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Community Service Award Recipients

2018 Amy Stephenson, Willingham and Cote

2017 Jim Robinson, Farm Bureau Insurance

2016 Paula Cunningham, AARP of Michigan

2015 Mark Hooper, Andrews Hooper Pavlik PLC

2014 Tim Staudt, WILX-TV

2014 Pat McPharlin, MSU Federal Credit Union

2013 Michael G. Harrison, Foster, Swift, Collins, and Smith P.C.

2013 Deborah L. Harrison

2012 Dr. Joseph Hess, Greater Lansing United Nations Association

2011 Bob Hoffman, Wharton Center for Performing Arts

2010 Lupe Izzo

2009 Jeff Hicks, Hicks & Mullett, PLLC

2008 Kelly Rossman-McKinney, Truscott Rossman

2007 David E. S. Marvin, Fraser Trebilcock Davis and Dunlap, P.C.

2006 Dorothy E. Maxwell, The Max Weingar Group Jems & Jewels

2005 James C. Epolito, State of Michigan

2004 Kellie P. Dean, Dean Transportation, Inc., Dean Trailways of Michigan

2003 James W. Butler III, Michigan Broadband Authority

2002 Jack Davis, Loomis, Ewert, Parsley, Davis & Gotting, P.C.

2001 Ev Beemer, Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce

2000 Duane Vernon, Credit Bureau of Greater Lansing

1999 John Demmer, Demmer Corporation

1998 Edward Souders, Panurgy of Mid-Michigan

1997 Jud & Louise Werbelow

1996 J. Christopher Holman, The Greater Lansing Business Monthly

1995 Albert A. White, Whitehill Development Corporation

1994 Wayne Williams, Williams Auto World

1993 Louis E. Legg, Lumber Company

1992 Richard A. Letts, City of Lansing

1991 Donald A. Hines, Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Foster

1990 James L. Ruetter, Lansing Ice & Fuel

1989 Kenneth Patenge, Wolhert Corporation

1988 Edward B. McRee, Ingham Medical Hospital

1987 Robert Clark, Capitol Federal Savings Bank

1986 Ed Vogt, BOC Oldsmobile Group

1985 Jack Breslin, Michigan State University

1984 W. K. Prudden, Pioneer Honoree

1984 Ted Sondag, Lansing State Journal

1984 Ransom E. Olds, Pioneer Honoree

1984 George Washington Peck, Pioneer Honoree

1984 Francis J. Carr, Pioneer Honoree

1984 Charles A. Davis, Pioneer Honoree

1983 Fritz Bennetts, Oldsmobile Division of GMC

1982 Robert Fisher

1981 Monsignor Jerome MacEachin, Catholic Diocese of Lansing

1980 Walter W. Neller, Walter W. Neller Company

1979 William J. Porter, Porter Realty Company

1978 Dr. Edgar Harden, Michigan State University

1977 Dr. Theodore Bauer, Physician

1976 Lucile Belen, Belen's Flowers

1975 Albert F. Schmidt, Schmidt's Supermarkets

1974 Philip J. Gannon, Lansing Community College

1973 Albert C. Boyd, Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce

1972 Joseph Alexanian, Alexanian's Rugs

1971 Claud Erickson, Board of Water & Light

1970 Hugo Lundberg, Lundberg Screw Products

1969 Howard Grimes, J. W. Knapp Company

1968 Floyd Estes, Estes-Leadley Company

1967 Walter F. Patenge, Wohlert Corporation

1966 Rabbi Phillip Frankel, Shaarey Zedek Congregation

1965 John A. Hannah, Michigan State University

1964 William R. Carlyon, Consumers Power Company

1963 William C. Searl, Auto-Owners Insurance Co.

1962 Edward G. Hacker, Edward G. Hacker Company

1961 Talbert Adams, Abrams Aerial Survey

1960 Howard J. Stoddard, Michigan National Bank

1959 Joseph R. Gwinn, People's Finance Service

1958 Fred Wohlert, Wohlert Corporation

1957 Jack F. Wolfram, Oldsmobile Division, GMC

1956 Dwight H. Rich, Lansing School District

1955 M. J. Maynard, J.C. Penney Company

1954 Paul A. Martin, Lansing State Journal

1953 C. W. Otto, Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce

1952 F. N. Arbaugh, F. N. Arbaugh Company

1951 Hugo B. Lundberg, Lundberg Screw Products

1950 Earle W. Goodnow, Atlas Drop Forge

1949 J. Gottlieb Ruetter, Lansing Ice & Fuel

1948 Clarence C. Carlton, Motor Wheel Corporation