On 11 Nov, Bill Mixon said: A reminder that the deadline for
nominations for those awards is this coming Saturday, Nov 15. See
http://caves.org/committee/award/ and then click on the individual award
or see the October NSS News for information on who should receive the
nominations.
I did some checking around. To date, the NSS lists Fellows. Texas
has 503 NSS members, 47 of which are NSS Fellows, or 9.3% of Texas NSS
members. There are a lot of dedicated Texas cavers who are also NSS
members who are conspicuously absent from that list, like John Moses,
Gary Napper, Sue Schindel, Paul Fambro, Jon Cradit, John Brooks, Allan
Cobb, Butch Fralia, Charley Savvas, Chris Thibodaux, Julie Jenkins, R.
D. Milhollin, Kenny McGee, Lee Jay Graves, Rafal Kedzierski, Walter
Feaster, Nico Hauwert, Michael Cicherski, Geoff Hoese, Becky Jones, John
Green, Philip Rykwalder, Chris Vreeland, Emily Kevin McGowan, Mark
Alman, and so on. There are also other ex-Texas cavers that both are
and should be Fellows. Note that this list is not intended as an
endorsement for these fine folks, nor is it what I would consider an
exhaustive list of all potential Fellows. It is merely to point out
that we are doing ourselves a disservice by not having more Texas cavers
recognized by the NSS for our achievements. Are we just too lazy to go
through the simple nomination process?
Next year the NSS Convention is going to be in Texas, along with the ICS
in Kerrville. It sure would be nice to have more of our own recognized
there. Anybody feel like spearheading some nominations? It's not too
late!
-- Crash, NSS 26791FL
TEXAS NSS MEMBERS WITH FELLOW STATUS
NSS#NameCity
2886James F. Martin Marfa
4357William H. Russell Austin
4569Glen K. Merrill Houston
4603Orion Knox, Jr. Austin
4897James R. ReddellAustin
5566Pete Lindsley Lucas
5728William Mixon Austin
6154Terry W. Raines Driftwood
6230Carl E. Kunath San Angelo
6419David W. McKenzie Austin
6516Thomas R. Evans Livingston
6746Doug Rhodes El Paso
7248James F. Jasek Waco
7616Ron Ralph Manchaca
7669Ronald G. Fieseler Blanco
8072C. William Steele Irving
8298Peter C. Strickland Austin
9514Donald L. Broussard Driftwood
9572Eugene C. Hargrove Denton
9782Walter Olenick Austin
10010 Gill Ediger Austin
10033 Robert E. Burnett Austin
11048 Charles W. Fromen Houston
11077 Mike Walsh Cedar Park
11274 Logan McNattAustin
12611 Mike L. Warton Camp Wood
13020 Merlin Tuttle Austin
13138 Louise D. Hose Friendswood
13484 Ernest GarzaDriftwood
13549 Paul S. Unger IIRockdale
14356 Jay R. Jorden Celina
14445 Peter Sprouse Buda
15667 Andy G. Grubbs San Marcos
15827 Geary M. Schindel San Antonio
16703 Thomas M. IliffeGalveston
17323 Steve W. Boehm Seguin
21977 William T. Bentley Midland
22200 Kurt MenkingSan Antonio
22368 Gerald L. Atkinson Kingwood
23572 Keith E. Goggin Sugar Land
24695 Linda K. Palit San Antonio
26442 James G. Coke IVThe Woodlands
26791 Jim Crash Kennedy Austin
30513 Corrine SchwartzSan Marcos
32206 Benjamin Schwartz San Marcos
33083 Jean Krejca Austin
39894 Beverly Shade Austin
41852 Kevin W. Stafford Nacogdoches
I sincerely apologize if I left anyone out.
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