The Marie Civic Leadership
Award
The Marie Award Presentation
Monday, May 21, 2012. 5:30pm
The Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Library
Honorees:
Curt Bradbury, COO at Stephens Inc.
Chief Kirk Lane, Chief of Police, Benton AR.
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In 2004,
Paul and Irving Spitzberg initiated
The Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership
Award an award to honor their mother,
Marie Spitzberg.
Growing up,
they saw a positive role model in her
values and civic activities in partnership
with their father, Dr. Irving Spitzberg.
Marie Spitzberg lives interfaith leadership
in her service to all regardless of
religion or economic circumstance.
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Chief Kirk Lane and Curt Bradbury To Receive
2012 Marie Award
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Curt Bradbury, a Little Rock businessman,
and Benton Police Chief Kirk Lane will be the
recipients of the 2012 Marie Interfaith Civic
Leadership Award at 5:30 p.m. May 21 in the
Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center
at 1200 President Clinton Avenue in Little Rock.
Arkansas is number one in the nation in teen
pain medication abuse. When his son Cameron
took his own life after a lengthy struggle with
addiction, including prescription drugs, Bradbury
was determined to make the community more aware
of the dangers of prescription drug abuse among
teens in central Arkansas. Chief Lane led his
community in a prescription drug take-back program
that saw prescription drug overdose deaths drop
by half after one year.
The evening will begin with light refreshments,
followed by the award presentation and a panel
discussion on the issue, “Killer in Your Medicine
Cabinet: the Crisis of Teenage Prescription
Drug Abuse” with Bradbury, Chief Lane and Little
Rock Central High student Ryann Mitchell, moderated
by the Rev. Stephen Copley.
The Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership Award
annually recognizes leaders who mobilize people
of different faiths and different segments of
the community to address important issues facing
Arkansas. Past recipients of the Marie Award
include the late Mimi Dortch, 2005; Jim Davis,
2006; Grainger Williams, 2007; the congregations
of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and Bethel AME
Church, 2008; former U.S. Senator David Pryor,
2009; State Sen. Joyce Eliott, 2010; and Dr.
Fitz Hill, 2011.
Members of the Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership
Award Board of Directors are the Rev. Stephen
Copley, Chair; Dr. Joel Anderson; Justice Robert
L. Brown; Joyce Elliott; Rabbi Gene Levy; Derrick
Smith, and Sarah Wacaster.
Members of the Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership
Award Steering Committee are the Rev. Stephen
Copley, Chair; Dr. Joel Anderson; Justice Robert
L. Brown; Michael Drake; Fran Flener; Larry
Jegley; Rabbi Gene Levy; John Miller; Russell
King; Gary Speed, and Sarah Wacaster.
The logo of the Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership
Award symbolizes how people of all faiths look
upward to God and reach outward toward each
other. It is rendered in black and white to
represent that people of all races as well as
all faiths are working together to lead their
community.
Past recipients of the Marie Interfaith Civic
Leadership Award include:
Mimi Dortch, 2005
Jim Davis, 2006
Grainger Williams, 2007
The Congregations of Bethel AME Church and Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral, 2008
US Sen. David Pryor, 2009
State Sen. Joyce Elliott, 2010
Dr. Fitz Hill, 2011
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