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Mr. Ronald C. Whittemore was recently chosen as Most Courageous Senior Olympic Athlete of the Year 2024, given by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP). He is a Senior Gold Medalist, Renowned long-distance runner, jumper, and Former Computer Programming Expert. As a senior athlete, Mr. Whittemore constantly pushes himself to shatter records and establish new benchmarks for what is possible through hard effort and perseverance. 

These special honorees are courageous leaders who inspire and motivate others, lead by example, and display bravery, resilience, and determination in facing challenges. While inclusion with the International Association of Top Professionals is an honor, only a few members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. All honorees are invited to attend the IAOTP’s annual awards gala at the end of this year for a night to honor their achievements.  

www.iaotp.com/award-gala 

Ronald Whittemore has committed his retirement years to compete as a Senior Olympian, following a lengthy and successful career as a computer programmer. He made a name for himself as an amateur athlete. Ronald has raced in 5K and 10K road events for over 30 years, frequently winning his age class. In 1962, he ran in the Boston Marathon. According to the United States Running Streak Association, he owns the Claremont record for consecutive running days and the second-longest streak in New Hampshire. Mr. Whittemore received three gold medals at the Senior Olympic Games held in Burlington, Vermont. For competing in the New Hampshire Senior Games, he was named an All-American in the Long Jump and Triple Jump by USA Track & Field. Mr. Whittemore received three gold medals at the Senior Olympic Games held in Burlington, Vermont. Mr. Whittemore is a proven Senior Olympian. Since 1995, when he became eligible, he has qualified for and competed in the National Senior Olympic Games, winning medals in various events. Mr. Whittemore won the First Place Gold Medal in the Long Jump, triple Jump, and 100-meter dash events at the 2018 National Senior Games in Vermont. He has won several medals in the National Senior Games and Senior Olympics since 1995, including the long Jump, the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and other track and field events. When he was in the Air Force he played Football, defense end position and received the largest trophy of all the trophies he ever received. 

Mr. Whittemore’s impressive repertoire of previous roles throughout his career include Computer Programmer at the Cross Company in Hartford, Vermont, Senior Programmer with Joy Manufacturing and Computac LLC, and Programming Manager at Datamann, Inc. until his retirement.

 Throughout his employment as a Computer Programmer, Mr. Whittemore was recognized for his commitment and efficiency in his work within his field. Before dedicating his senior years to being an athlete, Mr. Whittemore dedicated more than five decades of his career to computer programming. Before Mr. Whittemore embarked on his professional career, he earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Nathaniel Hawthorne College in Antrim, New Hampshire. He graduated magna cum laude from programming school. Datamann, Inc. financed Mr. Whittemore’s education because of his pivotal role in the field, and requirements and developments were changing and requiring more from professionals.  

Throughout his illustrious career, Mr. Whittemore has received many awards and accolades. He has been recognized in various publications, such as Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, the 21st edition of Who’s Who in the East, multiple editions of Who’s Who in the World, the sports section of the Eagle Times, and In The Valley News. In 2023, Ronald received the prestigious Top Senior Olympic Athlete of the Decade Award from IAOTP. Mr. Whittemore’s achievements were showcased on the renowned Planet Hollywood Billboard on the Las Vegas strip, as well as both the Nasdaq billboard and the renowned Reuters building in Times Square, NYC. Mr. Whittemore has also been featured on the front cover of TIP (Top Industry Professionals). He received the prestigious Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. He has strong affiliations with various organizations in his community. These include serving as President of the Claremont Bridge Club, Former President of the Claremont Men’s Softball League, Fellow of the Data Processing Management Association, past post commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and member of the Knights of Columbus. He served on the board of directors for Circle 8 Square Dance and recently became a member of the American Legion. In 2019, he received recognition as the Top Former Computer Programming Expert of the Year. Mr. Whittemore’s exceptional contributions led to his induction into IAOTP’s exclusive Hall of Fame, and he was further honored with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award for 2020. Furthermore, Mr. Whittemore was honored with the prestigious Computer Programming Expert of the Decade award and recognized as the Most Inspirational Member of the Year 2021. He will receive his latest award as Top Courageous Senior Olympic Athlete of the Year 2024 at IAOTP’s Annual Award gala at the magnificent Opryland Hotel in Nashville this December.

