AOL Time Warner Honors Employees' Outstanding Volunteer Achievements with the 22nd Annual Andrew Heiskell Community Service Awards

Published 05-29-03

Submitted by AOL Time Warner, Inc.

NEW YORK, NY - AOL Time Warner recently announced the winners of the 22nd Annual Andrew Heiskell Community Service Awards, which celebrate the exceptional volunteer efforts of employees.

The awards, named for Andrew Heiskell, a former chairman of Time Inc., are being presented to 14 employees at a luncheon ceremony on June 4, 2003 at the Time & Life Building in New York City, in honor of their distinguished achievements in the areas of public service, community development and human rights.

In addition, AOL Time Warner announced that Time Inc. Chairman and CEO Ann Moore has been awarded the 1st Annual AOL Time Warner Civic Leadership Award. The award recognizes the senior executive who does the most to foster a spirit of employee volunteerism and corporate responsibility at the Company.

"With these awards, we honor 15 outstanding men and women, whose volunteer achievements have enriched the lives and communities of people across the globe," said Dick Parsons, Chairman and CEO of AOL Time Warner. "This year's award winners, together with thousands of their AOL Time Warner colleagues who volunteer their time and skills on a daily basis, demonstrate a remarkable level of generosity, compassion and commitment. We are proud to support their efforts to make a difference in the community."

"We are very pleased to recognize Ann Moore with AOL Time Warner's first-ever Civic Leadership Award," said Don Logan, AOL Time Warner Media and Communications Group Chairman. "Her hands-on approach to community service and enthusiastic encouragement of volunteerism at Time Inc. set a fine example for the entire Company."

"The achievements we're paying tribute to here today represent an important part of who we are as a Company," said Jeff Bewkes, AOL Time Warner Entertainment and Networks Group Chairman. "Every day, these employee volunteers build on AOL Time Warner's longstanding tradition of strengthening the communities where we do business."

This year's award winners have devoted their time and skills to several
important efforts including education, literacy, youth mentoring, victims' services counseling, journalists' rights and improving housing, healthcare and recreational opportunities for underserved communities.

"Giving, loving, sharing of yourself are mechanisms by which you preserve the community," said award winner Perdita Jordan. "The more you give, the more that comes back."

Each Andrew Heiskell Community Service Award recipient receives $5,000 from AOL Time Warner, in the form of a $3,000 donation from the AOL Time Warner Foundation to the nonprofit organization or organizations of their choice and a personal gift of $2,000. In addition, as part of the Civic Leadership Award, the AOL Time Warner Foundation will make a $5,000 donation to the nonprofit organization or organizations of the recipient's choice.

This year's honorees, who were nominated by their peers and chosen from
among AOL Time Warner's 90,000 employees worldwide, are:

Andrew Heiskell Community Service Awards

Ian Bottle -- Art Production Editor at IPC Media's TVTimes in London, England, who recently climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money for the U.K.'s Anthony Nolan Trust, an organization that helps find bone marrow donors for patients who need transplants. Ian has also helped to raise money for Leukemia research, the British Heart Foundation and a number of other causes.

Leigh Eve Casey, Account Executive, Melanie Gangarossa, Purchasing Agent and Karen Denise White, Administrative Assistant at Time Warner Cable in Rochester, N.Y., who founded The Thankful Givers. Working with more than 35 local agencies, the group provides food, clothing and household items on a monthly basis to local people in need.

Angelo DiVincenzo -- Visual Effects Coordinator at New Line Cinema in Los Angeles, Ca., who is a volunteer art teacher with Free Arts for Abused Children's PACT (Parents and Children Together) program, which uses art workshops to bring underprivileged children and their families together in a creative learning environment. DiVincenzo is currently involved in launching a PACT workshop at a local homeless shelter.

Perdita Jordan -- Documentation Engineer for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s Turner Entertainment Networks in Atlanta, GA, who has volunteered for more than 12 years with the Open Door Outreach Center and other organizations focused on serving families. She also volunteers with the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, and is an enthusiastic supporter of Turner-sponsored volunteer programs including Habitat for Humanity and Take Our Children to Work Day.

Jeff Kagan -- Program Scheduling Manager at HBO in New York City, who founded the New York City Gay Hockey Association. Kagan is also the co-founder of Out of Bounds NYC, an umbrella organization which supports sports and recreation groups in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, reaching people who have traditionally been left out of organized sports.

Judy Klein -- Diversity and Employer of Choice Communications Manager at America Online in Dulles, Va., devotes her time to working as a mentor with several organizations including Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the Time To Read literacy program and the Digital Heroes e-mentoring campaign. Klein is also a founding member of BE@AOL, an affinity group for African-American employees at AOL.

