Spirit of Martha Award Nominations Available
Applications are now available for the 2011 Spirit of Martha Award. The award recognizes MU women who have distinguished themsevles in their chosen profession and exemplify the spirit of leadership, particularly in the furtherance of women.
The award is named in honor of Martha Wright Griffiths, a 1934 MU economics graudate who served ten terms in Congress and was later elected as the first female lieutenant governor of the state of Michigan. Martha is remembered as the woman most responsible for including women in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and for influencing the ERA movement more than any woman in the modern era. It is in her memory and spirit in which this award is given.
Past recipients include Dr. Pam Benoit, Vice President and Provost at Ohio University; Bekki Cook, former Missouri Secretary of State; Cindy Mustard, director of the Voluntary Action Center; and Linda Remmele Evans, former director of the Missouri Division of Judicial Education.
The 2011 recipient will be honored at the Spring Griffiths Leadership Society banquet April 15, 2011 in Columbia. Click here to download a copy of the nomination form. For additional information on the award of the Griffiths Leadership Society, please contact Carin Huffman Grinch, assistant director of alumni relations, at (573) 884-3204 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).