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Washington Receives
OT Scholarship
1/14/05
DENTON —
Texas Woman’s University doctoral student Leon Washington
of Plano is the recipient of the 2005 Virginia Chandler Dykes
Leadership Award Scholarship. Washington will be recognized
at a luncheon on Jan. 25 at the Dallas Country Club.
Recipients of the
$1,500 scholarship must be successful TWU occupational therapy
students with far reaching goals, strong potential to contribute
to the profession and a demonstrated commitment to the vocation.
Washington is a
licensed master’s social worker (LMSW) and occupational
therapist registered (OTR) who works with developmentally
challenged children and families at the Infant and Toddler
Intervention Program of North Texas in Plano. He plans to
complete his degree in spring 2007. His doctoral research
is focused on abuse of children with disabilities.
He earned his bachelor
of science degree in occupational therapy from TWU and his
master of social work degree from Our Lady of the Lake University
in San Antonio. A former United States Air Force captain,
Washington treated military personnel injured in Operation
Desert Storm. In 1999, he became a rehabilitation patient
himself after his diagnosis and treatment for a brain tumor.
Mrs. Dykes, for
whom the scholarship is named, completed the graduate occupational
therapy program at Texas Woman’s University in 1954
after earning her bachelor of arts degree in art and psychology
from Southern Methodist University in 1952. She was director
of the Occupational and Recreational Therapy Department at
Baylor University Medical Center for 25 years. Mrs. Dykes
developed and supervised the occupational and recreational
therapy programs at Baylor in rehabilitation, adult and adolescent
psychiatry, eating disorders and hand splinting. She also
founded the Boomerang Club, the first support group for stroke
patients and their families in Dallas.
Her community service
activities include establishing the annual Fanny B. Vanderkooi
Endowed Lectureship for the School of Occupational Therapy
at TWU; serving on the board of directors for the Dallas Opera,
Theater III, Fort Worth Opera, Dallas-Fort Worth Ballet, Les
Femmes du Monde and Dallas Theater Center Guild; serving as
president of the Diana Dean Head Injury Guild; and chairing
the auxiliary board of the Healing Environment Program at
Baylor.
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For Further
Information Contact:
Roy Kron
Director of News and Information
Tel: (940) 898-3456
e-mail: rkron@twu.edu
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