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1999 AWSCPA ACHIEVEMENT
AWARDS
Educator
of the Year
Linda M. Nichols
PhD
The Educator
of the Year Award recognizes excellence in teaching in the accounting
field by a woman faculty member of a two- or four-year college. Linda
M. Nichols, nominated by the Lubbock affiliate, won the 1999 award.
An Associate Professor
of Accounting with Tenure, Linda has been teaching accounting at Texas
Tech University since 1989. Prior to joining Texas Tech University,
she was a graduate teaching assistant in the accounting department of
Louisiana State University and had been Financial Planning Supervisor
with Columbia Gas Development Corporation. She started her career as
a staff auditor with Arthur Andersen and attained her CPA license in
1982.
Currently active
in the Texas Tech College of Business, Linda serves as chairperson of
the Doctoral Programs in Business Committee and is on the International
Business Programs Committee and the Steering Committee for Managerial
Communications. She also serves as Director of Doctoral Programs in
Accounting, is on the Financial Accounting Curriculum Revision Committee
and the Accounting Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee and has
served on numerous other department committees during the past 10 years.
Linda has published
numerous articles in such publications as "The CPA Journal," "Oil, Gas
and Energy Quarterly," "Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management
Journal," and the "Central Business Review." She co-authored an accounting
textbook, "Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Accounting," has published reviews
of books on the oil and gas industry, and has given presentations to
several accounting organizations.
In addition to the
AWSCPA, Linda is a member of the AICPA, the Texas Society of CPAs, the
American Accounting Association and the Academy of Accounting Historians.
Her participation in these organizations includes being on numerous
boards and committees and holding offices such as President of the Lubbock
affiliate of AWSCPA in 1994-95. Her other honors include:
- Texas Tech Mortar
Board Recognition for Outstanding Teaching, 1990, 1991 and 1996.
- Texas Hall of
Fame Member, 1996 & 1997
- Who's Who in
Industry and Finance, 1996-2000, Who's Who Among American Women, 1999
and Who's Who in the World, 1999
- Texas Society
of CPAs Award for Outstanding Contribution to a Committee, 1993-94
- Phi Kappa Phi
National Honor Society, Beta Alpha Psi National Accounting Honor Society,
and Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honor Society
Public
Service Award
Mary F. Cheaney
CPA
The Public Service Award recognizes an AWSCPA member who provides a
significant contribution of time and talent to public service outside
the accounting profession. Mary F. Cheaney, the 1999 award winner,
was nominated by the AWSCPA of South Florida affiliate.
Mary worked for
the IRS upon graduation from college and, in 1981, moved into public
accounting. She opened her own accounting firm in 1990. Mary is a member
of the AWSCPA, the AICPA and the Florida Institute of CPAs and has been
active in those organizations as 1995-96 President of the Broward affiliate
of AWSCPA (now AWSCPA of South Florida) and currently Vice-President
for Public Relations of the Education Foundation for Women in Accounting.
Her leadership in AWSCPA of South Florida influenced many changes that
increased their membership by 28% (and still growing!).
Her public service
outside the accounting profession began with I. M. Thumbuddy, a foundation
formed in the early 1980s to fingerprint children so parents would have
a permanent record to help trace them if lost. Mary served as their
Treasurer and was instrumental in getting the organization started.
An active member
of Soroptimist International, a classified service organization, for
more than 10 years, Mary held the office of President from 1988 to 1991.
She has been a community
activist involved in Women in Distress since 1985. The organization
is the only certified domestic violence crisis shelter located in Broward
County, Florida. Each year, through its crisis shelter and counseling
center, it helps women in distress as well as their spouses and children.
Mary has been on its Board since 1995 and currently serves as Treasurer.
The Board oversees $2.5 million in grants and contributions and has
embarked on a $10 million endowment campaign to ensure the future of
this vitally needed agency.
The Beaux Arts of
Fort Lauderdale, a non-profit organization which serves as the fund
raising auxiliary for the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, is another organization
that receives Mary's time and talents. She is actively involved in the
two major fund raising events each year, the Promenade in the Park and
Las Olas Art Festival.
Mary joined the
National Association of Women Business Owners in 1990 and does pro bono
tax work for the organization. In addition, she has been active with
the Commercial Real Estate Women of Broward/Palm Beach Counties and
has been a Board Advisor to the McIntire Foundation, a not-for-profit
adoption agency for children with special needs.
In nominating Mary,
the AWSCPA of South Florida stated that her least known public service
is a networking seminar that she created and coordinated between AWSCPA
and NAWBO, helping both groups interact and gain from each other. |
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