The Hall of Honor Committee is requesting nominations of people for consideration for induction into the Mid-Atlantic Hall of Honor for 2024. Receipt of nomination deadline is July 31, 2024.
PURPOSE OF HALL OF HONOR
The purpose of the Mid-Atlantic District Hall of Honor (HOH) is to give recognition to those individuals who have made exceptional, long-standing, unselfish, dedicated, devoted and uplifting contributions to the District and its members. The effect of this service will also have been of benefit to the Society and the hobby in general. The HOH shall serve to extol the virtues of such participation, responsibility, excellence, and high ideals and, to that end, we are seeking candidates for this esteemed honor. The HOH should be a focus of pride for the District (Please see www.MidAtlanticDistrict.com/HOH to see a list of all District Hall of Honor members).
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Induction into the HOH shall be limited to persons, living or dead, whose contributions to the District have spanned not less than ten (10) years. These contributions may have been primarily musical, administrative, or both and they may have occurred at the chapter, division, district, and/or society levels.
- Recognition need not be limited to current Society members, but the recognized service shall have been performed while the individual was a member of BHS and the Mid-Atlantic District.
GUIDANCE FOR SUBMITTING NOMINATIONS:
SCOPE OF SERVICE: While you are free to nominate anyone whom you believe merits consideration for this distinction, please be advised that people who are highly contributing members of a chapter, but who have not contributed significantly at the Division, District, or Society levels have, historically, been judged less favorably by the Selection Committee than people who have had a wider impact. In other words, election to the Hall of Honor, the District’s most prestigious award, denotes that the person has made extensive contributions that transcend the chapter level.
NATURE OF YOUR NOMINATION LETTER:
The Selection Committee is not, in itself, an investigatory entity but rather is involved only with the evaluation of nominees. Therefore, it is essential that you provide enough detail about the activities and contributions of the nominee that will allow the Committee to compare them to other nominees.
PROCEDURE FOR SUBMITTING A NOMINATION:
Following is an outline for information that should be included in the nomination letter. Please use this outline to ensure all relevant information is included! Nominations must be received by July 31, 2023. The Selection Committee will use only the information presented in your nomination letter. Therefore, include complete information about your nominee, regardless of any well-known facts – essentially assume that the nominee is unknown to the committee.
Nominations are to be sent to John Santora at jsantora@mac.com or sent by snail mail to:
John Santora
300 Willow Valley Lakes Dr, A-318
Willow Street, PA 17584
Questions? Call (410) 937-2611. Please include “Hall of Honor Nomination” in the subject line of your email.
Your nomination email should contain:
- Name of Nominee and Chapter
- Outline for the nomination to the M-AD Hall of Honor
- Date of joining the Society (if known)
- Person submitting the nomination, your chapter and the date of submission
- Scope of Candidate’s Service and Nature of your nomination letter: (See above “Guidance from the chair”)
- Include information in each of the following categories (to the extent known):
- Candidate’s service at the chapter(s) level and dates
- Candidate’s service at the Division level and dates
- Candidate’s service at the District level and dates
- Candidate’s service at the Society level and dates
- Other forms of service: Please provide a full account of the candidate’s service and/or honors in any other domain in the service of the Barbershop Society.
Deadline July 31, 2024. No nominations received after that date will be considered.
Thank you,
John Santora
Hall of Honor Committee Chair