Could you be the next CCW Woman of the Year?

by Paulette Collins, DCCW Vice-President

The 12th annual New Ulm Diocesan Council of Catholic Woman of the Year Award will be presented again this year at the Diocesan Convention to be held in Olivia, MN on April 26, 2003. This award recognizes an outstanding Council of Catholic Woman in the New Ulm diocese as one who has carried on the mission of Christ through her family, church, community, and CCW." It also is "to help promote and emphasize the great works of the Council of Catholic Women." Do you know such a woman in your parish? If so, please recommend her for this award.

Qualifications include:

1. Be 18 years or older, Catholic and registered in a New Ulm diocese parish, a member of a paid affiliate of the New Ulm DCCW, and has not won the award in the past.

2. Three or more members of a parish CCW in good standing (paid affiliate) must submit the name of the nominee.

3. Parishes may submit more than one name.

4. Current diocesan CCW voting board members and past recipients are not eligible.

5. Nominations must be pre-sented on the official recommen-dation form to be eligible and must be on handwritten or typed page. All others will be returned to be redone and resubmitted.

Nominees will be judged on her family commi-tment including education of her children in faith, prayer and virtues; giving moral, physical and spiritual support to parents etc.; how she has participated in church activities, committees, and needs; her involvement in community activities, committees, and needs; and how active she has been in CCW at all levels and the years she has been active.

For a 2003 Council of Catholic Woman of the Year Award recommendation form, along with the rules for recommen-dation, contact your parish CCW president The deadline for sending in the recommendation is January 25, 2003. Mail to: Paulette Collins, 875 100th Ave SE, Murdock, MN 56271.