Ms. Dorothy S. Nagle Receives Award

Ms. Dorothy S. Nagle "Dottie" - 2009 Gordon M. Waters Distinguished Service Award

Written by Roddy M. Piper, Jr., J.A. Piper Roofing Co., Inc., 2006 DSA Recipient

 Carolinas Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association, Inc. to celebrated the Association’s sixty-sixth (66) anniversary. An important part of the celebration is the presentation of the Distinguished Service Award. The Award is named “The Gordon M. Waters Award” as he was the first president of the CRSMCA. The first award was made in 1965. The Award continues to exemplify service to our industry as well as to our association, as is typified by the recipients wearing the Gold DSA name tags that you may have been sitting with.  Forty-two (42) individuals have received this honor by their peers. However someone or something is missing.

 Allow me to give you the opportunity to get to know the 2009 honoree.

 • They were born in Asheville, NC.

• Growing up involved a great deal of travel and opportunities to live in many different locations not only in the Carolinas

• Prior to becoming involved with the roofing industry, they were involved in selling ladies silver jewelry.

• Our recipient became involved with the CRSMCA in 1983. 

• One of their many achievements was taking a leadership role in our association beginning in 1991. 

• Our recipient this year has, and still is, performing a strong and effective leadership in their community.

• Our honoree has been involved with mentoring more leaders in our association than any other living member to date

• Early on, when I first got to know our recipient, smoking was a way of life.  Every meeting that they participated in was well timed to allow a “smoke break”. Things have changed and there is nothing worse than a reformed smoker however. I do have it on the best authority, that an evening in a Charleston cigar bar with other association members, after a district meeting, does not compromise the smoking change.

• Our honoree has successfully overcome significant health issues in the past and does not mind reminding us about our own bad health habits

• Being a southerner by birth they consider living in the south to be their true home

• One of our members has voluntarily spent the night with our recipient and reports that they do not snore

• Who would be surprised to know that our honoree would complain loudly, as they continued to eat I must say, about the excessive cost of an $8.00 bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. 

• Passion for life marks our recipient but that same passion for our association has also been passed on to many more of us

• Our honoree has two (2) daughters, six (6) grandchildren, and four (4) great grandchildren. 

• No one else has traveled further than our honoree to participate in our summer convention.

• Drinking a strong cup of coffee in the shadow of Pikes Peak marks a lifelong goal of our recipient. 

• The most memorable story about our honoree is told about a comment made by one of our former association presidents after seeing our picture wall or “rouges gallery” in our association office. Viewing a picture of our honoree he commented that tonight’s recipient was “quite a looker in her day”  

• Just as we consider participation in our association a family affair, our honoree has always put family first. And in some way each one of us considers her “Mom” and her biological daughters, our own sisters.

Ms. Dottie Nagle is the first “gentle lady” to receive the Gordon M. Waters Award!