(Honorarium – $1000)—[Funded by Welex Corp. 1987-2008]
| 2015 | Doug Darrow |
| 2014 | Wayne Gifford |
| 2013 | Gary Oliver |
| 2012 | Mike Cramer |
| 2011 | Frank Nissel |
| 2010 | |
| 2008 | Mark Butters |
| 2007 | Jim Johnson |
| 2006 | Gaylord Brown |
| 2005 | Vern Krupa |
| 2004 | Larry Finke |
| 2003 | Paul Peelman |
| 2002 | Dr. George A. Kruder |
| 2001 | Peter Cloeren |
| 2000 | D.J. Yoder |
| 1999 | Jack D. Vicars |
| 1998 | R. Bruce Grover |
| 1997 | Robert B. Otto |
| 1996 | George Leuken |
| 1995 | Robert P. Kittredge |
| 1994 | William N. Calland |
| 1993 | William H. Hiatt |
| 1992 | John Whitt |
| 1991 | John Hopple |
| 1990 | H.B. ‘Ben’ Turner |
| 1989 | No Award |
| 1988 | William S. McCormick |
| 1987 | Charles R. Finch / Walter J. Schrenk |