Past Person of The Year Honorees

PRIOR TO 1968 BEN RATNER JUDGE DANA REYNOLDS LEO YASSENOFF

1968 CARL SMITH
1969
1970 CHARLES D. HILL
1971 DOM TIBERI
1972 HENRY DAVIES ADAM MAUER
1973 LOU BERLINER
1974 ROY NEWELL
1975 LOU VIERICK CLAUDE McBEE EVERETT SWICKARD FRED WILE
1976 DR. JIMMY HULL
1977 CLAIR MACKAN MEL SHAW
1978 JIMMY CRUM
1979 COACH WOODY HAYES
1980 CHARLES STOKES WALTER GAST
1981 BILL HUCLE BEN DEMPSEY ED METZGER NEL DePIETRO
1982 KAY KESSLER DICK OTTE KEN TIMMONS BOB FOSTER
1983 GUS SHELL CARL GRAF, SR.
1984 GEORGE SHISLER MIKE DORRIAN
1985 COACH FRED TAYLOR
1986 TOM ENRIGHT
1987 RICHARD L. SMITH
1988 JOHN A. DOBOS ROBERT C. RIES
1989 COACH JIM BROWN SIL SISCIOTTI
1990 WILLIAM J. DAWSON, JR.
1991 WILLIAM P.. HUNTJR. J. FRANK HARMON
1992 STEPHEN E. MILLER WALTER H. PLANK
1993 BENTON D. “SKEETER” DEMPSEY THOMAS E. “MICKEY McFADDEN
1994 DR. FRANK P. SOBOLEWSKI KEN SCHNACKE
1995 DAVID B. SACHS THOMAS E. SKLADANY
1997 WILLIAM A. KINNEAR
1999 GREG LASHUTKA
2001 HUGH DORRIAN COACH DIXIE JEFFERS
2002 GEROGE ARNOLD BILL HOSKETT CHUCK McMURRAY
2005 COACH EARLE BRUCE
2008 LEE BEGIN
2009 LARRY LARSON
2011 RAY PENDELL
2014 COACH BILL CONLEY
2015 COACH JOHN COOPER
2016 CLARK KELLOG
2017 COACH JIM TRESSEL
2018 COACH THAD MATTA
2019 JODY SHELLEY
2021 JACK PARK
2022 KATIE SMITH
2023 THE CARPENTER FAMILY
2024 JIM LACHEY PAUL KEELS
2025 SATCH SULLINGER AND FAMILY ET AL

We look forward to seeing you all and please remember that everything we do is for the young athletes of Central Ohio and every ounce of support you give to us gets placed on helping these athletes become great people and great Americans.