The 2022 Distinguished Service Award and deadlines for nomination

[B. Dudley]

Yes Dean, that is all correct and still in effect.


I would like to remind everyone that current serving board members and members are NOT eligible for nomination.

Past serving board members are.

I have been receiving some invalid nominations for board members.

[6pt-Sika]

With all that being said the number of “eligible” persons sent in so far was not answered !

[6pt-Sika]

Unless I’m missing something in this blurb , nowhere in it does it say anything about board member past present etc . Distinguished Service Award: The purpose of the PGCA Distinguished Service Award Pin program is to adopt a way to recognize a member's personal contributions of spirit, time, dedication and reliability unselfishly donated for the good of the organization. These members will be recognized before their peers at an official PGCA function, primarily the PGCA Annual Meeting and Banquet.

The members recognized will have gone 'above and beyond ' the ordinary and will have distanced themselves by the merit of their deeds. They will have furthered the mission of the PGCA and will have promoted good will and fellowship among members and visitors at activities including the Forum, PGCA sanctioned events, PGCA displays, and PGCA 'headquarters' at shows and events. They will have given freely of their time in doing these deeds and will have presented a friendly face of the PGCA.

The award for each recipient will be a lapel pin replicating the distinct outline and engraving of the fore end tip of a high grade Parker gun. The recipient will also receive an award letter that is suitable for framing.

Members of the PGCA who have received the Distinguished Service Award Pin have their names placed on an Distinguished Service Honor Roll to provide a permanent record of their extraordinary service to the Parker Gun Collectors Association.

If you would like to nominate a fellow PGCA member to be considered for the Distinguished Service Award fill out a nomination form and submit it to the PGCA.

Nominations are accumulated for a rolling three-year period. After a name has been in the nominations file for three consecutive years it will drop off leaving only current (within a calendar three years) entries for that nominee.

[6pt-Sika]

Okay one of you stated ANY member is eligible then the other states only past BOD’s are eligible and the burb I copied and pasted says nothing about the BOD badge being a necessity either past or present .

[6pt-Sika]

What’s correct Romig says , “Our slate of candidates is the entire membership of the PGCA.” And Dudley says “Yes Dean, that is all correct and still in effect.


I would like to remind everyone that current serving board members and members are NOT eligible for nomination.

Past serving board members are.” ! Those two statements do not line up .

[Mike McKinney]

Look at the first post in this thread. I think the new explanation may be a little different from the previous, but, sitting board members are the only excluded members, I believe.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by CraigThompson

Okay one of you stated ANY member is eligible then the other states only past BOD’s are eligible and the burb I copied and pasted says nothing about the BOD badge being a necessity either past or present .

Craig, right from the nomination form-


"Members of the PGCA Board of Directors and officers are disqualified from receiving the Distinguished Service Award by the mere fact that they are not considered, for these purposes, to be the regular membership while holding office."