Recipients of the BAM Founder's Award

The Bob Patrick Founder's Award was instituted in 1992. It is a traveling award that is awarded annually to one member. The award recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution of time and talent to further BAM's goals. The recipient is charged with the duty of selecting the next recipient and presenting it the next year. The award is a brass anvil with the names of the recipients engraved on the anvil.

The first award was presented to Jerry Hoffmann at the July 1992 meeting at Vernon Fisher's shop at the Lake of the Ozarks. Thereafter it was to be presented each year at the annual conference.

  1992  
  Jerry Hoffmann  
  1993  
  Doug Hendrickson
  1994  
  Steve Austin
  1994  
  Louis Mueller
  1995  
  Tom Clark
  1996  
  Jim McCarty
  1996  
  Pat McCarty
  1997  
  Bob Alexander
  1998  
  John Murray
  1999  
  Phil Williamson
  2000  
  Maurice Ellis
  2001  
  Peggy Williamson
  2002  
  Bruce Herzog
  2003  
  Walt Hull
  2004  
  John Sherwood
  2005  
  Joe Wilkinson
  2006  
  Kirk Sullens
  2007  
  Don Birdsall
  2008  
  Bob Ehrenberger
  2009  
  Second Award to John Murray
  2010  
  Second Award to Bob Alexander
  2011  
  Ken Jansen
  2012  
  Ned Digh
  2013  
  Karen Bouckaert
  2013  
  Don Anders
  2014  
  Kent Harbit
  2015  
  Bernie Tappel
  2015  
  Patti Tappel
  2016  
  Mike McLaughlin
  2017  
  Phil Cox
  2017  
  Margie Cox
  2018  
  Mark Lawson
  2019  
  Don Nichols
  2021  
  Matthew Burnett
  2022  
  Bob Stormer
  2023  
  Willy Bagley