Past Award Recipients

2023: Larry Kelley, University of Houston
2022: Daniel J. Petek, Washington State University
2021: 
John Murphy, University of Texas
2020: Kevin Kelly, Brigham Young University
2019: Scott Hamula, Ithaca College
2018: Oscar Chilabato, Johnson & Wales University
2017: Dave Koranda, University of Oregon
2016: Jay Newell, Iowa State University
2015: Steve Hall, University of Illinois
2014: Dr. Bruce Roche, University of Alabama
2013: Lynda Maddox, George Washington University
2012: Greg Pabst, University of San Francisco
2011: Ray Kelsey, Oklahoma State University
2010: Hugh G. Daubek, Purdue University Calumet
2009: Mary Ann Stutts, Texas State University
2008: Alice Kendrick, Southern Methodist University
2007: Thomas A. Bowers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2005: W. Ronald Lane, University of Georgia
2004: Esther Thorson, Missouri School of Journalism
2003: Leila (Lee) Wenthe, University of Georgia/South Carolina
2000: Jerome Jewler, University of South Carolina
1999: Howard S. Cogan, Ithaca College
1998: Frances Rutland Lacher, Fashion Institute of Technology
1997: Robert E. Ellis, Northwood University
1996: Bruce Vanden Bergh, Michigan State University
1995: Walter Weir, Michigan State University; Temple University; University of Tennessee
1994: Elsie Hebert, Louisiana State University
1993: Don E. Schultz, Northwestern University
1992: Kim Rotzoll, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1991: John Philip Jones, Syracuse University
1990: William Goodrich, University of South Carolina
1989: Billy I. Ross, Texas Tech University
1988: S. Watson Dunn, University of Missouri, Columbia
1987: Philip Ward Burton, Indiana University