Noteworthy

Elizabeth Kish, retired head of Omaha Marian High School, recently received the Servite ’09 Partnership Award from the Servants of Mary. Kish spent 32 years at Marian, including 20 years as the first lay head of school. The Servants of Mary founded Marian High in 1955 and continue to sponsor the high school.

NET Television received the Media Award of Excellence from Project Extra Mile at its 10th annual recognition dinner Thursday. NET Television’s production “Your Kids Are Drinking,” which first aired in September 2008, explored how lax attitudes among adults aggravate the youth drinking problem and ways adults can provide realistic solutions.

Taylor Foy of Ogallala, Neb., a student at Doane College in Crete, Neb., is a White House intern during this fall session.

Douglas County Juvenile Court Judge Douglas Johnson of Omaha has been installed as president of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.

Experience Works honored a Nebraska business, a training partner and a local resident as Champion Award winners. Experience Works is a nonprofit training and employment organization. The three winners are Wilbert Taylor of Omaha, who has overcome significant barriers to obtain workplace success; Care Corps in Fremont, Neb., an agency that works with and trains older individuals who need assistance; and Home Instead Senior Care in Beatrice, Neb., a business that consistently employs people older than 55 and has become a partner for Experience Works.

University of Nebraska at Omaha professor Yong Shi received the Georg Cantor Award, the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making’s highest form of recognition. Shi holds the Charles W. and Margre H. Durham Distinguished Chair of Information Technology in the College of Information Science and Technology.

Valparaiso University student Ryan Flemmer of Omaha recently received the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Collegiate Honor Award from the Indiana school’s department of music.

Twelve metropolitan-area nonprofits were awarded a total of $200,000 in grants by the AIM (Applied Information Management) Institute, in partnership with the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands. Recipients were the African Culture Connection, Buford Foundation, HELP Adult Services, Language and Culture School for Omaha, Mission for All Nations, Restored Hope, Sheltering Tree Inc., Social Settlement, South Omaha Community Care Council, Uta Halee Girls Village, Wings of Hope Cancer Support Center and Word-of-Mouth Oral Health Education Connection.

Dr. John Hartigan was honored recently with the Creighton University School of Medicine’s Service Award. Hartigan earned his medical degree from CU in 1943 and entered private practice in Omaha in 1947. For more than 60 years, he served as a contributing faculty member in the school’s department of internal medicine, volunteering as a teacher and mentor to generations of CU medical students and residents.

The Domestic Violence Coordinating Council of Greater Omaha presented $10,000 to the three award recipients of “The Silence Stops Here” video public service announcement contest. The contest was funded by a grant from the Women’s Fund of Greater Omaha. The award recipients are Lynn Sanchez in first place, Christopher Ahrens in second and Trip Reynolds in third.

Chief Justice Mike Heavican of the Nebraska Supreme Court recently presented Carol Stitt, executive director of the Nebraska Foster Care Review Board, with the Chief Justice’s Child Advocacy Award for contributions to the Nebraska judicial system as an advocate for children.

Mike McCarthy, Omaha Community Foundation board member, was honored recently for his service since 1997 on the board and his six years as its chairman. Former Mayor Mike Fahey is the new board chairman. — Compiled by Sue Story Truax

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