Pete and Pam Wright to Receive 2006 Smart Kids Community Service
Award
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Smart
Kids Award winners will be honored at a Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities’
cocktail reception and dinner at the Stamford Marriott on Thursday, June 15, 2006.
Peter
and Pamela Wright, who together created the Wrightslaw
special education website, will receive the 2006 Smart Kids Community Service
Award. Mr. Wright is a nationally renowned attorney with dyslexia who has represented
hundreds of children with disabilities.
Mark
Griffin, Ph.D. and Rayma Griffin, M.Ed., the headmaster and director of Admissions
and Placement, respectively, of Eagle Hill School in Greenwich, CT, will receive
the 2006 Smart Kids Professional Achievement Award.
David
Neeleman of New Canaan, CT — CEO of JetBlue Airways and Smart Kids’
Honorary chairman — will present the third annual Smart Kids Youth Achievement
Award to Walter Joseph Kasura II of Glenwood, MD, for accomplishments in the science
and practice of firefighting and for contributions to his local fire station.
The
event, beginning at 6:30 pm, includes a “Chinese auction” plus a silent
auction featuring a week’s stay at a private 4-bedroom vacation home on the
West Shore of Lake Tahoe. For
information and tickets, please go to the Smart Kids with LD site or call
(203) 226-6831 or (203) 454-4070.
