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December/January 2007: Issue 133
Dale Bumpers AHEC Leadership Award
Mary L. Ryan, MLS, AHIP, has served as director of the UAMS Library since April of 1997. Her leadership and cooperative spirit with the AHEC libraries have been instrumental in ensuring that the AHEC libraries have become true extensions of the UAMS Library. Her view of the AHEC libraries is reflected in local health professionals statewide, who see the AHEC libraries as a vital source of current information practices.
On Dec. 14, at the AHEC Regional Programs Banquet, Mary Ryan was awarded the Dale Bumpers AHEC Leadership Award. She was presented the award by Dr. Cranford on behalf of the Arkansas AHEC Program.
The Dale Bumpers AHEC Leadership Award was created to recognize exemplary leadership that results in outstanding achievement of AHEC Program goals, specifically, leadership sustained over considerable time and having significant impact on the statewide program.
Dale Bumpers was Governor of Arkansas, 1970-1974, and a U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1974-1998. Upon election as Governor, he took several steps to remedy the state's health care problems, one of which was to establish the AHEC Program in 1973. Through the years as U.S. Senator, he strongly supported federal AHEC Program efforts and helped secure federal funding that allowed expansion of the Arkansas program.
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Mary receiving her award from Dr. Cranford |
Grace Anderson, AHEC-Fort Smith and Julie Dobbins, AHEC Pine Bluff congratulationg Mary |