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RECOGNITION OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS

The Society could not have been founded and grown over the years without the hard work of many members, both named and unnamed, whose efforts make this group possible.

   
Convention Chairpersons Honorary Life Member Awards
1981 - Rochester, New York; Ed Lennert 1989 John W. Ripley
1984 - Cleveland, Ohio; Larry Rakow 2004 Bob Bishop
1987 - Boston, Massachusetts; Dick Balzer 2004 Jack Judson
1989 - Seattle, Washingtion; Larry Cederblom Honorable Damer E. Waddingtion Red Cabbage Award
1992 - San Antonio, Texas; Jack Judson 1996 Convention - Damer Waddingtion "Scientific Phaenomena"
1994 - Niantic, Connecticut; Terry Borton 1998 Convention - Damer Waddingtion and Homer Peabody "Excelsior"
1996 - San Diego, California; Homer and Betty Peabody; Ralph and Judie Shape; Don and Michaella Curran 2000 Convention - Ralph Shape "The Magic Lantern Goes to War"
1998 - Cleveland, Ohio; Larry Rakow 2002 Convention - Larry Rakow "The Professor Optix Magic Lantern Show"
2000 - Hollywood, California; Randy Haberkamp and Jere Guldin 2004 Convention - Dick Moore "Continuing Saga of Puck and his Pig"
2002 Rochester, New York; Ed Lennert 2006 Convention - Sue & Bob Hall " Peck's Bad Boy Exposed"
2004 San Antonio, Texas; Jack Judson 2008 Convention - Dick Balzer “25 of Life’s Most Infrequently Asked Questions”
2006 Seattle, Washington; Sharon Koch and the Northwest Corner

Joe Koch Memorial Historical Award
2008 Washington, DC; Tom Rall and David Francis 2002 Convention - David, Leslie and Michael Evens "F. Jays Hanes - Photographer of the West"
  2004 Convention - Larry Rakow "The Great Johnstown Flood of 1889"
  2006 Convention - Bruce Cronbeck "The Journeys of Jacob Riis's Magic Lantern Pictures Through Time"
  2008 Convention - Ian and Margery Edward ”From Convict Hulks to US Battle Fleet (Australian History from First Settlement 1788 to the Visit of US Battle Fleet 1908)”
  Leora Wood Wells Research Award
  2006 Convention - Erkki Huhtamo "Magic Lanterns and Moving Panoramas in the 19th Century"
  2008 Convention - Terry and Debbie Borton “Before the Movies: Magic Lantern
Entertainment and America’s First Great Screen
Artist, Joseph Boggs Beale”

 
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