The PPAI Woman of Achievement Award recognizes a woman who has led the way in the advancement of women in the industry, exhibited outstanding leadership and made significant contributions to the industry and her community.

2009		2010		2011		2012
Carol Aastad, MAS		Margaret Custer-Ford, MAS		Margie Price, MAS		Mary Ann Farmer
2013		2013		2014		2014
Janelle Nevins*		Roni Wright, MAS		Jo-an Lantz, MAS		Maribeth Sandford, CAS
2015		2016		2017		2018
Sherri Lennarson, MAS		Mary A. Dobsch		Teresa Moisant, MAS		Marsha Londe
2018		2019		2019		2020
Mary Ellen Sokalski, MAS		Daryll Griffin, MAS		Irene Kogutt, MAS*		Paula Shulman
2021		2022		2023		2023
Mary Jo Tomasini, MAS+		Kim Bakalyar		Brittany David, MAS		Patricia A. Dugan, MAS

* Deceased

The PPAI Distinguished Service Award is presented to members who consistently contribute their skills and expertise towards the betterment of the Association. Through volunteer service or by offering their leadership to PPAI, these are members who generously give the benefit of their energy, time and enthusiasm for the Association.

1997		1997		1997		1998
Cliff Quicksell, Jr. MAS+		Steve Sellers, MAS *		H.D. “Joe” Stratton, MAS*		Charles L. Chelstrom, CAS *
1998		1998		1999		1999
Bennie F. Giles, III, MAS		H. Wayne Roberts, MAS		Irene Kogutt, MAS*		Stephen D. Newfield, CAS *
2000		2000		2001		2001
Jo-an Lantz, MAS		Charles Pecher		D. Alan Christopher		Gene Geiger, MAS+
2003		2003		2004		2006
Mary Ann Farmer		H. Wingfield Hughes, MAS		Gary M. Werner		Dennis Gorman
2007		2008		2009		2010
Roni Wright, MAS		Mary Ellen Sokalski, MAS		Carol Aastad, MAS		Mike Burns, CAS
2010		2011		2011		2012
Christopher Duffy, MAS		Patricia A. Dugan, MAS		Joel D. Schaffer, MAS		Margie Price, MAS
2013		2013		2014		2016
Sherri C. Lennarson, MAS		Michael M. Woody, CAS		Mike Schenker, MAS		Bruce Felber, MAS
2016		2017		2018		2018
Teresa Moisant, MAS		Joseph Scott		Charles Duggan II, MAS+		William “Bill” Lazarus, MAS
2019		2020		2020		2021
Michele Jennrich, MAS		Rick Brenner, MAS+		Kippie Helzel, MAS		Mark Abels, MAS
2022		2022		2023		2024
Brandon Mackay, MAS		David Regan, MAS		Roger Burnett, CAS		Bill Petrie

* Deceased

The PPAI H. Ted Olson Humanitarian Award is presented to PPAI members who have shown long-standing empathy, devotion, and commitment to improving quality of life and bringing about change for the betterment of a “community”. This tireless volunteer has exhibited exemplary devotion and volunteerism to non-profit, civic, charitable and/or educational organizations committed to the needs of the communities they serve.

2012		2013		2014		2015
Margie Price, MAS		Harvey Mackler, MAS		Peter Geiger		Barbara Dail, MAS
2016		2017		2019		2020
Mark S. Gilman, CAS		H. Wayne Roberts, MAS		Daryll Griffin, MAS		Rod Brown, CAS
2021		2022		2023
Bob Waldorf, CAS		Peter Hirsch, MAS		Danny Rosin, CAS

About H. "Ted" Olson, Jr. (1929-2010)

H. “Ted” Olson, Jr. enjoyed long and successful careers, including Director of Human Resources for Union Carbide, President of Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) and as a promotional products sales consultant. From an early age, Ted’s personal commitments to service guided his life. He was very proud to achieve Distinguished Eagle Scout, Silver Beaver, Silver Buffalo, the Spurgeon Award and a Baden Powell Fellowship with the Boy Scouts of America. He consistently chose to share his time and resources with worthwhile organizations including the Advisory Council of the Salvation Army, the International Board of the Boy Scouts of America, the Irving Rotary Club, the International Fellowship of Scouting Rotarians, Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce’s Sister Cities Board, the Board of the DFW Humane Society, the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau and Meeting Planners International (MPI) of which he was a founding member.

