{"id":62,"date":"2013-05-14T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T23:35:55","slug":"diver-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/?page_id=62","title":{"rendered":"Diver Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 10%;\" src=\"official\/history_files\/LFAnimate.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every December since 1985 the club members have selected a &#8220;Diver of the Year&#8221; to honor.\u00a0 This is the person who did the most for the club during the past year.\u00a0 The honoree receives a plaque depicting our infamous &#8220;NASA Nerd&#8221;.\u00a0 The award is presented at the annual Texas Gulf Coast Council (TGCC) banquet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diver of the Year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2025 Cathy Strahan<\/li>\n<li>2024 Jessica Lee<\/li>\n<li>2023 Cindy Reuland<\/li>\n<li>2022 Dennis Deavenport<\/li>\n<li>2021 John Gorman<\/li>\n<li>2020 Brion Saathoff<\/li>\n<li>2018 JaVan Pruett<\/li>\n<li>2017 Louise Toole<\/li>\n<li>2016 Jenna Contenta<\/li>\n<li>2015 Mike Peters<\/li>\n<li>2014 Barbara Corbin<\/li>\n<li>2013 Polly Swerdlin<\/li>\n<li>2012 Mary Smith<\/li>\n<li>2011 John Gorman<\/li>\n<li>2010 Randy Widaman<\/li>\n<li>2009 David Melendez<\/li>\n<li>2008 Louise Toole<\/li>\n<li>2007 Barney Corbin<\/li>\n<li>2006 Paul and Ann Herring<\/li>\n<li>2005 Aurin Tesoro<\/li>\n<li>2004 Terry Tri<\/li>\n<li>2003 Bob and Marilyn Puschinsky<\/li>\n<li>2002 Michael Manering<\/li>\n<li>2001 John Harvey<\/li>\n<li>2000 Margaret Jourdan<\/li>\n<li>1999 John Harvey<\/li>\n<li>1998 Dusty Manning<\/li>\n<li>1997 Jim and Aldara Peacock<\/li>\n<li>1996 Judy Flanagan<\/li>\n<li>1995 Jack Coverdale<\/li>\n<li>1994 Gary Webb<\/li>\n<li>1993 Richard Lansing<\/li>\n<li>1992 Bob Switzer<\/li>\n<li>1991 tie between Grady Henderson, John and Karen Nickel<\/li>\n<li>1990 Fred Fredrickson<\/li>\n<li>1989 Lamar Flanagan<\/li>\n<li>1988 George and Karen Clark<\/li>\n<li>1987 Dusty Manning<\/li>\n<li>1986 Karen Smith<\/li>\n<li>1985 Fred Toole<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every December since 1985 the club members have selected a &#8220;Diver of the Year&#8221; to honor.\u00a0 This is the person who did the most for the club during the past year.\u00a0 The honoree receives a plaque depicting our infamous &#8220;NASA &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/?page_id=62\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-62","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/2964"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunarfins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}