The Bremerton Area Chamber of Commerce has announced the recipients of the 2003 Hyas Tyee awards.

Every other year the chamber selects individuals in three categories – business/community, government and military – who most exemplify leadership skills and commitment to the community. This year’s recipients are Captain Christine S. Hunter, Kathleen L. McCluskey and Edward E. Wolfe.

The Hyas Tyee Awards ceremony is based on long-established tradition that honors the recipients in a non-traditional manner – they’re roasted.

The event took place on June 10 at the Kitsap Golf and Country Club.

Ed Wolfe is President of Wolfe Law Offices, a civil trial and business practice firm with offices in Kitsap County and Seattle. Wolfe has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Big Brothers of King County. He is immediate past President of the Puget Sound Naval Bases Association, a Past-President of the Bremerton Area Chamber of Commerce, and a Board Member of the Admiral Theater, the Kitsap County Historical Society, and the Olympic College Foundation.

During the Reagan and Bush administrations, Wolfe was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State with the rank of Ambassador.

Kathleen L. McCluskey, administrative services director, City of Bremerton is a graduate of North Kitsap High School, Olympic College and City University. In the 1970s, she worked for law firms in Seattle and Silverdale as well as working for the Washington Education Association and for Representative Rick Smith in the Washington State Legislature.

In 1978, McCluskey was elected to the City of Bremerton’s position of City Clerk. In 1985, she was appointed the administrative services director overseeing the finance department, City Clerk’s Office, Municipal Court Administration, Information Technology Division and Public Access Television.

McCluskey has served on the Board of United Way as well as heading fundraising campaigns and the distribution committee. She has also served on the board of the Kitsap Family YMCA and YMCA Foundation as well as being an active member and serving on the Board of Directors for the Bremerton Rotary. She is currently on the board of Harrison Memorial Hospital and served as Chairman of the Board from July 1999 to July 2002.

Captain Christine Hunter, Commanding Officer, Naval Hospital Bremerton is a native of Worcester, Mass., and the commanding officer of Naval Hospital Bremerton, assuming command in October 2000. She completed by undergraduate and medical studies at Boston University and was awarded her Doctor of Medicine Degree with Honors in 1980.

Captain Hunter is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and holds membership in the American Societies of Hematology and Clinical Oncology. She has also served as chairperson of the national American College of Physicians Postgraduate Education Subcommittee.

Under Captain Hunter’s leadership at Naval Hospital Bremerton, the hospital was successfully surveyed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The Family Medicine Residency received a five-year accreditation renewal, access to care was enhanced and facilities improved by the addition of a modern Family Care Center and a new branch clinic.