2005 Award

Honorary Delegate for Life

Nancy Graham

2001 Awards

Certificates of Appreciation

Reid Goldstein

This certificate of appreciation is awarded to a Federation delegate who has served as President of the New Arlington - Douglas Park Civic Association.

This delegate has been active in the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization, serving as President of that organization's Board of Directors and serving on the Columbia Pike Initiative Working Group, and was CPRO Volunteer of the Year in 1998.

This delegate founded and chaired the South Arlington Coalition of Civic Leaders, and has been active in Arlingtonians for a Better County, the Community Development Citizens Advisory Committee, and the Neighborhood Conservation Advisory Committee.

The recipient has been a member of the Arlington Schools' Strategic Planning Committee, and last year was one of the Arlington parents who hosted summer chats with school superintendent Dr. Robert Smith.

This awardee has done outstanding work for the past four years as Chair and co-Chair of the Federation's Housing Committee, one of our thankless jobs, and as the Federation's representative on the Citizens Advisory Commission on Housing and the Task Force on Affordable Housing, a difficult assignment. He has also organized a very informative Federation meeting addressing housing issues.

This certificate is presented to Reid Goldstein.

Terri Prell and Roger Meyer

I will present the next two certificates at one time, so you should have some idea from the start where we are headed!

These two recipients have been responsible for raising the level of the Federation's interaction with Arlington's schools over the past two years. As co-Chairs of our Schools Committee, they have conscientiously attended every meeting of the School Board, including Saturday work sessions, providing a Federation presence and substantive discussion of the Federation's views on schools issues. They have raised questions and explored the background that often explains schools decisions. They have brought back to the Federation the insight gained from working with the Schools and have shaped our positions on many issues, including budget, strategic planning, facilities and staffing. A realistic position by the Schools Committee on recent budget requests has been a key factor enabling the Federation to produce a balanced mainstream budget recommendation to the County Board in recent years.

These certificates are presented with thanks to Roger Meyer and Terri Prell.

Jay Jacob Wind

It is easy to list our next awardee's accomplishments because they can be found all over hundreds of Web pages.

This person is President of the Socks the Cat Fan Club and perpetrator - aided by his children -- of the Socks the Cat Web site and the Socks the Cat Newsletter.

He is active in the Jefferson Middle School PTA, the Uncommon Market food co-op, and the Arlington-Fairfax Jewish Congregation.

Arlington County and the Northern Virginia Sun recognized him in 1997 as an "Arlington Community Hero" for his volunteer efforts coaching youth in a Northern Virginia Track Club program, organizing DC Road Runners events and dozens of other races, and with numerous community organizations. He runs races from 100 meters to marathons with very respectable times.

He is President of Arlington Heights Civic Association and producer of their Web page, a unique and very interesting neighborhood page.

He is a former chair of Arlington's Parks and Recreation Commission and has campaigned for Parks bonds.

Most importantly for the Federation, this individual is currently a co-Chair of the Federation's Parks Committee.

You can find his compilation of typical civic association revenues and expenses on our CivFed Web page, produced for his participation in our New Delegates Workshop. He has also produced for us a Web page of advice to civic associations on Internet techniques that can be very useful for an association just getting on the Web.

The winner of this certificate is Jay Jacob Wind.

The Journal Cup

Frances Finta

I am pleased to introduce our Journal Cup winner this year.

This person is a long-time Arlingtonian, moving here when most of you were in kindergarten.

They have a degree from Boston University, but no trace of a Boston accent.

Their first job was making pastries in a family bakery.

They found a spouse here at the Rosslyn Hot Shoppes (probably over a Mighty Mo). Kept that very same spouse over the years and will celebrate their 50th anniversary this summer. They have 2 children and 5 grand children, too.

This person worked for Marriott for twelve years, then became a teacher and guidance counselor in Arlington schools in 1963, later serving as the kind of substitute teacher the kids do not take advantage of! This person is a regular churchgoer and has been active in a wide variety of Arlington professional and civic organizations stretching across the alphabet from ABC to Yorktown High PTA.

This person is politically active and ran for public office with an amazingly straightforward platform representing heartfelt views that proved unpopular at the polls but were honest.

This person has been a mainstay for the Federation for years. When we actually had a contested election a few years back many of us were astounded to discover as we handed out the ballots that this person knew every delegate and alternate in the room!

You know by now who the Journal Cup winner is, but let me list her Federation accomplishments:



• Delegate from 1982 to the present
  
• Has chaired and served on the Executive Committee.
  
• Has chaired the Membership Committee since 1985. Keeps the list and produces the labels that send you a newsletter every month if you still get yours on paper.
  
• Is our current Treasurer.
  
• Has served on the Schools Committee, Awards Committees, Audit Committees, Nominating Committees, Special Events Committee, Banquet Committee, County Fair booth staff and more.

You have already checked your program and said "What! She's never received the Journal Cup?"

Please join me in congratulating the 65th Journal Cup winner, Frances Finta.

Order of Distinguished Meritorius Service

Jean Mostrom

The Federation has one award reserved for those who have provided sustained and exceptional contributions over a long period of time. You will find a list of those who have received this award in your program, letting you know that it has exceptional status. I am pleased to tell you that we are awarding that one - the award for Distinguished Meritorius Service - this time to a person who is richly deserving.

This recipient as a history of public service going back to a famous intelligence and espionage unit in World War II, and extending though particpation on behalf of the Federation in Arliington's Emergency Medical Commission.

Nobody has catalogued all the ad hoc committees where this person has represented the Federation, but one of them was the now-defunct Council of Northern Virginia Civic Federation Presidents. Other service has included the County Council of PTA's, the State Association of PTA's, the Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia, and the Service League of Northern Virginia (now the Junior League). In some of these endeavors the awardee has worked with a similarly gifted spouse, a person who has contributed much in their own right but who has also gained our respect for the many appearances here as a patient supporter, waiting for the after-meeting conversations to die down to be able to depart, with never a whine or whimper.

This awardee has served as our President, and is a Journal Cup winner. Over the years many Federation Presidents have benefitted enormously from this person's sage and careful advice from the front row in times of stress. She is a professional parliamentarian whose services are sought - and paid for! -- by many other organizations, but she has donated that expertise to the Federation as our able and distinguished Parliamentarian all these years.

Please let her hear your approval as we present this Distinguished Meritorius Service Award to Jean Mostrom.

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That's Jean on the left and Frances on the right, beaming.

Here are the recipients of the Annual Cup award now sponsored by the Sun Gazette

Here are the previous recipients of the Order of Distinguished Meritorius Service

Here are the recipients of Certificates of Appreciation

Here are the recipients of the President's Award.

and here are the recipients of the Federation's Arlington Civic Hero Award.

This page was last revised on: March 31, 2006.