Pamela Tom Receives Award

Pamela Tom was awarded the IFT Calvert L. Willey Distinguished Service Award.

IFT President and UCD Alum Margaret Lawson gives award plaque to Pamela Tom at IFT Expo in Orlando, Florida

Pamela D. Tom, Seafood Extension Program Manager, University of California-Davis, received the 2006 Calvert L. Willey Distinguished Service Award for meritorious and imaginative service to IFT.

Since the 1970s, Pam has provided volunteer service and leadership to IFT, serving on the Aquatic Food Products Division, Northern California Section, and national-level committees and task forces, including the Committee on Sections and Divisions, Information Systems Committee, Student Activities Subcommittee, Annual Planning Subcommittee, Ad Hoc Committee on Member Needs, Awards Committee, and Council Issues and Agenda Committee. She has served as chair of several of these.

As a volunteer member at various levels, Pam has incorporated her computer and Internet skills to help strengthen communications within IFT. While serving on the Committee on Sections and Divisions, she helped to create and manage for two years the first all-Section and all-Division listservs. She created the Web sites for the Northern California IFT Section and Aquatic Food Products Division and tailored the members-only content for the Aquatic Food Products Division Web site.

Additionally, Tom collaborated with several IFT staff members to launch the Aquatic Food Products Division’s first online election. As chair of the Division Councilors Caucus, she helped to develop a Web site to facilitate the exchange and archiving of information and dialogue on topics among Division councilors.