How did I miss this?
The delightful actor Eddie Albert died on Friday. I had no idea of his commitment to ecological and humanitarian issues until I read his obituary; in fact:
Albert, who in 1963 served as special world envoy for Meals for Millions — a philanthropic project providing nutritious, low-cost meals to the underprivileged around the world — helped launch the first Earth Day in 1970 and served as a special consultant at the World Hunger Conference in Rome in 1974.
He also served stints as director to the U.S. Commission on Refugees, national conservation chairman for the Boy Scouts of America and chairman of the Eddie Albert World Trees Foundation. He was a trustee of the National Recreation and Parks Assn. and a consumer advisory board member of the U.S. Department of Energy.
It’s little wonder that he was so at home in the role of the erstwhile Oliver Wendal Douglas in “Green Acres.”
Eddie Albert was 99, a two-time Oscar nominee, and by all accounts, a genuinely nice guy.
Wow, and I thought he just wanted me to “Plant a tree, for tommorow….”