Year 2002

This years honor, as voted on by our Board of Directors, goes to Mr. Dave Roby, of Tampa, Florida. The Rufus Oates Award, is an internal award, for the member who volunteers, their time and effort to make the Association a better place to be. Dave goes back to the beginning of the Association, when a need existed for a National communications network among dee jays. The idea was to share with others those songs that were working in their dance community.

This past year Dave has not only filled his role as our secretary/treasurer, but has done a wonderful job, of presenting our monthly top tens, in a timely fashion. This part of our communications network requires the gathering and compiling of our efforts, eight times a year, printing and mailing them out, so that we are better at what we do. In my opinion, this award, has long been overdue, since he's been working his fanny off since the inception of our growing organization.

Congratulations to Mr. Dave Roby, on an outstanding job in 2002, as well as all of the many years, he's given of himself, to make this organization work for all of the members.

Tom Polzin

President