The Canadian Institute of Plumbing & Heating (CIPH) has presented its prestigious Joseph K. Seidner Award to Mike Dennis, president of Moen Incorporated Canada and Latin America, in recognition of his contribution to the development of Canadian plumbing codes and standards. Dennis is a 13-year member of the CIPH Plumbing Industry Advisory Council, including six years as chairman. He is also a founding member and active participant on the Canadian Advisory Council on Plumbing. He served 11-years on the CIPH board of directors and was chairman in 2004-2005. Former CIPH chairman Ken Webster presented the award at the CIPH Annual Business Conference held in Charlottetown in June. Joe Seidner, who died in 2003, spent much of the Second World War as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Theresienstadt (Terezin) in what is now the Czech Republic, where he survived by becoming indispensable to the Nazis as a plumber. In the 1950s he established Brady & Seidner Assoc. Ltd. in Toronto after a chance meeting with George Brady, who as a youth was Seidners helper in the camp. He worked many years on various code committees and was the first recipient of the award in 2000.
