Here's an event appreciation idea.

[Richard Coers]

Forget the fact that this has my name on it, I know I have few friends here. What I wanted to share is that this kind of thing can really give a hard worker or senior member of your club a huge boost to know the club or event attendees recognize his efforts over the decades are appreciated. Unless you are in the 1 percent that works the hardest at these things, you might not have thought about just how much this is appreciated.
3 of us were inducted Saturday at our event. Dick Sing and Greg Cozad were the other two.

 

[hockenbery]

Congratulations

 

[John Ames]

This is very cool... Good on ya!
It makes me want to see some of your pens!

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Forget the fact that this has my name on it, I know I have few friends here. What I wanted to share is that this kind of thing can really give a hard worker or senior member of your club a huge boost to know the club or event attendees recognize his efforts over the decades are appreciated. Unless you are in the 1 percent that works the hardest at these things, you might not have thought about just how much this is appreciated.
3 of us were inducted Saturday at our event. Dick Sing and Greg Cozad were the other two.

Congratulations! Our club does a similar thing with two members getting Lifetime Membership Awards for their service.

 

[john lucas]

Good idea. Congratulations. We are honoring 2 in our club as soon as the plaques are done.

 

[Alan Weinberg]

Congratulations!

 

[Dean Center]

Congratulations, Richard.

Those of you considering such a thing--don't wait! When we get around to realizing someone deserves an honor, they've gotten old and we tend to lose them before we get our poop in a group to do the honoring. Bad on us. You can do better.

 

[Walter Mooney]

Richard,

Congrats on your award!

You are so right about acknowledging or recognizing club members who go above and beyond. Our club awards a member annually, with the recipient being the president’s choice. In our case, the Luna Ford Award is named after a founding member of our club. This one is ~ 11” diameter, made of Paela (sp?).