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Anchorage ATHENA Society
The ATHENA
Foundation is dedicated to creating leadership
opportunities for women. The prestigious ATHENA Award
Programs recognize individuals and companies on local,
state, national, and international levels.
The ATHENA Award recipients are selected for their
professional excellence, community service, and also
for actively and generously assisting women in their
attainment of professional excellence.
The
inspiration for the ATHENA Award Programs originated
in Lansing, Michigan, in 1980, when Martha Mayhood
Mertz, owner of Mayhood/Mertz Realtors, Inc., was
asked to serve on the Board of Directors of the
Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce. Finding herself
to be the only working woman serving on the Board, she
also discovered that in the 75 years of presenting
community awards, her Chamber had only once honored a
woman.
Martha
Mertz recognized that, "The world was changing,
and the Chamber boardroom did not reflect the reality
of the world outside." The time had come to bring
into focus the many outstanding professional and
business women in our community and to incorporate
them into leadership positions within the Chamber.
Through this "voice of Business," they, too,
would participate in guiding the present and shaping
the future. The first ATHENA Award was presented in
1982. The ATHENA spirit was born... and since then,
thousands of recipients in hundreds of cities,
including Moscow, Russia and cities in Canada, have
presented the ATHENA Award.
For more
information or to help organize the 2004
ATHENA program, please contact:
Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce
ATHENA
Committee
441
W. 5th Avenue, Ste 300
Anchorage,
AK 99501
Tel:
(907) 677-7104
Fax:
(907) 272-4117
info@anchoragechamber.org
Additional
information about ATHENA foundation is available at: www.athenafoundation.org
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