Awards 1970 - 1979

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1970

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

The Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J.: Director, Weston Observatory

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Howard R. Hawkins: President, RCA Global Communications

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Jonathan Eldridge: Assistant VP Public Relations, ITT

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

Fred Feldman: WOR Radio Helicopter Pilot

1971

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

Esterly C. Page: Chairman of the Board, Telcom, Inc.

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Walter R. Brown: RCA Space Engineer

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Kenneth Richardson: Chief Electronics Engineer, Bilnor Corp.

Marconi Memorial Medal of Honor

Harold P. Westman: Electronics Editor and Textbook author

1972

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

B. Frank Borsody: U.S. Foreign Service and Navy

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

John S. Anderson: Board Chairman, Aeronautical Radio, Inc.

Marconi Memorial Medal of Honor

Karl Baarslag: Author of “SOS to the Rescue”

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Rear Admiral Benjamin Katz, USN (Ret.): Naval Radio Communications

1973

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

Fred M. Link: President, Link Radio Corporation

Marconi Memorial Medal of Honor

Donald K. deNeuf: Vice President, Press Wireless, ITT

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

Reginald J. Iversen: Radio Engineer, New York Times

Marconi Memorial Service Award Plaque

Bell Laboratories: 25th Anniversary of Invention of the Transistor

1974

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

Peter C. Goldmark: President, CBS Laboratories

Marconi Memorial Medal of Honor

Harold H. Beverage: Research Engineer, RCA Laboratories

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Ed G. Raser: Supervising Engineer, NJ State Police Radio Communications

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

G. W. Tunnell: Division Vice President RCA

1975

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

Eugene D. Becken: President, RCA Global Communications

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

Frank Dvorsky: U.S. Air Force Electronics Engineer (Ret.)

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Captain Huron C. Moore:  Naval Radio Communications (Ret.)

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Benjamin Wolfe:  Vice President, Engineering, Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc.

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

Col. W. J. Baird (USA, Ret):  Armed Forces Communications

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

Paul Ives, Jr.:  Chairman, Am. Pilots Association Electronics Committee

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Robert E. Lee:  FCC Commissioner

1976

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

Francis Thomas Cassidy: President USTS/Director, ITT World Communications

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

John McKenna: Vice President, RCA Global Communications

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

Lt. Russell A. Langdon USN (Ret): Radio Photo Communications, Naval Communications

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Honor

Arthur Clarence Goodnow: Radio Engineer, Westinghouse

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

William A. Leonard II: Senior Vice President, CBS News

1977

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

Eugene H. Rietzke: Founder of Capitol Radio Engineering Institute

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Frank O. Braynard: Marine Writer/Historian

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

Julius Barnathan: President-Broadcast Operations and Engineering, ABC

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

Patrick O’Keeffe: Writer of Sea, Mystery and Detective Stories

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

George Jacobs: Voice of America

Marconi Memorial Scroll of Honor

Bente Knudson: (posthumously) Radio Officer, M/V Norse Variant

Marconi Memorial Scroll of Honor

Kari Bergelien: (posthumously) Radio Officer, M/V Anita

Honorary Award

Bertram S. Diamond: Engineer Commercial Cable Co., ITT Communications

1978

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

Joseph V. Charyk: President, Communications Satellite Corporation

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement

John T. Wilner: Director of Engineering, NJ State Public Broadcasting System

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

M. Harvey Strichartz:  American Radio Association

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

George W. Bartlett:  Vice President, Engineering, National Association of Broadcasters

Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Service

Robert J. Doherty:  Organized the special program to commemorate 75th anniversary of Marconi’s 75th Anniversary of Marconi’s first two-way trans-Atlantic message

Marconi Memorial Scroll of Honor

United States Coast GuardAccepted by Capt. John N. MacDonald AMVER Center, New York

1979

DeForest Audion Gold Medal Award

George E. Sterling: Accepted by: Com. Robert E. Lee FCC Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission