1961 Eve Bowring, Orrin J. Weymouth
1962 Glenn W. Hildreth
1963 Lyle V. Andrews, Emma Steckelberg
1965 John Van Horn
1967 George C. Gerdes
1969 Glenn Emick, Lawrence A. Lemons
1970 G. Lester Anderson, Albert E. Beguin
1971 Paul O. Bare, Gertrude Lutz
1972 Chris Schulze, E.K. Yanney
1973 Henry Freed, Hazel B. Morgan
1974 William F. Hartman, Barton L. Kline
1975 *Mari Sandoz, Harold V. Thompson
1976 Archie H. Conn, Louis Ninegar
1977 John Anderson, J. Walter Fitts
1978 Albert Lightbody, Lewis F. Shull
1979 William E. Colwell, Naomi Wilson
1980 Dora V. Taylor, Kenneth H. Thompson
1981 Leo H. Hoevet, Paul Norton
1982 Ross O. Armstrong, Eugene M. Hughes
1983 Gretchen Glode Berggren, Ted C. Turpin
1984 A.J. Alderman, Donald M. Burkhiser, Beatrice Koch, Jerry D. Mahlman
1985 Val Fitch, Lyle Fitch, Louis Mantalica, Martin Wade
1986 Merlin Butler, LeRoy Grantham, JoAnne Owens-Nauslar, Larman Wilson
1987 Harold Buckingham, Earl Buckingham, John Harms, Caroline Sandoz Pifer
1988 Clyde "Andy" Anderson, Brad Bartlett, Verne C. Lewellen, Marlena Richardson
1989 Dean Armstrong, F. Clark Elkins, L.J. Fitzgibbon, Edwin C. Nelson, Larry Tangeman
1990 Richard Haslow, William Lindeken, Rodney Reed, Richard Rickenbach
1991 Geri Armstrong, Robert Armstrong, Jeanne Bishop, Robert Bishop
1992 Larry Delinger, James Krotz, Paul Roesch, Flora Sandoz
1993 Gary Bunner, Gerald Christoffersen, Paul and Betty McCawley, Lee and Virginia Wahlstrom
1994 Vernon P. and Frances E. Chicoine, E. Daniel Long, J. Roger McHenry, Robert Nygaard
1995 Larry Lytle, Joe Lytle, Omero Suarez
1996 Calvin W. Clark, Dennis Deen, Carl McManis, Don Ruleaux
1997 Vili A. Fuavao
1998 John Axtell, Bevin Bump, Jack McBride
1999 Gaylord Moller, Virginia Kennedy Coffee
2001 James "Jim" Hanson
2002 Clayton and Charlotte Brown
2004 Sandra K. Scofield, Keith Spencer, William R. Wickersham
2013 Steve and Janice Erwin
2014 Randy and Lorrie Bauer, Chad and Cheryl Emanuel, Con Marshall
2017 Jim O'Rourke
2022 Tom and Lee Detwiler
2023 Fran Grimes, Rick Kolkman
2025 *Margaret Crouse
* Conferred posthumously
