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Robert A. Fortinsky and Susan W. Shoval, co-chairpersons, announce that Allan M. and Sue Kline Kluger have been selected to receive the Anti-Defamation League 2002 Distinguished Community Service Award.

The award will be presented at a dinner Wednesday, May 8, at the Woodlands Inn and Resort, Plains Township.

Mr. Kluger is the president and founder of the Wilkes-Barre-based law firm Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn, P.C. He is a graduate of Wyoming Seminary, Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

He is a member of the board of directors of Luzerne National Bank, Bertels Can Co., King's College, the Valley Auto Club, Bloomsburg University Foundation, F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, Northeast Pa. Ethics Commission and the Luzerne Foundation.

Mr. Kluger is also on the board of directors and executive committee of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry.

He has received the following honors: B'nai B'rith Outstanding Citizen Award, Ethics Award given by Ethics Institute of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Wyoming Seminary Distinguished Service Award, Boy Scouts Distinguished Citizen Award, and Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy Award presented by the Greater Pocono Northeast Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives.

Mrs. Kluger, a graduate of Goucher College and College Misericordia Graduate School, has served as the executive director of Leadership Wilkes-Barre for the last 20 years. Leadership Wilkes-Barre brings together existing and emerging leaders from throughout Wyoming Valley and exposes them to the problems and challenges of their community and motivates and encourages them to assume leadership roles in community affairs.

She has received the following honors: Woman of the Year, Sisters of Mercy; Lifetime Achievement in Philanthropy Award, National Society of Fund Raising Executives; Preceptor Award, National Association for Community Leadership; National Director of Who's Who in Executive and Professional Women; United Way of Pennsylvania, Volunteer of the Year Award; Alumni Medallion, College Misericordia; B'nai B'rith Distinguished Service Award; Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania; U. S. Postal Service Honoree for Women's History Month; Northeastern Pa. Council of Boy Scouts Honoree, Salute to Northeastern Pennsylvania Women; and Athena Award, Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce Award for Outstanding Business Women.

Mrs. Kluger is also on the board of directors of Northeast Regional Cancer Institute, the Diversity Institute and the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry.

She is a trustee of Wyoming Seminary and a member of the Northeastern Regional Advisory Board of PNC Bank.

Mr. and Mrs. Kluger have three children, Attorney Elizabeth Kluger Cooper of Great Falls, Va.; Attorney Joseph E. Kluger, Allentown and Wilkes-Barre; and Lawrence Kluger of Mechanicsburg. The couple also has four grandsons.