Bauscher Wins FAME Golden Director Award

Julia Bauscher

Julia Bauscher, SNS, director of school and community nutrition services of Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools, has won the Golden School Foodservice Director of the Year Award in the 23rd annual Foodservice Achievement Management Excellence (FAME) Awards program. (View her acceptance remarks here.)

The other winners include…

Silver Leadership Award: Linda R. Stoll, MPH, executive director of food services, Jeffco School District, Golden, CO;

Silver Spirit Award: Craig Weidel, area supervisor, Mesa (AZ) Public Schools;

Silver Special Achievement Award: Jane Johnson, school nutrition director, Crane School District No. 13, Yuma, AZ;

Silver Rising Star Award: Jessica Shelly, RS, REHS, MBA, food services director, Cincinnati Public Schools;

Silver Friend of Child Nutrition Award: Dayle Hayes, MS, RD, president, Nutrition for the Future, Inc., Billings, MT;

Gertrude Applebaum Lifetime Achievement Award: Shirley R. Watkins, president, SR Watkins & Associates, LLC

Linda Stoll (r.), executive director of food services for the Jeffco (CO) School District, receives the Silver Leadership Award from Jennifer McKenzie-Muell of Basic American Foods

Craig Weidel (r.), area supervisor for the Mesa (AZ) Public Schools, receives the Silver Spirit Award from Gary Hamm of Tyson Foods

Shirley Watkins (l.) receives the Gertrude Applebaum Lifetime Achievement Award from Applebaum

Jessica Shelly (l.), foodservice director for the Cincinnati Public Schools, receives the Silver Rising Star Award from Jennifer McKenzie-Muell of Basic American Foods

Jane Johnson, school nutrition director for Crane School District No. 13 in Yuma, AZ, receives the Silver Special Achievement Award from Andy Lubert of Tyson Foods

Golden School Foodservice Director of the Year Award winner Julia Bauscher, director of school and community nutrition services of Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools, gives her acceptance speech

The 2012 FAME Awards are sponsored by Basic American Foods, Schwan's Food Service, Inc., and Tyson Foods, Inc. They will be presented at an event on Jan. 15, 2012, at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate in ChampionsGate, FL, during the School Nutrition Association's Child Nutrition Industry Conference. For more info, go to www.fameawards.net.