The Gold Circle Club

In 1977, the Board of the American Helicopter Society established The Gold Circle Club to honor individuals who have been Society members for at least twenty-five (25) consecutive years. These members represent the pioneers and leaders of the helicopter industry.

1942	1943	1944
Harold E. Lemont	Ralph P. Alex Stephen J. Chris Angelo A. Coronato James A. Gean Stanley Hiller, Jr. Edward F. Katzenberger Robert M. Kee Ralph B. Lightfoot Chester D. Mayerson Michael A. Paradiso George Townson Ken L. West Wayne Wiesner	Donnell W. Dutton Jerome B. Friedenberg Prof. Alfred Gessow F.N. Piasecki Ren Pierpoint Robert J. Sullivan Dimitry D. Viner
1945	1946	1947
Glidden Doman Edmund L. "Skip" Eveleth Bartram Kelley Bernard Lindenbaum John P. Reeder Sergei I. Sikorsky	Miller A. Wachs	Jack M. Cherne Elmer S. Congdon Jan M. Drees Charles H. Kaman David H. Kaplan Edward T. Keast Will A. Kuipers Frederick C. Phillips James S. Ricklefs Prof. Wieslaw Z. Stepniewski Joseph Stuart III
1948	1949	1950
Kenneth B. Amer Americo (Max) Bellard H. Warren Jacobs Eugene K. Liberatore H. E. Sawicki Albert R. Yackle	T. E. Dumont RADM Francis D. Foley Dr. Kurt Hohenemser MG John Klingenhagen Ret C. Wes Moore	Walter W. Engelbart Frederic B. Gustafson Joseph Mallen Stanley Martin, Jr. Dr. Rene H. Miller Friedrich Von Doblhoff Hans Weichsel, Jr. Capt Marvin V. Wingrove
1951	1952	1953
Robert B. Bossler, Jr. William H. Gates Paul W. Holt Jean Ross Howard-Phelan Myron M. Kawa Paul F. Maloney Robert W. Metzger Herbert N. Shohet Dr. Gerhard J. Sissingh Paul S. Tani Francis J. Wagner Peter Wright	Rodney W. Balke Frank J. Carlson, Jr. Edward S. Carter Wesley L. Cresap Bruce A. Goodale LCdr R. E. Goodspeed George M. Hall J. Ross Hunter William E. Jennings Mort Leib Ray D. Leoni Dr. Robert G. Loewy Harry M. Lounsbury Robert R. Lynn John R. Mertens Stuart J. Miller Norman R. Oxhorn Robert D. Powell, Jr. Raymond W. Prouty Godfrey A. Rockefeller George L. Rodriguez Mel Vague Harold K. Wilson	Albert P. Averill Richard Gabel Norman B. Gorenberg Louis W. Hartwig Leon Jacobson Robert Jones Leonard J. LaVassar William L. McKeown John D. Mimnaugh William B. Peck Robert R. Piper Stephen D. Remington Ben B. Rock Robert J. Tapscott Charles J. Trojahn LTG Robert R. Williams Ret
1954	1955	1956
Carl O. Albrecht J. Curtis Barnes MAJ Paul W. Bass Ret. Dr. Gabriel D. Boehler James T. Duffy Evan A. Fradenburgh Dr. Norman D. Ham Robert E. Head Dr. David S. Jenney Hilliard L. Lubin James R. Moran Frank S. Okamoto Harry B. Picken Donald V. Shafer Harry Sternfeld, Jr. Edward Woll	Peter J. Arcidiacono Alex Berman Richard Bumstead David P. Chappell George E. Curtin, Jr. LTC Willis R. Kusy Ret Dr. Barnes W. McCormick, Jr. Oscar L. Norman Calvin V. Olshan Earl Schneider Donald R. Segner Herbert H. Slaughter Richard Sprinski Rens H. Swan Martin Vale John P. Walsh Kenneth G. Wernicke	D. Edward Broman John E. Burkam Joseph P. Cosgrove John M. Duhon Lee H. Erb John J. Fetsko Col Joseph E. Givens USMC (Ret) Robin B. Gray Thomas W. Griffith James S. Hayden Enoch M. Johnson, Jr. Col Raymond E. Johnson, Ret Dr. Gordon B. McKay Erwin P. Roeser Henry C. Smyth, Jr. Reinier J. Van der Harten Theodore A. Wozniak Ernest R Wright, Jr. Robert Zincone
1957	1958	1959
