AFTE 2003 Banquet

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AFTE 2003 - Thursday May 29

The 34th Annual AFTE Training Seminar Banquet was held Thursday, May 29, 2003. The evening was another awesome event bringing to a close another successful seminar.

Reception

A reception was held prior to the start of the banquet and below are a few pictures of members at the reception.

Banquet

The banquet invocation was given by John Cayton and an excellent dinner followed.

Outgoing AFTE President Bob Shem re-opened the AFTE business meeting with some brief opening remarks followed by the awards ceremony.

Receiving the President's Award were members Jeffrey Scott Doyle and Michael Haag.

Accepting for Michael was his father Lucian Haag.

This year's Member of the Year Award was given to Jack Dillon (seen below with Mike Hall).

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Bruce Moran announced this year's Steve Molnar Award recipient to be Robert Kennington. Accepting the award for Robert was Omar Felix (seen below).

Distinguished Membership Awards were presented to:

Michael Haag
David Santora
Glen Beach
Michelle Kuehner
Richard Grzybowski

The Emeritus Member Award was presented to Marshall Robinson (seen below).

Scholarship Committee chairman, Dave Santora, announced the recipient of this year's Scholarship Award is Christina Tague. Watch for a bio of Christina which will be posted soon to the website.

The Best Paper Award was presented to Jason Crafton for his paper titled, "BUNTER TOOLMARKS, SIGNIFICANT OR INSIGNIFICANT?".

Host committee members Adrienne Williams and Carl Rone were also recognized for their hard work in organizing this year's training seminar.

The Calvin Goddard Award was presented this year by special guest Calvin Goddard Zon, grandson of Calvin Goddard. The recipient of the award was Willie Odernaal of the Pretoria Ballistics Unit in South Aftrica.

Also receiving a Special Recognition award for his hard work as AFTE's Secretary was Lannie Emanuel. Lannie can be seen below receiving the award from AFTE Membership Secretary Ray Cooper.

A second Special Recognition Award was given to Mickey French for his hard work as the AFTE Journal Editor.

Upon completion of the awards presentations Bob Shem introduced the incoming AFTE President, Ann Davis of the Virginia Division of Forensic Science. Ann's excellent speech can be found below.

Ann's Speech: Acrobat .pdf / Word .doc

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

Following the close of business AFTE held the annual Raffle. What could be considered the GRAND PRIZE, a cotton box donated by CyberNational was won by Ray Kusumi, Washington State Patrol.

Among the other winners were Jim Hamby and Jamie Becker seen below.

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