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2012 NRPA National Award Recipients
HE NATIONAL AND NETWORK AWARDS are presented to deserving candidates in several specific

categories. The recipients are chosen for excellence in a variety of topics including professional and voluntary service, programming, leadership, research, and public outreach. The Award
recipients will be honored at the Best of the Best Ceremony, during NRPA's 2012 Congress and Exposition in Anaheim, California, October 17. Please join us in congratulating the 2012 recipients:

Armed Forces Recreation Achievement
■ Jeffery B. Sias, Naval Station Rota, Spain
Barb King Award for Environmental
Stewardship
■ County of San Diego, Department of Parks
and Recreation, California
Dorothy Mullen Arts and Humanities
Awards
■ Class I-BREC's Magnolia Mound Plantation, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana
■ Class III-Summer Arts In The Parks,
Waukegan Park District, Illinois
■ Class IV-Best Southwest Juneteenth
Celebration, City of Cedar Hill, Texas
■ Class V-Rutland Youth Theatre, Rutland
Recreation & Parks Department, Vermont
Excellence in Inclusion Award-Agency
■ City of Boulder Parks and Recreation,
Colorado
Excellence in Inclusion
Award-Individual
■ Anna Wood, Sudbury Park and Recreation, Massachusetts
Excellence in Military Recreation Award
■ Fort Knox Family and Morale, Welfare
and Recreation Community Recreation
Division, Kentucky

Excellence in Teaching Award
■ Cheryl L. Stevens, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
Excellence in Water Safety Award
■ Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham MWR
Aquatics Department, Hawaii

Park or Facility Design Award
■ Class I-San Leandro Community Center, City of San Leandro, California
■ Class II-Rosemont Bridge at Buffalo
Bayou Park, City of Houston Parks and
Recreation, Texas

Kudos Award for Marketing Campaign
■ OC Parks, Orange County, California

Ralph C. Wilson Award
■ Bert Neal, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Kudos Award for Marketing Piece
■ Five Rivers MetroParks, Dayton, Ohio

Theodore & Franklin Roosevelt Award for
Excellence in Recreation and Park
Research
■ William P. Stewart, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign

Kudos Award for Public Relations
■ City of Henderson Parks and Recreation
Department, Nevada
National Health and Fitness Award
■ Woodland Discovery Summer Challenge
at Shelby Farms Park, Shelby Farms Park
Conservancy, Memphis, Tennessee
National Partnership Award
■ Parks After Dark (PAD) Summer Program,
Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation, South Agency, California

Recognition of Signiﬁcant Efforts
(R.O.S.E.)
■ Bill Campbell, Santa Ana, California
National Distinguished Professional
Award
■ Teresa Grodsky, Evanston, Illinois
Robert W. Crawford Rising Professional
Award
■ Shane Mize, Missouri City, Texas

National Voluntary Service Award
■ Maxine Lakin, Phoenix, Arizona

2012 NRPA Network Award Recipients
Distinguished Professionals
■ Teresa Grodsky, Leisure & Aging Network
■ Carol P. Moore, Southern Region Network
■ Bert Neal, Administrators Network
■ Anne Harper Panattoni, Armed Forces
Recreation Network

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Rising Professionals
■ Hilary Boen, Aquatics Network
■ Brooke Burk, Young Professionals Network
■ Nathaniel Jaramillo, Administrators Network
■ Kristy Lintz, Midwest Region Network
■ Shane Mize, Southwest Region Network
■ Elisabeth Weaver, Armed Forces Recreation Network

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Outstanding Graduate Student
■ Anna Pechenik, University of Mississippi
Outstanding Student Club
■ Rho Phi Lambda, Reedley, California
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