
TO: NRA Members
FROM: Beverlee Stafford, Executive Director
SUBJECT: 2009 NRA Award Recipients
I wanted to share with all of you the recipients of the 2009 NRA Awards. Attached is the Program from the Award presentation on Saturday, September 12, 2009, at the Louisville Annual Conference. Please take the time to read the narratives on these awards to see why these individuals, chapters and organizations were nominated and selected. In summary, here are the results for 2009:
Yvonne Johnson National Leadership Award -- Frederick E. Menz, Ph.D.
Bell Greve Memorial Award -- Ron Otto
E.B. Whitten Silver Medallion Award -- Teresa McCarty
Excellence in Media Award -- Walgreens and South Carolina
Vocational Rehabilitation Department
Max T. Prince Meritorious Service Award -- Harry Smith
NRA Chapter of the Year Award -- Arkansas Rehabilitation Association and Minnesota Rehabilitation Association
NRA Organizational Award -- Safeway
Graduate Literary Award -- Misty Trujillo
Dr. Sylvia Walker Multicultural Award -- George Bryan Sykes
NRA President’s Award -- Beverlee Stafford, Natalie Wagner,
Cheryl Meadows-Ussery, and
Tresvil Pack
Please join me in congratulating these Award recipients.
Thanks to all of you who participated in the nomination and selection process in 2009. I want to especially thank Ellen Sokolowski for heading up the 2009
Awards Committee and for serving as the moderator of the Awards Banquet. Thanks Ellen – great job!

Beverlee Stafford
Executive Director
National Rehabilitation Association
633 S. Washington St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-836-0850
Fax: 703-836-0848