USCF Awards 1990

In my current Friday series, I ended last week's post, USCF Awards 1988-89 (April 2021), saying,

Next stop in the saga of USCF Awards: 1990-91, except I haven't found a 1990 list published in CL. If I continue to come up empty-handed, I'll look at the yearbooks.

Empty-handed I am. In the first post in the series, U.S. Chess Cities of the Year (March 2021), I mentioned that my original working list of awards came from the 2013 USCF Yearbook. The following table shows the 1990 awards listed by that yearbook.

Year	Award	Winner(s)
1990	COMMITTEE OF THE YEAR	Tournament Direction Certification Committee
1990	DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD	Steve Doyle
1990	KOLTANOWSKI AWARDS	Gold: Arnold Denker, Helen Warren
1990	OUTSTANDING CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD	Roger Blaine, Lee Hyder, Russell Miller
1990	SPECIAL SERVICE AWARD	Denis Barry
1990	U.S. CHESS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES	Hans Berliner

What does the 1991 yearbook say about the 1990 awards? In a word: nothing! Although the USCF's first yearbook (the '1982 Chess Yearbook') appeared in the April 1983 issue of Chess Life (CL), the awards weren't added to the yearbook until 1995. They covered the previous year, 1994.

The 1990 awards that appeared in 1995 were incomplete. Two were missing:-

• SPECIAL SERVICE AWARD
• COMMITTEE OF THE YEAR

They must have been added to the yearbook for a later edition, but I didn't take the time to look. I'm just glad they were added.