Thai Queen receives award

Thai Queen receives award

NEW YORK (Reuter): Queen Sirikit of Thailand became the first
woman on Tuesday night to receive the Lindbergh Award for work
balancing technology and nature.

Since 1978 the annual award honored the pilot who first flew
solo across the Atlantic, but this year the award was renamed
"the Charles A. and Anne Lindbergh Award," to acknowledge the
role of his wife and navigator.

Anne Lindbergh, who had not made a public appearance in a
decade, attended the ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel but
did not give a speech. She sat on the dais and rose to give Queen
Sirikit a copy of her 1969 book Earth Shine.

Queen Sirikit formed an organization that has taught 30,000
farmers traditional crafts to stabilize their finances during
off-seasons or crop failures.