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Volunteer Coordinator:
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updated 2.2.2024
Opportunities
Volunteers are the foundation for creating an active, fun, and productive club, and are hugely appreciated for their contributions to the running community. Each year, the Club recognizes the many hours spent by our member volunteers with an invitation to the ARR Volunteer Appreciation Banquet, held at a local restaurant.
Albuquerque Road Runners Club welcomes volunteers to assist with:
Albuquerque Road Runners Club welcomes volunteers to assist with:
- staging Club Races and Fun Runs
- making our Women in Training Program happen - be a mentor!
- helping with Trail Cleanup
- helping at other community races, such as Duke City Marathon as pace group leaders and Bag Drop staff
- and anything else that may come up!
Volunteer Hall of Fame Inductees are listed at the bottom of page.
VOLUNTEER BANQUET for 2023 - Held on January 31, 2024
The Club recognized the many hours spent by our members in service to ARR during 2023 with the Annual Volunteer Banquet held on January 31 at Tomato Café. Club president Tom Besson and his wife Sara Nurnberg hosted the group totaling 41 attendees for dinner and drinks, gifting all with a white coffee mug emblazoned with the ARR color logo. Tom also announced two new inductees into the ARR Volunteer Hall of Fame: Spencer Briggs and Peter Falk, whose names have been added to the official plaque. Glenda Muirhead was also honored as a long-time volunteer. Congratulations to everyone. And please keep up the great work!
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VOLUNTEER BANQUET for 2022 - Held on February 1, 2023
Forty ARR members and guests attended our Club's Volunteer Banquet, enjoying a buffet meal of pizza and assorted Italian foods and visiting with old friends and new. President Tom Besson welcomed and thanked our volunteers for their invaluable service to the club in 2022, and then announced the two newest honorees to the Volunteer Hall of Fame: Dina Hammad, for her four years serving as the Club's Treasurer, and Norm Gagne, attorney, for his ongoing advocacy for the return of the La Luz Trail Run, an ARR Club race.
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Norm Gagne and Dina Hammad, newly inducted into the Volunteer Hall of Fame
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VOLUNTEER BANQUET for 2019 - HELD ON JANUARY 25, 2020
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Albuquerque Road Runners Club is pleased to announce our newest inductee into the ARR Volunteer Hall of Fame:
Tom Besson Tom has been with the club for many years, is a member of the ARR Board of Directors, and is the Director of the club's Women's Distance Festival 5K Run and Walk. He also directed the race in 2018 and 2019. Tom was congratulated by ARR President Kurt Coonrod, and received a rousing round of applause for his work on behalf of the club. Additionally, Tom presented a book The Crash of TWA Flight 260 to Rodger Sack, now-retired La Luz Race Director, and to Jeff and Cheryl Williams, the Club's newest race directors for La Luz. The banquet took place at Standard Diner on Central Avenue. Forty club members and family attended and enjoyed a three-course meal. Again this year, Volunteer Coordinator Kelley Garcia and husband Joaquin presented attendees with a gift bottle of wine, delivered in a reusable ARR tote bag. Congratulations to Tom, and thank you to all our volunteers for their service to the club in 2019. |
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Volunteer Hall of Fame
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Eric C. and Cathy Pearce
Kurt Coonrod Matt Vaive John and Barbara McHaffie Rodger Sack Will Steinberg Paul Grosvenor Terry Bisbee Victor Nemudrov Kennalee Nemudrov Larry Mounger Patrice Leddy Mary Ann Bosworth John Farrow Ken Vernon Bill Nebe Rolf and Donna Engleman Ed Heller Roxanne Miller Jean Herbert Marcel Hesch Kathy McDonald Rick and Jean Garlie Connie Sack Stephanie Eras Cece Niemczyk Alan Overmier Holly Palmer 2010
Richard Knapp Karen Shackleford Jane Thompson Kelley Garcia Joaquin Garcia 2011
Nicole Buerger Richard Harris Glenda Muirhead Shannon Zanelli |
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Ed Zanelli Ken Gordon Donald K Porter 2013
Philip Blong Jane and Charles Fuller Martha Porter Tammy Remiker 2014
Eric Biedermann Kathy Kirsling Wendy Wiggins 2015
Gwen Walker Margaret Gordon Anna Williamson 2016
Laura Biedermann Joyce Fafard Richard and Mary Overmier 2017
Nicholas Juskiewicz Ian Maddieson 2018
Jane Cudney-Black Dennis Muirhead 2019
Tom Besson 2022
Norm Gagne Dina Hammad 2023
Spencer Briggs Peter Falk |
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