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Richard Schreiber Award
The Southeastern Regional Association (SERA) Richard Schreiber Award is named in honor of Richard W. Schreiber, who made many contributions to caving in the Southeast from the 1960's through the 1980's. Richard was a natural and enthusiastic teacher, as well as a project leader and mapper, who encouraged many to take a more active role in caving. This award recognizes those SERA cavers of less than ten years experience, and who have been openly involved with cave projects or studies in the Southeastern United States. This award intends not only to recognize previous accomplishment, but also to encourage future accomplishment and contribution.Criteria
The Criteria for the SERA Richard Schreiber Award is as follows.Award:1. The Richard Schreiber Award will be given to a caver with less than 10 years caving experience.
2. The nominee will be a caver who is or has taken on, participated in, or supported a project or study on at least one cave or cave system in the Southeastern Region.
3. The nominee will be one who has openly made their work available to the general caving population via published material. Examples of that material include grotto, regional, or section publications, and other publications.
4. The nominee will be an NSS member in good standing.
5. The nominee will be a SERA caver.
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The Richard Schreiber Award may be awarded on a merit basis at the annual SERA Winter Business meeting. The Richard Schreiber Award will consist of:Past Richard Schreiber Award Recipients:1. A $50.00 Cash award to the recipient. Funds for this award will come from SERA general funds or an account specifically set up for this award.
2. A Framed Certificate, which constitutes the Award itself.
3. A Plaque bearing the recipient's name shall be displayed in the NSS Office.
4. The recipient's name will be announced in the NSS News, and made available to regional, grotto and any other appropriate publications.
Year Recipient 1991 Rick O'Hara 1992 Alan Cressler 1993 John Stembel 1994 Hal Love 1995 Mike Rogers 1996 Brent Aulenbach 1997 Paul Aughey 1998 Brian Roebuck 1999 Michael Gilbert 2000 Andy Zellner 2001 Jeremy Hill 2002 Kelly Norwood 2003 Mark Joop 2004 Carey Frost 2005 Ryan Moran 2006 Anne Ellmore 2007 Not Awarded 2008 Paul “Bull” Snook 2009 Not Awarded 2010 Not Awarded 2011 Jason Hardy 2012 Kelly Smallwood 2013 Marty Abercrombie 2014 Clinton Elmore 2015 Mark Ostrander 2016 not awarded 2017 Zeke Mckee 2018 Natalie Pheasant 2019 Jon Zetterberg 2020 Lee White 2021 Justin Huffman 2022 Warren Wyatt 2023 Dane Garreau 2024 NOT AWARDED