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Wallenberg Honors Program
Winners Announced

Among those recognized by the Wallenberg Honors Program on May 6, 2004 were Morris County students:

  • Peter Crimi, Bayley Ellard
  • John Cucco, Madison
  • James Douighty, Parsippany High
  • Richard Kowalski, Parsippany Hills High
  • Julia Marin, Dover HS
  • Clint Morrisown, Delbarton
  • Blair Biersbach, Robert Lazar Middle School (Montville)
  • Jessica Dixon, Great Meadows Middle School
  • John Florek, Mendham Twp Middle School
  • Adrienne Heasty, Thomas Jefferson Middle School
  • Hao Lin, Dover
  • Katharine Shipman, Madison Junior High
  • Marie Zecca, East Hanover

The nine-year old program, co-sponsored by the Human Relations Commission and the Wallenberg Foundation of New Jersey, honors students who display the compassion and courage of Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary in 1944. Students are nominated and honored for carrying out his example as "the power of one" person's actions in saving others.