2009 Gold Medal Award Luncheon

Date/Time:

Monday, December 14, 2009

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch and Program

Description:

Philadelphia Public Relations Association Proudly Presents its 2009 Gold Medal Award to:

Jim Gardner
Anchor, 6ABC Action News

Jim Gardner has helped guide viewers of 6ABC's Action News through every news event, large and small, since 1976. He has lived most of his adult life in the Philadelphia area, and his roots here run deep. Gardner joined WPVI-TV in Philadelphia on June 1, 1976 as a reporter and anchor of the noon news and, on May 11, 1977, assumed his current position of anchorman of Action News at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
Gardner is proud of the special relationship he and his co-workers have established with the millions of viewers of the Philadelphia region who regularly rely on Action News for information about their neighborhoods, their communities, the region, the country and the world. He has left the confines of the newsroom and the studio to follow John Cardinal Krol to the Vatican for the death of Pope Paul VI; traveled to the Rein Mein Air Force Base near Frankfurt, West Germany to report on the return of the American Hostages held in Lebanon; and reported from Russia on the demise of the Soviet Empire. When the Israeli-Palestinian Peace accords were signed in Washington, Gardner went to Israel and the West Bank to tell the historic story from the point of view of Israelis and Palestinians alike. He has covered every Democratic and Republican political convention since 1980, and has interviewed every president and major presidential candidate since 1976.

Jim Gardner has long been committed to the efforts of the Federation of Allied Jewish Appeal. He is grateful for the opportunity to devote time and resources to The Friends' Central School in Wynnewood and to his alma mater, Columbia University, and was named Columbia's Philadelphia alumnus of the year in 1985. Since 1987, one student each year studying journalism or broadcasting at Temple University has been awarded the Jim Gardner Scholarship to help pay for his or her education.

Location:

The Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia
10 Avenue of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA 19128

Contact Information:

Name: Denise Downing, CMP
Email: ppra@comcast.net
Phone: 215-557-9865
Fax: 856-727-9504

Registration Information:

Deadline: Friday, December 11, 2009
Cancellations will be accepted in writing by Dec. 11, 2009. No Refunds after Dec. 11. No-shows will be billed.

Other Information:

Registration Fees:
$65 Member
$75 Non-Member
$650 Table of Ten