SLA Presidential Citations
The SLA Presidential Citations are granted to an SLA member for a notable or important contribution during the previous year that enhanced the Association or furthered its goals and objectives. Citations are granted by the current SLA president and with and/or without a nomination. In 2008 individuals and SLA Units may nominate themselves or others to receive a special "Knowledge to Go Green Champion" Presidential Citation.
Nominations are ongoing and may be submitted at any point using the form here.
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2007 Recipients of the SLA Presidential Citation:
Clare Hart
Executive Vice President, Dow Jones & Company
President, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group
Princeton, N.J.
Hart is executive vice president, Dow Jones & Company, and president, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, a principal business unit with $657 million of revenue. She is responsible for the company's media portfolio serving businesses, including Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Licensing Services, Factiva, Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones Financial Information Services, Dow Jones Reprints and Permissions, as well as the Company's enterprise-facing joint venture, STOXX.
From January 2000 to February 2006, Hart was president and chief executive officer of Factiva, where she drove the strategic vision for the company. During her tenure, Factiva grew to No. 1 in its industry from No. 3, reaching $281 million in annual revenue and serving more than 1.8 million business people at enterprises worldwide.
Prior to that position, she was vice president and director of Factiva Global Sales, where she consolidated the multiple sales groups from each predecessor into one global team and began the process of building customer confidence in the new joint venture. She began her career at Dow Jones in 1983 and held various positions in sales, marketing, customer service, and product design and development at Dow Jones Interactive before joining Factiva.
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Jane Macoustra
Tai Pan Research
Surrey, England, UK
An SLA member since 2000, Macoustra has been actively serving on a number of chapter boards since 2002'service that included revitalizing the SLA Asian Chapter as president while contributing to SLA Europe as public relations chair and director.
She ensured the new Asian Chapter new board was aware of the governing materials, started working on setting up a bank account, submitted required documents to SLA headquarters, and called her first board meeting quickly after becoming president.
Since May 2005, the Asian Chapter has almost doubled its membership. Her leadership and personable approach increased involvement in the chapter and encouraged active participation on the Asian Chapter board.
Past Recipients of SLA Presidential Citations
Howard Haycraft (1968)
Verner W. Clapp (1972)
Bill M. Woods (1974)
Frank E. McKenna (1977)
Martha Jane K. Zachert (1978)
Marguerite C. Soroka (1985)
Vivian J. Arterbery (1986)
David R. Bender (1986)
James B. Tchobanoff (1986)
Catherine A. Jones (1987)
Miriam Drake (1988)
Helen Manning (1988)
James M. Matarazzo (1988)
Frank H. Spaulding (1988)
Ann W. Talcott (1988)
James B. Tchobanoff (1988)
Allen B. Veaner (1988)
Barbara S. Mattscheck (1991)
John Ganly (1993)
Nettie Seaberry (1995)
Mary Beall (1997)
John Marcus (1997)
Susan Merry (1998)
Marjorie M.K. Hlava (2000)
Sue O'Neill Johnson (2001)
Carol Ginsburg (2002)
Judy Field (2002)
Suzi Hayes (2002)
Tom Rink (2002)
Ethel Salonen (2002)
Barbara Semonche (2002)
The Executive Director Selection Committee (2004):
| Tamika Barnes Lynn Berard, Chair Richard Hulser Mary Lee Kennedy Dottie Moon |
Barbie Keiser (2005)
Lisl Zach (2006)
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