2022 Jay Kitchen Award Presentation

2022 JAY KITCHEN

AWARD PRESENTATION

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dale Hatfield received RCA’s Jay Kitchen Award at the 112th Radio Club of America banquet and awards ceremony. The Jay Kitchen Award recognizes an individual who embodies leadership characteristics that include energetic advocacy, devotion to the spirit of cooperation, an avid interest in technology, respect for all and distinctive humor and who has achieved a high level of success leading a wireless association, government agency or commercial enterprise. The following text presents Mr. Hatfield’s award presentation by David Bart and the acceptance by Dale Hatfield.

[DAVID BART] Several years ago, RCA inaugurated the Jay Kitchen Award in memory of our colleague Jay, who had earned the highest respect for industry and association leadership. His unexpected passing left us stunned. But in his memory, RCA launched an award designed to carry his legacy and memory. The Jay Kitchen Award is presented in recognition of achievement of a high level of success leading a wireless association. This year’s recipient, without a doubt, carries forward that wonderful tradition. Dale Hatfield has spent over 50 years building and shaping telecommunications policy. His efforts and experiences at the FCC and NTIA literally comprise an alphabet soup of acronyms, including time spent as the FCC’s Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology and as the Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy. Dale, even in retirement from the government, currently serves on several FCC and other advisory councils. He has widely published, and his ITU publication Trends in Telecommunication set a new standard for foresight and policy recommendations. Dale has literally been involved with spectrum management issues for his entire career. Today, he is a professor at the University of Colorado and an executive fellow at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, and a Director of Crown Castle International Corporation. I have noticed that his biography keeps expanding, and may even be doing so as we speak, so I apologize in advance for any errors and omissions. I recently read a transcript from an interview with Dale. He used the word ‘wonderful’ no less than 13 times to describe his own experiences, the ideas of others, and his life at the FCC. That seems to be a great way to summarize his enthusiasm and his uplifting personality. If you saw today’s technical symposium, it was excellent and of course wonderful. Thank you, Dale, for participating in it today. It is with great pleasure that I have the honor of presenting Dale the 2021 Jay Kitchen Award for his contributions. Dale, you have the floor. [DALE HATFIELD] Thank you very much David. This reward is especially meaningful to me because Jay was not only a close colleague of mine, but also a very good friend. So, thanks again to the RCA for this award. I greatly appreciate it.

Dale Hatfield accepting the Jay Kitchen Award at the 112th RCA Awards Banquet Virtual Program.