Awards

Katherine Kennedy Brown Community Leadership Award

In conjunction with the Junior League of Dayton’s 80th anniversary celebration, the Katharine Kennedy Brown Community Leadership Award was created in honor of the service of Junior League of Dayton Sustainers. Named in honor of the first President of the Junior League of Dayton, the award is to be presented annually to a Sustainer in recognition of her demonstrated dedication and commitment to voluntarism, the Junior League of Dayton mission and vision, and service to the greater Dayton community.

Any Sustainer in good standing is eligible for nomination by another Junior League of Dayton member, a community member, a family member, or through self-nomination. A five-member selection panel comprised of the current Junior League of Dayton President, the Membership VP, the Sustainer representative to the Executive Board, the immediate past Sustainer representative to the Executive Board, and a member of the Community Advisory Board will review the nominations and select the annual recipient. (If either Sustainer representative is a nominee, she will recuse herself from the panel and the President will select another Sustainer representative to participate as a panel member.) The Membership VP will manage the nomination process and act as secretariat to the panel. The award is to be presented at the annual dinner/meeting in May.

Recipients to date are:

2001 – Anne Sawyer Greene (Mrs. John B. Greene)
2002 – Mrs. Virginia W. Kettering
2003 – Ruth “Pfeife” Smith (Mrs. Frederick C. Smith)
2004 – Lois Huston Ross
2005 – Sarah “Sally” McBride Solarek
2006 – Wendy Broad Scholl
2007 – Marcy Wells
2008 – Betsy Whitney
2009 – Martha (Marty) Bowman Ebeling
2010 – Patti Edmonson
2011 – Kit England
2012 – Rita Price
2013 – Susan Katz
2014 – Joyce Young
2015 – Chris Saunders
2016 – Judy Cook
2017 – Michelle Volmar
2018 – Laura Woeste
2019 – Diane Phillips
2020 – Judy Slanker
2021 – Helen Jones-Kelley
2022 – Laurie Keller
2023 – Georganne “Georgie” Woessner

Sally Riffle Award for Innovative Leadership

The Sally Riffle Award for Innovative Leadership Award recognizes the nominee’s innovation and enthusiasm in furthering the mission of the Junior League of Dayton in one or more of the following areas:

Promoting voluntarism
Developing the potential of young women
Improving the Greater Dayton community
Promoting healthy families
Promoting the Junior League of Dayton
Fund development

Recipients to date are:

2013 – Maribeth Graham
2014 – Jenni Roer
2015 – Ellie Shulman & Mary Hossier
2016 – Jessica Saunders
2017 – Danielle Page
2018 – Susan Gruenberg
2019 – Myla Cardona-Jones
2020 – Erin Prokes
2021 – Erin Davis
2022 – Rachel Lumley
2023 – Judy Slanker

Silvio Family Memorial Scholarship

The Silvio Family Memorial Scholarship was established in memory and in celebration of the lives of JLD active member, Sheilah Johnson Silvio, and her husband and twin sons whose lives were tragically ended as a result of an automobile accident in December 1999. Due to the longtime commitment of Sheilah’s family to helping youths and the family’s active involvement with the St. Joseph Children’s Treatment Center (CTC), the JLD chose to honor the Silvio family’s memory through the establishment of a scholarship fund. An award will be presented annually to a student at St. Joseph’s CTC who wishes to further his/her post high school education or training.

Recipients to date are:

2001 – Mr. James Adorno
2002 – Mr. Christian Hain
2003 – Mr. Robert Franklin Shutts
2004 – Ms. Melissa Goodpasture
2006 – Ms. I’esha Norwood
2008 – Ms. Latia C. Layne