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October 20, 2005
ATHENA Awards ~ Mentoring Women & Providing Business Women with Capital
(from right) Signal Centers Families First Director Caroline Scott and Job Developer Evelyn Ukah sat with me at a table in The Chattanoogan during the 2005 Athena Award Luncheon put on by the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.
The ATHENA Award recognizes an individual's effort in assisting, encouraging and mentoring women. The 2005 recipient of the ATHENA Award is Terri Jeter-McAvoy of the accounting firm Henderson Hutcherson & McCullough. She is senior manager at the firm. She is praised for "helping women realize their strength, intelligence and assertiveness to succeed personally and professionally," according to today's Chattanooga Times Free Press. She is also known for assisting homemakers transition back into workplaces. And she was recently picked by Governor Phil Bredesen to participate in the State Board of Accountancy.
My campaign manager, Pam Ladd, delivered the invocation, a beautiful prayer that was both Christian and inclusive. It was an espeically appropriate prayer since the event also was in remembrance of MaryEllen Locher, who was co-anchor of WTVC News Channel 9 for 20 years and who died of cancer on June 9, 2005. Her widower husband gave a moving eulogy at the end of yesterday's luncheon.
Suzanne Malone, president of San Francisco-based Strategies for Small Business, was the keynote speaker. She talked about the struggles business women experience trying to obtain adequate capitalization or attempting to break through the glass ceiling of male dominance at the executive level.
Dr. Carol Berz presented the award. She is last year's recipient. Her remarks noted a 50-page study she and others completed for the Tennessee Economic Council on Women. This Southeast Development District Advisory Council found that these five areas are of greatest concern for women in a state (TN) that ranks 50th in female participation in politics:
(1) "gender differences and inequities"
(2) "social and family issues"
(3) "employment and financial management"
(4) "education"
(5) "community resource identification and utilization"
| By wjbailes | 06:36 AM
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