Past Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

  • 2005
    Hobart Rand
    Immediate Past Chairman
    Granite State Telephone Inc.
    Weare, N.H.
  • 2004
    Everett Kneece
    Chairman
    PBT Communications
    Gilbert, S.C.
  • 2003
    David Southwick
    Retired President
    The Champlain Telephone Company
    Champlain, New York
  • 2002
    Gordon Laymon
    President/General Manager
    Citizens Telephone Corporation
    Warren, Indiana
  • 2001
    Ross Vernon
    Northern Iowa Telephone Company
    Sioux Center, Iowa
  • 2000
    Dian Boaldin
    Elkhart Telephone Company, an EPIC Touch Communications company
    Elkhart, Kansas
  • 1999
    Harry Vickroy
    Great Plains Communications Inc.
    Blair, Nebraska
  • 1998
    George Nustad
    Melrose Telephone Company
    Melrose, Minnesota

    and

    Dick Violette
    Merrimack County Telephone Company
    Contoocook, New Hampshire
  • 1997
    Louise Brown
    Loretto Telephone Company
    Loretto, Tennessee
  • 1996
    Floyd Olson
    Great Plains Communications Inc.
    Blair, Nebraska