2007 Carper Award Winner

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(From Wikipedia and previous Carper Award announcements)
"The Dr. N. Gordon Carper Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 1999 to honor individuals "for meritorious services in sustaining and enriching collegiate academic competitions". It was the inspiration of former Georgia Tech luminary Al Whited, who modeled it on the Fermi Award, and current demographer Brian Rostron. The award is presented annually to a member of the quizbowl community who exhibits the kind of dedication to and long-term support of academic competitions as exemplified by career of Dr. Carper. The Carper Award, while sponsored by the Academic Competition Federation (ACF), is not limited to individuals with ACF affiliations.

List of awardees
* 1999 Dr. N. Gordon Carper of Berry College.
* 2000 Dr. Carol Guthrie of the University of Tennessee.
* 2001 Dr. Robert Meredith of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
* 2002 not presented
* 2003 Eric Hillemann of Carleton College
* 2004 Don Windham of the University of Tennessee and
Gaius Stern of the University of California, Berkeley
* 2005 Charlie Steinhice of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
* 2006 R. Robert Hentzel, formerly of Iowa State University, now of NAQT

As the facilitator of the 2007 Carper Award voting on behalf of ACF, I am pleased to announce that this year's winner of the 2007 Dr. N Gordon Carper Award for meritorious service in sustaining and enriching collegiate academic competitions is Andrew Yaphe, of the University of Chicago. The award was announced yesterday at ACF Nationals at Vanderbilt. On behalf of all who voted this year, a congratulations to you Andrew.

Craig Barker
2007 Carper Award Voting Coordinator