Past Recipients

• 2007 W. Ross Boone
• 2006 Whitney Godwin Saunders
• 2005 Honorable Curtis R. Milteer, Sr.
• 2004 Susan F. Woodward
• 2003 Honorable E. Dana Dickens III

• 1998 Durrell V. Mills
• 1997 Jack W. Nurney, Jr.
• 1996 George Y. Birdsong
• 1995 Al and Georgia Saunders
• 1994 J. Samuel Glasscock
• 1993 Rev. Melvin R. Boone
• 1992 Robert E. Gillette
• 1991 Dr. Philip R. Thomas
• 1990 Sanford B. Chapman
• 1989 Oliver K. Hobbs
• 1988 William J. Spain, Jr.
• 1987 Dr. George H. Barnett
• 1986 William E. Ashley
• 1985 Joseph H. Barlow
• 1984 Howard D. Mast
• 1983 Dr. Margarite W. Reid
• 1982 Andrew B. Damiani
• 1981 S.B. “Bert” Hazelwood
• 1980 Arthur E. Jones
• 1979 Edwin C. Ferguson, Jr.
• 1978 Ted J. LoCascio
• 1977 Robert H. Williams
• 1976 Robert W. Hundley
• 1975 Laura H. Elmore
• 1974 William F. Davis
• 1973 Dr. Robert B. Marr
• 1972 James F. Hope
• 1971 James E. Amers
• 1970 Muscoe Garnett
• 1969 Major T. Benton
• 1968 C.M. Flintoff
• 1967 Dr. Murray Kantor
• 1966 W.G. Saunders, Jr.
• 1965 Hunter M. Haynes
• 1964 Dr. Edward C. Joyner
• 1963 Richard M. Williams
• 1962 William R. Savage
• 1961 Vernon G. Eberwine
• 1960 W.P. Griffin
• 1959 Mills E. Godwin, Jr.
• 1958 Henry M. Pinner
• 1957 T.H. Birdsong, Jr.
• 1956 R.L. Woodard, Jr.