Dr. Richard L. Bielawa Frederick K. Bietsch Michael C. Frengley Knute Coates Hansen Sally V. La Forge John V. Leonard John R. Olson Ernst C. Schellhase LTC John M. Slattery Ret George A. Smith Baron W.F. Von Engelhardt Dr. E. Roberts Wood Victor A. Zaveruha	Donald Armstrong Dean Earl Cooper LTC William P. Craddock Ret Thomas F. Hanson Spero Jordanides Ronald H. Merritt James R. Neff Courtland D. Perkins Laren Pitcairn Anthony D. Rita, Jr. Arnold Robinson Michael S. Saboe John J. Schneider Fred L. Smith Dr. Dora D. Strother	David M. Blake Robert L. Kaplan Peter G. Kappus Henry L. Kelley Anton J. Landgrebe Bayard T. McWilliams, P.E. James R. (Ron) Mecklin Isadore Senderoff Robert H. Spencer Watson H. Tanner Rodney K. Wernicke
1960	1961	1962
Walter N. Attebery Henry V. Borst Dr. Howard C. Curtiss, Jr. H. Kipling Edenborough Maj Fred W. Forbey (USAF Ret) Franklin D. Harris William D. Harris LTC Jimmie S. Honaker Julian L. Jenkins, Jr. Alvin Kagan Dr. Andrew Z. Lemnios Robert L. McDaniel Robert A. Monteleone David C. Norman William F. Paul Frank Rixen George S. Schairer John J. Shapley Arthur F. Smith Serge Taptykoff Rodney S. Taylor William W. Walls, Jr. John F. Ward John W. White	Dr. Akira Azuma Paul J. Balfe Richard L. Ballard William C. Barr Thomas H. Boyd ,Jr. Richard C. Buyers Charles C. Crawford, Jr. Col William E. Crouch Edward J. Currier Col Charles R. Dunn Donald G. Ekquist Dr Ing Vittorio Fiorini John A. Gaidelis Edward S. Hibyan Robert J. Huston Arnold E. Junker Andrew J. Mank Robert T. McIntyre Stanley Mills Norman E. Nelson Robert G. Orr Dimitri P. Papadakos Franklin D. Robinson John Shostak Paul L. Shultz George T. Singley, Jr. Robert H. Stroub Capt William E Walker Leon Wallerstein Jr. Richard P. White, Jr. Robert Wiesner	Samuel E. Brodie Robert J. Campbell Dr. Richard M. Carlson Rodney L. Clark Cecil E. Covington E. C. Darlington John E. Duffy Peter A. Gilman Ralph E. Goodall Harry S. Groh Dieter H. Halff, Dipl.-Ing. Peter Hodson W. Euan Hooper Bruce F. Kay Col Howard E. Kessinger, Jr. Jaan Liiva Larry A. Meidell Arthur W. "Art" Moss Gary F. Rast James B. Rorke Frederick J. Silverio Albert J. Sivahop Gary N. Smith Thomas W. Soter Wyman A. Soule Armand G. Stravato Richard G. Stutz Donald L. Swope Paul W. von Hardenberg Ralph E. Walsh
1963	1964	1965
Thomas Baldwin Ernest L Hartman Norman B. Hirsh Andrew W. Kerr Stanley P. Laskus Richard B. Lewis, II Frank A. Molnar Col Robert W. Newton George Price Doris Renninger-Brell James J. Satterwhite Edward I. Seto Robert A. Stange Carrol D. Wallace Robert E. Warren Jack L. Zimmerman Herman Zubkoff	Irving L. Ashkenas LTC Vincent P. Bailey, Ret. Wayne J. Barbini Lawrence D. Barrett, Jr. Bruce B. Blake William P. Brown C. Hudson Carper, Jr. John A. DeTore Robert G. Ferry Richard V. Gidner Michael A. Gockel LCDR Richard S. Gordon USN William E. Hill David L. Key Paul R. Kopczynski John A. Longobardi Donald W. Loughran Leonard J. Marchinski William L. McKeown O.K. Moore Kurt Pfleiderer, Dipl.-Ing. Capt John M Quarterman USN Jack G. Real Archie T. Sherbert, Jr. Malcolm F. Symonds J. Charles Ziemba	Capt Reynolds Beckwith Ret John T. Blaha LeRoy T. Burrows Dr. Raymond G. Carlson Vincent F. Cremonese LTCOL Donald A. Dalrymple, USMC Ret. Edmund J. De Santis, Jr. Daniel C. Dugan Dr. John C. Erickson, Jr. Troy M. Gaffey David Lee Green Frederick H. Immen K. P. Jessurun J. Ford Johnston Nicholas C. Kailos William A. Kuczynski Herman I. MacDonald Giffen A. Marr John C. McKeown Bruce L. McManus William M. Meyer William A. Nickels Charles F. Niebanck Clarence A. Patnode, Jr. David A. Richardson Dr. Peter Richter, Dipl.-Ing. Henry G. Smith Raymond G. Smith John R. Somsel David W. Thomas Capt V. V. Utgoff Richard Wasserman Perry H. Young
