Ms. Perez:
This email follows the telephone notification of your honor. You have been selected as the winner of the 2007 Paul Lerner Award for Excellence in Psychological Assessment. This award is competitive with several doctoral clinical and counseling psychology programs throughout the southeastern Unitied States invited to participate. Congratulations!
Your learning, talent, dedication, and promise in the area of psychological assessment is outstanding. The Southern Appalachian Personality Assessment Society (SAPAS), a Local Chapter of the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA), wishes to recognize your accomplishments through this award, which memorializes the late Paul Lerner, Ed.D., a master clinician, theoretician, and scholar of assessment.
You will be receiving a certificate suitable for framing and an honorarium of $400. This announcement is also shared with Dr. Welsh, Director of Clinical Training at your school, the University of Tennessee, and Dr. Nash, your chair, as well as the membership of SAPAS. The SPA is notified of your distinction as well.
Congratulations, and we wish you the best in your professional future.
Sincerely,
Mark H. Waugh, Ph.D., ABPP
President, Southern Appalachian Personality Assessment Society