The bizarre circular life...
by
Craig
10/06/2008, 10:07 AM #
Leads us to Walter Annenberg...founder of the Annenberg Foundation, and his very very good friends, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan...
The Honorable Walter H. Annenberg
"I
believe in social responsibility. A man's service to others must be at
least in ratio to the character of his own success in life. When one
is fortunate enough to gain a measure of material well being, however
small, service to others should be uppermost in his mind." - Walter H. Annenberg (1951)
Walter H. Annenberg was born in 1908 and enjoyed a distinguished career
as a publisher, broadcaster, diplomat, and philanthropist....
...A man with a deep interest in education, Mr.
Annenberg founded The Annenberg School for Communication at the
University of Pennsylvania in 1958 and The Annenberg School for
Communication at the University of Southern California in 1971. In
1983, he established the Washington Program in Communications Policy
Studies in response to growing awareness that difficult government and
industry problems were emerging in the rapidly changing
telecommunications field.
He served as Ambassador to the Court
of St. James's, Great Britain, from 1969 to 1974. By the late 1980's,
having sold all of his publishing and broadcast enterprises, Ambassador
Annenberg devoted his attention to philanthropy and public service.