Curriculum Vitae

American Society of Association Executives, former member

American Society Safety Council Executives, former member

Social Service Agency Resource Network, former member

National Association of Female Executives

Past President Louisiana Hospice Organization

Past Secretary Social Service Agency Resource Network

Former member Executive Committee National Safety Council Chapter and Affiliate Division as Southern Region Representative

Past President Mayor's Commission on Needs of Women

Past member of Lafayette Chamber of Commerce and served as Chair of the Education Committee

Special Government Employee serving two sessions for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (Current)

Sustaining Member and Past President, Junior League of Lafayette

Former member Health and Safety Committee, Local Affairs Committee, and Education Committee of the Lafayette

Chamber of Commerce - served as chairman of Education Committee

Member Oil Center Merchants Association 12 years serving as President for several terms

Member of Board of Southwest Louisiana Rehabilitation Center

Delta Delta Delta Alumnae Chapter - served as President, House

Corporation President and Alumna Advisor to collegiate chapter

Active member, Episcopal Church of the Ascension including service as member of the Vestry, Licensed Lay Reader and Chalice

Bearer, Sunday School teacher and superintendent

First Chairman United Blood Services Community Advisory Board

Member of seven member commission appointed by Lafayette Parish

Medical Society in the 1970's to resolve blood availability crisis - the only non-physician on this panel

Active for thirty years with Louisiana Chapter National Hemophilia

Foundation including member of the Board of Directors

National Hemophilia Foundation - served seven years on the Board including four years as Secretary of the Executive Committee

During the seven years on the NHF Board - served as Regional Director of a nine state area, served as Chapter Development

Chairman, Public Relations Chairman and Site Selection Chairman for annual meetings

Member of Hemophilia of Acadiana since its organization

Member Lafayette Parish Medical Society Auxiliary serving for a decade as newsletter editor and one term as Antique Show Chairperson

Charter member The Hemophilia Federation serving as first President and subsequently Executive Director and Advocacy Director

Listed in 1984 edition of Outstanding Young Women of America

Humanitarian of the Year Award, 1983, National Hemophilia Foundation

Volunteer of the Year award at Louisiana Chapter, National Hemophilia Foundation, 1984

1984 Acadiana Volunteer Activists Award

Co-recipient with my husband of the inaugural Charles Stanley Hamilton

Lifetime Achievement Award announced by Hemophilia Federation of America, March, 2003 and presented in March, 2004 at gala banquet

Edited brochure for Southwest Louisiana Rehabilitation Center

Edited and partially wrote 430 page manual for chapters of The National Hemophilia Foundation including sections on: Fund Raising, Board Orientation, Volunteers, Finance, Publicity, and Public Relations

Fund Raising 101 - Presented at nine state regional meeting, The National Hemophilia Foundation, New Orleans, 1987

Care and Feeding of Volunteers - R.S.V.P. agencies, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1986

Volunteer Recruitment and Support - National Hemophilia Foundation Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, 1982

Management by Objectives, The National Hemophilia Foundation Board of Directors, Arlington, Virginia, 1979

Numerous Board Development and Fund Raising presentations at NHF Chapters, HFA member organizations and Independent Organizations

Ricky Ray 101 Presentation (Instructions in completion of forms)

Oklahoma Hemophilia Foundation, July, 2000

Numerous presentations on a variety of topics at Blood Products

Advisory Committee meetings and Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability Meetings.

Testimony before Christopher Shays hearings on Government Oversight and Reform