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 III 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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