Daniel Whitney Award

This award is presented to the Chamber’s outstanding volunteer of the year, as chosen by vote of the Chamber staff. The award is named for Daniel Whitney, one of the first easterners to call Green Bay home. Only 24 when he arrived here from New Hampshire in 1819, he opened a general merchandise store and supplied beef and grain to Fort Howard from a wharf and warehouse at the junction of the Fox and East Rivers. Ten years later Whitney platted the town of Navarino in what is now Green Bay’s downtown. In short order, he built housing for his employees, the settlement’s first hotel, and Christ Church. Sometimes called the “Father of Green Bay,” Whitney went on to found settlements throughout the state and was one of the state’s founding fathers as well.

Past Recipients

2019 - Paul Belschner
2018 - Mary Jane Herber
2017 - Darin Schumacher
2016 - Craig Aderhold
2015 - Patrick Hopkins
2014 - Michael Moore
2013 - Tim Nixon
2012 - Nancy Steffel
2011 - Denis Hogan
2010 - Jerry Mader
2009 - Greg Gauthier
2008 - Carol Van Vreede
2007 - Steve Van Remortel
2006 - Jim Morrison
2005 - Phil Hauck
2004 - Glen Tilot
2003 - Mary Guldan-Lindstrom
2002 - Jacqueline Smith
2001 - Ron Menaker

2000 - Jerry Koeppen
1999 - Kramer Rock
1998 - Nancy Armbrust
1997 - Bob Patterson
1996 - Donald J. Long
1995 - Bob Schulze
1994 - Bill Lawson
1993 - Ann Mogan
1992 - Mark Boland
1991 - Bob Gallagher
1990 - Jim Marshall
1989 - Ted Davi
1988 - Bert Liebmann
1987 - Randy Peterson
1986 - Michael Troyer
1985 - Dave Arps

2019 Daniel Whitney Award recipient, Paul Belschner, Base Companies