| March
22 - 25, 2006
with Pre-Conference Institutes
March 20 - 21, 2006
at
Hilton Austin Airport in Austin, TX
Recognitions
Presented at Annual Meeting
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Dr.
Allen H. Bar, M.D. – Lifetime
Creative Achievement Award
Rodney Hill – David Tanner
Champion of Creativity
Bob Thaves - David Tanner Champion
of Creativity
Ali
Houshmand, Ph.D. - David
Tanner Champion of Creativity
Ann Medlock – Special
Achievement Award
Rebecca Weidensaul Gigli,
Ph.D. - E.
Paul Torrance
Graduate Student Research Award
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Lifetime Creative Achievement Award
presented
to Allen H. Bar, M.D.
The Lifetime Achievement Award
is presented to an individual whose life and career are
characterized by extraordinary creative accomplishments
that have substantially contributed to the betterment of
society. Such accomplishments may be in the form of inventions,
discoveries, works or performances of art, a body of research,
educational curricula or practices, professional service,
or service to the community in general.
Dr. Allen H. Bar receives this recognition for his almost
40 years as a mentor to generations of physicians --particularly
surgeons. Dr. Allen H. Bar has refined, disseminated, and
changed the way surgical rotations are conducted and has
infused creativity and innovation into medical education.
Through these accomplishments, he has substantially
contributed to the betterment of society -- specifically,
as exemplars in the form of medical education curricula
and practices and professional service within the practice
of surgery.
Dr. Bar is passionate that he likes to teach, operate
and be with his patients. He is a renowned specialist in
general surgery because for him, it has to be the whole
patient. Dr. Bar's first role model was his father
who was a general practitioner in a small town and who
was a precursor to Dr. Bar's commitment to and philosophy
of allowing, nee requiring, future docs to think and not
just be lectured to -- and to care.
Dr. Bar puts the med students into a creative
problem solving method where they begin their diagnostic
pathway by questioning the patient, brainstorming possible
reasons for symptoms, using this data (including lab results)
to identify the real problem, engaging
in Socratic discourse with Dr. Bar and their fellow students
to catalogue possible diagnoses, and over time verify their
diagnosis and plan of treatment. Through this approach,
Dr. Bar promotes creative problem solving among his residents,
who then carry that attitude and learning into their future
careers.
Previous Recipients:
2003: Willem J. Kolff
2002: Morris I. Stein
2000: William Edward "Ned" Herrmann
1999: John Glenn
1998: Raymond V. Damadian, M.D.
1997: The Carter Center
1996: Earl Bakken
1995: Jack S. Kilby
1994: E. Paul Torrance
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David Tanner Champion of Creativity
Award
presented to Bob Thaves
The David Tanner Champion of Creativity Award is presented
to an individual who has been an outstanding proponent
of creativity and has put forth extraordinary effort
in the service of creativity and innovations as evidenced
by: their vigorous advocacy for the development and support
of programs or environments that support and encourage
creativity; and / or their courage and persistence as
an advocate or sponsor of a valuable concept, service
or product.
Bob Thaves receives this recognition for a
lifetime devoted to fostering creative insights through
his well known Frank and Ernest cartoons. His body of
work has offered generations of readers unparalleled
opportunities to gain insight and develop wisdom about
how human beings interact. They provide the reader with
a different way of connecting to the realities that define
our human condition. His role in preparing Are We Creative
Yet? a book of cartoons and essays on creativity,
just reprinted by ACA Press, makes far more accessible
such wisdom than other tomes in the area of creativity.
In presenting Bob Thaves with the David Tanner Champion
of Creativity Award, the American Creativity Association
pays homage to Bob's creative genius and his lifelong devotion
to sharing that genius with others.
