Tribute Awards
2024 MUNPA Tribute Award Recipients
For 2024 there are two deserving recipients of the MUNPA Tribute Award. Liz Ohle who retired in 2018 after nineteen years as a Standardized Patient Educator with the Faculty of Medicine and Bruce Whitelaw, a Naval Architect who retired in 2009 after twenty-nine years of service at the Marine Institute.
Liz Ohle
Liz Ohle retired from MUN in August 2018 after nineteen years as a Standardized Patient Educator with the Faculty of Medicine.
Before and since her retirement, Liz has been a leader in St. John’s and beyond, with her core values of purposeful engagement, sharing, respect and inclusion underpinning significant ongoing contributions to others, particularly to under-served communities. Liz Ohle
Bruce Whitelaw
After 29 years of service at the Marine Institute, Bruce Whitelaw retired in 2009. Since his retirement, Bruce has continued his involvement with the Avalon Dragons which began in 2006, when he helped them build their first dragon boat and then went on to be a trainer and coach. The Avalon Dragons are a group of breast cancer survivors who get together to paddle dragon boats which has been shown to be a good exercise for breast cancer survivors. Any of the many teams who paddled in the Avalon Dragons’ annual boat race would have met Bruce. Bruce Whitelaw
Tribute Awards
Background: The MUNPA Tribute Awards renames and expands on MUNPA's former Meritorious Service Awards which were offered from 1999 to 2008. The first MUNPA Tribute Awards were presented in 2009.
Purpose and Criteria: The MUNPA Tribute Awards were established to recognize the importance of the ongoing contributions of Memorial's retirees to the University or the Community. The Award is offered annually and a maximum of three recipients may be honored each year. The Award recognizes significant post-retirement service and/or achievement by retired faculty or staff. The service may be volunteer or remunerated in any of the following categories:
Service to the University; Service to the Community; Significant achievements in other areas that exemplify the ongoing contribution of the nominee.
The deadline for submissions is June 30.
Eligibility: In order to be eligible for the award, an individual must meet the following requirements:
1) A nominee must have been employed by Memorial University as a faculty or staff member for a minimum of five years and must now be officially retired.
2) The nominators must include at least two members of MUNPA. Other supporters are also welcomed.
3) The official nomination form must be completed and submitted to the Committee Chair by email to munpa@mun.ca by the deadline date.”
Criteria for Selection: Candidates for the award shall be selected by a committee appointed by the MUNPA Board of Directors. The committee shall meet shortly after the deadline date for submission of nominations to review the nominations received and to make recommendations to the Board regarding award recipient(s).
The nomination of the candidate must provide specific descriptive evidence of post-retirement service. The evidence will be assessed for its breadth (number and kind of organizations or groups, positions held, types of activities in which the candidate engaged, etc.), depth (amount of dedicated time, kinds of leadership offered, etc.) and significance (impact of candidate's involvement and/or significance of results).
The Award: Those individuals who have been selected to receive the Tribute Award are honored in the Fall semester by a formal reception hosted by the Office of the President of Memorial University. The President of the University and the President of MUNPA present the honoree(s) with an award certificate and a non-monetary token of recognition.
The decisions of the Selection Committee are final.
MUNPA Tribute Award Nomination Form - download Tribute Award Nomination Form 2025 or contact munpa@mun.ca.
Previous Tribute Award Winners
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2020 |
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2019 |
Les Cake |
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2018 |
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2017 |
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2016 |
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2015 |
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| 2012 | Tony Chadwick |
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| 2008 | D. V. Reddy |
| 2003 |
Sheena Findley William Allerdice Cater Andrews |
| 2000 |
Alistair Riach Antony Duarte Carmen Mews Carmel Woodford Charles Rennie Doug Eaton Ferris Hodgett Herbert Jackson |
| 1999 |
M. Josephine Barron Helen F. Carew Phyllis Dunn Delaney John M. Facey Marjorie Dodge Frampton Bernard S. Jackson Ian Mennie R. Corben Noel V. Stephen Papezik Arthur M. Sullivan |
2021-01-13