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USSVI Awards Manual
John G. Stanford
National Awards Chairman 3026 Cesery Blvd.
Jacksonville, FL 32277-3527
Phone: (904 ) 743-3197 (H)
(904 ) 502-8586 (Cell)
JStan131@Comcast.net
USSVI Awards And
Recognition Program
John G. Stanford
National Awards Chairman
The USSVI Awards
1) Joe Negri Award (Submarine Veteran of the Year)*
2) Robert Link National Commander’s Award
3) District Commander of the Year Award
4) Meritorious Award
5) Golden Anchor Award
6) Silver Anchor Award
7) Ben Bastura Historical Achievement Award
8) Newsletter of the Year Award
*This is a Lifetime Award and will be presented only once/Shipmate.
Presentation of Awards
The District Commander of the Year Award and the Newsletter
of the Year Awards will be presented at the Annual Business
Meeting. All other Awards will be presented at the Annual
Convention Banquet.
` Go to the below listed Sections for more information:
* The Nominating Process
* National Awards Process Timeline
PLEASE NOTE: John Stanford (JStan131@Comcast.net) is
appointed to the position of National Awards Chairman, for
the purpose of ensuring that the process has been accurately
followed, completed, and appropriately documented so that no
nomination will fail to be considered.
If the Chairman finds any issue that could affect the processing
of the nomination, he will contact the initiator and resolve the
issue in a timely and appropriate manner!
Nominations for all Awards should be sent to the National Awards
Chairman who will review the nominations and forward them to
the appropriate Committees to complete the selection process.
Unless otherwise noted in the Awards description, current
membership in USSVI is required for consideration with this
exception. ( A Member who has died within the last 12 months may
also be considered for a posthumous Award.)
The Nominating Process
Any USSVI Member in good standing may nominate any other
Member in good standing (or entity such as a Base,
Individual, or Group where appropriate and stated in the
Award description).
Submit the nomination using the following guidelines:
All Award nominations shall be type-written, and shall be a
maximum of two pages.
Clearly state the Nominees’ name, title, and home Base
(if applicable) and the specific Award for which nomination is
being made.
Each entry shall be for the nomination of a single Award. Do
not include more than one Base or Nominee on the same
nomination. If a nominee is being considered for more
than one Award, a separate nomination is required. Do not include any photographs or endorsements with the
nomination. Separate endorsements for a nominee, Base
or Group are encouraged.
National Awards Process Timelines
The ProcessTimelines are posted as Attachment 1 to this document.
Selection Committee Members are posted as Attachment 2.
Below are listed the basic nomination requirements for each Award. Direct any questions you have to John Stanford.
JStan131@Comcast.net
904-743-3197 (home) or 904-502-8586 (cell
Joe Negri Award
United States Submarine Veteran of the Year
Joe Negri is considered the Primary Founder of USSVI.
The Joe Negri Award is the highest and most prestigious
Award that is presented to a Member, and reflects his personal
and individual efforts and participation during
the preceding years on a National level, and who has
contributed the most to the advancement and embodiment of
the USSVI Creed and Agenda. By his dedicated service and
support to our USSVI organization and his fellow Submarine
Veteran Brothers he exemplifies the true meaning and spirit of
the word, "Shipmate.”
The Members service at a National level should be an
important consideration in the nomination for this Award.
Eligibility for this Award requires current Membership in United States Submarine Veterans, Inc.
All nominations will be submitted to National Awards Chairman.
The Selection Committee will consist of five previous Joe Negri Award recipients.
Chairman – IPNC Patrick Householder
Robert Link National Commander’s Award
Robert "Bob" Link was the first National Commander of USSVI.
This is the USSVI version of a “Letter of Commendation” from
the National Commander.
The Nominations can be made for a Member, Group, or a Base.
The selection and presentation of this Award is at the discretion
of the National Commander.
Eligibility for this Award requires Membership in United States
Veterans Inc.
Nominations, with justification, may be sent to National Awards
Chairman, or directly to the National Commander. Nominations
from all Members are encouraged.
Selection is made by the National Commander
District Commander of theYear Award
Awarded to the one District Commander that exemplifies and
demonstrates an outstanding example to his peers, and through
his efforts and performance of duties in service to his Base
Commanders, provides guidance, organization and assistance
within his District and establishes new Bases as needed to serve
the needs of the membership.
