PRINTER'S NO. 2281
No. 287 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY C. WILLIAMS, GERLACH, MELLOW, BODACK, BOSCOLA,
COSTA, FUMO, HUGHES, KASUNIC, KITCHEN, KUKOVICH, LAVALLE,
LOGAN, MUSTO, O'PAKE, SCHWARTZ, STACK, STOUT, TARTAGLIONE,
WAGNER, A. WILLIAMS AND WOZNIAK, OCTOBER 7, 2002
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, OCTOBER 7, 2002
A RESOLUTION
1 Extending condolences on the passing of Ambassador Walter Hubert
2 Annenberg of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, and Rancho Mirage,
3 California, a generous benefactor of public education and the
4 arts who died on October 1, 2002, at 94 years of age.
5 WHEREAS, Born March 13, 1908, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
6 Ambassador Annenberg was involved in and later inherited the
7 publishing empire developed by his father, Moses Annenberg, and
8 he launched and presided over many successful multimedia
9 ventures; and
10 WHEREAS, Ambassador Annenberg's compassion for the poor and
11 powerless led him to donate generously to civic and social
12 causes for children, education and the arts; and
13 WHEREAS, Ambassador Annenberg established schools for
14 communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the
15 University of Southern California, founded the Annenberg
16 Institute for School Reform at Brown University and the
17 Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies at
18 Northwestern University and contributed generously to the
1 Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and
2 WHEREAS, Ambassador Annenberg assembled one of the world's
3 finest private collections of 19th Century Impressionist and
4 post-Impressionist artwork; and
5 WHEREAS, Among his many contributions to American culture,
6 Ambassador Annenberg donated significant collections to the
7 Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art; and
8 WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Museum of Art named The Annenberg
9 Galleries in honor of Ambassador Annenberg and his wife Leonore
10 in 1994; and
11 WHEREAS, He served as United States Ambassador to the Court
12 of St. James in Britain from 1969 through 1974; and
13 WHEREAS, Queen Elizabeth II conferred honorary knighthood on
14 Ambassador Annenberg in 1976; therefore be it
15 RESOLVED, That the Senate note with sadness the passing of
16 Ambassador Walter Hubert Annenberg and acknowledge his indelible
17 citizenship, public service and philanthropy; and be it further
18 RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to
19 the family of Ambassador Walter Hubert Annenberg.
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