2006 Carper Award Winner

Craig D. Barker <*cdbarker_at_cdbarker.yahoo.invalid*> · Sun, 2 Apr 2006 00:14:11 -0500

(From Wikipedia and previous Carper Award announcements)
"The Dr. N. Gordon Carper Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 1999
to honor individuals "for meritorious services in sustaining and enriching
collegiate academic competitions". It was the inspiration of former Georgia
Tech luminary Al Whited, who modeled it on the Fermi Award, and current
demographer Brian Rostron. The award is presented annually to a member of
the quizbowl community who exhibits the kind of dedication to and long-term
support of academic competitions as exemplified by career of Dr. Carper. The
Carper Award, while sponsored by the Academic Competition Federation (ACF),
is not limited to individuals with ACF affiliations.

List of awardees

    * 1999 Dr. N. Gordon Carper of Berry College.
    * 2000 Dr. Carol Guthrie of the University of Tennessee.
    * 2001 Dr. Robert Meredith of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
    * 2002 not presented
    * 2003 Eric Hillemann of Carleton College
    * 2004 Don Windham of the University of Tennessee and 
              Gaius Stern of the University of California, Berkeley
    * 2005 Charlie Steinhice of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga"

As the facilitator of the 2006 Carper Award voting on behalf of ACF, I am
pleased to announce that this year's winner of the 2006 Dr. N Gordon Carper
Award for meritorious service in sustaining and enriching collegiate
academic competitions is R. Robert Hentzel, formerly of Iowa State, now of
NAQT.  The award was announced today at ACF Nationals at Michigan.  On
behalf of all who voted this year, a congratulations to you R.

Craig Barker
2006 Carper Award Voting Coordinator