E.W. (Babe) Scammon, Chief, Transportation Division, Department of General Services, State of California, was awarded AUTOMOTIVE FLEET's fifth annual award for outstanding achievement in the field of fleet administration.

The award was presented during the Tenth Annual Conference of the National Association of Fleet Admini­strators at Detroit, April 1967.

Edward J. Bobit, editor and publisher of AUTOMO­TIVE FLEET, made the presentation at the annual NAFA banquet. Bobit said that the selection of Scammon was based on "his sincere and beneficial attitude and con­tribution to NAFA, both nationally and in California.

Scammon, a popular choice for the honor with NAFA members, is a career civil service employee of California, holding many important assignments in the state since 1935. In 1950, he was assigned to fleet operations as Chief of Transportation Division, where for  17 years was responsible for the policies governing the operation of a fleet of vehicles that now is more than 22,000 units.

The first governmental fleet administrator to give pro­fessional attention in the application of scientific methods for the maintenance and operation of a widely dispersed governmental fleet of vehicles, he has applied various managements techniques that has kept the cost of em­ployee transportation as reasonable as any tax supported fleet in the nation.

In accepting the AF award, Scammon stated, "Ap­propriate words are hard to find at a time like this. This moment is one of the proudest in my entire life. It is in­deed a great honor and I now know how the others, who have received this award previously, felt when they heard their names announced as recipients of the Achievement Award.

"In all humility I want to say that my co-workers and staff out in California must share in tin's honor. And all of those who have attended these NAFA Conferences also must share with me this proud moment in my life. Be­cause whatever Imay have been able to contribute to the field of fleet administration has been made possible only through the interchange of information and ideas with people such as you."