At the Opening General Session for the 2013 STC Summit in Atlanta, President Alan Houser named two members as recipients of the President’s Award. The President’s Award honors one or more persons or institutions that have made distinguished contributions to the profession or the Society.
The first honoree is Ken Cook. Ken is president, CEO and Chairman of Ken Cook Co., a leading technical communication business with a staff of professionals in Milwaukee, WI. Ken is president of the National Coalition for Aviation and Space Education. He is also a past president and Fellow in the Society for Technical Communication. Currently, he is an active member of the STC Development Task Force and is dedicated to supporting STC both financially and socially.
His citation reads: For your continued financial and professional support of the Society’s mission, for your long history of encouraging technical communicators, and for your business success that is a testament to the power and value of technical communication.
The second honoree is Dan Voss. Dan is a member of the STC Orlando-Central Florida chapter, the Academic and AccessAbility SIGs, and an STC Fellow. He is also the Student Affairs Outreach for the Community Affairs Committee. Dan is a 34-year veteran proposal writer and technical marketing/media communicator with Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (LMMFC) in Orlando Florida and a 19-year adjunct instructor for Webster University. He has presented at more than 20 STC international conferences, coauthored 4 articles for Technical Communication, and coauthored the textbook Ethics in Technical Communication: Shades of Gray (John Wiley and Sons, 1997). He has received numerous awards at local and national levels, both within STC and within Lockheed Martin, and is the only non-engineer ever to receive LMMFC’s coveted Author-of-the-Year award.
His citation reads: For your tireless promotion of the Society’s Student Mentoring Program and your outreach to the next generation of Society members.
Congratulations to both of these gentlemen, and thank you for your service to STC and to the profession of technical communication.