Prior to his work with the Institute, he was an assistant professor at George Washington University, heading its global Population Information Program. In 1980, Mr. Fornos received the Distinguished Population Service Award from Population Dynamics. He began work to improve conditions, giving priority to global needs rather than high profits. Mr. Turner's news networks produce world news heard everywhere. 1989 - Gerald Larue Gerald A. Larue was honored as Humanist of the Year in 1989 for his work on the rights of the elderly and terminally ill, for his scholarship, and as a Humanist leader and writer.
Humanists are the most positive of humans.
In 1987 Margaret Eleanor Atwood was honored jointly as Humanist of the Year by the Humanists of Canada and the AHA for her work as a poet and critic, and for her extremely popular novels on feminist themes, especially The Handmaid's Tale. Ms. Atwood has had published 18 books of poetry and eight novels. She has been called the most discussed and widely read writer in Canada and the Canadian national heroine of the arts. She taught nursing for two years in Ohio, and in 1966 earned an M.A. at Columbia University in maternal and infant care. She saw the need for birth control and life-saving abortions while interning at a Harlem hospital.