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1961 Joseph Hyde, Sr., Malone and Hyde
Charles Mortimer, General Foods Corporation
1962 J. Frank Grimes, IGA (Independent Grocers Alliance)
Margaret Chase Smith
1963 Clemens Krekeler
Thomas McCabe
1964 Ned Fleming, Fleming Cos.
1965 French Fox
Thomas Harrison
1966 Rudolph Treuenfels
1967 William T. Brady
1968 Charles P. McCormick, McCormick & Company, Inc.
1969 William B. Murphy
1970 Clarence Francis, General Foods Corporation
1971 Jans J. Wolflisberg
1972 Robert W. Mueller
1973 Morris Lewis, Jr.
1974 R. Burt Gookin
1975 Clarence Adamy, National Association of Food Chains
1976 Nelson Rockefeller
1977 James McFarland, General Mills
1978 Lee S. Bickmore, Nabisco, Inc.
1979 C.W. Cook
1980 Robert Stuart, Jr.
1981 Gerald Peck, National-American Wholesale Grocery Association
1982 John M. Volkhardt
1983 C. James McNutt, Campbell Soup Company
1984 Robert Schaeberle, Nabisco, Inc.
1985 William E. Dearden
1986 Jack J. Crocker, SUPERVALU INC.
1987 Edgar B. Walzer
1988 John F. Baugh
1989 Richard Harrison
1990 Theodore Wetterau, Wetterau Incorporated
1991 G. Richard Katzenbach
1992 William E. LaMothe, Kellogg Company
1993 Charles P. McCormick, Jr., McCormick & Company, Inc.
1994 E. Dean Werries, Fleming Cos.
1995 Harold B. Finch, Jr.
1996 Richard L. "Dick" Knowlton, Hormel Foods Corporation
Julian J. Leavitt
1997 Robert E. Rich, Sr.
Jack Twyman, Super Food Services
1998 Drayton McLane, Jr., McLane Group ,L.P.
1999 Alfred Piergalinni
2000 John F. Woodhouse, Sysco Corporation
2001 Robert John Emmons, Smart & Final Corp.
2002 Michael W. Wright, SUPERVALU INC.
2003 Philip F. Pellegrino, Kraft Foods, Inc.
2004 Paul Schulz, Food Distributors International
2005 Jack Block, Food Distributors International
2007 Boyd L. George, Alex Lee, Inc.
2008 Thomas P. Infusino, Wakefern Food Corporation
2009 Jeffrey Noddle, SUPERVALU INC.
2010 Gary Phillips, Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc.
2011 Dean Janeway, Waskefern Food Corp.
2012 Richard Parkinson, Associated Food Stores, Inc.
2013 Al Plamann, Unified Grocers, Inc.


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