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LETASA President Rick Sommariva with His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC.

Governor’s Civics Awards for Schools

In August 2019, members of the LETASA Executive Committee were invited to a reception at Government House to launch the Governor’s Civics Awards for schools. It was an incredible opportunity to not only meet the Governor, but to hear about his passion for this subject.

In 2019, the awards were open to Year 5s.

From 2020, the awards will be open to all South Australian students in Years 5-12.

For more information, please see the following sites:

http://governor.sa.gov.au/node/3839

https://www.education.sa.gov.au/governors-civics-awards-schools

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LETASA Executive Service Recognition

The Council of Education Associations of South Australia (CEASA) is aware that so many Educators give their time to volunteer on Association Management Committees and Boards. These fantastic contributions deserve recognition and so CEASA organised the CEASA Volunteers Celebration on 24th May, 2018, to acknowledge contributions to the running and management of associations.

Congratulations and thanks go to (President: 2017-2019) Brett Schenk, (Secretary) Paula Hensing, and Donna Foster who were recognised for their 10+ years of service to LETASA.

Congratulations and thanks go to (Vice-President: 2017-2019) Rick Sommariva, (Treasurer) Kathleen Meyers, and Irene Frangos who were recognised for their 20+ years of service to LETASA.

(Photo L-R: Brett Schenk, Rick Sommariva, Paula Hensing, Kathleen Meyers, Donna Foster)

LETASA Awards

Bob Tucker Award

The Legal Education Teachers Association of South Australia Executive has dedicated a special award to teachers of Legal Studies in South Australia and the Northern Territory, to commemorate and acknowledge the work of the “Founding Father of Legal Studies” in South Australia, Bob Tucker.

All past winners of the award have met the following criteria –

Excellence in teaching of Legal Studies through:

Service to the subject association
Service to the curriculum development of Legal Studies
Service to the subject of Legal Studies in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Honour Roll

1996 Tom Frossinakos	2007 Mike Karpinski	2018 Rick Sommariva
1997 Barbara Bash	2008 Helen Peake	2019 Not awarded
1998 Graham Brown	2009 Ty Cheesman	2020 Brett Schenk
1999 Geof Bailey	2010 Robin Aukett	2021 Paula Hensing
2000 Peter Cavouras	2011 Not Awarded	2022 Not awarded
2001 John Cooke	2012 Helen Douglas-Irving	2023 Danielle Cioffi
2002 Penny Cavanagh	2013 Not Awarded
2003 John Eaton	2014 Not Awarded
2004 Ron Schulz	2015 Yvette Winter
2005 Shane Hennessy	2016 Not awarded
2006 Erica Parker	2017 Not awarded

LETASA Service Award

The Legal Education Teachers Association of South Australia Executive has dedicated a special award for service to Legal Studies in South Australia and the Northern Territory to acknowledge service to LETASA.

All past winners have met the following criteria –

Service to LETASA through:

Assisting the LETASA executive/committee over a period of time, or on an occasion to facilitate events or the business of the learning group.
Excellence as an office bearer for LETASA over an extended period of time.
Generous financial, academic or professional assistance made available to LETASA to further aims and causes.

Honour Roll

2013 Kathleen Meyers	2021 Not awarded	2014 Not Awarded
2013 O’Leary Walker Wines	2022 Not awarded	2015 Yvette Winter
2014 Nadia Dametto	2023 Brett Schenk & Sharon Snaith	2016 Not awarded
2015 Not Awarded	2008 Helen Peake	2017 Not awarded
2016 Not Awarded	2009 Ty Cheesman
2017 Not Awarded	2010 Robin Aukett
2018 Paula Hensing	2011 Not Awarded
2019 Danielle Cioffi	2012 Helen Douglas-Irving
2020 Rick Sommariva	2013 Not Awarded

Do you have someone that you’d like to nominate for either the LETASA Service Award, or the Bob Tucker Award?

Nominations are called for by the President prior to the AGM, which is typically held each August at our annual conference.