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1999 INTERNATIONAL SELECTION BOARD CHOOSES INAUGURAL RECIPIENT
OF DELTA PRIZE FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING
 A distinguished international selection board appointed last year by University of Georgia President Michael F. Adams has chosen the inaugural recipient of the Delta Prize for Global Understanding. The award, established with an $890,000 grant from the Delta Air Lines Foundation to the University of Georgia, is intended to recognize groups or individuals for “globally significant efforts that provide opportunities for greater understanding among nations and cultures.”
The Delta Prize program is administered by two UGA faculty members:
Gary Bertsch, director of the Center for International Trade and
Security, and Betty Jean Craige, director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, who serve on the selection board with Adams and Maurice
Worth, chief operating officer of Delta Air Lines Inc.
Prominent UGA alumni tapped for service on the board included
the Honorable Morris Abram, chairman of United Nations Watch in
Geneva; William P. “Billy” Payne, chairman of Premiere Technologies
Inc., Atlanta; Charles Sanford Jr., retired chairman of the board
and chief executive officer, Bankers Trust Company, New York;
and the Honorable Joe Frank Harris, former governor of Georgia
and now chairman of the Harris Georgia Corporation, Cartersville.
Charles B. Knapp, former UGA president and now president of the
Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C., also was on the board.
Other business and civic leaders on the board included Anne Cox Chambers, director of Cox Enterprises and chair of Atlanta Newspapers, Atlanta; John Clendenin, former chairman of the board, BellSouth Corporation; Jane Wales, president and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California; and Judy Woodruff, CNN anchor/senior correspondent, Washington, D.C.
International representatives included Ambassador Kai Eide, permanent
mission of Norway to the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe; Professor Ali Mazrui, Albert Schweitzer Professor in
the Humanities, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, State University
of New York-Binghamton; Sir Alister McIntyre, chief technical
advisor for Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery; Ambassador
Roland Timorbaev, president of the Center for Political Studies
in Russia, Moscow; and Norio Tsubokawa, managing director, YKK
Corporation, Tokyo.
The Delta Prize for Global Understanding was presented at an April
27 award ceremony in Atlanta. Former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter,
choosen as the inaugural Delta Prize recipients, received a $10,000 cash prize and an original work of art.
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