A final drumroll for the 2003 Warren Awards...Byline: Henny Willis / The Register-Guard It's time again for the Warren Awards. In a past life as a political reporter and weekly columnist for The Register-Guard, it became my self-assigned - and cherished - chore at the end of each year to single out a few folks, political and otherwise, for special recognition. Thus were born, in 1968, the Warren Awards. The Warren Awards for politics and loosely related fields of human folly were created to honor those personalities on the Oregon scene and elsewhere who added significantly to the sights, sounds, boredom, comedy, drama, bewilderment, humor, hoopla hoop·la n. Informal 1. a. Boisterous, jovial commotion or excitement. b. Extravagant publicity: The new sedan was introduced to the public with much hoopla. 2. and health of the body politic BODY POLITIC, government, corporations. When applied to the government this phrase signifies the state. 2. As to the persons who compose the body politic, they take collectively the name, of people, or nation; and individually they are citizens, when considered during the preceding year. The awards are named after that memorable politician of yesteryear, Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2 1865 – August 2 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, from 1921 . They are chosen with appropriate solemnity SOLEMNITY. The formality established by law to render a contract, agreement, or other act valid. 2. A marriage, for example, would not be valid if made in jest, and without solemnity. Vide Marriage, and Dig. 4, 1, 7; Id. 45, 1, 30. and pomp, and represent the best judgment of the selection committee - as always, a lone writer in the quiet of his favorite booth. As a personal footnote, I've retired from The Register-Guard, so this will be my last Warren Awards column. Thanks for reading it through the past 35 years. Herewith here·with adv. 1. Along with this. 2. By this means; hereby. herewith Adverb Formal together with this: , the Warren Awards for 2003: KAHOUTEK FLOP-OF-THE-YEAR AWARD - Gray Davis, the Chicago Cubs, the Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. - in no particular order. SASQUATCH I-BELIEVE-IN-DREAMS AWARD - Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Running a close second, Howard Dean. STEPHEN SONDHEIM SEND-IN-THE-CLOWNS AWARD - The Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers are a professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise, based in Portland throughout its existence, entered the league in 1970 and has won the NBA Championship once, in 1977. . Running a close second, Michael Jackson. BELA LUGOSI SCARY-EVENT-OF-THE-YEAR AWARD - The trial of Christian Longo. HARRY TRUMAN CUT-TO-THE-CHASE AWARD - The jury's verdict in the Longo trial. WOODY HAYES DUMB-IS-AS-DUMB-DOES AWARD - Alabama football coach Mike Price. In second place, "Book of Virtues" author William Bennett. WIZARD OF OZ Wizard of Oz reaches and departs from Oz in circus balloon. [Children’s Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] See : Ballooning Wizard of Oz false wizard takes up residence in Emerald City. [Am. Lit. IF-I-ONLY-HAD-A-BRAIN AWARD - Congressman Bob Ney, R-Ohio, for introducing legislation to change the name of, among other things, French fries and French dressing to Freedom Fries and Freedom Dressing as a protest to the French opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq. RING LEADER IT'S-MY-GAME-AND-I-MAKE-THE-RULES AWARD - George W. Bush and Iraq. MARX BROTHERS RETURN OF VAUDEVILLE AWARD - The California recall election. MARIA-I'VE-GOT-A-NEW-ROLE AWARD - Arnold Schwarzenegger. WE-AIN'T-GOT-IT-BUT-LET'S-SPEND-IT AWARD - The Bush Administration and Congress. DOROTHY I-CAN'T-GO-HOME AWARD - The 2003 Oregon Legislature, which set an all-time state record for length. JULES STYNE LET-ME-ENTERTAIN-YOU AWARD - Texas Democratic legislators who twice bolted to other states to block a Republican congressional redistricting redistricting: see legislative apportionment. plan. BOB HOPE THANKS-FOR-THE-MEMORIES AWARD - Larry Bacon, Jeanne Benson, Jim Boutin, Meredith Ford, Gino Grimaldi, Vaclav Havel, Tom Heinonen, Kent Hunsaker, Kaye Johnston, John Kitzhaber, Terry Lande, Jon Mangis, Jenny Newtson, Lloyd Paseman, Luke Ridenour, David Robinson, Pete Sampras, Alan Siporin, Joan Smith, and Don Stone. FINAL BOWS TO SOME SPECIAL PEOPLE: Joe Foss, war hero. Sarah McClendon, fiesty journalist. Al Hirschfeld, caricaturist extraordinaire ex·tra·or·di·naire adj. Extraordinary: a jazz singer extraordinaire. [French, from Old French, from Latin extra . Bill Mauldin, the GI's cartoonist. Lyle Hatfield, citizen. The crew of the space shuttle Columbia. Fred Rogers, every child's friend. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Noun 1. Daniel Patrick Moynihan - United States politician and educator (1927-2003) Moynihan , public servant of candor, intellect. Craig Robinson, businessman, civic activist. Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid giant. Bill Smigley, Mr. Veneta. Larry Maves, musician, conductor, groundbreaker. Jim Kays, businessman, civic activist, singer, friend. David Brinkley, TV news giant. Gregory Peck, actor. Larry Doby, groundbreaking Hall of Famer Katharine Hepburn, actress. Herbie Mann, jazzman extraordinaire. Lord Shawcross, chief Nuremberg prosecutor. Bob Hope, entertainer. Gregory Hines, dancer. Sheila Richards, retired teacher, friend. Herb Brooks, "Miracle on Ice The "Miracle on Ice" is the popular nickname for the men's ice hockey game in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, in which a team of amateur and collegiate players from the United States beat the long-dominant and heavily-favored Soviet Union, in a match held on February 22, 1980, at " coach. John J. Rhodes, congressman of conscience. Bob La Poma POMA Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association POMA Pharmaceutical Outsourcing Management Association POMA Product Operator formalism in Mathematica , neighbor, friend. Johnny Cash, the Man in Black. Donald O'Connor, song & dance man. Althea Gibson, groundbreaking champion. Elia Kazan, director. Bill Shoemaker, jockey. Arnie Laferty, teacher, performing colleague, cherished friend. Dee Andros, "The Great Pumpkin." William Loy, professor, Atlas of Oregon creator. Warren Spahn, pitcher. Gertrude Ederle, swimmer. Clark Kerr, educator. David Joyce, artist. Paul Simon, Mr. Bow-Tie. Keiko, Oregon's very own movie star. Eugene "Debbs" Potts, public servant. All who died wearing our country's uniforms. To others who left a special mark (one way or the other) on the world they inhabited: Royce Lewis, David Foster, Jeanne Johnson, George Roy Hill, Dale Oien, Gordon Hale, Ed Middaugh, C. Douglas Dillon Clarence Douglas Dillon (born August 21, 1909 in Geneva, died January 10, 2003 in New York City) son of Clarence and Ann (Douglass) Dillon, was U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France (1953-1957) and 57th secretary of the United States Department of the , Richard Crenna, Jane Fiztsimons Huston, Will McDonough, Nell Carter, LeRoy Klemm, Valery Brumel, Les Steers, Mongo Mongo Any of several peoples living in the African equatorial forest. They speak a dialect of a common language, Mongo or Nkundo, which belongs to the Niger-Congo language family. Santamaria, Jerome Hines, Ron Ziegler, Kemmon Wilson, Kid Gavilan, Lou Harrison, Johnny Longden, Shirley Wilson, Walt Rostow, Steve Bechler, Rusty Magee, Foster Keene, Johnny PayCheck, Chris Casady, Ray Wilson, Horst Buchholz, Luis Marden, Elwin Myrick, Stan Brakhage, Lindsay Mae Tracey, Joseph Coors, Al Gionfriddo, Patrick and Olivia McCurdy, Barbara Doster, Kip Lombard, Paul Walden, George Connor and Michael Kelly. David Bloom, Evie Malkasian, Bing Russell, Dr. Robert Atkins, Nina Simone, Martha Griffiths, Peter Stone; Julie, Matt and Mandy Foerstler; Charlie Tolar, Suzy Parker, Jai, Jessica and James Williams; Jack Oshatz, Russell Long, Margot Trieger Goldman, Robert Stack, Dave DuBusschere, Allen Spencer, Michael Ford, Pop Ivy, Sloan Wilson, Kathleen Winsor, Martha Scott, Burke Marshall, Johnny Hopp, Donald Regan, Pete Wysocki, Hume Cronyn, Sharon Gordon Barker, George Axelrod, Maynard Jackson, Leonard Koppett, Carol Calkins, Judge George Joseph, Jay Jones and Leon Uris. Lester Maddox, Strom Thurmond, Jean Van Fossen Greenup, Norman Evonuk, Buddy Hackett, Al McCready, Robert McCloskey, Lois Gean n. 1. (Bot.) A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color. Noun 1. Kelly, Barry White, Buddy Ebsen, Robert Aiken, Max Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. , Otto Graham, Helene Halle, Tex Schramm, Stan Glick, Bill Combs, Vance Hartke, John Schlesinger, Rick Filloy, Sam Phillips, Bill McNutt, Marlene Black, Jim Wright, Robert Donovan, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Bobby Bonds, Jinx Falkenburg, Marion Hargrove, Charles Bronson, John Storrs, Sol Cuddeback, Thyrza Anderson, Dean Blickenstaff, Gisele MacKenzie, Edward Teller, Gordon Sabine, John Ritter, Frank O'Bannon, Sheb Wooley, Garner Ted Armstrong Garner Ted Armstrong (February 9, 1930 - September 15, 2003) was an American evangelist and the son of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God, at the time a Sabbatarian organization that taught strict observance of a seventh-day sabbath, holy days typically , Gordon Jump, Herb Gardner and George Plimpton. Virgil Boekelheide, Wally "Chick" Ciochetti, Jere O'Brien, MarAbel Frohnmayer, Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice, Janice Rule, Gwen Johnson, Jack Elam, Franco Corelli, Bryan Gaston, Andrew Taxdal, Kyle Weech, Penny Singleton, Oscar Johnson, Robert Y. Thornton, Lee Bishop - and the Emporium, Tino's, Sony, Kennell-Ellis Photography, French Horn Cafe & Bakery, Spectacular Bid and Dolly the cloned sheep. Henny Willis retired Dec. 12 as an associate editor of The Register-Guard. |
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