Time Warner Honors Employees' ExtraordinaryVolunteer Efforts With 19th Annual Andrew Heiskell...

Business/Technology Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 2000

A software engineer mobilizes young people to address human rights violations and ensure safe working conditions; a lawyer managing film acquisitions works to support human rights for women worldwide; a morning

These individuals are three of the 10 Time Warner employees who are honored today for their extraordinary volunteer efforts at the 19th annual ceremony of the Andrew Heiskell Community Service Awards. The long-standing award is named for former Time Inc. chairman Andrew Heiskell and is the most prestigious recognition for Time Warner's employees active in community service. The awards will be presented at a luncheon held at the Time and Life Building in Manhattan. Each award recipient will receive $5,000 from Time Warner. Three thousand dollars will be donated to the nonprofit organization of the winner's choice and $2,000 will be a personal gift.

The event, hosted by Time Warner Chairman and CEO Gerald Levin and President Richard Parsons, further reinforces the company's support for employee awareness of and involvement in social issues.

"Each year, the Heiskell Awards give us the chance to recognize and celebrate the unsung heroes in our midst here at Time Warner," said Levin. "I am proud to call these individuals my colleagues and am humbled by their commitment to their communities."

While these 10 remarkable individuals tirelessly support a diverse range of causes, from homelessness to inner city economic development to equal rights for gays and lesbians, they share one commonality: They each recognized a critical need, found a way to address it and have continued to crusade with passion and deep commitment.

"Anyone can be an activist," said award recipient Taina Bien-Aime. "When people become aware of the many injustices going on in our country and around the world, and understand they can help change those situations, it is very powerful."

This year's award winners, selected from Time Warner's nearly 70,000 employees worldwide, are:

Taina Bien-Aime - Director, Business Affairs/Film Acquisitions at HBO, New York City and board member of Equality Now, an international human rights organization working for the protection and promotion of women's rights around the world.

Musette Buckley - Vice President, Production Resources, Warner Bros. Pictures and volunteer with Planet Hope, an organization that provides a variety of programs which support homeless adults and special outreach efforts for homeless women and their children.

David Eng - Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology at HBO, volunteers with workers and students to help immigrant and minority communities in New York City address human rights violations and ensure safe working conditions.

Bennie Jablonski - Department Coordinator, Finance at Time Warner Cable and chairperson of the board of the Stamford, Connecticut-based Teen Life Center, a non-sectarian organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of teens.

Michael Lewis - Deputy General Counsel, at Warner Bros. Online and Entertaindom, and President of the Alumni Board of Directors and Trustee of Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, where he has labored tirelessly on many levels to promote tolerance and diversity among students and staff.

Deepak Puri - Senior Bureau Manager for Time Inc.'s New Delhi Bureau and community organizer and organic farmer in rural India.

Gary Stewart - Senior Vice President, A&R at Rhino Records and board member of the Liberty Hill Foundation, a Los Angeles nonprofit foundation devoted to support of grassroots organizations for community empowerment and economic growth.

Herschel Vaughn - Administrative Services Distribution Coordinator for Time Inc. and founder of Quest Junior Drum and Bugle Corps, which enables children ages seven to 20 to learn to read music, play an instrument, follow choreographed formations and compete with other such groups across the country at no cost to the child or his family.

Jenifer Wana - Consumer Marketing Manager at In Style magazine, executive board member of APEX (an Asian America big brother/big sister organization), founder of New York chapter, Thai American Young Professionals Association (TAYPA) and host of Asian American Spotlight, a public access television program focused on issues impacting the Asian American community in New York.

Greg Wiegand - Producer, CNN This Morning in Hong Kong and founder and president of Novel Approach, an organization that helps educate Cambodian children through the establishment of libraries.

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