Award Recipients

Spirit of Sweet Adelines
2001 - Patti Cooke
2002 - Jo Ellis
2003 - Barbara Smith
2004 - Jan Sheddan
2005 - Sue Seawright
2006 - Virginia Humphrey Taylor
2007 - Kate Veeder
2008 - Louise Hamilton
2009 - Elizabeth Lee
2010 - Toni Griffin
2011 - Eileen Gordon
2012 - Bernadette Takacs
2013 - Violet Thomas
2014 - Sandy Webster
2015 - Claire Takacs
2016 - Fy Tait
2017 - Sharon Connor

2018 - Miriam Spragg

2019 - Angela Blank

2020 - Mabel Knight

2022 - Christine Godfrey

2023 - Mary Ann Zorovic

2024 - Lesley Standring

2025 - Kate Sinclair

Merit Pins
Criteria for presentation: Sweet Adelines New Zealand members considered by or recommended to the RMT to have made an outstanding contribution to the Region. 

The following have received a Merit Pin however the year awarded is not known:
Louise Hamilton (Music Arranging)
Jo Maxwell
Sue Seawright (Historian)
Jo Ellis (YWIH)
Melanie Fowke
Mabel Knight
Dorothy Bisley
Jan Sheddan
Judith Eeles
Sue Rigby

Sandy Gunn

Angela Blank

Sharon Connor

2010 - Jan Malone, Beth Houlbrooke
2011 - Lesley Standring. Christine Godfrey, Melody Lowe (RMT)
2012 - Kerry Stewart , Jan Edgar (RMT)
2013 - Patricia Veen (RMT)
2015 - Melody Lowe (Service to YWIH)
2016 - Leigh Whitelaw (RMT), Mabel Knight (RMT), Dina Wickers (33yrs, CAL & Historian)
2017 - None awarded

2018 - David Brooks (Service to Region, Statistician &YWIH), Jocosa Bruce (RMT), Julie Scoggins (RMT), Miriam Spragg (RMT)

2019 - Stella Nicholson (RMT Finance 4 years), Claire Takacs (Services as CC for many years & Afterglow Coordinator), Katrina Te Punga (RMT Communications 3 years), Patricia Veen (RMT 3 years including REC)

2020 - Brianna Perry and Sandy Gunn (design and edit Addaline and Team Talk publications), Jessie Leov (Service to YWIH)

2021 - Sarah Bennett (RMT), Bronwyn Albright (Service to YWIH and YSIH)

2022 - Kerry Stewart (RMT)

2023 - Jo Maxwell (RMT)
2024  - Miriam Spragg (RMT) and Leigh Whitelaw (RMT)

2025 - Mary Cave Palmer (RMT)

 

2012 - Anna Armstrong, Colleen Ashworth, Dorothy Bisley, Fauna McNair, Frances Cowie, Elizabeth Sexton, Loro Shandler, Lyndell Arrow, Patricia Cooke, Virginia Humphrey-Taylor

2013 - Dina Wickers, Bridget Byrne
2014 - Dianne Bennett, Sue Davis, Debra Godman, Toni Griffin
2015 - Lesley Standring, Ruth Carson, Diana McPherson
2016 - Janette Smith
2017 - Natalie Sullivan, Anita van Rij, Lynley Koogh, Melody Lowe, Judith Moore, Nicky McCaughn, Adrienne O'Connor

2018 - Erica Bennett,  Jocosa Bruce,  Diane Clark,  Mabel Knight,  Prue Mahoney, Wendy Patterson,  Ngaire Richardson 

2019 - Angela Blank, Melanie Fowke, Jackie Napier, Sue Rigby, Isabelle Stott. Marie Wilson.

2020 - Anne Grieve, Ann Nicholson, Charmaine Nissanka, Cindy Naresh, Helen Elliott, Janet Rowland, Jo Oliver,  Julie Scoggins .Kim Cairns, Marilyn Bishop, Marion Price, Mary Ann Zorovic, Mary Black, Mary Sagato, Norma Wiley, Robyn Abernethy, Sheryl Cumming, Susanna La Rue, Valerie Taylor

2021 - Kate Langham. Jan Davies. Judy Wilton. Gill Barnett. Leigh Whitelaw. Margaret Fordyce. Sharon Connor. Dee Parks. Margot Skinner. 

