Waynesville Rotary Leadership and Honorifics Through the Ye

       1925 1926 Rev. J.T. Mangum   

1926 1927 Hilliard B. Atkins   

1927 1928 Ernest Withers   

1928 1929 Hugh J. Sloan  

 1929 1930 Melvin A. Hayes  

 1930 1931 Bonner Ray   

1931 1932 Ralph E. Nollner   

1932 1933 W. Dalton Smith   

1933 1934 B.D. Bunn   

1934 1935 Dr. Robert H. Stretcher   

1935 1936 Curtis Russ   

1936 1937 Dr. C.N. Sisk   

1937 1938 William Medford   

1938 1939 Madison H. Bowles   

1939 1940 Benjamin E. Colkitt   

1940 1941 J. Colvin Brown   

1941 1942 J. Aaron Prevost   

1942 1943 Rev Horace G. Hammett   

1943 1944 Harry Millar   

1944 1945 Charles E. Ray   

1945 1946 W.R. Francis   

1946 1947 Howard R. Clapp   

1947 1948 Rev. Malcon R. Williamson   1948 1949 Hallett S. Ward   

1949 1950 Jonathon H. Woody   

1950 1951 Richard Barber, Jr.   

1951 1952 Ralph Prevost   

1952 1953 D.F. Felmet   

1953 1954 Marvin Dan Watkins   

1954 1955 William S. Ray   

1955 1956 James L. Kilpatrick, Jr.   

1956 1957 John H. Johnson   

1957 1958 C.G. Thompson   

1958 1959 Charles B. Way   

1959 1960 Dr. Thomas Stringfield   

1960 1961 William L. Millar   

1961 1962 Dr. Eugene R. Harpe   

1962 1963 Hallett S. Ward, Jr.   

1963 1964 Robert O. Brannon   

1964 1965 Dr. Fred Ogden   

1965 1966 George M. Howey   

1966 1967 Tai Y. Lee   

1967 1968 J. Linton Palmer   

1968 1969 Howard Splitt   

1969 1970 Johnny Phillips   

1970 1971 Dick Wigger   

1970 1971 Dave Felmet, Jr.   

1971 1972 F. Edward Broadwell   

1972 1973 Bill Milner   

1973 1974 B.A. Mock   

1974 1975 Bill Greene    

       1975 1976   Dr. A. Jack Dickerson   1976 1977   Gary Melville   

1977 1978   Ray Seay   1978 1979   Charles M. Starnes   1979 1980   Sy Vavruska   1980 1981   Leon "Chip" Killian   1981 1982   Leon Turner   1982 1983   Frank Fishburne, Jr.   1983 1984   Woodrow Griffin   1984 1985   Floyd Rogers   1985 1986   John Browning   1986 1987   Dr. John Nerney   1987 1988   William T. Bird, Jr.   1988 1989   Dr. Ted Howell   1989 1990   James T. Welch   1990 1991   Richard Wrenn   1991 1992   Steve M. Brown   1992 1993   Dr. LeRoy Roberson   1993 1994   Erick "Ricky" Lee   1994 1995   J. Wells Greeley   

1995 1996   Gerald Gaddy   

1996 1997   Mark Bumgarner   

1997 1998   Dr. Larry Leatherwood   

1998 1999   Keith Wyatt   

1999 2000   Neal Ensley   

2000 2001   Steve Kaufman   

2001 2002   Kay Dossey   

2002 2003   Bruce Briggs   

2003 2004   Tom Knapko   

2004 2005   Patsy Rogers   

2005 2006   Jack Horton   

2006 2007   Bill Hollingsed  

 2007 2008   Dr. Lynne Barrett   

2008 2009   Cecil Yount   

2009 2010   Mark Clasby   

2010 2011   Billy Case   

2011 2012   Brandon Andeson  

 2012 2013   Scot Worley   

2013 2014   June Ray   

2014 2015   Karen Denney   

2015 2016   Sam Hyde   

2016 2017   Ed LaFountaine   

2017 2018   Rick Smith   

2018 2019   Ron Leatherwood   

2019 2020   Tiffany Watts   

2020 2021   Steve McNeil   

2021 2022   Jeff Norris   

2022 2023   Jack Ewing   

2023 2024   Rick Croskery   

2024 2025   Bronwen Talley-Coffey   

2025 2026   Dr. Shelley White    

The Tony Award is named for long time Waynesville Rotarian Tony Caudle. The award recognizes a lifetime of service by a Rotarian. 

2009- Tony Caudle

2010 - Bob Brannon, Andy Anderson, Charles Way, Raymond Caldwell

2011 – Bill Bird

2012 – Gene Harpe

2013 – Raymond Caldwell

2014 – Bill Owen

2015 – Larry Clark

2016 – Mark Bumgarner

2017 – Rolf Kaufman

2018 – Neal Ensley

2019 – Bill Hollingsed and Larry Leatherwood

2020 – No award

2021 – No award

2022 – No award 

2023 – Ed LaFountaine

2024- Tom Knapko

2025- Cecil Yount

2026 - Ron Leatherwood & Jack Ewing