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1995 Horatio Alger Award Winners announced. - Encyclopedia.com The Association is named for American author Horatio Alger, who wrote over 100 inspirational adventure books, well known for their tales of impoverished youths who gain success by leading exemplary lives and struggling valiantly against adversity. The Horatio Alger Association's scholarship program is the only college financial aid program that specifically recognizes students who have overcome great adversity in their lives. The Horatio Alger Association is a non-profit education organization, founded 48 years ago to combat the growing perception among young people that economic opportunity in America is a thing of the past. www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-15990441.html   (565 words)

Horatio Alger: An American Dreamer   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Horatio Alger’s writings were focused on the idea of the American Dream and the rise from rags to riches. Horatio Alger’s life was far from effortless and as a child and through young adulthood, he experienced obstructions that are not seasoned by the ordinary individual. Horatio Alger’s books all shared the same theme, which is the rise from rags to riches and the pursuit of the American dream. www.sauguscenturions.com /klipfel/perezalger.htm   (3333 words)

Richard Rosenberg Recognized with the Horatio Alger Award for Overcoming Adversity to Achieve Success - SmartBrief "Through their personal trials and ultimate triumphs the new Members of the Horatio Alger Association demonstrate to all Americans, especially to young people, that this continues to be a land filled with boundless opportunities and hope," noted Joseph Neubauer, President and CEO of the Horatio Alger Association and Chairman and CEO of the ARAMARK Corporation. In April 2007, the 60th Annual Horatio Alger Awards events are scheduled in Washington, D.C., to honor and induct the Horatio Alger Award recipients as the newest Members of the Association. During the Awards events, the Horatio Alger Award winners will meet with 106 high school seniors from around the nation who have been selected to receive Horatio Alger National Scholarships, each valued at $20,000. www.smartbrief.com /news/NATPE/industryPR-detail.jsp?id=1718E9FD-9466-4A72-A59F-AE1D43BA3C5B&brief=NATPE   (526 words)

Baylor University || Marketing & Communications || News Tom Harken, a high school dropout who went on to become one of the nation's most successful entrepreneurs and winner of the coveted Horatio Alger Award, will visit the Baylor University campus Jan. 20-21 to talk to students and local community leaders. In 1992, Harken was one of only 10 Americans selected as recipients of the prestigious Horatio Alger Award, presented in Washington, D.C. Other recipients of the award that year included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The award is presented annually to individuals who have overcome adversity and have succeeded through perseverance. www.baylor.edu /pr/news.php?action=story&story=2056   (486 words)

The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans | General Information While many aid programs are directed primarily to recognizing academic achievement or leadership potential, the Horatio Alger program also seeks students who have a commitment to use their experiences and college degrees in service to others. The Annual Horatio Alger Awards are featured in a national broadcast on PBS which highlights the accomplishments of distinguished Americans who have overcome hardships to achieve their dreams. The Horatio Alger Association is wholly funded by private sector support. www.horatioalger.com /geninf/index.cfm   (617 words)

William J. Dore to Receive 2000 Horatio Alger Award for Personal, Professional Achievement. - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The award is presented annually by the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans to men and women who have overcome significant personal adversity through hard work, integrity, determination, and a strong dedication to helping others. The award recipients were chosen from hundreds of nominations and will be honored during the 53rd Annual Horatio Alger Awards Ceremony May 4 through 6, 2000, in Washington, D.C. Past recipients of the Horatio Alger Award have included Colin Powell, Maya Angelou, Billy Graham, and Hank Aaron. The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans is a non-profit educational association named for the 19th century American author Horatio Alger, whose characters personified the climb from humble beginnings to personal and professional success. www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-61885954.html   (561 words)

Horatio Alger - Jack s Ward book Alger graduated from Harvard in 1852 and reflected that "No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls." For the next seven years, Alger's life was anything but stable. Horatio Alger wrote mostly juvenile fiction:  short stories, serialized novels, and novels.  He also wrote biography, juvenile biography (James Garfield, Abraham Lincoln, and Daniel Webster), and poetry.  He did someserious writing for adult publications (essays), but he was not nearlyas successful at that. Alger did not reply specifically to the charges.  Rather he admitted to acting "imprudently."  The charges did not use clinical language.  Rather they mention "unnatural familiarity with boys." To avoid a public hearing on the charges, the church board allowed Alger to resign from his post and the ministry and leave town immediately. www.horatioalgerjr.com /Horatioalgerjuniorbook157.htm   (3528 words)

