PORT ANGELES — Soroptimist International of Port Angeles Jet Set has named seven Port Angeles residents as Women of Distinction.
Awards were announced at a March 16 breakfast at the Port Angeles Senior &Community Center.
The Jet Set Club’s 2017 Women of Distinction are Nancy Adams, Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics (VIMO); Virginia Fitzpatrick, Clallam County Historical Society; Patricia Glennon, Olympic Medical Center; Sgt. Kori Malone of the Port Angeles Police Department; Sue Mills, Spay to Save; Sherry Phillips, Olympic Medical Center Foundation; and Sylvia Strohm, Clallam County Fair.
The Jet Set group honors women who act as ideal role models for other women in that they have made outstanding achievements in their professional, business or voluntary activities and they have demonstrated exemplary character and integrity along with outstanding ability and leadership.
Adams
Adams is VIMO’s Breast, Cervical and Colon Health Program (BCCHP) coordinator.
While she has worked at VIMO for only about three years in this role, she worked as the BCCHP coordinator for 13 years previously when it was run under Planned Parenthood.
The program provides free cancer screenings to men and women who have limited income and no insurance coverage.
Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick has been helping people her entire adult life — first as a nurse and then as a volunteer extraordinaire, Soroptimists said.
Fitzpatrick’s passion is genealogy, and she has spent the past 38 years working on Clallam County family histories.
She was instrumental in starting the Clallam County Genealogy Society and has spent many hours documenting and saving local history. She has shared her knowledge and skills with those who need help and has been known as “The Query Lady.”
Fitzpatrick spent three years as the volunteer manager of The Museum of the Carnegie, run by the Clallam County Historical Society, and has served on that society’s board for many years.
She also is an active member of the Michael Trebert Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.
Glennon
Glennon began volunteering at Olympic Medical Center (OMC) in August 2011 and recently received her five-year and 1,500-hour pins.
Glennon has had many roles as a volunteer at OMC, beginning with the auxiliary gift shop as a clerk. In addition, she volunteered at the OMC Cancer Center in the infusion center and in the cardiac department in Sequim.
She held the office of vice president of the auxiliary board until last December. As a board member, she has chaired the scholarship committee. She was instrumental in increasing scholarships to four students and awarding $1,500 to each student.
Two years ago, Glennon took on the role of OMC auxiliary gift shop manager and has developed a process for purchasing and maintaining checks and balances that were very much needed.
Malone
Malone was hired in 2009 as a police officer by the Port Angeles Police Department.
Her skills include certified child interviewer, computer voice stress analyzer, supervisor of the negotiator team, field training officer and watch commander.
“She is tough with a no-nonsense, positive attitude and works harmoniously with people in the department, other agencies and the community,” Soroptimists said.
Malone serves on the Healthy Families board, supporting the Child Advocacy Center; the Wellness Committee; and coordinates the STOP Grant, which provides officers with training on responding to investigating domestic violence.
She has been instrumental in providing training to surrounding agencies in sexual assault awareness, Soroptimists said, and also facilitated a course of instruction in forensic child interviewing for the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Center.
Malone was awarded the Law Enforcement Medal of Valor, the department’s highest award.
Miles
Miles began volunteering at the Clallam County Humane Society (now the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society) in 1999 as a dog walker.
Throughout the years, she cleaned dog kennels and cat cages, helped organize an adoption program and volunteered at off-site adoptions, maintained shelter records, created policies/procedures/forms for animal care, developed the animal foster program, fostered hundreds of dogs and cats, and recruited volunteers.
She created www.pet finder.com postings for the shelter and posted daily photos of the dogs and cats available for adoption.
Co-founder of the Humane Society Guild and WAG, Miles served on those boards and on the board of Peninsula Friends of Animals.
At the end of 2008, Miles, then chair of the Clallam County Animal Issues Advisory Committee along with seven other members, resigned from the committee to focus on pet overpopulation.
She co-founded Spay to Save Mobile Spay Neuter Clinic (STS), a nonprofit, mobile, low-cost spay/neuter clinic for low-income residents of the North Olympic Peninsula.
To date, Spay to Save has spayed/neutered more than 3,500 dogs and cats, including 800 feral/free-roaming cats.
Phillips
The Olympic Medical Center Foundation has almost 600 volunteers, and its members say no one spends more time on foundation activities than Phillips, Soroptimists said.
Phillips has served on the foundation’s executive committee since 2012. She has been a tree designer for Festival of Trees for 27 years, the only person who has done so every year.
She has also served as the tree design chair for 12 years, coordinating the activities of more than 180 designers.
Phillips helps out on the foundation’s Harvest of Hope and Red, Set, Go! events.
Philips also has been a key committee member for local Seattle Children’s Hospital events for many years. She chaired the committee that decorated the hospital seasonally for 10 years.
Locally, Phillips has helped with activities of the Boys &Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula, has been a member of the Port Angeles chapter of PEO and has served on the Friends of Lake Crescent Committee.
Strohm
Strohm has volunteered in the information booth during the Clallam County Fair for more than a decade.
For the past seven fairs, she has organized volunteers’ shifts, decorated the information booth, answered visitors’ questions and sold fair-related items.
Strohm also volunteers in the kitchen during such events as Homeless Connect and Veterans Stand Down.
She prepares and serves a weekly meal at the Eagles Aerie and has served as an officer in most officer capacities.
Sylvia owns and operates a ceramic shop and participates in the yearly Christmas house sale.
For more information, contact Jet Set Past President Jean Hordyk by email at jhordyk@olypen.com.
