The highest award given by VCPWN is the Spirit of Networking Award. It is one of our longest running traditions, beginning in 1984-85 and honors the person who best exemplifies the standard of networking. This is a person who readily helps others in VCPWN and in other groups. Someone who frequently participates in ways that benefit other members and the communities she or he is associated with, and who exemplifies the mission of the Ventura County Professional Women’s Network. The award takes place at our May meeting.
Members who have received the award in the last five years are not eligible to receive it again.
Here are all our special recipients:
Year Winner
2017-2018 Sue Osborn
2016-2017 Angela Minutillo
2015-2016 Suz-Anne Shoblom
2014-2015 Jim Nicoll
2013-2014 Micki Rickard
2012-2013 Sue Osborn
2011-2012 Darian Taylor
2010-2011 Rita Frayer
2009-2010 Sheila Lowe
2008-2009 Laura Parsons
2007-2008 Carol Powell
2006-2007 Mary Gabriels
2005-2006 Maura Raffensperger
2004-2005 Shirley Lorraine
2003-2004 Mary Ann Zinn
2002-2003 Leilani Machado-Costello
2001-2002 Debbie Steele
2000-2001 Norma Zuber
1999-2000 Arlene Goldberg
1998-1999 Yvonne Ontiveros
1997-1998 Carol Leish
1996-1997 Linda Locke
1995-1996 Michele Pederson
1994-1995 Bonnie Warrington
1993-1994 Charlotte Werner-Gesling
1992-1993 Archina Scott-Roddick
1991-1992 Sally J. FitzGerald
1990-1991 Sue Gary
1989-1990 Nancy Gregg
1988-1989 Nancy Maxwell
1987-1988 Diane Koranda and May Lee Berry
1986-1987 Gwenlyn Hutchison-Norton
1985-1986 Merle DiVita
1984-1985 Kitty Dill