Member Showcase

Members who have recently dedicated service to the club and community in a way that reflects "Service Above Self" and creates friendships and a better world.  The Wade Macomber Award is our club's way of recognizing these individuals.

The Wade Macomber Award

When Dr. Henry “Wade” Macomber (1894-1983) died after more than a half-century of Burlingame Rotary membership, then-President Ogden White established a memorial service award in his honor.  Each year the award has renewed and fulfilled his promise: “that the kind of steady, loyal, selfless service epitomized by Wade Macomber will not go unheralded.”

Those who are honored with the Wade Macomber Award have:

• Been a member in good standing of the Rotary Club of Burlingame for not less than ten years
• Contributed, in a number of specifically identified ways in personal service above and beyond normal expectation, to the purpose, objectives and principles of Rotary
• Made significant and unique contribution in personal service to the local community measured from the standpoint of personal time, effort and actual accomplishment
• Been recognized, among peers, as a leader, a doer and an accomplisher of special abilities
• Demonstrated personal attributes and characteristics which identify the person as a truly outstanding individual

Wade Macomber Award – Past Recipients

2010     Jim Shypertt
2009     Mike Heffernan

2008     Don Refvem

2007     Jay Plank

2006     Butch Taylor

2005     Ernie Scheppler

2004     Theodore Kruttschnitt
2003     Mark Johnson
2002     Colman Conneely
2001     Joseph Galligan
2000     Mary Janney
1999     Marilyn Orr
1998     Frederick J. Brauner, IV
1997     Lage Andersen
1996     Charley Mason
1995     Frank Hunt
1994     Basil Emery
1994     Don Lembi
1993     Gary C. Norton
1992     Aldo J. Simonetti
1991     Hjalmar W. Herman
1990     Victor Mangini
1989     Michael R. Harvey
1988     Robert M. Davidson
1987     David Carr
1986     Charles H. Eid
1986     Robert H. Showen
1985     William J. Crosby