PAA Honorary Life Members-Deceased

One of the most significant ways to recognize outstanding contributions to the potato industry and to The Potato Association of America, is the awarding of Honorary Life Membership (HLM). This is the highest award bestowed upon an individual by the PAA. Each year at the annual meeting of the PAA this award is given to deserving individuals and is considered by many attendees the highlight of the banquet (new HLMs and their spouses receive complimentary awards banquet tickets the year they are inducted).

1947 Clark F. Clark*
1947 William Stuart*
1948 No Elections
1949 Donald Reddick*
1949 Eugene S. Schultz*
1950 Earle V. Hardenburg*
1950 Andrew Robbie*
1951 William H. Martin*
1951 John Tucker*
1952 Harold J. Evans*
1952 Frederick J. Stevenson*
1953 John S. Bacon*
1953 Frank A. Krantz*
1953 E. "Dick" L. Newdick*
1953 Sydney G. Peppin*
1954 Donald Folsom*
1954 Henry C. Moore*
1954 A. G. Tolaas*
1954 Harvey O. Werner*
1955 Wilbur C. Edmundson*
1955 Karl H. Fernow*
1955 Albert E. Mercker*
1955 James W. Scannell*
1956 Kris P. Bemis*
1956 C. L. Fitch*
1956 James C. Milward*
1956 Ted Still*
1957 William Black*
1957 Reiner Bonde*
1957 Frederick J. Meyer*
1958 John Bushnell*
1958 Frank W. Hussey*
1958 Ernest J. Wheeler*
1959 George Cockerham*
1959 Donald J. MacLeod*
1959 Norman M. Parks*
1960 Russell H. Larson*
1960 Ben Picha*
1960 Ora Smith*
1961 Sam Kennedy*
1961 Julian C. Miller*
1961 Gustav H. Reiman*
1962 John C. Campbell*
1962 Arthur H. Eddins*
1962 James D. Swan*
1963 Geoffrey V. Houghland*
1963 Wesley F. Porter*
1963 Nathaniel A. Talmage*
1964 Henry M. Darling*
1964 Cecil W. Frutchey*
1964 Frank. L. Westfall*
1965 Claude Botkin*
1965 Martin Cardenas*
1965 John Niederhauser*
1966 Theodore Dykstra*
1966 Lawrence Schaal*
1966 Lyman Wright*
1966 Louis Young*
1967 Robert Akeley*
1967 Carl Eide*
1967 Robert Hougas*
1967 Harry Umphrey*
1968 Arthur Hawkins*
1968 William Hooker*
1968 William Hoyman*
1968 Melvin Rominski*
1969 Miles Brown*
1969 Paul Eastman*
1969 Donald Merriam*
1969 Walter Sparks*
1970 Frank Clark*
1970 Elmer Pifer*
1970 Orrin Turnquist*
1970 George Woodbury*		 1971 Arden Burbidge*
1971 Robert Kunkel*
1971 Wilfred R. Mills*
1971 Robert Treadway*
1972 James Kraus*
1972 John R. Simplot*
1973 Richard E. Goodin*
1973 Robert E. Nylund*
1974 Frank Garrett*
1974 Elizabeth Murphy*
1975 James Munro*
1975 Geddes W. Simpson*
1976 Richard L. Sawyer*
1976 Mary V. Zaehringer*
1977 No Nominees
1978 Rodney Hastings*
1978 Floyd Lower*
1978 Earl F. Spencer*
1979 Paul N. Mosher*
1979 L. W. Nielsen*
1979 James O. Watts*
1980 Thomas H. Hankins*
1980 "Gary" Richard Johnston*
1980 Warren Trank*
1980 Raymon E. Webb*
1981 J. Ewen Campbell*
1981 Charles Cunningham*
1981 Jay G. Garner*
1981 N. S. "Bud" Wright*
1982 Robert H. Johansen*
1982 Edward F. Johnston*
1983 Nell Mondy*
1983 Henry Uihlein II*
1983 Felix M. Zeloski*
1984 Ray H. Carter*
1984 Thomas Houghton, Jr.*
1984 Hugh J. Murphy*
1985 Jimmy S. Gregory*
1985 John A. Schoenemann*
1985 Nelson Estrada Ramos*
1985 Joe L. Harrington*
1986 William R. Corrin*
1986 Myron 'Mike' D Groskopp*
1986 Edward D. Jones*
1986 Stanley J. Peloquin*
1987 Willy M. Iritani*
1987 Carlos Ochoa*
1988 Arthur Kelman*
1989 Richard W. Chase*
1989 John G. Hawkes*
1989 Gene Shaver*
1990 Bertrand Forest*
1990 Wilbur A. Gould*
1990 Robert B. O'Keefe*
1991 Joseph J. Pavek*
1991 Eugene C. Wittmeyer*
1991 Donald A. Young*
1992 James E. Bryan*
1992 Henri Genereux*
1992 G. Wallace McCain*
1992 Harrison McCain*
1993 Jim Davis*
1993 Robert W. Goth*
1994 Robert L. Mercer*
1996 Don Kichefski*

*Deceased