Reid H. Montgomery Distinguished Service Award
Fred L. Kildow
Associated Collegiate Press 1962
George H. Miller
University of South Florida 1962
Joseph M. Murphy
Director, Columbia Scholastic Press 1963
Paul S. Swennson
Executive Director, Newspaper Fund, Inc. 1963
Edward W. McDonald
Grand Exec. Secretary-Treasurer, Pi Delta Epsilon 1963
Nelson Poynter
St. Petersburg (FL) Evening Independent and Times 1964
Benjamin Allnutt
Bethesda-Chevy Chase H.S. (MD) 1964
Arthur M. "Sandy" Sanderson,
University of South Florida 1964
Charles Dolan
National Education Director, Taylor Publishing Co. 1965
Dorothy Chandler
Vice President, Corporate Relations, Times-Mirror Co. Inc., Los Angeles 1965
Robert R. Franham
Fashion Press, Inc., Los Angeles 1965
V. Edward Canale
President, National Advertising Service, Inc., New York 1966
John Ciardi
Poet and critic 1967
Thomas Storke
Editor/publisher emeritus, Santa Barbara, Calif. 1967
Sterling Fisher
Reader's Digest 1968
John S. Dickey
President, Dartmouth College (NH) 1969
George Starcher
President, University of North Dakota 1969
N.S. Patterson
National School Yearbook Association 1970
Ruggero Aldisert
Pittsburgh, (PA). 1971
John Behrens
Utica College (NY) 1975
Loyd Edmonds
University of Texas at Austin 1979
Russell E. Hurst
Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi 1980
Indiana State University
Indiana State University 1981
Herman Estrin
Newark College of Engineering (NJ) 1984
Albert T. Scroggins
University of South Carolina 1985
Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver
Florida International University 1987
Gannett Foundation
Gannett Foundation 1989
Dario Politella
University of Massachusetts 1990
Ed Sullivan
Columbia University (NY) 1995
Barbara B. Hines
Howard University (DC) 1996
Les R. Hyder
Eastern Illinois University 1997
Will Robedee
Rice University (TX) 2003
Joel R. Willer
University of Louisiana at Monroe 2003
Mark Goodman
Student Press Law Center 2007
Greg Harrell
Johnson County Community College 2008
Jay Hartwell
University of Hawaii at Manoa 2012