Mark Victor Hansen - Official Site of the "Master of Mindset" Since 1947, The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans has been dedicated to honoring the accomplishments and achievements of outstanding individuals in our society who have succeeded in the face of adversity, and to encourage young people to pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance. The Association brings the "Horatio Alger Heroes" of today together with those of tomorrow by bestowing the Horatio Alger Award annually, hosting career, public service, and community service seminars; sponsoring free-enterprise conferences, awarding more than $1,000,000 in college scholarships, and providing an internship and job placement program. Awards are given each year to the "hidden treasures" in the adult and children's book categories that ABA bookstore members most enjoyed recommending to their customers. www.markvictorhansen.com /awards.php   (590 words)

Horatio Alger Association :: New Illinois Scholarship Program Will Award $200,000 in Scholarships for Adversity   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The scholarship awards which range in value from $2,500 to $20,000 will be awarded as part of the Horatio Alger Association's new Illinois Scholars Program. The new scholarship program was announced by Horatio Alger Association member William F. Farley and Shelley Farley of Chicago during a special presentation at Orchestra Hall with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on October 9, 2006. The Horatio Alger Illinois Scholarship is being funded through the generosity of Horatio Alger Association members from Illinois including Dean L. Buntrock, Doris K. Christopher, William F. Farley, Andrew J. McKenna, and Patrick G. Ryan. sev.prnewswire.com /education/20061101/CGW05201112006-1.html   (435 words)

Rare Books and Special Collections   (Site not responding. Last check: ) The Horatio Alger Collection at Northern Illinois University is the world's most comprehensive collection of materials by this best-selling boys' series writer, numbering over 4,000 volumes. Alger had three more books published in 1866: Timothy Crump's Ward; or, the New Year's Loan and What Came of it, Charlie Codman's Cruise, both of which were rewrites based on earlier serials he had written, and Helen Ford. Alger signed with Loring to write five additional novels as part of a "Ragged Dick Series." The additional five novels, published between 1868 and 1870 are: Fame and Fortune (1868), Mark the Match Boy (1869), Rough and Ready (1869), Ben the Luggage Boy (1870), Rufus and Rose (1870). www.niulib.niu.edu /rbsc/Alger/index.htm   (1707 words)

Cundy: Bios: Thomas C. Cundy The award, established in 1947, borrows its namesake from the great nineteenth century American author famous for his stories that showcased the end result of hard work and perseverance. The purpose of the award is to provide the youth of America with role models who have overcome struggles in their lives to achieve outstanding success in their respective fields. Members of the Horatio Alger Association, made up of past recipients, are active participants in the lives of America's youth. www.cundy.com /varsity.htm   (253 words)

reportonbusiness.com: globeinvestor.com - Force10 Networks Donates Wireless-Enabled Laptops to the Horatio Alger ... Horatio Alger scholarships are awarded each year to high school seniors who have overcome challenging circumstances and demonstrated a commitment to use their personal experiences and college degrees in service to others. As one of the nation's largest college financial aid programs in the country, the Horatio Alger National Scholars Program is the only major scholarship effort that specifically assists high school students who have faced and overcome great obstacles in their young lives. In April 2007, the 60th Annual Horatio Alger Awards events are scheduled in Washington, D.C., to honor and induct the Horatio Alger Award recipients as the newest Members of the Association. www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/story/BWIRE.20070418.20070418005430/GIStory   (1406 words)

Dr. Thomas S. Haggai Tapped For Prestigious Norman Vincent Peale Award of the Horatio Alger Association Business Wire - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: ) This award recognizes association members who have made exceptional humanitarian contributions to society, been active association participants and have continued to be role models of courage, tenacity and integrity in the face of great challenges. My award was given not for the wealth I had achieved, but for the contribution the Association felt I had made in the lives of people. Since 1947, The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans has honored the accomplishments and achievements of outstanding Americans who have succeeded in the face of adversity, and who encourage young people to pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_April_6/ai_72857106   (911 words)

