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Last modified:
6/10/2023 10:45:31

Purpose: In a section of outstanding individuals, the NARHAMS award For Rocketeers Of Greatness (FROG) is intended as a formal recognition of individuals whose accomplishments are clearly singular.

Frequency: NARHAMS FROGs, if awarded, are to be awarded once annually.

Eligibility: FROG candidates must be NARHAMS members, ex-NARHAMS members, or NAR members whom the section believes embody the subjective spirit of NARHAMS.

Qualification Considerations: Eligible candidates must have performed truly sterling accomplishments that set them above the pack of other outstanding individuals. These accomplishments must qualify as milestones for the club, the Association, or the hobby.

Nominally, FROGs will be awarded for groundbreaking milestones achieved in the previous calendar year. FROGs, however, may be presented for recognition of earlier years accomplishments.

Number of Awards: Recognizing that in a year that there may have been outstanding individual accomplishments, but none that are truly groundbreaking, the section may choose not to make a FROG award.

Recognizing that in a year it is possible for two or more individuals to have made truly singular and different accomplishments but yet to avoid diluting the honor and prestige of receiving a NARHAMS FROG, the section will award no more than two FROGs per year.

If the milestone accomplishment is shares, e.g., in the case of a competition team presenting a truly revolutionary R&D report or other sterling collective accomplishment, a FROG can be award as shared.

In other words, there can be no FROGs awarded or up to two FROGs awarded annually, and a FROG can be awarded to two or more people if the cited accomplishment is shared.

Nature of Award: Unless the section decides on a different appropriate commemorative article, FROGs will be awarded in the form of a plaque given to the individual that cites the successful winner(s), the achieved milestone accomplishment, the year of the award, the section's name and the name of the award.

For the remainder of the calendar year, FROG winners' names will be published in ZOG-43 and otherwise preserved with the citied accomplishments in NARHAMS permanent archives.

Cost of Awards: Until the section decides otherwise via vote, the cost of a single FROG will not exceed $65 including tax.

Award Determination: FROG candidate nominations will be made during the February business meeting or in case of no February meeting, the club's next-held general business meeting.

Nominations must be made by people physically present at the meeting, although voting may be done in corpus or real-time virtually if such a vehicle is available. Virtual votes will be permitted if the club member is an NAR member and current in NARHAMS dues.

Individuals nominating candidates must state the milestone accomplishment or rationale for nominating candidates.

Proxy voting will not be accepted and all FROG balloting will be public.

Candidates will be considered who receive at least one-half of the eligible votes. If there are no considered candidates, the FROG will go un-awarded.

If there is no more than one considered candidate, then that considered candidate will be the NARHAMS FROG recipient. If there are two considered candidates, each candidate will receive a FROG.

If there are more than two FROG considered candidates, there will be a run-off vote on the candidates for FROG selection. As many as two FROGs can be awarded to different candidates based on subsequent voting of the highest number of eligible votes cast. However, as with the nomination consideration process, for a runoff candidate to be successful, the considered candidate must receive at least one-half of the eligible votes. In case of tie votes for a FROG, there will be subsequent runoffs until winners are chosen.

Because votes may determine up to two successful candidates, voters can vote for more than one candidate during the candidate consideration and runoff voting.

The club president may vote for a FROG candidate; no prejudice will be shown to any nominated candidate who decides to defer voting, votes for him/herself, or votes for other candidates.

Past winners:
2023 - No award
2022 - Ed and Sarah Jackson, Tom Beach
2021 - Todd Schweim
2020 - Mark Wise
2019 - John and Mary McCoy and Bill Boublitz
2018 - Stoil Avramov and Alex Mankevich
2017 - Don Carson and Ester Roura
2016 - Kevin Johnson
2015 - Richard Crisco, Tom Ha and Maria Ha
2014 - No award
2013 - John Hochheimer
2012 - No award
2011 - Jennifer Ash and Don Carson
2010 - No award
2009 - No award
2008 - John Langford
2007 - G. Harry Stine and Alan Williams
2006 - John McCoy
2005 - Ken Brown and Khim Bittle
2004 - Jim Barrowman and Trip Barber
2003 - Ed Pearson
2002 - Jim Filler and Chris Kidwell