Playboy Foundation Awards Patricia Princehouse
Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award

The Playboy Foundation has announced the winners of the 2006 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards. One of the award winners is Patricia Princehouse, a founding member of Ohio Citizens for Science.

The Playboy Foundation's press release includes this commendation:

Patricia Princehouse, Ph.D. (Education): The leader of Ohio Citizens for Science who, seeing a profound and rising challenge to the separation of church and state in American schools, organized a successful coalition to preserve science education in Ohio's public schools.

Congratulations Patricia!

Patricia's acceptance speech has been posted at The Nation.

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