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.