For Immediate Release:  9/27/2005

The Arc Otsego Announces Joslin Award Winner

Sherry Springett, trainee at The Arc Otsego Vocational Center, has been named an “Outstanding Performer” as part of the 2005 William B. Joslin Outstanding Performance Awards Program. The Joslin Awards Program, which was introduced in 2004 by New York State Industries for the Disabled, Inc. (NYSID), highlights the significant employment and personal achievements of New Yorker with disabilities. 

Springett and forty other workers were nominated by The Arc Otsego and other NYSID member agencies throughout New York State as 2005 Joslin “Outstanding Performers.”  In recognition of Springett’s accomplishments, Brian Bateman, Production Development Analyst for NYSID, presented her with an award certificate and cash award on Thursday, September 22 at The Arc Otsego Vocational Training Center.

According to Bill Brown, Director of Business Development and Operations for The Arc Otsego, Springett  received the “Outstanding Performer” award because she is conscientious, shows great concern for the quality of her work and is proud of her team’s output.  “Sherry is so dedicated that even after breaking her arm last year, she insisted on coming to work every day to help out her co-workers any way she could.”

NYSID is a not-for-profit-corporation approved by New York State to obtain contracts for products and services provided by people with disabilities who are employed by community rehabilitation programs across New York State.  The Joslin Awards Program is named for the late William B. Joslin, Chief Executive Officer of Human Technologies Corporation in Utica, who served on NYSID’s Board of Directors.

The Arc Otsego, a chapter of NYSARC, Inc., is a private, not-for-profit organization working with and for people with developmental disabilities and their families throughout Otsego County.