Award Winners

Janice Watkins Award Winners (1979 - 2023)

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Back Row Left to Right: Donald H. Riddle (UIC Chancellor) , Robin Hughes (accepting John Wolski’s award), Richard Hanneman (Director Human Resource, Barbara Edyburn nee Munro (SAC President).

Front Row Left to Right: Lucy Cotugno (Janice Watkins Award Winner), Mary Grosch (Janice Watkins Award Winner).

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Recipients of the 1980 Janice Watkins Award for Distinguished Civil Service (third from left), Helen J. Miller, Patrick T. Hughes and Josephine G. Butts, were honored at a reception and luncheon on December 5, 1980.

Also pictured are Barbara Edyburn nee Munro (SAC President), Chancellor Donald H. Riddle and Richard C. Hanneman, Director of Human Resource Chicago Campus.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Donald H. Riddle, Barbara Edyburn nee Munro, and Sharon Paulus nee Coleman.

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Pictured from Left to Right: William Ross, Joyce Rozwadowski, and Sharon Paulus nee Coleman.

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Pictured second from the left is Anna Neary, second from the right is Eugertha Bates, and first from the right is Michael Brown.

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Pictured from second from the left is Fredrick Ray, and first from the right is Vincent Trungale. Charles Hickman is not pictured.

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Joan Peters is pictured second from the left.

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Bernice Wright is pictured second from the left in the bottom row.

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Alvie Griffin Bailey was an administrative assistant to Drs. Eileen Zungolo and Edythe Ellison-Hough, Associate Deans for Academic Affairs in the College of Nursing. Alvie G. Bailey serviced the University of Illinois for twenty-one years before she succumbed to breast cancer at the age of forty-five on September 22, 1988. She was awarded the Janice Watkins Award posthumously.

In 2002, the UIC College of Nursing created an award in her honor for nursing students: Alvie Griffin Bailey Award.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Elaine Olszewski and Patricia Kaisling.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Thomas Brosman and Gloria Arndt.

Gloria Arndt was a secretary in the office of the Assistant Dean for Student Services from 1974-1989 until her untimely illness and death.

An award was established in her honor on July 1, 1992 for those that demonstrate kindness, compassion and altruism: Gloria Arndt Endowed Award.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Lucille Harris and Renee Pleshar.

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Charles Downs is pictured.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Lillie Waits and Henry Walli.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Jeanette Coleman, Linda Delort, and Fannie M. Jones.

Ruthie Allen was awarded in 1996, but is not pictured.

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Shirley Knight is pictured.

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Pictured from Left to Right: James Booker, Bernadette Greski, and Wilhelmenia Kendall.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Eunice Chapman, Claude Rhodes, and Richard Johnson.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Donna Dorney and Christine Encina.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Alice Harris, Gwendolyn Pinager, and Maggie Stanton.

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Pictured from Left to Right in the bottom row: Gwendolyn Haney, Mamie Gray, and Mattildur Kelly.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Loretta Allen and Stefan Howard.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Mary Austin, David J.Baran, and Jacob Mueller.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Lillie Adams, Martha Collins, and Brenda Rivers.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Mariana Ovalle, Florence Rose Kowalczyk, and Irma Vazquez.

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Pictured from Left to Right in the bottom row: Denise Hunter, Robert Caughey, and Jo Juanita McWilliams.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Sharon Casillas, Janice DeLago, and Angela Ware.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Anna Prabowo, Sharon Earthely, and Maria Jessie D. Duran.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Floria Davis, Rosemarie Weems, and Alicia Lubi.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Asa Sims, Tammy Rankin, and Portia White.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Lenore Blanchard, Janice Gentry, and Valerie Brown.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Darlene Kendall, Rosemarie Coogan, and Teresa Vargas-Vega.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Shelissa L. Rodriguez and Jerome V. Sides. Tina Kavukattu is not pictured.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Katie Corboy, Henry H. Vo, and Monica Ackerman.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Edward Snulligan, Mariola Arriola, and Glenn F. Willoughby.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Saulo I. Barrera, Rita Corona, and Katarzyna Lesinski.

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Pictured from Left to Right: Donna Hilburger Lazzara, Danielle Akua Smith, and Maurice Chatman.

winners

From Left to Right: James Hual Lozano-Young, Chorlatte J. Mack and Alejandra Cantero.

winners

From Left to Right: Nora J. Stillwell, Candace D. Stoakley, Nikki J. Andrae

2021 winners

From Left to Right: Yolanda Ferguson, Teresa Haro, Faith M. Thurmond

Karen M. Coicou, Edward M. Bury, Matthew Frazel, Tori R. Allen, Dauphine R. Gregory

From Left to Right: Karen M. Coicou, Edward M. Bury, Matthew Frazel, Tori R. Allen, Dauphine R. Gregory

From Left to Right: Stacie D. Scott, Cattrell M. Pitre, Brett M. Ruiz, Laura Hovis, Natalie Banach

From Left to Right: Stacie D. Scott, Cattrell M. Pitre, Brett M. Ruiz, Laura Hovis, Natalie Banach