2003 Horace Mann Award Recipients

Kenneth A. MacDonald, one of the founders of the law firm MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless, strives to practice law with a social conscience and to nudge public policy in the direction of equality. Among the highlights of his long and distinguished career, MacDonald represented University of Washington faculty who refused to sign an anti-Communist oath in a case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court. He also served as Chair of the Washington State Human Rights Commission and President of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington. "When I get up everyday, I have two goals," he says. "I have to be needed by somebody and I have to have something to do. If you drop either one of those things, you'll be in a nursing home soon."

Oliver W. Tuthill, Jr., an Antioch University Seattle psychology alumnus, has dedicated his life to increasing public awareness of emotional child abuse. In 1995, he founded a nonprofit film and video company called Autumn Tree Productions, which produces documentaries and public service announcements, many of them pro-bono. "I try to speak for those with no voice or those who aren't listened to," he says. In 2002, Tuthill received a Governor's Award in Media for the prevention of child abuse. Currently, he is working on a full-length feature film on the Lakota Sioux in South Dakota, examining the relationships between whites and Native Americans in the poorest county in the nation.

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