Previous Recipients:
2005: Gary Hoover
2005: Jeffrey Westphal
2004: Marilyn Schoeman Dow
2003: Paul Vallas
2003: Rolf Smith
2002: Joyce E. Juntune
2002: Fredricka K. Reisman
2001: Dave Tanner
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David Tanner Champion of Creativity
Award
presented to Rodney Hill
The David Tanner Champion of Creativity Award
is presented to an individual who has been an outstanding
proponent of creativity and has put forth extraordinary
effort in the service of creativity and innovations as
evidenced by: their vigorous advocacy for the development
and support of programs or environments that support and
encourage creativity; and / or their courage and persistence
as an advocate or sponsor of a valuable concept, service
or product.
Rodney Hill receives this recognition for
his personal and professional creativity. He is a gourmet
chef and sponsors a Creative Culinary night for the student
ACA chapter at Texas A&M University. In a word, Rodney
Hill is "Mr. Creativity" to the students and
faculty at Texas A&M as well as within the surrounding
community.
Rodney has offered an entry-level creativity course at
Texas A&M University for over a decade. The course
has grown in popularity to an enrollment several hundred
students from various majors each semester. He has established
networks across that campus that have led to the visibility
and widespread support for interest in creativity and future
studies. He and his wife, Sue, have created seven large
hand-carved wood panels depicting the history of Texas
A&M which hang in the Memorial Student Union on campus.
Currently, Rodney works tirelessly with the newly established
Institute for Applied Creativity at Texas A & M. His
support and efforts have raised the visibility of the Institute
on campus. He is truly a champion for creativity.
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David Tanner Champion of Creativity
Award
presented to Ali Houshmand, Ph.D.
The David Tanner Champion of Creativity
Award is presented to an individual who has been an outstanding
proponent of creativity and has put forth extraordinary
effort in the service of creativity and innovations as
evidenced by: their vigorous advocacy for the development
and support of programs or environments that support and
encourage creativity; and / or their courage and persistence
as an advocate or sponsor of a valuable concept, service
or product.
Dr. Ali A. Houshmand receives this recognition
for courage and persistence to succeed in spite of his
poverty beginnings as one of ten children in Iran with
a strong mother who instilled a view of women as equally
as strong as men which shaped Ali's commitment to
respect for all (regardless of religion, gender, race,
sexual orientation, beliefs about any kind of classification).
Two benchmarks for his receiving this award are first,
his leadership in transforming and expanding a traditional
evening college to a center for life long learning and
professional studies which has opened doors to self improvement
for hundreds of the region's citizens. Second, his
collaborative groundwork for supporting activities in Global
Creativity. Ali's impending initiative for Global
Creativity is to establish a program at his college whereby
groups of 5 to 6 high school students, with the groups
coming from dissimilar cultures beginning with the middle
east, live together on campus for two months in the summer
to learn about each other, take relevant coursework,
experience the art and historical offerings of the area,
mingle with local families, use their creative minds
for positive creativity instead of conflict and terrorism,
and become leaders in an international youth movement
constructed upon creativity to alleviate hate built on
ignorance. This initiative is founded upon Dr. Houshmand's
previous program with six universities (three from other
countries-Belgium, Portugal and Spain, and three from
America- Virginia Tech, Clemson, and the University of
Cincinnati) where they exchanged students and faculty
both thru the Internet as well as in person and absolutely
enriched the lives of the participants.
Dr. Ali A. Houshmand is Dean of the Goodwin College of
Professional Studies at Drexel University and served with
distinction as the Interim Provost. Dean Houshmand has
been a constant proponent of creativity and innovation.
He is the recipient of several teaching and research awards
and is responsible for the development of 30 new academic
programs, enhancing the quality of the College's faculty
and staff, promoting collaboration with other academic
institutions and cultivating research in a College that
traditionally was comprised of evening students only. In
addition to his two most important creative productions,
his son and daughter, Ali recently completed the Boston
Marathon.
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Special Achievement Award
presented to Ann
Medlock
The Special Achievement Award is presented to an individual
who has made an outstanding creative contribution to the
field of creativity or to society in general. Such contribution
may take the form of an invention, discovery, work or performance
of art, research study, educational program, or special
service to the community.
