An Historic Occasion

In one night, you get everything you love: friends, drinks, dinner, and an outstanding lecture by an expert in northwest history or one of the luminaries making history. The banquet is held at the beginning of the year – check the calendar for specifics.

2012 Banquet

On the evening of January 12, 2012 we met at South Seattle Community College’s Brockey Center. It was our first time at SSCC, and it went great. John Findlay received the annual award. WSHS’s retired director David Nickandri gave a speech on the history of Pacific Northwest history and teasers on his new work on Captain Cook and Tacoma — two separate topics. Here was the complete program.

Guild History Award

Each year at the banquet we’re proud to honor an individual who has profoundly affected our understanding of the history of the Pacific Northwest. Here are the past recipients:
  1. 2012 John Findlay
  2. 2011 Robert C. Carricker
  3. 2010 Charles G. Payton
  4. 2009 Reed W. Jarvis
  5. 2008 Jacquline B. Williams
  6. 2007 Walt Crowley
  7. 2006 Lorraine McConaghy
  8. 2005 Dan Peterson
  9. 2004 Karyl Winn
  10. 2003 David L. Nicandri
  11. 2002 John M. McClelland, Jr.
  12. 2001 Paul Dorpat
  13. 2000 Joyce Justice, and William H. Woodward
  14. 1999 [no award presented]
  15. 1998 John Frazier Henry
  16. 1997 Robert E. Ficken
  17. 1996 Ruth E. Kirk
  18. 1995 Esther Hall Mumford
  19. 1994 Norman H. Clark
  20. 1992 Doris Pieroth, and Jane Sanders
  21. 1991 Richard C. Berner
  22. 1990 Charles P. LeWarne
  23. 1989 Keith Murray
  24. 1988 Robert E. Burke
  25. 1987 Lucille McDonald
  26. 1986 Murray Morgan