The Chattanooga Boys Choir is featured on a recording by the Nashville Symphony, which received a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Album when nominations were announced recently.
The symphony's NAXOS recording of works by Maurice Ravel features conductor Alastair Willis leading the orchestra, along with members of the Nashville Symphony Chorus, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, and the Chattanooga Boys Choir.
Other nominees in the Best Classical Album category include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Boys Choir members sang the children's chorus role in Ravel's "L'Enfant et les Sortils," a fanciful opera about a child who refuses to do his homework or obey his parents.
Amedisys Home Health honored
Amedisys Home Health has been named to the 2009 HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the top performing home-health agencies in the United States.
This annual review identifies the top 25 percent of agencies and highlights the top 100 and top 500 agencies overall. Winners are ranked by an analysis of performance measures in quality outcomes, quality improvement and financial performance.
HomeCare Elite is the only performance recognition of its kind in the home-health industry. The list of the HomeCare Elite agencies may be viewed online at www.ocshomecare.com.
Memorial video at Avon gala
A video documenting the work Memorial has been able to continue with grant funding from the Avon Foundation for Women was recently selected by Avon for presentation at its annual Celebration Gala in New York City.
Memorial has partnered with Avon Foundation since 2002 to take breast education and mobile mammography screenings to women who are uninsured or underinsured, in shelters, in housing developments, and working in industry. Memorial has received more than $400,000 from the foundation over seven years.
Kathy Dittmar and Carol Johnson attended the celebration and received an award for the video. The video, written and produced by Memorial's marketing communications team, contained testimonials from women who have benefited from Memorial's program.
Lewis wins engineers honor
Jennifer Lewis, a graduate of East Ridge High School and a senior chemical engineering honors student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, won second place in an international undergraduate student research poster competition. The competition was held in Nashville at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2009 annual conference.
Ms. Lewis' work is part of Dr. Frank Jones' research group that uses microchemical technology to make biodiesel fuel. The advantages of microtechnology should lead to making biodiesel faster and cheaper than conventional methods.
Her poster was "Design Studies of Heterogeneous Catalysis in Microchannels," which is also her departmental honors thesis work.
Undergraduate students from 200 universities around the world participated in this competition.
Susan Palmer Pierce is a reporter and columnist in the Life department. She began her journalism career as a summer employee 1972 for the News Free Press, typing bridal announcements and photo captions. She became a full-time employee in 1980, working her way up to feature writer, then special sections editor, then Lifestyle editor in 1995 until the merge of the NFP and Times in 1999. She was honored with the 2007 Chattanooga Woman of ...
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