The following individuals were recognized at our Annual Meeting for their achievements, their potential for achievement, and their service to the Chapter:
Winner of the Chapter Achievement Award: Daniel Gustavo Kipnis.
Dan Kipnis and his wife
The Chapter Achievement Award is given to an individual who has made significant contributions to the Chapter and to the field. This is the Chapter’s highest award and is reserved for outstanding individuals. Dan has been a Chapter member since 2001 and served on the Board as a Committee Chair and Chapter Officer from 2002 thru 2007. He is active in MLA on the national level, served on and chaired the Continuing Education Committee for an extended term, and was appointed National Program Committee liaison for the 2009 Chicago meeting. Dan’s C.V. documents an impressive level of contribution to the peer-reviewed literature and presentations at regional and national meetings on such topics as the use of blogs and wikis in information literacy, instant messaging in reference services and the care and feeding of institutional repositories. He is known as a great librarian, a generous colleague, a scholar, and a gentleman.
Winner of the Beatrice Davis Education Award: Katie Ingersoll. The purpose of this award is to foster and encourage library students to pursue educational activities related to health sciences librarianship. Bea Davis was an active member of the Chapter and its President from 1980-81. She was known for her kindness as well as her gift for teaching and mentoring. A graduate of Drexel’s Library School, she served there on the faculty. Many paraprofessionals and library students employed at the College of Physicians were enriched by her mentoring. She was the Fellows’ Librarian at the College of Physicians for the last 13 years of her career, which ended in the early ’80s.
This year’s award recipient comes from the Temple University Health Science Libraries. Katie Ingersoll has worked there for 4 years. She began as an evening library clerk in the School of Podiatric Medicine in 2006 and in 2008 was promoted to bibliographic assistant in technical services at the Kresge Library. She still is in Technical Services, but now in the new Ginsburg Library. Katie has a B.A. in History and French from Vassar College and is enrolled in the Master’s in Library and Information Science program at the University of Pittsburgh. She is particularly interested in technology and its use in the design and delivery of educational programs. Her plans for the award were to attend MLA2010 and take three CE courses: Effective Training Design, Evidence-based Nursing, and PubMed Clinics.
Acknowledgement of Retiring Member: Joan McKenzie.
Joan McKenzie receives retirement gifts from Cynthia McClellan
Joan McKenzie served the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for forty years. In 1970 she began working there as head of the Regional Photocopying Department. Three years later she earned her master’s degree in Library Science from Drexel University and was promoted to Librarian. This was her second master’s degree; Joan had previously earned a master’s degree in Spanish from The Pennsylvania State University. Joan has served as the Chapter’s Archives Committee Chair since 1993, when she was appointed to that position by Marjorie Smink.
Retiring Board Members: Etheldra Templeton (Nominating Committee Chair/Parliamentarian), Linda Katz (formerly Treasurer, now AHIP Liaison), Esther Dell (AHIP Liaison), Ellen Justice (Development Chair), Gary Kaplan (formerly Webmaster, now Chair Elect), and Sheryl Panka-Bryman (Secretary) were recognized for their service to the Chapter.
Chapter Appreciation: Nancy Calabretta, Gina Kaiser, Gary Kaplan, and Micki McIntyre were acknowledged for their roles in planning the 3 by the Sea tri-chapter conference last fall.
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