USDA To Honor Its Own June 5
The Department’s annual Honor Awards Ceremony for 2000 is scheduled to be held on Monday, June 5 at 1 p.m. at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, DC.

Sandra Anglade, USDA’s Employee Recognition Program Manager with the Office of Human Resources Management and coordinator of the Ceremony, noted that this is the 54^th Honor Awards Ceremony held by the Department. USDA will honor individuals, teams, and groups of employees for their outstanding achievements, based on recommendations to Secretary Dan Glickman from USDA’s Honor Awards Committee, she noted.

The Honor Awards Committee, chaired for the second year in a row by Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics Miley Gonzalez, was composed of Gonzalez and three individuals selected from academia and the private, non-profit sector. Committee members met at USDA headquarters in Washington, DC on March 21 to evaluate the nominations received for the Department’s highest awards. 161 nominations were submitted to the Committee, including 64 individual nominations, 5 team nominations, and 92 group nominations.

Natural Resources Conservation Service program assistant Janet Sweat noted that Committee members then forwarded their selections--which consisted of 56 individual, 3 team, and 62 group nominations, for a total of 121 nominations--to Glickman for his consideration as USDA Honor Award recipients.

OHRM employee relations specialist Cecilia Matthews added that the Ceremony is to be transmitted live via satellite to employee locations around the country. All USDA employees are invited to attend. 

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