Zonta Club Names 2017 Women In Leadership
At a special awards dinner at the Marvin House, the Zonta Club of Jamestown named Terry Havens-Turner, Veronica Mack and Toni DeAngelo the Women in Leadership for 2017.
A graduate of Cornell University, Havens-Turner is the corporate treasurer/secretary for the Matric Group. Havens-Turner has extensive community involvement with organizations and companies including Creche, Chautauqua Lake Association, Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club, UPMC Chautauqua WCA Hospital and Warner Home. She sits on the boards of the Chautauqua Lake Association, Lutheran Social Services, the Lakewood Community Development Foundation, the Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club and is a founding member of the Southwestern Schools Educational Foundation. She is married to Rick E. Turner Jr., who received the plaque and yellow rose in her absence. Their son Ricky and his wife Heather attended the dinner in support of her award. Havens-Turner has another son, Bradley Turner and daughter, Lauren Turner, who were unable to attend.
Mack is a state-licensed clinical social worker who has a masters degree in social work from the University of Buffalo, from which she graduated from the certificate program in child and adolescent treatment including intensive child and adolescent trauma treatment, treating problem behaviors, advanced seminars and group consultation. She is an active member of National Association of Social Workers. She works as the family, clinical and trauma therapist at the Randolph Children’s Home and has worked in social work and mental health at WCA Hospital, the clinic at the high school and The Resource Center, YWCA Team Program and through The Chautauqua Center. Her education and work history support her extensive community involvement with self-esteem step groups, organization of a march against school violence, youth mentoring, co-facilitation of teen health awareness and supervised internships for young women at the associates, bachelors and masters levels in school.
Mack has two daughters, Casee and Jordan, and two grandchildren, Jayden and AnDraya.
DeAngelo is a registered nurse and community health and wellness director at UPMC Chautauqua WCA. DeAngelo is a 1984 graduate of JCC’s registered nursing program, is a tobacco cessation specialist, certified lactation consultant and certified patient navigator for cancer care. Her education specialty is with health education and disease prevention. DeAngelo started working for the hospital in 1980. She’s worked in specialty areas including Dialysis, Cardiology, the Intensive Care Unit and Wellness. Although she retired in August 2016, DeAngelo continues to work 10 hours a week at UPMC Chautauqua WCA and as a grandmother. Involved in Chautauqua County community outreach and county planning teams, she helps with the women and infant health, cancer care, women and heart disease and the Baby and Me Tobacco Free cessation programs. She has two daughters, Natalie and Joanna; two granddaughters, Cecily and Mia, and has a grandson due in August.
Every year the Zonta Club of Jamestown selects and names women from the community as Women in Leadership to honor women who fulfill the Zonta mission of ’empowering women through service and advocacy’ in a non-member role. For more information, visit ZontaJamestown.org.
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