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NEHA Awards

Walter S. Mangold Award Walter F. Snyder Award
A. Harry Bliss Editor's Award
Certificates of Merit
Sabbatical Exchange Award Crumbine Award

NEHA Excellence in Sustainability Award

Walter S. Mangold Award

The National Environmental Health Association’s highest honor, the Walter S. Mangold Award, is named for an innovative forward thinker, a man of action who became an inspiration to thousands of environmental health professionals who followed him into the field. The late Walter S. Mangold was a sanitarian in California at a time when environmental health was just developing into a profession, with its own educational requirements and performance standards. Mangold also was instrumental in the founding of NEHA’s predecessor, the National Association of Sanitarians, in California.

He later became Professor of Public Health at the University of California School of Public Health.

The Mangold Award was established in 1955, and the first award was presented to Mangold in 1956. Now, almost 50 years later, the Mangold Award continues to recognize outstanding contributions to the preservation of the environment by the environmental health professional. By honoring those who exemplify quality and service to mankind in environmental health, the award also recognizes the many in the profession who labor daily without recognition, which is the nature of the environmental health professional’s work.

The Mangold award consists of a cash honorarium and a 10-inch high crystal apex attached to a black marble base on which is displayed the name of the Mangold winner. The NEHA logo is etched onto the crystal apex. This award is retained by the recipient. The NEHA office has a permanent award plaque featuring a likeness of Walter Mangold and the name of each award-winner engraved on a plate attached to the plaque.

Nominations & Evaluation

Candidates are nominated in one of two ways: 1) by the local affiliate, of which they are a member, with each affiliate limited to one candidate; or 2) by any five NEHA members who may or may not belong to an affiliate.

Five copies of the nominations must be received by March 15 at NEHA, c/o Executive Coordinator, 720 South Colorado Blvd., Suite 1000-N, Denver, CO 80246-1926. Documents received after March 15 will not be accepted for review.

According to Article IV Section I of the NEHA Bylaws, the selection process is handled by the Walter S. Mangold Award Committee, consisting of the last five recipients of the award. The senior recipient serves as committee chairperson and directs and coordinates the evaluation process, using a rating sheet, a sample of which is enclosed. In case of resignation, death or inability to serve, the replacement shall be the sixth, seventh, etc. person, until one is willing and able to serve.

Award Presentation

The award is presented at the Presidents’ Banquet at the Annual Educational Conference and Exhibition of the National Environmental Health Association.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Walter S. Mangold Award, a nominee must:

  1. Be a member in good standing of the National Environmental Health Association.

  2. Be actively engaged in the field of environmental health

  3. Have performed professional duties in the field of environmental health above and beyond the usual employment requirements so as to elevate the professional status of the environmental health professional.

  4. Exemplify the characteristics and principles for which Walter Mangold stood.

  5. Not be an incumbent national officer – president, president-elect, first vice president, second vice president, immediate past president – of the association.

Nomination Document

  1. The following format is to be used for submission of nominations:

    1. General 

      Letter from the affiliate president making the formal nomination; Photograph of the nominee (optional but preferred); Description of personal facts regarding nominee.

    2. Education

      Listing of formal education as well as special training and experience.

    3. Employment History

      Record of places of employment, including scope of responsibilities.

    4. Professional Association Activity

      Organizational affiliations, including NEHA, detailing offices and committee responsibilities.

    5. Contributions to the Betterment and Practice of Environmental Health Sciences

      These may include: publications authored or co-authored by the candidate; significant scientific or applied research; accomplishments in the development or implementation of new, broader or improved concepts, procedures of techniques in the practice of environmental health.

    6. Other

      Significant contributions to the professional status of environmental health professionals not covered in other categories above. Such contributions might include civic or school activities or affiliations.

    7. References

      Inclusion of letters or reference endorsement, copies of publications (or proper reference to source) and other significant support documents.

  2. A Special Note

    Those who prepare a document in support of a nomination should keep in mind a number of factors.

