Previous recipients of the Penny Cole Achievement Award include:

Tom Jameson
Darrell Zeller
Alan Pauw
Dr. Bettye Underhill
Deepak Ubhayaker
Paul Clark
Marilyn Buttelwerth
Scott McGookin
Anne Yettke
Grace LeFevre
Donald Derry
Brenda Keeling
Vernon Bragg
Ken Averill
Greg Scott
Lenore Frost

This person is ready, capable, and dependable, and has all the traits that are so important in the success of a person as an individual and a High Performance Toastmaster. This person has been a Toastmaster since the 1969, for over 36 years and has a long history of helping others to achieve their best.

This person told me recently that being a good Toastmasters is all about love, love of your fellow man and love of each other. It’s love in action, about caring and wanting to help each other be our best, without thinking about what’s in it for us. That’s the spirit of Penny Cole. So I was very pleased when the person was nominated by Joyce Bates, DTM for the Penny Cole Award.

This person volunteers as a softball coach, has been a foster parent for 6 children, works with youth to develop their speaking skills as Rotary Speech Contestants, has been a member of the Lions Club, Optimists Club, has held Youth Leadership Classes, and counsels others to achieve their best. This person bought prom dresses for 3 girls so they would have dresses for that special prom evening. He was the first Toastmaster Leader ever to hold a Table Topic Contest and also the first to videotape an International Speech Contest. It is with great love and admiration that I present the Penny Cole Achievement Award to Tom Jameson.

Lois P. Sicking, DTM
District 12 Governor 2004 to 2005
“Friends Helping Friends Succeed, One at a Time”