– Awards winners information is posted on behalf of the Awards Committee (Anna Burke, chair, Maureen Festa and Juliane Schneider). Below is Anna's speech from the Annual Business Meeting on 12/7/2010 about the winners.

 SLA Boston Award Winners

 Gauri Govil

Gauri joined and became active in SLA Boston early in 2010. She took over responsibility of posting on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to keep information up to date and relevant. She also volunteered at the Centennial Celebration registration desk and added a section for Volunteer Opportunities on the wiki. Gauri identifies a need and takes the initiative to solve it! She’s also very personable.

So, thank you Gauri for all of your work to improve chapter communications this year!

 Centennial Committee

I believe this is the first year an entire committee was nominated for an award. They were nominated multiple times, and they absolutely deserve it. I am, of course, talking about the Centennial Committee. Here are their nominations:

The Committee certainly did “outstanding committee work” having taken full responsibility for all aspects of the Centennial event planning. The venue was wonderful, the food delicious, the agenda worked really well, the chapter history was fascinating, the amount of vendor support quite amazing, and the member attendance was high. It was truly a significant event in the history of the Boston chapter, and the committee, who worked for over a year, certainly are “chapter achievers”!

The second nomination was for the 6 long-standing members on the Centennial Committee: Dee Magnoni, Jean Scanlan, Ruth Seidman, Hope Tillman, Ethel Salonen, and Ellen Cartledge. Each of their contributions (Jean for the state proclamations, Ruth for the history, Hope for overall coordination, Dee for vendor support, Ellen for information from CT, Ethel for the Past Presidents dinner) made the event a successful celebration for our chapter anniversary. All of them have helped SLA Boston grow into a successful, strong chapter.

Centenntial Committee members:

Hope Tillman, Chair, Dee Magnoni, Jean Scanlan, Ethel Salonen, Ruth Seidman, Ellen Cartledge, Sidney McNab

Ethel also spoke about how integral Hope’s contributions were…and Anna mentioned just how long she’d been working on Centennial related information/programming – since somewhere around 2007-2008.

 Nancy Burt

There is one other member of the Centennial Committee, but since she received another nomination for another aspect of her chapter work this year, I’m singling her out: Nancy Burt.

In addition to her hard work with the Centennial Committee, Nancy received a nomination for chapter programming. Here’s what her nominator had to say:

I’d like to nominate Nancy Burt for her outstanding work on program development. The sheer number and diverse program topics are unparalleled for the Boston chapter.

Nancy’s collaborative focus for the chapter has made great strides in reaching out to offer programs in NH, RI, Maine and more.

Nancy has organized programs reaching out to current members and retired members. As President-Elect for the SLA Boston chapter, Nancy has raised the bar on program offerings.

Nancy, thank you for all you’ve done for SLA Boston!

New Officers

Congratulations to our new officers! Khalilah Gambrell is SLA Boston’s new President-elect. Gauri Govil is the new Director of Communications. Unfortunatelly, Bob Risko resigned as Treasurer, however Matthew Burt will be filling in for the year.

Here is the slate of SLA Boston’s executive board officers for 2011

President — Nancy Burt

President Elect — Khalilah Gambrell

Past-President — Kristen Liberman

Secretary — Beth Giana

Treasurer — Matthew Burt

Director, Communications — Gauri Govil        

Director, Strategic Planning — Paula Cohen      

See you in 2011!