標題: 蓋茲對青少年傑出服務獲頒銀水牛獎 [打印本頁]
作者: Ronald.Leng 時間: 2010-9-15 23:56 標題: 蓋茲對青少年傑出服務獲頒銀水牛獎
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| 時間：2010/9/15 撰稿‧編輯：吳寧康 新聞引據： 採訪、美聯社 |
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微軟創辦人比爾蓋茲(Bill Gates)與妻子梅琳達(Melinda Gates)(AFP)
微軟的共同創辦人比爾．蓋茲(Bill Gates)，14日因為對青少年的傑出服務，獲得美國童軍(Boy Scouts of America，BSA)頒發銀水牛獎(Silver Buffalo)。
美國童軍表示，頒發銀水牛獎給蓋茲，除了表彰他對微軟的成功經營，更多的原因是因為他透過比爾與梅琳達蓋茲基金會(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)進行的人道工作。
青少年時期也曾參加童軍的蓋茲在出席頒獎餐會時表示，童軍活動是非常積極、並具有建設性的回憶，雖然他並不擅長郊遊遠足、也不擅長烹煮，但這是全然自我挑戰的經驗。
在向蓋茲致敬的影片中，他的前童軍團長威林根(Don Van Wierengen)回憶起當年在西雅圖中心的一項童軍活動。他說當時大多數童軍都在展現他們的野外技巧，但蓋茲卻想秀他的電腦。
蓋茲的基金會和美國童軍與聯合國基金會共同合作，為非洲人民提供塗有殺蟲劑的蚊帳。
銀水牛獎是美國童軍頒發給成年人的最高榮譽，過去的得獎者包括飛行家林白(Charles Lindbergh)、插畫家洛克威爾(Norman Rockwell)、美國前國務卿鮑威爾(Colin Powell)、華德迪士尼(Walt Disney)以及14位美國總統。 |
作者: Ronald.Leng 時間: 2010-9-16 00:14
'Dib dib dib': Billionaire Microsoft chief Bill Gates receives Boy Scout's highest honour, the Silver Buffalo award
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 3:42 PM on 15th September 2010
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has received the highest award that the Boy Scouts of America bestows on adults for distinguished service to youth.
Scout officials said he deserved the Silver Buffalo award for his success with Microsoft, but more so for his humanitarian work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
As a boy in the 1960s and 1970s, Mr Gates was a member of Seattle's Cub Scout Pack 144 and Boy Scout Troop 186 and achieved the rank of Life Scout.
Recognition: Bill Gates is presented with the Boy Scouts Silver Buffalo award for the humanitarian work he carries out through his foundation
Mr Gates, who shared a table at the award ceremony with his father William Gates Snr, said scouting was 'a very positive memory'.
He said: 'I wasn't good at hiking, I wasn't good at cooking the food, it was the overall experience of challenging yourself.'
In a recorded tribute, his former scoutmaster Don Van Wierengen recalled a show at the Seattle Center where most boys in the troop were demonstrating outdoor skills, but Mr Gates wanted to demonstrate computers.
Tributes: Mr Gates shakes hands with Boy Scouts during the award ceremony. The billionaire was a scout as a youth in Seattle
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to eradicate malaria and other diseases among other goals, has joined with the Boy Scouts and the UN Foundation on a programme to provide insecticide-treated mosquito nets to protect sleeping people in Africa.
The Silver Buffalo award was created in 1925. Past winners include Charles Lindbergh, Normal Rockwell, Colin Powell, Walt Disney and 14 U.S. presidents.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1312223/Microsofts-Bill-Gates-receives-Silver-Buffalo-award-services-youth.html#ixzz0zcDbwbfL
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