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Do You Qualify
SAR Minuteman Award
By J. Michael Jones
The SAR Minuteman Award is the highest award presented to a member by the SAR. It is presented for distinguished service rendered to the SAR on the national level. Members are selected by the SAR’s Minuteman Committee, made up of previous medal recipients and appointed by the SAR President General.
The medal is presented by the President General at an annual Congress. It is not presented in absentia. The Minuteman Award was authorized in 1952 and, beginning in 1968, the medal is awarded to no more than six recipients every year. It is awarded to individual members on a one-time basis.
On www.sar.org you’ll find the Minuteman Award Guidelines and
Prerequisites (below is a sample) https://www.sar.org/wp-content/uploads/
2019/11/Minuteman-Guidelines.pdf
Prerequisites for Nomination are:
A nominee must have a minimum of five years of active and distinguished service to the National Society. He must have served at least three years in a National elective office (General Officer, Vice President General, Trustee, or Alternate Trustee); as well as having served as a Committee or Task Force Chairman/Vice Chairman for at least three years. All requirements should be thoroughly reviewed before making the nomination.
There is also a Nomination Form in pdf format.
https://www.sar.org/wp-content/ uploads/2019/11/Minuteman- Nomination-Form.pdf
Do you qualify or
to be a Minuteman? Read the information provided, do the paperwork or set goals to qualify at a later date.
The Arizona Society (Primary Society) has had a total of 8 Compatriots who have received the award since 1966. The most recipients being;
2016 – Abraham R. Byrd III 2014 – Warren M. Alter 2007 – J. Michael Jones
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