Friday, September 18, 2009

“Irving Lazar  - Variety” plus 2 more

“Irving Lazar  - Variety” plus 2 more

Irving Lazar  - Variety

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 04:13 AM PDT

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Biographies for Distinguished Leadership Award finalists - Tallahassee Democrat

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 01:18 PM PDT

Sandy DAlemberte

Florida State University President Emeritus Talbot Sandy DAlemberte is receiving Leadership Tallahassees Lifetime Leadership Award.

He is a past president of the American Bar Association and a member of the American Law Institute. Besides practicing law for several years with Steel Hector & Davis in Miami, he served Dade County in the Florida House of Representatives from 1966 to 1972.

After leaving the Legislature, he chaired the Florida Constitution Revision Commission in 1977-1978 and the Florida Commission on Ethics in 1974-1975.

DAlemberte was the fourth dean of the FSU College of Law from 1984 to 1989. He was the universitys president from 1994 to 2003.

D'Alemberte has won numerous national awards for his contributions to the profession, including the 2001 Wickersham Award given by the Friends of the Law Library of Congress, the 2001 Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, the 1998 ABA Section of Legal Education Robert J. Kutak Award, and the 1998 ABA World Order Under Law Award.

He received an American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences "Emmy" in 1985 for his work in open government.

Karen Moore

This years recipient of the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce 2009 Godfrey Smith Past Chairmens Award is Karen B. Moore, in honor of her work on behalf of the chamber and the community.

She is president of Moore Consulting Group Inc. in Tallahassee, a business she founded in 1992. Since then, the firm has won more than 350 local and statewide awards, and Moore has received several top industry honors.

Besides her involvement in the chamber, Moore serves on 11 local boards, whose efforts are directed primarily toward health care, education and issues affecting children and families.

Leadership Pacesetter finalists

Tallahassee Fire Chief Cindy Dick is the first woman to serve in that capacity for the city. A resident of Tallahassee since 1978 and a graduate of Lincoln High School, she is also the first woman appointed to the Florida Fire Chiefs Association Board of Directors.

Church seeks to move body of O’Connell - Boston Globe

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 05:53 AM PDT

"The Catholic community was coming into its own, politically and socially, and he both symbolized that and, in some ways, made it possible,'' said O'Connell biographer James M. O'Toole, a Boston College history professor. "He was a comparable figure to the political giants of the age - James Michael Curley and Honey Fitz - and he turned the position of archbishop of Boston into that of a public figure, so that what he had to say on any subject was news, simply because he said it.''
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