The idea to establish a Promotional Products Hall of Fame was conceived in 1973 to honor those individuals whose contributions to the products industry are not only noteworthy but go beyond their own companies. The nominations for the first Hall of Fame candidates took place in 1976 and resulted in the induction of seven candidates in 1977.

The highest distinction that the promotional products industry bestows on its professional is induction into the PPAI Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes exceptional contributions to and long-term involvement with PPAI and the industry.

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1977		1977		1977		1977
Horace K. Atkins*		Harold A. Lufkin*		Richard H. McCleery*		Carl E. Rosenfeld, MAS*
1977		1977		1977		1978
Joseph M. Segel*		William F. Vernon, Sr.*		Charles A. Ward*		Leonard J. Bray*
1978		1978		1978		1978
James Y. Canfield*		Raymond A. Geiger, CAS*		Edmund B. Osbourne*		Jay Sadler Shaw*
1978		1979		1979		1979
Robert E. Yaw*		Fred O. Coble, CAS*		Jasper Freemont Meek*		Thomas D. Murphy*
1979		1981		1982		1982
Robert C. Rollings MAS*		James T. Albert*		Herbert Huse Bigelow*		Herman F. Grotte*
1982		1983		1983		1983
Dean C. Mathews*		J. Howard Pecher, CAS*		Harry S. Rosenberg, CAS*		Russell H. Woodlief*
1984		1984		1984		1985
Harry J. Friedman*		Stanley V. Linham, CAS*		Sidney X. Shore, CAS*		Almand “Bo” Carroll*
1985		1986		1987		1987
Jay F. Shaw, CAS*		William F. Vernon, Jr., CAS*		Collins T. Dawson, CAS*		Ford Thomas Rose, MAS*
1988		1988		1989		1989
Ann Morrissey-Roelfs, CAS*		Jack Nadel*		N. Donald Edwards, CAS		T. R. Gerlach*
1989		1990		1991		1991
C. Ralph Loder*		Maurice W. Cohn*		George L. Herpel, Ph. D.*		Benjamin S. Whitehead*
1992		1993		1993		1994
Stephen E. Slack*		Glen R. Holt, MAS, CIP*		Marshall Sipkins*		Margaret Custer-Ford, MAS
1994		1996		1997		1997
Russell B. French*		Mark S. Gilman, CAS		Gene P. Cesario, MAS*		H. Ted Olson, MAS*
1997		1998		1999		1999
Marvin Spike, MAS*		Charles B. Wright, Sr.*		Vincent J. Arena, Sr.*		Ernest Hazel III, CAS*
2000		2001		2002		2002
H. Wayne Roberts, MAS		Charles L. Chelstrom, CAS*		George C. Matteson, Jr., CAS*		H. D. “Joe” Stratton, MAS*
2003		2004		2004		2004
Joseph G. Lipic, Sr., MAS		Willis M. Bywater		Frank A. Geiger*		John G. Hiles, Sr.*
2004		2005		2006		2007
Russell M. Searle*		William W. Schwartz, CAS*		Barry Chase, CAS		Dan Bagley III, Ph.D., CAS
2007		2007		2008		2008
Robert Burnham, CAS*		Lorraine Hempen, CAS*		Richard G. Ebel		Robert B. Lederer, CAS
2008		2009		2010		2010
Robert A. Waldorf, CAS		Jo-an G. Lantz, MAS		H. Wingfield Hughes, MAS		Kurt Reckziegel
2011		2011		2012		2012
Wayne Greenberg, MAS		Max Scharf, CAS*		Bob Davis, CAS*		Paul Lage, MAS
2014		2015		2015		2016
Don Lafferre, CAS*		Fran Ford Jr., CAS*		Paul Kiewiet, MAS+		G. Stephen Slagle, CAE
2017		2017		2018		2018
Margie Price, MAS		Joel D. Schaffer, MAS		Janelle Nevins*		David Woods, MAS*
2019		2019		2020		2020
Gene Geiger, MAS+		Charles “Chuck” Pecher		Carl Gerlach, MAS		Roni Wright, MAS
2021		2022		2022		2023
Teresa Moisant, MAS		Sherri C. Lennarson, MAS		Cliff Quicksell, Jr., MAS+		Carol D. Aastad, MAS
2023		2024
Mary Ellen Sokalski, MAS		David C. DeGreeff, MAS

