The FIS Jumping Committee assembled at the FIS Congress in Beirut, Lebanon 1967. Gustav Raaum, half kneeling on the right, second row, when he was elected Chairman of this Committee. In 1991/1992 Gustav Raaum received the US Ski Association's Bud and Mary Little Award for 28 years of volunteer service to the International Ski Federation (FIS). Upon his retirement from the FIS in 1983 during the FIS Congress in Sydney, Australia he was elected honorary member of the FIS Jumping Committee, and received service medals from Norwegian Ski Association and Swedish Ski Associations, and Awards from Foreningen til Ski Idrettens Fremme (Norway), Chinese Taipei Ski Association and Finnish Ski Association.