Jim Kunen -- Senior Editor, Corporate Communications at AOL Time Warner in New York City, who as founder and presiding secretary of AOL Time Warner's Amnesty International chapter (the first such chapter at any U.S. corporation) organizes letter writing campaigns focused on the release of imprisoned journalists and prisoners of conscience around the world.

Brian Lants -- Senior Technical Manager at America Online in Dulles, Va., who has worked with the Persecution Project Foundation to help deliver food and supplies to some of the neediest and most dangerous areas in Africa. Brian is also the captain of AOL's Christmas in April team in Va. where he organizes weekend construction projects to save and refurbish the homes of poor, elderly and disabled families. In addition, he has raised funds, put together and continues to support the computer lab and classroom computers at Dominion elementary school in Leesburg, Virginia.

Patricia Mangnanti -- Relocation Specialist, Finance Division at Time Inc. in New York City, who uses her vacation time every year to travel to Honduras with the organization Hearts for Honduras. Pat and the group helped build and continue to sustain a local school in the impoverished village of La Entrada and provide medical, dental and eye care for the community.

Maria Tully -- Director, Commercial Production at Time Warner Cable in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who is a founding member of Sojourner Truth House, a shelter for battered women and their children. Tully has also devoted significant energy to health issues in the community. She is a board member and volunteer for the Visiting Nurses Association, which provides home healthcare for tens of thousands of people annually and Penfield Children's Center, a center for developmentally disabled children. She is also a board member of the Wisconsin Parkinson's Association.

Virginia Tweedy -- Vice President, Business Affairs, Warner Bros. Pictures Inc., in Burbank, Ca., who after a 1999 breast cancer diagnosis devoted herself to fundraising for the Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center and working with the center's Speakers Bureau to educate the public about breast cancer detection and treatment. She also helped get laptop computers donated for patients at the center so they could learn more about their disease and treatment options. In addition, she obtained grants to fund the cost of wigs for those patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment who could not afford the cost of a wig.

Patricia Zaragoza -- Accounts Payable at Ivy Hill Corp. in Los Angeles, Ca., who has volunteered as a counselor and coordinated fundraisers for an organization called Loved Ones of Homicide Victims, following the murder of her son in 1993. Patricia also volunteers for the Sheriff's office every morning before work so that detectives can be on the street, and she and her husband helped launch a program to reach out to at-risk kids in the neighborhood. She is now a certified disaster worker with F.E.M.A for Los Angeles County, participating in training exercises and mock disaster drills.

AOL Time Warner Civic Leadership Award

Ann Moore, Chairman and CEO of Time Inc., has helped spearhead several of Time Inc.'s important volunteer and philanthropic initiatives relating to education. She originated the recent Time to Give Back employee fundraising drive, which raised $350,000 for The Fund for Public Schools: Project Arts; Teach for America; the After School Corporation and other organizations. She is also a strong supporter of programs such as New York City's Principal for a Day, which allows Time Inc. employees and other community leaders to spend a day as a public school principal. Moore has played a key role in Time Inc.'s literacy efforts, such as the launch of Sports Illustrated For Kids, which included the distribution of 250,000 free subscriptions to low-income children to promote literacy in the community. She has also been instrumental in bringing Time Inc.'s volunteer and philanthropic resources to bear on a range of healthcare issues, from helping to establish the cancer-care community Gilda's Club, to supporting the National Campaign to Lower Teen Pregnancy and the ongoing fight against pediatric AIDS.

About the Andrew Heiskell Community Service Awards

The awards are named for Andrew Heiskell, whose 43-year career at Time Inc. included a distinguished record of public service and philanthropy. He founded and served as co-chairman of the National Urban Coalition from 1967 to 1979 and played an important role in the restoration of Bryant Park in New York City in 1995. His leadership and generosity have been recognized in a number of ways, including having the New York City Library for the Blind named after him.

About AOL Time Warner

AOL Time Warner is the world's leading media and entertainment company, whose businesses include interactive services, cable systems, filmed
entertainment, television networks, music and publishing.

About the AOL Time Warner Foundation

The AOL Time Warner Foundation works to help young people acquire the 21st Century Literacy skills they need to succeed at school, at work and in their communities. The Foundation engages the full range of AOL Time Warner's unique resources to build innovative and sustainable programs targeted toward underserved youth.

AOL Time Warner Honors Employees' Outstanding Volunteer Achievements with the 22nd Annual Andrew Heiskell Community Service Awards

AOL Time Warner Honors Employees' Outstanding Volunteer Achievements with the 22nd Annual Andrew Heiskell Community Service Awards

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