2009.01.10: January 10, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: COS - Uganda: Staff: Country Directors - Uganda: Awards: Arkansas City Traveler: Delano E. Lewis, country director for the Peace Corps in Nigeria and Uganda from 1966 to 1969, named Kansan of the Year
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2009.01.10: January 10, 2009: Headlines: COS - Nigeria: COS - Uganda: Staff: Country Directors - Uganda: Awards: Arkansas City Traveler: Delano E. Lewis, country director for the Peace Corps in Nigeria and Uganda from 1966 to 1969, named Kansan of the Year
Delano E. Lewis, country director for the Peace Corps in Nigeria and Uganda from 1966 to 1969, named Kansan of the Year
He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Africa from 1966 to 1969. He held positions of associate director in Nigeria and country director in Uganda.
Delano E. Lewis, country director for the Peace Corps in Nigeria and Uganda from 1966 to 1969, named Kansan of the Year
Ark City native will be named Kansan of Year
By ALEX GAMBILL
Traveler Staff Writer
Former U.S. Ambassador and Arkansas City native, Delano E. Lewis, will be recognized as Kansan of the Year Jan. 30 at the 91st annual Native Sons and Daughter of Kansas Banquet.
The banquet will be held at Kansas Expocentre's Maner Conference Center in Topeka.
In a phone interview Lewis said he's very honored to be recognized.
For one with many accomplishments, he said, "I don't really know how I stood out. I just hope that my dedicated work was exemplary."
Lewis was born in 1938 in Arkansas City to Raymond E. Lewis and Enna Wordlow Lewis. The family moved to Kansas City in 1942.
After graduating from Sumner High School, Lewis attended the University of Kansas in 1956. He received a bachelor of arts degree in political science and history in 1960 and in 1963 earned a juris doctor degree from Washburn University School of Law.
Lewis said he credits a lot of his accomplishments to Kansas' educational system.
"I'm quite grateful for my education in Kansas and the University of Kansas."
In 1963, he was appointed as a staff attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and went on to join the Office of Analysis and Advice of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, two years later.
He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Africa from 1966 to 1969. He held positions of associate director in Nigeria and country director in Uganda.
From 1969 to 1971, Lewis was legislative assistant to Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts. In 1971 he was administrative assistant to Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy of the District of Columbia.
In 1973, he went to work for C&P Telephone Company as public affairs manager. In 198i Lewis was named president of the Washington DC company of Bell Atlantic. In 1990, he was named chief executive officer.
In 1994, Lewis became president and chief executive officer of National Public Radio (NPR). In the same year, Vice President Al Gore appointed him to a two-year term as co-chairman of the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council.
In 1999, Pres. Bill Clinton nominated Lewis to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, which he served through 2001.
He became a senior fellow at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
Lewis was presented the Distinguished Leadership and USA Media Spotlight awards by Amnesty International ten years after his work in 1987 in The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Federal Association and USA.
He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Citation from the University of Kansas and a Distinguished Service Award and honorary doctor of laws degree from Washburn University.
Currently, Lewis is seated on the boards of directors of the Meridian International Center, The American institutes for Research, The Colgate Palmolive Company and Eastman Kodak Company.
Lewis is a served on the boards of trustees of The Catholic University of America, Mount Vernon College, The United Negro College Fund and The Greater Washington Research Center. He is also a former chairman of the board of The Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation; is an honorary board member of Mainstream, a national board member of Africare and an emeritus member of the board of The Washington Performing Arts Society.
Lewis and his wife, Gayle, live in Mesilla, N.M. and have four sons and eleven grandchildren.
The banquet will begin at 5:30 p.m. and tickets for the event may be ordered by calling (785) 235-6245 or online at ksnativesonsanddaughters.org.
Bill Self, University of Kansas head men's basketball coach, will be honored as Distinguished Kansan of the year, at the banquet.
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