Arlington: Ticket = $50 Annual Barbara Jordan Media Awards Luncheon
Arlington is Host City for Annual Barbara Jordan Media Awards
Luncheon Statewide Event is June 12 at New Cowboys Stadium
Celebrate the contributions of those whose communications efforts
encourage accurate and progressive portrayal of people with
disabilities.
About the Awards Ceremony on June 12, 2009
The Barbara Jordan Media Awards Luncheon is 11:30 a.m. Friday, June
12 at the new Cowboys Stadium. The keynote speaker is gold medalist
Randy Snow. As a three-time medalist and four-time paralympian, he
became the first paralympian to be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall
of Fame in 2004.
The awards luncheon will also feature vendors. It is open to the
public. Tickets are $50 per person and will go on sale April 17, 2009
Call Ellen Brooke at 817-459-6143 or e-mail
[email protected].
Link: http://arlingtontx.gov/mayor/mcpd.html
About the Awards
In 1982, the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities
created the media relations program to recognize the contributions of
individuals and media organizations, including print, radio,
television, advertising, photojournalism and public relations, whose
communications efforts help to eliminate attitudinal, social, and
physical barriers and encourage accurate and progressive portrayals of
people with disabilities. The award is named in honor of the late
Barbara Jordan, a person with multiple sclerosis who championed the
causes of people with disabilities as a member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from 1973 to 1979.