Connie O. Dacus Hall of Fame Nomination 2021

CONNIE O. DACUS BIRMINGHAM, AL CHAPTER INSTALLATION DATE: OCTOBER 2007

HALL OF FAME NOMINIEE SOUTHEASTERN REGION

NATIONAL CONCLAVES 2015-2019

2015

59TH NORTH JERSEY SHORE Priscilla Lee and I drove all night!

2016

60TH LAS VEGAS

2017

61ST NEWPORT NEWS/HAMPTON

2019

63RD JACKSONVILLE

National College & University Physical Education Teacher of the Year for Alabama

Advocacy:

American Heart Association

National Walk Day

Junior League

Allison Prillaman President 2020-2021 334.220.3340

Brantwood Children's Home

Community Engagement

YMCA of Greater Montgomery

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL OF OUR VOLUNTEER SPEAKERS THAT MAKE TEEN TO WORK A SUCCESS! THANK YOU TO JONATHAN BARNES AT FOOD SAFETY NET, VERONICA GRAY-LEVERETT AT WIND CREEK, MR. TURNIPSEED AT BIG CEDAR FOUNDATION, FRANK SMITH AT BREEZEVILLE YOGA, MRS. BRENDLE AT BRENDLE'S RENTALS, AND MRS. DACUS AND MANY MORE FOR TEACHING OUR STUDENTS VALUABLE LIFE LESSONS.

Community Service

Offices and Positions President: Montgomery Chapter of Continentals 2016-2019 Treasurer: Montgomery Chapter Continentals 2014-2015 Southeastern Regional 2nd Vice Director 2021 National Membership Committee Member 2021 National Nominating Committee Member 2021

"Our Children, Our Commitment, Our Concern"

Excerpts from We Speak your Name

By Pearl Cleage

Because we are free women, born of free women, who are born of free women, back as far as time begins, we celebrate your freedom.

Because we are wise women, born of wise women, who are born of wise women, we celebrate your wisdom.

Because we are strong women, born of strong women, who are born of strong women, we celebrate your strength.

Because we are magical women, born of magical women, who are born of magical women, we celebrate your magic.

My sisters, we are gathered here to speak your names.

We are here because we are your daughters as surely as if you had conceived us, nurtured us, carried us in your wombs, and then sent us out into the world to make our mark and see what we see, and be what we be, but better, truer, deeper because of the shining example of your own incandescent lives.

We are here to speak your names because we have enough sense to know that we did not spring full blown from the forehead of Zeus, or arrive on the scene like Topsy, our sister once removed, who somehow just growed.

We know that we are walking in footprints made deep by the confident strides of women who parted the air before them like the forces of nature that you are.

We are here to speak your names because you taught us that the search is always for the truth and that when people show us who they are, we should believe them.