Honorary Life & Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
Honorary Life Membership Award and Lifetime Achievement Award
The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club honors those whose volunteer service to the club extends for a period. These are the people whom the club should remember as it moves to the future. Traditionally, the club designated these individuals with Honorary Life Memberships. In 2022, the club recognized that the Honorary Life Membership needed to be augmented by an award for those who are already life members or have passed on. Thus, the Lifetime Achievement Award was created.
2025 Honorary Life Membership Recipients
Marit Anderson nominated by Iva Gillet and Mark Perschel
Dan & Ellen Feer nominated by Rob Lamar
Previous Honorary Life Membership Recipients
2024: Michael Seth, John Hedrick, Nick and Vickie Erway, Charles Balch, Steve Huntley, Mark Ellis
2023: James Fye, Cindy Kelly, John Schell, Matthew Schroebel, Mark Walkup
2022: Bruce Berberick, David Garman, Iva Gillet
2021: Robert Fina; Glen Tsaparas; Lee Manning; George, Curt, and Tawnya Finney
2020: Mel Ellis, Jeff Monroe, David Trone
2019: Steve Barber, John Corwith, Chris Firme, David House
2018: Alan Gerber, Alex Sanders, Keith Tondrick
2017: Esther Aulthouse, Patrick Wilson
2016: Richard Canter, Karen and Mike Waterman
2015: Joseph E. "Radar" Raynor
2014: Henry Horn, John Shannon
2013: Lynn Cameron, Malcolm Cameron, Dan Dueweke
2012: Alvin Black, Jr., Alvin Dove, Mark Gatewood, Mark Nelson
2011: Richard Dugan, Peter Brown
2010: Steve Bair, Mary Jorgensen, Thomas Jorgensen
2009: Charles Hillon, Mel Merritt, Don White
2008: Fred "Hop" Long, Jane Thompson, Cliff Wiley
2007: George Schubert
2006: Karen Brown, Tom Johnson, Dave Appel
2005: Park Anderson, Kerry Snow, Carol Niedzialek
2004: Gerhard Salinger, Bernie Stalmann
2003: Alden Rogers, David Pierce, Philip Paschall, Christopher Brunton
2002: Peter Gatje, John McCrea, Jon Rindt, Walter Smith
2001: James Stauch, Charles Gieseking, Lillian Gieseking, Lois Mansfield
2000: Walter Wells, Phillip Barringer, William Ladd
1999: Marguerite Schneeberger, George Walters, James Hiltz
1998: Marjorie Dexter, Jean Golightly, Sandra Marra, Randall Minchew
1997: Leonard H. Bolz
1995: Charles Graf, Charles Irvin
1993: Jack Reeder
1992: Harry Thompson
1991: Lyman Stucker, David Bates, Dorothy Bates
1989: Samuel Moore, Warren Sharp
1986: Edward Garvey, Thomas Floyd
1984: Jim Denton, Molly Denton
1982: Robert Humphrey
1980: Bert Vos, Elizabeth Vos
1979: Ethel Hoover
1978: Raymond Fadner
1977: Paula Strain
1975: Philip Stone, John Oliphant, Grant Conway, Paul Bradt, Purnie Bishop
1973: Dorothy Mason
1972: Alice Matthews, Charles Pryor
1970: Ruth Blackburn, Fred Blackburn, Egbert Walker, Dorothy Walker, Wallace Walker, Joe Winn, Joan Winn, Clarence Mersch
1961: Ruth Mersch
1960: Alvin Peterson, Roy Sexton
1954: William O. Douglas
1950: Jean Stephenson
2025 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
David Trone nominated by Curt & Tawnya Finney
Previous Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
2024: William Greenan, Larry Linebrink
2023: Robert Lee Laughlin, Robert M. Wise
2022: Pete Brown, Ruth Durloo, Steve McLaughlin, Jim Tomlin