Awards Presented During Annual Disability Fest

The Coalition of Responsible Disabled, an independent living center, honored past and present board members, volunteers and employees with an awards presentation during its annual disAbility Fest.

The awards and winners are:

Lifetime Achievement Award: Joyce Goad, vice president; Romel Mackelprang, past president.

Volunteer of the Year: Karol Schroeder.

Board Member of the Year: Cheryl Brandt.

The Joyce A. Goad Media Award: KHQ-TV.

Employee of the Year: Jay Westphal.

Employer of the Year: Safeco Insurance.

President’s Award: Cheney Weeder.

Board Achievement Awards: Elizabeth Behrendt, Cheryl Brandt, Ellie Callen, Joyce Goad, Darryl Gua, George Guinn, Carolyn Kamps, Ed Kennedy, Barbara Lindley, Marlee Naddy, Robert Piper, Sharon Schroeder, Michelle Wetsel and Steve Whitley.

Lois Bender has succeeded Linda Schiflett as regent of the Jonas Babcock Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.

Other 1997 board members are: Pat McLauglin, first vice regent; Dottie Blosser, second vice regent; Barbara Latta, recording secretary and treasurer; Mary Engstrom, corresponding secretary; Laurine Logsdon, registrant; Carol Betz, librarian; Dianne Welsh, parliamentarian; and directors Virginia Brady, Jackie Daniels, Marie Faraca and Zola Irwin.

Robert and Dianne Douthitt, Spokane, received the Founder’s Franchisees of the Year Award at the Great Clips’ annual convention for continuously exemplifying overall excellence and commitment to the entire Great Clips system. The Douthitts have six stores in the Spokane area.

Clarence Alloway, has been inducted into the Distinguished Flying Cross Society for heroic acts while performing aerial flight. He served in the Air Force with the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron, China-Burma-India Theater and received his DFC on Oct. 20, 1944. He is a 1942 graduate of North Central High School.

Cheryl Gumprecht, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Gumprecht, Colbert, participated in the 1997 Miss Washington Teen All American Pageant. She is a junior at Northwest Christian School.

Ed Sharman, corporate communications manager for Inland Automobile Association (AAA) is the newly elected president of the Washington State Good Roads and Transportation Association.

The following teachers from Veradale schools have been selected by former students for Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers:

Evergreen Junior High: Theresa Clowe, Charlie Cox.

Progress Elementary: Eunie Hubble, Mary Lou Ulrich.

Adams Elementary: Maxine Kerns, Janelle Stolp.

Central Valley High: Thomas Sullivan.

Sunrise Elementary: Lynda Zachrison.

Some of Russell Stanley’s, poems have been published in anthologies compiled by The National Library of Poetry. His poem “New Hampshire Autumn” was published in Carvings in Stone; “My Life” in Recollections of Yesteryear; and “Moms” in Forever for a Day.

Sunny Hanson, a Mead High School graduate now majoring in Japanese at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., received the school’s Regents’ Scholarship, valued at 50 percent of tuition costs.

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