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Unit 106 Annual Awards
Bill Joseph - Player of the Year Trophy
At the end of each calendar year, this trophy is presented to the player who has earned the most number of masterpoints throughout the year playing in those events selected by the Board of Directors as 'eligible' events. The award is in honor of Bill Joseph a past president of Unit 106 (1960-1961) and an outstanding member of Unit 106 during his lifetime. Although there are normally five or six categories of masterpoint levels for which players receive individual trophies, this award is presented to the player who earns the most number of points for the year, irrespective of the masterpoint tier in which that person has competed. This trophy is presented at the Annual Dinner with the name of the current recipient engraved on it. Normally that person keeps the trophy for one year and returns it for engraving for the next year's recipient.

Past winners of this award are:

2023 - Leonard Helfgott
2022 - Patricia Linnemeyer
2019 - Lee Ohliger
2018 - Steve Nellissen
2017 - James Sundstrom
2016 - Steve Nellissen
2015 - Steve Nellissen
2014 - Lee Ohliger
2013 - Serge and Marianne Aronovich
2012 - Rosalind Elk
2011 - Serge and Marianne Aronovich
2010 - Burrell Humphreys
2009 - Victor Hsu
2008 - Steve Nellissen
2007 - Lee Ohliger
2006 - Blair Seidler
2005 - Helen Raleigh
2004 - Tod Thorgersen
2003 - Tod Thorgersen
2002 - Tod Thorgersen
2001 - Ron Nelken
2000 - Tod Thorgersen
1999 - Rosalind Elk
1998 - Tod Thorgersen
1997 - Rosalind Elk
1996 - Rosalind Elk
1995 - Rosalind Elk
1994 - Shelly Berger
1993 - Andrew Lohan
1992 - Tod Thorgersen
1991 - Joseph Adamo
1990 - Julian Katz
1989 - Leonard Karp
1988 - Stasha Cohen
1987 - Michael Kamil
1986 - Robert Garofalo
1985 - Mark Cohen
1984 - Michael Kamil
1983 - Michael Kamil
1982 - Robert Hertzberg
1981 - Leonard Karp
1980 - Leonard Karp
1979 - Robert Hertzberg
1978 - Tod Thorgersen
1977 - David Kuenzler
1976 - Clay Cuthbertson
1975 - Leonard Karp
1974 - Tod Thorgersen
1973 - Leonard Karp
1972 - Leonard Karp
1971 - Bernard Chazen
1970 - Charles Friedman
1969 - Charles Karp
1968 - Charles Friedman
1967 - David Edwards
1966 - H & J Schoenberg
1965 - Bernard Greenberg
1964 - Roger Donaldson
1963 - Richard Reisig
1962 - Dr. Nelson Reitman
1961 - Lenore Allen
1960 - Charles Salzman
1959 - Charles Salzman
1958 - Dr. Nelson Reitman
1957 - Dr. Stephen Warner
1956 - William Joseph
1955 - Gwen Montgomery
1954 - Sigmund Freisinger
1953 - Frank Mc Henry