* Deceased

he PPAI Regional Volunteer Award is presented to a regional association member who has demonstrated an outstanding level of volunteerism, leadership and made other significant and measurable contributions to a regional association.

2010		2010		2011		2012
Michele Jennrich, MAS		Teri Ray, MAS		Wendy Franklin, MAS		Jon Pierce, CAS
SAAGNY & PAPPA		HPPA		PPAM		NWPMA & PMANC
2012		2013		2013		2014
Dana Zezzo		Kevin Flynn		Larry D. Krause		Houston Hale*
TRASA		PPAChicago		HPPA & PPAS		PPAM
2014		2015		2016		2016
Reg Marsh, MAS*		Lori Bauer		Ted Dennison*		George Jackson
SAAC		PPAF		HPPA		TRASA
2017		2017		2018		2018
Kendra Kirks McDougal		Mark Shinn, MAS		Roger Burnett		Steven Meyer, MAS
CPPA		NWPMA		MiPPA		PPAS & UMAPP
2019		2020		2021		2021
Tom Carpenter, MAS		Janet McMaster, MAS		Scott Hareid		Cathy Miller, MAS
PPAS		PAPPA & CAAMP		UMAPP		SPPA & PPAMS
2022		2023		2023
Thea Bruce, CAS		Taylor Borst		Tim Hennessy, Jr., MAS
NWPMA		UMAPP		SPPA

* Deceased

Established in 2015, Promotional Products Pioneers honors individuals whose business acumen or technological skill played a key role in the advancement of the Promotional Products Industry.  Pioneers have distinguished themselves in the industry through their vision, drive, innovation, character and leadership, contributed to the development of technologies, breakthrough product development or decorating techniques that stand out in industry advancement. 

Regardless of the point in industry history you examine, innovation, creativity, and individuality is at our core, and as the context of the world around us changes, we adapt, we innovate, we grow.  It isn’t companies that make this happen.  It is people and the Promotional Products Pioneers are people who have driven our evolution – an evolution that continues because of their leadership and drive.  We celebrate the Promotional Products Pioneers and their contributions that are our past, and, will ensure our future.

2016
Norman Cohn, Advertising Specialty Institute
Forest Gill*, Gill Studios, Inc.
Frank Krasovec, Norwood Promotional Group
Norm Stern*, Norscot Group
Ralph Thomas*, Specialty Advertising Association

2017
Stan Breckenridge, MAS*, Mastercraft Decorators/The Guildlines
Emerging Road Warriors – Industry Multiline Reps
A.C. Stewart*, Souvenir Inc.

2018
S. Allen Dohan, The Allen Company
Marty Lott, SanMar
Bill Schmidt*, Hit Promotional Products

2019
George Kling*, Potential Profits Group
Martha Sanders Gennett, MAS, Sanders Manufacturing

2020
Benjamin T. Babbitt*
Charles Goes, I* & Charles Harris*
Richard Waldinger*

2021
Ken “The Colonel” Berlekamp, Sr.*
Dick Kaeser*
Carl Rosenfeld, MAS*

2022
Tom Constantino, Noteworthy Co.
Ronald L. Cook, Glass Graphics
Edward Halperin, Perin Product Corp.

2023
Louis C. Bull, Jr., Louis Bull Co.
James R. Moore, MAS, Molenaar

2024
Henry Bunting, Novelty News
A. Phillip Carney, QuickPoint
Arthur Fry, 3M