City woman receives top Jaycee award

INGRID B. SHELDON

City woman receives top Jaycee award

Ingrid B. Sheldon was awarded the 33rd annual Distinguished Service Award by the Ann Arbor Jaycees at their annual Bosses’ Night.

Ms. Sheldon, 34, is vice president of the Ann Arbor Branch of the American Association of University Women and producer of this year’s Thurston Players production.

She is also financial advisor to Alpha Omicron Pi sorority at the University of Michigan and was instrumental in its re-activation in 1977.

Ms. Sheldon is also recording secretary of the Republican Women’s Club of Ann Arbor and was elected a precinct delegate in 1978. She’s a past president and life member of the Ann Arbor Jaycee Women and is presently serving as parliamentarian. Ms. Sheldon is a Cub Scout den mother and a former Brownie leader. She is also a past president of the Thurston PTO and a former Sunday school teacher at Dixboro United Methodist Church. She is the first woman recipient of the Distinguished Service Award.

At the same meeting, R. Michael Yost was awarded a senatorship. This national award is the highest honor which can be given to a Jaycee.