1990—Bronze Quill Award of Excellence in the Internal Communications Campaign category for readership survey for H-E-B Grocery Company’s Newsbasket employee newsletter

1988—Communicator of the Year, IABC/San Antonio

1987—WICI Proliners Award of Merit in the Newsletters category for Luby’s Cafeterias employee newsletter, The Cafeteria Line

1986—Bronze Quill Award of Merit in the Newspaper/magapaper category for the Tesoro Petroleum Corporation employee publication, Review

1985—Bronze Quill Award of Merit in the Newspaper/magapaper category for the Tesoro Review

1984—Bronze Quill Award of Excellence in Feature Writing for “Encounter with a nasty lady: Hurricane Alicia” in the Tesoro Review

1984—WICI Proliners Award of Excellence in the Newspaper/tabloid category for the Tesoro Review

IABC is the International Association of Business Communicators. WICI is Women in Communications, Inc. I was a member of both from 1981–1993. These awards were from the San Antonio, Texas chapters of these two professional associations.

I’m sure you noticed these awards are all from 1990 and earlier. Well, since then I’ve had to pay my own entry fees (yes, I’ve been self-employed for a long time!) and the type of work I’ve done more recently hasn’t fit neatly in these groups’ contest categories. I think my work in the past few years is miles beyond what I used to do. But you be the judge of that when you view my portfolio.