• Dr. Nancy Patterson, toastmaster for the awards ceremony and BGSU professor, presented Bill Hilt with the Decade of Impact Leadership Award.
    Dr. Nancy Patterson, toastmaster for the awards ceremony and BGSU professor, presented Bill Hilt with the Decade of Impact Leadership Award.

    After 10 years of planning community events, hosting international guests, guiding students to become globally competent, and sending area residents abroad, the World Affairs Council of Northwest Ohio took time to celebrate itself and a decade of bringing world affairs to northwest Ohio.

    “We began with a mission, and we have succeeded beyond hope,” said Bill Hilt, the organization’s founder and pre…