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• Leadership in Learning for a Lifetime Award Goes to Junior Achievement and Lazy H Riding Academy
• Gingrich Library Awarded Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial Grant

Leadership in Learning for a Lifetime Award Goes to Junior Achievement and Lazy H Riding Academy

In March, Albright presented Junior Achievement of Berks County and the Lazy H Therapeutic Riding Academy with the 2004 President’s Award for Leadership in Learning for a Lifetime.

The award recognizes pace-setting programs and organizations in Berks County that foster learning in the broadest sense and allow individuals of all ages to expand their horizons. The award was conceived by Edward Gilbert, Ph.D., professor of psychology.

According to President Zimon, “At Albright, we believe not only that learning should continue throughout life, but also that it is our obligation to share knowledge for the betterment of others in our community. This award was created to recognize the many superb programs in Berks County that do an outstanding job in that area.”

Junior Achievement of Berks County, led by president and Albright graduate Robin Costenbader-Jacobson ’88, educates and inspires students from kindergarten through 12th grade to value free enterprise, business and economics to improve the quality of their lives. Student participation assists in critical thinking, leadership, conflict resolution and job success.

Lazy H Therapeutic Riding Academy in Bernville provides therapeutic horseback riding and stable management skills for people who are learning disabled, or mentally or physically challenged in order to develop learning and social skills, self-esteem, concentration and muscular development.

Organizations or programs eligible for Albright’s President’s Award for Leadership in Learning for a Lifetime may be civic, religious, professional, social-welfare or philanthropic organizations, as well as businesses, educational institutions and many others. Programs may provide education in the areas of physical or mental health, the arts, community service, fostering leadership, creating an informed citizenry, teaching social advocacy or economic/financial/consumer skills, developing career or vocational skills, furthering environmental awareness, to name a few examples.

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Gingrich Library Awarded
Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial Grant

Albright College’s Gingrich Library was one of 60 libraries in the country to be awarded the Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Library of America and the American Library Association.

The grant will enable the Library to develop programs about Isaac Bashevis Singer, who in 1978 became the seventh American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The events will be free and open to the public. The Library will also receive the three-volume hardcover authoritative collection Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories to be published by The Library of America in July 2004.

“The grant fits in beautifully with the new Holocaust Studies program,” said John Incledon, professor of Spanish and project leader. Incledon will be teaching a course on the Holocaust in American literature and film next spring and Singer will be included. Incledon added, “The grant will give greater visibility to the Holocaust Resource Center and the excellent resources it holds. Over the past 10 years Albright's Holocaust Resource Center has collected a remarkable amount of material for a college our size.”

This competition is one part of the 2004 centennial celebration of Singer’s life.

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