1. Welcome to Leadership Day 2014!
18 May 2014

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4. Distinguished Community Service Awards
18 May 2014

5. Distinguished Community Service Awards
The Distinguished Community Service Awards recognize
the hard work and commitment of STC’s community
leaders. The three awards—the Distinguished
Chapter Service Award, Distinguished SIG Service
Award, and Distinguished Service Award for
Students—recognize an individual’s exemplary effort,
energy, and dedication to their community and its
activities.
The Distinguished Community Service Award is the
highest level of recognition that a member can
receive for service to their community.

6. Distinguished Service Award for
Students
 Candace Du Lac
 Dylan Alexander Platz
 Alesa Webber

7. Distinguished SIG Service Award
 Craig Baehr
 Meenakshi Khanna
 Linda Patryas
 Ann Marie Queeney
 Jamye Sagan
 Maralee Sautter
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8. Distinguished Chapter Service Award
 Barbara Alban
 Maryann Bowen
 Dr. Albert Brown
 Todd DeLuca
 Miachelle DePiano
 Michelle Despres
 Christina Eftekhar
 Kathleen Gavenman
 Susan Jaeger
 Sharon Jendrisak
 Paul Kostiuk
 Jan Kruse
 Cynthia Laughlin
 Kim Lindsey
 Jowell Lydon
 Toni Mantych
 Ursula McCloy
 Jane Olivera
 Nancy Rhoads
 Howard Speck
 Rolf Vellek
 Donna Wampach
 Marilyn Woelk
 Mark Wray
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9. Community Achievement Awards/
Pacesetter Awards
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10. Community Achievement Awards
The community achievement awards (CAA)
program recognizes STC chapters and
special interest groups (SIGs) for
exceptional accomplishments in meeting
Society goals. The awards not only
acknowledge that the obligations of a
properly functioning community have been
met, but that the winning communities have
performed well beyond expectations.

11. For improving STC visibility and
professional standing in the
community through a high
number of quality initiatives,
especially the Think-Tank and
Debate contests

12. For your promotion of the field of
technical communication to the
academic community through an
impressive number of innovative
activities and your extensive
involvement with the STC Summit and
the STC Academic Partnership Pre-
Conference

13. For your commitment to
leadership development, your
excellent variety of programs,
your ongoing commitment to the
Technical Literacy Project, and for
being the ―friendly chapter‖

14. For your many programs in
service to your members, your
strong exemplary commitment to
reach your members by way of a
variety of communication media,
and for your Speakers’ Bureau
collaboration

15. For the remarkable quantity of
formal and informal networking
activities for both current and
prospective members, and for
nearly doubling your membership
enrollment in a year’s time

16. For setting clear goals,
formulating strategies, and
coming up with an execution plan
that works through the years—for
one of the largest communities in
STC!

17. For revitalizing your community by re-
launching your web site, job bank,
competitions, and InterChange
conference, and for providing myriad
effective programs and social events,
thus ensuring a stable foundation on
which to rebuild your community

18. For increasing the value of
membership to your community
through a revitalized chapter that
provides low-cost programming
and significant member and
volunteer recognition

19. For excellence in reaching out to
community members through
newsletters, virtual open house,
and social media

20. For your substantial program
offerings, your Vision Day planning,
innovative resources such as
Meetup.com, another successful Tech
the Halls event, your beautiful new
web site, and for fostering an overall
sense of chapter pride

21. For revamping your web site and
creating an active blog, your
impressive number of chapter
initiatives, your continuing to provide
the Mid-Atlantic Conference, and your
ongoing commitment to providing
excellent programs

22. For nurturing the future of technical
communication, not only by involving the
student community through your mentorship
program and volunteer opportunities with
your annual Spectrum conference, but also by
your generous sharing of knowledge with
other STC members so their communities can
also excel

23. For the hard work of your
volunteers to make your chapter
one of the most vibrant and
happening communities within
STC. You have created a legacy
for your future leaders.

24. For making change happen for
the better. You have
demonstrated the core of STC
values by collaborating with
multiple STC communities and
educational entities.

25. For your impressive involvement
with other technical communication
communities—both within and
outside of the Society—in promoting
each other’s events, as well as with
the general community in hosting
résumé review events

26. For your dedication to your members
and to the promotion of the technical
communication field with an
impressive number of initiatives and
strong ties to the community and
students in your area

27. For your overall strength in
providing your members with a
solid connection to the technical
communication profession
through your many educational
programs and high commitment
to volunteerism

28. For your outstanding service to
students, bringing educational
programs and professional
development opportunities to
future practitioners

29. Pacesetter Awards
The Pacesetter award program recognizes the
successful implementation of innovative
community operations. STC offers the
Pacesetter Award because the Society
values the improvement of community
operation, especially when beneficial
innovation can be shared with other
communities.

30. For launching "Year of Education" to
encourage and support the education
and development of future technical
communicators, through partnership
with academic institutions, a dedicated
Education section on the chapter
website, the Research Assistance
program, and the Talk to a
Professional (TaP) service

31. For showing Technical
Communicators how to use their
skills to design a media kit and
attract sponsors – a simple idea
with admirable application

32. For promoting STC and your SIG
through the creative use of a Virtual
Open House, allowing current and
prospective members to ―meet‖ and
chat and giving a large group of
geographically divided members a
sense of closeness

33. For putting in place a process to
redesign and maintain your website
using best practices and usability
testing, making future changes
easier and ensuring that future
leaders can continue to manage the
site with minimal training

34. For creative collaboration among STC
communities, for cultivating a partnership
with the Sigma Tau Delta Society, and
expanding interest in technical
communication among students, thus
ensuring an optimistic future for STC

35. STC Mission Statement
The Society for Technical Communication advances technical
communication as the discipline of transforming complex
information into usable content for products, processes, and
services.
STC serves its members by identifying and promoting best
practices in the field and by demonstrating the economic value
delivered by technical communicators. By providing lifelong
learning opportunities, we help our members develop their skills
and competencies so that they may advance in a variety of
career paths.

36. Focus Areas
To achieve this mission, we focus our efforts
in these areas:
 Offer continuing education that enhances the competencies and
skills of our members and enables lifelong learning
 Foster the means and opportunity for technical communication
professionals to succeed in today’s workforce and to grow into
related career fields
 Define and publicize the economic contribution of technical
communication practices to businesses and governments
 Promote the concept that technical communication training develops
foundational skills and fosters in practitioners habits of analysis,
discernment, and problem-solving that underpins their ability to
successfully perform in many fields
 Manage the operations of the Society in a sound and sustainable
manner, investing strategically to enhance our ability to deliver
member value

37. STC Vision Statement
The Society for Technical Communication is
recognized as an authority in the disciplines of
designing and delivering content; and a
leader in articulating the value of content, and
the value of those who develop
it. Membership in STC is an internationally
respected and desired complement to the
study, teaching, and practice of technical
communication.

38. Thanks for Attending Leadership Day!
 See you in Columbus for Summit 2015 ―
21-24 June!
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