Presentation of GAWDA Gives Back Award
Robert then welcomed his beautiful wife Missy and his middle-son Kyle to the stage to discuss the recipient of the 2023 GAWDA Gives Back Award, the Malama Family Recovery Center. Missy discussed how the charity was near and dear to the family’s heart before turning the mic over to Kyle who gave an incredibly raw and powerful speech about his own history with substance abuse and how he was able to escape the other side of the darkness. When he was finished, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
Then, representatives from the Malama Family Recovery center came to the stage for the presentation of the GAWDA Gives Back Award. And GAWDA Members outdid themselves this year, raising more than $325,000 for the charity, leaving the representatives nearly speechless. The Center’s Program Director gave an effusive speech thanking members for their generosity and gave a traditional Hawaiian thank you to the assembled crowd.
Thank you to the GAWDA Gives Back Donors
CORPORATE
Diamond
- Air Products
- Eleet Cryogenics
- Holston Gases
- ITW Welding
- Linde
- Meritus Gas Partners
- Roberts Oxygen Company, Inc.
Platinum
- Airgas, an Air Liquide company
Gold
- Air Water Gas Solutions
- A-L Compressed Gases
- American Welding & Gas
- EspriGas
- General Distributing Company
- Hypertherm, Inc.
- MK Products
Silver
- Arc3 Gases
- Astaras
- CO2Meter
- General Air Services & Supply
- Industrial Source
- Keen Compressed Gas
- Norco, Inc.
- Norris Cylinder
- Purity Cylinder Gases
- Red Ball Oxygen
- Seven Springs Regional
- Vern Lewis Welding Supply, Inc.
- WESCO Gas & Welding Supply, Inc.
Bronze
- AGL Welding Supply
- California Cylinder
- Central Regional
- Chart Inc.
- Earlbeck Gases & Technologies
- Gas Innovations
- General Distributing Company
- Keen Compressed Gas
- Lampton Welding Supply
- O.E. Meyer Co.
- Oxygen Service Company
- Ozarc Gas Equipment & Supply, Inc.
- S.J. Smith Co. Inc.
- South Jersey Welding Supply Co
- Welders Supply Company
- US Tank & Cryogenic Equipment, Inc.
Contributor
- Airweld, Inc.
- Andy Oxy Company, Inc.
- Butler Gas Products
- CK Supply
- Indiana Oxygen
- Leonard’s Syrups
- Minneapolis Oxygen Company
- Oxylance
- Purity Cylinder Gases Inc.
- SafTCart
- Sky Oxygen
- Sutton Garten Company
- W. Smith Corp.
- VS Carbonics
- Weldcoa
Supporter
- ANOVA
- Carbide Industries
- Chemweld
- EQUIGAS, Inc.
- Flame Technologies
- Ivey Industries Inc.
- Kalas Manufacturing, Inc.
Friend
- Alliance Distribution Partners
- Buschbach Insurance
- California Welding Supply
- DeLille Oxygen Co.
- Messer LLC
- Professional Welding Supply
- Weldcote
- Willard C. Starcher, Inc.
INDIVIDUALS
Founders Club
- Anders, Robert & Missy
- Mahoney, Dave & Donna
- Roberts, Bob & Eveline
Presidents Club
- Roberts, Will
Members Club
- Marchant, Mechelle
- Roberts, Julia
- Thornton, Robert
Contributor
- Anderson, David
- Biedermann, Thomas
- Brant, Walter
- Iskra, Sherri
- Kissler, James
- Lane, Ned
- Lovin,Nicholas (Britt)
- Nyhuis, Doug
- Visintainer, Bill
- Wood, Craig
Supporter
- Badstubner, Tom
- Brant, Wally
- Chromy, Tom
- Dunton, john
- Robinson, Lloyd
- Squibb, Randy
- Wimberley, John
- Wood, Eric & Paula
Friend
- Hall, Terry
- Harder, John
- Higley, William
- McCall, Jenny
- Monahan, Roch
- O’Malley, Felim
- Peterson, Brad
- Van Pelt, Megan
- Van Pelt, Scott
- Yates, Charles
