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COUNCIL FOR PROGRAMS IN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION

Service Awards

Established in 1998, the CPTSC Service Award honors members with a distinguished service history.

Criteria
Persons nominated to receive the Distinguished Service Award will in general possess the following characteristics and attributes:

  1. They must be members of CPTSC at the time of their nomination.
  2. They should be members of long standing in CPTSC with at least seven consecutive years of membership sometime during their careers. The Distinguished Service Selection Committee (DSSC) can recommend exceptions to this rule but only for members of extraordinary merit.
  3. The nominees must have made significant long-term contributions to programming in technical communication. It is expected the DSSC will consider only members who have established significant careers in technical communication programming, working both on the local and the national levels. The key question will be, "have technical communication programs been significantly affected in a positive manner by this person's career"?

Honorary Distinguished Service Award
The DSSC of the Executive Committee with the advice of the DSSC may from time to time choose non-members to receive an Honorary Distinguished Service Award. Such honorary recipients should have made significant contributions to CPTSC or to programming in technical communication. This contribution could be either as a career-long emphasis or as a significant special contribution.

Past Recipients

Past recipients and any documentation provided (letters, transcripts of remarks) will be provide soon. Check back.

2008 Bruce Maylath | Honorory DSW Donald Cunningham
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2007 Sherry Little, James Zappen
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2006 Karen Schnakenberg
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2005 Katherine Staples
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2004 Ken Rainey, Debby Andrews
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2003 Steve Bernhardt
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2002 Dan Riordan
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2001 Carolyn Rude
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2000 Mary Coney
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1999 Thomas Warren, Laurie Hayes
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1998 David Samuels, Suzanne Ferguson, Virginia Book, Thomas Pearsall
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