Along with these accomplishments, Mr. Whittemore has served as an example to others. He achieved the record for his age category (75 to 79) four months after suffering a heart attack in 2013, and he repeated the feat in 2015, 2017, and 2019. Mr. Whittemore was notably awarded second place in the triple Jump in the 2017 National Senior Games, later rising to fourth in the country. He was also awarded the First Place Gold Medal in the Long Jump, triple Jump, and 100-meter sprint in the Senior Olympic qualifying track for the National Senior Games in 2018. He competed in the 2019 National Senior Games in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The National Senior Games are held every two years. Ronald was scheduled to compete in the long jump and triple jump events in 2021. Unfortunately, The National Senior Games were postponed out of an abundance of caution due to the disruptions caused by the pandemic. 

Ronald Whittemore, a former Navy and Air Force serviceman, overcame four heart attacks and cancer — often in the most inconvenient of situations — to establish himself as a Senior Olympian hero.  

Mr. Whittemore considers his most noteworthy achievement to be surviving four heart attacks while still practicing for the Triple Jump, for which he got a Silver Medal. The fact that his wife Lillian could see it was the most fantastic delight for him. Ronald Whittemore has been consistent in his objectives. In his leisure time, he likes jogging, chess, softball, reading, biking, playing cribbage, and spending time with his wife Lois and daughter Debbie. Mr. Whittemore owes his accomplishments to 

his education, mentors he has encountered along the road, such as John Mann, and his dedication in all his undertakings. In the future, he aspires to remain a competitive sports enthusiast, and he believes that his tale of keeping active and beating the odds with his heart ailment at the age of 84 would educate and encourage others never to give up.

Watch his videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V8x2XS83Qg&t=1s 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0PZ4VUf2oU&t=3s

About IAOTP

The International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) is an international boutique networking organization that handpicks the world’s finest, most prestigious top professionals from different industries. These top professionals are given an opportunity to collaborate, share their ideas, be keynote speakers, and help influence others in their fields. This organization is not a membership that anyone can join. You have to be asked by the President or be nominated by a distinguished honorary member after a brief interview. 

IAOTP’s experts have given thousands of top prestigious professionals worldwide the recognition and credibility that they deserve and have helped build their branding empires. IAOTP prides itself to be a one-of-a-kind boutique networking organization that handpicks only the best of the best and creates a networking platform that connects and brings these top professionals to one place.

For more information on IAOTP, please visit: www.iaotp.com

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Dr. Steven M. Stanley, professor, paleontologist, and researcher, was recently selected as Top Geology Researcher of the Decade by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) for his outstanding leadership, dedication, and commitment to the industry.

While inclusion with the International Association of Top Professionals is an honor in itself, only 1 Paleontologist is selected for this distinction. Professor Stanley is being recognized for having more than forty years of experience dedicated to Paleontology. Prof. Steven M. Stanley will receive this recognition at IAOTP’s upcoming Award Gala in December later this Year.

 www.iaotp.com/award-gala

Dr. Stanley, a Paleontologist and Research Professor at Florida State University, taught at Johns Hopkins University for 36 years and The University of Hawaii at Manoa for 14 years before joining the faculty at Florida State University. Dr. Stanley is regarded as an accomplished and reputable American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. Dr. Stanley graduated from Princeton University with an AB in 1963 and Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1968 before becoming a heroic figure in his field.

His impressive repertoire of prior roles includes Chair of Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Chair of this institution’s MS Program in Environmental Sciences and Policy. In biological circles, he is best recognized for his documentation of the punctuational evolution model based on fossil occurrences and his examination of its theoretical implications. “Macroevolution: Pattern and Process,” his book on the subject, still receives roughly 40 literature citations each Year, more than 40 years after its publication.

Dr. Stanley’s many other scientific achievements include research into how the forms of bivalve mollusk shells adapt these animals to their various ways of living. This is the most extensive study on the functional skeletal morphology of any animal class ever created by a single researcher. Dr. Stanley has also pioneered a new field of study by demonstrating how changes in the chemistry of seawater throughout Earth’s history have influenced which organisms have been important builders of organic reefs and producers of limestone-forming material at various times. In 2016, his method for calculating the impact of mass extinctions revealed that the largest of all, at the end of the Permian, eliminated only slightly more than eighty percent of species in the ocean, as opposed to the ninety-five percent that many had previously assumed: it did not nearly wipe out all life on Earth.

