Their names are going to be inscribed on the Florida Capitol's wall for their work with Straight, NOT A JOKE
Tampabay.com (SP Times)
Treasure Island woman named to hall of fame
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist last week named Treasure Island resident Betty Sembler to be inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.
Mrs. Sembler and her husband, former ambassador Mel Sembler, have dedicated more than three decades to anti-drug efforts on local, state and national levels. She has served on the boards of the Florida Holocaust Museum, the Florida Governor's Mansion Foundation, the Florida House in Washington, D.C., and the University of Florida Brain Addiction Research Advisory Council.
Names of inductees are permanently displayed on the plaza level of the Capitol. The Florida Legislature established the Women's Hall of Fame in 1992; the Florida Commission on the Status of Women nominates 10 women to the governor, who selects up to three for induction.
Crist also named Louise H. Courtelis and state Sen. Gwen Margolis for the honor. Courtelis is an international businesswoman, philanthropist and longtime supporter of higher education and veterinary care in Florida. Margolis, a longtime elected official, became president of the Florida Senate in 1990, the first woman in the United States to head any Senate. She has championed stringent ethics policies and open government and open records legislation.
01-11-09 Betty Sembler receives
2008 Lifetime Achievement Award
from DEA Museum Foundation
for her work at Straight The incredible story of how a woman who founded a destructive drug rehabilitation cult got an award from the DEA, it would appear, for using her family's political influence buying to transform the cult into a national think tank on drug policy, for convincing the DEA to locate its world-wide training center down the street from her, and for turning the center's host into a major university. stor
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