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 1111 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# Name City 2886 James F. Martin Marfa 4357 William H. Russell Austin 4569 Glen K. Merrill Houston 4603 Orion Knox, Jr. Austin 4897 James R. Reddell Austin 5566 Pete Lindsley Lucas 5728 William Mixon Austin 6154 Terry W. Raines Driftwood 6230 Carl E. Kunath San Angelo 6419 David W. McKenzie Austin 6516 Thomas R. Evans Livingston 6746 Doug Rhodes El Paso 7248 James F. Jasek Waco 7616 Ron Ralph Manchaca 7669 Ronald G. Fieseler Blanco 8072 C. William Steele Irving 8298 Peter C. Strickland Austin 9514 Donald L. Broussard Driftwood 9572 Eugene C. Hargrove Denton 9782 Walter Olenick Austin 10010 Gill Ediger Austin 10033 Robert E. Burnett Austin 11048 Charles W. Fromen Houston 11077 Mike Walsh Cedar Park 11274 Logan McNatt Austin 12611 Mike L. Warton Camp Wood 13020 Merlin Tuttle Austin 13138 Louise D. Hose Friendswood 13484 Ernest Garza Driftwood 13549 Paul S. Unger II Rockdale 14356 Jay R. Jorden Celina 14445 Peter Sprouse Buda 15667 Andy G. Grubbs San Marcos 15827 Geary M. Schindel San Antonio 16703 Thomas M. Iliffe Galveston 17323 Steve W. Boehm Seguin 21977 William T. Bentley Midland 22200 Kurt Menking San Antonio 22368 Gerald L. Atkinson Kingwood 23572 Keith E. Goggin Sugar Land 24695 Linda K. Palit San Antonio 26442 James G. Coke IV The Woodlands 26791 Jim "Crash" Kennedy Austin 30513 Corrine Schwartz San 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. Confidentiality Note: This email and any attachment to it are confidential and protected by law and intended for the use of the individual(s) or entity named on the email. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or distribution of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender via return email and delete it completely from your email system. If you have printed a copy of the email, please destroy it immediately. Thank you
