Spectrum Award
HONORING AEC’S OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES
This award is presented to the State or Local Association Executive, AEC Member, who most embodies the AEC “Standard of Conduct” as approved by AEC and who has demonstrated exemplary leadership. The award reflects extraordinary achievements and the promise of future accomplishments with association management professional organizations and continuing professional development.
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must have been a member of AEC for a minimum of three years and employed by a State or Local Association, affiliated with and in compliance with the bylaws of the PHCC-National Association, and the Association Executives Council, and who is a current member. The current AEC President is not eligible to receive this award while holding office.
SELECTION PROCESS
The Awards Committee shall make selection of the Spectrum Award winner, with presentation of the award at the annual PHCC-National Association Convention. It is not mandatory that this be an annual award. Such determination is to be made by the Awards Committee.
Nominations may be submitted by Presidents or AEC members of State or Local PHCC Associations (only one nomination submitted per person).
The Awards Committee may contact the Zone Director and/or an officer/director of the nominee’s Local or State Association to review the nominee’s qualifications for this award.
Selection will be based on association management career (50 points) and AEC/PHCC-National Association activities and involvement (50 points). There may be a State Association or Local Association Award.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
To assist the Awards Committee in evaluating your candidate, please address the following criteria as they relate to the nominee. You may enlist the assistance of the nominee for this purpose.
Required
List the achievements during your association management career. Describe programs and activities which have been implemented that have enhanced the overall effectiveness and development of the employing association(s). 50 points
List all AEC/PHCC-National Association activities. Include service as an officer, director and/or committee member if applicable. 50 points
Optional
List participation in civic and community activities. Describe contributions and positions held, honors received, etc.
List service and/or leadership in other professional organizations and associations. List memberships, describe achievements, include positions held, honors received, etc.
Standards of Conduct
As a member of the Association Executives Council of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contacts - National Association, I pledge myself to:
Maintain the highest standard of personal conduct.
Promote and encourage the highest level of ethics within the plumbing, heating, cooling industry.
Maintain loyalty to the association that employs me and pursue its objective in ways that are consistent with the public interest.
Recognize and discharge my responsibility and that of my association to uphold all laws and regulations relating to my association’s policies and activities.
Strive for excellence in all aspects of management of my association.
Use only legal and ethical means in all association activities.
Serve all members of my association impartially, provide no special privilege of any individual member, and accept no personal compensation from a member except with the knowledge and consent of my association's governing board.
Maintain the confidentiality of privileged information entrusted or known to me by virtue of my office.
Refuse to engage in, or countenance, activities for personal gain at the expense of my association or the plumbing, heating or cooling industry.
Always communicate association internal and external statements in a truthful and accurate manner.
Cooperate in every reasonable and proper way with other association executives, and work with them in the advancement of the profession of association management and
Use every opportunity to improve public understanding of the role of associations.
Previous Winners
2024. Nicole Urizzo, New Jersey
2019 Ellen Whitaker, Georgia
2018 Mike McGraw, Pennsylvania
2015 Beth Killen, Tennessee
2014 Rocco Fana, Ohio
2013 Dorothy Reddy, New York
2012 Tom Theroux, Massachusetts
2011 Kathy Jonas, Indiana
2010 Jody Hibbs, Virginia
2009 Kevin Kruse, Iowa
2008 Jory Isakson, Minnesota
2007 Rodney Jones, Illinois
2006 Mark Whalen, New York
2005 Nancy Jones, CAE, Texas
2004 Brenda Dant, CAE, Indiana
2003 Bev Potts, Illinois
2002 Ray Hefner, Missouri
2001 Gordon MacEwan, Massachusetts
2000 Sandy Pogan, CAE, Ohio
1999 Sherry Hernandez, Nevada
1998 Diane Kastner, Maryland
1997 Linda Lindsten, Oregon
1996 John Nussbaum, Michigan
1995 Joan Braun, Milwaukee
1994 Susan Clark, California
1993. Betty Gill, Tennessee
1992 Don Sullivan, Minnesota
1991 Steve Lehtonen, California
1990 Ed Corbishley, Delaware
1989 Margaret Salava, North Carolina
1988 George Whelan, New York
1987 Lynn Brigss, Michigan
1986 Marilyn Pierce, Kentucky
1985 James Muncy, Virginia
1984 Allen Inlow, Kansas
1983 Don Sullivan, Minneapolis
1982 Robert Reinhart, Florida
1981 Richard Gurske, Minnesota