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GCB Awards Guidelines and Committees
Awards Committee Chair: Judy Presley
706 878 2962
E-Mail: hoyal@alltel.net
Co Chair: Marsha Farrow
1-877-667-6815
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.
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 in good standing of GCB. 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.
GCB Awards Committees
(June Willis Guiding Eyes Award)
Chair: Al Camp
706-886-3894
6972 Alfred Camp Road
Toccoa, GA 30506
Committee members: Richard Bagley
770 983 1213
Ann Sims
404 767 1792
(Rhoda Walker Award Committee)
Chair: Anne Wheeler
770-786-5778
2199 Floyd Street
Covington, GA 30014
E-Mail: awheel@bellsouth.net
Committee Members: Heather Lopez
706-739-1129 or 738 1129
Barbara Graham
678-319-0450
(Walter R. McDonald Award Committee)
Chair: Valorie Thomas
770-561-6218
1030 Shawnee Road, Apt. F-7,
Savannah, GA 31419
Committee Members: Kim Harrison
912-228-1190
Charles Stubblefield
423-580-9437
706-638-1958
Charles Stubblefield
888-506-0609
E-Mail: cstubblefield@charl.org
(Gerald Pye Community Service Award Committee)
Chair: Kaye Hall
478-788-5277
5475 Bloomfield Road
Macon, 31206
Committee Members: Genie Ray O’Kelly
770-297-7033
Milton Brown
478-962-3747
Scholarship Information
Please see the GCB Website for full information and for a scholarship application. All scholarship information must be in no later than June 15, 2008.
(Scholarship Awards Committee)
Chair: Debbie Williams
770-443-8249
1477 Nebo Road
Dallas, GA 30157
Committee Members: Granger Ricks
898-9036
Tom Ridgeway
478-474-3577
Dr. Phillip Dillard
770-748-8629
Bill Holley
770-540-3558 Multiple Choices 706-549-1020
GGDU sponsors an award in the memory of Julie Aichroth. Although not a GCB award, it is given during the GCB state convention. The recipient of this award does not have to be visually impaired; nor use a dog guide; nor be a member of GGDU, GDUI, GCB, or ACB; but must be someone that has made an outstanding achievement or contribution to the visually impaired community, especially dog guide users.
The Julie Aichroth Award Committee
Chair: Ann Sims, 404-767-1792
3361 N. Whitney Avenue, Hapeville, GA 30354
E-Mail: teacherann@bellsouth.net
Committee Members: Diane Healy and Alice Ritchhart
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