Outstanding Achievers with Learning Disabilities Awardees
Every year since 1985, The Lab School has honored successful adults who have successfully overcome their learning disabilities. The awardees spend a day at The Lab School, visiting with our students and are honored at a Gala Awards Ceremony and Dinner Dance that evening. They always provide inspiration to our students and their families and help the Lab School raise public awareness of learning disabilities. The list of Awardees below includes leaders in the arts, business, public service, education, sports, entertainment and many other fields:
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1985 G. Chris Andersen, Investment Banker Cher, Actress Tom Cruise, Actor Bruce Jenner, Olympic Decathlon Champion Robert Rauschenberg, Artist Richard C. Strauss, Real Estate Financier |
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1986 Harry Anderson, Comedian, Actor, Magician Ann Bancroft, Arctic Explorer Frank Dunkle,* Head of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Greg Louganis, Olympic Diving Champion Henry Winkler, Producer, Director, Actor |
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1987 Marina B, Jewelry Designer Chuck Close, Artist Richard Cohen, Syndicated Columnist Mark Torrance, Corporation Executive Margaret Whitton, Actress Roger W. Wilkins, Scholar, Author, Professor |
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1988 Tracey Gold, Actress Malcolm Goodridge, III, Vice President AMEX Magic Johnson, Basketball Star Thomas H. Kean, Governor of New Jersey Emily Fisher Landau, Foundation President Daniel Stern, Actor |
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1989 Harry Belafonte, Singer, Actor, Humanitarian Gaston Caperton, Governor of West Virginia William J. Doyle,* Antiques Expert, Auctioneer Fred W. Friendly,* Broadcast Journalist, Scholar Dexter Manley, Football Star Paul Orfalea, CEO, Kinkos |
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1990 Donald S. Coffey, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University Medical School Marc Flanagan, Producer, Writer John Horner, Ph.D., Paleontologist Hugh Newell Jacobsen, FAIA, Architect |
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1991 Susan Butcher, Alaska Iditarod Dog Sled Race Winner Charles Guggenheim, Documentary Film Maker Wendy Wasserstein, Prize-winning Playwright Wallace Westfeldt, Television Producer |
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1992 Sir John Swan, Premier of Bermuda |
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1993 Elaine Heumann Gurian, Deputy Director, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Florence Haseltine, M.D., Ph.D., Director, NIH Center for Population Research J. Seward Johnson, Jr., Sculptor
Victor Villasenor, Author |
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1994 Richard Avedon, Photographer Fannie Flagg, Actress, Author, Comedienne General Joseph Hoar, Chief of U.S. Central Command Raymond Smith, CEO, Bell Atlantic |
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1995 Robert Benton, Director, Writer Fred J. Epstein, M.D., Pediatric Neurosurgeon Neil Smith, Football Star Humanitarian Award – David Copperfield, Illusionist |
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1996 James Earl Jones, Actor Nell Minow, Lawyer, Corporate Turnaround Specialist, Author Robert Nixon, Film Maker and Conservationist Dan O’Brien, Olympic Decathlon Champion |
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1997 Carolyn McCarthy, Democratic Congresswoman, New York Steven M. Stanley, Ph.D., Paleobiologist Jonathan Pendragon, Magician, Illusionist |
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1998 John McDaniel, CEO, Helix/Medlantic Healthcare Dianne Pilgrim, Director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Vince Vaughn, Actor David Yurman, Jewelry Designer |
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1999 Billy Blanks, World Martial Arts Champion, Tae-Bo Creator Don Coryell, Head Coach San Diego Chargers (Ret.), College Football Hall of Fame Sam Gejdenson, Democratic Congressman, Connecticut |
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2000 James Carville, Political Consultant Kelly McGillis, Actress Clarence Page, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Don Winkler, Chair and CEO, Ford Credit |
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2001 David Boies, Attorney Zoe Caldwell, Tony award-winning actress John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems Victoria MacKenzie-Childs, Creative artist |
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2002 Dr. Ben Carson, M.D., Director, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins John F. Sandner, President & CEO, RB&H Financial Services; Special Policy Advisor & former Chairman, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Jim Shea, Jr., 2002 Olympic gold medallist, skeleton
Billy Bob Thornton, Actor, writer, director |
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2003 Barbara Corcoran, Founder and Chairman The Corcoran Group Dr. Brooks Edwards, Medical Director, Cardiac Transplantation The Mayo Clinic David Neeleman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer JetBlue Airlines Jerry Pinkney, Caldecott Award Winning Children’s Book Illustrator |
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2004 Adrianne Noe, Ph.D., Director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Tom Rothman, Chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment Paul Sereno, Ph.D., Paleontologist and Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of the District of Columbia |
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2005 Mark Batshaw, MD Chief Academic Officer, Children’s National Medical Center; Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, George Washington University Danny Glover, Actor, Director, Activist The Honorable Kendrick Meek, (D) 17th Congressional District, State of Florida
Charles Schwab, Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation |
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2006 Jim Molinaro, Washington Redskins Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child Christopher B. Nelson, President-St. John’s College- Annapolis Lindsay Wagner, Emmy Award winning actress |
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2007 Ari Emanuel, Founder, Endeavor Talent Agency John Shima, Five-time World Champion Skeet Shooter Patricia Polacco, Children's Book Author and Illustrator Robert Wiedmaier,Chef & Proprietor, Marcel's & Brasserie Beck |
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2008 Robert Allbritton, Chairman and CEO, Allbritton Communications and Publisher, Politico Joe Pantoliano, Emmy Award Winning Actor - The Sopranos Richard Rogers, Pritzker Prize winning Architect |
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