1966	1967	1968
William D. Anderson Joseph P. Cribbins Dipl. Ing. Guenter O. Daske Patrick J. Devereaux James Gomez Ronald E. Gormont Frank J. Harla, Jr. David J. Hodder Paul C. Hollowell John B. Horton Robert D. Hubbard Charles W. Hughes, Jr. R. C. Hutson James L. Irwin David A. Krampitz Wes G. Lematta Robert J. London LTG Thomas Miller, USMC (Ret.) Lt.Col. Harold P. Moody, USAF Ret. Pasquale (Pat) Perrotta Cecil S. Richardson Ronald F. Sakaki Robin W. Sandford David L. Sharpe Cdr Frank L. Shelley USCG (Ret) George W. Sibert William J. Snyder Walter G. Sonneborn Paul F. Yaggy Ugo Zullo	Ronald W. Anderson Jim Connell Woodrow L. Cook John Dainiak John M. Davis Paul Domanovsky Neal James Donaldson Dennis E. Dura Bernard L. R. Fry Richard F. Frye, Jr. Edwin Z. Gabriel Gerald I. Gard, Jr. Robert P. Guay Harry H. Heyson Steve Holuk Horace P. Howell Walter C. Joiner Marcel Kretz Arthur W. Linden John J. Lucas Otto H. Nowotny James L. Potter Joseph Shefrin Harold E. Sherrieb Maurice F. Sherry Edward S. Spencer MG Story C. Stevens (Ret.) Thomas R. Stuelpnagel Richard D. Szczepanski Tommie L. Wood	Andreas Aastad Irving Alansky Fred C. Battles PE Richard L. Bennett Russell Boocock Robert K. Burgess John S. Burks Clem C. Countess William J. Crawford, III Albert J. Desrochers Cdr Gordon J. Dey Russell M. Dobyns Matthew S. Forelli John W. Gaul John H. Grant, Sr. John M. Harrison Thomas L. House Larry D. Johnston Dr. Raymond G. Kvaternik Andrew H. Logan Kenneth W. Mort Dr. Conrad F. Newberry Dr. Stanley G. Sadler Jack Seargeant Herbert H. Steinmann Kurt Sutter James R. Van Gaasbeek Dr. Jing G. Yen
1969	1970	1971
Harold Andrews Dean C. Borgman William G. Bousman Robert B. Clifton William R. Dodds John W. Gill John J. Justen LTC Lester R. Kerfoot, Jr. Ret. John A. Macrino John D. Matherly, Jr. Carl G. Matthys Dr. William J. McCroskey Gene P. Munson Chester E. Neal Robert Parkinson Alfred J. Potthast Dr. Fredric H. Schmitz John H. Sherrer John L. Shipley David V. Shuter Dr. Francis E. Spring, Jr. L. M. (Mike) Stewart Frank J. Tarzanin, Jr. David R. Woodley	Charles N. Benshetler Capt Arne B. Bruflat D. Luis Saenz De Pazos Horst Dengler Rene A. Desjardins William J. Dixon, Jr. Dr. Joseph J. Eisenhuth Clarence H. Frick Cdr Robert E. Hickle Kenneth H. Landis Edward J. Leach Wayne R. Mantay Carl N. Milko Charles E.K. Morris, Jr Rene Mouille John R. Murphey James A. O'Malley, III Dr. S. Harry Robertson George T. Singley, III Dr. Roger L. Smith Stephen J. Soltis Dr. Irving C. Statler Andrew Tarc Goran A. Wallert Joseph B. Wilkerson Dr. Warren H. Young, Jr.	Edward E. Austin Donald E. Beck Robert H. Blackwell, Jr. Jack Cress Steven L. Fahrenkrog Dr. Peretz P. Friedmann Dr. C. Eugene Hammond Charles D. McCall Dennis P. McGuire Harold K. Reddick, Jr. Dr. Kenneth M. Rosen William T. Yeager, Jr.
