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Connie Gilkeson-Boggess

2001 Jefferson Award Winner

The Jefferson Awards were established in 1972 to encourage and honor individuals for their achievements and contributions through public and community service.  In 2001, a volunteer, Nikki Walters, nominated Connie through WCHS-TV8 in Charleston, West Virginia, for this award. 

In 1972, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. Senator Robert Taft, Jr. and Sam Beard founded the American Institute for Public Service, a 501c3 public foundation, to establish a Nobel Prize for public and community service – The Jefferson Awards.

The Jefferson Awards are presented on two levels: national and local. National award recipients represent a "Who's Who" of outstanding Americans. On the local level, Jefferson Awards recipients are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition or reward.

History and Founding Purposes of the Jefferson Awards
In 1997, for the 25th Anniversary of the award, the AIPS created an 8-minute video that describes the history and founding purposes of the Jefferson Awards.  Follow the link below to see the video.

http://www.aips.org/

In 2001, Connie S. Boggess was nominated and awarded the Jefferson Award. 

May 7, 2001 – West Virginia Governor Robert Wise, presented Connie with her award in the University of Charleston Rotunda

Proclamation by the Mayor of Milton, West Virginia that she was selected as one of the Jefferson Award Winners as selected by the 2001 Jefferson Award Panel.