Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards
Rick and Beverly Markoff with Charlotte Westerhaus Renfrow
The Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards, were held the evening of Friday, May 16, at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (the Ruby Bridges Exhibit in The Power of Children Gallery). The purpose of these awards was to honor an “unsung hero” in education, an outstanding school administrator, a top teacher and a group of standout student-athletes during Central Indiana’s first ‘Education Weekend.’ The awards were presented by the Indianapolis Rotary Foundation, the Rotary Club of Indianapolis, the Indiana Civil Rights Commission and the Indianapolis Recorder. Honorees were:
The Cardinal E. Joseph Award, “unsung community hero”
Diana Daniels (pictured top right), National Council on Educating Black Children
The Father Boniface Hardin Award, administrator
Dr. Khaula Murtadha, IUPUI
The Jacqueline S. Greenwood Award, teacher
Mary Rowley, VC Rowley and Associates
The Bart Peterson Award, student
Boys Basketball Team, Arsenal Technical High School
The awards were the result of a Rotary Entrepreneurial Grant awarded to Rick Markoff.
Dennis Sponsel, Lincoln Wallis, RalphTaylor
ROTARY EDUCATION WEEK EQUITY AWARDS SELECTION COMMITTEE, 2014
Five Rotarians and two Rotaract members were part of the 18 member Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards Selection Committee chaired by Denny Sponsel and Ralph Taylor. Rotary Education Weekend Equity Awards Selection Committee members included: Dennis Sponsel, Chair, RJE Business Interiors, Rotary; Ralph Taylor, Chair, Consultant/Broadcaster, Rotary; Miriam Acevedo Davis, La Plaza; Troy Arthur, NCAA; Jeff Butts, M.S.D. of Wayne Township; J.T. Coopman, Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents; Karen Dace, IUPUI; Judge David Dreyer, Superior Court Judge, Rotary; Pastor David Hampton, Light of the World Church; Jo Hoy, Cardinal Ritter High School; John Lyter, American Red Cross, Rotary; Juan Paz, Simon Property Group; Yvonne Perkins, Citizens Energy Group; Rotaract Student Member, Rotary Lincoln Wallis; Rotaract Student Member, Rotary, Morgan Whitcomb; Cassie Stockamp, Athenaeum Foundation, Rotary; Mary Ann Sullivan, CELL; and Ahmed Young, Bose McKinney & Evans.
