Yvonne Fry, of Plant City, received an award.
Girl Scouts of West Central Florida announced its 2016 Women of Distinction and Woman of Promise. Among the honorees is Yvonne Fry, of Plant City.
All honorees have achieved success in their chosen fields and serve as inspiring role models for girls in local communities.
The 2016 Women of Distinction are:
Yvonne Fry, Plant City
Pam Muma, Belleair
Anna Rodriguez, Clearwater
Melissa Snively, Lithia
The 2015 Woman of Promise, a deserving young woman under the age of 35, is:
Altrichia Cook, Lakeland
These extraordinary women will be honored at the 25th annual Women of Distinction luncheon March 29, at the Hilton in Downtown Tampa. The luncheon benefits over 19,000 girls served by Girl Scouts of West Central Florida. Emmy Award winning talk show host and New York Times bestselling author Leeza Gibbons, who is one of the most well-known on air pop-culture icons with an impressive career in entertainment and news media, will serve as the luncheon’s esteemed keynote speaker. Earlier this year, Gibbons was crowned the winner of NBC’s ‘Celebrity Apprentice’, having raised over $700,000 for her foundation.
Tickets for the luncheon can be purchased by visiting gswcf.org/wod. General seating tickets are $75 per person; patron preferred seating tickets (which includes program recognition) are $150 per person. Sponsorships are also available; please contact Terri Costello at (813) 262-1688 or tcostello@gswcf.org for more information.
About Yvonne Fry
A native Floridian, Yvonne grew up as a farmer’s daughter in Plant City where her family grew strawberries, organic vegetables and had a chicken farm with 60,000 chickens. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, she is an expert in the telecommunications and IT industry. She owns Lines of Communications, a full service telecommunications management and auditing company which serves clients in the government and private sectors. In addition, she is CEO of Fry Entertainment Inc. which holds several companies including Fryed Egg Productions, a branding, marketing, film and event management company. Founder and producer of NRG – Next Radical Generation, a youth performance group singing positive pop, she manages talent and produces a variety of projects including commercials, PSAs, television series and stage shows.
Among her many awards, distinctions and leadership roles, Fry currently chairs both the Florida Commission on the Status of Women and Hillsborough Commission on the Status of Women, is treasurer for the Tampa Tiger Bay Club, 2017 chair elect of the Plant City Chamber of Commerce and on the Executive Committee of the new Plant City Economic Development Corporation. She was honored with the Plant City Chamber Chairman’s Award in 2014 and was named one of Florida International University’s Top 25 Women Entrepreneurs in Florida in 2011. She is president of Plant City High School’s PTSA and serves on the Lincoln IB Elementary PTSA Board.
