Sixth Juliet Hollister Awards

Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:00

The Juliet Hollister Awards are given to secular and religious leaders whose vision and life's work have supported and generated new interfaith understanding. Previous awardees are: Dr. Thomas Berry, His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, Henry Luce III, Dr. Wangari Maathai, President Nelson Mandela, The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, Queen Noor of Jordan, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, Sri Swami Satchidananda & Maestro Ravi Shankar



THE SIXTH ANNUAL JULIET HOLLISTER AWARD CEREMONY



HONORING



COLEMAN BARKS

For translating and publishing the works of Jelaluddin Rumi, the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and bringing his mystical poetry to the world through books such as The Illuminated Rumi and The Essential Rumi.


SUHEIL BUSHRUI

For his contributions to interfaith understanding as Baha'i Chair for World Peace at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland and for his services to the legacy of Kahlil Gibran.


COKIE AND STEVEN V. ROBERTS

For sharing valuable insights found in their interfaith marriage of 36 years as described in their bestselling book From This Day Forward.



MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2004


UNIVERSITY CLUB - 1 WEST 54TH STREET - NEW YORK CITY


The University Club requires jacket & tie for gentlemen.



ARRIVAL - 6:30PM

DINNER - 7PM

To receive an invitation or to reserve a seat or table, please contact Diane Williams at 212 246-2746 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE JULIET HOLLISTER EDUCATION FUND.

The last Hollister Award Ceremony was held in April 2002 in conjunction with a Memorial Service celebrating the life of our Founder, Juliet Garretson Hollister. The celebration had been postponed from September 11, 2001. CT Vivian, a Baptist minister and close friend of Juliet’, gave the eulogy. Carman Moore, Skymusic Ensemble and Don Conreaux and the Mysterium Tremendum performed original musical pieces. The theme of the evening was Ecology and Interfaith.

Below is a photograph of our 2001 recipient of the Hollister Award, Dr. Wangari Maathai with President Jack Blessington. Dr. Maathai was introduced by Mary B. Davidson, who spoke of her work with the Green Belt Movement, which teaches women of different tribes and religious backgrounds to plant trees in Kenya, thus improving the ecology of the region.

Also honored as the 2002 Awardee was Father Dr. Thomas Berry, an eco-theologian, whose study blending different faith traditions and the Great Story of the Earth has shifted the thinking of many eminent western theologians to see not humanity, but the earth, as the central character in an epic of the meaning of life. Pictured with President Jack Blessington is Henry Luce III, who introduced Father Berry.

The event was a profound and meaningful experience. Below are member of Mrs. Hollister’s family, Dickerman Hollister, MD, Clay Hollister and Mrs. Catharine Ecton with Dr. Maathai and Father Berry.

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