2023
Sharon Kilzer
Former Project Manager Theodore Roosevelt Center
2022
Alice George, PhD
Journalist, Theodore Roosevelt Association Vice President and Trustee
For outstanding service to the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
2020
Marie Kutch
Theodore Roosevelt Association Executive Administrator
Facilitator of all TRA Programs, Events and Membership
2019
Lt. Col. Gregory A. Wynn, USMC (Ret.)
Theodore Roosevelt Association Vice President and Trustee
Co-editor The Arena Newsletter, Theodore Roosevelt Book Award Chair,
An exceptional resource for information on TR historical and memorabilia items
2017
Lowell Baier
Led Roosevelt Island Project, Washington, DC
Theodore Roosevelt Association Executive Committee Member and Trustee
2016
Helen Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Society Member, Theodore Roosevelt Association Trustee
2014
Dr. Gary P. Kearney
Theodore Roosevelt Association Executive Committee Member and Trustee
2013
Molly Quackenbush
Former Executive Director, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural NHS
Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board
2011
Paula Beazley
President, Pine Knot Foundation
Theodore Roosevelt Association Trustee
2010
Barbara Berryman Brandt
Past President Theodore Roosevelt Association
Former Superintendent of the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural NHS
2009
Sheila Schafer
Founder of the Medora Foundation
Former President of TRA North Dakota Chapter
2008
Elizabeth Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Association Trustee & Assistant Treasurer
Descendant of James Roosevelt
2007
Rogina Jeffries
Founder of TheodoreRoosevelt.org website
2006
Norman Parsons
Past President of the Theodore Roosevelt Association
2004
Edith Roosevelt Derby Williams
Former Trustee of the Theodore Roosevelt Association
Granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt
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2003
Michael E. Manson, Ed.D.
Former Associate Director Theodore Roosevelt Association
Helped develop Theodore Roosevelt® Association Public Speaking Contest In Nassau County, New York
2002
U.S. Senator Kent Conrad—D-North Dakota and U.
S. Representative Paul McHale—R-Pennsylvania
Played crucial roles in TR posthumously receiving Medal of Honor for leading a daring charge up
San Juan Hill during Spanish-American War in 1898.
2001
U.S. Representative Rick Lazio—R-New York
Asked the U.S. Army to re-evaluate its initial review of TR’s nomination for Medal of Honor
1997
Dorothy Horton McGee
Town of Oyster Bay Historian for many years
President & Chair of the Oyster Bay Historical Society
1996
Wallace Finley Dailey
Curator TR Collection at Harvard’s Houghton Library
Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board
1993
Barbara Kraft Comstock and William H. Harbaugh
Instrumental in preserving Pine Knot, the Roosevelts’
presidential retreat in Albemarle County, Virginia
1992
RADM Paul Whitney “Wick” Parcells, USN (Ret.)
Commissioning Captain of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
1991
Dr. Cornelius Boertien
Commissioner for the Queen of the Netherlands to the Province of Zeeland
Under his leadership, the Roosevelt Study Center opened in Middelburg, the
Netherlands, in cooperation with the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
1986
William Davison Johnston
Author of Champion of the Strenuous Life
President of Theodore Roosevelt Association, 1980-1986
1983
Jessica E. Kraft
Edith Kermit Roosevelt’s secretary
First Curator of Sagamore Hill, serving from 1953 until her retirement in 1974
Theodore Roosevelt Association employee for more than 30 years; considered by John Gable the “heart and soul of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
1982
Elisha Dyer
Part of the group responsible for saving and restoring Sagamore Hill
President of Theodore Roosevelt Association
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