Re: Merrill C. Hamburg Trophy

From: ray_harlan <rbharlan_at_comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:05:15 -0000

One advantage of having old guys in the hobby is that they were around when "things" happened. The disadvantage is they might not remember "things" correctly. Let's see what I can do.

When the F1D Team Selection Committee was formed in 1975, to beef up the program to eliminate sandbagging and consequently weak teams, two trophies were created. The Pete Andrews Outstanding Achievement Award went to the most improved flier and the Hamburg trophy went to the top flier in the Team Selection Finals, as incentives to "do your best". I couldn't remember which trophy was which until I went through some 1981 files that included a vote for Ceasar Banks for the Andrews most improved award.

I have no idea when the awarding of these trophies was abandoned and don't have any documents to support names of winners for each cycle. If Rich Doig were with us, I'm sure he would have such documents.

I think it would be nice to find the trophies and resurect the awards.

Ray

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Brett Sanborn <brett.d.sanborn@...> wrote:
>
> Since Kang has called for a search for a old indoor video, I thought I'd
> bring up something else that's lost that I've been wondering about for a
> while.
>
> An old INAV from the 80's has a picture of Brown, Banks, and Bud Romak
> after the team selection at Tustin holding a trophy that is marked "The
> Merrill C. Hamburg Trophy" in the caption. I had never heard of this
> trophy, and Steve Brown did not know that much about the trophy other than
> it disappeared in the 1990's and that Doig had it at some point.
>
> I emailed the historians at AMA and nothing turned up about the trophy.
> Phil Sullivan from NFFS also knew nothing about this trophy. Nor is
> anything mentioned in Merrill C. Hamburg's biography on AMA's website.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Brett
>
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