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South Louisville (SoLo) Achievement Awards |
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DeSales, Chase Lloyd '07, Announced as
SoLo Achievement Award Recipients August 16, 2006 - South Louisville is enriched by an array of individuals and organizations who are committed to the neighborhoods and people of the community. To recognize some of the best and brightest, Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital President Tom Gessel announced the winners of the first South Louisville Achievement Awards today, including UPS, DeSales High School, Americana Community Center, ValuMarket, basketball great Lisa Harrison, Carmen and Charles Miller, and the late Tom R. Thieneman, Sr. “When Sts. Mary & Elizabeth launched this new, annual series of awards to recognize outstanding contributions to South Louisville, we thought we had a pretty good idea about many of the nominations we would receive, but we were absolutely thrilled to gain a much more in-depth appreciation for our more well-known nominees, and to be introduced to so many more of our communities’ amazing contributors,” Gessel said .“Our review and selection process was difficult, but we are grateful for every nominee’s contributions and trust we will be able to call much-deserved attention to their works in future SoLo Awards years.” “Truly, the level of commitment to Louisville’s South End by our first annual SoLo Awards winners is worthy of city-wide recognition,” said Steve Sexton, President of Churchill Downs and 2006 SoLo Achievement Awards Chairman. “The entire metro area benefits from the gifts our honorees freely offer their communities in terms of their time, talent, and support.” The 2006 SoLo Awards honorees was feted at a luncheon in their honor on September 26 in the Triple Crown Room at Churchill Downs. At the luncheon, each honoree received a custom, etched-glass plate depicting the SoLo Awards logo, which is a stylized representation of the Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital Sky Chapel arches. In addition, SoLo Junior Citizen Award winner Chase Lloyd received a $1,500 scholarship toward post-secondary education. Education: St. Francis DeSales High School instituted the innovative “teach-nology” program in 2003 to provide a laptop computer for every student and teacher and install a wireless computer network throughout campus, as well as to provide professional training for faculty to implement the new technology. DeSales raised more than $300,000 to support the program, and is a two-time nominee for the Top TeN Award celebrating outstanding achievements in technology in the greater Louisville region. The school is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. SoLo Junior Citizen: Chase Lloyd, an incoming senior and a role model at St. Francis DeSales High School, has volunteered more than 100 hours to his school, church and community while attending DeSales, was selected to attend the National Catholic Youth Conference and the Christian Leadership Institute, and raised his own money to travel on an Archdiocese of Louisville trip to Mississippi to help Hurricane Katrina victims during spring break.Other winners:
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recipients and their categories: UPS ValuMarket Americana Community Center DeSales High School Charles Miller, State Representative and former Pleasure Ridge Park High School Principal, and wife,
Carmen Miller, Friends of Southwest Regional Library President Lisa Harrison, Southern High School
graduate and Parade Magazine's 1989 High School Player of the
Year Tom R. Thieneman Chase Lloyd |
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