Ormond Memorial Art Museum recognizes award recipients at annual 'Kaleidoscope' dinner
Linda King, Susan Anderson, and Roy and Sherry Gailey were the honorees of the night.
ByObserver Staff
| 9:10 a.m. February 7, 2025
Award winners Susan Anderson, Sherry Gailey and Linda King. Courtesy photo
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Four Ormond Beach residents were honored at the Ormond Memorial Art Museum’s annual “Kaleidoscope” dinner on Jan. 15.
The sold-out evening reflected on achievements from OMAM’s 2023-2024 fiscal year and celebrated statistics, such as the more than 43,000 visitors to the museum and gardens during the 366-day period of the fiscal year, according to a press release. The museum held a variety of exhibitions, art classes, nature talks, wellness programs, outreach initiatives and special events, engaging adults, children, professional artists, students, veterans and military families.
Ormond Memorial Art Museum Board President Lauren Dye, Sherry Gailey and Ann Burt. Courtesy photo
The awards were as follows:
OMAM Champion Award: Linda King, longtime Free Family Art Night instructor. King has been involved with OMAM since 1998 and has taught various museum art camps and classes.
Mary Jane McSwain Garden Volunteer Award: Susan Anderson, horticulture chairman. Anderson served on the OMAM board of directors for seven years, taking on multiple leadership roles including chairing Nature’s Art Box, youth gardening initiatives, and fulfilling the role of vice president.
The Malcolm Fraser Philanthropic Award: Sherry and Roy Gailey, community philanthropists. Roy Gailey owns Carter Electric Company, Inc. in Daytona Beach since 1985, working his way up from an apprenticeship in 1963. Sherry Gailey has a retail fashion background but has focused most of her “life career” on volunteering and raising money, the press release states.She served on the OMAM board for 14 years and helped with the museum's capital campaign for its $4 million renovation.
