HATS 2007 Professionals of the Year
June 28, 2007
Von Braun Center North Hall

The Huntsville Association of Technical Societies (HATS) honored 16 recipients at its annual Professionals of the Year (POY) Awards Dinner on Thursday, June 28, 2007, at the Holiday Inn Downtown.

The Huntsville Association of Technical Societies was founded June 17, 1969, as a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization comprised of technical and professional societies dedicated to the advancement of science and engineering. Its mission is to help coordinate the professional, educational, and civic activities of Member organizations and to promote common goals, particularly those that can best be performed by cooperative action. HATS sponsored technical and business exhibitions and symposia (TABES and TEAMS) during the period, 1985-2005. These served the local business and technical communities by providing a forum for displaying their products and talents to the international community. Since 1988, the HATS STEDTRAIN Seed Grant Program has provided 240 individual grants and over $250,000 to K-12 programs for learning activities, such as hands-on science projects.

This year 16 professionals were nominated and selected for the HATS POY Award by their Member organizations for outstanding contributions toward the mission of their awarding organization. Because the professional activities of these professionals have resulted in broad social, technological, and/or economical consequences benefiting the science and engineering community, it is fitting that their hard work has been recognized. Their extraordinary dedication, creativity, and leadership will be an inspiration to all.

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Left to Right: Jeffery Delmas, Von Braun Astronomical Society (VBAS), John Young, Huntsville Association of Technical Societies (HATS), Michael Barefield, National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), Keith Jadus, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Larry Bradford, Alabama Solar Association (ASA), Deborah Fraley, Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense (JIAMD) Summit Working Group, Dr. William (Bill) Craig, the 2006 Recipient of the HATS Joseph C. Moquin Award, Thomas Hancock, AIAA POY and also the 2007 Recipient of the HATS Joseph C. Moquin Award, Mr. Joseph C. Moquin, Lisa Galentine, Program Management Institute (PMI), Sandra Pape, Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), Lisa Gilbert, Women in Defense (WID), Stacy Houk, Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA),Jerry Gabig, National Contract Management Association (NCMA), Staff Sergeant James P. Horrocks, Association of the United States Army (AUSA), Susan Cantrell, System Safety Society (SSS), Ancil Hicks, Huntsville Aerospace Marketing Association (HAMA)

No Photo: Mike Murphy, Society of Logistics Engineers

The 2007 Joseph C. Moquin Award, named for one of Huntsville’s most outstanding technical and business leaders throughout the past 50 years, was presented to Thomas M. Hancock of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics in recognition for his extraordinary technical contribution to the North Alabama technical community. This award is selected each year from among the Professional of the Year honorees.

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Dr. William (Bill) Craig, Thomas Hancock, Joseph C. Moquin

The special guest speaker, Mr. Richard Stocks, Founder and CEO of Gold Leaf Corporation, Preservationists of the Artifacts from the Statue of Liberty and of Ellis Island gave the presentation “What does Freedom and Liberty have to do with Science and Technology?” concerning his company's activities to carry the spirit of liberty and freedom throughout the world, and what liberty and freedom means to science and technology.

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Richard Stocks

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Left to Right: Richard Stocks, POY guest speaker, Dr. William (Bill) Craig, the 2006 Recipient of the HATS Joseph C. Moquin Award, Thomas Hancock, AIAA POY and also the 2007 Recipient of the HATS Joseph C. Moquin Award, Joseph C. Moquin, Joe Fitzgerald, 2007 POY emcee, past HATS President and POY emcee, and twice POY recipient.

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