Press Announcement

Van Damme Award for UT-Alumna Nicole Haye
The University of Twente has awarded the 2007 Marina van Damme award to Ir. Nicole Haye (1971). The award was initiated 5 years ago and is intended for a successful UT graduate with both an outstanding career track record as well as substantial contributions towards community projects and who serves as a role model for other women. Nicole Haye received her Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Twente in 1995 and is site manager for the GE Plastics Raamsdonksveer manufacturing facility.
 
She received the award Wednesday 20th of June from Annemarie van der Rest (member of Zonta The Hague, Netherlands) during the UT-Innovation day in Enschede with guest speaker Mrs van der Hoeven, secretary of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands. The price consists of a money sum and a statue made by Mohana van den Kroonenberg. The award is initiated by Mrs Marina van Damme, former director of Akzo Corporate and in the sixties the first PhD graduate at the University of Twente.

Engagement
Nicole is Chair for the GE Plastics Women’s Network, serves as mentor in the GE Plastics Employee Mentor Program and an active member of GE Volunteers, conducting charitable projects in the neighbourhood of GE-locations.

Service club Zonta de Baronie
Nicole Haye is a member of the Zonta club de Baronie, based in Breda and one of 23 Dutch local hubs of Zonta International. Zonta International is a global organization of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy. Nearly 33,000 members belong to more than 1,200 Zonta Clubs in 76 countries. Please see www.zontabreda.nl for more information.

International Zonta Convention in Rotterdam
In 2008 Rotterdam will host the bi-annual international Zonta Convention, organized by Zonta Club Rotterdam. Zonta Club de Baronie is actively assisting the organizing committee with the preparations for this weeklong event for which we are expecting 2,500 participating Zonta members from all over the world to travel to Rotterdam. Nicole Haye has taken on the task of translating the necessary communications in order to keep the Chicago, USA based headquarters as well as the other regions informed on the program and progress.

Note voor de redactie; niet voor publicatie.
Uiteraard zijn wij graag bereid meer informatie te verschaffen: bel of mail met Leonie van Loenhout, telefoon 076-5227820 – e-mail lvanloenhout@wanadoo.nl  

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