Oklahoma State Council for the Humanities named the 2013 winners

Oklahoma State Oklahoma City - Humanities Council named the 2013 winners honored in the state of Oklahoma Humanities Award Presentation Dinner on March 28, 2013, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State The city's historical center.

OHC Executive Director Ann Thompson said: "According to our mission to engage in person-to-person text, it is appropriate, we respected people and organizations to maintain cultural - as I understand it - is still alive,". "The work they do is often behind the scenes, so we are very pleased to host this event, to thank them in various ways in the life and culture of the Oklahoma State more meaningful."

The 2013 Oklahoma Maren Wen winners:

• Arne Henderson, a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Professor Emeritus building in the University of Oklahoma, will receive the highest honor of the OHC, his dedication to humanity through his architecture in the state of Oklahoma Humanities Award research as it relates to Oklahoma State in the past, present, and future. Henderson is the author and co-author of many works, including the building in Oklahoma Landmark and Vernacular "(1978)," Sports Heritage: Oklahoma County from 1889 to 1931, building "(1980) Up the reporters of press, "Bruce Goff: Freedom in the disciplines of architecture" (2012). His expertise and dedication to help save in Guthrie's business district.

Hong Kong Wan possesses, professor of English and interpersonal director of the Research Center of Oklahoma City University in the United States through film and literature, will receive the Public Humanities Award, his dedication, excellent public programming statewide. Wen's work includes guiding the Oklahoma City University Film Institute and Margaret Thatcher Hoffman Smith annual poetry series. Let's talk about Oklahoma State, he was an active and popular scholar! And create a few new reading and discussion topics.

• Pioneer Library System will receive the Community Leadership Award for its innovative and successful reading program with Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club "three months of the program, including academics, leadership of the group discussions, film screenings, professional storytelling, children's literature program throughout the Cleveland, Pottawatomie and McLean County.

• Richard A. reason, Ph.D., Director, Euchee (Yuchi) Language Project, Humanities Education Award, his achievements in language preservation. The reason the work, including the invention of a practical letters the Euchee, as well as a daily children's language classes, pre-school children, older children, adolescents and adult community classes.

• the story of the five tribes, the meeting will be recognized as "OHC outstanding project, an award-OHC program or programming to become honorary members of the public may. Organized by the five civilized tribes Museum, the two-day meeting to share ideas, creative knowledge and understanding of some top American Indian storytellers, writers, historians, musicians and scholars to underserved areas, and Oklahoma State.