This Award requires Membership in the United States Submarine
Veterans, Inc.
This Award will be presented at the Annual Business Meeting.
One District Commander nomination will be submitted by each
Regional Director to the National Awards Chairman.
Selection is made by the DCOY Committee
Chairman Wayne Standerfer
Meritorious Award
This Award is presented to the Member, Base, or Group that
most exemplifies the Motto, "Pride Runs Deep," who, by the
efforts and involvement of a Member, group or Base in local
veterans affairs, parades, school activities, and presentations
to Civic, legislative, Veterans, patriotic and other organizations.
Some examples may be Library displays, Community Bulletin
Boards, Schools, and items that appear in print and/or
electronic media, Press Releases, Public/Community Service
Announcements, etc, which promote the concept of Honor,
Duty, Pride, and the history and lore of the US Navy Submarine
Force to the general public and community at large.
This Award may be presented to a Base, Group, or an individual.
Membership in United States Submarine Veterans, Inc. is
required for this Award.
Nominations may be made by any Member and submitted to the
National Awards Chairman.
Selection will be made by the District Commanders
Chairman Steve Bell
Golden Anchor Award
The Golden Anchor Award may be presented to one Base in
each class that best demonstrated a leading role in developing
and promoting creative membership renewals, and has
developed successful recruiting tools, programs and ideas.
Factors to be considered for this Award will include Base
development, recruitment of new members, and retention of
current Members.
When determining Class, only primary Base Members are
considered.
Class I Large Bases > 125 Members
Class II Intermediate Bases: 81 – 125 Members
Class III Medium Bases 41 - 80 Members
Class IV Small Bases 05 - 40 Members
Nominations are to be submitted by Base, District, or Regional
Commanders to the National Awards Chairman. Membership in
the United States Submarine Veterans, Inc. is required for this
Award.
Selection made by District Commanders
Chairman Dick Kanning
Silver Anchor Award
The Silver Anchor Award is presented to a Member in
recognition of his efforts to support one of the primary
objectives of our Creed…to provide a way for all submariners
to gather for their mutual benefit and enjoyment.
This Award recognizes the member’s volunteer support for
meetings, projects and events, including work to recruit new
Members and to retain the current membership of the Base.
This Award will be presented to individual Members only.
Nominations may be made by any Member, and submitted
to the National Awards Chairman.
Eligibility for this Award requires Membership in the United
States Submarine Veterans, Inc.
Selection will be made by the District Commanders,
Chairman Dick Kanning
Ben Bastura
Historical Achievement Award
The Ben Bastura Historical Achievement Award is to be
given to the person/s who have demonstrated their under-
standing and commitment to our creed in perpetuating the
memory of submariners and submarines by gathering,
creating, or in other ways preserving a significant amount of
submarine history.
The Award should be given to a person/s in the submarine
community who has shown a broad and encompassing
discipline of gathering submarine history. That person/s
should have demonstrated they are an expert in the many
aspects of gathering and preserving submarine history, its
artifacts and documents.
The Award recognizes that for almost 50 years, Ben Bastura
collected submarine artifacts, papers, and trivia. He also did
much research on all facets of submarines and the people in
them. Ben spent untold amounts of his own money to make
a museum of his home in Waterford, CT. and to share his
love of submarines with the people who came around or
who asked for his help freely. Ben also was an author and
wrote History of U.S. Submarine Veterans World War II. Ben
is gone now; but, thanks to him, we have many valuable
submarine books, papers, plaques, and other objects that
are now irreplaceably located at St. Marys Submarine
Museum in St. Marys, Georgia. In the years to come, we are
going to need more and more people like Ben; people who
have a genuine love of those who have gone before and are
determined to preserve our heritage.
Nominations may be made by any Member, and submitted to
the National Awards Chairman.
The recipient of this Award shall meet the requirements listed
above, and Membership in the United States Submarine
Veterans, Inc. is not a requirement.
Selection is made by the Ben Bastura Selection Committee Chairman – NJVC Al Singleman
NEWSLETTER OF THE YEAR AWARD For the publishing Year 1 May 2012 through 30 April 2013
Three “Newsletter of the Year” Awards will be presented, one
each to the Base in each Region that published the most
outstanding Newsletter in its Class (based on the size of the
Base’s Membership).
