PAST WEDLI AWARD WINNERS

WEDLI Award Winner 2006
WEDLI awarded two awards at their
installation dinner on June 8th. Pictured are winner
(L) Nancy Johnson, a mother of five and a nursing
student in the Nassau Community College Nursing
program, and WEDLI President, Ellen Kelly.

WEDLI Award Winner 2006
Pearl Degan is a sophomore completing her
Associate's degree in business at SUNY
Farmingdale. The WEDLI award will
help her continue working to obtain a
bachelor's degree in Accounting.

The Sally Slacke-Dorothy Tripp Award 2006
The Sally Slacke-Dorothy Tripp Award, provided by Roz Goldmacher, Judith Beckman and Ilene Krupnick, in honor of two deceased WEDLI members, was awarded to Lisa Hunter. Lisa will apply her award to fund further training with Hofstra's Entrepreneurial Program. This will aid her in the start-up of V2K Window Decor & More, a franchise window covering business. On hand for the presentation were (L-R) Richard Tripp, son of Dorothy Tripp; Lynn Burch, daughter of Sally Slacke; Lisa Hunter; Roz Goldmacher and Judith Beckman.

DYNAMIC ENTREPRENEUR WINS AWARD 2004 WINNER
Michelle Castro (2nd R) is a success minded dynamo who juggles motherhood and her business, Hair Design by Michelle in Amityville, a salon specializing in haircare, cosmetic sales and fashion jewelry. "We chose Michelle as the recipient of the Dorothy Tripp-Sally Slacke award because she demonstrates the positive attitudes that go into making a success," says Roslyn D. Goldmacher (R), President & CEO Long Island Development Corp., co-founder of the award that honors the memory of two of Long Island's most famous business women.

Michelle Castro (2nd R)
2004 Dorothy Tripp-Sally Slacke
Award Winner

"This award recognizes the desire and the will to succeed that was the hallmark of both Dorothy and Sally," says Judith K. Beckman (L) of Financial Solutions/Goldner Siegfried Associates, Inc., co-founder of the award fund." The award was made in conjunction with the Women Economic Developers of Long Island (WEDLI) at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington at WEDLI's annual installation dinner. Michele Pincus ((2nd L) is WEDLI's new president.

2003
Pictured are WEDLI 2003 award winners, Sandra E. Chaparro, a student at SUNY Farmingdale, Majoring in Business (2nd L) and Victoria Danilevskaia, studying at Hofstra University to earn a Major in Finance and a Minor in Economics (2nd R) with Michele Pincus, WEDLI award Chair (L) and Michelle DeBenedetto, WEDLI President (R). Not pictured is Magalie Rivera a student at Suffolk County Community College Major in Nursing.

Sandra E. Chaparro, Victoria Danilevskaia
Magalie Rivera (not pictured)
2003 Madelyn Orsini Award Winners

2001 Madelyn Orsini Award
Diane Caudullo - Rudilosso

2000 Madelyn Orsini Award
Jean Jerome, SUNY Westbury,
Evonne Wong-Castiglione

1999 Madelyn Orsini Award
Margaret Posteraro
Graduated in May 1999 from Nassau Community College to pursue a four-year degree at  Long Island University – C. W. Post

1999 Madelyn Orsini Award
Eileen Sullivan
Pursuing her four year degree in Business Management from SUNY Farmingdale.

1998 Madelyn Orsini Award
Anna Altman
Graduated in May 1998 from Nassau Community College to pursue a four-year degree in accounting at 
Long Island University - C. W. Post

1997 Madelyn Orsini Award
Lisa Rinaldi
Graduated in December 1999 from SUNY Stony Brook