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Certificate of Appreciation: These are available for award to anyone who has done any type of work for which the Club should express special appreciation.
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Special Certificates of Appreciation--Jan Parola
With gratitude and appreciation for dedicating countless hours to the welfare of Leonbergers through your work in rescue.
Leo Heart Award--Bruce DeVelbiss (posthumous)
In recognition of a lifetime of devotion, and for translating that devotion into action to the direct benefit of the health of the Leonberger breed.
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Leo Award: The Leo Award is available for award to persons who have done exceptional work for the breed and/or the Club in a given year. It can be awarded for a particularly well done individual project, or for more generally applied excellence.
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Leo Award--none awarded this year
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Heinrich Essig Award (HEA): This is the LCAs most prestigious honor, and was first awarded to the founders in 1994. The HEA is given for the highest standard of dedication and achievement on behalf of the breed and/or the Club over a number of years. Past winners are: Mary & Reiner Decher (1994), Waltraut & Klaus Zieher (1994), Manfred & Sylvia Kaufman (1994), Keri Campbell (1994), Melanie Brown (1994), Yves Parent (1994), Brian Peters (1994), Caroline Isberg (1997), Jim & Marlene Stuteville (1998), Guido Perosino (1999), Carol Lewis (2001), Glen Ferguson (2002), Martha Kalina (2003), and Linda Mullins Spirio (2003), John McRae (2006), Carin Shadwick and Geeske Joel (2007).
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Heinrich Essig Award--(none awarded this year)
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Millenium Award 2008 (from the Italian Leonberger Club): This was announced during the meeting of the International Leonberger Union:
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Millenium Leonberger Award 2008--
Beth O'Connor, Mary Decher & Glen Ferguson
In order to have worked, with seroiusness, to the acknowledgment of
the Leonberger Club of America by the American Kennel Club, guiding
the first Club of the breed of the United States in a difficult and
complex path looking for the opportunities of development of the
Leonberger without never to lose of sight his values - the
correspondence to the original standard, the health and the character
as well as the education and responsibility of the breeders.--Stephania Bonati,
President,
Club Italiano del Leonberger
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