One top Award, THE NATIONAL NEWSLETTER of the YEAR
will be presented to the Base/Newsletter which is judged to
to be the most outstanding Newsletter submitted (regardless of
Class).
In order to recognize the value of Base communication and
encourage that process, the Newsletter of the Year Award was
created. It serves as a tool to encourage Bases to first,
develop their own Membership Newsletters and then to
improve them sufficiently to be competitive with their peer
Bases and those of other Veterans' organizations and to
recognize those that were superior to their peers.
In order to level the playing field, and allow Bases to enter their
Newsletter for competition at their peer level, rather than
competing with much larger Bases with more experience and
financial resources, the following three entrant classes, based
upon Base membership size, will be in place for each publishing
year.
The three class sizes are based upon the year ending Base
PRIMARY Members of record, in good standing as on file at the
USSVI National Office, at the close of the first quarter of the
Award Year.
The Class ranges are:
Class I Large Bases > 100 Members
Class II Medium Bases 51-100 Members
Class III Small Bases 5- 50 Members
RULES FOR ENTRY SUBMISSION
The rules for submission are simple, but please read carefully!
1. Any Base, in any of the above classes, may submit their
newsletter for judging in their peer class, with the following
restrictions.
2. The requirement that a Base could not be selected for the top
award in consecutive years has been rescinded. All Bases are
encouraged to submit their Newsletters each year.
3. Only one entry per Base will be accepted for Judging.
4. To be considered, all Base Newsletters must be created and
published by the Base Newsletter editor. The use of outside
printing facilities is permitted. Base attestation to this
requirement must be a part of the Base's cover letter.
5. The Base Newsletter selected for submission must be the
exact same Newsletter in the exact same format and style as was
sent to its members and other interested parties… for example,
an entry will be disqualified if it was sent to the membership in
black and white, but the entry submitted was a single run-off in
full color.
The only exception will be, the Base that has an Internet Edition
in color and a USPS edition in black and white, may, if the only difference between the two editions is color, may submit the
Internet edition in color. An attestation of such exception must
be a part of the Cover Letter.
6. The Base may select and submit any Newsletter that was
published during the period 1 May of the previous year through
30 April of the current year.
7. In order to reduce copying costs, all Newsletter submissions
will be submitted in electronic format, (Microsoft Word or PDF).
If neither of these programs is available, ONE printed copy may
sent by USPS which will be scanned, and forwarded for judging.
DO NOT SEND YOUR NOMINATION BY BOTH METHODS!
Newsletter of the Year Awards Program
John Stanford, Chairman
3026 Cesery Blvd.
Jacksonville, FL 32277-3527
Please submit questions and nominations to John Stanford at
JStan131@Comcast.net
SUBJECTIVE JUDGING CRITERIA
Many attempts have been made to make subjective judging fair
by establishing objective criteria. Most were inappropriate as it
still allowed subjective judgment. The following list is a
collection of items that prior judges consider to be appropriate
factors when evaluating a Newsletter, and includes items that
are suitable for measurement consideration.
The list is presented for your evaluation and use in defining and
developing your Newsletter entry. It is not expected that the
winning Base Newsletter will meet all the elements listed below.
It is felt that as many attributes as are possible, and appropriate,
should be provided to permit some level of comparison to the
other entries.
Use the following list as a guideline for your entry. It is expected
that all entries will include many of the items listed below. There
is no weight associated with any of the items, but the more
items included and evaluated allows for a more definitive
selection.
*Layout
*Overall Impression
*Use of Customized Masthead
*Table of Contents
*Graphics Use (Pictures, Graphs, Tables, etc.)
*Font use (Type, Appropriateness, Clarity, Minimum Change)
*White Space (i.e., Readability vs. Crowded Text)
*National USSVI or Other Submarine Related News
*New Member Column
*Officers' and Committeemen Reports and Columns such as:
*Commander
*Vice Commander
*Secretary's Report of Minutes of Last Meeting
*Treasurer's Report
*Chaplain's Column
*COB's Column
*Committee Reports *Storekeeper's Report
*Member Personal Data Column (Job changes, Birthdays,
Anniversaries, Births, etc.
*Member Recognition, Member of the Month Quarter, New
Member Profile, etc.
