Citizen Legion of Honor Award
Established in 1951, the Citizen Legion of Honor Award is the region’s premier volunteer recognition honoring community servant leaders for their unselfish dedication to our area and its people. Nominations come in each year from 3 sources: Past award recipients, member service clubs and past Presidents of The Presidents Club of Dayton. Criteria was established years ago to honor 1 individual or a family couple who demonstrate these traits and accomplishments:
- The person (s) whose volunteer leadership and activities have benefitted the greatest number of people; and/or
- The person(s) whose single act has been of greatest benefit; and/or
- The person(s) whose self-sacrifice or unselfishness of time has not been acclaimed or sufficiently recognized.
The volunteer selection committee reviews nominations each year and selects a recipient to be honored at The Presidents Club of Dayton Annual Meeting in early October.
Thanks to the generous contribution by Richard Schiewetz and Winsupply, Inc. to honor his father Harry F. Schiewetz (3rd recipient in 1953), The Presidents Club of Dayton constructed a permanent “Community Wall of Honor” on the 3rd floor of the Dayton Convention Center to memorialize these volunteer community leaders who have served our region since the late 1940s and beyond.
2019 Luncheon Sponsors
Platinum
CareSource Foundation
Kettering Health Network - 2
Sinclair Community College
Synergy Building Systems
The Schiewetz Foundation
Wright State University Foundation
Gold
Economy Linen and Towel Service
Danis Building Construction
Dayton Masonic Foundation
Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association
Greater Dayton RTA
Mathile Family Enterprise
Montgomery County
Premier Health
RG Properties, Inc.
Rieck Services
Other Sponsorship Video: The Schiewetz Foundation Co-Sponsor: Cox Media Group Ohio
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Silver
Auman, Mahan & Furry
CBD Advisors
Community Health Centers of Greater Dayton
Bethany Village
Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway
LWC Incorporated
Ohio's Hospice, Inc.
PNC
The Dayton Foundation
Think Patented
Bronze
Brady Ware & Company
Burges & Burges Strategists
DRT Holdings, Inc.
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce
Dayton Children's Hospital
Dayton Dragons
Dr. Joseph Gunasekera/Dr. Daniel Whitmer
The Dayton Stencil Works Co.
Fuyao Glass America, Inc.
I Supply Co.
Mark Fornes Realty
Manning & Associates CPAs, LLC
Reddy Electric
Sebaly Shillito + Dyer
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Award Recipients
Award Year | Name | Employer | Organization Affiliation |
2020 | --------------------------------------- | -------------- No Award Due to COVID-19 -------------- | --------------------------------------- |
2019 | Roy G. Chew, Ph.D. | Kettering Health Network | United Way of the Greater Dayton Area |
2018 | Jenell R. Ross | Bob Ross Auto Group | Norma J. Ross Foundation |
2017 | Robert W. Mills, Jr. | Synergy & Mills Development | Gala of Hope Foundation |
2016 | Phillip L. Parker, CAE, CCE | Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce | The Presidents Club of Dayton |
2015 | Clark E. Beck, Sr., Sc.D. | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | American Red Cross |
2014 | MaryAnn and Clayton Mathile | The Iams Company | The Mathile Family Foundation |
2013 | Ronald F. Budzik | The Mead Corporation | Dayton Early College Academy |
2012 | Marvin Olinsky | Five Rivers Metroparks | 4-H Youth Development Program |
2011 | Judge Walter H. Rice | United States District Court | Dayton Dialogue on Race Relations |
2010 | Robert K. Siebenthaler | The Siebenthaler Company | Five Rivers Metroparks |
2009 | R. Daniel Sadlier | Fifth Third Bank | University of Dayton |
2008 | Franz J. Hoge | PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP | Montgomery County |
2007 | Francisco J. Perez | Kettering Health Network | Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce |
2006 | Ned J. Sifferlen, Ed.D. | Sinclair Community College | Good Samaritan Hospital |
