Loguda-Summers receives Employee Excellence Award
Posted: March 2, 2010
Debra Loguda-Summers
Still National Osteopathic Museum Curator Debbra Loguda-Summers recenlty received the Employee Excellence Award for the 4th quarter of 2009.
Summers has been a museum staff member for 10 years. In the role of curator, she works daily with international researchers, ATSU faculty and administration, student doctors, and the general public interested in their family’s past or the history of osteopathic medicine.
“Debbie is friendly, knowledgeable about the collection, and always willing to assist a museum guest by staying late or answering desperate researcher emails on her off duty hours,” said Museum Director Jason Haxton, M.A.
Most recently, Summers has been instrumental in working with ATSU’s Grants Department to acquire eight grants totaling nearly $206,000 for preservation and care of the museum’s collections.
“Deb is known by all who work with her for her limitless energy, passion and dedication to the museum and its staff,” said Barb J. Magers, musuem curatorial research assistant. “She is committed to the museum’s success and truely one of its major assets.”