The Advertising Club confers the order of William Pynchon and the Pynchon Medal upon such citizens of western Massachusetts as, in the opinion of the Trustees of the Pynchon Award, have rendered distinguished public service.

Recipients are nominated each year by members of the community, and are chosen by unanimous decision of the Pynchon Trustees. The Trustees are the Ad Club's current and five most recent past presidents.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts is seeking nominations for the 95th Annual William Pynchon Award, the area's oldest and most prestigious community service recognition program.

Established in 1915, the award honors individuals from all walks of life who go beyond the call of duty to enhance the quality of life in communities in western Massachusetts. Educators, social activists, philanthropists, clergy, physicians, journalists, and business leaders have received the award in years past.

To nominate an individual submit a one-page letter explaining reasons why the nominee should be considered. Included should be brief biographical information, outstanding accomplishments, service to the community, organizations he or she is or has been active in, and the names, phone numbers and email addresses of at least three people who can attest to the nominee's contributions.

All nominees will be considered and researched by the Pynchon Trustees, comprised of past and present presidents of the Advertising Club. Nominations must be submitted by Friday, July 24, 2009 to: William Pynchon Trustees, Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts, P.O. Box 2823, Springfield, MA 01101.

2009 Pynchon recipients will be announced in late summer/early fall. The Pynchon awards dinner and ceremony will be held on Thursday, November 19, 2009, at Chez Josef in Agawam.

2008
Dianne Fuller Doherty
Michael J. Ashe, Jr.
Frank W. Anderson

2007
Dr. Carol A. Leary
Allen G. Zippen
Dan Roulier

2006
Steven D. Botkin
Kimball W. Howes
Brenda J. Lopez
Vincent McCorkle

2005
Stephen T. Clay
Paul S. Doherty

2004
Carl G. Erickson
Lucia M. Giuggio
Rabbi Jerome S. Gurland

2003
Teofilo Alvarado
Carol W. Kinsley
R. Lyman Wood

2002
Raymond J. Chelte
Edward M. Clark

2001
Janee Friedmann
Eric Bachrach

2000
Albert Ferst
Sister Jane Morrissey

1999
Dr. Edward Bailey
Richard Milstein, ESQ

1998
Frances Gagnon
John Gallup
Peter Picknelly

1997
Frank D. Gulluni

1996
John H. Davis

1994
Robert Fowler
Harriette Michaels

1993
Sister Mary Dooley
Barbara Rivera

1992
Randolph W. Bromery
Dr. Leon M. Kruger
Richard A. Stebbins

1991
Anne V. Cooley
Gerald E. D'Amour
Helen Smith Fuller

1990
Robert S. Carroll
George R. Ditomassi

1989
Judge Sidney R. Cooley
David Starr

1988
William J. Clark

1987
Roswell L. Derby
Most Reverend
Joseph F. Maguire

1986
C. Norman Peacor
Robert J. Van Wart

1985
Edward P. Boland

1984
Benjamin F. Jones
Edward B. Landis
Michael P. Pagos

1983
Emma Wilder Anderson
Alfred A. LaRiviere
Sister Mary Caritas

1982
Gordon Cameron
Rita M. Tremble

1981
Joan F. Putnam
Charles V. Ryan

1980
James R. Martin

1979
Paul J. Greeley
Alexander B. Mapp
Graham King

1978
Most Reverend
Christopher J. Weldon

1977
Mary H. Weckwerth
Richard C. Garvey
Donald O. Reichert

1976
Dr. Robert W. Emery
Solomon D. Freeman
James J. Shea, Jr.

1975
K.F. Broman
William A. Lieson

1974
Richard Booth

1973
Dr. Frank E. Hurley
Romeo J. Cyr

1972
Herbert P. Almgren
Jeremiah M. Finn

1971
Edmond P. Garvey
Charles H. Schaaff

1970
Sidney R. Cook
Rabbi Dr. Herman Eliot Snyder

1969
Herman O. Grimmeisen

1968
Judge Donald Malcolm Macauly

1967
Charles M. Healy, Jr.
Maxwell H. Tasgal

1966
Paul Craig

1965
Frederick B. Robinson
Alfred G. Zanetti

1964
Lieutenant Joseph A. Budd
Magnus F. Peterson

1963
Dr. Garry deNeuville Hough, Jr.
Leone E. Avery

1962
Edward H. Breck
Dennis J. Brunton

1961
Bernard H. McMahon

1960
James J. Shea
Samuel G. Simons
Edward Kronvall

1959
Mary J. Foley

1958
Dr. William B. Kirkham

1953
Paul Samson

1952
Dr. Paul M. Limbert
John J. Duggan

1951
Cordelia S. Pond

1950
Sally Leeds
Dr. William Hill

1949
James H. Higgins

1948
Alice L. Halligan
Edward S. Bradford

1947
Edward H. Marsh

1946
Dr. Chester S. McGown
Colonel Burton A. Adam

1945
Henry A. Field
Hazel Clark
David J. Manning

1944
Chester Bowles
Thomas C. Fleming
Fred Stephenson

1943
Margaret C. Ells
Edward H. Thomson

1942
Gilbert H. Steward
Edwin C. Bartlett
John H. Nolan

1941
Alexander Hughes
Grace Pettis Johnson

1940
Waldo L. Cook

1939
John C. Garand
Ida F. Farrar

1938
Frank D. Korkosz
Albert Steiger

1937
William Orr
William F. Adams

1936
George S.L. Connor
Frederic Whitmore
Herman Isenburg

1935
Frederick B. Sweet
William H. Shuart

1934
Elbert E. Lochridge
Edward A. Hall

1933
Wallace R. Heady
R. Nelson Hatt

1932
William H. Daggert
Maude Irving Tait

1931
Joseph B. Ely
William J. Quilty

1930
David Allen Reed

1929
Hiller C. Wellman
Charles L. Long
Reverend Thomas Frederick Davis

1928
William N. DeBerry
Lucy W. Mallary
Henry L. Bowles

1927
Charles E. Duryea

1926
Nathan D. Bill

1925
George M. Hendee

1924
William W. McClench

1923
William G. Ballantine

1922
Mary A. Booth
Eliphalet T. Tifft

1921
A. Willard Damon

1920
Harold A. Ley

1919
Frederick H. Gillett
Thornton W. Burgess
Harold Buckley

1918
Edwin C. Parsons

1917
Solomon Buckley Griffin
Embury P. Clark
Robert O. Morris
Elijah A. Newell

1916
F. Sturgess Allen
Frank A. Perrett
Horace A. Moses
Joshua L. Brooks

1915
Marcus Perrin Knowlton
George Dwight Pratt
Donald North
George Walter
Vincent Smith
Charles Goodrich Whiting