{"id":549,"date":"2017-01-11T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caresforfish.org\/?page_id=549"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T20:03:15","slug":"member-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/?page_id=549","title":{"rendered":"CARES Member of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each CARES Member Club may wish to offer recognition with an annual CARES Member of the Year Award. This achievement is awarded to a CARES Member Club participant who excels in outstanding overall contributions to ensure a positive future for conservation priority fishes, openly shares knowledge with others, and altruistically assists fellow hobbyists in their CARES endeavors.<\/p>\n

The recipient could be deserving of this award for CARES species maintained, longevity of maintenance, fish distributed to other hobbyists, or for other reasons that fit the above criteria, including a speaker, author, general hobbyist who generously assists others, or for field studies as all of these fulfill the CARES goal.<\/p>\n

A Heartfelt Thank You!<\/h2>\n

A huge and heartfelt thank you to all who participate in CARES! You are all winners as are the conservation priority fish that you are maintaining and dispersing throughout the hobby.<\/p>\n

American Cichlid Association<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

ACA CARES Member of the Year Award recipients<\/p>\n

2026<\/strong>
\nJim Cumming<\/a>
\nMike Helford
\nEddie Kadlubowski
\nJerzy Kowal
\nMark Metz<\/p>\n

2025<\/strong>
\nMichael McKinney<\/a>
\nDave Schumacher
\nCraig Storms<\/a><\/p>\n

2024<\/strong>
\nPeter George<\/a>
\nMichael Liu
\nSteven Stapleton<\/p>\n

2023<\/strong>
\nPam Chin<\/a>
\nCaroline Estes
\nPam Marsh<\/p>\n

2022<\/strong>
\nRusty Wessel<\/p>\n

2021<\/strong>
\nStephan Tanner, Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n

2019<\/strong>
\nPeter George<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>
\nKaren Haas
\nAlan Rollings<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong>
\nLawrence Kent<\/a><\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>
\nPam Chin<\/a><\/p>\n

2015<\/strong>
\nJos\u00e9 Gonz\u00e1lez<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>
\nAd Konings, Ph.D.<\/a>
\nJuan Miguel Artigas Azas<\/a><\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>
\nPaul V. Loiselle, Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n

2010<\/strong>
\nKlaus Steinhaus<\/a><\/p>\n

2009<\/strong>
\nBarbara Wooton<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong>
\nDaniel Geldof<\/p>\n

2007<\/strong>
\nDavid Hansen
\nGreg Steeves<\/a><\/p>\n

Aquarium Club of Lancaster County<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

ACLC CARES Member of the Year Award recipients<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>
\nKaren Haas
\nAlan Rollings<\/p>\n

Danbury Area Aquarium Society<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DAAS CARES Member of the Year Award recipients<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong>
\nLeslie Dick<\/a>
\nDick Moore<\/p>\n

2015<\/strong>
\nArtie Platt<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong>
\nLeslie Dick<\/a>
\nTom Sands<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong>
\nLeslie Dick<\/a>
\nDick Moore<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong>
\nBill Cole<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong>
\nLeslie Dick<\/a><\/p>\n

Federation Of Texas Aquarium Societies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

FOTAS CARES Member of the Year Award recipients<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong>
\nJessica Larrabee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each CARES Member Club may wish to offer recognition with an annual CARES Member of the Year Award. This achievement is awarded to a CARES Member Club participant who excels in outstanding overall contributions to ensure a positive future for conservation priority fishes, openly shares knowledge with others, and altruistically assists fellow hobbyists in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-549","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/549\/revisions\/2111"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caresforfish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}