2008 BRADLEY PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Milwaukee's Million Dollar Night in Washington Readied!

Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld.com

By Michael Horne

In what has become an annual custom, Milwaukeeworld is pleased to be the first to announce that The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation has selected the four winners of the 2008 Bradley Prize to be awarded in a gala ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008.
The Center for Neighborhood Enterprise founder Robert L. Woodson, Sr. will be one of the honorees to receive the $250,000 "stipend" that accompanies the award. He will be joined by University of Chicago professor Gary S. Becker, who could probably use the money if he has already spent through his winnings from receiving the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics. His 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded in a 36-minute White House ceremony on the morning of November 7th, 2007, did not include a cash stipend, but he did get to share a reception in the State Dining Room with other honorees.
But for the award winners of the Bradley Prize, including Alan Charles Kors, a University of Pennsylvania professor whose books include "The Shadow University: the Betrayal of Liberty on American Campuses," and Victor Davis Hanson, the author of "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War," the Kennedy Center gala will have to suffice.
The Master of Ceremonies for the event will be Brit Hume, a correspondent for Fox News. Hume's interviews with administration officials have given him plenty of practice for the role. According to Bradley Foundation, Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Grebe, "Having Mr. Hume as the Master of Ceremonies for the 2008 Bradley Prizes will add another level of excitement to what will already be a remarkable evening."
You can be sure of that.
Grebe will have his hands full getting ready for the big party, which is free and not open to the public. The Bradley Foundation tax return for 2006, filed on November 7th, 2007, (while Becker was receiving his Medal of Freedom), shows that Grebe received an emolument of $532,289 for his "50 hours per week" of work at the foundation's headquarters at The Lion House, located on N. Franklin Place in Milwaukee's fashionable east side.
[Attention reporters: For further information, or to schedule an interview with Bradley Foundation President & CEO, Michael Grebe, please contact Kevin McVicker with Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at (703) 739-5920 or (800) 536-5920. -- Ed.]