Rotary Distinguished Citizen Award

Rotary Club of Houston

 

Since it was first presented in 1962, the Rotary Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award has gone to an impressive array of individual Houstonians and Houston institutions.

 

The Rotary Club of Houston, in operation since 1912, is an association of more than 300 successful business professionals, all prominent in their individual fields of endeavor, who volunteer their efforts through the work of some two dozen club committees. Assistance is provided to such diverse groups as troubled youngsters, former prison inmates, business oriented high school students, families of cancer patients, deserving college scholarship candidates and, through its nationwide college athletic award, The Rotary Lombardi Award, the nation's cancer research efforts. The club's most recent community project is the East End Healthy Children's Collaborative which provides much needed access to primary health care for residents on Houston's East side.

 

Rotary Distinguished Citizen Award - Past Recipients

2007 Jim & Linda McIngvale

2006 James A. Baker III

2005  Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza and Rev. William “Bill” Lawson

2004  George W. Strake, Jr.

2003  Harris County Medical Society

2002  Gordon A. Cain

2001  John P. McGovern, M.D.

2000  The Honorable William Archer

1999  Robert McNair

1998  Donald D. Jordan

1997  Ken Lay

1996  Richard J.V. Johnson

1995  Ben Love

1994  Charles A. LeMaistre, M.D.

1993  The Honorable George H.W. Bush

1992  Robert R. Onstead

1991  The Honorable William P. Hobby, Jr.

1990  Louis M. Pearce, Jr.

1989  Houston Endowment, Inc.

1988  Jack S. Blanton

1987  George P. Mitchell

1986  Leroy & Lucile Melcher

1985  Leonard F. & Eleanor McCollum

1984  Erwin Heinen

1983  The Honorable Louie Welch

1982  The Honorable Roy Hofheinz

1981  Eddy Scurlock

1980  Houston Chamber of Commerce

1979  Oveta Culp Hobby

1978  Gen. Maurice Hirsch

1977  R. Lee Clark, M.D.

1976  Leon Jaworski

1975  Gus S. Wortham

1974  George R. Brown

1973  Walter W. Fondren, Sr.

1972  Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.

1971  Boy Scouts of America, Sam Houston Area Council

1970  William H. Kirkland

1969  Ima Hogg

1968  Gail Whitcomb

1967  Colonel William B. Bates

1966  Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word

1965  Denton A. Cooley, M.D.

1964  Humble Oil & Refining Co.

1963  Francis M. Law

1962  William L. Clayton