The Serve Illinois Commission announced the creation of a
new Lifetime Achievement Award on
Thursday, October 12, 2017 at the annual National Service Recognition Day held
in Springfield, Illinois. In announcing
the award and its first recipient, Scott McFarland, Executive Director of the
Serve Illinois Commission, said that it was being presented to someone who has
been long been involved in volunteer efforts locally in Chicago as well as
statewide and has been involved in AmeriCorps programming from the beginning, which has included service as a Serve Illinois Commissioner, a board member of America’s
Service Commission representing Illinois, and an AmeriCorps program
director. More importantly he said she
is someone who serves as a mentor to her members and everyone who serves in
national service in Illinois and has been a great friend to him and the Serve Illinois
Commission. He concluded by saying “in creating
a Lifetime Achievement Award we wanted to make sure it had a name that went
along with a lifetime of service and so we named it the Dorothy Miaso Lifetime
Service Award”. | 
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