*US Sub Vets WWII News
* Wives' (Sub Vettes) Column (Written by Members' Wives)
* Outings, Base Activities, Programs, etc.
* Holland Club News Column
* Report of Last Meeting
* Information as to Next Meeting (Time, City, Meeting Site, Map,
* Food, Entertainment, Site Seeing Activities, Agenda, etc)
* Submarine Historical Information
* Veterans' Information (Legislation, Veterans' Administration,
etc.)
* C&B Tutoring Column
* Humor (Military Jokes, Cartoons, Member Personal Sea
Stories)
*Publisher's Box with the Editor's and Chaplain’s Name and
Contact Information. * Frequency of Publication, Address of Article Submission,
* Officers Names and Contact Information,
* Base Website, etc.)
* District and Regional News and Events
* Current Fleet News (Active Namesake Boat News) or Other
Appropriate Fleet Activity
* Status of Base Projects
* Advertisers Listing and Base Supporter Recognition
* Appearance of USSVI Creed
*Articles supporting USSV programs Memorials/Ceremonies,
Charitable Foundation, etc.
* Frequency of Publication, Address of Article Submission,
* Officers Names and Contact Information,
* Base Website, etc.)
* District and Regional News and Events
* Current Fleet News (Active Namesake Boat News) or Other
Appropriate Fleet Activity
* Status of Base Projects
* Advertisers Listing and Base Supporter Recognition
* Appearance of USSVI Creed
*Articles supporting USSV programs Memorials/Ceremonies,
Charitable Foundation, etc.
NEWSLETTER AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Awards:
The Newsletter of the Year Awards will be presented at the
Annual Business Meeting of the National Convention.
The First Place Winners in each Class will receive a Plaque and
Certificate. Second and Third Place Runners-up will receive a
framed Certificate, and all other Bases submitting an entry will
receive a Certificate of Participation.
Recognition:
Winners and the two Runners-up for each Region will be
announced and reported in the next issue of American
Submariner and the POC Broadcast following the Convention.
First Place positions will be recorded on the Roll of Winners.
NOTES OF INTEREST: Additional "Special Awards" may be
considered. The Awards Committee has been authorized by the
Board of Directors to consider nominations and presentation of
Awards to other outstanding members and entities of USSVI
THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL AWARD
COMMITTEES THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST,
PARTICIPATION AND CONTINUING SUPPORT FOR
THE USSVI AWARDS AND RECOGNITION PROGRAM!
Attachment 1
The 2013 Awards Selection Schedule and Process Timeline
FEBRUARY 1, 2013:
Regional Directors, Base and District Commanders solicit Award
nominations from Membership.
APRIL 30, 2013:
All Award nominations ( with exception of Newsletter Award )
must be received by the National Awards Chairman.
MAY 15, 2013:
The National Awards Chairman submits nominations and Ballots
to Selection Committee Members for voting.
MAY 15, 2013:
Deadline for submission of Newsletters for Newsletter of the
Year Award.
JUNE 15, 2013:
All Selection Committees report selections to Awards Chairman.
AUGUST 31, 2013:
Presentation of Awards at the Convention and Awards Banquet.
( The District Commander of the Year and the Newsletter of the Year
Awards will be presented at the USSVI Business Meeting
Attachment 2
2013 Selection Committee Members
The Joe Negri Selection Committee
The District Commander of the Year Selection Committee
The Ben Bastura Historical Award Selection Committee
Meritorious Award Selection Committee
Gold and Silver Anchor Awards Selection Committee
The Newsletter of the Year Judging Committee
Bill Andrea - Chairman WD5 Jack Messersmith
NorthEastern Region BC Hubert Dietrich SouthEastern Region E. Dale Moses Central Region BC Brian Meagher Western Region TBA
ESD1 Steve Bell - Chairman District Commanders
NJVC Al Singleman – Chairman Tom Conlon NS
Wayne Standerfer CRD Jim Irwin END5
Dick Kanning ESRD Greg Stitz
ESRD Dick Kanning - Chairman District Commanders
CRD Wayne Standerfer – Chairman John Markiewicz PNT
Al Singleman NJVC Tom Conlon PNC
Charlie Marin PNC
IPNC Patrick Householder- Chairman T. Michael Bircumshaw NC
John Peters PNC Wayne Standerfer CRD
Tim VeArd
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