MAC Presidents' Award
Purpose
The MAC Presidents' Award was established in 1986 as a means for MAC to recognize significant contributions to the archival profession by individuals, institutions, and organizations not directly involved in archival work but knowledgeable about its purpose and value. Recipients are chosen by a committee comprising the three most recent past presidents of MAC from nominations submitted by committees in each of the 13 states in the MAC region. At the state level, nominations may be made by contacting the state chair directly, or through solicitation of nominations by the chair or members of the state committee. Each state committee may put forward only one nomination per year. As many as three awards may be presented each year. Recipients are invited to attend the members' meeting held at MAC's annual meeting in the spring to receive their certificates.
The Presidents' Award committee is also responsible for collecting nominations and passing recommendations to Council for the MAC Distinguished Service Award, which is presented at the Awards Luncheon at the spring meeting.
Download the nomination form (pdf) to nominate an individual for the Presidents' Award. Send nomination forms to your state chair.
ILLINOIS
Scott Schwartz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
schwrtzs@uiuc.edu
INDIANA
Steve Towne, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
setowne@iupui.edu
IOWA
Michele Christian, Iowa State University
michelec@iastate.edu
KANSAS
Tony Crawford, Kansas State University
arcford@lib.ksu.edu
Joe Laframboise, Kansas State Historical Society
LJoseph57@gmail.com
KENTUCKY
Nancy DeMarcus, University of Kentucky
nancyd@uky.edu
MICHIGAN
Amy Reimann, Starr Commonwealth
reimanna@starr.org
MINNESOTA
Ann Kenne, University of St. Thomas
amkenne1@stthomas.edu
MISSOURI
Kathleen McIntyre Conway
bandkconway@classicnet.net
NEBRASKA
Andrea Faling, Nebraska State Historical Society
bun@nebraskahistory.org
NORTH DAKOTA
No chair. Please contact Steve McShane, Presidents' Award Committee chair
OHIO
George Bain, Ohio University
SOUTH DAKOTA
LaVera Rose, South Dakota State Library
WISCONSIN
Paul Beck, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
beck.paul@uwlax.edu
For more information, please contact:
Stephen McShane
Archivist / Curator
Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway
Gary, IN 46408
Email: smcshane@iun.edu
Tel: 219-980-6628
Previous Winners of the MAC Presidents' Award
| 2009 | Nancy Kraft, University of Iowa Libraries |
| Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation | |
| Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning | |
| Wisconsin Small Jewish Communities History Project | |
| 2008 | Ramona (Moni) Hourt, Maria Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center |
| Dr. James C. Klotter, State Historian, Commonwealth of Kentucky | |
| Grant Price, Archives of Iowa Broadcasting | |
| 2007 | Ada Woodson Adams, President, Multicultural Genealogical Center |
| 2006 | Studs Terkel, Author and Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Chicago Historical Society |
| Fred DeLap, Edgar County (Illinois) Genealogical Society | |
| 2005 | Ralph DuPae, Steamboat Photograph Collection, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, Department of Special Collections |
| 2004 | No recipient |
| 2003 | National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive Advisory Committee |
| 2002 | Prof. Clarke Chambers, Social Welfare History Archives |
| Katherine Lederer, Ozarks African-American History Collection | |
| 2001 | Rev. Lowell G. Almen, Evangelical Church of America |
| Robert L. Payton, Philanthropic Studies Collection | |
| 2000 | Prof. Emeritus John J. Baughman, Indiana |
| Kermit B. Karns for his role in indexing N.D. Germans records | |
| Neal W. Moore, Ozarks Labor History Society | |
| 1999 | U.S. Congressman Sidney Yates, Illinois |
| Dr. Elton J. Bruins, Jt. Archives of Holland | |
| 1998 | Sheldon F. Reese Foundation and Margaret Reese |
| Friends of the Center Alliance Ltd. (FOCAL) | |
| 1997 | 3M Corporation |
| 1996 | Stewart S. Howe Foundation, Illinois |
| Richard L. D. Morse, Consumer Movement Archives | |
| 1995 | Abraham Lincoln Association |
| Brooks McCormick, Chief CEO (retired), Navistar International Transportation Company | |
| 1994 | Louise Noun and Mary Louise Smith, Iowa Women's Archives founders |
| 1993 | Gerry Ray, Helped establish the only Kansas county archives |
| 1992 | The United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Workers of America |
| Minnesota State Senator Allan H. Spear and Representative Steve Trimble, Minnesota | |
| Adolf E. and Rebecca B. Schroeder | |
| 1991 | Curt Teich Foundation |
| Cleveland Foundation | |
| 1990 | Shirley Herd and Virtea Downey, Indianapolis teachers |
| 1989 | Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago |
| Minnesota Future Resources Commission | |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and Santa Fe Southern Pacific Foundation | |
| 1988 | U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton, Missouri |
| Iowa Federation of Labor |

