'97 Bemis Memorial Award Presented to Doris Maye

Anita Ford

The winner of the 1997 Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award is Doris Morgan Maye who was nominated by IPMAAC and PTC Metropolitan Washington. This charming southern lady's career spans over 25 years with the Georgia State Merit System.

Throughout her career, Doris has exhibited a clear and constant commitment to merit, fairness, ethics, affirmative action and professionalism.

Doris' unique combination of outstanding managerial skills, excellent technical knowledge, friendly personal style, genuine modesty and concern for real issues has enabled her to develop numerous practical methods that are of value to a wide range of organizations.

Finally, there are few who can match Doris' record of service to her peers and the new professionals. A few highlights of Doris Maye's career are:

The foundation and leadership of the Southern Regional Test Development Center shortly after the publication of the Uniform Guidelines. The Center was comprised of representatives from six southern states who jointly developed five different forms of an accounting test. Doris used this vehicle to train participants in job analysis, test development, validation methods and regulatory concerns.
Her efforts in the highly successful collaborative test development and validation program with the Department of Justice. Her work so impressed the Department of Justice that they released the State of Georgia from a consent decree.
The tireless leadership and contributions that Doris has provided to:
- The Atlanta Society of Applied Psychology
- The Southern Personnel Assessment Consortium (of which Doris is a founder)
- IPMA, Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter
- IPMA and
- IPMAAC
She has served as IPMAAC's President; has served two terms on the Board and has headed or served on every committee and is currently IPMAAC's Representative on the IPMA Board.
The impressive list of professional articles that Doris has written and papers that she has presented is three single spaced pages long.
The numerous training sessions on job analysis, test development and validation, exam planning, and employment of the disabled that Doris has presented throughout the country.
Her work as a member of the Georgia Gain Core Team which developed one of the few successful pay for performance plans, and
Her current contributions to IPMA's Committee on the revision of the APA Standards for Education and Psychological Testing.

Please join us in congratulating Doris, the well deserved recipient of the 1997 Stephen E. Bemis Award for Outstanding Achievement in Personnel Administration.