I wanted to take the opportunity as the President of Phi Delta Kappa's University of Virginia Chapter to congratulate our 2014 award winners. Each year, the chapter solicits nominations from school divisions in the county and Charlottesville City as well as from Fluvanna, Greene and Nelson counties to recognize some of our outstanding practitioners who best represent the chapter's principles of research, leadership and service.
This year, in an unusual development, all of the winners were from our school division. Please join me in saluting Julie Lindenbaum, our chapter's outstanding elementary school teacher from Hollymead; Janet Webster, outstanding secondary school teacher from Burley and Rachel McElroy, the winner of our outstanding first year teacher award from Walton.
Michele Del Gallo Castner was the overwhelming choice for our chapter's Alton L. Taylor Leadership Award. Albemarle High School's Sarah Vrhovac, who is pursuing a college degree in education, is the recipient of the Rutrough Education Scholarship.
All of these extraordinary honorees will be recognized during Phi Delta Kappa's annual dinner, which this year will be held on June 4 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Greencroft Club in Charlottesville. Deadline for reserving tickets is May 23, which you can do by completing the attached reservation form.
I hope you will be able to be a part of this very special evening.