Reedsville Team Honored with Education Award at 2007 Convention

Judy Loefer and Joan Zipperer are the 2007 recipients of the NWEA's Alma Therese Link Education Award. The award is given annually to a non-professional educator, individual or group of people, who help to advance the cause of education.

The nomination letter was submitted by Grant and Sharon Mattes from Reedsville and reads as follows:

Judy and Joan have volunteered their services for the past 16 years at the Reedsville Elementary School. Every first day of the week during the school year, these individucals come in to collect lunch money from all of those students taking hot lunch. They take a cart from room to room and sell weekly and daily hot lunch and milk tickets. They are also responsible for distributing free and reduced lunch tickets.

The children look forward to a visit from these two wonderful ladies who are always friendly and courteous. The collection takes approximately one to one and half hours each week. On a few rare occassions one or the other could not help on a particular morning, but no one can remember a time when neither one was able to distribute tickets.

Their assistance has been greatly appreciated by the Reedsville School District. Judy Loefer and Joan Zipperer would be excellent candidates for the Alma Therese Link Education Award.

To nominate someone for the 2008 Alma Therese Link Education Award, please see Nomination Information/Form.