1950
- Clarence P. Bill
- E. B. de Sauze
- Norman J. DeWitt
- Winifred G. Leutner
1951
- Fred S. Dunham
- Clyde Pharr
1952
- Norman W. DeWitt
1955
- Clyde Murley
- Gertrude E. Smith
1956
- Wilbert L. Carr
- Russel M. Geer
1957
- Lillian Gay Berry
- Selatie E. Stout
- B. L. Ullman
- A. Pelzer Wagener
- Dorrance S. White
1958
- Harry J. Leon
1959
- Walter R. Agard
- Eleanore Cooper
- Irene J. Crabb
- James E. Dunlap
1960
- Annabel Horn
- Donnis & Gladys Martin
1961
- Charles C. Mierow
1962
- Nellie Angel Smith
- Herbert C. Youtie
1963
- Alfred P. Dorjahn
- Lillian B. Lawler
1964
- John N. Hough
- James J. Mertz
- Lucy A. Whitsel
1965
- Grace L. Beede
- Chauncey E. Finch
1966
- D. Herbert Abel
- Graydon W. Regenos
1967
- Paul F. Distler
- Margaret Forbes
- Clark Hopkins
1968
- Lucile Cox
- Mary Bede Donelan
- William Korfmacher
1969
- Gertrude Ewing
- Paul R. Murphy
- Margaret Smith
1970
- Mary S. Duerson
- Edith M. Kovach
- Oscar E. Nybakken
1971
- Vivia Craig
- Gerald M. Erickson
- Clarence A. Forbes
1972
- Gertrude C. Drake
- Norman T. Pratt
- William H. Willis
1973
- James W. Alexander
- Eula G. Cutt
- Gerald F. Else
1974
- Paul Lachlan MacKendrick
- Ethel Poston
- Richard T. Scanlan
1975
- Maurice P. Cunningham
- Elizabeth Hunter
- Waldo E. Sweet
1976
- Annie Virginia Cook Aldridge
- H. Lloyd Stow
1977
- Geraldine Hodges
- Graves Haydon Thompson
1978
- Kay de Pue
- Alexander Gordon McKay
- Bert Henry Narveson
1979
- Herbert W. Benario
- Raymond V. Schoder
- Gerda Seligson
1980
- Ruth Froberg
- Roger Allen Hornsby
- J. D. Sadler
1981
- Henrietta Davis
- Harry C. Rutledge
- Gareth L. Schmeling
- Arthur F. Stocker
1982
- Charles Luther Babcock
- Raymond L. Den Adel
- Christine Sleeper
1983
- Mark P. O. Morford
- Kenneth J. Reckford
- Marcia McCathern Stille
1984
- Gotthard Karl Galinsky
- Jane H. Hall
- Hunter Ripley Rawlings
1985
- Brent M. Froberg
- Richard A. LaFleur
- Margaret Weaver
1986
- Janice M. Benario
- Marian West Stocker
- Susan Ford Wiltshire
1987
- Dorothy Daniel
- Meyer P. Reinhold
- C. Wayne Tucker
1988
- Tamara Bauer
- J. Ward Jones
- Anna Lydia Motto
1989
- Norma W. Goldman
- William J. Napiwocki
1990
- Sally Davis
- Roy E. Lindahl
1991
- Martha Abbott
- Edward E. Best
1992
- Bobby LaBouve
- Michelle & Robert Wilhelm
1993
- Kathy Elifrits
- Oliver C. Phillips
1994
- William W. de Grummond
- Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.
- Robert W. Ulery, Jr.
1995
- Naidyne Brown-Bridwell
- Michael Gagarin
- Ross S. Kilpatrick
1996
- Ward W. Briggs, Jr.
- Jeffrey L. Buller
- Cathy Daugherty
- Daniel B. Levine
1997
- John Breuker, Jr.
- Theodore A. Tarkow
- Kathryn A. Thomas
1998
- G. Edward Gaffney
- Karelisa Hartigan
- John F. Miller
1999
- Ladislaus & Marie Bolchazy
- Anne H. Groton
- John F. Hall
- William H. Race
2000
- Carter Drake
- Eddie R. Lowry, Jr.
- F. Carter Philips
2001
- Leon Golden
- Barbara A. Hill
- Stanley A. Iverson
2002
- Helena R. Dettmer
- Michele V. Ronnick
- Thomas J. Sienkewicz
2003
- Christopher P. Craig
- Jane E. Phillips
2004
- Gregory N. Daugherty
- Eleanor Winsor Leach
- Sherwin D. Little
- James M. May
2005
- Judith de Luce
- Ginny Lindzey
- James S. Ruebel
2006
- David F. Bright
- Dawn LaFon
- James V. Lowe
2007
- Alice M. Sanford
- Susan C. Shelmerdine
- Niall W. Slater
2008
- Monica S. Cyrino
- Samuel J. Huskey
- David W. Tandy
2009
- Jenny Strauss Clay
- Julia Dyson Hejduk
2010
- Carin M. C. Green
- John H. Hansen
- Marilyn B. Skinner
2011
- Peter E. Knox
- Keely K. Lake
- Mark F. Williams
2012
- John C. Gruber-Miller
- Susan D. Martin
- Nicoletta Villa-Sella
2013
- Bob Cape (Austin College)
- Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota)
- Mary Pendergraft (Wake Forest University)
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2014
- Georgia L. Irby (The College of William and Mary)
- Alden Smith (Baylor University)
- Robert T. White (Shaker Heights High School)