Nearly 13,000 Shareholders Eligible for All Prize Drawings
June 2, 2025
(Anchorage, Alaska) – Seven Calista Corporation Shareholders are winners of Regular Early Bird proxy prizes in the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The prizes are randomly drawn by Sramek Hightower, a certified public accounting firm in Anchorage that serves as the Inspector of Elections.
Nearly 13,000 Shareholders who voted by paper or online by 5 p.m. on May 23 qualified for the Regular Early Bird prizes and were entered in all remaining prize drawings. The winners are:
- $10,000 Prize – Kathleen A. Fancyboy (Pilot Station)
- $2,500 Prize – Katie A.M. Jones (Bethel)
- $1,000 Prize –
- Hilda L. Stern (Alakanuk)
- Frieda R. Stone (Hooper Bay)
- Robert J.M. Gregory (Bethel)
- Vladimir Jackson (Kwethluk)
- Linda M. Evangelista (University Place, WA)
Among all voters, over 8 in 10 have voted online, including over 6 in 10 Elders.
The deadline to qualify for the final round is 5 p.m. on Monday, June 2 (all times Alaska). All valid paper and online proxies received by this deadline qualify. There are 10 prizes totaling $17,000.
“It’s exciting to hear of Shareholders assisting our Elders to vote, whether by paper or online at www.CalistaVote.com,” said Thom Aparuk Leonard, vice president of corporate affairs. “Calista works to make voting easy by offering the option to vote online or by paper, and by providing about five weeks of voting this year.” Proxy prizes are only awarded if enough Shareholders vote and quorum is reached. This makes the Annual Meeting valid. Learn more at www.CalistaCorp.com/AnnualMeeting.
Calista Corporation has over 38,400 Shareholders and is the parent company of more than 30 subsidiaries in the following industries: defense contracting, construction, real estate, environmental services, natural resource development, marine transportation, oilfield services, and heavy equipment sales, service and rentals. Since inception, Calista has declared more than $160.1 million in dividends and distributions, including $12.4 million in Elders’ Benefit Program distributions to Shareholders. Since 1994, Calista Education and Culture has provided more than $6.6 million in scholarships to Calista Shareholders and Descendants. Calista can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/CalistaCorporation), YouTube (www.youtube.com/calistacorp) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/calistacorp).