ARMA-Boston Chapter - Haas Memorial Awards

ARMA-Boston Chapter has two awards and one annual scholarship.

Chapter Member of the Year

The Chapter Member of the Year award is presented yearly to the chapter's most outstanding member for the year. In evaluating candidates, emphasis is given to members who have participated in and contributed to the chapter's activities. In addition, the outstanding member has supported and promoted ARMA International objectives.

Distinguished Service Award

Boston Chapter's Distinguished Service Award was established in the mid-1980's to honor an individual who has served the chapter well for many years. Since then, five chapter members have received Boston's Distinguished Service Award, the last of whom was Aldrich Humphrey in 2000. This award is intended to recognize an individual who has contributed consistent, substantial service to the chapter and promoted its goals over many years. Jack MacDonald, CRM, received this award in 1995.

Richard L. Haas Memorial Scholarship
In conjunction with the New England Archivists, ARMA-Boston contributes to an annual $500 award given to the individual on the merit of a proposed records management and/or archival based project. Applicants are required to submit to ARMA-Boston Chapter a project proposal by March 1 each year. For more information, contact any board member.

The Richard L. Haas Memorial Award

Name and Purpose
Establishment and History
Funding
Committee Membership
Application and Awards
Detailed Background of the Fund
About Rick Haas

2005: Award not given

2004: Award not given
2003: Award not given
2002 Winners: Two Awards: William S. Dow, Sally Stephensen
2001: Award not given
2000: Award not given
1999: Award not given
1998 Winner: Paul Bergeron
1997 Winner: Andrea Sheehan
1996 Winner: Margaret Cornell
1995 Winner: Daisy Monsalve
1994 Winner: Frank Wheeler
1993 Winner: Award not given
1992 Winner: Nancy Richard, Stanley F. Moss, Kathryn Hammond Baker
1991 Winner: Michelle B. Bartlett
1990 Winner: Peter Carini

The Haas Award was not given in 2005

The Haas Award was not given in 2004

The Haas Award was not given in 2003

There were two Haas Awards in 2002:
Willaim S. Dow, Sally Stephensen.

The Haas Award was not given in 2001

The Haas Award was not given in 2000

The Haas Award was not given in 1999

1998 Haas Award winner: Paul Bergeron:
Paul Bergeron, Deputy City Clerk of Manchester, NH, was the recipient of the 1998 Richard Haas Award ($500)and attended a three-day workshop on Exhibit Design and Case Layout for the Small Museum held at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies in Mount Carroll, IL this past June. Mr Bergeron will be responsible for developing exhibits featuring the City's archival holdings when his office returns to a restored City Hall at the end of the year. Paul's report is published in the February 1999 Boston Bits newsletter. (Detail report will be posted)

1997 Haas Award winner: Andrea Sheehan:
Andrea Sheehan, archivist and historian, was the recipient of the 1997 Richard Hass Award ($500). Andrea received her masters degrees in archives management and history from Simmons College in May 1997. She attended the August 1997 Society of American Archivists (SAA) Conference in Chicago, Ilinois. As a new member of the orgainzation and the profession, this meeting was ideal for Andrea to meet mentors in the archives and records management professons. Twelve hundred people participated in the meeting. Andrea's intention was to insigate discussion between archivists and record managers.

In her application, Andrea stated that she would use the opportunities presented at the SAA meeting to "investigate the differences and similarities between archivists and records managers". Her final product would be an article "highlighting the way we can build bridges between archivists and records managers to instill better communication, understanding, nad advising". This article was published in the February 1998 Boston Bits newsletter. (Detail report will be posted)

1996 Haas Award winner: Margaret Cornell
Margaret Cornell, Records Management, Chelmsford, Massachusetts Public Schools, was recipient of the 1995 Richard Haas Award ($500). The grant money was used in the second phase of a Records Management Project which focused on assembling, repairing, sleeving, and numbering the Shcool District's architectural plans which wer scattered throughout seven buildings. The report was published in the October 1997 Boston Bits newsletter. (Detailed report will be posted)

1995 Haas Award winner: Daisy Monsalve:
Preservation of Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board dry glass plate negatives at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.

1994 Haas Award winner: Frank Wheeler:
Frank Wheeler, University Archivist at the University of New Hampshire, was recipient of the 1994 Richard Haas Award ($500). The proposed project is to survey colleges and universities across the country in an attempt to understand the interaction at each place between archivies and records management. Site visits will also be made. The result of this project will be a compilation of information which is intended to be of value to any and all educational foundations looking to establish an archives and/or records management program, or is currently re-evaluating its current program. The information gathered will be shared with all participants in an effort for all to better understand any problems, and to help promote innovative ideas and new trends. (Details will be posted)

1993 Haas Award winner: Award not given

1992 Haas Award winner: Nancy Richard, Stanley F. Moss, and Kathryn Hammond Baker:
Records Management and Archives program for the AIDS Action Committee.

1991 Haas Award winner: Michelle B. Bartlett:
Attend ARMA International Annual Conference

1990 Haas Award winner: Peter Carini:
Study committee records in academic archives

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