Untitled Document Among the 585 prominent members of the Horatio Alger Association are well-known Americans including entertainer Carol Burnett, former Senator Robert J. Dole, boxing legend George Foreman, Reverend Billy Graham, entrepreneur H. Wayne Huizenga, actor James Earl Jones and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Members of the Horatio Alger Association mentor young people and sponsor over $5 million in need-based scholarships, which are awarded annually to high school seniors who have proven their ability to overcome childhood adversities and modest beginnings. Horatio Alger Award winners will be sharing the paths and philosophies that helped them triumph over adversity and achieve notable success in their lives. www.brokeragentnews.com /news/general/2004_4/4_23_2004_sx_1082766056.html   (554 words)

Globeinvestor.com: Manulife's D'Alessandro receives 2005 International Horatio Alger Award for overcoming adversity to ... D'Alessandro joined the ten recipients of the 2005 Horatio Alger Award, as well as 100 Horatio Alger scholarship winners from high schools across the United States at the annual ceremony in Washington, DC. At the event, Award recipients share with the young scholarship winners their philosophies and experiences that helped them triumph over adversity and create success in their lives. The Horatio Alger Association is a non-profit educational association. www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CNW/20050408/1304083538   (403 words)

Horatio Alger — Infoplease.com Dreiser's 'The Financier' and the Horatio Alger myth. Seabiscuit: Horatio Alger hero of the turf: there should be a lesson to two-legged animals in a four-legged one which was whipped...... The death of Horatio Alger: our political leaders are doing everything they can to fortify class inequality.(economic factors in social...... www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0803314.html   (308 words)

Horatio alger association scholarship   (Site not responding. Last check: ) In the late nineteenth century, alger was out of horatio alger association scholarship the story philosopy of street life. Algers is a victim and hard workincluding work on the streets. Algers stories continued to be a conflict of evidence. horatio-alger.weddingblogger.net /horatio-alger-association-scholarship.html   (1104 words)

Business Wire Business News: The Bowser Report Presents Horatio Alger Award to Tandy Leather Factory - MSN Money   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Tandy Leather Factory, Inc. TLF was chosen by The Bowser Report to be its first recipient of the "Microcap Horatio Alger Award." R. Max Bowser, editor and publisher of the newsletter said, "Tandy Leather Factory was chosen because it started from relatively humble beginnings to become the leading force in the leathercraft industry. This is very much in the style of the nineteenth century writer of boys' books, Horatio Alger. Alger urged boys to succeed despite obstacles in their way." There is no connection between this award and those granted by the non-profit Horatio Alger Association. news.moneycentral.msn.com /inc/news/providerredir.asp?Feed=BW&Date=20061226&ID=6302017   (570 words)

Charity Navigator Rating - Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Founded in 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans continues to fulfill its mission of honoring the achievements of outstanding individuals in our society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young people to pursue their dreams through higher education. The Association brings the "Horatio Alger Heroes" of today together with those of tomorrow by bestowing the Horatio Alger Award each year and by awarding more than $8.5 million annually in college scholarships to young people. Horatio Alger Scholars have faced challenges and realize that a college education is the avenue to a better future. www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/4938.htm   (208 words)

UNMC Today Headlines - UNMC supporter receives prestigious Horatio Alger Award The award, presented by the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, recognizes the achievements and accomplishments of Americans who have risen from humble beginnings to achieve personal and professional success. "This year's award recipients continue the tradition of proving that hard work, determination and integrity are the keys to success and the American Dream," said H. Wayne Huizenga, president & CEO of the Horatio Alger Association. Alger trumpeted the doctrine of achieving success through self-reliance, self-discipline, decency, and honesty. app1.unmc.edu /PublicAffairs/TodaySite/sitefiles/today_full.cfm?match=284   (577 words)

