Cathy Wacker was awarded the Topeka Professional Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications (AWC) Vanguard Award for 2006 & National Chapter Star Award.

Wacker is owner of Images Plus, a custom web site design, maintenance, hosting and marketing consultation company. She joined AWC in 2002.

Wacker has demonstrated professional responsibility in her duties as an officer. She has taken on various other tasks in helping with the Chapter Fundraising project, Taste of the Town and working with a future fundraising project—Letters from Santa. She has worked with local authorities to clear up problems and issues that came about during the course of her term as VP-Finance.

She has been outspoken and advised the board of important issues relating to the chapter financial conditions, and she has served as our VP-Finance for three consecutive terms.

— news release by Carol Yoho