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Inspiring Innovation: With Adversity Comes Opportunity
The Arc’s 2009 Awards Winners
The Arc’s President’s Award The Arc’s Advocacy Matters! Award
The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy (given Self Advocates In Leadership (SAIL) in Washington
posthumously)
State
A few weeks before Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s death, The Arc’s
This award honors an outstanding advocate, or group of advocates,
President, Lynne Cleveland, with unanimous approval from the
whose pioneering spirit and demonstrated inventiveness resulted
Board of Directors, bestowed the 2009 President’s Award to Senator
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in a significant victory, within the past year, that improved life for
Kennedy. His health status prevented the actual conveying of the
people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and/or
award at that time. The Arc is proud to honor his lifetime passion
their families. SAIL embodies these qualities in their unique and
and achievements on behalf of children and adults with intellectual
enterprising approach towards advocacy that promotes and pro-
and developmental disabilities and their families.
tects the civil and human rights of people with disabilities.
The Arc’s Lifetime Achievement Award
The Arc’s Research Matters! Award
Mr. Tom Gilhool
Dr. Susan Parish, University of North Carolina -
The Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates outstanding individu-
Chapel Hill
als who tirelessly strive to protect and advance the rights of adults
This award recognizes prominent researchers who have made
and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities
significant fundamental contributions to the field of intellectual
leading to their right to make their own life choices to the best of
and/or developmental disabilities either through a single scientific
their ability. Mr. Gilhool is truly a leading voice within the disability
discovery or a body of work. Dr. Parish’s leadership and exciting
arena and his tenacity and dedication has significantly influenced
new insight and knowledge substantially increases our under-
public policy at the national level. He has proven to be a strong
standing of the factors and circumstances that affect inclusion in
advocate for improving the quality of life for people with develop-
community life.
mental disabilities.
2009 Professional
Achievement Award Recipients
RISING STAR AWARDS OUTSTANDING PROFESSIONAL LIFELONG ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Dr. Laura Brackin
ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Shirley Dove
The Arc of Louisiana
Jerry Bullinger
Oxnard, CA
Baton Rouge, LA
The Arc of Baltimore
Sherry Wacasey
Baltimore, MD EXECUTIVE EXCELLENCE AWARD
The Arc of Dallas Deborah Davies, Ph.D.
Timothy James Quinn
Dallas, TX
The Arc of Atlantic County
The Arc Northern Chesapeake
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Region
Ana Rivera
Aberdeen, MD
The Arc of Gloucester
Woodbury, NJ
THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES - 2009 NATIONAL CONVENTION - PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
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