Legion Of Honor

Legion of Honor Preceptories

The Legion of Honor was founded for the purpose of bringing together a select few out of the millions who have knelt at the altar of DeMolay. Legion of Honor recipients must have actively demonstrated outstanding leadership in some field of endeavor, whether it be a civic, professional, fraternal or spiritual arena. It consists of men who can be implicitly relied upon, as the years pass, to aid young men in carrying the ideals of DeMolay into every walk of life.

Active Legion of Honor Recipients

Year  Name
2022  Erik Allen
 Michael Boomer
 Jonathan Freel
2021  Kenneth Brickman
 Matthew Risberg
2020  Arthur Pixler
 Lester Strait
2019  James Cox
 Miles Flamme-Wiese
 Forrest Peck
 Josh Williams
 Dan Willson
2018  Michael Podzimek
2017  Aaron Brendel Sr.
2016  Darrell Fremont
 Ronald Guthrie
 Gary Keoppel
2015  Gerald Hough
 Kenneth A. Hurmence
 Wade Sheeler
2013  Carl Todd
2009  Jerry Levay
 Kyle Martin
2008  Erik Brincks
 Jeffrey Freel
 Peter Grandgeorge
 Bradley Reichardt
 Donald Sardeson
2006  Dallas Brown
 Matthew Buckley
 Kirk Williams
2005  Bradley Fairchild
 Darryl Knight
 David MacKay
2004  Mark Cook
 Bryce Hildreth
 Robert Mickle
2003  Carl Miller
2002  Robert Cramer
 Gerald Edgar
 Raymond Edgar
 Gary Sissel
2001  Craig Davis
2000  Michael Bennett
1999  Paul Vannausdle
1998  James Allen
 Charles Becker
 Max Loper
 James Roske
1997  Ryan Besh
 Christopher Greene
 Shane Harshbarger
 Roy Petruccelli
1994  Jay Watters
1993  Kirk Besh
 Roger Husck
 Francis Johnson
1992  Lee Wilkinson
1991  Jon Proctor
 Kevin Smith
1990  Paul Carey
1989  H. Atear
 Richard Gallagher
 Thomas Logan
 Lonnie Paulores
1987  Robert Hatch Jr.
 Ronald Lindhart
1986  Mark Clark
 John Johnson Jr.
1985  Thomas Bachtell
 Rod Cary
 Ralston James
 Amos Lucy
 Kenneth Nichols
 Harold Paschal
 Bob Reid
 Loren Stein
1984  Jonathan Bastian
 Edwin Blinks
 Gregory Long
 Raymond Manson
1983  Russell Guster
 Dennis Huston
 Ellis Mouer
 Gary Shaulis
1982  William C. Durow
 Fred Mote
 Robert Swanson
1981  David Duncan
 William Hanson
1980  William Means
 William Paisley
 Terry Smith
1979  Phillip Warren
1978  Terry Eaton
 Kenneth Kersey
1977  Donald Bowman
 Pip Maretinen
 Harold Salter
 Leonard Williamson
1976  Philip Burks
 James Cook
 Robert Parker
 Claude Thatcher
1975  Shawn Bishop
1974  Thomas Harsch
 Marshall King
1973  Robert Couch
 George Holdsworth
 Dale Klauss
 Scott Libbey
 Arthur Neu
 Patrick Reed
 Richard Terp
1972  Robert Barber
 Milton Frohs
 Joseph Sampson
 Louis Scheppele
1971  T. E. Lyon
 Harold Millhiser
 Raymond Moore
1969  Richard Aldershof
 Howard Bauder
 Lloyd Courter
 Ray Drummond
 Eugene Dierking
 Elliot H. Gulick
 Charles Johnson
 Charles Jones
 Harold L. Knight
 Donald Koss Sr.
 Bernard Ofterdinger
 Harry Olson
 James Plotz
 Ralph Ross
 Howard Shaw
 Donald Stamy
 Jack Virtue
1968  Thomas Carl
