Member Award Program

Outstanding Volunteer Award

The strength of ACMA or any other association is the quality of its member volunteers.  ACMA was proud to launch its Outstanding Volunteer Award at COMPSOSITES 2010, the largest composites event in North America.  Any ACMA member who has contributed significant volunteer time and effort to achieve positive results on behalf of the industry through service to ACMA is eligible.  This can include service or leadership of a committee or can be work on a special project on behalf of the organization.

To nominate a member for ACMA’s Outstanding Volunteer Award, please download, complete and return to Jonathan Roberts, via fax:  703-525-0735 or scanned pdf: jroberts@acmnet.org.

ACMA Outstanding Award Recipients:

2009 - Cheryl Richards

Nomination Process
Complete the form at the bottom of this page to nominate an individual for the Outstanding Volunteer Award. or fax/email a copy Downloadable Nomination Form (pdf)

The deadline for nominations is Friday, November 12, 2010.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Eligibility Criteria:

Any person who has been involved in the composites industry for at least 20 years who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the industry is eligible for this award. Nominees from all segments of the industry are eligible.

Significant and lasting contribution includes, but is not limited to, performance in any of the following areas:

• Exemplary contribution to legislative and/or regulatory affairs of significant long-term consequence to the industry
• Invention of a process or product that has significant long-term importance
• A very successful business career in which measurable contributions have been made to industry, government, employees, or the community
• Leadership throughout his/her career to the industry’s trade associations where lasting contributions were made, including SPI, SIRC, NMMA, ACMA, ICPA, etc.

Sitting members of the ACMA Board are not eligible for consideration of this award.

All former and future recipients of the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award will automatically be included in the Hall of Fame, without need for consideration by the Board of Directors. Inaugural members will be identified as Clare Bacon Hall of Fame or Lifetime Achievement inductees.

Nominees for the Lifetime Achievement Award who were not selected and all Presidents’ Award recipients will automatically be considered in the next year for the Hall of Fame selection.

ACMA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

2009 - Royce Newsome
2008 - Gary Multanen
2007 – Jacques & Margot Kohn & Larry Ashton
2006 – Louis Dehmlow
2005 - Dr. Frank Cassis
2004 – MC Gill
2003 – Don Aker
2002 – Brandt Goldsworthy
2001 – Everett Pearson
2000 – Lowell Miles
1999 – Wes Hoch
1998 – Robert Morrison

Nomination Process
Complete the form at the bottom of this page to nominate an individual for the ACMA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Nomination deadline is Friday, November 12, 2010.

Hall of Fame Award

Eligibility Criteria:

Any person who has attained distinction among his/her peers through their efforts, involvement and accomplishments in the composites industry and its associations.

Criteria for judging excellence shall include, but is not limited to, the individual’s performance in any of the following ways:

• Contribution to legislative and/or regulatory affairs of significant long-term consequence to the industry
• Invention of a process or product which has commercial value to the composites or cast polymer industry
• A successful business career in which notable contributions have been made to the composites industry
• Active, extensive participation in the industry’s trade associations with significant contributions, including SPI, SIRC, ACMA, ICPA, etc.
• Academic contribution which has resulted in a noteworthy impact on the composites industry
• Previous recipients of the SPI Clare E. Bacon Award are eligible

Sitting members of the ACMA Board are not eligible for induction into the Hall.

Nominees for the Lifetime Achievement Award who were not selected and all Presidents Award recipients will automatically be considered in the next cycle for Hall of Fame selection.

ACMA Hall of Fame Members

2009 - Bob Lacovara, Fred Dierks
2008 - Dick Higgins, Dave Mohnke
2007 – Mark Greenwood, John Roesle, Jacques and Margot Kohn, Larry Ashton
2006 – Royce Newsom, Terry McCabe, Louis Dehmlow
2005 – Louis Garasi, George Dohn, Dr. Frank Cassis
2004 – Burt Rutan, Kanemasa Nomaguchi, M.C. Gill
2003 – Don Aker
2002 – Brandt Goldsworthy
2001 – Everett Pearson
2000 – Lowell Miles
1999 – Wes Hoch
1998 – Robert Morrison

Clare E. Bacon “Person of the Year” Award Winners

Herb B. Ailes John B. Alfers Frank X. Ambrose Thomas F. Anderson Jules Augsdorfer John Avignon Clare E. Bacon F. Robert Barnet John Berkson Robert D. Bitten Robert J. Brinkeman Frank A. Cassis David J. Clavadetscher C. William Cleworth Frank W. Como Charles L. Condit William Cruse David D’Antoni

Robert Dieterle Richard DiRienzo Tom Doyle T. Richard Evans Harold B. Freeman W. Brandt Goldsworthy William H. Gottlieb Robert E. Griffith L. June Gundrum James Hearons Charles Hoover Ray B. Krepps Jack Jenks Edward J. Jonasch Charles Jones A.W. Levenhagen George Lubin

James S. Lunn Richard Malamphy Hiram McCann Charlie McClaskey Frederick J. McGarry Terry McQuarrie Leonard S. Meyer Carole Monheim Samuel A. Moore Laura E. Morrison Robert S. Morrison Samuel S. Oleesky John Owens Harry J. Paulus Harry E. Pebly, Jr. Edwin Plueddemann Tom Priesel Jerry Purcell

Harriet Raymond Dominick V. Rosato Carl Rue Al Schempp Roger Sellew William E. Smith Ralph H. Sonneborn Sherman Stambaugh George A. Stein Robert Sweet Walter A. Szymanski Robert B. Truitt Roger B. White W. Burdette Wilkins A.J. Wiltshire Robert Winblad Lawrence Wittman P. Robert Young

Nomination Process
Fill out the form below to nominate an individual for the ACMA Lifetime Achievement or Hall of Fame Award.

Nomination deadline is Friday, November 12, 2010.

2010 Award Nomination Form

	* = REQUIRED
Nominee Name: *
Company: *
Telephone: *
E-mail: *
I am nominating this person for the: Lifetime Achievement Award Hall of Fame Award Outstanding Volunteer
What is the most significant impact this individual has had on the industry? (limit to 200 words)
What other reason(s) should this individual be considered? (limit to 150 words)
What year did this person first become involved in the industry?
Please write a two- to three-paragraph biography on this individual. (limit to 500 words)
Your Name: *
Company: *
Telephone: *
E-mail: *

If you prefer to submit your nomination in writing, please submit your answers in three pages or less to:

ACMA - Member Achievement Awards
1010 N. Glebe Rd., Suite 450
Arlington, VA 22201

If you have questions about your nomination, please contact:

Jonathan Roberts
Email
703-525-0511