Washington Apple Pi Outstanding Volunteer Awards 2004

Presented at the Pi Picnic, June 2004

by Steve Roberson, Vice President, Volunteers

All the wonderful things about Washington Apple Pi are the result of dedicated volunteers. Volunteers who write for and publish the Journal, organize general meetings, lead special interest groups, maintain and improve the TCS, take tickets at the garage sale, fix computers at the Tuesday Night Clinic, answer the phones at the office and so much more!

This year we publicly recognized a few of those exceptional Pi volunteers at the June Picnic. Our hope is that by honoring some of those who volunteer their time and effort on behalf of the Pi we are, in a small way, thanking all of those who aid the organization.

• Nancy Little: "for her extraordinary energy, and uncommon common sense, as both an office volunteer and a coordinator of volunteers." "She is so sharp-witted, sensible, and doesn't take guff."
• Pat Fauquet: "she is a natural born teacher, a person dedicated to helping us all grow. She has been a terrific organizer and leader in the Pi. She is creative and full of great ideas for the future of the Pi. This is just the tip of the iceberg of qualifications to nominate Pat Fauquet as Super Volunteer."
• Phil Shapiro: "Not only does Phil have a long history of unself service and loyalty to the Pi, in the past two years he's helped found and nurture the iMovie, now iLife SIG; he written articles fo the Journal; he's given much more of his time to help new users; and he's unfailingly supportive of the Pi."
• Jon Thomason: "for his continual improvement of the TCS, his almost unnoticed transition of the Pi from a DSL to a T-1, his negotiation of the DSL to T-1 switch, and his general All Purpose Expert service and support."
• Lorin Evans: "for his efforts in recycling, donations, Tuesday Night Clinic and computer archeology. Lorin is also the first former President of Washington Apple Pi to retain an active role in the club after retiring from the job; here is hoping he will not be the last."
• Lou Dunham: "for his chairmanship of the TCS committee. He is retiring for health reasons, but his calm, mature, adult leadership of the adolescents on the TCS committee and his ability to run interference with the Board and other external entities has been crucial to the success of the Pi's telecommunications over the past few years."
• Paige Counts: "The way in which she responds to challenges and the quality of the products that she makes are both truly outstanding examples of volunteerism at its best."
• Hal Cauthen: "Hal cauthen loves explaining computer things to people. and he loves to see other people lending each other assistance with computers. His greatest talent, though, is the artistry he brings to his creative work. He helps remind WAP members that it's not the computers that matter, but the joy of the process and the beauty of the end product."
• Jim Ritz: "for his tireless efforts coordinating tutorials, office volunteers, the Hotline, and all the other essential tasks that everyone else forgets."
• Sheri German: "for the countless hours she spent coming up with the wonderful redesign of the Washington Apple Pi Web site (transporting us from HTML 3.2 to CSS-2 and XHTML in one step) and her contributions to the Washington Apple Pi Journal and Power User SIG."
• Dick Sanderson: "for his administrative work at the Pi office and unofficial, but dedicated, role as the Pi's photographer."
• Cheryl Levoie: Great office crew.
• Catherine Diebold: Great office crew.
• Bill Diffley: Great office crew. These three individuals have gone to great lengths to make sure that our members think of the Pi office as their office, and not some remote, unknown bureaucracy.

Revised June 21, 2004
Washington Apple Pi is an international user group, with a history spanning three decades to the dawn of personal computing. The “Pi” continues to serve users of the very first personal computers as well as users of the most modern, advanced systems through its meetings, magazine, computer bulletin board and Internet services.
URL: http://www.wap.org /events/june2004/volunteers.html