[NJARC] Museum Award - Not

[Bill Burns]

Dave Bart tells me that the award for RCA was to Bill Endres, June 
Poppele and ​Ken Hoagland, all AWA members, for their individual work in 
preserving the RCA documents and archives which were ultimately donated 
to AWA.

He's going to check on the other recipients and will put the issue on 
the agenda for the upcoming AWA Board meeting.

Bill

On 10/7/2016 6:36 PM, mbeeferman at cs.com wrote:
> "Member" does not necessarily mean "individual member" - it can be a
> "member organization."  However, some previous "organization" winners
> were not AWA "members" but organizations in their own right.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Burns <ftldny at gmail.com>
> To: NJARC <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Fri, Oct 7, 2016 11:38 am
> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Museum Award - Not
>
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Unfortunately, one of the great shortcomings of the AWA site is that
> there's no list of the previous recipients of any of the awards (that I
> can find, at least). But it's not clear to me how the Preservation award
> can be given to an organization - on the AWA website is this:
>
> "The AWA Houck Award for Preservation is for a member who, through
> personal accomplishment, has acquired, and preserved by documenting, an
> outstanding collection of radio artifacts."
>
> http://www.antiquewireless.org/awa-activities.html
>
> I'll check with Dave Bart on this.
>
> Bill
>
> On 10/7/2016 10:40 AM, Raymond F Chase wrote:
>> Members:
>>
>> As some of you know Ludwell Sibley nominated NJARC this year for an AWA
>> “Preservation” award based on our museum and continuing efforts at RTM
>> and InfoAge. The proposal was rejected on grounds that the award is
>> restricted to “AWA members”. This despite ample precedent for the award
>> going to groups as was reflected by past awards given to the California
>> Radio Society, the Radio Club of America, the Museum of Radio &
>> Technology (West Va.) and the Perham Museum. This year 2016 is rampant
>> with politics!
>>
>> Thanks to Lud for information in the Tube Collector publication.
>>
>> Ray