Michaelanean Society Award Recipients
Michaelanean award recipients who attended Convention are: (back, from left) Linda Marcet, Courtney Andreasgray, Dana Marston, Sonja-Lou Stunard, (front, from left) Sara Ellis, Tracy Hickman, Alison Nash, Jennifer Queri and Helga Visscher. Laura Crowe, Mary Evans, Ann Gafke, Ashley Haugh, Carol Lungrin, Jo-Anne Penttinen and Lisa Vible also received the award, but are not pictured.
serves on the Delta Kappa Gamma Society’s international research committee, a professional honorary society for key women educators. Renee Nichols Tucci (Omega-Texas) Renee, an accountant who currently works for CitiCorp® in its international department, has served as the Dallas/Fort Worth Junior League president, finance committee chairwoman, treasurer, co-chair of the cookbook committee and fundraising council director, where she oversaw eight different events and projects that raised nearly $1 million for the organization. Renee was the 2002 Investor Relations magazine’s honorable recipient of a Best Disclosure Policy by a Mid Cap Company award. Polaris award recipients who attended Convention are (from left) Jaime Ryberg, Kimberly Watson and Jennifer Holsman. Darcell Weller also received the award, but is not pictured.
Jill Waldrop (Omicron-Missouri) As Mizzou Alumni Association president, Jill created a program to provide sixth grade students from Tertulia Charter School (Phoenix, Ariz.) the opportunity to visit the University of Missouri for motivational and educational purposes. An active member of her community and her alma mater’s alumni association, Jill received the Rozanne Hired Volunteer of the Year Award, a United Blood Services Life Giver Award and the university’s Regional Volunteer of the Year Award. Jill volunteers with the American Cancer Society,® the Florence Crittendon House for Battered and Abused Women (Phoenix, Ariz.) and the Not Alone, Not Afraid (NANA)’s House (St. Louis, Mo.).
The Michaelanean award was first presented at the 1972 centennial Convention. It is given each biennium to those who have shown outstanding loyalty and continuous devotion to Alpha Phi at the local level. • Courtney Andreasgray (Eta Delta-CSU/East Bay) • Laura Crowe (Lambda-UC/Berkeley) • Sara Keltner Ellis (Omicron-Missouri) • Mary Ryan Evans (Gamma Nu-Miami University) • Ann Clark Gafke (Omicron-Missouri) • Ashley Haugh (Xi-Toronto) • Tracy Weaver Hickman (Epsilon Phi deuteronNC State) • Carol Owens Lungrin (Delta Xi-Nebraska/ Kearney) • Linda de Jarnette Marcet (Gamma PhiFlorida State) • Dana Marston (Beta Zeta-Idaho) • Alison Nash (Xi-Toronto) • Jo-Anne Freeman Penttinen (Gamma EpsilonLake Forest) • Jennifer Kennedy Queri (Alpha-Syracuse) • Sonja-Lou Bark Stunard (Delta Mu-Purdue) • Lisa Gonzales Vible (Rho-Ohio State) • Helga Bjornson Visscher (Epsilon-Minnesota)
Polaris Award Recipients The Polaris award was first presented at the 2004 Convention to recognize those who have shown outstanding loyalty and continuous devotion to Alpha Phi at the regional level. Jennifer Holsman (Gamma Pi-Arizona State) Jaime Alsup Ryberg (Theta GammaTruman State) • Kimberly Larsen Watson (Omicron-Missouri) • Darcell Atwill Weller (Gamma Iota-Texas Tech) • •
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