Association Awards

The ILYA recognizes volunteers at its Winter Inland Convention. The following awards are given during the Winter Inland Luncheon, usually in February of each year.

ILYA Member of the Year
John Hunt Memorial Trophy 

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1992    Dick and Leslie Barkow
    Pine Lake Yacht Club
1993    Bill and Mauretta Mattison
    Mendota Yacht Club
1994    Donald Williquette
    Nagawicka Yacht Club
1995    Candace Porter
    Lake Beulah Yacht Club
1996    David Sitter
    Oshkosh Yacht Club
1997    Tom and Michele Hodgson
    White Bear Yacht Club
1998    Katharine Goes
    Lake Geneva Yacht Club
1999    Martin Ford
    Lake Geneva Yacht Club
2000    Suzi Reese
    Lake Geneva Yacht Club
2001    Jack and Charles Schneider
    Nagawicka Lake Yacht Club
2002    Richard Casper
    Pine Lake Yacht Club
2003    Kent Haeger
    Lake Beulah Yacht Club
2004    Ann and Chookie Kilander
    LaBelle Yacht Club
2005    Jack and Ralph Eckert Families
    Cedar Lake Yacht Club
    Sally Barkow
    Pine Lake Yacht Club
2006    ILYA Class C Scow Committee
2007    Beth and Bill Wyman
     Oshkosh Yacht Club
2008    John Ruf
    Pewaukee Yacht Club 

ILYA Club of the Year 

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1989    Lake Geneva Yacht Club
1990    Pine Lake Yacht Club
1991    Okoboji Yacht Club   
1992    Lake Beulah Yacht Club
1993    Okauchee Lake Yacht Club
1994    Minnetonka Yacht Club
1995    Cedar Lake (Ind.) Yacht Club
1996    Pewaukee Yacht Club
1997    Oshkosh Yacht Club
1998    Delavan Lake Yacht Club
1999    Mendota Yacht Club
2000    Lake Geneva Yacht Club
2001    Minnetonka Yacht Club
2002    Okoboji Yacht Club
2003    Delavan/Powers Lake Y. C.
2004    Clear Lake Yacht Club
2005    Cedar Lake (Wis.) Yacht Club
2006    Nagawicka Lake Yacht Club
2007    Pewaukee Yacht Club
2008    Oshkosh Yacht Club 

ILYA Race Committee/Judge of the Year
Edward Malone Judges Trophy 

 

1986 – Okoboji Y.C. Ed Malone
1987 - Mendota Y.C.  Tom Hodgson
1988 - Geneva Y.C.  Arthur Best
1989- - Green Lake Y.C.  Tom Hodgson
1990 – Oshkosh Y.C.  William H. Sills III
1991 - Okoboji Y.C.  Ed Malone
1992 – Green Lake Y.C.  James R. Klauser
1993 – Mendota Y.C.  James R. Klauser
1994 - Green Lake Y.C.  Tom Hodgson
1995 - Okoboji Y.C.  Sander E. Sundberg
1996 – Minnetonka Y.C.  Robert J. von Bereghy
1997 – Oshkosh Y.C.  William H. Sills III
1998 – Green Lake Y.C.  Jerry Nieminen
1999 – Okoboji Y.C.  Sander E. Sundberg
2000 – Lake Geneva Y.C.  Sander E. Sundberg
2001 – Minnetonka Y.C.  Allen Becker
2002 – Oshkosh Y.C  Mike Sherin
2003 – Mendota  Jock Irvine
2004 – Green Lake Y.C.   Gloria Melges
2005 – Okoboji Y.C.  Chip Mann
2006 – Lake Geneva Y.C.  Jeff Butzer
2007 – Oshkosh Y.C. Russ Ackley
2008 – Okoboji Y.C. Phil Petersen 

ILYA Champion Skipper of the Year
Edmund Pillsbury Memorial Cup

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ILYA Bilge Pullers Hall of Fame

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2004 Inductees:

Art Best, Cedar Lake (Wis.) Yacht Club

John Buckstaff, Oshkosh Yacht Club 

John O. Johnson, White Bear Yacht Club

Ed Malone, Oshkosh Yacht Club

 Harry “Buddy” Melges, Jr., Lake Geneva Yacht Club

Maynard Meyer, Pewaukee Yacht Club

Jack Ordway, White Bear Yacht Club 

William “Curley” Perrigo, Pewaukee Yacht Club

John Pillsbury, Jr., Minnetonka Yacht Club

 Ernst Schmidt, Lake Geneva Yacht Club

 Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, Lake Geneva Yacht Club 

John W. Taylor, White Bear Yacht Club

2006 Inductees:

Peter Barrett. Pewaukee Y. C. and Mendota Y. C.

Harold Koch, Pewaukee Yacht Club

Edmund Pillsbury, Minnetonka Yacht Club

Nat Robbins, Minnetonka Yacht Club

Walter Sprinkman, Cedar Lake (Wis.) Yacht Club

2008 Inductees:

William Bentsen, Lake Geneva Yacht Club

Gordon Bowers Jr., Minnetonka Yacht Club

Jule Hannaford III, White Bear Yacht Club

Dr. Tom Hodgson, White Bear Yacht Club

Gordon Lindemann, Pine Lake Yacht Club

Jerry Huse, Okoboji Yacht Club

Jane Pegel, Lake Geneva Yacht Club

2009 Inductees:

John Hunt, Minnetonka Yacht Club

Arnold Meyer, Pewaukee Yacht Club

2010 Inductees:

Wally Schmidt, Okauchee Lake Yacht Club

Jack (Snake) Schneider, Nagawicka Lake Yacht Club

Charles (Snuffy) Schneider, Nagawicka Lake Yacht Club

Dick Casper, Pine Lake Yacht Club