Pat Vivo is honored posthumously by National Speakers Association

NEW ORLEANS -- Patricia Vivo was posthumously awarded the 2003 Cavett Award for her commitment to outstanding public speaking at the recent National Speakers Association convention.
The Cavett award, named for the association's late founder, Cavett Robert, is the association's highest honor.
Vivo, a professional speaker, resided in Boardman and died earlier this year.
She was the first-born child of deaf parents and did not learn to speak until age 3.
Having become an NSA member in 1979 and having served two terms as chapter president of NSA Ohio, she was invited 24 years in a row as a speaker at the American Legion Auxiliary's Buckeye Girls State event.
Vivo was the first woman elected to the Mahoning County Educational Service Center governing board was a past president and longtime member of the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center Board.
Her book, "Turn Right at the Next Corner," a companion to her speech by that title, was published in 1991, with a second edition in 1996.