The oldest tradition and honor began with the yearly banquet speaker. Lorente de Nó, Cajal’s greatest student, delivered the first one in 1951, and in 1968 it morphed into the Pinckney J. Harman Memorial Lecture, delivered by Elizabeth C. Crosby, the distinguished American neuroanatomist. The annual Krieg Cortical Kudos Awards began in 1987 with a major endowment by Wendell Krieg and his wife Roberta, and they are meant to recognize outstanding research on the structure he was passionate about, the cerebral cortex. These awards are given to individuals at junior, middle, and senior career stages. Two other traditions began with the new millennium. In Madrid, the club held the first of a series of highly successful international and national research symposia, including events at FENS since 2012. And at that 2001 event in Madrid, the Club also initiated presentation of Krieg Lifetime Achievement Awards, to King Don Juan Carlos I of Spain. Since then, eight other awards have been given to outstanding individuals including Rita Levi-Montalcini, Paul Allen, and Gordon Shepherd.