new awards...

[chuck_diters at mail.fws.gov]

     Pardon the intrusion from a northern spectator, but I have a  question 
     concerning occasions of not awarding the Lion.  Graf Galen writes (as 
     others have noted) that at least once the award was not given since 
     the selected individual was not present at Coronation.  If the gentle 
     in question was as excellent as should be expected, was he/she not 
     deserving of the award even it it needed to be given in absentia?  It 
     doesn't seem to me that recognition in the Society should be on a 
     "must be present to win" basis.
     
                                        Bjarni
     
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