The Bruce Pfeiffer Committee Member of the Year Award was established in 2021 to recognize an individual who stands out among his/her peers and embodies the spirit of volunteerism. The recipient of this award serves with distinction, guides the work of others, can be depended upon by peers, provides expert technical support to the work of the committee on which s/he serves, and demonstrates a dedication to IAPMO and its mission.
This award will be presented during IAPMO’s Annual Education and Business Conference.
The award is named in honor of the late Bruce Pfeiffer who served on various committees for more than thirty years and exemplified the values this award has been created to recognize. Bruce served on the Standards Review, Products Review, various Ad Hoc committees, UPC Answers and Analysis and UPC Workshop committees, the latter two of which he served as Chair. Bruce also served on the IAPMO Board of Directors and several Board committees, and was elected President of IAPMO from 2014 to 2016.
AWARD RECIPIENTS
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Rex Crawford Other than Bruce Pfeiffer himself, we can think of no more fitting person to receive this award than Rex Crawford; first and foremost because he embodies all the qualities of volunteerism and expertise the award seeks to recognize, but also because there’s nobody within the IAPMO family who meant more to Bruce than Rex did. Bruce and Rex first met 25 years ago, not at all coincidentally it’s fair to say, at a Plumbing Code Workshop meeting at IAPMO World Headquarters in California. Despite their considerable differences — Bruce a die-hard Kansas Jayhawks fan, Rex a lifelong Nebraska Cornhuskers supporter — they became fast friends. At first it was a friendship of convenience. Bruce had far more experience enforcing the UPC than Rex, as Lincoln first adopted it in 2003, so the two of them spoke frequently to answer Rex’s many questions. Soon, though, the conversations were more than just work stuff. It wasn’t long before Bruce and his wife Kim, Rex and his wife Marilyn, and their families were all friends, sharing weekend adventures and summer vacations. All because these two plumbers met on an IAPMO committee. A member of IAPMO since 1996, Crawford was one of the founding members of the Nebraska chapter in 2004 and served as its first chairman, a role he has repeated in subsequent years. He’s been a member of the afore-mentioned Plumbing Code Workshop Committee since 1997 and of the Certification Exam Committee since its inception in 2003. The same expertise he once sought to glean from Pfeiffer, he now shares with newer members of the committees on which he serves. In recognition of the 25 years of service he’s given to IAPMO, and the positively life-altering bond forged by Rex and Bruce’s participation on their committee, it is IAPMO’s great honor to present Rex Crawford with the 2022 Bruce Pfeiffer Committee Member of the Year Award. “This is quite an honor,” Crawford said. “Any of you who know me know Bruce and I were just like this. (Holds two fingers together.) Maybe if I share a story about Bruce it will help a little bit. When we first met, Bruce told me that he would rather drive around Nebraska than go through it. Evidently their family had one or more vacations where they had car troubles in Nebraska. But after our friendship was built, highway 75 between Nebraska and Kansas was heavily traveled north and south. “I can think of no better example of an IAPMO member than Bruce. He was a great inspector, a teacher, a chapter member, chapter officer, an IAPMO member, a life member, committee member, board member, and president. And I’m happy to say he was my best friend. Thank you for this award, IAPMO.” |