
Chapter Teacher & Service Awards
IN RECOGNITION OF AND APPRECIATION FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TEACHING AND STUDY OF GERMAN THE FOLLOWING TEACHERS AND GROUPS HAVE BEEN HONORED:
2024
Deborah McGee Mifflin, outgoing Chapter President, received the AATG Chapter Award for Distinguished Service.
2022
Rick Jones, Fallston High School, and Marcia Hackett, Liberty High School received the AATG Chapter Merit Award
(seen here with the 2022 AATG Chapter Board members)
IN RECOGNITION OF AND APPRECIATION FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TEACHING AND STUDY OF GERMAN THE FOLLOWING TEACHERS AND GROUPS HAVE BEEN HONORED:
2024
Deborah McGee Mifflin, outgoing Chapter President, received the AATG Chapter Award for Distinguished Service.
2022
Rick Jones, Fallston High School, and Marcia Hackett, Liberty High School received the AATG Chapter Merit Award
(seen here with the 2022 AATG Chapter Board members)

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! (seen here with Marian Graham, Chapter President, 2018-2019)
Read the full text of the Service Award Justification here
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! (seen here with Marian Graham, Chapter President, 2018-2019)
Read the full text of the Service Award Justification here

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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.
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.
2015
Dr. Claudia Bornholdt (The Catholic University of America) received the 2015 AATG Maryland-DC Metro Chapter's Award in recognition of and appreciation for outstanding contributions to the field of teaching and studying German. We thank her for her service as past president! Dr. Carsten Krebs of Volkswagen USA, 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) |

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
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