The first AANS executive director, Carl H. Hauber, JD, died on his birthday, Aug. 4. He served as AANS executive director from 1977 to his retirement in 1996. During his 19-year tenure, the AANS received a number of awards for organizational excellence, including the American Society of Association Executives awards for Excellence for Finance and Administration in 1994 and for Excellence for Educational Programming in both 1983 and 1994. The AANS also received the American Medical Association’s National Congress on Adolescent Health Award in 1989, and the Professional Convention Management Association’s Award for Excellence in Meeting Management in 1994.
He previously served as executive director of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association and of the American Oil Chemists’ Society. He was an American Society of Association Executives certified association executive. A 30-year member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve, from which he retired in 1986 at the rank of colonel, he was decorated with the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal and Air Force Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster. He received his law degree from the University of Illinois in 1961.
His family requested that in lieu of flowers donations be sent to the museum he started, the Museum of Military Memorabilia, P.O. Box 112800, Naples, Fla., 34108. A service with an Air Force honor guard was held Aug. 9 at Naples Memorial Funeral Home in Naples, Fla.
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