Ann Medlock receives this recognition
for her work founding the Giraffe
Heroes Project, yet another
of the ways she demonstrates her self-proclaimed profession
as "boat rocker." This project has grown to
international importance and touched many countries, schools,
businesses and professions, making a profound impact by
inspiring positive actions.
Ann Medlock has been a writer, editor, publicist, teacher,
and speechwriter, but describes her overarching profession
as, “In the early 80s, concerned that too few people
saw themselves as capable of improving their world, I launched
the Giraffe Project to encourage people to stick their
necks out for the common good.”
Ann's background includes editing Viet Nam Presse in
Saigon, and teaching in Japan and the Congo. In the US
she has edited social studies textbooks at Science Research
Associates and at Macmillan. She was editor-in-chief of
the Children's Express news service. She has written for Look, The
New York Times, The Journal of Commerce, Editor & Publisher, Working
Woman, Lear’s, CoEvolution
Quarterly,
and Education Week; counseled major corporations
on media; and written speeches for US political figures
and for the Aga Khan
Medlock edited The Giraffe Heroes Program, a K-12 curriculum
that is providing character-rich content for language arts
and social studies in schools in all 50 states. She has
also written chapters in The Power of Character, The
Courage to Give and is publishing a book of poetry
this year.
She's been profiled as an educational innovator in NEA
Today, and has been invited to the White House to
confer on the future of giving in America. Her commentaries
on public radio have earned her awards as a broadcast journalist,
and her public appearances have inspired and informed audiences
across the country.
Previous Recipients:
2005: Jason Ryan Dorsey
2004: Martin E. Kenney
2004: John Lienhard
2003: Constantine Papadakis
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E. Paul Torrance Graduate Student Research Award
presented
to Rebecca Weidensaul Gigli,
Ph.D.
The ACA Torrance Graduate Student Research Award honors
E. Paul Torrance's
lifetime commitment to supporting graduate student studies.
This award is to recognize a graduate student whose study
(at the masters or doctoral level) shows promise that
he or she will become a leader in the field of Applied
Creativity. The recipient receives an Honorary Lifetime
Membership in ACA. This membership includes the ACA newsletter
and attendance at annual ACA conferences (meals and other
expenses are separate and calculated at the member rate).
The awardee will be required to present his or her work
at the upcomingACA Annual Conference
Dr. Torrance was a core member of Rebecca's doctoral
committee and it was his joy to know that the study of
creativity would have new application in the realm of athletics. Early
in his career he studied creative movement in children
and Rebecca was able to take the checklist he developed
and utilize it in this study of intercollegiate athletes. Rebecca
was the final graduate student whose doctoral committee
Paul Torrance joined, and in Rebecca's words, she
spent "precious time with Dr. Torrance during her
trip to Georgia." Dr. Gigli completed her degree around
the time of Paul's passing.
Dr. Gigli models creativity in the workplace by her flexible
and unique approach to the work she does, her passion for
student-athletes and her desire to keep everyone around
her reaching for better alternatives and greater solutions
to familiar challenges.
Dr. Gigli served as CHAMPS/Life Skills Coordinator for
over five years and currently is a member of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) CHAMPS/Life Skills
Advisory Team. Dr. Gigli had a large part in working with
the national organization to demonstrate that creativity
is a life skill which can and should be infused into Life
Skills curriculum by the academic support coordinators.
Her ideas, when turned into action, have had a profound
impact on hundreds of CHAMPS/Life Skills coordinators across
the nation.
Rebecca's research design was well thought out, very
comprehensive in terms of instrumentation, incorporation
of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and
fills a gap in the creativity literature.
Previous Recipients:
2005: Patrick Auth
2005: Dawn Horton
2005: Kyung Hee Kim
2004: Denise Tabasco
2004: Louise Whitelaw
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