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Chapter Awards
Award Categories
Early Career
To recognize rising young professionals who have shown noteworthy enthusiasm, performance, and accomplishment during their Extension career of less than ten years.
Mid Career
This award recognizes a mid-career professional who has shown outstanding competence in Extension program planning, delivery, and evaluation in a subject matter area or in administration.
Specialist
To recognize a specialist or other staff member stationed in the field, serving on a multi-county or multi-regional basis, for leadership and excellence in Extension program planning, delivery, and evaluation.
College-Based Staff
To recognize a staff member in Extension administration or in a department who has provided human and subject-matter resources necessary to meet recognized need.
Managerial Leadership
To recognize staff at the management level who have contributed to the mission and programs of Cooperative Extension.
Tools for Teaching
To acknowledge the development of exemplary resources for teaching by an Extension professional.
Team
To recognize cooperative efforts on the part of a county, regional, and/or college-based staff to help solve a problem of major importance to society. Comprehensive planning and utilization of total Extension resources are important considerations.
International Service
To promote and recognize international collaboration by an Extension professional.
State Retiree Award
To recognize continuing contributions and outstanding service by retired Extension professionals.
State Distinguished Service
To pay the highest chapter tribute to an experienced Extension professional who has exhibited leadership and excellence over a career of 20 or more years.
Meritorious Support Service
To recognize staff in the system who have shown support for the mission, program, and professional staff of Cooperative Extension.
Visionary Leadership Recognition
To recognize Extension professionals whose significant accomplishments have resulted in leading Extension forward in new directions.
State Tenure Award - 25 Years
To recognize Epsilon Sigma Phi members with 25 years of employment in the Extension system.
5 year CCE Employment Certificates
Each county/ Cornell department or unit can recognize staff service in multiples of 5 years, with each staff member nominated receiving a certificate. Certificates are available anytime. County Executive Director, or Cornell Department/Unit leadership can submit staff names to be recognized. The person filling out the application is responsible for the accuracy of the number of years of service, and the spelling of names (please double check). A certificate will be prepared for each person to be presented by the Executive Director/ Cornell Department/Unit leader at an appropriate event. Certificates can be presented at an Annual meeting, or on the actual day of the anniversary, at a staff event, a Board Meeting or a department event. They will be sent out by pouch mail shortly after nominations are received.
ESP Support Staff Excellence Award Certificates.
Each County/ Cornell department or unit can select a support member to receive an ESP Certificate of Recognition. The purpose of this award is to recognize support staff contributions to CCE. Certificates are available anytime. Staff receiving these awards will be listed on the ESP website and at the ESP Annual meeting. Nominations can be made by the County Executive Director, or Cornell Department/Unit and can include the input of local ESP members. The County Executive Director or Cornell Department/Unit is responsible to present the certificate at an appropriate event- for example: at a CCE Week activity; Annual Meeting; Board of Directors meeting; Department/Unit recognition event. Certificates are sent shortly after they are received; they can be awarded locally at any time during the year. This award cannot be given to the same person in consecutive years.
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2008 Award Recipients
Early Career Award --
Jennifer Allen, 4-H Community Educator, CCE Yates County
Jen is an outstanding educator. She is motivated, creative, and respected. Youth look up to her as a mentor and parents respect her as an educator. She has been building the animal science program in Yates County through her passion for animal and youth; offering new fair classes, more experienced judges for fair, and clinics to get youth interested and excited. She listens to the needs and wants of 4-H members and creates projects and activities with them in mind. Jen has taken on additional leadership responsibilities this year as the secretary for the Finger Lakes 4-H Educators district.
Visionary Leadership Recognition --
Paul Treadwell, Distance Learning Consultant, CCE Administration - Campus
Paul is committed to sharing new technologies that will enhance the way that we, as a system, communicate with each other and our audiences. He takes the time to reach out to others and to share, in an informative and relational way, so that his work can be extended exponentially. I am ever so grateful for the work that he does. He has helped to make our work more interesting and more vibrant.
