Policy group to honor Scaife with award
A Washington-based public policy group dedicated to strengthening national security will honor newspaper publisher and philanthropist Dick Scaife on Thursday.
Scaife will receive the Terry Elkes Sacred Honor Award from the Center for Security Policy for his “visionary philanthropy and advocacy for America's national security.”
Former Florida Congressman Allen B. West will receive the 2013 Freedom Flame Award for his “steadfast commitment to the freedom and security of the United States.” The awards will be presented at the Center for Security Policy's awards dinner in New York City.
Scaife has had “a profound impact on the public policy arena through his support for organizations that have helped shape it for over two generations,” said Frank J. Gaffney Jr., the center's founder and CEO.
“Dick has rarely received anything remotely like the credit he is due, principally because he has adamantly refused to be acknowledged,” Gaffney said.
Scaife is publisher of newspapers in Western Pennsylvania, including the Tribune-Review.
Through three family foundations — the Allegheny Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Carthage Foundation — he has supported myriad groups and organizations.
Michael W. Gleba, president of the Sarah Scaife Foundation, will accept the Sacred Honor Award on Scaife's behalf.
“Dick Scaife has never sought out recognition for the ideas and work that he has supported. He supports these efforts because he believes they will defend the United States of America, and that is what the Center for Security Policy has done for 25 years,” Gleba said.
Gleba said the Sarah Scaife Foundation and Carthage Foundation have supported the Center for Security Policy since its founding, “and its work in promoting the Reagan ideal of peace through strength is as important now as it was when the center was founded in 1989.”
The award is named for the vow made by the signers of the Declaration of Independence when they wrote, “We mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
Past recipients include E. Miles Prentice III, Joseph W. Donner, Jack Templeton, Eugene M. Grant and David L. Luke III.
The Freedom Flame Award, presented to West, recognizes individuals who exemplify the ideals of freedom, democracy, economic opportunity and international strength. Past recipients include James Woolsey, John Bolton, Richard Perle, Lawrence and Susan Kadish, Fred Thompson, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Edwin Meese III, William J. Casey and Margaret Thatcher.
