Halle Berry was this year’s honored recipient of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Award for Woman of the Year.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals have presented their unique brand of student-written theater every year since 1891, the only exceptions being for World Wars I and II. This year marks their 158th production.

The award is given annually and presented to a male and female performer as “The Man and Woman of the Year.” Performers who have made a “lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment” are picked out of a long list of nominees. Past “Woman of the Year” winners include Meryl Streep, Katherine Hepburn, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, Meg Ryan and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Berry now joins that list of lumninaries.

This year’s male winner, is Richard Gere and he joins a pretigous group of men consisting of Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, Bruce Willis and Timothy Robbins.

The Hasty Pudding committee did site one flaw in the Halle Berry win and to make restitution for this flaw Ms. Berry had to write several times on a chalk board at the presentation, “I will not make Catwoman II.” The committee consider this a fine start in erasing that one flaw, and so do we.