The Q
The Q, previously known as our Annual Membership Meeting, brings together professional and community leaders from all over the region to celebrate Chamber membership.
In addition to a BBQ dinner, we present the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. See the honor roll of Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients below.


Lifetime Achievement Recipients


2023: Laurie O'Shaughnessy


2022: Jeff Friend


2020: Susanne Kennedy*


2019: Richard McGavern


2018: John A. "Jack" Schuppenhauer


2017: Byron Delavan*


2016: Jack Moran


2015: Benedict Gullo


2014: Ellie Fralick


2013: Richard Sands


2012: Linda Farchione Hawks


2011: Ralph Calabrese


2010: Randall Farnsworth


2009: Robert G. Sheridan


2008: William B. Rayburn*


2007: Earl Coleates*


2006: Ellen Polimeni


2005: Jane Stickler*


2004: Clifford E. "Bob" Murphy, Jr.


2003: Fred W. Sarkis


2002: Richard Hawks, Jr.


2001: Richard W. Appel


2000: Caroline A. Delavan


1999: Paul Kellogg


1998: Judge Joseph Cribb*


1997: Frieda O'Hanlon


1996: George W. Hamlin IV


1995: James Holden*


1994: Buddy Rockmaker*


1993: Tarry Shipley


1992: Joseph Delforte*


1991: James Doran*


1990: Bernard Hagerman*


1989: Robert Craugh*


1988: Marvin A. Rapp*


1987: Richard E. Ogden*


1986: George M. Ewing, Sr.*


1985: Alton U. Farnsworth*


1984: Ella Dunham*


1983: Bruce M. Kennedy


1982: Marvin L. Sands*


1981: Anthony M. Symigs*


1980: William J. Mitchell*


1979: Louis M. Kiesewetter*


1978: James F. Kellogg*


1977: Rose Comella*


1976: Richard H Hawks, Sr.*


1975: Isobel S. Sainsbury*


1974: George G. Hayes*


1973: Arthur S. Hamlin*


1972: Lester A. Boyce*


1971: T. Hamilton Kennedy*


1970: Frank A. Baker*


1969: Herbert J. Ellis*


1968: Robert A. Hoekelman


1967: Collins W. Carpenter*


1966: Albert A. Moore*


1965: Walter C. Benham*


1964: Arthur R. Munson*


1963: Burrall S. Case*


1962: Howard J. Samuels*


1961: William W. Muar*

