Order of Academic Palms for Work on the W3R-US
Press Release --- For Immediate Release --- Date: September 27, 2008
Contact W3R-USA at (302)-543-5723
Kim Burdick, Chairman of the Delaware Humanities Forum Council and former editor
of DPA's NewsBreak, will be by the French Government at a public ceremony
in October at Colonial National Park in Yorktown, Virginia.
She will be inducted into the Order of Academic Palms. (see below).
Kim's work over the past ten years to develop a 685-mile long national historic trail
commemorating the march of the allied American and French soldiers of the American Revolution
from Newport, Rhode Island, to Yorktown, Virginia, is being honored during a celebration
of the 225th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty of Paris signified the official end
of the American Revolution.
Kim, Chair of the National Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route Association
(W3R-USA), credits the hard work of magnificent grassroots volunteers in nine states and
the District of Columbia for the successful public programs and excellent scholarship that
has developed around this project over the past ten years. See Website: www.w3r-us.org
The Ordre des Palmes Académiques (English: Order of Academic Palms) is
an Order of Chivalry of France to academics and educators. The order was originally created
by Napoleon to honor eminient members of the University of Paris. It was re-established
on October 4, 1955, by President René Coty and is one of the world's oldest civil awards.
Originally, the palmes académiques were only given to teachers or professors.
In 1866 the scope of the award was widened to include major contributions
to French national education made by anybody, including foreigners. It was also made
available to French nationals outside of France who had made major contributions
to the expansion of French culture in the rest of the world.
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