 |
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Media Professionals of Florida, Inc. provides informative meetings on the second Tuesday of each month For more information contact David Rosenblatt at info@mediaprofessionals.org |
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
 |
|||
|
|||
|
|
|||
 |
|||
| The 2009 Annual Media Professionals of Florida Awards Banquet was held at the Colonnade Restaurant in Tampa. Each year we celebrate our members and our Board Members are especially recognized for their dedication to our organization. This year a special Tom Schroeppel Award was also given to an outstanding media professional in our community. | |||
 |
|||
| Recognizing the importance of getting to know one another, we had an hour to enjoy appetizers -luscious shrimp, bountiful cheeses and fresh fruit. | |||
 |
|||
| Here our presdient, David Pless, takes a few minutes to taste a some appetizers. MPFI members, Mindy Snyder and Orben Torres, also discover the shrimp. | |||
 |
|||
| With the beautiful view of Tampa Bay over our shoulders, we spent time getting to meet new members and renewing our friendships. | |||
 |
|||
| Happy people . . . Cathy Straka, second from left, was the coordinator of this dinner meeting. As you can tell by all the smiles in these photos, she did a great job! Thank you, Cathy! | |||
 |
|||
|
Frank Crum, producer/director from the City of Tampa, is probably discussing his busy day of production -- recording General Petraeus at MacDill AFB. |
|||
 |
|||
| David Pless, MPFI President, begins the awards portion of the evening celebration. | |||
 |
|||
|
A DVD presentation highlighted past recipients of the Tom Schroeepel Award, Tom Schroeppel and Cathy Straka,and then honored this year's recipient who dedicates many hours to the City of Tampa Mayor's Youth Corps program. Here we see our guest of honor at work. |
|||
 |
|||
|
Nominated by co-worker Brian Sullivan, the 2009 Tom Schroeppel Award recipient is Frank Crum. He has a long list of volunteer activities. Among them are President of the City of Tampa Black History Committee, the Mayor's Youth Corps, NAACP ACT-SO as a youth mentor, Gamma Zeta Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and the Beulah Baptist Institution Church usher board. |
|||
 |
|||
|
Frank takes special pride in seeing our young people excel. And on the right, Frank is quite surprised as his name is announced as this year's recipient. His wife, Sherelle, and the City of Tampa Cable Television Manager Mindy Snyder proudly beam with approval.
|
|||
 |
|||
| Thank you, Frank, for a job well done. MPFI also awards a $500 donation to the service agency of Frank's choice. | |||
 |
|||
| David Pless chose David Rosenblatt as the outstanding MPFI Board member. David's deidcation to MPFI is seen through his webmastering of this site, his up-to-date managing of the member data base and as one of the initial founders of the MPFI organization.Cathy Straka, Secretary of MPFI, devotes many volunteer hours in minute taking, refreshment preparation, and meeting organization. What would we do without Cathy! Thanks to both of you! | |||
 |
|||
| Merrily MIller also accepts a reward for her dedication in working as treasurer and membership chair. Tom Krug, our "analyst," calculates and presents the member surveys at each board meeting. | |||
 |
|||
| Terry Jordan, a new board member this year, is responsible for finding great locations for MPFI meetings. Steve Brown is the administrator of MPFI's new MeetUp website, also is one of our popular meeting presenters. | |||
 |
|||
| Rich Roddman won an award for being the most outstanding meeting presenter of the year. And David Rosenblatt, MPFI Vice President, accepts another award for his dedicated work as a board member. The dinner was a terrific event! | |||
|
|
|||
|
