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Eligibility

Except as expressly stated otherwise, both the Cornerstone Award and the Sophia Long Award are open for recognition of any person, group, organization, business, firm or government agency or office. Those ineligible for either of theawards are: current employees of Cornerstones, Inc., current members of the Executive Committee of Cornerstones, Inc. and previous winners of the same award (in the case of the Cornerstone Award, only for the same project).

Criteria

The criteria for the Sophia Long Award shall be:

  1. Significant – The recipient shall have made contributions of substantial magnitude and scope or shall havefaced substantial or unique challenges in his/her efforts or shall have contributed to a subject matter or final work product of substantial importance.
  2. Leadership – The recipient shall have shown an excellence in effort (in communication, presentation,results) and in characteristics which together make the recipient’s efforts a model for similar initiatives.
  3. Devotion – The recipient shall have a record of long-term involvement with historic preservation or shall have demonstrated intense involvement within a short period of time orfor a specific mission.
  4. Impact – The recipient shall have left an impact on efforts in historic preservation in Hamilton County, Tennessee.

It is not necessary for the award recipient to meet or satisfy all of the criteria. Instead, these criteria are intended to be instructive factors to both those who would make nominations for the award and to the awards committee in assessing the nominations.

2008 SLA Recipient