Professor Robert F. Borkenstein Award

To recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions through a lifetime of service consistent with the ideals and achievements of Dr. Robert F. Borkenstein. These contributions will be in the area of alcohol/drugs in relation to traffic and transportation safety.

         Recipients

1989 Prof. Robert F. Borkenstein - IACT

1990 Robert B. Forney, Sr.

1991 Edgar W. Kivela

1992 Dr. Kurt M. Dubowski - IACT

1993 Robert H. Reeder

1994 Ralph Turner

1995 Bryan S. Finkle

1996 Willam R. Picton

1997 Douglas M. Lucas

1998 Lowell C. Van Berkom - IACT

1999 J. Robert Zettl - IACT

2000 Yale H. Caplan - IACT

2004 Alan Wayne Jones - IACT

2005 J.D. Chastain

2006 Rod G. Gullberg - IACT

2007 Patrick Harding - IACT

2008 Johnny 'Mack' Cowan - IACT

2009 Laurel J. Farrell - IACT

2010 Dr. Dennis Canfield







Dr.Robert F. Borkenstein
Inventor of the Breathalyzer

Sponsor

The Robert F. Borkenstein Award is conferred by the National Safety Council : Highway Traffic Safety Section.

Many members of IACT are recipients of this Award.

Qualifications

Persons nominated must, through a minimum tenure of twenty-five years of active service in the field of alcohol/drugs and traffic safety, have contributed to that field to a degreee that their achievements have been nationally recognized. A minimum of ten years of active and productive involvement as a volunteer with the National Safety Council must be shown. Career contributions will have been in one of the following areas: (1) alcohol education; (2) legal matters, including prosecution, defense, adjudication, or research of alcohol-related cases; (3) human factors -- the involvement in scientific research and studies of alcohol and the medical/physiological/psychological aspects of alcohol and traffic safety; (4) technology-toxicological procedures involving alcohol/drugs and development and evaluation of techniques; and (5) action programs -- law enforcement, legislation, public information, intervention efforts, and other social factors related to alcohol/drugs and traffic safety.