Staff Reports
Calvina Fay, Executive Director of the Drug-Free America Foundation announced at Wednesday night’s Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards Gala that she will be retiring at the end of the month, the organization announced Thursday.
Fay has been the leader of the organization for 20 years, and a drug prevention advocate for over 35 years.
“Under Calvina Fay’s leadership, Drug-Free America has had a profound impact in Florida, in the United States and throughout the world,” said Betty Sembler, founder of Drug-Free America Foundation, in a statement.
In remarks Wednesday, Fay thanked everyone for their support throughout the years and encouraged them to continue the fight, the release said.
“Drug-Free America Foundation has left an enormous footprint on the effort to combat substance abuse, and I know through our shared commitment this organization will continue to lead the way,” she said. “Without the efforts of this organization, I am convinced that schedule one drugs like heroin, LSD, PCP and marijuana would be legal, and the number of young people using these illicit drugs would be far greater.”
In addition to her work with Drug-Free America Foundation, Fay was a founding board member of Save Our Society from Drugs (S.O.S.) and was president of Drug Watch International, a network engaged in combating the drug legalization movement globally.
She has served as an adviser to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy as well as several political leaders, including former President George W. Bush, on drug policy issues.
Fay holds a master’s degree in business administration and has built and sold two successful businesses, according to the release. She has taught at a number of universities including Argentina’s Universidad del Salvador, where she was named an honorary professor.
“Amy Ronshausen, the incoming executive director, shares my passion for this mission,” Fay said. “I have been privileged to have her by my side for the past 10 years, and this organization is fortunate to have her as its next leader.”
5 comments
John M. Bunch
April 26, 2018 at 4:02 pm
I nominate Calvina Fay as Patron Saint of Those Unfazed By Misguided Efforts and Lost Causes.
Chrisprio
May 8, 2018 at 12:24 pm
Funny, she has a master in business, exactly what the drug “war” is.
This article is so full of it i can smell it in Jersey
Charles Ankner
April 26, 2018 at 4:07 pm
A new study led by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine has implicated the blocking of endocannabinoids — signaling substances that are the brain’s internal versions of the psychoactive chemicals in marijuana and hashish — in the early pathology of Alzheimer’s disease.
Bruce Goldman, science writer for the Stanford University School of Medicine Office of
Communication & Public Affairs; June 18, 2014
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stanford-university-study-points-endocannabinoid-cause-ankner-cp/
Lisa Allred Tucker
May 8, 2018 at 10:17 am
This “organization” is nothing more than Straight Inc. Reincarnated because they were FORCED to close ALL facilities due to horrifying abuse and torture of the American children held captive indefinitely for having no more than experimenting with mostly alcohol and marijuana. We, the victims of the abuse, are now adults who became stronger from the abuse, ready to advocate for the children today who are still being abandoned by their parents and society to these same programs that have changed nothing but the name. The tax ID # is even the same.
Rich
May 8, 2018 at 12:13 pm
Yea, she left a footprint alright, one of KIDNAPPING and ABUSING CHILDREN, making a bad situation WORSE and HIDING from lawsuits from victims of her and the Sembler’s! What an achievement!
BURN IN HELL FAY!
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