Dallas PRSA Chapter Announces Winner of 2006 Norman Teich Community Service Award.DALLAS -- Dallas resident Steve Lee, an accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most professional (APR APR See: Annual Percentage Rate ) and president of QuickSilver quicksilver: see mercury. (1) (QuickSilver Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.qstech.com) A mobile communications company that specializes in a reconfigurable logic chip for cellphones and PDAs. See adaptive computing. Interactive Group, has been chosen by the Dallas Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), based in New York City, is the world's largest organization for public relations professionals. The organization has more than 30,000 professional and student members, and is organized into 112 chapters nationwide. (PRSA PRSA Public Relations Society of America PRSA Personal Retirement Savings Account PRSA Puerto Rican Student Association PRSA Puerto Rican Studies Association PRSA Park and Recreation Service Area PRSA President of the Royal Scottish Academy ) as this year's recipient of the Norman P. Teich Award, which recognizes a member's outstanding dedication to public service. An active community volunteer, Lee has been involved with a variety of non-profit groups in his 30 plus years in this area, including the American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. , United Way, Big Brothers & Big Sisters, and most recently Texas Stampede, Theatre Three, Ronald McDonald House and Wednesday's Child. Lee's company also designed and has maintained the Dallas PRSA website - www.prsadallas.org - since its inception in 1999. Lee served for six years as a member of the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) National Accreditation Board. He has also served as Chairman of the Public Relations Foundation of Texas and President of the Texas Public Relations Association (TPRA TPRA Texas Public Relations Association (Austin, TX) TPRA Third Party Right of Appeal TPRA Triple Play Reference Architecture TPRA Test Planning Requirement Analysis TPRA Task Performance Requirements Analysis ). He has received the Golden Spur award from TPRA, the highest personal honor a practitioner can receive in Texas, and he is also a lifetime member of TPRA. An expert on new technology topics such as the Internet, Blogs, Podcasts and other related subjects, Lee has spoken regularly at a variety of PR conferences, educating PR professionals on cutting-edge technology that affects the profession. "Being compared to Norm Teich is honor enough, much less being awarded in his name," Lee said. "When you are blessed with so much, as I have been, then giving some back is so very easy and incredibly satisfying. The honor and privilege is all mine." "Steve's outstanding leadership and community service provide a wonderful example to all of our members," said PRSA Dallas Chapter President Jessica Jacobsen, APR. "We are pleased to be able to recognize his outstanding achievements and contributions with this prestigious award." The Public Relations Society of America established the Norm Teich Award in 1989, the year after Teich's death, as a way to remember the lives Teich touched and his commitment to the betterment of the city of Dallas. Teich established his own public relations agency in Dallas and served with the Dallas PRSA chapter and spearheaded PRSA's participation in a communications audit for the City of Dallas. The award is given each year to a PRSA member who demonstrates Norm's drive and involvement in volunteerism and community service. Past recipients of the Norm Teich Award include Alice Dykeman, William W. Aston, Freda Gail Stern, David Dunnigan, Stanley R. Levenson, Thalia C. Oliphant, Marion Lindell, Jim Blackmore, Trudy O'Reilly, Andrew M. Stern, Cynthia I. Pharr, Lyria F. Howland, Rita A. Cox, Craig McDaniel and Gregg Shields. Note: Steve Lee photo available upon request. About Dallas PRSA The Dallas Chapter of PRSA serves more than 350 practitioners of public relations in North Texas. The chapter was founded in 1951, just three years after the 1948 founding of the national society. The chapter provides members with a variety of professional services such as the Communicator's Job Bank, a monthly newsletter, professional development programs, monthly luncheons and college outreach programs. For more information, visit www.prsadallas.com About the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) The Public Relations Society of America (www.prsa.org), based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , is the world's largest organization for public relations professionals. The Society has more than 28,000 professional and student members. PRSA is organized into 114 Chapters nationwide, 19 Professional Interest Sections along with Affinity Groups, which represent business and industry, counseling firms, independent practitioners, military, government, associations, hospitals, schools, professional services firms and nonprofit organizations. The Public Relations Student Society of America The Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), based in New York City, is a pre-professional public relations organization. Founded in 1968 by its parent Society, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), the organization has grown to more than 9,600 members and 285 (PRSSA PRSSA Public Relations Student Society of America ) has 266 Chapters at colleges and universities throughout the United States. |
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