Throughout his impressive career as a Paleontologist, Dr. Stanley has been an active part of his community and has received international recognition for his initiative and dedication to his profession. He has received various awards, accolades and has been published in numerous magazines such as Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who in the West, and Who’s Who in the World multiple years in a row. Dr. Stanley was named the 2022 Top Inspirational Researcher of the Year, as well as Top Influential Paleontologist of the Decade in 2023, both by IAOTP. This year he will be honored at IAOTP’s annual awards gala at Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville this December for his selection as Top Geology Researcher of the Decade.

 His previous honors from IAOTP include Top Professor of Research of the Year in 2019; he was inducted into the IAOTP’s exclusive Hall of Fame and was selected for the International Association of Top Professionals’ Top 50 Fearless Leaders publication (IAOTP). Dr. Stanley also graced the front cover of TIP (Top Industry Professionals) Magazine and earned the IAOTP’s renowned Lifetime Achievement Award. He was interviewed exclusively on TIP Radio and broadcast on the renowned Reuters Billboard in Times Square, New York. Dr. Stanley was also highlighted in the Wall Street Journal and appeared on a Who’s Who billboard in Times Square. The Penrose Medal “for brilliance in pure research,” which he got from the Geological Society of America in 2013, is his most notable medal. The Society for Sedimentary Geology that swarded him the Twenhofel Medal in 2008. In 2007, he was awarded The Paleontological Society Medal, given to a person whose prominence in paleontology is founded on the progress of knowledge. The National Academy of Sciences awarded him the Mary Clark Thompson Medal in 2006. He received the National Association of Geoscience Teachers’ James H. Shea Award in 2004. He earned the Bownocker Medal from Ohio State University in 1997 and the Washington Geological Society’s Outstanding Technology Paper Award in 1986. Dr. Stanley earned the Paleontological Society’s Charles Schuchert Award in 1977 and the Maryland Academy of Sciences’ Allan C. Davis Medal in 1973. Dr. Stanley is a Past President of the American Geosciences Institute, a Former Councilor of the Geological Society of America, a Former Member of the American Geosciences Institute’s Executive Committee, and a Former President of the Paleontological Society.

Aside from his illustrious career as a Professor, Dr. Stanley is also a sought-after lecturer, published author, and contributor to numerous book chapters and professional journal articles. He has also served on many boards. He is currently a member of the American Journal of Science’s Editorial Board, a former member of the National Research Council’s Commission on Geoscience, Environment, and Resources, and a former Vice Chairman of the National Research Council’s Board of Earth Sciences. Dr. Stanley is the author of several works, including “Earth System History,” “Children of the Ice Age: How a Global Catastrophe Led to Human Evolution,” “Earth and Life Through Time,” “Extinction,” and “The New Evolutionary Timetable.”

For the future, Dr. Stanley believes that his scientific contributions and studies will continue to impact paleontology. Dr. Stanley enjoys writing and being an amateur landscape architect, creating walkways and patios and planting trees and plants when he is not undertaking research. Dr. Stanley has a legacy of outstanding achievement as an honorary member of the elite Hall of Fame.

Watch his videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwxL2t9vphw&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lzj7QhA4Eo&t=1s

For more information on Dr. Stanley, please visit: www.iaotp.com

About IAOTP

The International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) is an international boutique networking organization that handpicks the world’s finest, most prestigious top professionals from different industries.  These top professionals are given an opportunity to collaborate, share their ideas, be keynote speakers, and to help influence others in their fields. This organization is not a membership that anyone can join. You have to be asked by the President or be nominated by a distinguished honorary member after a brief interview.

IAOTP’s experts have given thousands of top prestigious professionals around the world, the recognition and credibility that they deserve and have helped in building their branding empires.  IAOTP prides itself to be a one-of-a-kind boutique networking organization that hand picks only the best of the best and creates a networking platform that connects and brings these top professionals to one place.

For More information on IAOTP please visit: www.iaotp.com

Media Contact
Company Name: IAOTP
Contact Person: Media Relations
Email: Send Email
Phone: (212) 634-4427
Country: United States
Website: https://iaotp.com