Cambridge Who's Who Names Lane Calhoon Dolly Professional of the Year in Nonprofit Management

    ALEXANDRIA, VA, January 23, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Lane Calhoon Dolly, MA, President of The Calhoon Foundation, has been named a Cambridge Who's Who Professional of the Year in Nonprofit Management. While inclusion in the Cambridge Who's Who Registry is an honor, only a small selection of members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Cambridge Who's Who membership.

Ms. Dolly has enjoyed a very rich and diverse set of professional and life experiences, with many years of political involvement, including service in both federal and state government. She also served as scheduling director for the chairman of the Republican National Committee in the early 1980s, after which she was research director for an international consulting firm. From 1987 to 1989, Ms. Dolly was a Deputy Associate Director for Boards and Commissions, Office of Presidential Personnel in the Reagan White House. She also was an on-location staff member at the Republican National Conventions of 1984, 1992 and 2000. For two years in the early 1990's, Ms. Dolly directed a large economic development event through the Governor's Office in South Dakota. That was soon followed by a consulting contract with a cancer charity that took her to London in 1995, bringing an international dimension to her work and interests. She fulfilled a long-term goal by earning a graduate degree in 2001, and then pursued another dream by opening her own small business in 2002. Later, she was recruited to run a Virginia nonprofit outreach program, Alpha, from 2004-2007. During her "season of service" to the program through her church, she was responsible for logistics, recruiting, training, advertising, communications and budgeting.

Ms. Dolly considers her areas of expertise to be research and logistics, alongside a natural precision in communications. Attributing her success to her physician father, who she considered brilliant, Ms. Dolly recalls how he advised her to employ self-discipline and practice to develop "a seven-track mind." She calls it multi-tasking and believes it is the secret to her success. Ms. Dolly also credits her diversity of interests and broad accomplishments to the inspiration and perseverance she learned from her resilient mother and pioneering grandparents.

Shaped by her family's emphasis on the values of freedom, the privilege of private ownership of land and the blessing of religious freedom, Ms. Dolly has a deep desire to educate and motivate others in her community and the nation. She realizes that, no matter the height of any achievement, it is important to never forget where you have come from and who made your bright spots possible. Using her master's degree research skills, she became a family genealogist. Ms. Dolly came by her passion for nonprofit work honestly, saying it is genetic: her great great grandmother broke ground during her era as a non-profit missionary with native children in Indian Territory prior to the Civil War. Today, Lane Calhoon Dolly is writing a novel about that story of her family's roots.

Ms. Dolly earned a Master of Arts degree in public policy from Regent University's Robertson School of Government and received the Award of Excellence as the Outstanding Graduate in 2001. Additionally, she received the 2001 Outstanding Scholar Award for Excellence in Academic Achievement and was nominated by the faculty to Who's Who among Students in American Universities & Colleges. Ms. Dolly earned a bachelor's degree in nutritional and clinical dietetics in 1980 from the University of Oklahoma. She hopes to pursue a PhD in leadership in the future.

Going forward, she plans to remain active in the ranching business and utilize her broad based experiences and education to become a successful steward of the land, while promoting the privileges in America of private land ownership. Among other opportunities, she intends for her book to serve as a springboard to speaking and would entertain the option of teaching government. Her own education and political experiences, as well as those of her forebears, comprise an interesting contribution to the history of the state of Oklahoma.

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