KOHL INTERNATIONAL TEACHING AWARDS

1989 Recipients

Marilyn Cohen
Robert Duffy
M. Susan Eisenbarth
Joyce Garrett
Laura Anne Hamilton
Ronald Levitsky
Marcel Lewinski
Dee Oglesby
Terri Hobbs Reisig
Jane W. Rowe
Peggy Ann Schmuldt

Kohl International Teaching Award

Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver

Jaime Escalante was recognized for transforming the Mathematics department at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. He was hired in 1974 and four years later he began his first advanced placement calculus course. He continued to build Garfield’s calculus program into one of the best in the nation. In 1982, Escalante and his students battled adversity and disproved suggestions that Garfield students were cheating on the exam. By 1988, Escalante’s advanced placement calculus class had swollen to more than 200 students, a record-breaking number for Garfield and the city of Los Angeles, and the third highest in the nation. Jaime Escalante’s achievements were the basis of the award-winning film Stand and Deliver.

Kohl International Peace Prize

Norman Richardson and Carmel Heaney

Norman Richardson, a Protestant, worked as Peace Education Officer for the Irish Council of Churches/Irish Commission for Justice and Peace. Carmel Heaney, a Catholic educator from Belfast, worked as a Development Officer in Corrymeela Community. Through exciting residential living experiences and development of innovative peace education curriculums, both Richardson and Heaney worked to promote understanding and respect between Protestant and Catholic students in Northern Ireland.

Kohl Lifetime Achievement Award

Charles M. Schulz, Creator of PEANUTS

Charles M. Schulz created the famed comic strip PEANUTS, which, since its debut on October 2, 1950, became the most widely read comic strip in the world. Through his work, Schulz touched the lives of generations, bringing to children and their parents a greater understanding and acceptance of themselves and of those around them. Created with warmth and gentle humor, Schulz’s characters teach us about friendship and all of the most important human values. Schulz has garnered several awards and was inducted into the Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 1987.

Kohl Media Award

WLS-TV - “Say Yes to Education” Public Service Campaign

WLS-TV, The Capital Cities/ABC-owned station in Chicago was recognized for its “Say Yes to Education” campaign. The campaign was launched in May 1988 as a major one-year public awareness campaign to address critical issues of education in Chicago. WLS-TV produced and broadcasted thirteen special presentations to address diverse issues of education. In addition, as an expansion of the campaign, Channel 7 began airing “High Schools Say Yes,” a series of Saturday morning special programs produced by high school students in the Chicago area.