KOHL INTERNATIONAL TEACHING AWARDS

1992 Recipients

Gary Bacon, Ph.D.
Debbie Blackburn
Lynn Cherkasky-Davis
Deneita Jo Farmer, Ed.D.
Janice Gould
Emiel Hamberlin, Ph.D.
Kirsten Kaiser
Andrew Krugly
Adrienne LeDree
John Van Hook
Tom White
Ronald Whitmore

Kohl International Peace Prize

Albert Kaufmann of Austria

Albert Kaufmann is an Austrian educator working to reduce the threat of neo-Nazism and racial prejudice through innovative programming. Recognizing neo-Nazi sentiments as an insidious threat to society, Kaufmann began to take students to the former concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen so that they could understand the devastating results of hate and violence towards minorities. He organized the first resistance in Austria to combat the neo-Nazi computer games that encourage teenagers to manage concentration camps, kill Jews and glorify the empire of Adolph Hitler by organizing parent education groups. This year, he has taken a sabbatical from his teaching position to work with Croatian children who have become victims of the Yugoslavian Civil War. He is responsible for relocating dozens of children and their parents in Graz, Austria.

Kohl Media Award

Linda Ellerbee, Lucky Duck Productions

Linda Ellerbee, President of Lucky Duck Productions, has worked as a television writer, producer and news anchor during her career. She is being honored for her documentary news magazine series being produced for children on Nickelodeon. Her broadcasts have tackled such important and sensitive issues as racial prejudice, environmental pollution and AIDS (in an acclaimed program with Magic Johnson).

Recruiting New Teachers, Inc.

Recruiting New Teachers is being honored for its public service advertising media and print campaign which attracts new candidates to the teaching profession, provides information to those candidates and strives to build esteem nationally for the profession. RNT’s television, radio and print ads, “Reach for the Power: Teach,” “Stand and Deliver” and “Be a Teacher. Be a Hero” were created in conjunction with the Advertising Council. It has resulted in the distribution of more than 575,000 informational brochures as a result of inquiries over four years, making it the most successful sustained response campaign in Ad Council history.

Kohl Corporate Award

Bank of America (Continental Bank)

Bank of America (Continental Bank) has been chosen to receive the 1992 Corporate Award for its outstanding contribution to education through the development of the Orr School Network in West Humboldt Park on Chicago’s West Side. The Network is a unique partnership between schools, educational and social service agencies and businesses. From 1989 to 1992, the Orr School Network has expanded to include over 20 partners who have designed special programs to meet the needs of the teachers, students and families of 13 network schools, positively impacting over 11,000 students and their families.