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The 1988 Mortensen Award 1988 Affirmation Conference, Los Angeles, California The Mortensen Award was established, under the direction of Ron Kershaw, in 1987. It was decided the award would be given annually to the one individual who had given outstanding service and leadership to Affirmation. It is the only continuing award Affirmation presents and it tries to recognize the best people in the organization. The past recipients are:
The selection committee for the award is composed of past recipients. Each year, around July, a call is sent out to all Affirmation leaders, chapters and groups asking for nominations. Anyone may nominate any individual or you may even nominate yourself. The receipt of nomination letters constitutes the only people considered for the award. The award was established and intended to always be an award for service to Affirmation. This is the only consideration in the selection of the recipient. We greatly applaud those wonderful souls in our midst who also make great contributions to the gay and lesbian community at large. We especially applaud those people who have made outstanding efforts in the Mormon community through related groups such as Family Fellowship, Gamofites and others in increasing the understanding of the gay and lesbian Mormon community. But because the Mortensen Award is intended to honor only service and leadership to Affirmation, the winner is decided totally on the merits of the nomination letters received and the contributions to Affirmation as spelled out in those letters.
(from Affinity, December 1988, 1). The annual presentation of the… Mortensen Award for outstanding leadership and service, named after its first recipient in 1987, honors a person who has shown outstanding service, dedication and self-sacrifice on behalf of Affirmation. The 1988 award was presented by the General Council at the Los Angeles General Conference to Clifford Barnes of the Los Angeles Chapter, who has been a member of Affirmation since its founding in 1977. He has been an officer or committee member in practically all functions, and has never failed to attend a meeting or participate in some kind of activity in all those years. We heartily salute CLIFFORD BARNES for being chose to receive this, the highest honor bestowed by Affirmation.
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