Jeff & Sally Bergosh, Kevin Adams
Malcolm & Sandra Thomas
photos & story by
Rebecca Hutton
Amanda Manning, Phillip Salzman & April Pawless
VIP Pensacola on Palafox Street
T
he Escambia County Council of
Parent and Teacher Association
(ECCPTA) held their annual
awards ceremony at Heritage
Hall in Pensacola on Friday, May 12. The
attendees included council officers and
Escambia County School Superintendent
Malcolm Thomas along with school board
members Patty Hightower and Kevin
James, members of individual school
PTAs and PTSAs (Parent, Teacher, and
student Associations), as well as County
Commissioner Jeff Bergosh. This year
thirty-one chapters raised over $865,000
and performed over 78,000 community
service hours. Florida State PTA President
Cindy Gerhardt was in attendance to bring
greetings to her Escambia County friends.
N.B. Cook Elementary School won the
new “All Children Matter” award for their
program that supported a different school
in special ways each month. This year’s
Outstanding Program of the Year went to
Primary- Beulah Elementary School and
Secondary- Jim Bailey Middle School.
The Communications Excellence Award
went to Primary- Beulah Elementary
School and Secondary- Ferry Pass Middle
School. The Unit of the Year award went
to Pensacola Beach Elementary School.
Volunteer of the year went to Primary-
Amy Diaz for Pleasant Grove Elementary
School and Secondary- Lisa Foster from
Ferry Pass Middle School. The Diversity
& Inclusion award went to McArthur
Elementary School. Mentor a PTA Award
went to McArthur Elementary School for
mentoring West Pensacola Elementary
School’s new PTA. Outstanding
Newsletter of the Year went to Cordova
Park Elementary School, and Outstanding
Yearbook went to Lipscomb Elementary
School. Dennis Mills received the Citizen
of the Year Award. Congratulations to all
the award recipients!
For Information on how you can get
involved with your PTA visit them at
http://www.escambiapta.org/.
Kayla Henderson, Jessica Varner, Holly Edgett, Tori Woods, Megan Bryant & Tama Vaughn
The Escambia County Council of
Parent and Teacher Association
Annual Awards Ceremony
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