ASPA Kern County

04/08/2015

Bakersfield Jazz Festival!

02/25/2013

Join Kern County ASPA and hear Bakersfield Californian columnist Lois Henry discuss her role as a public advocate. February 28, 2013, 12:00 p.m., Hodel's Country Dining.

05/25/2012

Paula Einstein discussing her father, Hans Einstein's work on Valley Fever.

05/25/2012

Ann Einstein accepting the ASPA Public Service Award on behalf of her father, Dr. Hans Einstein.

05/25/2012

Mike Walters and Tom Corson accepting the Doubenmier Award.

05/25/2012

05/17/2012

ASPA ANNOUNCES 2012 DOUBENMIER AND PUBLIC SERVICE AWARDS

The Kern County Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) will honor three recipients during its annual Doubenmier and Public Service Awards in honor of Public Service Recognition Month in May. These awards are presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in public service, either over the past year (Doubenmier) or over a lifetime (Public Service).

Michael Walters, Owner, Dagny’s Coffee House, and Tom Corson, Executive Director, Kern County Network for Children are the joint 2012 Doubenmier Award winners. Walters and Corson are being honored for their work creating, funding, and implementing the Dream Center and Coffee House, which assists current and former foster youth transition to independence and self-sufficiency. The Dream Center also has an job incubator on site at the Dream Center Coffee Shop as well as employee emancipated foster youth who are trained to serve as paraprofessional case management advocates to help foster youth in need negotiate the educational and social service systems and achieve self-sufficiency.

Dr. Hans E. Einstein will receive the Public Service Award for his 61 of service to Kern County, providing longstanding dedication to the advancement of medicine, especially in the treatment of tuberculosis, AIDS, and San Joaquin Valley Fever. He has helped found the Valley Fever Research Foundation and the Rotary Club’s Valley Fever Americas Foundation. He has served the community through the TB Sanitarium in Keene, the Kern County Public Health Department, the Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Mercy Hospital, San Joaquin Community Hospital. He is also Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine.

Each year since 1963, Bakersfield’s ASPA chapter has recognized an outstanding public administrator in honor of John W. Doubenmier, who became administrator at Kern General Hospital in 1948 when the hospital was in complete disarray. His leadership turned it around and he was widely admired until his untimely death in the early 1960s.

Previous Doubenmier recipients have included Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, Bakersfield City Manager Alan Tandy, and County Administrative Officer John Nilon.

The Kern County Chapter of ASPA has presented the Public Service Award since 1979 to honor lifetime achievement in public administration. Previous Public Service recipients have included Bakersfield Mayor Harvey Hall and former County Counsel Bernard Barmann.

The Awards will be presented during a special ceremony at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 24, 2011 at Hodel’s Country Dining, 5917 Knudsen Drive in Bakersfield.

For those wishing to attend the event, please register on the ASPA website at www.kernaspa.org, and click on the luncheon page to register, or contact kernaspa@gmail to make reservations by email.

05/17/2012

2012 ASPA Doubenmier and Public Service Awards Dinner

2012 Doubenmier Award:
Mike Walters, Dagny’s Dream Center
Tom Corson, Executive Director, Kern Network for Children

2012 Public Service Award:
Dr. Hans Einstein, Expert on Valley Fever; Former Medical Director and CEO, Barlow Respiratory Hospital, Los Angeles; Former Medical Director, Bakersfield Memorial Hospital; Former Chief of Medical Service, Kern Medical Center; Medical Director, Division of Respiratory Care, San Joaquin Valley College; Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine.

DATE: Thursday, May 24, 2012
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
PLACE: Hodel's Country Dining
5917 Knudsen Drive
Bakersfield CA, 93308

COST: $25
RSVP: By 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Online: www.kernaspa.org/luncheon.asp
Or email: [email protected]


ASPA…advancing excellence in public service

04/26/2012

The Kern County Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration is requesting nominations for the 2012 Doubenmier (Administrator of the Year) and Public Service (Lifetime Achievement) Awards. The nomination deadline is Sunday, May 7, 2012. Submit nominations to ASPA President R. Steven Daniels at [email protected]

04/06/2012

7 State Education Accountability Systems Examined in New Study

With states taking on a bigger role in assessing accountability for school reforms, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute released a paper this week outlining its thoughts on how states can craft effective accountability systems.

04/06/2012

Supreme Court to Vote on Health Law Today

While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case Friday morning.