Michael Chambers Receives NAAA Auctioneer Award
BOSTON, Mass. – National Auto Auction Association President Jack Neshe presented Michael J. Chambers with the NAAA Association Bernie Hart Memorial Auctioneer Award this month at the 66th Annual NAAA Convention & Exposition.
Chambers, 40, of Atkinson, N.H., has been an auctioneer for more than 20 years and typically works 6-8 auto auction sales a week at ADESA Boston, ADESA, Concorde, Manheim’s New England Auto Auction and Hartford-Springfield Auction Co-Op.
The Bernie Hart Memorial Auctioneer Award honors “the most visible person in the auction industry.” The award is named after long-time NAAA Executive Director Bernie Hart of Lincoln, Nebraska, who served the association for more than 30 years before retiring in 1988.
Of late, Chambers has been very visible in the industry. He was the runner up (third-place) in the 2014 World Automobile Auctioneer Championships. And just this summer earned the “Chuck Cumberlin Sportsman Award” during the July 2014 National Auctioneer Association International Auctioneer Championship. He also earned the title of 2006 Massachusetts Bid Calling Champion from the Massachusetts Auctioneers Association.
“Michael exemplifies what we consider highly valuable traits among our auctioneers,” Neshe said of this year’s Bernie Hart Award recipient. “He’s dedicated to the profession, works diligently to support the industry, trains young people and generates interest in the profession. He has the highest ethical standards and gives freely of himself to various community and service organizations.”
Chambers is married to, Kathleen, and they have two children ages 7 and 6 years. He has been a licensed auctioneer since 1994, and for the past 19 years has worked throughout New England. He regularly serves as an auctioneer at benefit auctions for Special Olympics, Boys and Girls Clubs and the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
He was introduced to auctioneering by his father and attended the Mendenhall School of Auctioneering in 1994. He worked at various auctions as a clerk and calling re-runs, and later attended the World Wide College of Auctioneering. Chambers is very active in the National Auctioneers Association as an advocate for the industry and its members, as well as educating young people about the profession.
Chambers is an avid musician and plays guitar as well as sings. He is a fisherman and enjoys snowboarding and snowmobiling. Whenever possible we like to see a live theater production.
Kevin McGlothlen, the 1998 World Automobile Auctioneers Champion, said Chambers’ skills go far beyond the chant or the sale.
“It's about the person with the microphone, and Michael Chambers is rapidly becoming a statesman for our industry,” McGlothlen said.
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