(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Ketchikan resident Michelle O’Brien has received Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women’s prestigious Carolyn Helman Lichtenberg Crest Award in honor of her community service. O’Brien has served in a host of roles in Ketchikan and in Alaska, as well as serving in leadership roles within Pi Beta Phi.

The Carolyn Helman Lichtenberg Crest Award is presented annually to distinguished alumnae of Pi Beta Phi who exhibit excellence and outstanding leadership in their career or volunteer service to their communities. The award is named for past Pi Beta Phi grand president Carolyn Helman Lichtenberg, who was instrumental in forming Pi Beta Phi Foundation during her term from 1985 to 1991. Crucial fraternity initiatives, like leadership development programs and academic scholarships, are supported through the stewardship of the foundation.

O’Brien will serve as Rotary District Governor for District 5010 Alaska/Yukon in 2016-2017.

Currently, O’Brien serves as the President of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Board of Education and Co-Chair of the Alaska Public Broadcasting Commission. She is also the host and producer of local television for KPU TV in Ketchikan.

Additionally, O’Brien served as President of the Alumnae Advisory Committee for Pi Beta Phi at Syracuse University and most recently sat on the same committee at the Florida State University chapter of Pi Beta Phi. She earned her bachelor’s in Political Science from Hillsdale College in Michigan.

“This is very humbling, indeed, to have been nominated for this award,” said O’Brien. “I am truly thankful to be part of such a wonderful lifelong sisterhood, and certainly one that instilled in me the value of service to others as a way to better our communities.”

The Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women was ounded in 1867 at Monmouth College in Illinois. Pi Beta Phi has installed 200 collegiate chapters and more than 300 alumnae organizations worldwide. Pi Beta Phi promotes friendship, develops women of intellect and integrity, cultivates leadership potential and enriches the lives of members and their communities. The Fraternity believes in the power of reading and through its philanthropy, Read, Lead, Achieve, promotes a lifelong love of reading that can unlock true potential.

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski is a Pi Beta Phi alumnus.

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