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GOOD NEWS: Communications

Awards honor Serra clubs and secular press for getting the word out

This year, the Council is pleased to honor 23 clubs with awards for excellence in communications via outstanding club newsletters. Club or district representatives who were present at the USAC Annual Luncheon at the Pittsburgh convention received certificates. The council mailed awards to winners who could not be present.
 

The Communications Committee evaluates entries based on quality of content and layout, and how these components come together to form a newsletter that communicates effectively and efficiently. The following are recipients of awards for newsletters that scored highest in a particular district. The club name is preceded by its district number.

District Serra Club
1 Seattle
6 Northwest Denver
7 Airport Serra of Bloomington, Minn.
7-S Owatonna Area, Minn.
9-W Omaha, Neb.
10 Southwest Houston
12-2 Southeast Kansas City, Mo.
18 Knoxville, Tenn.
24 Hartford, Conn.
25 Warren County, N.J.
30 Treasure Coast, Fla.
34 Sacramento, Calif.
51 Lima Deanery, Ohio
154 Lafayette, Ind.
37 Fort Wayne, Ind.
79 North San Diego County, Calif.
80-1 Forks of the Delaware, Pa.
80-2 Wilkes-Barre/Wyoming Valley, Pa.
86 Birmingham, Ala.
132 Beaumont, Texas
157 San Bernardino, Calif.
169 Savannah, Ga.


The highest scoring entry in the nation, which received the USA Council Outstanding Newsletter Award, was the Serra Club of Lubbock, Texas’ newsletter, “The Lubbock Serran,” edited by Robert Goyette. A second-time winner, Robert and his club received a certificate and an engraved statue of Father Junipero Serra.
 

The USAC Communications Committee also presented the Spirit of Serra Award to four members of the secular media who produced vocation-affirming book publications, newsprint and television programs that significantly assist in the achievement of the goals and mission of Serra.

The following are the recipients of the Spirit of Serra Award:
 

Author Kristin Ohlson, for her book “Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares” (Hyperion, New York, 2003) which depicts the spirituality of the Poor Clares Sisters
 

Atlanta Journal-Constitution writer Gracie Bonds Staples, for her article “God called me,” (June 7, 2003) which followed the story of Ricardo Bailey’s path to the priesthood (featured in the June 2004 issue of serraUSA)
 

Author and Wall Street Journal reporter John J. Fialka, for his book “Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America” (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2003), describing women religious who founded schools and hospitals in the settlement of the West
 

NBC affiliate WOWT, Channel 6 for the Heartland, Omaha, Neb., for 40 years of producing and broadcasting the weekly Serra Mass for Shut-ins
 

Serra representatives who live in or near the winners’ hometowns accepted the awards on their behalf.
Congratulations to all the winners!

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