Volunteers of Excellence
For outstanding service providing the Girl Scout Leadership Experience to girls or supporting building girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
- Kendra Vaughn
- Dorothy Jokerst
- Kim Jansen
- Cheryl Graham
- Anita Rawlings
Sustained Service Awards
The Sustained Service Award recognizes individuals for their continued outstanding service for 3 years after receiving the Volunteer of Excellence Award.
The following volunteers were received the sustained service award. We are particularly grateful to these long-serving volunteers of excellence.
- Andrea Augustine
- Emily Sullivan
Go-Get-Her Award
The Go-get-her Award recognizes a volunteers who have put significant effort and creativity into finding and recruiting more girls into Girl Scouts.
In Pima we use this award to recognize volunteers who serve as school organizers or who volunteer at recruitment events but we also recognize leaders who keep the circle of membership open and agree to merge troops or otherwise take new members into their established troops.
Pima's 2023 Go-Get-Her Award recipients:
- Brenda Kimery
- Taylor Francis
Standing Ovation Awards
The Standing Ovation award recognizes a product program volunteer (Fall or Cookie) who has gone above and beyond the expected product sales duties and given service of exceptional benefit which warrants recognition.
Each year Pima uses this award to recognize individuals for their service to the council in working at the cookie cupboard and for those leaders and cookie managers whose troops post high sales numbers in the product sales, as well as those who manage multiple troops and who volunteer for cookie distribution and cookie rally.
Thank you and congratulations to the following:
- Lori Hazan
- Karen Connor
- Kristina Eddy
- Annie Cheang
- Valerie Davis
- Abby Ganswer
- Amy Windisch
- Jessica Wald
- Jennfier Kovacik
- Lydia Osolinsky
Rising Star Awards
Rising Star Awards are given to outstanding new troop leaders and recognizes a volunteer during their first three years for service beyond the expectations for the position. We particularly recognize this group of Rising Stars for their perseverance in the last two difficult years. Pima's 2023 Rising Stars are as follows:
- Rochelle Lee
- Jessica Burton
- Bettina Reiter
Years of Service
The following volunteers received their three years of service pins: Annie Cheang, Mandy Graham, Bettina Reiter, Danielle Carpenter, Jessica Burton, Amy Silkman, and Heather Pelanne
The following volunteers received their five years of service pins: Lori Hazan, Jennifer Prior, Kelley Hurley, Serena Schein, Jennifer Nuss, Jennifer Dent, Karalyn Folmes, Annie Cheang, Brenda Kimery, and Taylor Francis
The following volunteers received their 10 years of service pins: Ruthe Aggarwal
Jennifer Nuss, Tina Langevin, and Kristie Miller
The following volunteers received their 15 years of service pins: Lesley Shockness and Mike Grant
Numeral Guards
Numeral guards are awarded for every five years of membership (girl + adult years). The following members received guards:
Five-year guards: Emily Paladino, Julia Rutledge, Abigail Ganser, Kortney Hohle
Mandy Graham, Chelsea Gilbert, Jennifer Dent, Karalyn Folmes, Annie Cheang, Gina Wright, and Lori Hazan
15-year guards: Jennifer Nuss, Mike Grant, and Valerie Davis
20-year guard: Tina Langevin, Teresa Dempsey, and Ariana Schein
