AER Awards...Nominate Someone Today!

By Billy Brookshire, Chair, AER Awards Committee

Is there someone who has influenced you as a professional? Is there someone you know whose work has significantly affected the lives of blind persons? Is there someone in your chapter or division who deserves special recognition for their contributions to the field? Please take time today to consider those who have influenced you, added value to the blindness field, or affected the lives of blindness professionals and blind persons in an outstanding way. The 2004-2006 AER Awards Committee strongly encourages you to nominate them for one of AER’s prestigious awards.

The highest recognition that AER gives to outstanding blindness professionals are the Allen, Bauman, McAulay and Shotwell awards. Each of these awards honors a different aspect of service to the field.

Use the application on the opposite page to nominate a distinguished professional for one of these prestigious awards. Or download an application from the AER website at www.aerbvi.org. For more information contact Barbara Sherr at the AER Central Office at 877-492-2708, ext. 201, or e-mail bsherr@aerbvi.org.

On the following pages you will also find nomination forms for other important awards. The AER Outstanding Chapter Award recognizes significant contributions of an AER chapter. The C. Warren Bledsoe Award honors a noteworthy piece of literature contributing to the field of blindness.

We have also included the application for the Douglas C. MacFarland Award, which was established to honor an individual who has provided leadership in the field of blindness and visual impairment and is now retired from the field.

In addition, there is an application for the MacFarland Stipend, which is presented to help defray the cost of attending the AER International Conference.

Take a few minutes to nominate someone and give recognition to a person who has given so much to our field.