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| Award winners (from to bottom): Hamilton Leong, Kathryn Hohmann, Rosa Malone, Jeff Tittel,Mark Bettinger, Catherine Corkery, and Kurt Ehrenberg. |
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On April 16, Sierra Club staff gathered at Club headquarters in
San Francisco to honor this year’s Employee Award winners,
nominated by their fellow employees and selected by last year’s
award recipients.
Hamilton Leong was the winner of this year’s Behind the Scenes
Hero Award, saluting an employee whose efforts, skills, and talents
have consistently supported and enabled others to advance the Club’s
mission. Leong has worked for the Sierra Club for 12 years, most
recently as controller in the Finance Department.
Kathryn Hohmann received this year’s Community Service Award,
given in recognition of a commitment to helping others through public
service or community involvement in a non-Sierra Club cause. Hohmann
is a senior regional representative in Bozeman, Montana. She received
this award for her four years of volunteer service with the Child
Advancement Project, which matches elementary school students with
mentors who provide friendship, support, and encouragement.
Rosa Malone received the Virginia Ferguson Award, honoring an employee
who has demonstrated consistent and exemplary service to the Sierra
Club, not only through competence and longevity of employment, but
also in congenial attitude and unquestionable integrity. Malone
has been with the Club off and on since 1977 and in the Human Resources
department for 13 years.
Jeff Tittel won this year’s Excellence Award, given to an
employee who has displayed a distinguished and consistent record
of achievement in implementing ideas, systems, programs, or services
that have resulted in substantial improvements to Club operations
and helped advance the Club’s message. As New Jersey Chapter
director, Tittel formed and now leads an effective working coalition
of environmental groups in the state which claims a long list of
accomplishments.
Mark Bettinger, Catherine Corkery, and Kurt Ehrenberg received this
year’s Special Achievement Award, acknowledging an achievement
that has benefited, changed, or streamlined the work of the Sierra
Club, enhanced its public image, and communicated its message. Bettinger,
the Club’s Northeast field director, and Corkery and Ehrenberg,
New Hampshire regional representatives, were honored for their leadership
in creating, successfully implementing, and evaluating the Club’s
flagship Building Environmental Communities and Environmental Voter
Education Campaign in New Hampshire, establishing the model for
all other such programs.
The Club also honored 4 employees who have contributed 20 years
of service: Sue De La Rosa, Beth Reilly, Barbara Boyle, and Bill
Arthur.
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