The DeGelleke Award is CISCA’s highest honor. Named for one of the founding members of the organization, Gerry DeGelleke, the award is given to that individual whose contribution to the industry and the association has been acknowledged as significant and noteworthy. The DeGelleke Award Committee each year consists of the current president and two most recent past presidents of CISCA.
1960 -- Wallace Waterfall
1961 -- George P. Little 1962 -- Robert L. Lindahl 1963 -- George I. Smith 1964 -- Harold E. Anning 1965 -- Victor Jacobson 1966 -- Edwin S. Grabill 1967 -- William J. Haertel 1968 -- Arno R. Myers* 1969 -- Joel Rachlin 1970 -- Martin J. Brennan* 1971 -- Curtis O. Johnson 1972 -- Herman L. Vriens 1973 -- Walter M. Ericson 1974 -- William A. Manson, Sr.* 1975 -- Michael Kodaras 1976 -- Jack Gellin* 1977 -- Thad Collum 1978 -- James L. Whittaker 1982 -- David O. Johnson 1983 -- Gilbert L. Phillips 1987 -- R. Thomas Jones 1988 -- Frank Burgen 1990 -- Walter N. Patch
1991 -- Rowland Denman
1992 -- Donald E. Nicholas 1993 -- Richard B. Brown 1994 -- George A. Irvine 1995 -- H. F. (Corky) Falbaum * 1996 -- Henry St. Hilaire 1997 -- John D. Jacobson 1998 -- Harold L. Wettlaufer, Jr.* |
1999 -- Douglas P. Ayers 2000 -- James J. Gegare 2001 -- Thomas O. Valenti 2002 -- Claude S. Bagley 2003 -- Larry R. Edwards 2004 -- William L. Shannon 2005 -- David D. Nicholas 2006 -- Claude W. Amerson 2007 -- Thomas A. Edens 2008 -- Kent Vipond 2009 -- Rick Ziska 2010 -- Ron Bishop 2011 -- Wayne Chester 2012 -- Michael Coakley 2013 -- Daniel Degnan 2014 -- Connie Larson 2015 -- Tom Jacobson 2016 -- Hank Reinke 2017 -- Brad Sampson*
2018 -- Scott Qualls
2019 -- Don Harris
2020 -- Jim Walaszek
2021 -- Eric Mau
2022 -- Paul Gallagher 2023 -- Pete Welly 2024 -- Mark Olson
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*Deceased
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