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VPPPA National Award & Scholarship Winners

VPPPA is committed to highlighting and rewarding those individuals, sites and companies that enhance the field of occupational safety and health and the environment.

Congratulations to the 2011 VPPPA Award Winners:

Safety & Health Achievement Program
Annual Awards for Outreach and Innovation
June Brothers Scholarship
Stephen Brown Scholarship
William "Sully" Sullivan Scholarship
Delta/VPPPA Safety, Health and Environmental Scholarship

2011 VPPPA Safety & Health Achievement Program

The VPPPA Safety and Health Achievement Program was created in 1997 to formally recognize the contributions of employees at VPPPA member sites to the field of safety, health and environmental program management. The program is an opportunity for hourly, non-safety and health professionals to be recognized for their knowledge of safety and health issues and outreach activities at their worksite and in the community.

In 2011, six individuals were honored with the VPPPA Safety & Health Achievement Award at the 27th Annual National VPPPA Conference in New Orleans, LA.

Charles Emery
GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI

John Weathersby
GE Healthcare, Repair Development Center, Milwaukee, WI

Judy Sheu-Rischette
GE Healthcare Technologies - Magnetic Resonance Operations, Waukesha, WI

Lawrence Butler
GE Healthcare, Warrensville Heights, OH

Marty Womack
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA

Rosalind Pringle
GE Healthcare, Florence Magnet, Florence, SC

VPPPA Annual Awards for Outreach and Innovation The VPPPA Annual Awards for Outreach and Innovation recognize those VPPPA member sites and individuals that have made exceptional contributions to the mission of the VPPPA during the previous year. These pioneers in safety and health have shared their knowledge of safe practices with others or developed new techniques to create a safer, healthier work environment.
Safety & Health Outreach Award
Idaho National Laboratory, Hope Lutheran School Project Team Idaho Falls, ID & Ken Sorenson Morton Salt Grantsville, UT
VPP Outreach Award
Hasbro East Longmeadow Eastlongmeadow, MA
Innovation Award Award
Raytheon Precision Manufacturing Dallas, TX

VPPPA June Brothers Scholarship The VPPPA June Brothers Scholarship is intended for students pursuing either an undergraduate or graduate degree in the safety/health/environmental field. This scholarship is open to students enrolled in or enrolling in a college or university.
Bryan Brislin Bryan is the son of Thomas Brislin, an EHS manager at Wheelabrator Ridge Energy in Auburndale, FL. Bryan has been accepted to Chemical Engineering Program at Florida State University, where he is interested in chemical and environmental engineering.

VPPPA Stephen Brown Scholarship The VPPPA Stephen Brown Scholarship is intended for students pursuing a degree in the trades. This scholarship is open to students enrolled or enrolling in a vocational school, college or university.
Nicole Johnson Nicole has completed two construction summer internships at VPP Star sites: Luwa Intermech in Richland, WA; and Bechtel National. Nicole is approaching her senior year at Washington State University as a Construction Management major and is minoring in Engineering, Business Administration and Spanish.

VPPPA William "Sully" Sullivan Scholarship

During the February 2007 VPPPA National Board of Directors meeting, the board established the VPPPA William "Sully" Sullivan Scholarship in honor of our friend, Sully Sullivan. This scholarship was designed to recognize an employee at a VPPPA Full member site who has made significant contributions to the VPP program at his/her site. This scholarship is open to employees enrolled in or enrolling in a vocational school, college or university.

Chasity Woolley
Chasity works as a site assessor with URS Federal Services at the Toole Chemical Demilitarization Facility in Stockton, UT. She is currently working on her associate's degree at Utah State University, while also enrolled at Westminster College, where she is pursuing her B.S. in Business Administration.

Delta/VPPPA Safety, Health and Environmental Scholarship The Delta/VPPPA Safety, Health and Environmental Scholarship is designed to recognize students who actively engage in occupational safety, health and/or environmental outreach in their school, community and/or workplace. Eligible students are enrolled in or enrolling in a college or university (graduate or undergraduate level) or a vocational school, pursing a degree in the environmental, occupational safety and/or health field. They are either employed at a VPPPA Full, Corporate or Associate member site or are the child/grandchild of an individual employed at a VPPPA Full, Corporate or Associate member site. The scholarship supports Delta's "Force for Global Good" initiative that focuses on Breast Cancer awareness, The Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity and environmental responsibility.
Amber Clark Amber Clark's grandfather, Dick Brown, works at Bechtel National Inc. in Kennewick, WA. She will pursue her nursing degree from Columbia Basin College in the fall.
Cassandra Brown Cassandra Brown, the daughter of Scott Brown from Verso Paper in Jay, ME, is a rising Junior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, pursuing a degree in Kinesiology & Public Health Sciences.
Jennifer Tyra Jennifer Tyra is entering her sophomore year at Mercer University. She is studying biology and her father, Michael Tyra, works for Delta Airlines in Atlanta, GA.
Kaleigh Kopacz Kaleigh Kopacz is pursuing a nursing degree at Endicott College. Her father, Robert Kopacz, works at Kanzaki Specialty Papers Inc. in Ware, MA.
Taisha Thornton Taisha Thornton will begin attending the University of Northern Iowa next Fall and plans to major in pre-medicine. Her mother, Tammy Thornton, works at Rockwell Collins in Decorah, Iowa.