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Justice O’Connor gets special honor

February 23, 1982

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Type: Newspaper mention
Author: Associated Press
Source: Chandler Arizonan
Collection: The Kauffman-Henry Collection
Date is approximate: No

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VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (AP) – Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, VisionQuest and a Flowing Wells High School graduate are a!Ilong the winners of the 1981 Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge National Awards, the foundation announced. Mrs. O’Connor, a former Arizona Court of Appeals judge, won a Distinguished Award from the foundation. Jill Barber, a freshman political economy major at Hillsdale College in Michigan, won a “Youth Essay 1981” George Washington Honor Medal. She was valedictorian of the 1981 Flowing Wells graduating class. The VisionQuest wagon train program for troubled youths won the George Washington Honor Medal for “Community Program 1981” honors. The annual awards recognize individuals and organizations who support U.S. social, polit_ical and economic institutions and present solutions to contemporary problems. Joining Mrs. O’Connor as winners of Distinguished Awards were Beverly Sills, Pearl . Bailey, Arthur Ashe, Rod McKuen, Roger Staubach, the Special Olympics and, posthumously, Anwar Sadat. Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, whose honorary chairman is President Reagan, describes itself as a non-profit, non-sectarian and non-political organization that promotes American heritage.

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