ADVISORY/Rock and Wrap It Up! Honors Allman Brothers Band, Chef David Bouley, and Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity at 3rd Annual Benefit Dinner; Thursday, June 12 - at Pier Sixty in NYC.

Entertainment Editors/Lifestyle Editors

ADVISORY...for Thursday (June 12)

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2003

Acoustic Musical Performance by Warren Haynes 

WHO:            Rock and Wrap It Up! (http://www.rockandwrapitup.org)
                an international volunteer food recovery service and
                think tank aiding in the fight to alleviate hunger in
                the United States and around the world will hold its
                third annual benefit on Thursday, June 12, 2003 from
                6:30 PM to 10:30 PM at Pier Sixty in New York City.
                This year's honorees include: The Allman Brothers
                Band, Chef David Bouley, Pi Lambda Phi International
                Fraternity. For ticket information call 877-691-FOOD.

                Rock and Wrap It Up! has more than 4,000 volunteers
                covering 500 cities. Since its creation in 1994, more
                than 5,000,000 pounds of food have been picked up,
                feeding more than 14,000,000 people.

WHAT:           The Allman Brothers Band will receive the Lena and
                Joseph Mandelbaum Humanitarian Award, named in honor
                of Rock and Wrap It Up! founder's parents, both of
                whom survived concentration camps in Nazi Germany. The
                Allman Brothers joined with Rock and Wrap It UP! in
                October 1995, and was one of the first groups to help
                fight hunger through Rock and Wrap It Up! They have
                been inspirational, physical and financial supporters
                of the work of Rock and Wrap It Up! Their efforts and
                those of Bert Holman their Manager, has led to tens of
                thousands being fed with their backstage leftovers.
                Dozens of other bands have been motivated to join Rock
                and Wrap It Up! Allman Brothers Band guitarist and
                producer Warren Haynes will accept the Lena and Joseph
                Mandelbaum Humanitarian Award on behalf of the band.
                Haynes will also be on hand for a rare solo acoustic
                performance.

                Chef and Restaurateur David Bouley will receive the
                Jay Magazine Award of Excellence, created in memory of
                the former Director of Catering for Windows on the
                World at the World Trade Center, who perished on
                9/11/01. Immediately, David Bouley, whose business was
                one block from the WTC, mobilized his restaurant and
                resources to become an emergency mess hall providing
                over 1,00,000 meals for Ground Zero recovery workers.
                Jay Magazine was an active member and booster of Rock
                and Wrap It Up! along with its projects and mission to
                feed the needy.

                Pi Lambda Phi became the first Fraternity to adopt a
                global community service component to their creed for
                their Alumni and Brotherhood, and they are receiving
                the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Award. The
                fraternity's focus was to work with the needy and they
                selected Rock and Wrap It Up! as its partner
                organization to help fight hunger. Forty-Seven college
                and university chapters are now working to help feed
                those who hunger. The Late Bill Emerson, United States
                Congressman, wanted to feed more hungry people in this
                country, so he wrote and helped push through the Bill
                Emerson Good Samaritan Act - cornerstone legislation
                for all perishable food programs, that was enacted
                after his death by President Bill Clinton in November
                1996. Its passage and implementation continue to feed
                millions more hungry each year. All donors to RWU are
                protected from liability by The Bill Emerson Good
                Samaritan Act.

WHEN:           Thursday, June 12, 2003
                6:30 p.m - 10:30 p.m.

WHERE:          Pier Sixty
                Chelsea Piers, NYC

WHY:            Rock and Wrap It Up! encourages bands to incorporate a
                rider into their contract that indicates their request
                for all edible leftover food to go to a local soup
                kitchen or shelter, and then arranges for the removal.
                It also works with existing local perishable food
                programs such as America's Second Harvest, food
                collection and rescue services. Current tours
                contracting food recovery with Rock and Wrap it Up! in
                their rider include: Bruce Springsteen, Avril Lavigne,
                Matchbox Twenty, Elton John and Billy Joel.

                Rock and Wrap It Up! Project It's A Wrap has begun
                working in the film industry and Revere Pictures
                became the first production company to encourage food
                recovery from their film shoots. The organization
                continues to develop its school and college programs.
                It currently partners with Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity
                and the National Society of Colligate Scholars.

                Rock and Wrap It Up! was founded by Syd Mandelbaum to
                honor his parents' survival from Nazi concentration
                camps. As a scientist, he is best known for heading
                the American team that did the DNA Genetic Sequencing
                of Anna Anderson's hair-- disproving the relationship
                to the Czar and Czarina Romanov. Mandelbaum also
                founded the first DNA roundtable seminar series, New
                York and Boston, 1989 to help police departments'
                better use DNA in prosecuting rape and murder cases;
                introduced homerun measurement to Major League
                baseball in 1991; and to stop future holocausts, in
                1981, he started the videotaping of Holocaust
                survivors and camp liberators. In 2002, Mandelbaum was
                named as a finalist in the New York Post's "Liberty
                Awards."

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