Doing justice to Recognition Night is challenging. There are so many excellent people, recognizers and recognees, so many achievements, and so much good fellowship! And our photo-documentarian, Vic Lewchenko, doesn’t help matters by taking so many fine pictures. In an effort to avoid tl;dr syndrome, it’s necessary to truncate. Please don’t interpret truncation as indicating lesser excellence.
The program, in brief:
- Lots of smiling faces during social hour preceding the main event
- Intro by Chair Joseph Ackerman
- Presentation of (five) 50-year awards by Chair-elect Natalie LaFranzo: Earl Beaver, Ralph Burns, Surendra Gupta, Norman Jamieson, and George Podolsky
- Rhonda Woerndle receives Science & Technology Award
- Bill Doub receives Distinguished Service Award
- Lisa Balbes receives plaque as local section outreach volunteer-of-the-year
- Fourteen past, present, and future Chairs of the section gather for photo op
- Pegah Jalili receives plaque in recognition of her service as 2015 Chair and then …
- …performs her final official Chair act by delivering the after-dinner talk, Development of Stable-isotope-labeled Proteins for Quantitative Mass Spectrometry