    1. The committee, when making the decision as to whom will receive the award, is usually limited to the contents of the support documents as its sole source of information and as measured against the listed criteria.

    2. It takes a carefully prepared and complete document to effectively portray a positive image of the nominee. It can reflect how he or she is viewed by colleagues.

    3. This award seeks to recognize those who go beyond local or regional limits to contribute on a national or international level to advancing the profession of environmental health. More and more, judges are looking for impacts and results that occur outside local or state boundaries.

    4. The judges, all former Mangold winners, look for quality, information on how the nominee impacts those around him or her, and how he or she contributes in valuable ways to improving environmental health.

    5. Weight and volume by itself is not necessarily persuasive.

    6. The award recipient will treasure the support document as much or more than the plaque.

For further information contact Terry Osner vial e-mail at tosner@neha.org or call 303.756.9090 ext. 302. Send nominations to NEHA at 720 South Colorado Blvd., Ste 1000-N, Denver, CO 80246-1926.

THE FIVE NOMINATIONS DOCUMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED
BY NEHA NO LATER THAN MARCH 15.

Rating Sheet to nominate an individual for the Walter S. Mangold Award.

Mangold Award Winners
1956 Walter S. Mangold California 1981 John J. McHugh New York
1957 Milton M. Miller Colorado 1982 Vernon Sloulin Montana
Floyd M. Miller Louisiana 1983 Not Given
1958 Harlan Kingsbury Massachusetts 1984 Bailus Walker, Jr. Massachusetts
1959 Verne C. Reierson Oregon 1985 Trenton G. Davis North Carolina
1960 A. Harry Bliss California 1986 G. A. Verrone Uniformed Services
1961 Jerrold M. Michael Washington, D.C. 1987 Richard L. Roberts California
Larry J. Gordon New Mexico 1988 Richard K. Rowe South Carolina
1962 Seymour Barfield California 1989 F. Oris Blackwell Kentucky
1963 V. Harry Adrounie U.S. Air Force 1990 Sarah B. Kotchian New Mexico
Frank A. Gohr California 1991 Nina I. McClelland Michigan
1964 A. H. Crenshaw Florida Bernard S. Weintraub California
David B. Peden Ohio 1992 Amer El-Ahraf California
1965 Samuel Reed Washington 1993 RADM Webster Young, Jr. Uniformed Services
1966 A. Clark Slaymaker Virginia 1994 Joseph W. Walsh, Jr. Massachusetts
1967 Frank A. Justice Colorado 1995 Capt. Bruce R. Chelikowsky Uniformed Services
1968 Francis J. Goldsmith Washington, D.C. 1996 Leonard F. Rice South Carolina
1969 Ben Freedman Louisiana 1997 Charles W. Felix National Capital Area
1970 John G. Todd Oklahoma 1998 Eugene Devenport Utah
1971 Jack Hatlen Washington 1999 David McSwane Indiana
1972 William G. Walter Montana 2000 Not Given
1973 William A. Broadway North Carolina 2001 George A. Kupfer Illinois
1974 Joseph H. Martin California 2002 Harry Grenawitzke Michigan
1975 Capt. Dale Truesdell Uniformed Services 2003 Larry M. Eils Illinois
1976 S. M. Stephenson Michigan 2004 Daryl E. Rowe Georgia
1977 Not Given 2005 Herman Koren Indiana
1978 Ward C. Duel Illinois 2006 Not Given
1979 Monroe T. Morgan Tennessee 2007 Chris Wiant Colorado
1980 Not Given 2008 Dr. John M. Barry North Carolina

 

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Certificates of Merit
Each affiliate is invited to designate one of its members to receive a Certificate of Merit from NEHA, thereby nationally recognizing one of their own for outstanding contributions to the profession of environmental health.  Recipients are announced during the AEC awards program and in the Journal of Environmental Health.

 

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National Environmental Health Association Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
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NEHA/CIEH/CIPHI Sabbatical Exchange Program

Study environmental health on the international level through NEHA's Sabbatical Exchange Program!

