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DIVISION AWARDS

The Eastern Division Awards program is administered by Bill Boulter.

wboulter@twcny.rr.com    Home: 315-788-5259 - 203 Williams Street, Watertown, NY 13601

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To: Division Director & Members of the Eastern Division.

From: Bill Boulter, Eastern Division Awards Coordinator

Date: May 2,2009

Subject: Division Awards 2008-2009

Awards 2008 – 2009 WOW what a great, exciting, busy year for Awards. We have some plusses and minuses this year. We are down on our count for NSP awards. The plusses are awards count is up by 25 awards. How can this be you ask? Well, the Eastern Division Patriot Star I answer. 34 EDPS awards this year! That is great, thanks for the support of this new award. Please let your Awards coordinators know what a great job they are doing for their Regions. I will let them know how proud I am of them at my meeting.

This year was a big year for Awards at the National level. I hope you all read the NSP newsletter. Our National Awards committee met in Denver this year and had a great meeting. The National board passed all of our recommendations and will implement them in the 2009 – 2010 Policies and Procedures Manuel. I had the privilege to meet with Terry LaLiberte and Tim White most of the weekend and made a lot of progress with awards issues. Both men, and the new direction the NSP is headed, impressed me. Perfect, probably not, but impressive just the same.

I have worked on better communications with my Awards coordinators this year. Also, not perfect, but we are getting more information out and better awards back. I will continue to work on my communication skills. Please, have your awards coordinators do the same.

This year, like every year for the last 12 years, I will travel to Albany for an awards meeting and our Division Spring offices meeting. I have been in charge of running this meeting for the last 8 years and love every minute of this job. I have been charged by my bosses through the years to have this meeting and will continue this meeting until the Division Director and the board directs me otherwise. All of you have awards advisors who work for you endless hours and countless days, all year long. Awards never end, even when the snow is gone and the sails are flying and the golf balls are being beat to death , NSP awards go on. When I was a Region Awards Advisor my RD took me aside and told me these words of wisdom. There is an awards meeting in Albany, you are required to go, the region is grateful for your time and effort please consider this meeting a small token of our appreciation for all you do for your fellow patrollers and your Region. I get dumbfounded when Region Directors question this meeting and the small cost for the hundreds of hours of work. My awards meeting last year ran over 2 hours longer than normal due to all the work that needs to be done this year and future years will be no different. Please have your awards advisors come meet with me.

Awards and your patrollers are worth it.

Respectfully Submitted,

William J Boulter
Eastern Division Awards Coordinator

The John J. Clair, Jr. Memorial Safety Trophy
The T. Tyler Davis Outstanding Instructor Award
The William J. Gross Memorial First Aid Trophy
The Don F. Page Outstanding Administrative Patroller Award
The George Wesson, Jr. Outstanding Professional Patroller Award
The Jerry Sherman Outstanding Division Patroller Award
The Pete Snyder Outstanding Nordic Patroller Award
The Eastern Division Patriot Star Award

The John J. Clair, Jr. Memorial Safety Trophy is awarded for an outstanding contribution to ski safety. The form, (see below) is to be completed along with supporting materials by the Sponsoring Patrol Officer or Division Staff member and submitted to the Division Awards Advisor. The winner is selected from the nominees submitted to a Division level review board and the Division Director picking the winner. Deadline for submission is the last day of January of each year.

The T. Tyler Davis Outstanding Instructor Award is given to the most outstanding instructor each year. The recipient will be chosen from those nominated for the National Outstanding Instructor Award (Roger Langley Outstanding Instructor Award). The winner of the T. Tyler Davis Outstanding Instructor Award will be forwarded to the National Office as the Eastern Divisions Outstanding Instructor. The form to be used is the Outstanding Ski Patroller Form in electronic form. Nominations flow from Patrol Unit Representative, Section Chief and Regional Director with a Division level review board and Division Director picking the winner. Deadline for submission is the last day of January each year.

The William J. Gross Memorial First Aid Trophy is awarded each year to the patroller performing the most outstanding first aid procedure of the year. All recipients of the Purple Merit Star for the 12 months preceding the last day of January are considered for the award by a Division Jury appointed by the Division Awards Advisor.

The Don F. Page Outstanding Administrative Patroller Award is awarded to the most Outstanding Administrative Ski Patroller. The winner will be forwarded to the National Office as the Eastern Division Outstanding Administrative Ski Patroller. The form to be used is the Outstanding Ski Patroller (Administrative) in electronic form. Nominations flow from Patrol Unit Representative, Section Chief and Regional Director with a Division level Review Board and the Division Director picking the winner. Deadline for submission is the last day of January of each year.

The George Wesson Jr., Outstanding Professional Patroller Award is awarded to the most outstanding Professional Ski Patroller. The winner will be forwarded to the National Office as the Eastern Division Outstanding Professional Patroller. The form to be used is the Outstanding Ski Patroller (Professional) in electronic form. Nominations flow from Patrol Unit Representative, Section Chief and Regional Director with a Division level Review Board and the Division Director picking the winner. Deadline for submission is the last day of January of each year.

The Jerry Sherman Outstanding Division Patroller Award is awarded at the discretion of the Division Director to a patroller for outstanding service to or within the Division. The award does not have to be given each year.

The Pete Snyder Outstanding Nordic Patroller Award is awarded to the most outstanding Nordic Patroller in the Division, who's name will be forwarded to NSP for consideration as the National Outstanding Nordic Patroller. The deadline for consideration for this award will be on January 31 of each year.

The Eastern Division Patriot Star Award is awarded to active Patrollers who are or have been a member of the armed forces on active duty in a Combat Zone deployment. Dates of active duty and location(s) of deployment are required.