FROM: Eric Breindel Foundation
              1211 Avenue of the Americas

              Rubenstein Associates, Inc. - Public Relations
              Contact: Germaine Febles (212) 843-8031
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3RD ANNUAL ERIC BREINDEL COLLEGIATE JOURNALISM AWARD
GIVEN TO CLAREMONT MCKENNA STUDENT ELISE VIEBECK

July 10, 2008 (New York, NY) – The Eric Breindel Foundation presented the third annual Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism to Elise Viebeck, a student at Claremont McKenna College.

The Foundation presents a $10,000 award to a college or university student whose work best reflects the spirit that animated the writings of Eric Breindel: Love of country and its democratic institutions, as well as the act of bearing witness to the evils of totalitarianism.

Elise Viebeck grew up in the small Bay Area town of Pleasanton, California. Now 19, she is a fulltime student at Claremont McKenna College and is planning a career in journalism upon graduation 2010.

The piece that earned Ms. Viebeck the Collegiate Breindel Award is titled “CMC Professor Involved in Art Restitution Controversy.”

Past Collegiate Breindel Award recipients include: Matt Mireles of Columbia University and John Wilson of Claremont McKenna College.

In 1977, Eric Breindel graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving his A.B. from Harvard, Eric studied politics at the London School of Economics. He went to Harvard Law School where he received his J.D. in 1982.

Eric became the Editorial Page Editor of the New York Post in 1986 and was appointed Senior Vice President of News Corporation in 1997. His nationally syndicated column appeared weekly in the Post and he was the moderator of a weekly national public affairs television program, Fox News Watch, on the Fox News Channel. A book of his columns, titled A Passion for Truth: The Selected Writings of Eric Breindel, was published in 1998.

The Breindel Foundation, a 501c-3 tax-exempt entity, remains open to those who wish to honor Eric’s memory with a donation. Those interested should write to: Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. For information regarding next year’s submissions, please call Germaine Febles at (212) 843-8031.
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