Thomas & Betts announced the winners of its 2002 Signature Awards. The awards honor the innovation and resourcefulness of the best among dedicated industry professionals in three categories: Electrical Professional of the Year, Electrical Company of the Year and Student/Apprentice of the Year.

Selected by a committee of editors from EC&M and Electrical Wholesaling magazines, co-sponsors of the Signature Award program, the winners were honored at the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) annual meeting in May.

And, the winners were:

2002 Electrical Professional: Walt Czyrnik, executive director of the Mid-South Independent Electrical Contractors Inc., Bartlett, Tenn.

Electrical Company of the Year: Guarantee Electrical Co., St. Louis.

Student/Apprentice of the Year: Kelly Myers of Aladdin Ward Electric, Sarasota, Fla.

Walt Czyrnik's has been the executive director of the Mid-South Independent Electrical Contractors since October 2000. His many achievements in this role garnered him recognition as Electrical Professional of the Year. Notable among those achievements were the IEC National Award as Legislative Conference Chapter of the Year and Czyrnik's numerous training initiatives. The chapter's apprentice programs received approval from the Veteran's Administration and Department of Labor. Czyrnik's philosophy of “treat the member like a customer” proves itself with a 12-month membership increase of 40 percent.

The judges selected Guarantee Electrical Co. as the Electrical Company of the Year based on its many technical and construction developments as well as an admirable list of community service projects. Now more than a century old, Guarantee began computerized estimating more than 20 years ago and had the first CAD unit in the Midwest. Today, Guarantee is a single-source provider of virtually every electrical contracting service.

Kelly Meyers from Aladdin Ward Electric was chosen as the Student/Apprentice of the Year after being recommended by Steven Brown, his supervisor. In the fourth year of his apprenticeship program, Myers is at the head of his class for the third year. Meyers has also achieved perfect attendance for the past three years in the program.

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