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GCB Awards, Guidelines and Committees
Advocacy/Transportation: Chair, Betsy Grenevitch,
Email: blindangel@joimail.com
Teresa Brenner, Kim Harrison, Dirk Jones and Adam Shapiro
Constitution: Chair, Ann Sims
Email: teacherann@bellsouth.net
Phil Jones, Robin Oliver, Granger Ricks, Marj Schneider and Adam Shapiro
Convention Committee: Co-Chairs,
Judy Presley ,
Email: hoyal@windstream.net
and
Marsha Farrow
Email: marshafarrow@windstream.net
Betsy Grenevitch, Diane Healy, Cliff Jones, Steve Longmire, Robin Oliver and Jerrie Toney
Finance: Chair, Marsha Farrow
Email: marshafarrow@windstream.net
Jimmie Burkes, Betsy Grenevitch, Bill Holley, Kathy Morris and Ann Sims
Fund Raising/Grant Committee: Co-Chairs,
Bill Holley
Email: kermitholley@msn.com
and
Valerie Leighton
Email: valveepbaseball@yahoo.com
Marsha Farrow, Kathy Morris, Keith Morris and Peter Tolly
History/Current Events: Chair, Valerie Leighton
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Judy Presley and Marj Schneider
Membership: Chair, Bill Holley
Email: kermitholley@msn.com
Dirk Jones, Greg McDuffie, Robin Oliver, Ann Sims and Debbie Williams
Technology: Chair, Steve Longmire
Email: slongmir@bellsouth.net
James Howard, Cliff Jones, Dirk Jones, Stanley Lopez, Greg McDuffie, Robin Oliver, Chester Thrash and Jerrie Toney
Youth Awareness Program: Chair, Marsha Farrow
Email: marshafarrow@alltel.net
Teresa Brenner and Fred McDade
GCB Awards Guidelines and Committees
It is time once again to read over the GCB Awards Guidelines and nominate those members you think deserve to be recipients of these awards. The deadline this year is June 15, 2009. The committees and chairs with their contact information are listed after the Guidelines.
GCB Awards Guidelines
1. All awards committees shall be appointed at the January board meeting.
2. Nominations for all awards shall be submitted to the respective award committee chairpersons in writing (including e-mail) no later than June 15, 2009.
3. Nominations shall include the name of the candidate, plus the reason the candidate deserves the award.
4. Each award committee chairperson shall read to his/her committee members all award nominations.
5. The decision for selecting the award recipient shall be made by all members of that committee.
6. Criteria for the Rhoda Walker Award, suggested by Rhoda's sister, Helen Wasileski: The recipient can be a blind or sighted individual.
Services rendered must be of non-paying status. Services may be any endeavor in the field of teaching, service, and betterment of life for the blind. The recipient must provide public awareness through speaking, seminars, and/or demonstration. There must be involvement of the educational field/teaching braille. The recipient must push any innovation involving blindness or blind people.
7. The committee for selecting the recipient of the June Willis Guiding Eyes Award shall be legally blind.
8. The sighted recipient of the June Willis Guiding Eyes Award (who must be a GCB member) shall be known to GCB members through attendance at GCB state activities, and through his/her willing assistance and service to
the blind and visually impaired.
9. The Walter R. McDonald Award shall be presented to an outstanding visually impaired individual who has, through his/her leadership and service, contributed significantly to the betterment of the blind and visually impaired community, and who has demonstrated by deeds and achievements his/her dedication to the principles incident to blindness espoused and practiced by the late Walter R. McDonald. The recipient may or may not be a member of the Georgia Council of the Blind.
10. The recipient of The Gerald Pye Community Service Award must be an active legally blind member of GCB in good standing. He or she must have demonstrated superior service to his or her community in a number of ways that exemplify the work of Gerald Pye. The candidate must be nominated in writing by a GCB member who knows first hand of the candidate's community services. Examples of this service must be included in the written recommendation.
11. All GCB awards shall be presented periodically at a GCB state convention.
Awards Committee Co-Chairs
Judy Presley
Phone: 706-878-2962
Email: hoyal@alltel.net
(after May 15, Judy’s email will be: hoyal@windstream.net).
Marsha Farrow
Phone: 1-877-667-6815
Email: marshafarrow@windstream.net
(June Willis Guiding Eyes)
Chair, Al Camp
Phone: 706-886-3894
Email: decr99@yahoo.com
6972 Alfred Camp Road
Toccoa, GA 30506
Richard Bagley and Ann Sims
(Gerald Pye Community Service Award)
Chair, Kaye Hall
Phone: 478-788-5277
5475 Bloomfield Road
Macon, GA 31206
Clifford Jones and Genie Ray O’Kelly
(Rhoda W. Walker)
Chair, Anne Wheeler
Phone: 770-786-5778
Email: awheel@bellsouth.net
2199 Floyd Street
Covington, GA 30014
Barbara Graham and Heather Lopez
(Walter R. McDonald)
Chair, Robin Oliver
Phone: 706-548-7401
Email: genuis43@yahoo.com
690 Fourth Street, Apt. 8201
Athens, GA 30601
Valorie Thomas and Amanda Wilson
(Scholarship Awards)
Chair, Debbie Williams
Phone: 770-595-1007
Email: debbie_teaches@comcast.net
1477 Nebo Road
Dallas, GA30157
Granger Ricks, Tom Ridgeway, Dr. Phillip Dillard, and Bill Holley
The deadline for receipt of scholarship information is June 15, 2009.
Scholarship applications may be obtained from Chair, Debbie Williams, at the address above, or via the Web Site: Click Here to Visit the GCB Web Site
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