Leadership Award
Purpose: To recognize and honor the dedicated service of those who have served on the Executive Committee.
Eligibility: Person who has served on the Executive Committee and is retiring from the position. Honorees are selected by the Executive Committee months before the annual rendezvous.
Sterling (Scott) Shriber
Home Port:
Akron, OH
Served The Club as:
Chief Commander
2024 - 2025
Treasurer
2020 - 2023
Matt Cowles
Home Port:
Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Served The Club as:
Membership Chair: January 2016 - December 2019
Award of Distinction 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021
John Heenan
Home Port:
Statesville, NC
Served The Club as:
Public Relations Chair: January 2018 - December 2019
Darin Haselhorst
Home Port:
Falls Church, VA
Served The Club as:
Treasurer: January 2016 - January 2018
Dick Morland
Home Port:
Elgin, IL
Served The Club as:
Founding Member
Archivist: 1999 - 2005
Chief Commander: 2011-2015
Hall of Fame Award 2008
Award of Distinction 2019
Marcia Elkins
Home Port:
Guntersville, AL
Served The Club as:
Membership Chair: 2011-2015
Scott Anderson
Home Port:
Grosse Ile, MI
Served The Club as:
Chief Commander: 2010 - 2011
Award of Distinction 2009
Chris Orphal
Home Port:
Clinton, IA
Served The Club as:
Chief Commander: 2005-2009
Award Of Distinction 2022, 2023
Lawrence Neisler
Home Port:
Served The Club as:
Board of Governors 2003 - 2005
Curt Radford
Home Port:
Larsen, WI
Served The Club as:
Founding Member, 1999 - 2005
Todd Heinrich
Home Port:
South Haven, MI
Served The Club as:
Founding Member
Treasurer/President: 1999 - 2005
Lee Dahlen
Home Port:
Mooresville, North Carolina, USA
Served The Club as:
Archivist: 2004 - 2005
Chief Commander: July 2016 - December 2019
Award of Distinction 2012, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025, 2026
John Rose
Home Port:
Grosse Ile, MI USA
Served The Club as:
Treasurer: January 2018 - December 2019
Alarik Von Hofsten
Home Port:
Värmdö, Sweden
Served The Club as:
Webmaster: 2005 - 2017
Hall of Fame Award 2018
Jim Thomas
Home Port:
Grosse Ile, MI
Served The Club as:
Chief Commander: January - June 2016
Mike Schrage
Home Port:
Grosse Pointe Park, MI
Served The Club as:
Treasurer: 2011-2015
Whitney Pillsbury
Home Port:
South Orange, NJ
Served The Club as:
Membership Chair: 2007- 2011
Public Relations Chair: 2011-2012
Current Public Relation Chair
Lyn Orphal
Home Port:
Huntley, IL
Served The Club as:
Treasurer: 2006 – 2011
Robert Cutchins
Home Port:
Served The Club as:
Founding Member
Webmaster: 1999 - 2005
Editor/ Public Relations Chair: 2006-2011
Hall Of Fame Award 2012
Tim Miller
Home Port:
St Charles, MO
Served The Club as:
Board of Governors 2002 - 2005
Award of Distinction 2014, 2017
Paul Pletcher
Home Port:
Served The Club as:
Founding Member, 1999 - 2005