The Russ Simpson Award

About the Award

The Russ Simpson Award recognizes annually distinct and extraordinary accomplishments of members, officers and directors of the BMW Motorcycle Club of Alabama who have served the Club and communities with superb contributions outside the realm of their membership, jobs and duties. Award recipients enhance both the success and the reputation of our Club through their extraordinary actions. The Membership Director will be responsible for taking the votes each year from the general membership for the recipient of the Award with a plaque to be presented by the Rally Chairperson at the annual rally. The next plate on the Club's historical display plaque will be engraved and installed with that recipient’s name.

Criteria

• The nominee must be a member of the BMW Motorcycle Club of Alabama.
• The nominee should have demonstrated one of the following:
  • Extraordinary behavior well beyond the scope of his/her membership, officer or director role and responsibilities.
  • An act that had a significant positive impact upon fellow members and the community.
  • A superior contribution of time/effort to the success of a project.
  • Exceptional participation or leadership in a regular or special assignment or in responding to an emergency situation.
• Former award recipients may be nominated again if above criteria met.

Past recipients are listed below.

Year	Name	Comments
2011	Martin Benson	Martin has worked tirelessly in the development of rides and events for our club. In addition he has plotted the entire ABEES book in GPS format that can easily be downloaded from our web site! Martin received this award by a majority vote of the club members, an honor indeed. Thanks Martin for all you do and keep up the good work!
2010	Bob Steber
2009	Jamie Jackson
2008	Vance Harrelson	Our Vice-President, Vance Harrelson has indeed demonstrated all the qualities for the award and also is the calming voice when resolving any issues that may arise involving the club. In addition to all his other duties, this year Vance enthusiastically served as co-chair of the Rally Committee. Congratulations to Vance as this years recipient of this prestigious award.
2007	Connie Reaves
2006	Marty Simpson & Larry Camp	Marty Simpson - Treasurer and now CFO for 30 years. Larry Camp - 27 years service to the club and Head of the kitchen at the rallies all these years.