|
Mr. |
Mack Hugh
Brooks |
1961 |
Educator |
|
Mr. |
William
A. (Buck) Thompson |
1961 |
Business
Man/retail |
|
Mrs. |
Lucy
McKnight Fitch |
1962 |
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|
Mr. |
Frank E.
Hanshaw Sr. |
1962 |
|
|
Mr. |
Raymond
Brewster |
1963 |
|
|
Mr. |
C. O.
(Pete) Wilson |
1964 |
|
|
Mr. |
Joseph
Silverman |
1964 |
|
|
Dr. |
Charles
V. Kelly |
1965 |
Medical |
|
Mrs. |
Jane
Whitley Mittendorf |
1966 |
Chemist |
|
Ms. |
L. Marie
White |
1966 |
Business
Woman |
|
Mr. |
James
Comstock |
1966 |
Journalist |
|
Mr. |
David A.
Foard Jr. |
1967 |
Business
Man/retail |
|
Mr. |
Orin E.
Atkins |
1967 |
Oil
Executive |
|
Mr. |
Robert E.
Yancey |
1967 |
|
|
Mr. |
John
Deaver Drinko |
1968 |
Law |
|
Dr. |
Charles
A. (Carl) Hoffman |
1969 |
Medical |
|
Mr. |
Harry F.
Moate Jr. |
1969 |
|
|
Mr. |
Ernest F.
Leaberry |
1970 |
Business
Man |
|
Mr. |
James O.
Porter |
1971 |
Law |
|
Dr. |
J. Ben
Robinson |
1973 |
|
|
Mr. |
Marvin L.
Stone |
1973 |
Journalist |
|
Mrs. |
Gaynell
Pauley Sehon |
1974 |
Journalist |
|
Dr. |
Alfred R.
Neumann |
1974 |
|
|
Mr. |
William
R. (Sonny) Allen |
1975 |
Education/Sports |
|
Mr. |
Soupy
Sales |
1976 |
Entertainer |
|
Dr. |
William
E. Hatfield |
1976 |
Author/Research Chemist |
|
Mr. |
John D.
(Jack) Maurice |
1977 |
Journalist |
|
Dr. |
Joseph D.
Duffey |
1978 |
Humanities |
|
Dr. |
Charles
J. Gould Jr. |
1979 |
Plant
Pathologist |
|
Dr. |
Harry
Lyle Pardue |
1980 |
Education/Chemistry |
|
Dr. |
Alfred
George Duba |
1981 |
Geophysicist |
|
Mrs. |
Virginia
Thabet Habeeb |
1982 |
Business
Woman |
|
Brig.
Gen. |
Albin G. Wheeler |
1983 |
Military |
|
Brig.
Gen. |
David W. Stallings |
1983 |
Military |
|
Brig.
Gen. |
Johnnie H. Corns |
1983 |
Military |
|
Mr. |
Thomas W.
Dunfee |
1984 |
Education/Author |
|
Dr. |
Victor
Anthony Politano |
1984 |
Medical/Author |
|
Dr. |
A. Dixon
Callihan |
1985 |
Physicist |
|
Mr. |
Howard
Bay |
1985 |
|
|
Mrs. |
Verna Kaye LeMasters Gibson |
1986 |
Business Woman/retail |
|
Dr. |
Richard O. Curry |
1986 |
Education/Author |
|
Mr. |
John C. Fiedler |
1987 |
Movie Producer |
|
Mr. |
Morris D. Busby |
1988 |
US Ambassador |
|
Dr. |
John R. Karickhoff |
1989 |
Medical |
|
Dr. |
M. Wilson Tabor |
1990 |
Biochemical Toxicologist |
|
Mr. |
Lawrence E. Bruce Jr. |
1991 |
UNICEF |
|
Col. |
James F. Madison |
1992 |
Military |
|
Mr. |
Lewis Carroll |
1993 |
Attorney |
|
Dr. |
Ronald J. Allen |
1994 |
Professor of Law |
|
Mr. |
Matthew Reese |
1995 |
Business |
|
U.S. Sen. |
Robert C. Byrd |
1996 |
U.S. Government |
|
Mr. |
Burl Osborne |
1997 |
Journalist |
|
Mr. |
Robert L. Pruett |
1998 |
Football Coach |
|
Mr. |
Donald L. Blankenship |
1999 |
Coal |
|
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NO AWARD GIVEN |
2000 |
|
|
Mr. |
Joseph Johns |
2001 |
Capital Hill Correspondent/
NBC
News |
|
Mr. |
Nathaniel Ruffin |
2001 |
VP Human Resources/
The Freedom
Forum |
|
Mrs. |
Kathy Eddy |
2002 |
CPA |
|
Dr. |
Paul W. Ambrose |
2002 |
M.D., M.P.H |
|
Mr. |
C. Carwood Lipton |
2002 |
Director of Development
for
Owens-Illinois |
|
Dr. |
Lonnie Thompson |
2003 |
Research Scientist |
|
Dr. |
Ellen Mosley-Thompson |
2003 |
Research Scientist |
|
Mr. |
Mel Cottone |
2003 |
Attorney, Businessman |
|
Mr. |
William Willis |
2004 |
|
|
Mr. |
Sean Callebs |
2004 |
News Anchor |
|
Mr. |
Bob Cosmai |
2005 |
Businessman |
|
Mr. |
J. Mark McVey |
2006 |
Tenor, Musician |
|
Mr. |
Troy Brown |
2006 |
Professional Football Player |
|
Mr. |
Mike Bartram |
2007 |
Professional Football Player |
|
Ms. |
Beth McVey |
2008 |
Entertainer |
|
Mr. |
Joe Gillette |
2009 |
Entrepreneur |