Sheets, Spicuzza Win Campus Safety Director of the Year Awards
TAMPA, Fla.
Campus Safety (CS) magazine congratulates the winners of its Campus Safety Director of the Year Awards: Roger Sheets Sr. , director of security for Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health; and Annette Spicuzza, chief of police for the University of California, Davis. Both were presented with plaques on April 27 at the Campus Safety Conference, which was held at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront in Tampa.
The program honors school, university and hospital security administrators and police chiefs who exhibit outstanding leadership and management of their departments. In all, 18 campus security executives were honored during the presentation and reception.
According to Executive Editor Robin Hattersley Gray, the number and caliber of entries this year was, once again, the best since the inception of the program. “The quality of entries, even of those who were not selected as finalists, made it very difficult for the judges to determine who should receive the awards,” she says. “People keep upping their game every year. It’s incredible!”
One of the reasons why Sheets was tapped as the healthcare winner was his wise management of his institution’s parking operations. He turned at $250,000 per year loss into a $700,000 annual profit.
Education winner Spicuzza’s accomplishments were no less impressive. Despite having her budget cut by 8 percent, she managed her department so there was little impact to front line workload and no impact to the community. Additionally, the health system’s emergency room satisfaction rating increased from 4 percent to 90 percent under her watch.
Steve Laudenschlager who is the director of safety and security at St. Joseph Hospital in Kokomo, Ind., was the first runner up in the healthcare division. Raymond Osborne , who is director of security services for the University of California, San Diego Medical Center was second runner up.
For the education division, Gene Palma , who is the executive director for the department of public safety and transportation Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., was the first runner up. Wittenburg University’s Chief of Police and Director of Security Carl Loney was the second runner up.
Complete coverage of both winners’ achievements will appear in the July/August issue of Campus Safety magazine, as well as at www.campussafetymagazine.com. The July/August issue and Web site will also include the 2009 entry form and judging criteria, so hospital, school and university police chiefs and directors of public safety are encouraged to begin preparing their applications for the 2009 program.
Additional information on the Campus Safety Director of the Year program as well as a complete list of the finalists can be found at www.campussafetymagazine.com/DirectorOfTheYear.
About Campus Safety: Campus Safety is a trade publication exclusively serving campus police chiefs, security directors, IT personnel and executive administrators involved in the public safety and security of major U.S. hospitals, schools and universities. For more information, visit www.campussafetymagazine.com.
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