1954----Perry Emmet O'Brien - Trustee/Jackson County Public Library
1954----Ethel Green - Clarksburg Public Library
1955----Mrs.Waitman H. Conway - Marion County Public Library
1955----John V. Ray - Trustee/Kanawha County Public Library
1956----Ida M. Peters - Parkersburg High School
1956----Cyril M. Reigh - Trustee/St. Albans Public Library
1957----Roy Bird Cook - Scholar, Historian/Kanawha County
1957----Emma Cobb Havener - Trustee/Morgantown Public Library
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1964----William Frederick Dalzell - Trustee/Moundsville Public Library
1964----Margaret Virginia Ebeling - Ohio County Public Library
1964----James Arthur Jackson - West Virginia State Law Librarian
1964----Florence Katherine Reese - West Virginia University
1965----Dora Ruth Parks - West Virginia Library Commission
1965----Nellie Rider - Trustee/Morgantown Public Library
1966----Myrtle Banbrick - Weirton Women's Club
1967----Clarice Lorene Bailes - South Charleston High School
1967----Ora Peters - Concord College
1967----Earl Eiler Rich - West Virginia Library Commissioner-Chairman
1968----Rose Eleanor Lyne - West Virginia Library Commissioner
1968----William C. Myers - Mary H. Weir Public Library
1969----Harold William Apel - Marshall University
1969----Mary Louise Graham - Raleigh County Public Library
1970----Board of Directors - St. Albans Public Library
1970----Jennings Randolph - U. S. Senator
1970----C. E. Campbell Beall - West Virginia Library Commissioner
1970----Nicholas Winowich - Kanawha County Public Library
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1972----Earl Core - Author, Trustee/Morgantown Public Library
1972----Mary Guiney - West Virginia Library Commission
1973----Charlotte Murphy - Mannington Public Library
1974----Clifford Hamrick - West Virginia University
1974----Sam Harshbarger - Trustee/Cabell County Public Library
1975----John Edward Scott - Library Resources West Virginia State College
1975----Govenor & Mrs. Arch A. Moore - Glen Dale, West Virginia
1976----Josephine Fidler - Marshall University
1977----Eloise Newlon - Kanawha County Schools
1978----Victorine Louistall - West Virginia University
1979----Larry Frye - Bethany College
1980----Betty Jane Wade - Shinnston Public Library
1981----Margaret Allen -
1982----S. Fred Natalie - Mary H. Weir Public Library
1983----Luella Dye - Craft Memorial Library
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1986----Buddy Herzbern - Trustee/McDowell County Public Library
1987----Sarah Thompson - St. Albans Public Library
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1990----Karney Tinney - Sissonville Public Library
1991----Karen Phillipi - Kanawha County Public Library
1992----Susan Reilly - City-County Public Library (Moundsville)
1993----Karney Tinney - Trustee/Sissonville Public Library
1994----Dr. Les Wilkerson - Friend/Lincoln County Public Library
1995----Jeff Deal - Trustee/McDowell County Public Library
1996----Gordon Simmons - Taylor Books
1996----Sam Colvin - Wayne County Public Library
1997----Pearl Jett - Trustee/Doddridge County Public Library
1998----Guy Laymond Nichols - Trustee/Paden City Public Library
1999----Friends of the Summers County Public Library
2000----Karney Tinney - Trustee/Sissonville Public Library
2001----Evan M. Rogerson - Trustee/City-County Public Library (Moundsville)
2001----Jack Kessler - Trustee/Putnam County Public Library
2002----Donna Morgan - Director/McDowell County Public Library
2002----Thomas A. E. Stepahn - Trustee/Ohio County Public Library
2003----Phyllis Wilson Moore - Advisory Board member/West Virginia Folklife Center
2004----Joel Beane - Director/Kingwood Public Library
Alma Cummings - Lincoln County Public Library
The West Virginia Library Commission Network Staff
2005----Julie Spiegler
2006----Betty Hamilton