APA Golden 50 Service Award Winners

Since 1980, APA has honored people who have worked for the newspaper industry in any capacity for 50 years or more. Service may include both full-time and part-time, including country correspondents, carriers, etc. and may include high school, college and military newspapers.

 

GOLDEN 50 SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENTS

1983:

Morgan D. Braswell, DeWitt

Evelyn Kimball, De Queen

Ray Kimball, De Queen

Bill Whitehead, Sr., Fordyce

Jamie Jones Young, Searcy

1984:

John Q. Mahaffey, Texarkana

Joe B. McGee, Conway

Phil “Moon” Mullen, Osceola

Ida Reidmatten, Conway

Buford E. Robins, Conway

 

1985:

Bill Gill, Jonesboro

 

1986:

Lewis Epley, Fayetteville

Louis Graves, Nashville

Mary Ethel Martin, Atkins

Alden Spencer, Fayetteville

Lillian Vaughn, Rector

 

1987:

Ralph Casey, Arkansas Democrat

Jon Kennedy, Arkansas Democrat

Chester Garrett, Arkansas Democrat

Arthur Lachowsky, Conway

 

1988:

Jim Jones, Forrest City

 

1989:

James Bechtelheimer, Camden

Ida Maggard, Huntsville

 

1990:

Doris Crowder, Morrilton

Annie Dunlap, Morrilton

Iris Huett, Morrilton

Overa Nisler, Morrrilton

J.R. McKinley, De Queen

Al Miller, Searcy

 

1991:

Nannie Mae Breeden, Van Buren

Joel Irwin, Heber Springs

Perrin Jones III, Searcy

Ethel Plum, Van Buren

 

1992:

Claude Babcock, Bentonville

J.E. Dunlap, Jr., Harrison

 

1993:

Ann B. Carroll, Pocahontas

Tom Gillespie, Atkins

LeRoy Tyson, Atkins

 

1994:

Robert R. Douglas, Fayetteville

Sammy George, Fayetteville

LaRue M. Griffin, Prescott

Orville Henry, Little Rock

William T. Taylor, Little Rock

 

1995:

Flora Jean Elledge, Brinkley

Wilson Powell, Batesville

Richard Spain, Bentonville

Bill Woods, Hazen

Jim Wyckoff, Little Rock

 

1996:

James Braswell, DeWitt

Ted Larimer, Green Forest

Bob Fisher, Clarksville

Charlotte Schexnayder, Dumas

Melvin Schexnayder, Dumas

Dean Walls, Des Arc

 

1997:

Cone Magie, Cabot

Bob McCord, N. Little Rock

J.V. Rockwell, Corning

John Troutt, Jr., Jonesboro

Marylea Vines, Corning

 

1998:

Jean Bradley, Little Rock

Sammy Dunlap, Harrison

Jay Jackson, Clinton

Ethel Mae Moore, Des Arc

Robert L. Newton, Warren

 

1999:

Floyd C. Carl, Jr., Fayetteville

Wallace Ballentine, Hot Springs

 

2000:

Charles Allbright, Little Rock

Jim Morriss, Springdale

 

2001:

Cecil Atwood, Little Rock

Jerry Donohue, Jonesboro

Ellis Reynolds, Atkins

 

2002:

George Fisher, Little Rock

Hazel Freeman, Harrisburg

Owen Lusk, Paragould

Joe Mosby, Ark. Gazette

 

2003:

Dodie Evans, Gravette

Gene Herrington, Ark. Democrat

Billie Jines, Pea Ridge

 

2004:

Perry Dutton, Melbourne

 

2005:

Floyd Emerson, Hot Springs

Betty Magie, Cabot

 

2006:

Shirley Curtis, Harrison

T.C. Day, Pine Bluff

 

2007:

Jim Bailey, Little Rock

Frank Lightfoot, White Hall

 

2008:

Christine Fisher, Clarksville

Louie Graves, Nashville

Robert Shaw, Little Rock

Van Tyson, Atkins

 

2011:

Jackie Bevill, Camden

Rosetta Lockhart, Augusta

Roy Ockert, Jr., Jonesboro

 

2012:

Bill Simmons, Little Rock

Dean Walls, Des Arc (60)

 

2013:

Jane Christenson, Harrison

Dodie Evans, Gentry

Paul Greenberg, Little Rock

Charlotte Hodge, Morrilton

Steve Trolinger, Bentonville

 

2014:

Claudia Ahrens, Stuttgart

Buddy King, Texarkana

 

2015:

Paul Smith, Little Rock

 

2016:

Lee Henry Dunlap, Harrison

Harry Beshoner, Paris

 

2017:

David McCollum, Conway

Jimmy Robertson, Hot Springs

Patricia Stuckey, Benton

 

2018:

Rusty Fraser, Mt. View

Lynda Hollenbeck, Benton

Brenda Blagg, Fayetteville

 

2019:

Glenda Arnett, Brinkley

Danny Cook, Warren

Larry Miller, Morrilton

Frank Fellone, Little Rock

 

2020-2021:

John Brummet, Little Rock
Walter E. Hussman, Jr., Little Rock