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Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service.
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chairman, president and CEO of PNC Bank, Delaware. "They are leaders,
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WASHINGTON, Troops in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will
be treated to a USO tour June 25-29, featuring the newly crowned MISS USA(R)
2005, Chelsea Cooley , and MISS TEEN USA(R) 2004, Shelley Hennig., Lockheed Martin Corporation,
Military Channel, Morgan Stanley, National Football League, TriWest Healthcare
Alliance and The Walt Disney Company.uso.5 million in prize money to 157 honorees of international renown.
The final selection of the honorees is the decision of the Executory of
the Common Wealth Trust. Marine Corps where he served as a combat pilot in World
War II and the Korean War. Queen Noor is internationally recognized for her tireless
efforts to address global peace-building, human rights and conflict recovery
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, Shelley Hennig,
MISS TEEN USA 2004, has spent her reign as a youth advocate focusing on self-
esteem issues , anti-violence and anti-drug campaigns. A native of Destrehan,
La. These prestigious awards are
presented annually to people who have enriched and improved the world through
their exceptional lifetime achievements. His Broadway directing credits include hits such as Barefoot in
the Park, The Odd Couple and Plaza Suite.
Rita Dove, 53, wins the 2006 Common Wealth Award for Literature . Before joining CNN, he was an ABC News correspondent."
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About the USO: For more than 64 years, the USO (United Service
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Clear Channel Worldwide, The Coca-Cola Company, Computer Systems Center, Inc.,
Johnson + Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. Other organizations, including the
United Way and Combined Federal Campaign (CFC-0600), have joined thousands of
individual donors to support the USO. She
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Chelsea Cooley, MISS USA 2005, a 21-year-old fashion marketing student
from Charlotte, N. A junior at the
Art Institute of Charlotte, Cooley was the first woman from North Carolina to
capture the title of MISS USA. The USO is supported by World Partners Anheuser -Busch
Companies, AT+T Corporation, Avon Products, Inc. Hayes conceived
the awards to reward and encourage the best of human performance worldwide.
With the 2006 presentation, the awards will have conferred more than
$3."
Hayes served on the board of directors of PNC Bank, Delaware's predecessor
banks from 1943 to 1965. Through the Common Wealth Awards, he sought to
recognize outstanding achievement in seven disciplines: dramatic arts,
literature, science and invention, mass communications , public service,
government, and sociology. Queen Noor chairs the King Hussein Foundation
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Several of today's stars have made trips for
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Barkley, Gary Sinise, Kelly Clarkson , Henry Rollins and Colin Quinn. (NYSE: PNC).
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Glenn Queen Noor Nichols Dove and Cooper Win 2006 Common Wealth Awards

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military personnel and their families. Queen Noor of Jordan, a leading voice for global peace-building,
human rights and conflict recovery issues , for Public Service;
- Mike Nichols, a brilliant and influential director of stage and screen ,
for Dramatic Arts;
- Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and two-term Poet Laureate of
the United States, for Literature;
- Anderson Cooper, leading broadcast journalist and CNN news anchor of
Anderson Cooper 360, for Mass Communications. In
2005, Nichols earned his eighth lifetime Tony Award as director of the smash
musical, Spamalot. Dove is
one of America 's leading and most honored contemporary poets, renowned for the
diversity and creative range of her work.

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, Hennig is planning on attending the School for Film and Television in New
York City in the fall."
This tour continues the USO tradition of bringing celebrity entertainment
to troops serving far from home.S. Senator, astronaut and heroic pioneer of
American space exploration , for Government;
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The Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service were first presented in
1979 by the Common Wealth Trust, created under the will of the late Ralph
Hayes, an influential business executive and philanthropist. PNC Bank, Delaware is a
member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. His television credits
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After being crowned last August in Palm Springs, Calif.M. PNC Bank, Delaware has been trustee and administrator
for the Common Wealth Awards since their inception. We applaud these remarkable individuals for their
accomplishments, and we honor Ralph Hayes for the inspired legacy he created
in the Common Wealth Awards. Among the past winners are 11
Nobel laureates, including human rights leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former
statesman Henry Kissinger and author Toni Morrison. Glenn is
an American hero, esteemed for a remarkable lifetime dedicated to military
aviation, space exploration and service to his country. As the host of CNN's Anderson
Cooper 360, an unconventional , wide-ranging news program, he is the leading
voice of a new generation of journalists. Cooper has
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tsunami coverage and an Emmy Award for his contribution to ABC's coverage of
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The pair
will visit several job posts, shake hands, dine with service members, pose for
pictures and provide a morale boost to troops stationed far from home., was crowned April 11 in Baltimore, Md. Five world -renowned achievers honored for their contributions to society

WILMINGTON, Del. He is a decorated
veteran of the U. Her celebrated works include The Yellow House on
the Corner, Thomas and Beulah , which received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in
Poetry, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, and her latest poetry collection, American
Smooth. Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of
Virginia .
Anderson Cooper, 38, wins the Common Wealth Award for Mass Communications.' s new book about New Orleans.

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She is also an accomplished poet; her work is
published in "Young Authors Book of Poetry . She served as Poet Laureate of the
United States from 1993 to 1995, the youngest person and first African
American to hold the post.

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Winners of the 2006 Common Wealth Awards are:

- John Glenn, former U.S. Glenn further distinguished himself as an American political leader,
serving 24 years as the U.