Award of Merrit – The Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies

The Award of Merit Recipients

This award was established in 1992 by the Association to recognise those members who have performed outstanding philatelic service in their own localities.

Any society who wishes to nominate a member of their society or indeed a member of another society for this award, please download and complete this form and submit it to the Secretary prior to the January meeting of the Association for it to be considered for the next Congress.

Below are the recipients of this medal.

Year	Name of Recipient	Society	Year	Name of Recipient	Society
1993	J.M. Crawford	Bearsden	2004	D. Manners	Edinburgh SG
	Miss M. MacIntyre	Paisley		Ron Marr	Arbroath
	Mrs. J. Matthews	Lanarkshire	2005	Dennis Collins	Dundee
	H. Revell	Scottish	2006	John Mackie	St. Andrews
1994	W.W. Clarkson	Falkirk	2007	Ian Burns	Falkirk
	I. Cripps	Kirkcaldy		Sheila Den	Aberdeen
	I. Fleming	Scottish	2008	Lise Whittle	Ayrshire
	G. Kay	Scottish	2009	Jim Haggart	Edinburgh
1995	J. Henderson	Perth	2010	Alex Walker	Aberdeen
	Mrs. J. MacLeod	Caledonian	2011	Jim Moffat	Paisley
	W. Mitchell	Perth	2012	Keith Robinson	Scottish Vikings
	Mrs. S. Sinclair	Lanarkshire	2013	Alan Blakeley	Caledonian
	J.T. Cameron	Largs		Brian Dow	Alba
1996	J. Jack	Dumfries		Eric Mason	Scottish
	K. Karsten	St. Andrews	2014	Paul McGowan	Lanarkshire
	A. Mackie	Aberdeen	2015	Edith Thorp	Kirkcudbright
	J. Waterman	Aberdeen		Alfred Thorp	Kirkcudbright
1997	D. Mekie	Edinburgh		Mavis Pavey	Germany and Colonies
	D. Jefferies	Scottish		George Burney	Hawick
1998	B. Brown	Old Eastwood	2016	Raymond Baldock	Lanarkshire P.S.
	W. Scott	Lanarkshire		Finlay Mitchell	Largs & District Stamp Club
	G. Boyd	Ayrshire	2017	Alexander McCulloch	Kirkcudbright P.S.
	J. Gourlay	St. Andrews	2018	Gordon Shepherd	Uddingston Stamp & Postcard Club
1999	M. Pomeroy	Lanarkshire	2019	Ron Goodfellow	Dundee & District P.S.
	Dr. J. Anderson	Falkirk		Sandie Robb	Development Officer
	J. Raschke	Arbroath	2022	Elizabeth Nairn	Caledonian P.S.
	W. Spalding	Strathclyde PC	2024	Brian Thomson	Stirling P.S.
2000	D. Watson	Kirkcudbright
2001	M. Turnbull	Falkirk
	R. Barclay	Paisley
	M. Scott (P)	Dundee & St.Andrews
	D. Rossall	Ayrshire
2002	Mrs. J. Osborne	Falkirk
	J. McLaren	Perth
	B. Thomson	Stirling
	R. Sherman	Scottish
2003	W. McKinlay	Bearsden
	F.M. Fisher	Alba
	L. Taylor	Scottish
	A. Stevenson	Stirling

The award shall be known as the A.S.P.S. Award of Merit
The qualifications necessary for the Award are that the nominee must have performed outstanding work to advance the interest of philately (other than through study, research, the formation of collections, journalistic work and the reading of papers_, in connection with the activities of the Association or of Congress, of any convention, exhibition or society, or has undertaken other important work for the benefit of philately over a period of years.
Nominations of those deemed worthy of an Award may be made annually by the Association or a Society or other body that is affiliated to the Association.
A special form of nomination is necessary for the award and is obtainable from the Association Secretary by such date as shall be specified from time to time.
Nominations on the prescribed form must be accompanied by a full and adequate statement of the status and qualifications of the person so nominated and this information shall be at the disposal of the council of the Association. Nominees must not be approached about their nomination. It is inappropriate to nominate a person who has already been a recipient of the McConnell Medal.
Unsuccessful nominations may be re-submitted on the prescribed form after five years have elapsed since the original nomination.

The ______________________________ Philatelic Society wish to nominate the undernoted to be a recipient of the A.S.P.S. Award of Merrit.
Name:
Address:
Post Code:
Details of Nominee:

Full Details of the nomination to include work to advance the interest of philately ( other than through study, research, the formation of collections, journalistic work and the reading of papers ), in connection with the activities of the Association or of Congress, of any convention, exhibition or society, or has undertaken other important work for the benefit of philately over a period of years.

This information may be updated to give any further details which become available from the date of this submission.

Nominations must be in the hands of the Secretary of the Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies by such date as shall be specified. At present, nominations should be submitted by the January Council meeting for any awards to be made at the following Congress.