Our Annual Membership Meeting brings together professional and community leaders from all over the region to celebrate a successful year and share the chamber’s vision for the future. In addition to a cocktail reception, sit-down dinner and a large silent auction, we present the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. This event is customarily the 5th Friday of the new year.

2020: Susanne Kennedy

2019: Richard McGavern


2018: John A. "Jack" Schuppenhauer

2017: Byron Delavan*

2016: Jack Moran

2015: Benedict Gullo

2014: Ellie Fralick

2013: Richard Sands

2012: Linda Farchione Hawks

2011: Ralph Calabrese

2010: Randall Farnsworth

2009: Robert G. Sheridan

2008: William B. Rayburn

2007: Earl Coleates*

2006: Ellen Polimeni

2005: Jane Stickler*

2004: Clifford E. "Bob" Murphy, Jr.

2003: Fred W. Sarkis

2002: Richard Hawks, Jr.

2001: Richard W. Appel

2000: Caroline A. Delavan

1999: Paul Kellogg

1998: Judge Joseph Cribb*

1997: Frieda O'Hanlon

1996: George W. Hamlin IV

1995: James Holden*

1994: Buddy Rockmaker*

1993: Tarry Shipley

1992: Joseph Delforte*

1991: Janes Doran

1990: Bernard Hagerman*

1989: Robert Craugh*

1988: Marvin A. Rapp*

1987: Richard E. Ogden*

1986: George M. Ewing, Sr.*

1985: Alton U. Farnsworth*

1984: Ella Dunham*

1983: Bruce M. Kennedy

1982: Marvin L. Sands*

1981: Anthony M. Symigs*

1980: William J. Mitchell*

1979: Louis M. Kiesewetter

1978: James F. Kellogg*

1977: Rose Comella*

1976: Richard H Hawks, Sr.*

1975: Isobel S. Sainsbury*

1974: George G. Hayes*

1973: Arthur S. Hamlin*

1972: Lester A. Boyce*

1971: T. Hamilton Kennedy*

1970: Frank A. Baker*

1969: Herbert J. Ellis*

1968: Robert A. Hoekelman

1967: Collins W. Carpenter*

1966: Albert A. Moore*

1965: Walter C. Benham*

1964: Arthur R. Munson*

1963: Burrall S. Case*

1962: Howard J. Samuels*

1961: William W. Muar*
1960: Raymond A. Lake*