Mid Career Award --
Barb McGuffie, Community Nutrition Educator, CCE Yates
Barb is our educator for general nutrition and the ESNY program. She has a deep knowledge of nutrition and is always striving to learn more. She is well respected by her clientele and has recently ventured beyond the ESNY program into the Farmer’s Market. People look for her at the market and are excited to try the recipes she brings each week. The ESNY program is forever evolving and Barb keeps up to date on what needs to be done and is not afraid to ask questions to make sure she is doing things correctly. She listens to the wants and needs of her program participants and tailors her lessons to make the best program possible for them.
State Retiree Award --
Dawn Dennis, Retired 4-H Program Educator, CCE Yates County
Although retired, Dawn remains an active and crucial part of the Yates County 4-H program. She has continued her well known 4-H Sewing Camp for the last 2 summers, and has helped with workshops and classes in the county. She is also the person we call for advice on the program. If we can’t find something or don’t know how something has been done in the past, we call Dawn. Even though she doesn’t have a desk in our office anymore, she is still part of what makes our 4-H program continue to flourish.
Support Staff Excellence Award --
Maureen O’Hora, Sr. Administrative Assistant, CCE Cayuga County
Maureen’s O’Hora has worn many hats during two separate tenures with CCE Cayuga. She has functioned as Small Business Educator, facilitator of the Women’s Business Network and most recently as Records Management & Special Projects manager. Regardless of the position or title, Maureen’s performance has always been outstanding. Her work on securing three records retention grants and overseeing the inventory and storage project at CCE Cayuga has made a lasting improvement in the overall functioning of this organization.
Her work with the Board of Directors is also outstanding. She has done much to earn their confidence and her record and minutes keeping have provided the best documentation that this organization has ever had.
She works extremely well with all staff, and she has a strong internal customer service ethic. Her record keeping regarding professional staff time and program impact reporting is excellent. Maureen’s gentle ways have accomplished much in changing other staff attitude about “accountability” and the need for performance monitoring and impact based information.
She continues to serve as a valued member of the CCE Cayuga Administrative Team and is an asset to the entire organization.
Team Award --
Kim Sopczyk, CCE Warren, Tarasha Darden McKoy, CCE Rensselear Lisa Verstandig Godlewski, CCE Albany, Theresa Mayhew, CCE Columbia
Kim, Tarasha, Lisa and Theresa, along with a number of others in the Capital Region contributed to the formation of the WMHT (PBS) television series "From Farm to Table" which ran 13 weeks on Thursdays and Saturdays. This tremendous effort was assisted by many others but these four educators put in countless hours above and beyond the call of duty to bring extension nutrition, agriculture, and parenting education to the television media and to countless others throughout the State.
2007 Award Recipients
- Alexa King (Clinton County) Early Career Award
- Lori Bushway (Department of Horticulture) College Based Staff Award
- Ken Hillary (Extension Administration) Meritorious Support Award
- Ken Hillary (Extension Administration), Michael Duttweiler (Extension Administration), Barbara Eshelman (Extension Administration), and Jim Sheridan (Cornell University) State Team Award
- Members with 25 years of service: Patricia Claiborne (Orange County), Barbara Eshelman (Extension Administration)
2006
Chapter Awards
- Ralph Tuthill (Nassau County) Early Career Award
- Louise Spangle (Nassau County) Mid Career Award
- Margaret Smith (Plant Breeding) College-Based Staff
- Kathy Rau (Nassau County) Managerial Leadership
- Wayne Torgerson, Louise Spangle,
Tebbie Clifft and Alicia Martinez (Nassau County) Team Award
- Michael “Mick” Voiland
(Assistant Director for Research and Extension) State Distinquished Service Award
2005 Award Recipients
- Margaret O'Neill (Monroe County) Managerial Leadership Award
- Jennifer Grant (Integrated Pest Management) College Based Staff Award
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Online Application Forms:
Complete On-Line Form for ESP Awards
Complete On-Line Form for 5-Year Certificates or Support Staff Excellence
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