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Western & Southern Financial Group Announces Award Finalists
Eleven CPS educators have been selected as contenders for the 2009 Dr. Lawrence C. Hawkins Educator of the Year Award.
CINCINNATI — April 15, 2009 — Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) today announced finalists for its 2009 Dr. Lawrence C. Hawkins Educator of the Year Award.
Western & Southern established the Dr. Lawrence C. Hawkins Educator of the Year Award in 2007 to inspire and reward excellence in Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) educators. Finalists for the 2009 award were chosen from a group of 23 teachers and administrators who were nominated by their peers.
The 2009 finalists include:
| Stephen Sippel Academy of Multilingual Immersion Studies |
Stacey Hill-Simmons Hoffman-Parham School |
| Joseph Kollner Schiel Primary School for Arts Enrichment |
Dr. Stephanie Morton Western Hills University High School |
| Laura Greene-White Cincinnati Arts & Technology Center |
Kathryn Yunker Sands Montessori School |
| Diana Crawford Withrow University High School |
Angela Cook Kilgour School |
| Lillian Carter North Avondale Montessori School |
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This distinguished award honors one educator a year who has elevated the educational process in Cincinnati’s public schools to an exceptional level through personal commitment, dedicated focus and outstanding results. The 2009 award recipient will be announced at a luncheon ceremony at The Guilford Institute downtown on May 5, and they will receive a personal check for $10,000 from Western & Southern.
"It is with great pleasure that we recognize these outstanding educators and administrators for their dedication and commitment to helping students grow into productive citizens in their communities," said John F. Barrett, chairman, president and chief executive officer for Western & Southern. "The Dr. Lawrence C. Hawkins Educator of the Year Award seeks to recognize and reward individuals who are driven by their passion and commitment for excellence in education."
The award’s namesake, Dr. Lawrence C. Hawkins, served as a member of the board of directors for Western & Southern and was a renowned educator in Cincinnati. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Cincinnati, as well as a doctorate in education. Dr. Hawkins worked as both an educator and administrator in CPS before joining the UC faculty where he founded the College of Community Affairs. He was promoted to vice president of continuing education and metropolitan affairs and then again to executive vice president of administration. Dr. Hawkins served on several local community and business boards and was named a Great Living Cincinnatian in 1989 by The Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce.
Past recipients of the award include Kimya Moyo from Aiken College & Career High School in 2008 and Sharon Johnson from Withrow University High School in 2007.
About Western & Southern Financial Group
Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) is a Cincinnati-based diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned, managed and under our care in excess of $42 billion as of Dec. 31, 2008. A Fortune 500 company, Western & Southern has received A.M. Best’s highest rating of A++ Superior for financial strength, Standard & Poor’s AA+ rating (one of the nine highest-rated life insurance groups in the world), Fitch’s AA+ rating and Aa3 (Stable) from Moody’s. With a heritage dating to 1888, the group’s affiliates include The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company; Western-Southern Life Assurance Company; Capital Analysts Incorporated;¹ ² Columbus Life Insurance Company; Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.;¹ Fort Washington Savings Company;³ IFS Financial Services, Inc.; Integrity Life Insurance Company; The Lafayette Life Insurance Company; National Integrity Life Insurance Company; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;¹ and Touchstone Securities, Inc.² For more information, visit www.westernsouthern.com. Western & Southern is the title sponsor of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women’s Open tennis tournaments.
¹ A registered investment advisor.
² A registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC.
³ Member FDIC.
Ratings refer to the financial strength of the insurance company and not to the safety, stability or performance of any investment product.
About Cincinnati Public Schools
Cincinnati Public Schools has 58 schools spread around a 90-square-mile district and is moving forward strongly on raising student achievement inside the classroom and rebuilding/renovating its school buildings into modern learning environments. Serving approximately 34,680 students in preschool through 12th grade, Cincinnati Public Schools is Ohio’s third-largest public school district and Hamilton County’s largest. Over recent years, the school district has demonstrated continuous improvement in overall district performance, reading and math scores, graduation rate, student attendance and high school academic performance. Cincinnati Public Schools has held the Continuous Improvement rating for four years in a row.
one of the eight highest-rated life insurance groups
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