I shouldn't really need to explain why Joel Metz belatedly and deservedly became a recipient in 2001. In each year since 1996, Joel has spent time and effort every single day on trying, through the IFBMA, to give the international messenger community a structure and a focus. In my opinion, of all of the wonderful things that can be found on the messengers.org website, the most special fruit of Joel's is the CMC organisers handbook. This item is the distilled knowledge of 9 years of organising CMCs. He has also patiently and diligently run the sometimes fractious, always convoluted, CMWC bidding process since 1997 with considerable diplomacy.
-Buffalo Bill