirit and the work of Senator John Heinz, and have helped to 
make America, and the world, truly a better place for all of us.
  I yield the floor. In the absence of any other Senator in the 
Chamber, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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