OGDEN — JoAnn Czech, Ogden, has been named the 2004 winner of an award for outstanding volunteer activity on behalf of Army Community Service.
Czech, who for years served Army Community Service and more recently the Army Recruiting Command Family Team Building Program, is to receive the Emma Marie Baird Award in Las Vegas next month.
Her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Czech, is a guidance counselor in the Army's Salt Lake Recruiting Battalion.
The award is named for Lt. Col. Emma Marie Baird, one of the first women to join the Women's Army Corps in 1942. Baird later went on to found Army Community Service in 1965.
Recently, Czech received the Volunteer Gold Award, the highest recruiting command award for volunteers.
"Ms. Czech's hard work and dedication to enhance quality of life for recruiting families is exemplary," said Jo Kinchington, manager of the Salt Lake Battalion Soldier and Family Assistance Program.
Since 1985, when she first served as the assistant volunteer supervisor at Harvey Barracks in Kitzingen, Germany, Czech has contributed more than 4,000 hours of her time to Army Community Service. She is also the Army Recruiting Command Family Team Building Program representative for the Ogden Recruiting Company.
Besides volunteering to help Army families, Czech is a PTA president, volunteers once a month at the Ogden Food Bank and has served in church positions.
"She has relocated seven times in the past 22 years and has been involved with ACS in each location," says a press release from Rae Nola Smith of the Salt Lake Recruiting Battalion.