Last year, the P.S.A.L. honored John LaSpina for his contributions, including his donation of 2,500 pairs of shoes.
His contributions include dramatic crime reduction and the transformation of welfare to "workfare".
His contributions include $2,500 apiece from Courtney Love, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Edward Norton, a childhood friend.
He is, his sister says, "always in a pottery mood," and his contributions include a turquoise platter bearing an image of Neptune crowned with long flowing locks.
His contributions include a set of portraits of the wives of Presidents through the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, a poster of Barney Oldfield in a red racing car, and a poem called "The Man Behind the Bar".
His contributions included a 42-yard reception down the left sideline on 4th-and-18 that set up Vanderbilt's go-ahead score with just over two minutes remaining.
He also helped design the Salyut 6 and 7 space stations and Mir, where his contributions included choosing interior colors: white for the ceiling, brown for the floors and green for the walls.
His contributions include ground-breaking research on flexible accumulation, the rise of new industrial spaces, economic growth in 'sunbelt' cities such as Los Angeles, and cultural industries such as film and music.
His contributions include the Hamming code (which makes use of a Hamming matrix), the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing (or Hamming bound) and the Hamming distance.
When ethnic Chinese writers became common in the early 1900s, critics named Lie the "father of Chinese Malay literature" for his contributions, including Siti Akbari and Tjhit Liap Seng.
His contributions included the addition of an ambulance squad to the fire department and the construction of an indoor ice skating rink.
