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33rd Annual AFTE Banquet

 

This years banquet was another awesome event!  Everyone was treated to a fabulous meal followed by opening remarks from outgoing AFTE President Jack Dillon, seen at right.  Jack followed with the presentation of awards. 

 

This year's Member of the Year Award was awarded to John Murdock (seen below with AFTE 1st. Vice President Ann Davis). 

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As chairman of the AFTE Certification committee John was instrumental in the development the AFTE Certification Program. 

This year's Steve Molnar Award was presented to former AFTE Journal Editor John Collins (below).

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Distinguished Membership Awards were presented to Mike Giusto (CAL-DOJ), Travis Spinder (SW Institute of Forensic Sciences), and Richard Wyant (Washington State Patrol).  Only Richard (seen below) was present to receive his award.

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Emeritus Member Awards were presented to:

Bobby Blackburn
Walter Howe
Don Smith
George Wilson
George Tuira

Certification Documents were presented to the first members to successfully complete the written and practical certification tests. 

Awaiting the complete list but the following members received their documents:

Tim Curtis, Jerry Miller, Dennis Gray, Don Mikko, Robert Thompson, Dave Rattman, Curtis Kubo, Lisa Peloza, Dan Royse, Steve Scott, Jim Serpa, Tsuneo Uchiyama, Sarah Yoshida, and Dave Santora

Some of the recipients can be seen below.

Scholarship Committee chairman, Dave Santora, next announced the recipient of this year's Scholarship Award was Patricia Rhinds.  Watch for a bio of Patricia which will be posted soon to the website.

Special Recognition Awards were next with a number of awards presented.

Bill Conrad- for his work on the new AFTE Glossary,

Beta Tam- for his work in scanning the AFTE Journals into an electronic format,

Evan Thompson- for his many years of dedicated service as AFTE's Treasurer,

and presented the first Honorary Member Award was Michael Coakley (seen below).  Michael was honored for his dedication to AFTE as the annual training seminar's A/V specialist.

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Final Awards were presented by the AFTE Host Committee. 

Vendor Awards were presented to Forensic Technologies Inc., Cybernational, Savage Arms, Brownells, Mossberg, and Tom Deeb (Hi-Point Firearms).  

Joe Zorola was formally presented his trophy for winning the Garry Rathman Golf Outing

It was announced by the Host Committee that the Best Paper Awards would be announced later on the website.

Also receiving an award was Scott Doyle for his assistance in posting seminar info to the website.

After the awards were presented Jack Dillon introduced the incoming AFTE President, Bob Shem of the Alaska Department of Public Safety.  Bob (seen below) spoke to the members about AFTE's history, strengths, and future.

Bob also introduced Mitch Rector who presented a gift to AFTE's Scholarship Fund from former IBIS International User's Group in the amount of $1625.04.

Bob's last official function of the evening was to close the AFTE Business Meeting.

Following the close of business AFTE held their annual Raffle.  Some unbelievable gifts were donated to AFTE this year!  (see the Raffle Page for a list of most items)

What could be considered the GRAND PRIZE was won by none other than the incoming AFTE President, Bob Shem.  Bob can be seen below displaying his newly acquired Savage rifle.

 
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Another super prize was a custom made hunting knife made by Ed Love.  The knife was won by Joan Drucker (seen below).  Other winners included Rocky Edwards who won a Ruger pistol, Bob Poole who won the Al Capone Desktop Penholder, and Cal Story who won a Mossberg Shotgun.

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