Miller Industries Towing Equipment Inc. recognized 105 employees who achieved perfect attendance in 2009 with a luncheon in their honor.
Among them were 30 individuals who had perfect attendance for five or more years.
John Biffle, Michael L Campbell, Rickey Dover, Travis Kazy, Randy Pullum and Curt Trulove were honored for five years of perfect attendance. Employees with six years were Billy Caylor and Jerry Shellenburg.
Billy Allen and John Davis were honored for seven years of perfect attendance.
Employees with eight consecutive years were Gary Bowers, Donnie Cook, Andy Garrett and John Young. Richard Ford was recognized for nine consecutive years.
Marking 10 consecutive years were Bobby Beavers, Russell Decker, David Kalish, Jeremiah Pyles and Ed Wagoner. Mark King and Donnie Ricketts were honored for 11 years.
Honored for 13 consecutive years were Eddie Guy, Palmer Hall, Toby Lance, J.W. Nunley and John Pike. Aaron Flowers, James Mason and Al Rogers were recognized for 14 consecutive years of perfect attendance.
Memorial earns satisfaction honor
Memorial Health Care System was recently recognized with an Excellence through Insight Award for Overall Inpatient Satisfaction in the large hospital category by HealthStream Research. The award will be presented during HealthStream’s Customer Summit in Nashville in May.
To qualify for an award, a hospital must have been a patient satisfaction-tracking client of HealthStream Research in 2009, scored in the 75th percentile or higher and surveyed a minimum of 100 patients.
UTC Opera wins two honors
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Opera Theater won two of three award categories at the National Opera Association convention.
There are five categories for submissions in the competition, beginning with piano accompaniment only and moving up through various orchestral categories, with the top category being a full orchestra.
Three operas, all of which were presented by the UTC Opera in the 2008-2009 academic year, were submitted by Ron Ulen at UTC.
In the piano accompaniment only category, UTC was awarded first place for “Naomi in the Living Room” and second place for “La Verbena de la Paloma.” UTC was the first university opera program to be named a double winner in the same category.
Wynn honored by Re:Start
Judge Rebecca Stern presented the Student of the Year Award to Arnita Wynn during a recent GED graduation at Chattanooga State Community College.
Re:Start -The Center for Adult Education established the award to honor students who have obtained their High School Equivalency Diploma by passing the General Education Development Tests.