2005 | Benjamin & Marian Schuster | Community Philanthropists | The Schuster Performing Arts Center |
2004 | Oscar Boonshoft | Community Philanthropist | Boonshoft Museum of Discovery |
2003 | J. Bradford Tillson, Jr. | Cox Ohio Publishing | Inventing Flight |
2002 | Anne S. Greene | Community Volunteer | Victoria Theatre Association |
2001 | Bro. Raymond L. Fitz, S.M., Ph.D. | University of Dayton | Family and Children First Council |
2000 | John E. Moore, Sr. | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | The Dayton Foundation |
1999 | Frederick C. Smith | Huffy Corporation | Dayton Rotary |
1998 | Thomas J. Miske | Environmental Engineering Systems of Dayton | Northridge Optimist |
1997 | David H. Ponitz, Ed.D. | Sinclair Community College | Dayton Rotary |
1996 | Michael D. Pratt | Montgomery County Juvenile Court | Dayton Sertoma |
1995 | Gerald M. Hauer | Hauer Music Company | Dayton Rotary |
1994 | David R. Holmes | Reynolds & Reynolds | Dayton Rotary |
1993 | Bonnie Z. Macaulay | City of Dayton | Dayton Soroptimist |
1992 | Burnell R. Roberts | Mead Corporation | Dayton Rotary |
1991 | Joyce C. Young | Community Volunteer | Junior League of Dayton |
1990 | Charity Edna Earley | Community Volunteer | American Red Cross |
1989 | Jerry L. Kirby | Citizens Federal Savings | Dayton Rotary |
1988 | Edythe M. & Lloyd E. Lewis, Jr. | Miami Conservancy District/Dayton Power & Light | Dayton Soroptimist/Downtown Dayton Optimist |
1987 | Mariwyn D. Heath | Miami Valley Regional Transit Authority | Dayton Business & Professional Women |
1986 | Doris H. Ponitz | Community Volunteer | Kids Voting |
1985 | James W. McSwiney | Mead Corporation | Dayton Rotary |
1984 | Robert C. Barr | Sinclair Community College | Dayton Rotary |
1983 | Patrick Henry Irelan | Hipple-Irelan Advertising | Kettering Rotary |
1982 | Chester A. Roush | Kettering Public Schools | Kettering Rotary |
1981 | Loren F. Minnick | Standard Register | Dayton Kiwanis |
1980 | Victor J. Cassano, Sr. | Cassano's | Dayton Rotary |
1979 | Paul P. Brown | Brown & Head Associates | Riverdale Optimist |
1978 | Milton L. Sprowl | Nolan, Sprowl & Foley | Shiloh Optimist |
1977 | Jo & Hermene Schwarz | Schwarz School of Dance | Dayton Ballet Company |
1976 | Virginia W. Kettering | Community Philanthropist | Dayton Soroptimist |
1975 | Charles F. Horn | Horn & Rife | Kettering Rotary |
1974 | Walter A. Reiling, M.D. | Physician | Dayton Optimist |
1973 | Harold L. Boda, Ph.D. | Dayton Public Schools | Dayton Kiwanis |
1972 | Robert H. Meyer | Reynolds & Reynolds | Dayton Rotary |
1971 | Herschel K. Headley | Frigidaire Division, General Motors | Kettering Rotary |
1970 | Rev. Forrest R. Stoneburner, D. D. | Lutheran Social Services | Big Brothers |
1969 | Robert S. Margolis | Metropolitan Clothing | Dayton Kiwanis |
1968 | George E. Sheer | McCall Corporation | Dayton Rotary |
1967 | Alva Deen Cook, M.D. | Physician | Dayton Roundtable |
1966 | Herman F. Lehman | Frigidaire Division, General Motors | Dayton Rotary |
1965 | Robert E. Kline | National Cash Register | Dayton Kiwanis |
1964 | Louis F. Wozar | Tait Manufacturing Company | Dayton Rotary |
1963 | Robert C. Neff | Neff Folding Box | Dayton Rotary |
1962 | Harry P. Jeffrey | Iddings, Jeffrey & Donnelly | The Salvation Army |
1961 | Vincent M. Shields, Sr. | Montgomery County Juvenile Court | Dayton Junior Chamber of Commerce |
1960 | Frank F. Pfeiffer | Reynolds & Reynolds | Dayton Lions |
1959 | Carl A. Copp | Frigidaire Division, General Motors | Mercatore |
1958 | Milton H. Wagner | Wagner-Smith | Dayton Kiwanis |
1957 | David L. Rike | Rike-Kumler Co. | Dayton Rotary |
1956 | Edward L. Kohnle | Monarch Marking | Dayton Rotary |
1955 | Rev. Harvey C. Hahn | Otterbein E.U.B. Church | Dayton Sertoma |
1954 | Walter H. J. Behm | Winters Bank | Dayton Chamber of Commerce |
1953 | Harry F. Schiewetz | United States Post Office | Dayton Kiwanis |
1952 | Mason M. Roberts | Frigidaire Division, General Motors | Dayton Kiwanis |
1951 | Stanley C. Allyn | National Cash Register | Dayton Rotary |