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Historical Society of New Mexico - Award Recipients

       The Historical Society announced recipients in the following areas for contributors to the field of New Mexico History and Historic Preservation at its Annual Conferences.  The Society is pleased to recognize and thank these individuals and organizations for their commitment to New Mexico.

Paul Walter Award, services to the Historical Society of New Mexico.
2010 - Richard Melzer.
2011 - Van Dorn Hooker.
 

Lansing B. Bloom Award, for Outstanding Publication by an Institution of the Society.
2004 - Los Alamos Historical Society Publication
2004 - Nancy Cook Steeper, author.  Dorothy McKibben: Gatekeeper to Los Alamos
2005 - New Mexico Genealogist, quarterly journal - New Mexico Genealogy Society
2005 - Union County Historical Society Review, quarterly journal - Union County
            Historical Society (institution)
2006 - Bill Lockhard.  Fourth Street, Near Manzanares:  The Carbonated Beverage
            Industry in Socorro, New Mexico - Socorro County Historical Society
2008 - New Mexico Genealogy Society.  Aqui se Comineza.
2009 - Rio Grande Books & Don Bullis.   New Mexico, A Biographical Dictionary.
2010 - Museum of New Mexico Press,  Telling New Mexico:  A New History
2011 - New Mexico Jewish Historical Society: Legacy
            Menaul Historical Library of the Southwest: Menaul Historical Library of 
             the Southwest Review

Edgar Lee Hewett Award, for Service to the Public.
2005 - Roger K. Burnett, Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico
2006 - David V. Holtby, editor.  University of New Mexico Press
2009 - Jack Loeffler
2010 - The Maddox Foundation
2011 - Jay Smith, Former Director, Hubbard Museum, President of Mountain Plains
            Museum Association

Dorothy Woodward Award, for Education.
2005 - Marc Simmons and Ron Kil.  The Children of the West Series.  UNM Press
2006 - New Mexico Humanities Council for humanities programming:  Chautauqua
            Program and the National History Day Competition
2009 - Jon Hunner
2010 - The New Mexico History Museum
2011 - New Mexico Museum of Art

Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award, Significant Contribution to the Field of History.
2004 - Marc Simmons, author.  Hispanic Albuquerque, 1706-1846.  UNM Press
2004 - David L. Witt, author.  Modernist in Taos: from Dasburg to Martin. Red
             Crane Press
2005 - Charles M. Carrillo, Saints of the Pueblos.  LPD Press
2005 - Barbara Vogt Mallery, Bailing Wire and Gamuza:  The True Story of a
            Family Ranch Near Ramah, New Mexico.  New Mexico Magazine
2006 - Gene Peach and Max Evans, Making a Hand:  Growing up Cowboy in New
             Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press
2006 - Mark L. Gardner and Ron Kil.  Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys. 
              Museum of New Mexico Press
2008 - Joe Traugott.  The Art of New Mexico:  How the West is One. AND    
            Gloria Giffords.  Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light.
2009 -  Flannery Burke.  From Greenwich Village to Taos.
            Erika Bsumek.  Indian Made.
2010 - Curtis Fort and Margaret Booker.  The Santa Fe House:  Historic       
            Residences, Enchanting Adobes and Romantic Revivals.  Rizolli Books.
2011 - David Witt.  Ernest Tompson Seton:  The Life and Legacy of an Artist and
             Conservationist.

Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Awards, for Outstanding Publication in the Field of History.
2004 - Richard Melzer, author.  When We Were Young in the West.  Sunstone Press
2004 - E. Richard Hart, author.  Pedro Pino:  Governor of Zuni Pueblo.
             University of Utah Press
2005 - William Dunmire, author.  The Gardens of New Spain. 
              University of Texas Press
2005 - John Nieto Phillips, author.  The Language of Blood.  UNM Press
2006 - Stanley Hordes, author.  To the End of the Earth. Columbia University Press
2006 - Colleen O'Neill, author. working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the
            Twentieth Century.  University Press of Kansas
2008 - Richard Melzer.  Buried Treasures:  Famous and Unusual Gravesites in 

            NM History.
2009 - Paula Moore.    Cricket Coogler in the Web.
2010 - Marsha Weisiger.  Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo County. 
              University of Washington Press.
2011 - Sunstone Press:  White Shell Water Place: An Anthology of Native American
            Reflections on the 400th Anniversary of Santa Fe, New Mexico  AND
            All Trails Lead to Santa Fe, An Anthology Commemorating the 400th
            Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610.

Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award, for Historic Survey and Research.
2004 - V. B. Price, author and Kirk Gettings, photographer.  Albuquerque, A City
            at the End of the World.  UNM Press
2005 - Jon Hunner, author.  Inventing Los Alamos.  University of Oklahoma Press
2006 - Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint. authors.  Documents of the
             Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542.  Southern Methodist University Press
2008 - John Baxter
2009 - Richard Flint.  No Settlement, No Conquest.
2010 - The National Park Service.  Preservation and Management Guidelines
            for Vanishing Treasures Resources.
2011 - Lucy R. Lippard, Down County: the Tano of Galisteo Basin, 1250-1782.
            Museum Press of New Mexico.

Bradford Prince Award, for Significant Work in the Field of Historic Preservation.
2004 - Renovation of the Eklund Hotel, Clayton; Eklund Hotel Association
            in Clayton, NM; John D. Feinberg, Collaborative, Inc.; Dean Brookie,
             Collaborative, Inc.; Global Structures, Rue Lazzell, Supervisor
2005 - Renovation of the Brams House, "Little House on the Prairie" in Amistad
            - Women of the Amistad United Methodist Church
2006 - Rev. Msgr. Jerome Martinez for rededication of St. Francis Cathedral in
            Santa Fe; Rebuilding church in El Rito; designing and building Santa
            Maria de la Paz, Santa Fe; redesigning the architectural responsibilities
            and initiating the first Archbishop's Commission for the Preservation of
             Historic Churches while Vicar General.
2008 - Lynda Sanchez
2009 - Linda Davis, the Davis Family and the CS Cattle Company.
2010 - David Kammer.
2011 - Diane Prather for work at the Nogal Ranger Station.

Pablita Velarde Award, for an outstanding children's publication
2010 - Kathryn Lasky, Ora Eitlan, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  Georgia Rises: 
            A Day in the Life of Georgia O'Keefe.
2011 - Peggy Pond Church and Charles M. Carrillo. Shoes for Santo Niño.

Gilberto Espinosa Prize (NMHR Award)
2009 - Enrique R. Lamadrid.  "Rutas del Corazon", photos by Miguel Gandert,
             NMHR, 84:4.
2010 - Richard Flint.  "Without them Nothing was Possible:  The Coronado
            Expedition's Indian Allies," NMHR, 84:1

Myra Ellen Jenkins Graduate Scholarship Award:
2009 - Wendy Horton, NMSU
2010 - Anna Cabrera, UNM; and Christy Roye, NMSU