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Awards & Recognitions
Is there a CT AMTA member you know who you would like to see recognized for their contribution and a job well done?
Do you know someone who deserves ‘thanks’ for their commitment to making a difference in the massage community or the community at large?
Each year we take pleasure in honoring deserving individuals during our April Chapter meeting through Awards and Certificates of Appreciation. It is important and it is fun!
If you know of someone who deserves consideration, we would like to hear from you.
Please take the time to complete and submit an AMTA CT Chapter Awards and Recognition application form [.doc][.pdf] . Application forms as well as a brief description of the different awards are available within the CT Chapter Newsletter and on the CT Chapter Website.
Application received the last week in March will be reviewed by the Awards and Recognitions Committee as part of the selection process. Please review the summaries below.
AMTA CT Chapter Award and Recognition Summaries
Chapter Meritorious Award: This is a national award given to a chapter member. It is selected by the chapter to recognize someone that has gone above and beyond the call of duty to promote the CT AMTA, massage therapy, and the profession in general. People can receive this award multiple times.
Outstanding Committee Member: This award recognized a current member that has displayed superior effort, commitment and dedication to a particular committee or workgroup on which they serve.
Outstanding Committee Award: This award recognizes a current committee for its work and dedication to the goals and objectives of the CT Chapter
Community Service Award: This Award is given to a person or organization that has been instrumental in supporting the CT Chapter of the AMTA and the massage therapy community at large.
Certificates of Appreciation: Any number of these certificates can be awarded for outstanding service to the chapter in various situations or programs. If someone has made an impact on you tell us about them. Certificates of Appreciation are presented at the annual meeting.
These Awards and Recognitions were given at the April 26, 2009 Annual Chapter Meeting for the previous year. We're so proud of our Chapter!!
At our April 26 Annual Chapter Meeting we were pleased to present the following awards for this past year. We would also like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation to all the members whose dedication and commitment have contributed to the success of our outstanding CT Chapter!
-- Scott Raymond, CT Chapter President, and Judi Ohrt, 3rd VP.
Chaleen Bloethe-Abely
This year, in recognition and appreciation of her long standing commitment and exceptional service to the CT Chapter, the Distinguished Service Award recipient is Chaleen Bloethe-Abely.
Extending over a span of 14 years, Chaleen served as our Education Director with enthusiasm and great efficiency. Her extensive and devoted efforts have provided our membership with access to diverse educational programming of the highest quality. In 1998 Chaleen worked toward obtaining approved provider status from NCBTMB and she was instrumental in implementing the additional subsidized educational program offerings to our CT Chapter members.
We congratulate Chaleen for her outstanding achievement and express our gratitude for her invaluable service.
THE NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
This year, our Outstanding Committee Award recognizes the commitment and achievement of an extraordinary group of individuals. These individuals devoted their time, energy, and skill otward serving the CT Chapter and the New England Region. They worked tirelessly over the past year devoting hours upon hours to fulfill an assorted and extensive list of tasks and to attend to every detail to ensure the success of the CT Hosted New England Regional Conference. We applaud their efforts and success and thank them for once again making us proud of our CT Chapter.
It is with great pleasure that we present the Outstanding Committee Award to the New England Regional Conference Committee:
Cass Crewdson, Kerry Methot, Matt DeMichele, Donna Gecewicz, Marilyn Holt, JoAnn Parady, Scott Raymond and Marilyn Waters.
ROCKY PEREZ
This year's President's Award was presented to Rocky Perez. Given to an individual of the President's choosing, Scott Raymond expressed his appreciation to Rocky for his ever present and exceptional dedication and generosity. Rocky is recognized as one whose involvement can always be counted on in our chapter's sports team events as well as our community service efforts. He walks the walk and talks the talk of the ultimate volunteer.
Congratulations Rocky Perez, for this well deserved recognition.
This year we implemented a new award, the "Count Me In" award. This award recognizes an individual who stepped up to fulfill a specific role or task that was of significant importance to the chapter.
This year we recognize as individual who did just that, an individual who stepped up to assume the role of New England Regional Conference registrar; a role both time consuming and challenging, one that was critical to the success of the conference. Marilyn Waters fulfilled this role with confidence, a great deal of competence and an equal amount of patience.
With the presentation of the first "Count Me In" Award we express our appreciation for a job well done to Marilyn Waters.