WA ALLMAN AWARD CRITERIA
Background: The Allman Award is the most distinguished honor in the wallcoverings industry. The award is named after Justin P. Allman, the founder and first president of the Wallcoverings Wholesalers Association, the predecessor of WA. WA bestows the award to an individual in the industry who has made a lasting contribution(s) to the industry over a significant period of time. The award is customarily bestowed annually; however WA is not obligated to bestow the award every year.
Criteria: Each year WA sends a request to all member companies for nominations for the award. Individuals may be nominated to acknowledge and celebrate outstanding contributions in the form of personal, corporate, technical, product or marketing achievements that have benefited the wallcoverings industry. The award is designed to recognize individuals who have demonstrated the ability to be true leaders of the industry. The award is not designed to recognize companies. While consideration will be given to participation in the activities of the Wallcoverings Association as an active member, participating as either a member of the board of directors, or project team member, it is not an established criterion to measure a candidate’s contributions to the industry. Candidates may be selected from all industry segments including, but not limited to manufacturers, distributors and suppliers to the wallcoverings industry. Those nominating a candidate must clearly outline the contribution(s) made by the individual on the nomination form.
Selection Process: A committee consisting of the current WA Officers and three most recent Allman Award recipients will review the candidates and finalize the selection from the list of candidates received. Current members of the WA Executive Committee are not eligible to receive the award.
Announcement: Once a winner has been selected, a member of the committee will contact the individual. WA staff will contact the recipient to prepare an official announcement for the membership and the press. The award will be presented to the recipient at the Annual Meeting. The Allman recipient will receive a complimentary 1-bedroom suite for the dates of the meeting in which the recipient is honored by the association. The recipient and his/her spouse will receive complimentary registration for the meeting in which the recipient is honored by the association. The meetingprogram will feature the Allman recipient as an honored guest of the industry.
Please return no later than
November 11, 2016 to:
Wallcoverings Association
330 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 2000
Chicago, Illinois 60611
FAX: (312) 673-6928
2016 ALLMAN AWARD NOMINATION FORM
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Past Allman Award Winners
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1946Nancy Vincent McClelland
1947William Burton
1948Walter L. Carver
1949Harry E. Bruce
1950William E. Katzenbach
1951George Louis Zuber
1952Robert B. Griffin
1953Maurice Pinover
1954James Seeman
1955Elizabeth Gordon
1956S. Abbot Smith
1957Luther Lalendorf
1958Luther Lalendorf
1959Warren G. Nelson
1960Lucile Stockwell Chatain
1961Isadore J. Goldberg
1962Albert Van Luit
1963Morris Lapidus
1964M.L. Pemble
1965Henry H. Allman
1966Jerome Blonder
1967Jack Denst
1969George E. Warner, Sr.
1970Robert B. Blakeslee
1971Charles Freeman
1972Albert Grandberg
1973Earl Kinney/
Paul Dowskin
1974Henry Allman
1975Herman Kugler
1976Sydney B. Karofsky
1977Conrad L. Seabrook
1978W. Stuart Brown
1979Walter B. Mendelsohn
1980Jospeh M. Kern
1981George R. Sellers
1982Joseph E. Gallagher, Jr.
1983Arnold Grandberg
1984William D. Armstrong
1985Bryce Bumstead
1986J. Dollard Carey
1987B. Morton Gittlin
1988Carl Vizzi
1989C. Howard Dodson
1990Michael Landau
1991Gilbert Goodman
1992James Ward
1993Martin Johnson
1994George Warner, Jr.
1995Kenneth Grandberg
1996Frank Baker, Sr.
1997Jack Glinn
1998Aaron F. Rice, Jr.
1999Ron Redding
2000Leroy Dodson
2001 Mel Weinzimer
2002 John Fitzgerald
2003 Jim Thybony
2004 Michael Glynn
2005 Jerry Russo
2006 Ken Salyer, Jr.
2007 Bob Parisi
2008 Tim Quinn
2009 N/A
2010 N/A
2011 Peter Ciaccia
2012 Jerry Mason
2013 Philip J. Tarullo
2014 John Baechle
2015 Al Rothschild
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