Elbert County Women Honored by Center for Christian-Jewish
Dialogue
By Paige Evans
Over six hundred guests
packed the Doubletree ballroom in Colorado Springs last
Thursday, October 19th, for the Ninth Annual
Dinner and Dialogue where Elbert County ’s own Roxann
Maul Johnson and Paige Evans were presented with the C. Gary
Mammel Memorial trophy. This coveted award is given every
other year but only if a deserving recipient is found.
Johnson and Evans were unanimously nominated by board
members of The Center for Christian-Jewish Dialogue for
their work on a DVD which tells the organization’s story.
Rabbi Howard Abel Hirsch
founded the center in 1995 “…to affirm what Christians and
Jews hold in common, engage in conversation and promote
understanding and encourage mutual respect for each other’s
faith, culture and history.”
Johnson’s rigorous role
as project producer was in addition to her status as a
full-time student at Regis University where Rabbi Hirsch
teaches Old Testament Themes. Johnson was a student in his
class. In learning more about the CCJD, she discovered
their need for a video to help promote their organization.
Johnson recruited her friend, Paige Evans of WOW
productions, to help convert the need into a reality.
Coming from a
background in radio, broadcast television, and motion
pictures, Evans loves to tell stories and found the Rabbi
had a good one. As a producer for Americas Most Wanted,
looking for clues to build an exciting show was always part
of her job. Evans worked the creative side, while Johnson
made arrangements with the many people who helped tell the
tale. The collaboration was a great success.
Soon after the DVD was
completed, Johnson graduated Suma cum laude from Regis and
this summer took Magna cum laude honors from nursing
school. For those who may not know, “Roxie” Johnson is
descended from the Elbert County pioneering family which
established the Maul Ranch in the 1800s and for whom Maul
Road is named.
Along with running WOW
Productions, which by the way is MOM spelled up-side-down,
Paige Evans is a Longhorn cattle rancher, ten minutes south
east of Kiowa.
-- Reprinted with the permission of
author from the Elbert County News
