Annual Events
The annual Citizenship Award Dinner has proven to be OCPA's biggest event, most recently honoring former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Former recipients include Paul Ryan, John R. Bolton, Peggy Noonan, Thomas Patten Stafford, Larry Arnn, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan and son Michael Reagan, Tommy Franks, J.C. Watts, John T. Walton, William F. Buckley, Jr., Clarence Thomas, Cal Thomas, Steve Forbes, and Jeane Kirkpatrick.
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Famous quotes containing the words annual and/or events:
“...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.”
—Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)