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2019 
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(left-to-right:  Dr. Amanda Sheffer, Chapter President, 2016-2018, with Marian Graham, Chapter President, 2018-2019)


Dr. Amanda Sheffer (The Catholic University of America) received the Service Award for her extraordinary work for the Chapter across a wide variety of fields:   grant writing, using social media to promote German, innovating and updating the Chapter website, newsletter and logo, and designing the curriculum -- and teaching -- immersion days for high school and college students of German and immersion activities for the teacher immersion weekends.  It must be that mid-Western work ethic! 

Read the full text of the Service Award Justification here:

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2018
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Congratulations to Susanne Sutton ​(University of Maryland Baltimore County) on winning the 2018 AATG Maryland-DC Metro Chapter's Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of teaching and learning German.  We also thank her for her many years of dedicated service as Chapter Secretary and Refreshment Committee Chair for the annual Awards Ceremony for Maryland Students achieving high scores on the AATG National German Exam.  
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(left-to-right:  Susanne Sutton with Dr. Amanda Sheffer, Chapter President, 2016-2018)

2016
Congratulations were extended to Shirley Santora, Maureen Helinski, Brigitte May and Theodore Potthast  for many years of dedicated
service to the AATG Maryland-DC Metro Chapter events and the promotion of the study and teaching of German language, culture and civilization in our Chapter at a luncheon held during the December 2016 immersion weekend for teachers of German held at McDaniel College.
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2015
Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Bornholdt (The Catholic University of America) on her 2015 AATG Maryland-DC Metro Chapter's Award for recognition and appreciation for outstanding contributions to the field of teaching and studying German.  We thank her for her service as past president!  Thank you also to Dr. Carsten Krebs of Volkswagen USA, who was also awarded the 2015 AATG Maryland-DC Metro Chapter's Award for his outreach to the German-learning community.

(left-to-right:  Deborah McGee Mifflin, Dr. Claudia Bornholdt and Shirley Santora, President, 2015-2016)
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Chapter Teacher Awards

IN RECOGNITION OF AND APPRECIATION FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TEACHING 
AND STUDY OF GERMAN THE FOLLOWING TEACHERS AND GROUPS HAVE BEEN HONORED:

2012

Chapter Award Winners: Margaret Mullens, Gerhard Meinzer, and Katrina Griffin

2010

Award Winners Kerstin Hopkins and Rüdiger Lentz (middle)  
​Katrina Griffin, Chapter President (left), and Mohamed Esa (right)


2009
Brigitte V. Fessenden received the 2009 chapter award for her promotion of the German language and culture and for her work  on the formation of the Baltimore-Bremerhaven Sister Cities Program.
Deborah McGee Mifflin was presented with a plaque in appreciation of her six years of service as Chapter President. 

2008
Chapter President, Deborah McGee Mifflin presented the AATG Chapter award to Stefan Brunner, Goethe Institut, Washington, DC

2007
Chapter President, Deborah McGee Mifflin, presented the Chapter Award to McDaniel College and the Department of Foreign Languages:
Dr. Mohamed Esa, Dr. Martine Motard, Dr. Thomas Deveny and Dr. Thomas Falkner, Provost and Dean of Faculty 

2005
Chapter Award recipients: Linda Butt, Peggy Nickson

2003
Chapter Award recipients: Mohamed Esa, Heidi Byrnes, The German Society

2002
Chapter Award recipients: Dorothy Louks, Shirley Santora, Mary Upman

2001
Chapter Award recipients: Sigrid Rodgers, Maureen Helinski, Gabriele Miller

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