Annual Spirit Award
The Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum presents an annual Spirit Award.
The Spirit Award recognizes a person or organization that has made strides in preserving Ocean City’s cultural or natural history. Preservation can be in the form of written documents, structural preservation, artistic renderings, educational material, or interpretation.
In 500 words or less, please describe what the nominee has done to preserve Ocean City's history.
Submission is open from October 1 - November 30
2024 Spirit Award Recipient: Bank of Ocean City; Bank of Ocean City President/CEO Reid Tingle is pictured receiving the award from Ocean City Museum Society Board President Mabel Rogers. To read nomination, click the photo above.
2023 Spirit Award Recipient: Gordon Katz; Gordon is pictured receiving the award from Ocean City Museum Society Board President Mabel Rogers.
2022 Spirit Award Recipient: Joanne Guilfoil; Joanne is pictured receiving the award from 2019 Spirit Award Recipient Hunter "Bunk" Mann. To read the nomination, click the photo above.
2021 Spirit Award Recipient: Nancy Howard with Museum Board Vice President Mabel Rogers.
2020 Spirit Award Recipient: St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church; (L-R) Sandra Hurley, Hunter "Bunk" Mann, Donna Santoni, and Father John Solomon); To read nomination, click photo.
2019 Spirit Award Recipient: Hunter “Bunk” Mann with Museum Board President Nancy Howard; To read nomination, click photo above.