IABC Cleveland Honors Outstanding Communicators at Vision Awards Ceremony

CLEVELAND, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cleveland Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) will present its annual Vision Awards ceremony to recognize the winners of this year's competition and the 2010 Communicator of the Year during a luncheon ceremony June 2.

This year's event will feature special guest and emcee, Loree Vick, University Hospitals' senior advisor on public relations and media. Vick is also a broadcaster, communications consultant and community champion. The luncheon will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Windows on the River, located on the West Bank of the Flats. The Vision Awards presentation is IABC Cleveland's premier event, which honors the achievements of exceptional professionals in marketing, corporate communications, design and public relations.  

Kimberly St. John-Stevenson, the 2010 Communicator of the Year, will serve as the keynote speaker. In her role at the Saint Luke's Foundation, St. John-Stevenson is deeply committed to fostering excellence in communication throughout the greater Cleveland community. Her wide-reaching efforts offer tools and resources that enable area organizations to build greater communication capacity and offer much-needed programming and services to the people of the community.

In addition to recognizing outstanding achievement in business communication, IABC Cleveland will award its fourth annual Future Vision Award scholarship to an outstanding local student working toward a degree in a communication field. This year's recipient, Jennifer Holton, a sophomore majoring in communications at John Carroll University, has earned $2,000 toward her junior year studies.

A raffle will be held to benefit the IABC Cleveland Future Vision Award scholarship fund. The fund awards an annual scholarship to a college student pursuing a communications-related career.

Visit iabccleveland.com or contact chapter administrator Pam Tallant at [email protected] or 216.226.7013 to register.

Event fees are as follows:

$50 for IABC members

$75 for non-members

$25 for students

$350 for a table of eight

The 2010 Vision Awards ceremony is presented by Medical Mutual of Ohio, with support from PR Newswire and Time Warner Cable.  

Founded in 1970, The International Association of Business Communicators provides a professional network of more than 15,200 business communication professionals in more than 70 countries. The local Cleveland chapter includes 150 members who support the highest professional standards of communication and drive innovation in the communication field.

SOURCE IABC Cleveland