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To honor and recognize Teckie Shackelford recipient of 2004 American Red Cross Humanitarian Award
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Whereas, Teckie Shackelford has been a long-time community leader, working to improve the lives of children by dedicating much of her life to helping others reach their potential through education; and,
Whereas, She began her education career in 1956 as a junior high school teacher in Tillamook, Oregon. She later served as a teacher in Columbus at Berry Junior High. Today she serves as an education consultant with School Selection Consulting, a firm she founded in 1978; and,
Whereas, Teckie and other Columbus community leaders created I KNOW I CAN in 1988. The program's mission is to assure every qualified Columbus Public School graduate has the opportunity to go to college regardless of his or her economic status. Today she serves as chairman and has assisted other communities nationwide in starting college access programs. Her work with I KNOW I CAN earned her a national volunteer award from President Bush in 1990; and,
Whereas, She is also president of Project GRAD-Columbus that she co-founded as a result of a friendship with the founder of Project GRAD USA. The non-profit focuses on urban education reform initiatives that prepare more students to enter and graduate from college; and,
Whereas, The Columbus Foundation elected her as the first woman chair of its Governing Committee. She has served on numerous community boards and is on the Board of the Ohio State University Foundation where she serves as chair; and,
Whereas, She has received the M.E. Sensenbrenner Award for Community Service, the Christopher Columbus Achievement Award, the Temple Israel Humanitarian Award, and the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus Democracy in Action Award. She has been inducted into the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges' Hall of Excellence, the Central Ohio Business Hall of Fame and the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame; and,...
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