Pepperdine University - Public Relations and News - George L. Graziadio, Jr. Receives Horatio Alger Award; Creates ... “This year’s award recipients continue the tradition of proving that hard work, determination and integrity are the keys to success and the American Dream,” said H. Wayne Huizenga, president and CEO of the Horatio Alger Association. The Graziadio Business Scholarship fund will be managed by the Horatio Alger Association and directed to benefit students at the Graziadio School. The Horatio Alger Association noted that Graziadio, the grandson of Italian and Irish immigrants, lived above a small Italian grocery in Central Connecticut and had as one of his first jobs, setting pins in a bowling alley during the Great Depression. www.pepperdine.edu /pr/releases/2002/may/gsbmhoratio.htm   (504 words)

In Recognition Of...The American Dream, Horatio Alger Each year college scholarships are awarded to high school seniors, who have already faced adversity in their short lives, yet have continued to achieve academic excellence and leadership. The 1996 awards were hosted in Washington D.C. by CBS News Anchor Dan Rather. The inspiring mission of the Horatio Alger Association Of Distinguished Americans continues to work to help motivate America’s youth to believe in the beauty and possibilities of their very own dreams. www.usdreams.com /AlgerW13.html   (420 words)

Paterno Wines International :: Anthony J. Terlato Recognized with the Horatio Alger Award for Overcoming Adversity to ... Terlato is among nine outstanding individuals to be honored in ceremonies April 7, 2006, when he will be inducted as a lifetime member of the Horatio Alger Association. Members of the Association mentor young people and sponsor over $5 million in Horatio Alger need-based college scholarships awarded annually to high school seniors who have proven their ability to overcome adversity and want to pursue higher education. A contemporaneous series of events will bring the new Horatio Alger Award winners together with over one hundred high school seniors from around the nation, each of whom will be awarded a $10,000 scholarship and be known as a Horatio Alger National Scholar. sev.prnewswire.com /food-beverages/20060404/CGTU04504042006-1.html   (625 words)

Hospitality Net - Industry News - Laurence S. Geller Selected to Receive ADL's Horatio Alger Award - International ... The award, which honors outstanding individuals in American society who have immigrated to this country and who epitomize the fulfillment of the American dream, will be presented at the group's Horatio Alger Award Gala on Thursday, January 30, at The Hyatt Regency Chicago. But he not only succeeded in the face of this adversity, he rose to a position of influence and leadership and today is widely respected within the hospitality industry, his community and throughout the city of Chicago. The Horatio Alger Award celebrates extraordinary U.S. immigrants who started at the bottom and worked their way up with diligence and virtue, individuals who faced and overcame challenges with dedication, fortitude and integrity. www.hospitalitynet.org /news/4014569.html   (747 words)

Terlato Wines International > Company > News December 15, 2005 — Washington, D.C – The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc. is proud to announce that Anthony J. Terlato, Chairman of Terlato Wine Group, is among the nine outstanding individuals chosen to be the recipients of the 2006 Horatio Alger Award and be inducted as lifetime Members of the Association. Members of the Association mentor young people and sponsor over $5 million in Horatio Alger need-based college scholarships awarded annually to high school seniors who have proven their ability to overcome adversity and want to pursue higher education. A contemporaneous series of events will bring the new Horatio Alger Award winners together with over one hundred high school seniors from around the nation, each of whom will be awarded a $10,000 scholarship and be known as a Horatio Alger National Scholar. www.paternowines.com /company/press_release.asp?ID=66   (403 words)

UK Donor Wins 1999 Horatio Alger Award LEXINGTON, KY (Dec. 16, 1998)--The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans announced the selection of 11 outstanding individuals to receive the 1999 Horatio Alger Award. The Horatio Alger Award is presented annually by the association to men and women who have faced and overcome significant personal adversity through hard work, integrity, determination and a strong dedication to helping others. The Horatio Alger Association, a non-profit educational association, is committed to providing role models for contemporary American youth, and assisting young people with scholarships, grants, and mentoring support to encourage them toward successful futures. www.uky.edu /PR/News/MCPRNews/1998/alger.htm   (243 words)

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