The IES Section Service Award is presented by a Section to a member in recognition of outstanding service to the Section, principally of a non-technical nature, that has significantly furthered the purpose of the Society continuously over a number of years in various programs and activities.
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The Romaine S. Meyers Award was established by the Diablo Section, which was later merged into the Golden Gate Section, in honor of the founding Board member, Romaine Meyers. Romaine Meyers, an Oakland Engineer, became a “National Member” in 1913 and continued to advocate a local organization. In 1917 he was designated the “Western Representative of the Illuminating Engineering Society.” This award recognizes individuals with outstanding service to the Society or Section.
| 1968 Al More
1969 Grant N. Radford 1973 Fred J. Bertolone 1979 Scott Beamer 1983 Dan M. Finch 1984 Dan Dibble 1985 Silverman & Light 1986 Marlene Lee 1987 Rudy Verderber 1990 Don W. Vreeland | 1991 Walter Goepp
1995 John Hill 1992 Janet Lennox Moyer 1993 Naomi Johnson Miller 1994 Samuel Berman 1996 Sonia Danielsson 1997 Nancy McCoy 1998 David Komonosky 2000 Ray Holstead 2001 Kenneth M. Bowen | 2003 Thomas M. Tolen
2004 Michael Barrere 2004 Michael J. Voightlander 2013 Rita Koltai 2019 Lawrence M. Ayers |
Section Award presented for service to the lighting field. The Sol Cohn Award was created by the Golden Gate Section to honor Sol Cohn, a long time member of the Section and president of the section in 1950 and 1951. Sol was the Specification Manager and an officer of California Electric Supply. He was a major influence on lighting work in Bay area. This award has come to be associated with service to the lighting field or design and was first presented in 1979.
| 1979 Walter Bayha
1981 James L. Dellos 1982 Mel Cammisa 1983 Paul Schmidt 1985 Fran Kellogg Smith 1986 Kenneth Fairbanks 1987 Elwyn Gee 1988 James E. Jewell 1989 Jack D. Todd | 1990 Merrill Humber
1991 Stanley O. Blois 1992 Linda Esselstein 1993 Richard J. Peters 1994 S. Leonard Auerbach 1995 Simonson & Simonson 1998 Stephen Selkowitz 1999 Francis Rubenstein 2000 Peter Y. Ngai | 2002 John C. Epperson
2004 Phil Hall 2005 Michael Souter 2013 Patricia Glasow 2016 Charles Knuffke 2016 Rick Miller 2019 James Benya |
Section Award honoring those who pioneered Bay Area lighting businesses. The second date is the year the business began.
| 1990 Harold H. Shaper, Shaper Lighting – 1952
1991 Samuel B. Herst, Peerless Lighting Corporation – 1935 1992 Charles J. Holzmueller, Holzmueller Corporation – 1902 1993 Preston A. Jones & Wallace Runswick, Prescolite – 1946 1994 William J. Boyd, Boyd Lighting Company – 1921 1995 Bergens, Givens, Kelley; Wellmade Metal Products – 1956 1996 Alfred J. Casella, Casella Lighting – 1920 | 1997 Joseph Guglielmo, Phoenix Day – 1850
1999 Leonard R. Foss, Foss Lampshade Studios – 1919 2001 Jon Clendenin, Nova Industries – 1952 2002 Reed Gardner, Gardco Lighting – 1968 2007 Jim Prior, Translite Sonoma – 1988 2013 Terry Clark, Finelite – 1991 2019 Jerry Mix, Wattstopper – 1984 |
Society Award presented by Section in recognition of outstanding service to the Section
principally of a non-technical nature over a number of years.
| 2003 Andrew Lipsett
2004 Michael J. Voigtlander 2005 Ray Anderson | 2013 Scott Freer
2017 Sabra Zacharias 2019 Celine Marcipan |
The Section Meritorious Service Award is an IES Award in recognition of outstanding service to the Section of a non-technical nature that has significantly furthered the purpose of the Society continuously over a number of years in various programs and activities. The Section Meritorious Service Awards recipient must have at least fifteen years of dedicated service at the Section level.
| 2005 Lawrence M. Ayers
2008 Ray Holstead 2008 Richard Miller | 2013 Leslie Davis
2019 Melinda LaValle |
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