INTERNATIONAL WRITING COMPETITION
The APS The Association of Productivity Specialists has established a $10,000 writing prize for college business students in honor of APS founding Chairman James B. Irwin. Irwin has worked for nearly 40 years in the productivity improvement field. The first writing awards will be presented in the spring of 2003, following an international competition. Selections will be considered for publication in APS Business Review, a magazine currently in development. Entry forms and rules will be distributed in the spring of 2002. APS, founded in 1976, trains and certifies productivity specialists who implement strategies to make companies more profitable. It also publishes a newsletter, APS Quarterly. Irwin, chairman of Integrated Control
Systems Inc., a leading productivity firm, endowed the International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1994. At 100,000 Irish pounds it is
the world's largest prize for a single work of fiction. IMPAC also
has a partnership with the Connecticut State University System and
Rotary International which awards $19,000 annually to teen-age
writers in Connecticut. "The APS Scholarship affirms the lifetime achievements of Jim Irwin while assisting and inspiring students for the world of business," said APS Chairman Robert Jacobson. The competition will be open to business students in Europe, Asia and North America. Entrants must be nominated by faculty or a corporate executive. APS will accept a limited number of sponsorships for awards in each region. The program will be known as the APS Business Writers Scholarships. Panels of judges -- including academics, executives and business journalists -- are being formed by APS Publications Editor Andy Thibault and Associate Editor Donna Matura, who will manage the project. A distinguished group of business editors has already signed on for the 2003 competition. The group includes: Andrew Hill, New York Bureau Chief, The Financial Times; Debbie Van Tassel, Business Editor, The Cleveland Plain Dealer; Jacalyn Carfagno, Business Editor, The Lexington Herald-Leader; Cindy Goodaker, Executive Editor, Crain's Detroit Business; Ben Santarris, Technology Editor, The Portland Oregonian; Brahm Resnik, Broadcast Editor, The Arizona Republic; Karen Britton Nielsen, Editor, Dallas- Fort Worth Biz; and Ned Popkins, Business Editor, The Orlando Sentinel. A like number of professors and business leaders will be appointed to the judging team. They include Dr. Stephen Dresch, a forensic economist and former business school dean from Michigan; Dr. Jozsef Temesi, Professor of Operations Research and Vice-Rector for Academic and Scientific Affairs, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration; Blair J. Kolaska, Prorector, Higher School of Business-National Louis University, Nowy Sacz, Poland; and Larry Gavrich, Vice President, United Technologies Corp. The Advisory Board for the competition includes Dr. Victor Vroom, Professor of Organization and Management at Yale; Dr. Ellen Durnin, Management Professor and Dean, Connecticut State University; Judge Eugene Sullivan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; Dr. Gyorgy Banlaki of Hungary, Vice President of the Budapest Rotary Club and former Ambassador to the United States; Dr. Allen Weinstein, a noted historian and President of the Center for Democracy in Washington, D.C.; Jean Marie Slock, Internal Auditor for S.A. Touring of Belgium; Douglas Harrison, Continuous Improvement Manager for Grumman Olson Industries, Michigan, USA; and Cheong "K.C." Kong Chuan, Process Consultant for BuildNow Pte Ltd of Singapore. Slock, Harrison and Chuan represent the perspectives of Productivity Specialists in the field. For more information, contact: Andy Thibault
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