GLCYD Board Chairperson Connie Koutouzous and Board of Director
Youth Candidate Helen Collins enjoy visiting before the Excellence
in Education Banquet program starts. |
About 400 people gathered to celebrate graduating seniors, influential
educators and educators receiving professional development awards
at the Excellence in Education Banquet on April 21, 2008. Forth-eight
students – the top 5 percent of graduating seniors – from Marquette
and Alger county schools received scholarships for $1,500 each.
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Keynote speaker Jay Tasson, a physicist from Bloomington,
IN, addresses attendees of the 2008 Excellence in Education Banquet.
Tasson received an Excellence in Education scholarship in 1999
when he graduated from Westwood High School. Since then he has
earned a bachelor’s degree from Northern Michigan University in
chemistry, mathematics and physics education; a master’s degree
in physics from Indiana University; and is finishing a Ph.D. in
theoretical physics. |
Joe Routhier, a CADD teacher at Gwinn High School,
speaks to the attendees of the 2008 Excellence in Education Banquet.
Routhier shared his reflections on what it meant to be named an
influential educator by a student receiving one of the $1,500
Excellence in Education scholarships. |
June Schaefer, center, was presented with the Superior Service
to Education Award. “Under Schaefer’s leadership, special education
was reformed and modernized, bringing children with special needs
into mainstream education." Also pictured are Judy Watson
Olson, president of the Great Lakes Center for Youth Development,
and Jim Hendricks, Professor Emeritus and former Director of the
School of Education, Northern Michigan University. |
Judy Watson Olson, president of the Great Lakes Center for Youth
Development, and Sue Nelson, from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan,
emceed the 2008 Excellence in Education Banquet. |
Mary Friggens, 7th and 8th grade social studies teacher at Father
Marquette Catholic Central School System, speaks to banquet attendees
about being a past recipient of a $1,000 professional development
award. At the 2008 banquet, 24 Professional Development Awards
were made to Marquette and Alger county educators. |
GLCYD Board of Directors member Paula Ackerman enjoys the events
of the 2008 Excellence in Education Banquet. |
Community sponsors are essential to sustaining the Excellence
in Education program each year. To date, more than $1 million
has been awarded in scholarships to students and more than $350,000
has been provided in Professional Development Awards. Sponsors
representatives at the 2008 Excellence in Education Banquet included,
back row, from left, Rich Tegge, Tegge Olivier Group at Smith
Barney; Sue Nelson, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan; Ken Seavoy,
Kendricks, Bordeau, Adamni, Chilman & Greenlee, P.C.; Laura
Katers-Reilly, Kendricks, Bordeau, Adamni, Chilman & Greenlee,
P.C.; Jeff Johnson, Cleveland Cliffs; and Marua Davenport, Marquette
Community Foundation. Front row, from left, Roxanne Daust, Range
Bank; Kathy Harrington, Blue Cross Blue Shield; Tami Seavoy, Kendricks,
Bordeau, Adamni, Chilman & Greenlee, P.C.; Steve Balbierz,
AT&T; and Linda Vallier, Marquette Community Foundation. |
Excellence in Education Banquet emcees Judy Watson Olson, president
of the Great Lakes Center for Youth Development (right), and Sue
Nelson, from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (left), with the
keynote speaker for the banquet, Jay Tasson, a physicist from
Bloomington, IN, recipient of a 1999 Excellence in Education scholarship
upon graduation from Westwood High School in Ishpeming. |
