A History of Awards in April

by Carol Lawless, Treasurer

Isn't there a saying about April showers and May flowers? Historically, April has showered a rain of accolades on our members! The Quill itself has received many awards over the years, but these stand out:

• 1991 - The Quill won its first STC Achievement Award.
• 1996 - The Quill won the Distinguished Award for chapters with 75 or less members (my how large we've grown over the last 8 years) - Lisa Bater and Patrick Hofmann, Co-editors.
• 1996 - The Quill was given the Best of Show award in the Newsletters competition: "The Quill is by far the best newsletter I've evaluated" - Lisa Bater and Patrick Hofmann, Co-editors.
• 1997 - The Quill won the Distinguished Award for chapters with 75 or less members - Lisa Bater and Patrick Hofmann, Co-editors
• 2001 - The Quill won an Award of Excellence for chapters with a membership between 151-300 - Karen Hess, Editor; Deborah Gardiner, Copy Editor.
• 2002 - Two short years ago Leanne Logan became the third chapter member to be recognized as an Associate Fellow of the STC for her outstanding and long-term work supporting technical writing.
• 2002 - The Fanshawe College Technical Writing students (under the auspices of Deb Maskins) created the new London Student chapter. The chapter is affiliated with our Southwestern Ontario chapter and we established a $500 scholarship to be awarded to the top student in the program.

Since April is a time of growth, maybe there are still more awards to come.