1972	1973	1974
George E. Anton John L. Beilman William B. Bigler, II Dr. Earl H. Dowell Paul F. Erny Frederick D. Freeman Dr. Gopal H. Gaonkar J. Colin Green Harry K. Harr LTC Wilbur C. Hogan III, Ret. Webb F. Joiner Robert J. King James S. Kirkwood, Jr. Gary R. Kohler MG Jerry B. Lauer (Ret.) Robert V. March Dr. Arthur F. Messiter John F. Morgenstern Dr. Dale M. Pitt Kenneth R. Reader Dr. Michael P. Scully Harold J. Sell Robert Sopher Tommy H. Thomason Martin L. Vukich Col Dean E. Wright, USA Ret	James F. Altpater, Jr. Peter A. Aron David T. Balch Dr. Felton D. Bartlett, Jr. David Bevan Michael A. Bowes Alvin H. Burgemeister Philip Cooper James M. Davis T. Alan Egolf Samuel W. Ferguson, III Danny E. Good Milton J. Gustafson, Jr. Michael P. Hodges Gerald W. Irvine James Jenks Prof. Hae Kyong Lee Wen-Liu Miao Kevin W. Noonan Dr. David A. Peters Nolan B. Phillips Ernest J. Ratz Stephen R. Schmidt Allen Schoen Dr. John Shaw Ronald A. Shinn James D. R. Tonelli Dr. Sathy P. Viswanathan Dr. Clive G. Whittenbury	Gordon F. Acker John R. Alwang Captain John A. Cameron, CBE Elizabeth Z. Castillo John F. Ceccarelli Marinus De Jongh Gary J. de Simone Col Frederic M. Donohue, USAF-RET David George Col Terry L. Gordy Ret. Arthur J. Gustafson, Jr. James H. Harse Dr. Henry E. Jones Kenneth R. Meyers Dr. Robert A. Ormiston David V. Pauling William A. Pleasants David A. Popelka Ernest G. Riesenfeld Harold J. Rosenstein Louis J. Silverthorn George S. Sipprell Peter D. Talbot Ted Trept John C. Wang LTC Grady W. Wilson, USA Ret. Steven E. Zalesch
1975	1976	1977
Dr. Dev A. Banerjee John T. Brieger Ronald J. Caron Dr. Sam T. Crews James D. Cronkhite William A. Decker Stephen C. Ellis Charles F. Evers Joseph A. Fernandez Derek S. Hart Paul W. Hengel Dr. Wayne Johnson Dr. Sesi B.R. Kottapalli Dr. Donald L. Kunz Ken Lunn Michael A. McVeigh Dr. Simon J. Newman Jeanne K. O'Connor Michael J. Rinaker Ronald G. Schlegel Kurt E. Tessnow George E. Tucker CW4 John S. Tulloch, USA Ret. John F. Zugschwert	Aavo H. Anto Rudolph W. Beckert John A. Bulakowski Dr. Inderjit Chopra John H. Cline James J. DiRienzo Prof. George T.S. Done David A. Douglass Dr. Frank A. Dvorak Michael J. Garsik Marva L. Grovey John F. Hagen Dr. Michael K. Hynes Dr. Naohiro Iboshi George E. Kondreck, Jr. Roger W. Lacy Emmett Lancaster Larry S. Levine Joseph J. Lusczek Jr. Dr. William H. Mason Charles J. Matusovich Richard F. Murray Robert R. Oehrli Yoshihiro Ozawa Dr. Pradeep Raj Peter S. Saloomey Evan P. Sampatacos Dr. Daniel P. Schrage F. Milton Schramm Dr. Rajarama Shenoy Dr. MacNiven Sinclair Dr. Ronald V. Smith Sidney C. Swatton Gary R. Thompson Robert L. Tomaine C. Rande Vause Dr. William Warmbrodt Steven D. Weiner	Vaughan W. Askue William A. Battey Daumants Belte Dr. John D. Berry Dan G. Bjeletich Stanley J. Briczinski Dr. Jess Browning D. Alan Caine BG Samuel G. Cockerham, USA Ret. Denton Delong Col Rudolph D. Descoteau, Ret. Mark E. Dreier Larry C. Franzoi Dr. Albert R. George Anthony Head R. W. Hester F. Michael Holton Mark W. John Elizabeth Johnson Col Emmett F. Knight Cdr. Gary L. Kochert, USN Ret. Bruno Lovera Martin D. Maisel George A. McCoubrey Gary E. Miller Dr. Simon J. Newman F. John Perry Carl L. Peterson Larry F. Plaster Walter Potthoff, Jr. George J. Purdy Eddie L. Rogers Ernest O. Rogers Dr. Aviv Rosen Dr. Michael J. Rutkowski Gerard M. Ryan LtCol Joseph H. Schmid Dipl.