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ATHENA Award® Program
November 3, 2010
2010 ATHENA Nomination Form
Register now, or call 715-845-6231.
ATHENA Award sponsored by: O'Malley Cadillac Honda
ATHENA Young Professionals Award sponsored by: Elegant Occasions
ATHENA program sponsored by:
Intercity State Bank, Ministry Health Care, Stoney Creek Inn and WSAW TV 7
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2009 ATHENA Award Recipient
Josie Paleologue-Pierce, posthumously, former Program Director, AmeriCorps Team, Greater Wausau Area
 “Josie Paleologue-Pierce demonstrated professional excellence, community development and a desire to help women in the community for over 20 years. Josie was involved in working with women at The Women’s Community when it first started in 1980. She played a key role in helping women find jobs in the community as well as to assist them to complete their education so that they could support themselves. In 1998, she became the director of the Greater Wausau AmeriCorps program where she was involved in placing AmeriCorps members at various sites in the community to provide direct services to youth and adults. Over the years she impacted the lives of over 300 AmeriCorps members and thousands of youth and adults that benefitted from the AmeriCorps service. Josie was an active community member and served on various boards and committees.
“Thinking about Josie brings to mind words and phrases such as a sense of style, dignity, elegance, serenity, caring, compassion, love of beauty, love of the arts, and love of home and family. Josie had a great sense of style – in how she dressed and how she interacted with the world. She conveyed a sense of calmness to those around her.
“Josie was a person of great compassion. She had a strong commitment to social justice and world peace issues. Injustice upset Josie – acts directed against individuals, the oppression of groups, and the violence of war. Josie participated in peace demonstrations. She stood for racial justice, for the equality of women, and for an end to classism. She was involved in planning the local Dr. Martin Luther King Day memorial activities.
“Josie held passionate convictions. Yet she always carried out those convictions with
quiet dignity.”
Prepared and submitted by Steve Froedl, Program Director, AmeriCorps Team – Greater Wausau Area.
Finalists for the 2009 ATHENA Award were Lori Koeppel, Administrator, Mount View Care Center; Julie Luks, M.D. Medical Director-Aspirus Women's Health, Interim Medical Director, Aspirus Senior Health; and, Josie Paleologue-Pierce, posthumously, former Program Director, AmeriCorps Team, Greater Wausau Area.
2009 ATHENA Young Professional Award Recipient
Heather Summers
 Ms. Summers, mother to her seven-year-old adopted daughter, changed careers and lifestyle to ensure a nurturing, stable environment for her daughter. At the time, she was one level below the president in the media industry. She was the first female manager with the company, and she continues to mentor other women in minority roles.
She assists seniors, young adults and women of all economic levels to be financially independent, and she teaches financial classes to women to assist them in taking control of their personal finances and plan for the future. Ms. Summers has presented financial workshops for “Get Smart Wausau” and “Money Smart Week.” She assists with the Money Bus Tour annually when it stops in Wausau. She answers financial inquiries through “Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Calls,” a hotline for people around the nation to contact financial professionals. She is a frequent volunteer speaker at various financial education seminars.
Early in her life Ms. Summers performed mission work in Venezuela and was so moved by the poverty she repeated the work in 11 countries. She lived in France and worked for the International Youth Conferences to provided leadership training, and mentored young adults in pursuing their career goals around the world.
Ms. Summers is currently Chair of The Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce KNOW Committee, Treasurer of the Foundation of Saint Clare’s Hospital, and Vice President and President Elect of the Wausau West Side Business Association.
She is a member of the Wausau Noon Rotary, the Get Smart Wausau Coalition, the Metro Club, and Optimist Club of Merrill. She is a Trinity Lutheran Church School Volunteer and a United Way cabinet member.
Ms. Summers was a member of the Community Planning Council, the Mosinee Economic Development, a United Way Ambassador and a Junior Achievement teacher.
Finalists for the 2009 ATHENA Young Professional Award were Jonnee R. Bauer, Owner/Agent, American Family Insurance; Jessica Glenetski, Public Relations Specialist, The Samuels Group, Inc; Robin S. Hegg, SPHR, Human Resources Manager, Corporate Shared Services, Greenheck; Jennifer Higgins, Community Development Director/Zoning Administrator, Village of Weston; Melissa Kampmann, Attorney, Ruder Ware, L.L.S.C.; and, Heather Summers, Director of Business Development, Vigil Trust & Financial Advocacy.
The ATHENA Award and ATHENA Young Professional Award for Young Professionals are presented to women ---or men--- who are honored for professional excellence, community service and for actively assisting women in their attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills.
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