Silver Medal Award Recipients 1975-2007

2009: Robert L. Whittle, President & CEO, Williams Whittle
2007: Michael Jack, President & General Manager, WRC-TV/NBC4
2006: Donald Graham, President & CEO, The Washington Post
2005: Alex Orfinger, Publisher, Washington Business Journal

2004: Cary Hatch, President, MDB Communications

2003: Dan Rosenthal, President, The Dan Rosenthal Company

2002: Chris Schroeder, Publisher, washingtonpost.newsweek interactive

2001: Cathy Hughes, Founder and Chairperson, Radio One

2000: Tom Curley, Publisher, USA Today

1999: Ted Leonsis, President,Interactive Properties Group, AOL

1998: John Hendricks, President, Discovery TV

1997: Robert Johnson, Chairman & CEO, BET Holdings, Inc.

1996: Paula Scanlon, Director, Communications, Bell Atlantic

1995: Richard Hindin, President, ADWORKS, Inc.

1994: Raleigh Schein, Director of Operations, Digital Ink.

1993: Michael Carberry, President & CEO, Henry J. Kaufman & Associates

1992: Howard H. Bell, President Emeritus, American Advertising Federation

1991: Katharine Graham*, Chairman, The Washington Post

1990: Terry Coveny, Executive Creative Director, The Bomstein Agency

1989: Louis Limber*, The Washington Post

1988: David Abramson*, Chairman & CEO, Abramson, Ehrlich, Manes

1987: Jeanne Oates, Executive Director, National Multiple Sclerosis Society

1986: Jeb Brown, CEO, Earle Palmer Brown

1985: Jim Williams, Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication

1984: Marilyn Hayden, Agency Executive, Earle Palmer Brown

1983: Charles Brotman, Chairman, C.J. Brotman Communications

1982: Joseph A. Pollard, Peoples Drug Store

1981: Joseph V. Arcaro, The Washington Post

1980: Earle Palmer Brown, Founder, Earle Palmer Brown

1979: John Panagos*, President, John Panagos Enterprises, Inc.

1978: Nella Manes, Agency Founder, Ehrlich, Manes

1977: Alvin J. Raider, Agency Founder, Raider Advertising

1976: Andrew M. Ockerhausen, Broadcast Exec., WMAL Radio, Home Team Sports

1975: Vernon Custer, Advertising Executive, Coca Cola

*deceased