Chairman of the Board Dave Blom congratulates the 2009 Columbus Award recipient Carl Kohrt

Columbus Award

Leadership is the essence of the Columbus Award, given each year by the Chairman of the Greater Columbus Chamber to an individual who has enjoyed business success and provided outstanding community leadership.

Columbus Award Winners

2009

Carl Kohrt

2008

David Meuse

2007

Alex Shumate, Esq.

2006

Jerry Jurgensen

2005

Don M. Casto III

2004

William J. Lhota

2003

Dimon McFerson

2002

E. Linn Draper, Jr., Ph.D.

2001

Robert D. Walter

2000

Ronald A. Pizzuti

1999

Paula Spence

1998

Jo Ann Davidson

1997

Bob and Dorothy Teater

1996

John B. Gerlach

1995

John B. McCoy

1994

Leslie H. Wexner

1993

John F. Wolfe

1992

Vern Riffe

1991

Richard Moore Ross and Elizabeth McKeever Ross

1990

Robert M. Duncan

1989

Melvin L. Schottenstein

1988

Daniel M. Galbreath

1987

John W. Kessler

1986

John E. Fisher

1985

Robert Lazarus, Jr.

1984

Frank Wobst

1983

Rep. Chalmers P. Wylie

1982

German Village Society

1981

John H. McConnell

1980

Dr. Joseph L. Davis

1979

C. Kenneth Smith

1978

Rowland C. W. Brown, Mayor Tom Moody

1977

Walter English, Robert S. Crane

1976

Walter C. Mercer, Clair E. Fultz, John G. McCoy

1975

Sherwood L. Fawcett, Dean W. Jeffers

1974

Chief Justice C. William O'Neill, John C. Elam

1973

Edward F. Wagner, James Ralph Riley, Robert K. Levy, Sr.

1972

Charles Y. Lazarus, William S. Guthrie

1971

Novice G. Fawcett

1970

Harrison M. Sayre, Paul R. Gingher

1969

W.W. "Woody" Hayes

1968

Everett D. Reese

1967

Gov. James A. Rhodes

1966

Mayor M.E. Sensenbrenner

1965

Bertram D. Thomas, Jack Nicklaus, William E. Knepper

1964

Jerrie Mock, Robert Lazarus Sr., John W. Galbreath