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"Thomas F. Cunningham Award"
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An Award Luncheon
honoring
George J. Fowler, III
Thursday,
June 5
- 12:00 Noon
- (cash bar at 11:30 a.m.)
Plimsoll Club, 30th Floor, WTC
(Free validated parking in the WTC Garage)
Advance Registration Required
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The
Thomas F. Cunningham award was established in 1945 by the World
Trade Center’s predecessor organization, International House,
and is presented in recognition of outstanding service toward
greater social, educational, economic, cultural and political
relationships and understanding between the United States and
the countries of Latin America.
George J. Fowler, III was born in Havana, Cuba, and obtained
a business degree from Louisiana State University and a law degree
from Tulane University. In 1988 Mr. Fowler founded Fowler Rodriguez
Valdes-Fauli, an international law firm with offices in New Orleans,
Houston, Miami, Mobile, and Bogota, and associated offices in
Caracas, Guatemala City, Mexico City, Montreal, San Jose, San Pedro
Sula, San Salvador, Santo Domingo, and Sao Paulo. The firm is
prominent in the fields of international law, energy, admiralty, and
commercial law.
Mr. Fowler is the founder and Chairman of the Tulane Law School
Latin American Law Institute. He also served as Chairman of the
International Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association. He is
General Counsel, Vice President and on the Board of Directors of the
Cuban American National Foundation, where he has been active in the
field of human rights. Mr. Fowler was one of the founders and serves
on the Board of the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation and is
a Board Member of the World Trade Center. In 2005 he received the
“Sanchez to Sanchez to Smith Award” from the Hispanic Chamber of
Commerce of Louisiana.
Past recipients of the Cunningham Award include:
- John L. Ochsner, M.D
- Capt. J.W. Clark
- Dr. Eamon M. Kelly
- Charles W. Robinson and Samuel G. Robinson
- Hon. Robert Livingston
- Father James Carter
- Dr. Doris Zemurray Stone
- Dr. Richard E. Greenleaf
- Harvey C. Koch
- G. Frank Purvis, Jr.
- Dr. Alton Ochsner
- Theodore Brent
- Rudolf S. Hecht
- Samuel Zemurray
- William G. Zetzmann
- Hon. DeLesseps S. Morrison
- Hon. Hale Boggs
- J. Peter Grace
- Dr. Milton Eisenhower
- Juan Trippe
- Amb. Ellsworth Bunker
- Hon. Nelson Rockefeller
- Henry J. Kaiser
- William Larimer Mellon
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Cost: $40 per person. Tables of 8 can be reserved for
$320.
(To reserve a table, call (504)
529-1601, ext. 222, or e-mail scoolidge@wtcno.org)
Registration and prepayment are
required by June 3, 10:00 a.m.
(cancellation notice required by
June 3, 10:00
a.m.)
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form.
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