Award of Merit Recipients

The Award of Merit is the highest award the association can bestow and recognizes lifetime achievement to the association and to the industry.
Award of Merit Recipients
1954
George P. McCarthy
Recordak Corp.
1955
Ray M. Hessert
Remington Rand, Inc.
1956:
Charles Z. Case
Eastman Kodak Co.
1957
Eugene B. Power
University Microfilm
1958
Verneur E. Pratt and
George Francis Gray
Pratt & Gray
1959
No award given.
1960
John K. Boeing
Recordak Corp.
1961
No award given.
1962
No award given.
1963
Vernon D. Tate
NMA
1964
John H. Dessauer
Xerox Corp., and
Marshall R. Hatfield
3M Co.
1965
No award given.
1966
Sir Frank Francis
British Museum
1967
Carl E. Nelson
IBM Corp.
1968 - 1971
No award given.
1972
Richard W. Batchelder
1973
No award given.
1974
Joseph Curtin
(Posthumous)
1975
Van B. Phillips
Eastman Kodak Co.
1976
No award given.
1977
D.W. McArthur
3M Co.
1977
Loretta J. Kiersky
Airco, Co.
1978
Karl Adams, Jr.
1979
John R. Robertson
Eastman Kodak Co.
1980
Thomas P. Anderson, Sr.
Microseal Corp.
1981
Henry C. Frey
Bell Telephone Labs
1982
Harold J. Fromm
Eastman Kodak Co.
1983 - 1984
No award given.
1985
Earl P. Bassett, Jr.
3M Co.
1986
No award given.
1987
Don M. Avedon
IMC
1988
Thomas C. Bagg
National Bureau of Standards
1989
Truett E. Airhart
CIMCOM
1990
No award given.
1991
Robert F. Williams
Cohasset Associates, Inc.
1992
Ronald H. Kinney
TRW Space Systems
1993
Rodd S. Exelbert
Rodd S. Exelbert Assoc.
1994
Marilyn E. Courtot
Children's Literature
1995
Beverlee Nunnari
Reliance Electric
1996
No award given.
1997
Robert W. Zagami
Spaulding Co., Inc.
1998
John A. Lacy
(Formerly CEO & Pres. IMC)
1999
No award given.
2000
Eugene Pawlowski
GPL Associates
2001
Carl J. Anderson
3M Co.
2002
Antonio Paulo de Andrade a Silva
CENADEM
2003
No award given.
2004
William E. Neale
eVisory Consulting
and
Margaret (Peggy) Chaney
AIIM
2005
No award given
2006
Edwin LoTurco
EDM Consulting
2007
No award given
2008
Robert L. Williams
Pratt & Whitney
2009
Alan S. Linden
The Linden Group
2010
Edward W. Mackin, Sr.
MetaSource
2011
Robert Breslawski
Eastman Kodak Company