Recognizing Alvin Perlmutter

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Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor one of my esteemed constituents, Alvin Perlmutter.

Alvin is the Executive Producer and Director of the Independent Production Fund, and President of Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. and has produced highly acclaimed informational programming for over fifty years. Prior to forming his own company, Mr. Perlmutter served as NBC News Vice President where he was responsible for all network documentaries and news magazine programs, and earlier as Director of Public Affairs Programming and Program Manager of WNBC-TV, New York.

Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, he attended Colgate University and graduated from Syracuse University. Early in his career he was a radio newscaster before serving as Radio-TV Officer in the U.S. 1st Army coordinating with major broadcast networks in the Eastern U.S.

Mr. Perlmutter has received numerous awards including six Emmys for The Great American Dream Machine, Adam Smith's Money World, and Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers; the Peabody Award for The Public Mind with Bill Moyers; and five Ace Awards for excellence in programming on cable television for Consumer Reports Presents, Everything You Want to Know About Smoking and Money Matters.

Mr. Perlmutter originated more than 150 documentaries ranging from investigative to social to cultural issues for National Educational Television (NET) including: NET Journal, Assignment America, Black Journal, The Drinking American, Speak out on Drugs, China from Mao to Mastercard and several art specials from Europe, Russia and the Far East. These documentaries have included: The Constitution in Crisis, The Creative Spirit, Great Tales in Asian Art, The Public Mind, Whose Death is it Anyway?, The Emperor's Eye: Art and Power in Imperial China and The Priceless Treasures of Dresden.

He is a former National Trustee of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a past Governor of the Academy's New York Chapter. He also served as a member of the Overseas Press Club of America and chairman of the board of both the Washington-based Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting and the Anti-Defamation League Dore Schary Awards Committee. He was a member of the board of directors of the New York Open Center, the Rockland Center for the Arts, was Chairman of the Board of Advisors of CUNY-TV, the City University's Television Station and testified before the U.S. Senate as President of the Public Television Producers Association. He was a member of the State of New York Governors Commission on Judicial Nominations.

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