The Calvert L. Willey Award has been awarded every year since 1989. It is awarded to a member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) who displayed meritorious and imaginative service to IFT. The award is named for Calvert L. Willey (1920-1994) who served as Executive Secretary and later Executive Director from 1961 until his retirement in 1987. Willey was given a distinguished service award by IFT at the 1987 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. This distinguished service award would be named in his honor and presented for the first time as an annual award at the 1989 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. It was the first IFT Award to be named for a living person.
Award winners receive an USD 3000 honorarium and a plaque from IFT.
Winners
YearWinner 1987 Calvert L. Willey 1989 Ben F. Buchanan 1990 Aaron E. Wasserman 1991 Elwood F. Caldwell 1992 Miguel Jimenez 1993 Alan J. Post 1994 André Bolaffi 1995 Charles A. Becker 1996 Gale R. Ammerman 1997 Walter R. Clark 1998 Charles J. Bates 1999 Isabel D. Wolf 2000 Dee M. Graham 2001 Daniel E. Weber 2002 Elizabeth Larmond 2003 Francis F. Busta 2004 Charles H. Manley 2005 Bruce R. Stillings 2006 Pamela D. Tom 2007 William D. Davidson 2008 Neil H. Mermelstein 2009 Mary K. Wagner 2010 Margaret Lawson
References
List of past winners - Official site