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2010 Byliner Awards


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Bank of Oklahoma, c/o Vonnie Anderson
201 Robert S. Kerr, Mezzanine Level
Oklahoma City, OK 73102

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The Association for Women in Communications

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Please contact the Sherree Murray at 405-717-6220 (office) or 405-397-5563 (cell).

Proceeds from the event funds educational opportunities for members and scholarships to students pursuing a degree in communications.

Eight Oklahoma City women will be honored by The Oklahoma City Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications as 2010 Byliner Award recipients.

The 2010 recipients of the Byliner Award are:
 
Sherri Coale
Sherri Coale, head coach of the University of Oklahoma women's basketball team, is considered one of the top collegiate coaches in the nation and is being honored for her dedication to sports. Since 1996, the Sooners have won six regular season Big 12 titles, four Big 12 tournament titles and made ten straight appearances in the NCAA tournament. Coach Coale's greatest accomplishment came during the 2001-2002 season, when Oklahoma became the first Big 12 Conference team to advance to the NCAA Final Four, appearing in the National Championship game. In 2005-06 Coale's team had an unprecedented 19-0 run in the Big 12 Conference and Big 12 Conference Tournament winning both titles. Coale has been named Big 12 Coach of the Year in 2000, 2001, 2006 and 2009.  

Ann Lacy
Ann Lacy, Oklahoma City University trustee and philanthropist, is being honored as a successful private investor who has generously given to a variety of projects in her community. Lacy has enhanced the educational experience of thousands of students at Oklahoma City University.   The Ann Lacy Visitor and Admission Center serves as a key role on campus giving prospective students a look at the university.  Most recently, Lacy contributed to part of a 7.25 million dollar renovation of the Edith Kinney Gaylord Center, home of the world-renowned Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management. The building has been dubbed as the finest collegiate dance building in the Western Hemisphere. Lacy is genuinely interested in helping OCU provide its students with a first-class private education.

Jenny Love Meyer
Jenny Love Meyer is recognized as a leader in the communication field .She handles the internal and external communications for her family business, Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores.  She oversees the disciplines of media relations, community relations and charitable giving in her role of Director of Communications for Love's.  A major accomplishment has been her dedication to raise funds for Children's Medical Network (CMN). She spearheads the Love's CMN Campaign and during her involvement over the past 11 campaigns, she has raised $3 million via donations throughout the store network. Meyer has been very active in a wide variety of community and civic projects, which include Allied Arts, Oklahoma City Community Foundation and Foundation for Public Schools, Red Cross and the Arthritis Foundation.

Pattye Moore
Pattye Moore, honored in the business category, is a consultant, speaker and author, specializing in leadership development, brand development, marketing and strategic planning. Moore was president of Sonic Corp. from January 2002 until October 2004. She was the first female president in the company's 50 plus year history. During her tenure at Sonic, she also served as executive vice president, senior vice president, marketing and brand development.  Over the 12 years Moore was at Sonic, the company grew from less than $900 million in sales with 1,100 restaurants to over $3 billion in sales and over 3,000 restaurants. Advertising Age magazine named Moore one of the "100 Top Marketers in the U.S." in 2000. In 2002, Nation's Restaurant News named her one of the top 50 women in foodservice.
 
Kerry Robertson Kerby
Kerry Robertson Kerby, a highly sought after professional speaker, trainer and consultant is honored for her accomplishments in communication.  She's the founder of Kerry Robertson Communications, which specializes in presentation and communication skills and media training.  She has written numerous training manuals and facilitated seminars for companies and national organizations throughout the United States. Kerry is also the author of "101 Ways to WOW 'em When You Speak" and co-author of "Wise Words for Smart Teens." She was recently selected as one of The Journal Record's 2009 "50 Women Making a Difference." Oklahoma television audiences remember Kerry as the popular co-host of "Dannysday", news anchor for Channel 9's early morning and noon news and co-host of "Discover Oklahoma."

Carol Sorrels
Carol Sorrels, current Director of Marketing and Communications of Orthocare Innovations, is honored for her work in Public Relations. She's a seasoned publicist who has worked with national and international media for more than 25 years. She served as Director of Marketing and Communications for NovaCare Rehabilitation, Sabolich Prosthetic Research Center and Mercy Health Systems. Sorrels engineered and positioned each organization for tremendous growth in sales and public awareness and placed them in national news such as: USA Today, Newsweek, Dateline NBC, CNN Headline News, ABC Evening News, Good Morning America, New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Tonight, Fortune, American Medical News, National Geographic Magazine and many others.

Cathy Stackpole
Cathy Stackpole, recognized for her commitment to child advocacy, is the CEO of Girl Scouts - Western Oklahoma, Inc., serving 13,000 girls in 39 counties. She oversees all operations including program, membership, finance, marketing, fund development, customer service, IT and HR. She's active in the national Girl Scout organization, serving as a member of the Council Campaign CoordinatingGroup for the nationwide 100th anniversary of the Girls Scouts of America. In the late 80s and 90s she was the CEO for two different battered women's shelters and programs.  She spent several weeks in Brazil through the Partners for the Americas where she trained and educated police in domestic violence and not-for-profit organizations in governance and fund development.

Caryn C. Vaughn
Dr. Caryn Vaughn, an aquatic ecologist, conservation biologist and educator, is being honored for her commitment to education. She's currently the Director of the Oklahoma Biological Survey and a Presidential Professor of Zoology, both at the University of Oklahoma. She has broad training as an ecologist and has worked in a variety of ecosystems and with a diversity of organisms. Dr. Vaughn believes that most questions are best answered through a combination of approaches and most of her research has involved field studies, field experiments and lab experiments. She is an author of more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and more than 50 technical reports. Dr. Vaughn lends her expertise to both state and local environmental issues.