 George Clifford
 Max Ellis
 David Glanz
 Elliot Gulick
 Virgil Frictenbinder
 Stewart Shank
 Lowell Wagoner
1966  Stewart Cutler
 Robert Johnson
 David Stanley
 Donovan Ward
1965  John Srimmars
1964  Richard Anshutz
 George Durg
 Chris Luier
1963  Ira Delk
 Marion Miller
 Don Tidrick
 Norman Young
1962  Harry Hroem
 Earl Schnoor
 Robert Stickler
1961  Toy Haworth
 Harold Mann
 Frank Stark
 Warren Wolf
1960  James Brubaker
 Milton Schoell
1959  W. Lowell Garrett
 Harold Gilleney
1958  J. Richard Chadwick
 Gerald De Loss
 John Martin
 Carlyle Shively
 Dighton Smith
1956  D. D. Palmer
1955  Charles Welk Jr.
1954  C. Robert James
1953  E. W. Compton
 Dale Pearson
 Wesley Thomas
1951  F. Cain
 Curtis Ford
 Peter James
 Walter Mason
 Arthur Parker
 Wilferd Schultz
 Howard Stutzman
1950  Robert Krapp
 Don Pierson
 Robert Schnell
 Will Strief
 Le Roy Robbins
1949  Howard Brooks
 Robert Burlingame
 Elmer Burgeson
 Arthur Conyers
 Levi Drake
 Don Hankens
 Kenneth Monger
1948  Phil Dreedham
 L. A. Rodenbargler
1947  Homer Bishop
 Lloyd Myers
 Roy Growick
 Hedo Zacherle
1946  Wendell Bishop
 Willard Bishop
 Floyd Burgeson
 Donald Hovey
 J. Bruce Jones
 Maurice Jones
 Richard Kautz
 Lloyd Karr
 L. Keadom
 Ralph Smith
1945  Charles Lawson
 Harold Ogilvie
 Clifford Worst
1944  Harvey Allbee
 Dick Perley
1943  R. Paul Clark
 Evertt George
1942  David Bolen
 James Eaton
 John Kuehne
 Ira Palmquist
 John Rasmussen
1941  Robert Hendrixon
 Raymond Lyster
 Dale Smith
 William Watkins
1940  E. Marshall Thomas
1939  Dick Gibson
 Robert Gibson
 Courtright Hawley
 Richard Sears
 Ervin Stepanek
 Robert Ure
1937  George Capen
 William Ford Jr.
 Clinton Rehling
 Elmer Schake
 Elmer Schall
1936  Charles Bruce
 John Cohoe
 George Moore
 Kenneth Saundin
 Donald Schmidt
1935  Willis Cummins
 Paul Grier
 Rob Hite
 Paul Lindberg
 Robert Rost
 Grant Thompson
1934  Hayne Bishop
 Bill Buehler
 Sam Cooke Jr.
 Norman Kuster
 Sylvin Lawson
 Richard Munden
 Donald Russell
 Amos Stewart
 Emil Strohbehn
 Robert Sucher
 X. Alex Vreeland
 Paul Waddington
1933  Wayne Bain
 Don Caughey
 Ronald Cochran
 Lyle Cooke
 G. Gordon Ellis
 Richard Hahne
 William Katzenstein
 Clinton Thomas
 Fred J. Witousek
1932  John K. Cummins
 George Kruse
 Curtis Moncrief
 Loren Mondt
 Stanley Moore Jr.
 Ben Padzensky
 Gerald Reynolds
 Charles Whelpley Jr.
 John Wright
1931  Harry Burmiester
 Raymond Groves
 W. Max Hannah
 Chester Lyons
 Richard Strohbehn
 Keith Trual
1930  Jerry Feroe
 Richard Phillips
 Ted Pierson
1929  David W. Ash
 John Burrows
 Warner Durfee
 Clay Honeck
 Fred Keepf
 Claude Riles
 Robert E. Shaffer
 Benjamin Taylor
1928  Charles Allison
 Paul Donohoo
 Paul Fedderson
 Elmer Gabel
 Morris Hickey
 Ralph Michel
 Emmett Meggenburger
 Charles Schoephoster
1927  Merlin Abing
 William Bale
 J. Laurence Driscoll Jr.
 Arthur Hammerand
 Charles Ocker
1926  Wayne Jones

