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AWARDS BANQUET
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New Orleans, LA
June 6, 1983
The Plimsoll Club


From left: William D. Chase, Apple Tree Press,recipient of the Kwapil Award; Sandy Hall, formerly with The Arizona Star, recipient of the Roll of Honor Award; and David Rhydwen, Toronto Globe & Mail.

From left: David Rhywden, Toronto Globe & Mail, presenting William Chase with the Joseph F. Kwapil Memorial Award.

Homer E. Martin, Jr., Bergen Record presenting the Roll of Honor Award to Mrs. Lou Thomas, State Times & Morning Advocate

Sandy Hall, the happy recipient of the Roll of Honor
Award from Ellie Wood Briscoe, Woods Hole, MA

From left: Nan Stoddard, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; "Straw" Thomas (husband of Lou Thomas); Barbara Semonche, Durham Herald-Sun Newspapers.

From left: Harish Trivedi, Dayton Newspapers, recipient of the Award of Merit with Barbara Semonche, Durham Herald-Sun Newspapers.

From left: Sandy Hall, Lou Thomas, Bill Chase, Grace Parch, recipient of the Roll of Honor Award, Wayne, NC and Harish Trivedi, Dayton Newspapers.

From left: Ellie Briscoe, Lou Thomas, and Shirley
Mooney, Pac Press, Ltd., Awards Banquet Chair.

From left: David Rhydwen, Toronto Globe & Mail, Bill Chase, Apple Tree Press, Jim Scofield, St. Petersburg Times, Clem Vitek, Baltimore Sun.

Bill Chase with Ellie Briscoe (and violets).

Bill Chase, Grace Parch, and Nan Stoddard

Lou Thomas with her husband, "Straw" Thomas


From left: Lou Thomas, Shirley Mooney, Bill Chase, and Sandy Hall.