Arthur Sidney Bedell Award

Type: Individual

Description: The Arthur Sidney Bedell Award was established to acknowledge extraordinary personal service to a Member Association. General criteria may include organizational leadership, administrative service, membership activity, stimulation of technical functions, or similar participation. However, the Member Associations have ultimate control over the selection of criteria. The award is named for the second president of the Federation, who exemplified its purpose by his long devotion and service to the New York Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association, now the New York Water Environment Association.

Criteria: 

  • Demonstrate organizational leadership, administrative service, membership activity, stimulation of technical functions, or similar participation.

Awarding Organization: Water Environment Federation

Deadline: May 31, 2024

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Previous Awardees: 

2023     Matt Formica

2022     Lauren Hertel

2021     Amy Anderson George

2020    Dennis Palumbo

2019    Travis Peaslee

2018    Howard Carter

2017    Susan Guswa

2016    Daniel Bisson

2015    Michael Wilson

2014    Steven Freedman

2013    Meg Tabacsko

2012    Elena Proakis Ellis

2011    Albert Pincince

2010    Robert Button

2009    Janice Moran

2008    Michael Bonomo

2007    John Fortin

2006    Katherine Mello

2005    John Hart

2004    Russell Adams

2003    Joseph Nerden

2002    Ronald Tiberi

2001    Elizabeth Cutone (Haffner)

2000    Norton True

1999    Kenneth Carlson

1998    George Laney

1997    Douglas Lee Miller

1996    Steven Corr

1995    Glenn Haas

1994    Robert Cutone

1993    Robert Livingston

1992    Edward Nazaretian

1991    Francis Yanuskiewicz

1990    Charles Smith

1989    Linda Carroll

1988    Allen Goulart

1987    Catherine Lowery

1986    David Blake

1985    Brent Herring

1984    Michael Giggey

1983    Raymond Lavery

1982    William Van Blarcom

1981    Clifton Grinnell

1980    Raymond Murphy

1979    Alfred Peloquin

1978    Bruce Eaton

1977    Richard Ryan

1976    George Curley, Jr.

1975    Francis Mahony, Jr.

1974    Donald Schwinn

1973    Edward Bayon

1972    Wilbur Widmer

1971    Robert Pope

1970    John Masterson

1969    Richard Greeley

1968    Charles Knapp

1967    James Connell

1966    Joseph Hanlon

1965    Walter Brown

1964    Roland Burlingame

1963    Frank Heaney

1962    Clair Sawyer

1960    Earl Howard

1959    Walter Kunsch

1957    Henry Munroe

1956    Steven Hurley, Jr.

1953    Walter Merrill

1950    LeRoy Van Kleeck