With grateful thanks and admiration for his many contributions to the world of kites, we’re delighted to nominate Daniel Prentice for AKA’s 2022 Steve Edeiken Award. In all his efforts for so, many years, he has exemplified the key characteristics of Steve Edeiken,...
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...
