Award Yearbook
The highest distinction that the promotional products industry bestows on professionals is induction into the PPAI Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes exceptional long-term contributions to PPAI and the industry.
Horace K. Atkins*
1977
Harold A. Lufkin*
1977
Richard H. McCleery*
1977
Carl E. Rosenfeld, MAS*
1977
Joseph M. Segel*
1977
William F. Vernon, Sr.*
1977
Charles A. Ward*
1977
Leonard J. Bray*
1978
James Y. Canfield*
1978
Raymond A. Geiger, CAS*
1978
Edmund B. Osborne*
1978
Jay Sadler Shaw*
1978
Robert E. Yaw*
1978
Fred O. Coble, CAS*
1979
Jasper Fremont Meek*
1979
Thomas D. Murphy*
1979
Robert C. Rollings MAS*
1979
James T. Albert*
1981
Herbert Huse Bigelow*
1982
Herman F. Grotte*
1982
Dean C. Mathews*
1982
J. Howard Pecher, CAS*
1983
Harry S. Rosenberg, CAS*
1983
Russell H. Woodlief*
1983
Harry J. Friedman*
1984
Stanley V. Linham, CAS*
1984
Sidney X. Shore, CAS*
1984
Almand “Bo” Carroll*
1985
William F. Vernon, Jr., CAS*
1986
Collins T. Dawson, CAS*
1987
Ford Thomas Rose, MAS*
1987
Ann Morrissey-Roelfs, CAS*
1988
Jack Nadel*
1988
N. Donald Edwards, CAS
1989
T. R. Gerlach*
1989
C. Ralph Loder*
1989
Maurice W. Cohn*
1990
George L. Herpel, Ph. D.*
1991
Benjamin S. Whitehead*
1991
Stephen E. Slack*
1992
Glen R. Holt, MAS, CIP*
1993
Marshall Sipkins*
1993
Margaret Custer-Ford, MAS
1994
Russell B. French*
1994
Mark S. Gilman, CAS
1996
Gene P. Cesario, MAS*
1997
H. Ted Olson, MAS*
1997
Marvin Spike, MAS*
1997
Charles B. Wright, Sr.*
1998
Vincent J. Arena, Sr.*
1999
Ernest Hazel III, CAS*
1999
H. Wayne Roberts, MAS
2000
Charles L. Chelstrom, CAS*
2001
George C. Matteson, Jr., CAS*
2002
H. D. “Joe” Stratton, MAS*
2002
Joseph G. Lipic, Sr., MAS
2003
Willis M. Bywater
2004
Frank A. Geiger*
2004
John G. Hiles, Sr.*
2004
Russell M. Searle*
2004
William W. Schwartz, CAS*
2005
Barry Chase, CAS
2006
Dan Bagley III, Ph.D., CAS
2007
Robert Burnham, CAS*
2007
Lorraine Hempen, CAS*
2007
Richard G. Ebel
2008
Robert B. Lederer, CAS
2008
Robert A. Waldorf, CAS
2008
Jo-an G. Lantz, MAS
2009
H. Wingfield Hughes, MAS
2010
Kurt Reckziegel
2010
Wayne Greenberg, MAS
2011
Max Scharf, CAS*
2011
Bob Davis, CAS*
2012
Paul Lage, MAS
2012
Don Lafferre, CAS*
2014
Fran Ford Jr., CAS*
2015
Paul Kiewiet, MAS+
2015
G. Stephen Slagle, CAE
2016
Margie Price, MAS
2017
Janelle Nevins*
2018
Joel D. Schaffer, MAS
2017
David Woods, MAS*
2018
Gene Geiger, MAS+
2019
Charles “Chuck” Pecher
2019
Carl Gerlach, MAS
2020
Roni Wright, MAS
2020
Teresa Moisant, MAS
2021
Sherri Lennarson, MAS
2022
Cliff Quicksell, Jr. MAS+
2022
Carol Aastad, MAS
2023
Mary Ellen Sokalski, MAS
2023
David C. DeGreeff, MAS
2024
* Deceased