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Annual Awards Nominations
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Within the next month you will receive from your Regional Chair, nomination forms for Leadership Florida's Distinguished Member Award and Statewide Community Award. It is my pleasure to announce that those forms, along with the forms for Leadership Florida's additional annual leadership award, the LeRoy Collins Lifetime Achievement Award, will be available online! You can either download the form and mail it in, or fill it out immediately online.
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All three awards provide us with an outstanding opportunity to recognize those exceptional examples of character and leadership who serve as models for us all, and a vehicle to promote the values and goals of our organization.
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Previous Award Recipients
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Distinguished Member
1990 - Jack Levine
1991 - Glenda Hood
1992 - Ron Saunders
1993 - Dorothy Weaver
1994 - Kathy Adams
1995 - Lester Abberger
1996 - Frank Ioppolo, Sr.
1997 - Clarence Anthony
1998 - Barbara Ann Blue
1999 - Pat Pepper
2000 - Bob Richardson
2001 - John Delaney
2002 - Pam Iorio
2003 - Pam Davis
2004 - Larry Lee
2005 - John Ruffin
2006 - Fred Leonhardt
2007 - John Sinnott
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LeRoy Collins Lifetime Achievement
1990 - Phil Lewis
1991 - Gov LeRoy Collins
1992 - Alvah Chapman
1993 - James E. Davis
1994 - Chesterfield Smith
1995 - Hon. Carrie Meek
1996 - Dr. Stephen O'Connell
1997 - Jack Eckerd
1998 - Gov. Reubin Askew
1999 - John Edward Smith
2000 - Gene Patterson
2001 - Judge Joseph Hatchett
2002 - Gov. Lawton Chiles
2003 - Dr. John DeGrove
2004 - Al Burt
2005 - Fred Schultz
2006 - Nat Reed
2007 - Sen. Bob Graham
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Statewide Community
1996 - Florida Humanities Council
1997 - Holland & Knight
1998 - Florida League of Cities
1999 - Not Awarded
2000 - Not Awarded
2001 -Constitution Revision Commission 2002 - NCCJ
2003 - JM Family Enterprises
2004 - Not Awarded
2005 -Associated Marine Institutes
2006 - Bank of America
2007 - Not Awarded
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Class XXVII Applications Available!
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If you've requested that an application be mailed to a candidate, or if you've been waiting to provide a candidate with an application, or if you've been meaning to recruit a candidate, now is the time to follow up! Applications must be postmarked by no later than May 9, 2008 in order to be accepted.Please take time to consider right now the person to whom you will give this application. We all know the difference Leadership Florida has made in our lives, and the potential it holds for Florida. It is our responsibility to seek out candidates who will benefit from participation in Leadership Florida, and even more importantly, will contribute to its strength. Selection for participation in the Leadership Florida program has become increasingly competitive. A large percentage of the members of this year's class are presidents, senior/executive vice presidents, or executive directors of their corporations or organizations. And a significant percentage of them applied at least once before being selected. It's important that Class XXVII be representative of Florida's many diversities - professionally, geographically, philosophically, and in terms of age, gender, race and ethnicity. Please keep this in mind when recruiting new members. I'm sure you remember what a difference those kinds of diversity made to your class experience. Please also seek out candidates from major Florida corporations and organizations that have not previously had participants in the program. As you know, there are many factors that go into creating a dynamic class, but the most important one is a complete and compelling application. Please encourage your recruit to put her or his modesty aside and let the Selection Committee know why she or he should be a member of Class XXVII.
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Once the applications have been received by the Leadership Florida office, this is what will happen:
1) all applications will be mailed to the seventeen members of the Selection Committee, who were chosen with careful regard to a balanced representation of our membership;
2) the committee members will read every application, rating each on a scale from 1-5; they'll then send their rating sheets to the LF office, where the ratings for each candidate will be averaged; 3) after committee members have submitted their initial ratings, LF members will be advised of the Selection Committee members' names and contact info and be encouraged to provide committee members with additional information that will assist them in the next stage of the process; 4) committee members will contact all of the references provided by the candidates; 5) the committee will meet to put together a class that is dynamic and whose diversity will add to each class member's learning experience; 6) candidates will be advised of the results of the selection process in early July.
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We look forward to another LF class to be proud of. Thanks for all of your help, and please let me know if you have any questions.
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Sincerely,
Wendy Abberger
President
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SAVE THE DATE
Leadership Florida's 2008 Annual Meeting
June 26 - 29th in Hollywood
The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa
To make your reservation call 1-888-627-9057
and be sure to mention that you are a Leadership Florida member to receive our discounted rate.
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