Introduced at the 1981 National Order of the Arrow Conference, the Founder’s Award was created to honor and recognize those Arrowmen who have given outstanding service to the lodge. The award is reserved for an Arrowmen who demonstrates to fellow Arrowmen that he or she memorializes in his or her everyday life the spirit of achievement as described by founder E. Urner Goodman and co-founder Carroll A. Edson. It was established to reinforce the values first instilled by the founders in the early days of the Order. From its inception, The Founder’s Award has been highly restricted and bestowed only upon those individuals who best exemplify the vision and quest of the founders.
1985
Robert E. Matje
G. Ernest Heegard*
1986
Martin A Summers
Richard C. Bennett*
1987
William J. Prestia
Richard M. Mason, Sr.*
1988
William S. Davis*
James H. Gawthrop, Jr.*
1989
Thomas E. Ott
Warren F. Lawrence*
1990
Mark H. Morris
Philip Sears, Jr.*
1991
Scott R. Lutz
William H. Trowill, Jr.
1992
Scott R. Sanders
John L. Pfeiffer
1993
Thomas J. Evasew*
Thomas H. Woodworth
David J. Sherwood
1994
Jeffrey D Balmat
Allen Forssmark
1995
Jake Carrigan
C. Christopher Morris III
1996
Andrew J. Smith
Roy G. Cole
1997
Anthony J. DiAntonio
Karl W. Winsch*
1998
John M. Callahan
Stephen J. Brun
1999
Kyle W. Brun
Clee P. Brun
Harold C. Weber, Sr.
2000
Andrew Coe
Bruce M. Goodman
2001
Neville P. Austin, II
Alfred F. Stoudt
2002
Dale K. Mast
Karen W. Morris
2003
Matthew D. Griffin
James E. Montich
2004
Noah J. Austin
Brett P. D’Antonio
John B. Rettew III*
2005
John Sauser, Jr.
Earl R. Dering
2006
Neville P. Austin, Sr.
2007
Ian P. Miller
W. Jeffrey Miller
2008
Robert J. Pryor
P. Gerald Evasew
2009
Sean J. Bealer
Thomas A. Murphy
2010
Nicholas P. Masarro
John L. Boldin
2011
Jake M. Segal
Scott R. Salvatore
2012
David McConaghy
A. Raymond Coe
2013
Joseph Van Loon
Alex Hughes
2014
Jaqueline E. Palmer
2015
Chad Martin
Edward Dougherty Sr.
2016
Matthew Candy
Leslie D. John
2017
A.J. Moreno
Michael DiDomenico
2018
Jake Zebley
Thomas A. Savoy
2019
Kevin Babb
W. Stuart Watson III
2020
Mark Lysle
Max Weiser
Jeff Schaefer
2021
Bevan Watson
Jeff Goodman
2022
Francis J. Purcell IV
Pete Motel
2023
Elena McFadden
Gus Sauerzopf
2024
Collin J. Wheeler
David V. Seace
*Deceased