And The Winner Is …

On Tuesday, May 23, the Austin CPA Chapter hosted its annual Awards Luncheon honoring members whose contributions to the chapter resulted in another successful year. The event was held at the Green Pastures Restaurant and dessert was sponsored by Plains Capital Bank. Roxie Phipps, CPA, received high marks for her presentation on the interesting subject of handwriting analysis. Awards were given in the following categories:

Also recognized were local recipients of TSCPA's prestigious Accounting Excellence Awards:

Christopher Hall, Concordia University
Casey Plant, St. Edward’s University
Anke Kishimoto, Southwestern University
Amy Baughman, Texas State University
Matthew Attanucci, UT-Austin

Immediate past President John Pearce with Tony Ross, this year's recipient of the award for CPA-IGE Long Term Achievement

Accounting Excellence Award recipients Casey Plant and Amy Baughman

John Pearce, 04-05 Chapter President, and Carol Boyd, president 05-06

Carol with 2006-2007 Chapter President Nancy Foss, who received the President's Service Award at the luncheon

Diana Sullivan was recognized as CPA-IGE of the Year

We're almost out of awards to give Donna Wesling - this year it was Distinguished Service

Michele Heyman received the CPA of the Year award for her outstanding contribution to a number of Chapter projects

Guy Draper, Committee Chair of the Year

Jesse Dominguez was also recognized as Committee Chair of the Year

Guy and Rusty did the handwriting exercise Roxie presented

Mmmmmm ... food ...

Proxies' presentation on forensic handwriting analysis was very interesting!

Make sure you get that CPE credit, Rosie!

TSCPA Accounting Excellence Award recipient Casey Plant with Jesse Dominguez, his wife Laura, Penny Dear and John Pearce

Diane and Carol, waiting not-so-patiently for that fantastic Green Pastures dessert