The Charles D. ‘Doc’ Herrold Award

Each year CHRS/BARM presents this prestigious award to people who exhibit “Outstanding Achievement in the Preservation and Documentation of Early Radio.”

 

 

For 2013, the CHRS Herrold Award goes to John Staples, PhD and W6BM, for his ongoing service in the restoration of early television, high fidelity and broadcast audio equipment, and his work with ham radio, all documented through his research and publication, including articles in the CHRS Journal.

 

 

 

 

 

For 2012, the CHRS Herrold Award goes to Waldo T. Boyd (pictured left), of the Society of Wireless Pioneers, “for preservation of archival materials crucial to radio history and managing the transition of the Society of Wireless Pioneers into a program of the California Historical Radio Society”

 

 

Here is the elite list of Herrold Award recipients:

2014 – Norman Leal

2013 – John Staples, W6BM

2012 – Waldo T. Boyd

2011 – Ben Fong-Torres

2010 – John Schneider

2009 – Richard Majestic

2008 – Will Rayment

2007 – David Jackson

2006 – Ken Ackerman

2005 – Larry Clark

2004 – John Eckland

2003 – Trudy Maxwell

2002 – Stan Lopes

2001 – Henry & Sharon Rogers

2000 – Hal Layer

1999 – Dick Dillman & Tom Horsfal

1998 – Will Jensby

1997 – Paul Bourbin

1996 – Henry Engstrom

1995 – Hank Olson

1994 – John Wentzel

1993 – Paul Giganti 

1992 – Ed Sharpe 

1991 – Bart Lee

1990 – Mike Adams

1988 – D. H. Moore

1987 – Len Lansdowne

1986 – Norm Berge

1982 – Woody Wilson

1981 – Thorne Mayes

1980 – Bob Herbig

1979 – Joe Horvath