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*'''1950 - 1954''' Ev Walling, Al Hall, Jack Lintot, Doug Harvey-Smith, Dick Lazenby, Frank Martin, Marg Norris,John Rivett, Fred Bennett, Harry Smith, Peter Girling, Sev Heiberg, Nick Hudak, Shirley Talyor, Fay Dobson, John Ridington | *'''1950 - 1954'''<br> Ev Walling, Al Hall, Jack Lintot, Doug Harvey-Smith,<br> Dick Lazenby, Frank Martin, Marg Norris, John Rivett,<br> Fred Bennett, Harry Smith, Peter Girling, Sev Heiberg,<br> Nick Hudak, Shirley Talyor, Fay Dobson, John Ridington | ||
*'''1955''' Pat Duffy, Sylvia Ledingham | *'''1955''' Pat Duffy, Sylvia Ledingham | ||
*'''1956''' Jim Denholme | *'''1956''' Jim Denholme | ||
Revision as of 05:00, 7 November 2006
Every year at the VOC banquet, various awards are given out. They are divided into two categories, serious and humorous and are described below.
Awards - Serious
Bronze Pin
Given to a member who has made a significant contribution to the club over the previous year. The first pin was awarded in 1995 - prior to that pins could be purchased. One is not necessarily given out each year.
Past Winners
Silver Pin
Silver pin awards are given to those who have contributed their time and energy to the club "above and beyond the call of duty". This award was instituted in 1950 and had since been awared to about 60 people. An updated list of recipients is presented below. This list is compiled from records in past journals and therefore may not be complete (Last update '94-'95)
Past Winners
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Gold Pin
Gold pin awards are given to those club members eho have not only devoted much of their time, over a number of years, to the VOC, but have also done some form of outstanding work for the club.Endorsement by 2/3 of the membership at a general meeting is necessary to approve this award. To date only five gold pins have been awarded:
- 1950 Ron Leslie, Club Treasurer - Building the Seymour Cabin.
- 1966 Karl Ricker - Planning, designing and building the Whistler cabin.
- 1966 Byron Olson - Planning, designing and building the Whistler cabin.
- 1970 Roland Burton - Planning and building the Burton Hut.
- 1995 Andre Zimmerman - Construction of the Brian Waddington Memorial Hut
Most Active New Member(s)
Usually this is a book prize given to the new member(s) (one per gender min.) who has developed their outdoor skills the most during the previous year (not necessarily given to novices).
Past Winners
- 2004 Richard So, Kaja Sadowski & Janet Draganov
- 2005 Stephen Lerch & Greta Raymant (or Kim ?)
Journal Awards
There are several awards given to contributors to the VOC Journal at the discretion of the Journal Editor.
Photography Competition
The VOC holds a photography competition each year. Slides can be entered in one of the following categories: Landscape, flora and fauna, portrait, humorous and VOC activities. Prizes are presented at the banquet. Complete details are announced early in the second term.
Awards - Humorous
The Broken Board Award (& Broken Helmet)
Backgroung
Originated in 1970 when a load of lumber destined for the Neve Hilton (a hut build on Mt Garibaldi, later demolished by snow creep) was destroyed after falling from a helicopter onto the only rock in a snowfield for miles around. It is awarded to a member who has broken something in an equally silly manner, or who has performed what is deemed to be the most spectacularly stupid act of the year. The Broken Helmet has joined this award lately, for those times when the stupidity required a team effort.
Past Winners
- 1970(?) Mike Miles - For carring the (broken) board back to the trailhead (see Background)
The Kitchen Sink Award
Background
"Early in the new millennium, I found myself wandering around Argentinean Patagonia with my long-time friend, Dave Campbell. Every mountaineer on earth knows the name and legend of Cerro Torre. For Dave and I, it was not to be missed. On a beautiful day in February, we took to frolicking around on the Torre Glacier. The sights were... well, let's just say that I highly recommend going there. Above us loomed the massive granitic finger of Cerro Torre; its South Face, vertical and some 1300m high, sanctifying its summit. The easiest route is rated a very difficult ULMTAN (standing for "Um, Let Me Think About...No!"). But that's ok. What I could take from standing below this tower was the simple pleasure of being in a magical place. On top of that, I gained instant respect for those that have climbed the peak.
While heading back to camp, something caught my eye in the bottom of a shallow closed crevasse. Dave investigated, finding a 1m by 1m mangled chunk of alunimium sheet. It all clicked instantly. In 1995, a team of three Italians (R.Manni, E. Salvaterra, and P. Vidi) climbed a new route on the South Face called "Infinite South". Undoubtedly the route was really hard, rated at 5.11+ / A4 / 70 degree ice for 36 pitches (alternatively rated ULMTAN). The team made the "intersting" decision to use an Aluminium box as a bivy. After climbing a few pitches and setting ropes, the team would spend endless arduous hours hauling the mutliple-hundred-pound beast up the wall. The thing was so heavy that they resorted to using a ratcheting, lever-based pulley. So, with every difficult push of the lever, they gained an impressive 2cm with the box. Hauling a 50 m pitch would take 2500 pumps of the handle!
Upon reaching the top of the wall, they realized that rappelling with this box would not prove easy. Besides, they wanted to summit. So they fitted the box with a parachute and prepared it for "touch down". Considering that the area gets some of the world's fiercest winds (eddies upwards of 70 km/h), you might think this was a doomed experiment. Within a few hundred meters, the parachute collapsed and the box free fell the height of a 300-storey building until making solid contact with the ground. A few days later, the team reported that they went to the base and found no trace of the box: all they found was a haulbag. What would you rather find: 200kg of mangled Aluminium or a haulbag? So, five years later, Dave and I found a big chunk of the above-mentioned box... 5 km away ! I smell a rat.
After carrying the scrap back to Cerro Torre base camp, I erected a monument with the metal entitled "Fly It In, Chuck It Off". Not more than half an hour later, I heard the monument being disassembled. As it turns out, a group of Germans were outraged by my monument; a heated argument ensued. After agreeing to keep the monument down for the sake of the tourists, we carried the scrap out and offered it to the rangers. How interesting that the 1995 climb received international recognition yet the rangers had no idea of how the aluminium got there nor had they ever heard of our Italian champions. Thus, the Kitchen Sink Award comes into being: dedicated to the Italian champions for bringing way too much stuff. The Kitchen Sink Award shall be given to that VOC member who knowingly or unknowingly overloads his or her pack with superfluous devices."
-By Jeremy Frimer, VOCJ43 2000-2001 p.150-152
Past Winners
The Loving Cup
An award cup designed to embarrass couples whose romance has blossomed during the past year or to an individual who has tried repeatedly to engage other club members in relationships and failed.
Past Winners
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Chorus Line AwardAn award for a member whom has contributed to a trip or event involving memorable musicality. Past Winners
Old Geezer AwardInstituted in the 1980's to honour long years of club membership.(Roland is obviously not eligible.) Past Winners
The Goons AwardA public warning about the stupidity of certain members, usually including a prop to help them extract themselves from embarrassing situations in the future. Past WinnersPast AwardsPletch & Dorka's Steeple Chase VOC Girls CupPast Winners
VOC UBC Ski Championship Downhill Mens "A" ClassPast Winners
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