The Vander Heide Award is presented to the Cookie & Cracker Manufacturing Course graduate who receives the highest score (grade point average) for the year.  The award was established in 1940 and is presented each year at the Annual Technical Conference.

 

We are pleased to announce Ms. -Nicole Schubert, Senior Scientist – Snacks R&D Technical Services, Kraft Foods Inc., Portland Bakery, as the 2010 Vander Heide Winner in the BCMA Cookie & Cracker Manufacturing Correspondence Course.

Nicole is pictured with her Course supervisor, Mr. Scott Thomas, Associate Director of Snacks Tech Services R&D, Kraft Foods Inc., East Hanover, NJ, on the left and Mr. John Damon, Plant Manager, for Kraft Foods Inc., Portland Bakery, Portland, Oregon on the right. 

Previous Vander Heide Award recipients:

2010: Nicole Schubert, Kraft Foods Inc.
2009: Dawn Mazzaccaro, Kraft Foods Inc.
2008: Christine Leyland, Kraft Canada
2007: Katie Cleary, Kraft Foods, Inc.
2006: Raquel Calil, Kraft Brazil
2005: Allan Orth, Bremner Food Group, LLC
2004: William Bossert, Pepperidge Farm, Inc.
2003: Alfred Grigg, Interbake Foods LLC
2002: Kimberly Chuck, Kraft Foods Inc. (First Edition Winner)
2001: John Woszack, Kraft Canada
2000: Amy E. Marx, Keebler Company
1999: Greg Edwards, Keebler Company
1998: Cindi Pisarzewicz, Oak State Products, Inc.
1997: John M. Comstock, Nabisco Biscuit Company
1996: Sharry Motley, Nabisco Biscuit Company
1995: Carl Rust, Keebler Company
1994: Laura De Suero, Productos Alimenticios Pascual, S.A.
1993: Terry Sparks, Keebler Company
1992: Matthew Smallegange, Dare Foods Limited
1991: Daryl Nisenson, Keebler Company
1990: Michael Healy, Oak State Products, Inc.
1989: Tania G. Watson, Griffins Food Limited
1988: George Robinson, Nabisco, Inc.
1987: David Thompson, Culinar Foods, Inc. 
1986: Stephen J. Mays, McKee Baking Company 
1985: Dawn Gillerman, Nabisco, Inc. 
1984: Dennis Borrall, Interbake Foods 
1983: Ronald Tremayne, Sunshine Biscuits Inc.
1982: Timothy Malefyt, Holland American Wafer Company
1981: Carlos Sutton, D.F. Stauffer Biscuit Company 
1980: Carlos Reis, Bakers Limited 
1979: Perry Thompson, Frito-Lay 
1978: Jack Pick, Bakers Limited
1977: Roy E. Schulze, Ralston Purina Company
1976: William “Bill” Walsh, Interbake Foods, Inc.
1975: Irving Manschal, Nabisco, Inc. 
1974: Bruce Jahnsen, Nabisco, Inc. 
1973: Mary D. Gentry, Lance, Inc. 
1972: Sue C. Bailey, Nabisco, Inc. 
1971: Gerald K. Smith, Lance, Inc. 
1970: John Knowles, Mother's Cake & Cookie Company

1969: Christopher N. Taylor, Pepperidge Farm, Inc.

1968: Hugh J. Harris, Nabisco, Inc.

1967: John McDaid, Irish Biscuits, Ltd.

1966: Dorothy M. Cooksley, Grandma Cookie Company

1965: W. Gordon Cousins, Southern Biscuit Company

1964: C. Noel Quinn, Irish Biscuits Ltd.

1963: Donald P. Byrnes, Euram Foods, Inc.

1962: Bemie Postma, Keebler Company

1961: Gayle E. Hayes, Burry Biscuit Div. The Quaker Oats Company

1960: Billy D.Walker, National Biscuit Company

1959: J. J. Flynn, National Biscuit Company

1958: Homer E. Massey, Sr., Bremmer Biscuit Company

1957: A.W.Rechten, National Biscuit Company

1956: J.L. Peeler, Jr., Jack's Cookie Corporation

1955: William R. Cary, Burry Biscuit Corporation

1954: Sally Schmidt, Crescent Mac. & Cracker Company

1953: Camen Renelli, Salemo-Megowen Biscuit Company

1952: John Adrian, Cal-Ray Bakeries, Inc.

1951: Paul Stillitano, Burry Biscuit Corporation

1950: Wolfred Kedderis, Weston Biscuit Corporation

1949: Joseph O. Plaisance, Jack's Cookie Corporation

1948: Hoyle H. Hicks, Taylor Biscuit Company

1947: Jack S. Larson, Schulze & Burch Biscuit Company

1946: John R. Floyd, Lance, Inc.

1945: Donald F. Pinson, American Bakeries

1944: Wes Owen, Paulin Chambers Company

1943: A J. Albert, Jr., G. J. Hamilton & Sons, Ltd.