WMGS initiated its Founders Award in 2016, in honor of our one of our founding members, Diane Ascioti. We were proud to be able to give her this award at our May meeting that year. In 2017, the Board of Directors decided to bestow this award on an annual basis and approved a set of guidelines and criteria for selecting an awardee.

Any WMGS member may nominate an individual for this award. The Board will select the award recipient(s) at the April Board meeting and announce their selection in the May newsletter. The award will be presented at the annual meeting in May.

Criteria for the award were published in last month’s newsletter and are available in the Members Only section of our website. We invite all of our members to review the nomination and award policy and to consider making a nomination.

As noted in the policy, nominees do not have to be a member of the society, but nominations may only be made by members. Nominations will be accepted until April 1st. Members may email their nominations and supporting reasons to the WMGS Board at westmassgen@gmail.com.