2022

2023 - Linda Henshaw, Clare Pascoe, Carolyn Currington, Jo Maxwell, Sarah Rae, Gill Holmes, Chris Constable, Bernadette Takacs, Ruth Giles

2025 - Barbara Morris, Eileen Smith, Kate Sinclair, Laura Sommer, Nancy Foakes, Sandra Lawrence

 

2015 - Fauna McNair, Frances Cowie, Elizabeth Sexton, Lyndell Arrow, Patti Cooke, Virginia Humphrey-Taylor, Dina Wickers,        Bridget Byrne
2016 - Anna Armstrong
2017 - Loro Schandler, Colleen Wakefield-Ashworth

2018 - None given

2019 - Dianne Bennett, Sue Davis, Deb Godman. Barbara Piripi.

2020 - Diana McPherson, Eileen Gordon, Lesley Standring,  Marlene Abbott, Ruth Carson, Shirley Mahony, Toni Griffin (2019)

2021 - Judith Moore. Janette Smith.

2022

2023 - Erica Bennett, Wendy Patterson, Prue Mahoney

2025 - Ann Nicholson, Anne Grieve, Charmaine Nissanka, Janet Rowland, Joanne Oliver, Julie Scoggins, Kim Cairns, Marion Price, Mary Black, Robyn Abernethy, Sheryl Cumming

35 Year Pins
2020 - Fauna McNair, Elizabeth Sexton, Patti Cooke, Virginia Humphrey-Taylor
2025 - Barbara Piripi, Lesley Standring, Ruth Carson, Toni Griffin

40 Year Pins
2025 - Elizabeth Sexton, Patti Cooke, Virginia Humphrey-Taylor

Sweet Adelines New Zealand Education Scholarship
2001 - Prue Blythe
2002 - Melody Lowe
2003 - Dianne Bennett
2004 - Sarah Rae
2005 - Carolyn Currington
2006 - Jocosa Lowe
2007 - Patti Cook
2008 - Angela Tsai
2009 - Not Awarded
2010 - Traci Voss, Frances Williams
2011 - Henri Hunkin
2012 - Melina Perry
2013 - Amy Brown
2014 - Brianna Perry
2015 - Cindia Chiu
2016 - Kate Sinclair
2017 - Kim Cairns
2018 - Natasha Osman
2019 - Kathy Jamieson Education Scholarship and Linda Samuelsson Visual Leaders Education Award 
2020 - Rowena Harper
2021 - Not awarded
2022 - Suzanne Berresford
2023 - Alex Charlton
2024 - Shelley Bascand
2025 - Rachel Cadwallader

 

Sweet Adelines New Zealand Services to Young Women in Harmony
2006 - Charlotte Murray
2007 - Barbara Smith
2008 - Jo Ellis
2009 - Lynn Jamieson
2010 - Shirley Eddy
2011 - David Brooks
2012 - Kate Veeder
2013 - Brianna Perry
2014 - Marilyn Baigent
2015 - Melody Lowe
2016 - Kate Veeder
2017 - Joanna Lyes

2018 - Not awarded

2019 - Henrietta Hunkin-Tagaloa

2020 - Not awarded

2021- Jocosa Bruce

2022 - Jessie Leov

2023 - Bernadette Takacs
2024 - Bronwyne Albright
2025 - Leanne Wheeler
 

2017:

Lesley Standring (photo boards at convention)

Christine Godfrey (convention registrations)

Sharon Connor (SANZ website)

Deborah Kessell-Haak (copyright document)

Jocosa Bruce (AHA)

Dunedin Harmony Chorus (inaugural convention held in Dunedin)

2023 - Miriam Spragg 
2024 - Clare Pascoe

2025 - Kerry Smith and Jo Maxwell

 

2012 - Virginia Humphrey-Taylor

2014 - Melody Lowe

2019 - Patti Cooke