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

www.nationalrehab.org