2008 National Business Women's Week

Read the NBWW City Council Proclamation. Photos of President JoAnn at podium while the proclamation is read and with the Mayor after presenting Pink Ribbons.

Isle City of Alameda Business and Professional Women celebrated the 80th annual National Business Women's Week™ (NBWW) at its Award Reception on October 25.  Women of Achievement honored with certificates of recognition from BPW Isle City , Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker and Rep. Peter Stark were:

  • Joan Blades (CoFounder MoveOn.Org & MomsRising.org), LENA Award (Leadership, Education, Networking, Achievement) (Kathy Moehring, Executive Director of West Alameda Business Association, presenter)
  • Donna Layburn (Owner, the Marketplace), Business (Julie Baron, Owner, Julie's Coffee and Tea Garden, presenter)
  • Irene Kudarauskas (Executive Director of Alameda Family Services), Community Service (Mary Kenney, President Alameda Welfare Council, presenter)
  • Dr. Janet King (Senior Scientist, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute & Professor, University of CA , Berkeley and Davis ) Science (Deborah Stebbins, CEO of Alameda Hospital, presenter)
  • Ann McCormack, Energy & Engineering Consultant and Chair of Alameda's Public Utilities Board, Public Sector (Alameda City Manager Debra Kurita, accepting for McCormick)  ( Kate Quick , President of the Alameda League of Women Voters, presenter)

Rep. Stark spoke of the gains made by women and the work that remain to be done.

Here are pictures taken by Herb Berhstock for Business Women's Week:

  

Isle City honorees and presenters : (l-r) : Layburn, Baron, Blades, Moehring, Kenney, Kudarauskas, Stebbins, Dr. King, Quick, Kurita

Rep. Stark                

Congressman Pete Stark, Past BPW/CA President Barbara David, MC Melody Marr (CEO Alameda Chamber)
           

Layburn and Pres. JoAnn reading Congressional and Board of Supervisor certificates, Stebbins/Dr. King
                

Moehring , Kudarauskas, honorees waiting to be called to accept Women of Achievement awards.
            

Kurita, Rev. Roger Bauer (Chair of Alameda Point Collaborative Board of Directors), Behrstock/MacVicar, MacVicar, Marr, Jo Cazenave, District Director for Congressman Stark
           

Stark/Davis, honorees in front row and audience, Layburn/Baron
                  

Blades/Behrstock/founding member Seaman, Blades/ Moehring, Layburn and husband, Pres. JoAnn, MacVicar
     

Marr/Blades/Lorraine Provost, Executive Director, Alameda County Commission on the Status of Women

 

Isle City's L.E.N.A. Award, which stands for Leadership, Education, Networking and Achievement. This award is named in honor of Lena Madesin Phillips, a founder of BPW/USA and BPW International.

National Business Women's Week™, providing an opportunity to acknowledge the important role women play in the nation's economy.

For more information about BPW meetings or membership, visit the Isle City web site at http://www.bpwislecity.org, e-mail isle_city@yahoo.com or phone 510 523-7024.

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