[Josh Hambright]

When I first heard of UFH Bob Evoy was one of the first people that came to mind as i started thinking about who i thought should be honored.

To me this man really is a hero. From my experience on team 461 he is one of the most selfless, giving, knowledgable, and sincerly nice people i have ever met. He was always there to help out my team when we needed it, weither it through parts, machining parts for us in a pinch, or just giving us some advice on how to fix a problem, Bob was always there.
I can remeber my first year in FIRST when our drive system wasn't working at a regional and our advisors were talking abut this guy named Mr. Evoy who was working on a part to try and keep our treds from slipping off, I didn't really know who they were talking about, and I had no idea that this Evoy charecter who become one of my greatest inspirations in FIRST.
I can remeber looking at him from afar for a long time as some sort of mythical creature, unaproachable by a kid like me from a team that hadn't really ever done anything yet, but then once i started talking to him i learned that he was the man that i described earlier.

Another great memory i have is from IRI this last year, when our team was having some trouble and needed some parts, we couldn't find what we needed in our own stock and we asked Bob, we had the part in 5 minutes. Then when i was helping the Prank Monkeys work out some of their kinks they ran into a similar problem and he was there again to lend his assistance in any possible way to help get the robots working.

But by far the best memory has to be in Chicago of this last year when my team won the Regional Chairmans award, and I remeber seeing Bob overcome with joy as he hugged Shannon, then he looked at me and just gave me a smile and a nod and told me "you did it", and to me that was one of the greatest compliments i have ever recieved.

I could go on alot longer, but i wont. Basicly I think that you totaly deserved this Bob. Congrats.