> I know you were active in S at that time, Ed. Have you really forgotten?
> Pieter E. Roos
Pieter....
Yes, I was NASG President when the MANUFACTURER OF THE YEAR award was first
established. I helped to create it. Both Overland Models and Omnicon were
neck and neck to be the first recipient. Omnicon won by a hair and Overland
Models never did receive the award -- which I thought was quite strange.
The concept of renaming the award because Charlie passed away prematurely and
might possibly have done great things if he had lived longer is a concept that
seems rather wierd. Makes no sense to me to rename an award for that reason,
but there are a lot of things that make no sense.
When Don Thompson passes away, will we rename the award after Don? I would
argue that Don has done a lot more for S than Charlie. Actually, one could
also say that Ron Bashista has done more for S. Not to mention A.C.Gilbert
himself. And maybe Mike Wolf if he does not pass away too soon. Mike is young
and so has a better opportunity for a total overall lifetime contribution.
So far, nobody has presented a rationale that makes sense (to me) as to why the
award was renamed? What am I missing?
As I read the description of the award on NASG's web site, it is given for
"supporting and promoting S gauge". It would appear that actually
manufacturing something is not necessary. Just support and promo work alone
could win the award. This is a major conceptual revision of the original
intent to honor the firm which actually manufactured the most significant new
product each year.
If "support and promo" is all that is needed, then Don Heimburger should have
won it by now. I would argue that both Don H. and Tom Marsh at Overland have
done more for S than some of the folks who have actually won the award.
But life goes on......
Confused.....Ed L.
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