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ADL awards night draws 400 in NY

By Clint Engel -- Furniture Today, June 15, 2008

NEW YORK — About 400 people attended an Anti-Defamation League event here this month to pay tribute to this year's three recipients of the organization's top home furnishing industry honors.

Michael Amini, founder and CEO of AICO/Amini Innovation Corp., and Clarence Smith, president and CEO of Atlanta-based Havertys — accepting on behalf of the retailer — each received the American Heritage Award for “unwavering commitment to humanitarian goals and dedication to the community.”

Hymie Itzkovitz, founder of Primo International, was honored with the Lifetime Humanitarian Award for “living and teaching others to live by the principles of good citizenship and devotion to community.”

For more photos and biographies of the honorees, plus a tribute to Itzkovitz, a Holocaust survivor, presented by Primo's John DeFalco, see furnituretoday.com.

The dinner dance at the Grand Hyatt Hotel here raised more than $550,000 for the ADL. The industry chairs are former honorees Neil Goldberg of Liverpool, N.Y.-based Raymour & Flanigan and Joe Laneve of Bloomingdale's in New York. Norman Waxman, Norman Waxman LLC, is chairman emeritus and Kurt Darrow of La-Z-Boy and Gary Fazio of Mattress Firm are vice chairs.

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