Honorary Legion of Honor Recipients

Year  Name
2021  Christian Beard
 Theodore Wiley
2020  Dennis R. Heflin
 William W. Post
 John Klaus
 Joseph Podzimek
2019  Scott Wheeler
2018  Gene Hatfield
 Kyle Peterson
2017  Terry E. Osborne
 W. Charles Smithson
 Cliff Weaver
2016  Ronald Hicks
 Thomas Hodges
 Dennis E. Williams
2015  Robert Myers III
2014  Arthur G. Crandon
 Konrad Kramerer
2013  Charles D. Yates
2012  David Dryer
 Gregory Andersen
 Eric A. Rozeboom
 Edison Sharp Jr.
2011  Douglas Heath
 Richard Hudnall
 William Jacobson
2009  Craig C. Hummel
 William Knoll
2008  Chad Todd
2006  Tim Anderson
 William R. Crawford
 Robert Durrett
 Donald E. Mosier
2005  George Harrison
 Wayne Stanfley
 William Yungclas
 Dennis M. Zahrt
2004  Charles L. Brinkerhoff
 Robert Holliday
 Philippe Meier
2003  Richard Bowersox
 Cyrus Fox
 Willard Loper
 Donald E. Mayer
2002  Robert Erickson
2001  Billy Joe Hildreth
 James Spoerl
2000  George Robinson
1999  Lester C. Fleming
1997  Walter Gerischer
 Ronald Parker
1996  Charles Cahill
 Lyle Johnson
 Ralph Vermillion
1995  Marlin Ashcraft
 William Clark Jr.
 L. Dean Kealmon
 Larry Lewellen
 Jim Maples
1994  Lonnie Conger
 Dick Hecker
 Merlyn Sanderg
 Eldon Walton
1993  W. Andrew Emmert
 Donald Gurney
 Roy Harper
1992  Jim Bedford
 Wayne Borck
 Edward Johnson
 Ralph A. Livermore
 James Rork
 Russell Sliocim
1991  Charles Grassley
1990  Dwaine Johnson
 Donald Timmins
1989  Valdon Johnson
 C. John Pheiffer Jr.
 Richard Whiton
1988  Doyle Champion
 Alfred Jensen
 Ray Jenter
 John Ketelsen
 Albert Masters Jr.
 Vilas Morris Jr.
 Howard Paler
 James Pond
1987  George Carr
 Elmer Howard
 George Reed
1986  Jerrold R. Anderson
 Bruce Besh
 Jerald Marsengill
 Robert Meyer
1985  Kenneth Nichols
 Harold Paschal
 Marlon Westenburg
1984  Edwin Blinks
 Glenn Bowles
 Carol H. Cremer
 Charles Crocker
 James Farrell
 Matthew Kuhn
 Robert Metcalf
 Jay Simser
 Jack Stamm
 Max Steege Sr.
 John Sweeney
1983  Deven Grist
 Ellis Monk
 Jim Spry
1982  Richard Campbell
 Jack Draper
 Harry Edmonds
 H. Pat Meyer
 Howard Porter
 Donald Robertson
1981  L. Ray Chamberlin
 Roy Jerome
 Charles Schmitt
1980  Harold R. Barkley
 Charles Glenn Brown
 William Eads
 Lyle Harringson
 William Ilach
 Norval P. Marks
 Francis Mowery
 Lloyd Mullins
 Charles Sanders
 Allen Wagner
 Paul H. Wieck
1979  Laverne R. Clary
 Russell Gallhory
 Billy McVicker
 George Van Patten
1978  Arthur Mestram
 Robert Sanderson
1977  Norman Hutcheson
 Everett Mauch
 R. Harry Muellich
 Albert Rehor
 Wallace Samuelson
 Gene Vincent
1976  Ralph Dechy
 David L. Griffiths
 Gordon Hascall
 Weston Jayne
 W. Ross McCulla
 Keith L. Muntz
 William Samson
1974  Tom Eggleston
 John Harrison
 William Buchanan Sr.
1973  Orval Beaman
 Myles Beitz
 Richard Campbell
 Raymond Gepart
 Charles Pope
1972  Rudolph Dall
 Henry Raabe
 Warren Rees
 John Suttough
1971  Richard Bucy
 Jared Caron
 D. Dean Johnson
1970  Donald Giesemann
 Edwin Hamilton
 Roland Harrison
 Howard Miller
 Charles Moore
 Thomas Murphy
1969  Henry Kunz
 Herbert Schwandt
1968  Fred Glanz
 Robert Hedges
 Lloyd Perry
 Howard Redding
 Theodore G. Zacharias
1966  Charles Howard
 Charles Jackson
 Edwin Lunde
 Joseph Z. Marks
 R. Kenneth Miller
 Woodrow Morris
1965  V. L. Allbee
 Ralph Brown
 Robert Campbell
 Wilbur F. Earhart
 Garret Fiscus
 Garth Hage
 D. W. Rayburn
 Merlin Rufer
 Charles Wegnall
1964  Dallas Alford
 A. Griskerg
 William Lynn Jr.
1963  Leslie Eddy
 Ralph Whipple
 Glenn Wilson
1962  Donny Andrews
 Chris Candoff
 Harold Knight
 Dring Needham
 Harold Phelps
 William Serine
1961  Harry Griffin
 Gary Swartslandler
1960  Thomas Dusenbery
1959  C. Dale Cox
 Emil Msiasi
1956  Floyd Goar
 Clarence Jorstad
 Henry Shull
1955  W. Albert Fall
 Walter Schwars
1954  Willis Lathrip
 Harry Palmer
 S. Stein
1953  Robert Archer
 Earl Fiocin
 J. Ellitt Grayson
 Rob Ingalls
 R. B. Juay
 Lloyd Knight
 John Liofin
 Joseph Meyer
 Bernard Norvask
 D. T. Skidmoore
1951  C. G. Antes
 C. G. Cole
 George Danders
 M. W. Thomas
1950  Paul Bamblin
 A. W. Conard
1949  Earl Delzell
1948  Earl Dusenbery
 George Graeser
1947  C. Hank
1945  William Koch
1939  Clarence Armintrout
1928  Jesse West
1927  Fred M. Jones