Winners

PNNA Exhibit Award Winners

Year	Convention City	Grand Award	C.E. “Hepp” Heppner Award
1960	Salem, OR	Robert J. Barkley
1961	Spokane, WA	Roy Ceil
1962	Seattle, WA	Clarence W. Zaar
1963	Walla Walla, WA	C.C. Saeman
1964	Portland, OR	C.C. Saeman
1965	Yakama, WA	{Not awarded}
1966	Seattle, WA	{Not awarded}
1967	(No convention)
1968	Spokane, WA	George C. Gilkison
1969	Eugene, OR	Don Crawford
1970	Seattle, WA	Irene Alexander
1971	(No convention)
1972	Vancouver, WA	{Not awarded}
1973	Spokane, WA	Richard E. Beach
1974	Seattle, WA	Joseph E. Boling
1975	Pasco, WA	Joseph E. Boling
1976	Seattle, WA	T.H. Fleming
1977	Longview / Kelso, WA	Thomas D. Harris
1978	North Vancouver, B.C.	Margaret A. Sweeten
1979	Spokane, WA	Thomas D. Harris
1980	Bellingham, WA	Albert Westerhof
1981	Pasco, WA	John Patrick Young	T.O. McCann
1982	Seattle, WA	Thomas D. Harris	Nina H. Caldwell
1983-1984	(No convention)
1985	Seattle, WA	Albert Westerhof	T.O. McCann
1986	Bellevue, WA	T.O. McCann	Joseph E. Boling
1987	Yakima, WA	T.O. McCann	T.O. McCann
1988	Bellevue, WA	Dick Watt	T.O. McCann

See notes below regarding the renaming of the Grand Award after Byron Johnson’s death.

Year	Byron F. Johnson Award	C.E. “Hepp” Heppner Award
1989 convention held in Bellevue, WA.
1989	Dick Watt	Tom Sheehan
1990-1991 – No local convention due to ANA convention in Seattle.
1992 to 1994 conventions held in Seattle, WA.
1992	Tom Sheehan	T.O. McCann
1993	T.O. McCann	T.O. McCann
1994	Ellis Corets	T.O. McCann
1995 to 2000 conventions held in Portland, OR.
1995	John Patrick Young	{Not awarded}
1996	T.O. McCann	T.O. McCann
1997	{Not awarded}	{Not awarded}
1998	Robert K. Myles	Robert K. Myles
1999	Rob Retz	J. Eric Holcomb
2000	Kenneth R. Hill	J. Eric Holcomb
2001 to date conventions held in Tukwila, WA.
2001	Kenneth R. Hill	J. Eric Holcomb
2002	Kenneth R. Hill	J. Eric Holcomb
2003	Kenneth R. Hill	Susan Billings
2004	Steve Cox	Kenneth R. Hill
2005	J. Eric Holcomb	J. Eric Holcomb
2006	Ellis Corets	Ellis Corets
2007	{Not awarded}	{Not awarded}
2008	Gerald R. Williams	Del Cushing
2009	Steve Cox	{Not awarded}
2010	Tom Sparks	{Not awarded}
2011	James Reinders	Katie Reinders
2012	James Reinders	Dan Vornbrock
2013	Thomas A. Tullis	{Not awarded}
2014	Charmy Harker	Charmy Harker
2015	Gawain O’Connor	Dan Vornbrock
2016	Thomas A. Tullis	Anthony Kalt
2017	Thomas A. Tullis	Tom Sparks
2018	Thomas A. Tullis	{Not awarded}
2019	James Reinders	Gawain O’Connor
2020	No convention
2021	No spring convention / No competitive exhibits at fall show
2022	Tony Kalt	Tony Kalt
2023	anonymous	anonymous
2024	James Reinders	{Not awarded}

Del Cushing Memorial (People’s Choice) Award (started in 2019):
2019 – James Reinders
2022 – Tony Kalt
2023 – Karl Kreis
2024 – James Reinders

Notes:

• The Grand Award was renamed the Byron F. Johnson Jr. Memorial Award after Byron’s death.
  See Byron F. Johnson’s numismatic biography.
• The C.E. “Hep” Heppner Award is given for the best exhibit of tokens, medals and decorations.
• Beginning in 2019, the spring convention “People’s Choice” exhibit award has been added to this list of winners and is named the “Del Cushing Memorial Award.”
• Awards for 2022 were decided at the fall coin show due to cancellation of exhibits at the spring convention.
• Awards for 2023 were decided at the fall coin show due to having noncompetitive exhibits only at the spring convention. The winner requested to remain anonymous.
• Awards for 2024 were made at the spring convention, and there were no exhibits at the fall show.