NAACP Award Reception
35th Annual Armed Services & Veterans Affairs Awards Dinner
July 2009, Washington, DC, USA
Maria Höhn and David Dinkins (Former Mayor of New York City and former Montford Point Marine)
Jimmy Love (Acting Principal Director, Office of Diversity Management & Equal Opportunity, Pentagon)
Ron E. Armstead (Director, Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Black Braintrust)
Martin Klimke, Jimmy Love, Maria Höhn, Ron E. Armstead, Joseph J. Armstead
Kwame Mfume (Former President/CEO of the NAACP and Congressman from Maryland, 1987-1996), Maria Höhn, and Martin Klimke
Kwame Mfume, Ron E. Armstead, Joseph J. Armstead, Martin Klimke, Maria Höhn, Lindsey Stokes (University of Mainz), Robert Filner (D-CA, Chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee), Tyra Fenell (Humanities Council, Washington, DC)
Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke
Tyra Fenell (Humanities Council, Washington, DC), Anke Ortlepp (GHI Washington), Martin Klimke, and Maria Höh
NAACP 35th Annual Armed Services & Veterans Affairs Awards Dinner
Presentation of the Colors (United States Marine Corps Color Guard, Marine Barracks Washington)
National Anthem, Corporal Robert N. Schneider (The Quantico Marine Corps Band, Quantico, VA)
General James T. Conway (Commandant of the Marine Corps and Member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon)
Jimmy Love introducing Maria Höhn
Award Winner and Dinner Guests
Maria Höhn, Althea Hankins (Director, ACES MUSEUM Honoring Black and Minority Veterans of World War II & Their Families), WWII veteran, Martin Klimke
Lindsey Stokes, Martin Klimke, Tyra Fennell, Anke Ortlepp, Maria Höhn, Charles Geiger, Irmintraud Jost (Heidelberg University Association)