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2007 GIA Alumni Awards and Dance Party

The Alumni Association Celebrates its 25th Anniversary!

 

  
Tucson Alumni Dance Party VRL 56972
Poster of rock 'n' roll icons, like John Lennon, give the party a festive flair.
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Rose McKenna, Alumni Relations manager, opens the night's festivities.
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Past RTL Scholarship winners Jeanie Hord-Bellows, left, and Wayne Houser, right, with Brook Ellis, vice president of Education.

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Jeanie Hord-Bellows presents a $15,000 check to Donna Baker, president of GIA, and Bev Berthoty, manager, Institute Relations, for the RTL Scholarship fund.
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Senator Shawn Michael Malone, from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Chapter Volunteer of the Year.

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Carribean Alumni Chapter members Julia Malaghan, left, and Ivanne Farr, right, with Senator Malone.

 

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Yoshiko Ota, left, Chapter of the
Year, Alumni Association Japan, and
Makoto Nakaire, right, Chapter
Member of the Year, Alumni
Association of Japan.




 

 

Tucson Awards 2007, VRL 56927

Flora Cheng, accepts the Chapter
Member of the Year, Hong Kong chapter, 

for Irene Wing-Yan Leung.

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Anthony To, Outstanding Chapter of the Year, Hong Kong chapter. 
 

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Merle S. Koblenz, Outstanding Chapter of the Year New York-Manhattan chapter.

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Suzanne Martinez, left, and Starla Turner, Chapter of the Year, California-Golden Gate chapter.

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Jodie Diegel , Chapter Member of the Year and Chapter of the Year, Illinois-Wisconsin chapter.

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Bobby Mann , Chapter Member of the Year and Chapter of the Year,  Washington, D.C. chapter.

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Jeanie Hord-Bellows,Chapter
of the Year, Texas-Lone Star
chapter.
 


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Suzanne Martinez, right, samples the roasted vegetable mousakka.

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Attendees get a close look at silent auction items.

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A strand of cultured pearls, donated by Betty Sue King, of King's Ransom, was one of the items in the silent auction.

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Rhonda Beer, long time supporter of the silent auction, bids on an item.

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Auctioneer, Joseph DuMouchelle.

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Emily Stegman, associate editor for The Loupe, holds up a special edition monopoly in the live auction.


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Julia Malaghan and Senator Malone get into the dance party. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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