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General Tools Award for Distinguished Service to Industrial Archeology
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General Tools Award for 2008
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The General Tools Award Committee invites and encourages SIA members to submit nominations for the 2008 Society for Industrial Archeology General Tools Award for Distinguished Service to Industrial Archeology. The General Tools Award is the highest honor the SIA can bestow. The award recognizes individuals who have given sustained, distinguished service to the cause of industrial archeology and is presented at the SIA’s annual business meeting. Criteria for selection are as follows: (1) The recipient must have given noteworthy, beyond-the-call-of-duty service, over an extended period of time, to the cause of industrial archeology. (2) The type of service for which the recipient is recognized is unspecified, but must be for other than academic publication. (3) It is desirable but not required that the recipient be, or previously have been, a member of the SIA. (4) The award may be made only to living individuals. Teams, groups, agencies, firms, or any other collective entities are not eligible. The nomination, which should not exceed three double-spaced typed pages, should address the specific accomplishments that qualify the nominee for the award. Supplementary material (the candidate’s resume, for example) may be appended to the nomination. Nominations must also include the name, address, telephone number(s), and e-mail of the nominator. Any SIA member in good standing may make a nomination. The General Tools Award was established in 1992 through the generosity of Gerald Weinstein [SIA], chairman of the board of General Tools Manufacturing, Inc. of New York City, and the Abraham and Lillian Rosenberg Foundation. The Rosenbergs founded General Hardware, the predecessor to General Tools. The award consists of a citation, a commissioned sculpture (“The Plumb Bob”), and a cash award. Previous recipients are Emory Kemp (1993), Robert Vogel (1994), Edward Rutsch (1995), Patrick Malone (1996), Margot Gayle (1997), Helena Wright (1998), Vance Packard (1999), Eric DeLony (2000), Robert Merriam (2001) and Charles Parrott (2002), Alex Barbour (2003), Charlie Hyde (2004), Lance Metz (2005), no award made in 2006, Patrick Martin (2007). Nominations, which should be received on or before April 16, 2008, should be submitted to the General Tools Award Selection Committee chair. 2008 General Tools Award Selection Committee (3) Committee members serve a term of three years, with the final year as chair of the committee. Each year one member rotates off and a new member is appointed by SIA's President and approved by the Board of Directors. Julie Harris, Chair (2005-2008) Charles K. Hyde (2006-2009) Dr. David A. Poirier (2007-2010) |
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General Tools Award for 2007
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Patrick Martin, 2007 General Tools Award Recipient
At the Annual Business Meeting in Philadelphia, Committee chair Bill McNiece announced that Patrick Martin was the 2007 recipient of the General Tools Award for Distinguished Service to Industrial Archeology.
Patrick Martin (center), receives the "Plumb Bob" from Bill McNiece (right), and Gerry Weinstein, Chairman of General Tools. Photograph taken by Don Durfee This year's recipient exemplifies the criteria for selection. Pat Martin has been active in the cause of industrial archeology for some thirty years, making substantial contributions in a wide range of areas, including beyond North America as the SIA's representative to the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH). He has provided many private and government agencies with analysis and reports on archeological investigations of industrial sites, and he has made substantial academic contributions to the field. While the General Tools award is made for types of service other than academic publication, it also does not hold it against you ! Pat Martin has given substantial service to the SIA as editor of the journal, executive secretary and organizer of several meetings and tours. |
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