October 4, 1996
Contact: Lew Harris or Liz Latt, (615) 322-2706
Owen School community service organization
wins 1996 National Saturn Teamwork Challenge Award
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The community service organization of Vanderbilt
University's Owen Graduate School of Management, "100% Owen,"
has been selected to receive the 1996 National Saturn Teamwork Challenge
Award.
The official awards ceremony is slated for Monday at 11:30 a.m. at the Saturn
Plant in Spring Hill, Tenn. Officers and members off 100% Owen, as well
as faculty sponsor Frederick E. Talbott, will accept the award and then
tour the Saturn Plant.
The Owen School community service organization was selected the winner from
a field of 23 colleges and universities who participated in the 1996 National
Saturn Teamwork Challenge. The Teamwork Challenge Award is an integral part
of the Saturn on Campus program. It recognizes students' positive contributions
to campus life and to their community by working together to achieve project
goals.
This is the second national award received by 100% Owen this year. Jody
Handler, co-founder and president of the organization last year, received
the national Community Outreach Award from the Graduate Business Foundation
last March. The Graduate Business Foundation is an organization of 30 international
business schools.
"100% Owen is a team that includes every student, faculty and staff
member at the Owen School," Talbott said. "The name tells the
story: that all are welcomed and all belong. Since its founding a year and
a half ago, more than 300 individuals have participated."
Talbott said the organization's founders recognized the common need amoÝtudents,
faculty and staff: all believe in helping others and serving the community.
100% Owen generated enthusiasm by developing a team process designed to
involve each participant and beneficiary while working with their schedules
and needs to best insure quality performance and satisfaction.
The group decided the best way to generate and manage community service
activities amid the time demands of graduate business studies would be to
plan special community service days and offer several activities and establish
workable teams for each activity. They also host a community service day
to recruit new students at the start of each school year.
During the past 12 months, 100% Owen teams:
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