Chapter Awards

Award Description

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Awards Description

John L. Funk Award of Excellence. Originally named the Award of Excellence, it was renamed to honor Slim Funk the founder of the Missouri Chapter. Receiving this award means that your professional peers recognize, appreciate, and respect your long-term contributions to the aquatic resources of Missouri.

The Citizen's Award is given to persons not directly employed in the aquatic field who make a substantial contribution to Missouri's aquatic resource.

The A. Stephen Weithman, Jr. Leadership Award was created to honor A. Stephen Weithman, Jr. for his long-term and outstanding leadership to the Missouri Chapter and Missouri’s aquatic resources. The recipient of this award is recognized for their leadership qualities which continue the leadership standards Steve established.

The Letter of Recognition that is given to either a fisheries professional or to a citizen to acknowledge one-time or short term contributions that may not be covered by the other two awards.

To make it easy, there is a form you can complete for your nomination. Click Here

 


Past Award Winners

Award of Excellence Citizen Award Letter of Recognition

A. Steven Weithman Jr.  Leadership Award

(Awards presented at annual meeting for indicated year; typically in January/February)

JOHN L. FUNK AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

1974 Mr. John L. Funk 1992 Mr. Otto F. Fajen
1975 Mr. William H. Dieffenbach 1993 Dr. Charles F. Rabeni
1976 Mr. John A. Karel 1994 Mr. Ronald J. Dent, Jr.
1977 Dr. William L. Pflieger 1995 Mr. Norman P. Stucky
1978 Dr. Robert S. and Dorothy Campbell 1996 Dr. John (Jack) Jones
1979 Mr. Jerry M. Sugarman 1997 Ms. Pamela Haverland
1980 Mr. George G. Fleener 1998 Mr. William Turner
1981 Dr. James R. Whitley 1999 Mr. Larry (Kim) Graham
1982 Mr. Lee C. Redmond 2000 Mr. Richard M. Duchrow
1983 Dr. Richard 0. Anderson 2001 Mr. Tom Russell
1984 Mr. Joe G. Dillard 2002 Mr. Al Buchanan
1985 Mr. Charles A. Purkett, Jr. 2003 Dr. David Galat
1986 Dr. Richard A. Schoettger 2004 Chris Vitello
1987 Mr. David I. Foster 2005 Gary Novinger
1988 Mr. Larry R. Gale 2006 Randy Crawford
1989 Mr. Ernest J. Hamilton 2007 Duane chapman
1990 Mr. James P. Fry 2008 Steve Eder
1991 Mr. Philip J. Jeffries, Jr.  

 


A. STEPHEN WEITHMAN, JR. LEADERSHIP AWARD

2000  A. Stephen Weithman,Jr. 2004 Brain Canaday
2001 Ron Dent 2005 Steven Fischer
2002 Craig Gemming 2006  NA
2003 Norm Stucky 2007 Robert DiStefano
   

 


CITIZEN'S AWARD

1982 Ms. Martha R. Shirk  1996 Dr. William Rolston
1983 Mr. Robert M. Lindholm  1997 Mr. Scott Dye
1984 Mr. Ralph M. Steppe  1998 Union Electric (Dan Jarvis, Charlie Kempf)
1985 Citizen Committee for Soil, Water, and State Parks  1999 Mr. Jim Tennyson
1986 Operation Clean Stream  2000 City of Piedmont and  McKenzie Crk. Steering Team
1987 Mr. Ronald D. Oesch  2001 Mike Long
1988 Mr. Leo Drey  2002 Melody Torrey
1989 Mr. James Jackson  2003 Jim Davis
1990 Mr. Gregory L. Thurman  2004 Becky Denny
1991 Mr. Doug Wiley  2005 James Huckens
1992 Mr. G. Andy Runge 2006 NA
 1993 Mr. Dave Hamilton 2007  NA
 1994 Mr. Kenneth Midkiff 2008  Regina VanPatten
 1995 Mr. Darwin Hindman  

 


LETTER’S OF RECOGNITION

1980 Mr. William H. Dieffenbach 1999 Mr. Gordon Farabee
1981 Mr. William Bennett 1999 Mr. Robert Montgomery
1982 Mr. John L. Morris 1999 Mr. William Anderson
1983 Mr. Charles E. Hicks 2000 McKenzie Creek Planning Team
1984 Lake Taneycomo Management Committee 2000 Mr. Travis Moore
1985 Missouri Conservation Commissioners and Truman Lake Environmental Assessment Team 2000 Mr. Donnie Wren
1986 Chlordane Task Force 2000 Mr. Mick Hawkins
1987 Streambank Erosion Evaluation Team 2001 Mr. John Fantz
1987 Mrs. Susan E. Finger 2001 Mr. Michael Deruntz
1988 None presented 2001 Mr. Bill Miller
1989 Missouri Stream Team 2001 Mr. Phillip A. Schroeder
1989 Citizens Committee for Soil, Water, and State Parks 2001 Mr. Charles C. Ragsdell II
1990 Undercover Operation for Illegal Harvest of Paddlefish 2002 Debbie Niederer
1991 Dr. Serge I. Doroshov 2002 Warren County Soil & Water Conservation District Board
1992 Roubidoux Fly Fishers Stream Team 2002 Jim Davis
1992 East Central and Southeast Protection Regions for Efforts to Protect Mussel Resources 2002 Tim Grace
1993 Mr. Edwin H. Glaser 2002 Chad Pregracke
1994 Dr. Michael J. Roell 2002 Greg Fritz
1994 Cameron Knights of Columbus 2002 Tabitha Madzura
1995 Dr. David Galat 2002 Chris Campbell
1995 Mr. Rod Smith 2003 Duane Chapman
1996 Mr. William Anderson 2003 Vicki Richman
1996 Mr. Norman Stucky 2003 Matt Matheney
1996 Mr. Al Buchanan 2003 Steve Gough

1996 Ms. Kathleen McGrath

2003 Mark Zubrick
1996 Ms. Donna Menown 2003 Leslie Lihou
1996 Mr. William Turner 2003 Chad Smith
1996 Mr. Christopher Vitello 2004 Wappapello Lake Corps of Engineers
1996 Mr. Kevin Sullivan 2004 Michael Roell
1996 Dr. Mark Wildhaber 2004 Debra Mayers
1996 Ms. Pamela Haverland 2004 Debbie Neiderer
1997 Dallas County NRCS Office (Robin Dibben, Paul Frey, Alan Garton, Debbie Henderson, Bob Wilkerson) 2005 Larry O'Donnell
1997 Mr. Joe G. Dillard 2005 Protection Division, MDC
1998 Dr. John Besser 2006 Betty Cook rottmann
1998 Mr. Frank Gordon 2006 Darren Thornhill
1998 Mr. Curtis Gooch 2007 Bill Ambrose
1998 Mr. Philip Pitts 2007 Kirksville Middle School Staff Vince fitzgerald, James Hendier, Mike Bartig
1998 Mr. Thomas Groshens 2008 Terry Finger
1998 Mr. Scott P. Sowa 2008 Great Rivers Engineering
1999 Ms. Angie Bucklew
1999 Bass Pro Shops and Tracker Marine
1999 Forsyth Bass Club

 


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