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Vail Symposium honors Joanne King Herring at Jubilee

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Special to the DailyJoanne King Herring is best remembered for teaming up with U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson to raise the $1,000,000,000 to support resistance fighters against the Soviets and drove them out of Afghanistan in 1979.
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VAIL – The Vail Symposium announced this week that Houston’s own Joanne King Herring will be the honored guest at their 40th anniversary Ruby Jubilee on Feb. 19. Herring is best remembered for teaming up with U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson to raise the $1,000,000,000 to support resistance fighters against the Soviets and drove them out of Afghanistan in 1979. These events inspired the best-selling book “Charlie Wilson’s War” and later the film starring Tom Hanks as Charlie Wilson and Julia Roberts as Joanne Herring.Herring’s visit to Vail comes shortly before her new memoir “Diplomacy & Diamonds” is published revealing her fascinating life and political activism that continues to have an impact in Afghanistan today. She will be back in the fall to speak about it at a Symposium event honoring her latest activist partner Greg Mortenson, known for his success building schools in the volatile border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan and documented in the book “Three Cups of Tea.” The Ruby Jubilee celebrates the past, present and future legacy of The Vail Symposium and the positive affect it has had on residents and visitors to the Valley since 1971. The event is taking place at the Four Seasons Resort Vail and includes a live auction. Master of Ceremonies for the evening is comedian Sam Adams, music will be provided by the Hazel Miller Band and guests will be entertained as they arrive on the red carpet by Image Guru Montgomery Frazier. A preview book party with Herring will be hosted by Vail Symposium Board Member Lynette Dallas on Feb. 18. Guests will have an exclusive opportunity to pre-order “Diplomacy & Diamonds” before it is published. For more details or to be included on the invitation guest list, contact Dallas at 212-421-8303 or dallasnyc@hotmail.com. Tickets for the Ruby Jubilee can be purchased online at http://www.vailsymposium.org. Questions can be answered by calling Vail Symposium Executive Director Liana Moore at 970-476-0954.


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