Kiteflier of the Year is a misnomer. The award recognizes a body of work and a lifetime of contribution. We write to nominate a couple who together have contributed more than 60 years to improving, sustaining, communicating, and expanding kiting as we know it. We...
It is our great pleasure to send you this letter nominating Val Deale of Kensington, Maryland for AKA’s 2019 Steve Edeiken Award. Val has been involved in kites longer and in more different ways than most of us. In all his efforts, he has exemplified the key...
This letter is to nominate Valerie Govig for the Steve Edeiken Award. We have Valerie to thank for our Association. In 1976, she bought Kite Tales and the American Kitefliers’ Association from Bob Ingraham. In reality, the AKA was merely a mailing list of...
When I saw the list of the Edeiken award winners recently I was very surprised to see our nominee wasn’t a recipient. How can that be I thought. He’s done so much, for so many, for so long, in and out of the kite world! That’s just wrong, I thought. As the program...
Nomination letter: For nearly 4 decades, this nominee has built a world-wide reputation as a designer, manufacturer and retailer of kites. This nominee first got her introduction to kiting by attending a kite festival in the mid-1970s. Soon after she started making...
