Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

2021 Award Winner - Derek Smith

Dear NCVMA Directors and Association members,
Thank you for the honor of receiving the 2021 NCVMA Lifetime Achievement Award. To know one's peers place them in the company of past recipients like: Bill Johnson, Jimmy Brown, Ed Schenk, and others is truly humbling.
We have firmly positioned NCVMA to continue its mission to collect, discuss and disseminate accurate and state-of-the-art information regarding vegetation management. If there is one thing we have learned, the future will be wrought with unknowns but by continuing to work cooperatively, we will accomplish great things.
In my mind, knowing we will be able to financially support undergraduate and graduate student scholarships, plus our steadfast support of the Jimmy V Foundation are among the finest of our accomplishments.
I am proud of our Board of Directors. They have worked tirelessly to keep NCVMA moving forward. Additionally, NCVMA's members are among the most generous, appreciative, and respected professionals with whom I have had the pleasure to be associated.
Thank you, again, for this unexpected recognition.

2014 - Edward Schenk II

CWC, Inc.
2014 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner.

2011 - Mr. Brian Morris and Mr. Bill Johnson

Congratulations to William “Bill” Johnson and Brian Morris, our 2011 recipients of the NCVMA’s life time achievement award.

The award is in recognition of outstanding service to the North Carolina Vegetation Industry. Both Bill and Brian have been lifelong stewards of the environment and continue to speak out on issues that affect the management of vegetation along the Right-Of-Way corridors in North Carolina. Congratulations to them both.

2010 - Mr Bill Massey

W.F. "Bill" Massey is a native of North Caroilna with a BS Degree from North Carolina State University in Field Corps (Agronomy). Following graduation, he served in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in their Chemical and Biological and Radiological Warefare Labs in Edgewood, MD. Prior to completing his service obligation, he received a Commission.

Bill Spend over 30 years working in the Agrochemical and specialty Chemical Business of ELANCO, DowElanco and Dow AgroSciences in sales and sales management. Since 1987 he has worked extensively with tree growth regulators as a TGR Market Development Specialist for these Corporations. Following his retirement from Dow AgroSciences he formed Massey Consultants, LLC which specialized in training, evaluation, implementation and demonstration of TGRs for utilities and tree care companies. In this role, he was a consultant for SePro Corporation for approximately 10 years until his full retirement in April 2010.

Bill is a Past President of the NC Vegetation Management Association, has served on the board of the Mountain Lakes Vegetation Management Association and received the 2000 Utility Arborist Association award for "contributions to the field of utility arboriculture."