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Schweitzer Week Events
Throughout March 1989
Exhibit of Schweitzer artifacts and memorabilia from the collection of
Harold E. Robles, president of the Albert Schweitzer Memorial Foundation,
Inc., Wallinford, CT. Open daily at Randall Library. Free.
Sunday, March 19, 1989
Bach organ concert, featuring Dr. Clair Rozier, assistant professor of music
at UNCW. Time and place to be announced. Free.
Monday, March 20, 1989
Lecture sponsored by the UNCW Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Albert Schweitzer Essay Contest winners will read the winning essays and
receive their awards. 7:30 p.m. Cameron Hall Auditorium. Free.
Tuesday, March 21, 1989
Thalian Hall Concert Series presents a concert in honor of the Albert
Schweitzer International Prize Recipients featuring solo performances by Roya
Weyerhauser, pianist, and Nicholis Kitchen, violinist. 8 p.m. Kenan Audito
rium. Admission by season tickets or by individual tickets - $8 orchestra, $6
family circle; available at Thalian Hall Box Office, 763-3398.
Wednesday, March 22, 1989
Prize recipients lunch with UNCW students.
Albert Schweitzer International Prizes presentation ceremony. 8 p.m.
Kenan Auditorium. Black tie optional. Free. Reception to follow ceremony,
University Union.
Schweitzer Prizes to be awarded March 22
UNCW will be celebrating the fourth
presentation of Albert Schweitzer Interna
tional Prizes in March, with prizes honoring
a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, a Swiss doc
tor and a famous opera singer.
The Prizes, presented every four years
at UNCW, recognize achievement in medi
cine, music and the humanities, the three
areas in which Schweitzer excelled.
George Herbert Hitchings, Ph.D., co-re
cipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine
is the 1989 Schweitzer Prize winner for
medicine.
Hitchings, scientist emeritus with Bur
roughs Wellcome Co., Research Triangle
Park, N.C., brought about what many ob
servers call a "revolution in chemotherapy."
He discovered new compounds for the treat
ment of leukemia, malaria, gout, other bac
terial diseases, and an immunosuppressive
agent which made the first kidney trans
plant jjossible.
In making the announcement. Prize Di
rector Dolores Kirk stated that, "Like
Schweitzer, Dr. Hitchings has dedicated
himself to improving the quality of human
life. As a scientist, he is the creator of medi
cines used by millions of people around the
world to cure illness and sustain life."
Hitchings joined Burroughs Wellcome
Co. in 1942 as a biochemist. He is a resident
of Chapel Hill, N.C. His nomination for and
acceptance of the Schweitzer Prize in medi
cine was completed prior to his winning the
Nobel Prize.
Professor Doctor of Medicine Boris Lu-
ban-Plozza of Locarno, Switzerland, is the
1989 Prize winner for humanities. Luban-
Plozza demonstrates all three areas of
Schweitzer’s expertise - music, medicine
Beverly Sills
1989 Albert Schweitzer International Prize
for Music
and the humanities. Not only an exception
al trumpet player and singer, Luban-Plozza
is a world authority in psychosomatic medi
cine and a leader of the Balint Method
movement toward patient-centered, hu
mane medicine.
In his concern for the whole patient,
Luban-Plozza’s medical approach is an in
spiration to thousands' of young medical
people who are seeking ways to practice
humane medicine without departing from
scientific principles.
An accomplished and dedicated musi
cian, Beverly Sills will receive the 1989
Schweitzer Prize for music. Sills is general
director of the New York City Opera, a post
she came to after one of the most dazzling
singing careers in operatic history. Sills
George H. Hitchings, Ph.D.
1989 Albert Schweitzer International Prize
for Medicine
was lead soprano with both the New York
City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera,
and received Emmy awards for her televi
sion specials.
The mother of two handicapped chil
dren, Sills has been a long-time champion of
the March of Dimes’ work against birth
defects. She has one autistic child and one
deaf child.
Schweitzer Prize winners are chosen
by a secret committee from nominations
submitted by an international nominating
council to the chairman, the Rev. Dr. Hugh
Anderson, professor emeritus of the Divin
ity School, Edinburgh University, Edin
burgh, Scotland.
Prize winners will receive $5000 and a
bronze medal at the March ceremony.
Prof. Dr. Med. Boris Luban-Plozza
1989 Albert Schweitzer International Prize
for Humanities
Previous Prize recipients include hu
manitarian Mother Teresa, music giants
Andres Segovia and Gian Carlo Menotti,
and distinguished physicians Larimer Mel
lon and Theodore Binder.
The Schweitzer Prizes are sponsored by
the N.C. Educational, Historical and Scien
tific Foundation, Inc. in Wilmington, and
have been hosted by UNCW since the pro
gram’s inception in 1972.
The 1989 Prizes ceremony will be on
Wedneday, March 22, in Kenan Auditori
um. A reception at the University Union
will follow the ceremony. Both are free and
the public is invited to attend.
Renee Brantley