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The first Albert Schweitzer International Prizes
Awards Ceremony, October 23, 1975, held in Wilmington, NC at the
University of North Carolina Wilmington. The Prizes were founded to
honor the memory of Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician,
clergyman, and Nobel prize-winner. The first prizes were awarded on
the 100th anniversary of Schweitzer’s birth. The awardees who were
in attendance were Mother Teresa of Calcutta in the humanities, Gian
Carlo Menotti, music, and Dr. Theodor Binder, medicine. The Prizes
continued to be awarded once every 5 years through the early 1990s
and then developed into other prizes and cultural events. The event,
which included choral performances, speakers including chancellor
William Wagoner, and award presentations and acceptance speeches by
all, including Mother Teresa of Calcutta. After this visit to
Wilmington, Mother Teresa continued to New York when she was honored
by the United Nations.