There are no borders to environmental health. What concerns one country concerns all others, what affects one people affects the world. That's why NEHA is proud to present an opportunity for one member to spend two-to-four-week sabbaticals in either England or Canada observing, questioning and sharing environmental health practices and information.

Sponsors

Administered by the National Environmental Health Association/Chartered Institute of Environmental Health/Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors

Awards

One award is given annually, to either England or Canada. For a four-week sabbatical, the stipend is $4000, plus round trip airfare up to $1000. Stipends are adjusted accordingly for a two-week sabbatical, which is the minimum to be taken. A commemorative plaque is also awarded.

Criteria

  • Applicant must be a NEHA member at the time of application and while on the sabbatical

  • Applicant must complete an application (available from NEHA) and include a 2000-word essay on the specific area to be studied

  • The sabbatical must be completed within one year of its presentation

  • Sabbatical winner must present a report to NEHA within three months of the completion of the sabbatical. The report will be shared by NEHA with the co-sponsors.

  • The application deadline for both sabbaticals is March 1.

Follow-up

Any publication resulting from a sabbatical will include identity of both the sabbatical winner and the co-sponsors.

The decision of the selection committee is final.  Contact Terry Osner at (303) 756-9090 ext. 302 or e-mail tosner@neha.org for more information. Get an application here.

 

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NSF National Environmental Health Association

Walter F. Snyder Award

The Walter F. Snyder Award for Achievement in Attaining Environmental Quality is presented annually by the National Environmental Health Association and NSF International.

Nomination Procedures

Complete the official nomination form in order to be considered for this award.  Please complete the form in full, including all pertinent information about the candidate's qualifications for the award.

Walter F. Snyder Award Recipients
1971   Callis  A. Atkins 1989   Boyd T. Marsh
1972   Ralph C. Pickard 1990   Harvey F. Collins
1973   William A. Broadway 1991   Trenton G. Davis
1974   James J. Jump 1992   Robert Galvan
1975   Charles L. Senn 1993   Amer El-Ahraf
1976   Not given 1994   Nelson E. Fabian
1977   Charles C. Johnson, Jr. 1995   Leonard F. Rice
1978   Larry J. Gordon 1996   Robert M. Brown
1979  John G. Todd 1997   J. Roy Hickman
1980   Ray B. Watts 1998   Chris J. Wiant
1981   Charles H. Gillham 1999   Khalil H. Mancy
1982   Emil T. Chanlett 2000   Friedrich K. Kaeferstein
1983   John R. Bagby, Jr. 2001   Robert W. Powitz
1984   William Nix Anderson 2002   Gayle J. Smith
1985   William G. Walter 2003   Not given
1986   Albert H. Brunwasser 2004   Peter D. Thornton
1987   George A. Kupfer 2005     John B. Conway
1988   Mark D. Hollis 2006     Art Banks
2008    CAPT Craig Shepherd

 

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A. Harry Bliss Editor’s Award

Dr. A. Harry Bliss was the Journal editor in 1969, the year this award was first presented. When he retired, the award was named after him to honor his 40 years of involvement in Journal production. NEHA often gives the annual Harry Bliss Editor’s Award to outstanding writers and columnists, but the award may also go to individuals who, through the Journal of Environmental Health, advance the cause and interests of the association.

Award Winners
1994 – Barry Drucker
1995 – John Barry
1996 – Thomas Hatfield
1997 – Dean Boening
1998 – Robert W. Powitz & James Balsamo
1999 – Environmental Health Division of the Volusia County Public Health Unit (EHD/VCPHU)
2000 – Thomas J. White, M.S.
2001 – Thomas H. Hatfield
2002 – Vincent Sikora		 2003 – Jim Dingman
2004 – Clare A. Schmutz
2005 – Karen A. Holmes
2006 – Tommye Schneider
2007 – Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
2008 – John Barry






 

 

 

 

 

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