2007 Member of the Year: Tonya
Gray
Tonya Davis Gray is presently
employed by the Georgia Department of Human Resources, Public Health,
Environmental Health branch as a program consultant. She was employed by
Coweta County Board of Health for 10 years after 13 years of employment
as a sanitarian with the Georgia Department of Agriculture.
She began her career in
environmental health as a wastewater lab analyst in Carrollton. She
holds a master's degree in public administration from the University of
West Georgia and a biology degree from Wesleyan College. The Georgia
Registration Board of Environmental Health Professionals and NEHA both
have issue the credential of Registered Sanitarian/EHS to Mrs Gray.
Beyond environmental health, she
loves ballet, music, and soccer. Many GEHA members have watched her
children, Davis and Amelia, grow from toddlers to teens while attending
many educational conferences held each summer.
2006 Member of the Year: David
Perry
2005 Member of the Year: Hugh
Coleman
2003
Winners
2002
Winners
Lifetime Honorary Member Awards:
Susan Reyher
Melba Bridges
Bill Pace
Larry Martin
David Beecher
Daryl Rowe
Member of the Year Award:
Read
the eligibility and nomination requirements.
Nomination
Form
Rowe
Environmental Health Award:
The purpose of the Rowe
Environmental Health Award is to recognize one undergraduate student
majoring in environmental health at the University of Georgia who, in the
opinion of the environmental health faculty, shows excellent promise for
success in environmental health practice. This award is not based on GPA
but a combination of characteristics that lead to success as a
professional including but not limited to enthusiasm, interest in public
health, integrity, involvement in environmental health organizations, and
success in environmental health courses.
Irving
Bell Golf Scholarship:
The scholarship selection
committee (composed of the President of GEHA, the Chairperson of the GEHA
Scholarship Committee, and two other GEHA Board Members appointed by the
President) will choose the awardee based on academic achievement,
financial need, letters of recommendations, statement of why s/he is
choosing a career in Environmental Health, and the evaluation of the
chosen internship program.
The scholarship will consist of:
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$1550.00 awarded at the
annual UGA Environmental Health awards banquet held at the UGA campus.
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To be invited and honored
at GEHA’s Annual Educational Conference awards banquet. Room and
meals for the conference shall be courtesy of GEHA.
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$100.00 expense money if
awardee accepts the invitation to the Annual Education Conference.
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One year paid membership
to GEHA.
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John J. Sheuring
Scholarship:
This fund was established in 1967 by donations from the Georgia Society of
Registered Professional Sanitarians - renamed Georgia Environmental Health
Association - and others in memory of John J. Sheuring. The scholarship is
awarded to students interested in the study of various aspects of
environmental health. The Environmental Health Science Program as it is
known today was established by Dr. Sheuring and the late Professor Herb
Henderson. This $750.00 award goes to a Junior EHS
major and will be paid in August 2002 for the next academic year.
Donor: John J. Sheuring Memorial Fund (Departmental Scholarship)
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