Meritorious Service Award

The Meritorious Service Award (MSA) may be conferred upon members of the Rite in this Jurisdiction who have attained the 32° and who by reason of meritorious service of a Masonic character are deemed worthy of such recognition. Presiding Officers of the Bodies in a Valley in the State present a unanimous recommendation to the Council of Deliberation of that State, nominating the members whom they feel should receive the award.

Valley of Dayton Recipients

Ted F. Buskirk - 2024
Timothy Winnett - 2024
Charles B. Leedy - 2023
C. Roger Pinney - 2023
John E. Dennis - 2022
Paul E. Morris - 2022
Kim A. Sparks - 2022
Kris J. Borreson - 2020
John T Butler - 2020
Paul S. Miller - 2020
Larry G. Ullery - 2021
Jerral F Guess – 2019
Joe R Joity – 2019
Richard J. Shields -2019
Anthony J Burk – 2018
James G Clippinger – 2018
Gregory B Clatterbuck – 2017
Ronald R Re – 2017
Raymond H Fosnot Jr. -2016
McKinley Polston – 2016
Daniel D. Frye – 2015
William D. Garlow – 2015
Stanley A. Brookins – 2014
Robert W. Terrel – 2014
Harless H. Maynard – 2013
Douglas N. Pelfrey – 2013
Larry W. Hall – 2012
Russell T. McDermott – 2012
Charles L. Devorak – 2011
Richard R. Krewson – 2011
Jack H. Graft – 2010
Lewis E. Ross – 2010
Hans Lenski – 2009
Lowell E. Rust – 2009
Jeffrey G. Clippinger – 2008
Charles L. Stiles – 2008
William G. O’Brien – 2007
Don L. Weir – 2007
*J. Robert Carpenter – 2006
*Jay A. Wright – 2006
Charles R. Farmer – 2005
John C. Herald – 2005
Trevis R. Baker – 2004
Roy Livesay, Jr. – 2004
*Donald A. Butts – 2003
*Myron E. Retske – 2003
James L. Church – 2002
Robert A. Fowle – 2002
Joe Diamond – 2001
* Lewis W. Mann – 2001
* Eugene A. Beeching – 2000
James R. Coleman – 2000
*L. Eugene Miller – 1999
*Joseph L. Zell, Jr. – 1999
Ralph L. Kettering – 1998
Charles E. VanGilder – 1998
Randal A. Anderson, Jr. – 1997
*Cary I. Fenton – 1997
Gareth W. Knight – 1996
Ralph E. Orndorf – 1996
*Carroll H. carr – 1995
Stuart D. Stull – 1995
*William R. Brane – 1994
*Henry T. Brown – 1994
*John E. Klump – 1993
*Holston J. Shiflet – 1993
*Richard T. Bogart – 1992
*William J. Yike, Jr – 1992
*Elvie R. Adcock – 1991
*Robert W. Wright – 1991
*Paul R. Cyphers, Sr – 1990
*Richard C. Leiby – 1990
James E. Collins – 1989
*Charles W. Tobias – 1989
*Cletis Combs – 1988
*William R. Allen – 1987
*Woodrow Watson – 1986
*Robert R. Sanders – 1985
*Roy E. Crawford – 1984
*Walter D. Brookey – 1983
*Frank R. Mathews – 1982
*Warren R. Reasor – 1981
*Charles T. Worley – 1980

*Thomas R. Mote – 1979
*Lawrence H. Durnell – 1978
*Robert S. Sarkozy – 1977
*Ernest G. Kohlbacher – 1976
*Benjamin F. Dase – 1974
*Carl Olds – 1973
*Forrest C. Simon – 1972
*Chester R. Thatcher – 1971
*Clarence H. Barr – 1970
*Frank L. Snyder – 1969
*Paul H. Fisher – 1968
*Hilbert R. Whiteman, Jr – 1967
*Harold W. Pexton – 1966
*William R. Brelsford – 1965
*Charles A. Schneider – 1964
*Paul Williams – 1963
*Alfred F. Stephens – 1962
*Alfred A. Koch – 1961
*Orville E. Morris – 1960
*Harry Blee Hanes – 1959
*Robert E. Perry – 1958
*Aden E. Neff – 1948

Date Provided is the year elected.
*Deceased