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1982 NAR President’s Award: Mark Bundick & George Cook
1984 NAR President’s Award: Dick Nelson, C.D. Tavares
1985 NAR President’s Award: Dane Boles
1988 NAR President’s Award: Bob Kaplow and the Pink Book Revision Committee
1989 NAR President’s Award: Ed Pearson for directing the US/USSR Cultural Exchange and Spacemodeling Competition
1990 NAR President’s Award: Nettie Hunsicker
1991 NAR President’s Award: Jay Apt
1993 NAR President’s Award: Bill Spadafora, NARTS Chairman for dedicated quality and fast service
1994 NAR President’s Award: NAR Standards & Testing, chaired by Jack Kane
1995 NAR President’s Award: Stew McNabb, for work organizing NAR financial matters and records
1996 NAR President’s Award: Mark Johnson for his work as the Model Rocketeer newsletter editor
1997 NAR President’s Award: George Gassaway for his database work at NAR HQ and Tom Beach for his work on Sport Rocketry Magazine
1998 NAR President’s Award: Chris Tavares for his work on NAR website
1999 NAR President’s Award: Steve Lubliner for HPR service programs
2000 NAR President’s Award: Bob Blomster, our insurance agent
2001 NAR President’s Award: Tim Quigg for outstanding outreach to young people
2002 NAR President’s Award: Mark Morely for creating Educator’s CD-ROM
2003 NAR President’s Award: Chris Kidwell for Contest Manager software
2004 NAR President’s Award: TARC Mentors (Greg Bock, Tom Pastrick & Ted Cochran), Frank Uroda (Save Rocketry Now campaign)
2005 NAR President’s Award: John Langford for work with Jr Internats Team
2006 NAR President’s Award: Mario Perdue for work on NAR Member Guidebook
2008 NAR President’s Award: James Duffy for his work on the Old Rocketeer DVD
2009 NAR President’s Award for Service: The Tom Ha family for exceptional service in running NAR Technical Services
2010 NAR President’s Award: Jennifer Ash-Poole for her work on updating NAR HQ computer system
2012 NAR President’s Award: John Lyngdal for his efforts leading NASA’s Student Launch Program
2013 NAR President’s Award for Achievement: Team Aeropac’s accomplishment of 100k flight, winning the Carmack Prize: Ken Biba, Casey Barker, Erik Ebert, Becky Green, Jim Green, David Raimondi, Tom Rouse, and Steve Wigfield
2013 NAR President’s Award for Service: Mark Petrovich for his contributions in competition rocketry, supporting the US team through Venus Rocketry
2013 NAR President’s Award for Service: Jeff Vincent, long running Northeast Region Contest Board Chair, web pioneer, and competition promoter.
2014 NAR President’s Award for Service: Pat Fitzpatrick for leading the Museum of Flight initiative
2014 NAR President’s Award for Service: Bruce Canino for webmaster duties
2014 NAR President’s Award for Service: Todd Schweim for efforts as publisher for NAR publications
2014 NAR President’s Award for Achievement: Jim Jarvis 22 mile high flight
2015 NAR President’s Award for Service: Randy Gilbert for his service as NAR Trustee
2015 NAR President’s Award for Service: Museum of Flight curators for their support in establishing the The National Collection of Model and Sport Rocketry
2015 NAR President’s Award for Service: Marion Blakey for her sustained and unwavering support of the Team America Rocketry Challenge
2016 NAR President’s Award for Service: Randy Gilbert
2017 NAR President’s Award for Service: Jim Pommert
2018 NAR President’s Award for Service: Dan Winings, John Lyngdal
2019 NAR President’s Award for Service: Vince Huegele, Dr. John Brantigan

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