-Math Rolf Schneider Marc W. Sheffler Col. Kouzou Shimada, Ret. C. Thomas Snyder Samuel J. Sutter Norman G. Taylor, Jr. William E. Taylor, Jr. Craig D. Thompson Aivars A. Vilcins Kenneth T. Waters David Weller William H. Wells John W. Williams Gregory P. Wright Dr. Kunio Yasuda Motoi Yoshiwaka Karl G. Zacek Thaddeus F. Zlotek
1978	1979	1980
James R. Arnold Robert P. Barresi Gilbert E. Boen Robert A. Borden Gerard N. Casale Russell J. Cline William S. Cobb Ron Dobson Graydon A. Elliott John Franz Steven I. Glusman Stephen L. Haff Michael Hahn Dr. M Nabil Hamouda Michael D. Hightower Dr. Ram D. JanakiRam Gavin D. Jenney George Johnson Peter J. Jones Manfred Kaminski George A. Klug David Lednicer Ronald A. Magnuson Col. Robert A. Mangum, USA Ret. Col William D. McGuth, USAF Ret. Dr. Robert M. McKillip, Jr. Kelly M. Morger Ahmad Naderi Dr. Avi Neer Matthias Obermayer Clifford A. Parizo Michael J. Pope Ernest A. Powell Raymond J. Rulis Dr. Joyanto K. Sen Helmut Schwarze Walter Sinn John R. Slack Kent F. Smith Gilbert W. Snow Karl-Heinz Stenner Dr. Friedrich Karl Straub William K. Underhill Donald Ward Peter A. Wernli Fred White Capt. Akio Yamamoto	C. W. Acree, Jr. Edwin W. Aiken Philip J. Alldridge Gene Barndt Edmond J. Boullay William R. Charlton Jon F. Coon Seth Dawson Floyd L. Dominick Philip Dunford-P23-15 Col. Edward L. Fleming Kirk C. Frederickson Walter T. Grady Kenneth J. Hagan, Jr. James E. Harris Daniel D. Hollenbaugh Nicholas C.G. Isaacs Prof. Keiji Kawachi John L. Labansky Donald M. Layton Robert S. Lipton, Esq. Prof. Stan H. Lowy Roderick A. Maclennan Takeshi Makino Evhen M. Mychalowycz Jim C. Narramore T. B. (Barney) O'Shea Robert S. Petite Philip G. Potts Dr. Todd R. Quackenbush Edward A. Richard Neil M. Richard Eric M. Rubin F. Chris Sautter Thomas W. Schaub Dr. Perumal Shanthakumaran Prof. Nithi Ti Sivaneri Laurence M. Smail COL Richard L. Stoessner, Ret. John D. Swihart, Jr. Ronald W. Tagg Dr. Paul Taylor Dr. Chee Tung John W. Upton, Jr. Thomas B. Whinfrey Paul F. Whitten, Sr. Dr. Yung H. Yu Herbert F. Harrington	Kenneth A. Anderson BGen. John C. Arick, USMC (Ret.) Burton Dale Austin Dr. Alfred (Al) O. Awani David W. Baldwin Thomas A. Barry Chris L. Blanken Sherwood A. Bresler Joseph Coleman, Sr. Thomas E. Condon David A. Conner Rocco R. DiGenova Robert V. Doggett, Jr. MG Charles F. Drenz, Ret. Edward G. Folks John D. Foster Dr. James A. Franklin Roger G. Furgurson Bernd L. Gmelin Kevin Goldstein Willie C. Hardwick Carl L. Harris Robert K. Heffley Curtis J. Herrick, Jr. Stephen C. Holup James J. Howlett Sam Hurt E. Jackson Johnson Clifford Paul Karvinen Jules G. Kish Peter D. Klein Howard Levy Warren Lieberman Bernard D. Mac Isaac Ross P. Menger Glenn M. Messemer Ervin C. Nelson Purdue Patel Martin Peryea Barry Pitkin Bruce S. Place John J. Schillings Michael R. Smith John Sobczak Stephen R. Sullivan Murray D. Sweet Lawrence L. Trick Bohdan Turczeniuk Steve B. Wartenberg Charles B. Weeks G. Thomas White Henry E. Wilson Edward Wukowitz Dr. John Zuk