Women of distinction

May 09, 2007

 

Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)

 

^AssetProxy(assets/site/article.jpg;WORCESTER — The YWCA of Central Massachusetts honored five local women yesterday at its 14th annual Tribute to Women program at Mechanics Hall. Receiving the Katharine F. Erskine Award were, from left, Julie A. Jacobson, Worcester’s assistant city manager for economic and neighborhood development; Judy Freedman Fask, a professor and director of the deaf studies program at the College of the Holy Cross; Christine C. Kardokas, who recently concluded a long career at the Worcester Public Library and who was active in numerous city organizations; Dr. Jane A. Lochrie, a Fallon Clinic physician and associate director of the internal medicine residency program at St., Vincent Hospital; and Arose W. Nielsen, a staff lawyer at Legal Assistance Corp. of Central Massachusetts. The awards are presented in memory of the late Katharine Erskine, an advocate for women for 80 years.