Frauenheim Citizen of the Year Award

to resume

 

With the help of members, this MOAA Chapter will resume presenting an annual Citizen of the Year Award to a person who has made significant contributions to the welfare of our community through initiative and hard work while serving in other than a leadership or management position.

The purposes are two: to recognize someone whose service would otherwise not be publicly honored, one who might be called an “unsung hero”, and for the chapter to reach out into the community. Previous recipients include Claude Kennison who has devoted his life to helping homeless people by working through Good News Outreach, Brenda Popp who worked tirelessly to help patients of Big Bend Hospice, and Chuck and Mary Anna Mohr who traveled far and wide to assist families of National Guard members called to active service.

 There will be one change. The award will be named the Walter Frauenheim Citizen of the Year Award in honor of the retired Army colonel, World War II veteran and former Florida State University professor of military science who instituted the award during his terms as chapter president in 1997-98.

“This is what the chapter should be doing, reaching out to the community,” Col. Frauenheim says:

The award has not been presented in recent years but we are going to reinstate it. Members’ assistance is needed in nominating persons who deserve of the award. The nomination deadline is August 1 with the award to be presented at the September chapter meeting. Nominations of non-MOAA members are preferred since we are trying to reach out into the community.

Members should give their nominations to a member of the selection committee: Jere Moore, Vern Yon or Royal Logan. Committee members have nomination forms. The form provides space for the MOAA submitting member’s name, the name of the nominee, the nominee's organization, and space for an explanation, in 350 words or less, why the nominee deserves the award.