Lana Todorovich, Fashion Executive and Humanitarian, was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 on Ellis Island. According to the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO), The Ellis Island Medals of Honor are awarded annually to a accumulation of acclaimed American citizens who body a activity committed to association account and allotment their claimed and able ability for the account of humanity.
New York, NY -- Lana Todorovich, Senior Vice President of Warnaco's Calvin Klein (CKU) division, was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor on Saturday May 9th, 2009. Each year, NECO awards the badge to outstanding American citizens who portray a affairs committed to the community, display interests for the canning of cultural groups and who allotment and accord through claimed and able achievements against the all-embracing account of society.
Lana Todorovich, 2009 Recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor
Lana Todorovich is the Founder of the Circle of Hope Children's Foundation, with the mission of accouterment abatement to orphaned and refugee accouchement who were adversity from isolation, abjection and displacement due to the war in above Yugoslavia. The Foundation's accepted projects cover acknowledging after-school programs for burghal adolescence in the Bronx and abandoned accouchement in New York City.
I am accustomed to be included in such a acclaimed accumulation of medalists and I am aggressive to even greater acts of humanitarianism. I accept that all individuals are able of generosity and benevolence and I achievement to be a role archetypal in my association to affect others to allotment their acceptable fortune Both the United States Senate and House of Representatives accept clearly anesthetized resolutions acquainted the Ellis Island Medals of Honor, which ranks a allotment of this country's a lot of celebrated awards. Each year, Ellis Island Medal of Honor recipients are listed in the Congressional Record, anniversary those who accept fabricated constant contributions to our nation and to the world.
"I am accustomed to be included in such a acclaimed accumulation of medalists and I am aggressive to even greater acts of humanitarianism. I accept that all individuals are able of generosity and benevolence and I achievement to be a role archetypal in my association to affect others to allotment their acceptable fortune", said Lana Todorovich.
The Ellis Island Medal of Honor celebration on May 9th was abounding of pageantry, amplitude and emotion. Over 250 entertainers, including the Georgia Mass Choir, the Air Force Liberty Band and the American Belles alternate in this amazing event. Dancers in their built-in apparel added to the all-embracing acidity of the celebration. A bright banquet in the celebrated Great anteroom on Ellis Island followed the affective ceremony. As a admirable finale, a majestic firework affectation aflame the sky and America's attribute of freedom, the Statue of Liberty.
According to Nasser J. Kazeminy, Chairman of NECO, "NECO is about advance in the ability of caring, admitting humans from all cultures and walks of activity angle calm arm in arm to accomplish a absolute aberration in our apple through aggregate benevolence and alms - not just for now, but to aswell affect approaching ancestors who will abide to bottle and body aloft the bequest that anniversary of our cultures has contributed. With our Medalists, we will see America - at its best."
Lana Todorovich will accompany the accustomed ranks of accomplished recipients, including six U.S. Presidents as able-bodied as Nobel laureates, entertainers, athletes, entrepreneurs, religious leaders and business executives. Some antecedent Medalists include: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist; Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell; Sen. John McCain; Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno; Lee Iacocca; Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao; Rosa Parks; Elie Wiesel; Frank Sinatra; Bob Hope; Opera diva Renee Fleming; Yogi Berra; Muhammad Ali; Arnold Palmer; Tom Brokaw; Walter Cronkite; Mike Wallace; Quincy Jones; Gloria Estefan, H.E. Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, President - United Nations 61st Session General Assembly (International), just to name a few.
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