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Remington Honor Medal

Widely recognized as pharmacy’s highest honor, the Remington Honor Medal is named for eminent community pharmacist, manufacturer, and educator Joseph P. Remington (1847–1918). In 2019, we observed the 100th anniversary of celebrating the medalists whose lifetime of achievements have advanced the profession and patient care. 

Remington Honor Objectives

Honor the Past

​Your support of the Remington Endowment will help fund in perpetuity the awarding of the Remington Honor Medal to pharmacy’s most well-respected leaders and innovators. 

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We are committed to creating a lasting tribute to commemorate every Remington Honor Medalist’s remarkable contributions to pharmacy. Through the Endowment, we will establish an elegant installation recording their stories and achievements at the APhA Headquarters—the home of American pharmacy—on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

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These luminaries have transformed pharmacy and led changes that reverberates outside of any one organization or institution. They have also shaped the vision of the Remington Endowment, which will propel the Remington tradition into the future.

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Shape the Future

Support pharmacy’s pioneering leaders by providing the foundational funding for the Remington Innovation Forum a key component of the Remington Endowment. This extraordinary event will marshal the collective wisdom of Remington Honor Medalists to solve complex, systemic medication use problems—from opioid misuse to caring for the medically underserved—and address improving patient care outcomes nationwide.​​

 

Led by these visionaries, the Forum will leverage shared responsibility among all facets of pharmacy, industry, government organizations, academia, and other national health care organizations. Through meetings, symposia, and workshops, these partners will generate practical resources and tools to address our nation’s greatest health care challenges.

Remington Medalists Through the Years

The Remington Honor Medal is named for eminent community pharmacist, manufacturer, and educator Joseph P. Remington (1847–1918). This national honor was established in 1918 to recognize distinguished service on behalf of American pharmacy during the preceding year, culminating in the past year, or during a long period of outstanding activity or fruitful achievement in the field of pharmacy in the United States. In 2019, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the year the award was first bestowed. 

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James Hartley Beal, the initial award recipient, received the award at the first general session of the 67th APhA Annual Meeting held in New York City on August 26, 1919.

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Mr. Beal was an educator, legislator, author, and pharmacist in the U.S. State of Ohio and was Chairman of the U. S. Pharmacopeia. 

 

In 1979, APhA received ownership and stewardship of the Remington Honor Medal from the New York Society and is responsible for coordination of the award selection process today. Each year a screening and selection committee selects candidates who best meet the criteria established for the Remington Honor Medal and presents two top candidates to all APhA former presidents who then vote to select the recipient of the award. â€‹

The list of the distinguished recipients of the Remington Honor Medal includes:

2024
MILAP NAHATA
1992
JERE E. GOYAN
1953
HUGH C. MULDOON
2023
HENRI MANASSE
1991
GEORGE B. GRIFFENHAGEN
1952
PATRICK HENRY COSTELLO
2022
PETER VLASSES
1990
JOSEPH A. ODDIS
1951
HUGO H. SCHAEFER
2021
MARIALICE BENNETT
1989
LAWRENCE C. WEAVER
1950
EDWIN LEIGH NEWCOMB
2020
COLONEL (RET.) JOHN D. GRABENSTEIN
1988
PETER P. LAMY
1949
ERNEST LITTLE
2019
LUCINDA L. MAINE
1987
GLORIA N. FRANCKE 
1948
ANDREW GROVER DUMEZ
2018
HAROLD N. GODWIN
1986
IRVING RUBIN
1947
RUFUS ASHLEY LYMAN
2017
DANIEL A. HUSSAR
1985
WILLIAM L. BLOCKSTEIN
1945
JOSEPH ROSIN
2016
LESLIE Z. BENET
1984
WILLIAM M. HELLER
1944
H. EVERT KENDIG
2015
CALVIN H. KNOWLTON
1983
TAKERU HIGUCHI
1943
ROBERT P. FISCHELIS
2014
MARILYN K. SPEEDIE 
1980
JOSEPH D. WILLIAMS
1942
JOSIAH K. LILLY, SR.
2013
DENNIS K. HELLING
1978
EUGENE V. WHITE
1941
GEORGE D. BEAL
2012
WILLIAM E. EVANS
1977
DAVID J. KRIGSTEIN
1940
ROBERT L. SWAIN
2011
PAUL W. LOFHOLM
1976
MELVIN W. GREEN
1938
HENRY C. CHRISTENSEN
2010
MARY ANNE KODA-KIMBLE
1975
ALBERT DOERR
1937
J. LEON LASCOFF
2009
JOHN A. GANS
1974
LLOYD M. PARKS 
1936
EDMUND N. GATHERCOAL
2008
J. LYLE BOOTMAN
1973
GROVER C. BOWLES
1935
SAMUEL LOUIS HILTON
2007
ERNEST MARIO
1972
GLENN SONNEDECKER
1934
SIR HENRY S. WELLCOME
2006
ROBERT D. GIBSON
1971
LINWOOD F. TICE
1933
EVANDER F. KELLY
2005
ROBERT J. OSTERHAUS
1970
DONALD E. FRANCKE
1932
EUGENE G. EBERLE
2004
LOWELL J. ANDERSON
1969
GEORGE F. ARCHAMBAULT
1931
ERNEST FULLERTON COOK
2003
MARY LOUISE ANDERSEN
1967
WILLIAM S. APPLE
1930
EDWARD KREMERS
2002
RICHARD P. PENNA
1965
K. K. CHEN
1929
WILBUR LINCOLN SCOVILLE
2001
JEROME A. HALPERIN
1964
ROBERT A. HARDT
1928
CHARLES H. LAWALL
2000
DANIEL A. NONA
1963
GLENN L. JENKINS
1926
HENRY A. B. DUNNING
1999
CARL F. EMSWILLER, JR.
1962
HARRY J. ANSLINGER
1925
HENRY MILTON WHELPLEY
1998
KENNETH N. BARKER
1960
IVOR GRIFFITH
1924
GEORGE MAHLON BERINGER
1997*
C. DOUGLAS HEPLER & LINDA M. STRAND
1959
JUSTIN L. POWERS
1923
HENRY HURD RUSBY
1996
MAURICE Q. BECTEL
1958
ELI LILLY, JR.
1922
HENRY VINCOME ARNY
1995
MAX W. EGGLESTON
1957
W. PAUL BRIGGS
1920
JOHN URI LLOYD
1994
JAMES T. DOLUISIO 
1956
FRANK W. MOUDRY
1919
JAMES HARTLEY BEAL  
1993
ROBERT C. JOHNSON
1955
ROY BIRD COOK

 *The Remington Honor Medal has not been awarded each year. No award was given in 1921, 1927, 1939, 1946, 1954, 1961, 1966, 1979, 1981 and 1982. In 1997, two Remington Honor Medals were bestowed.

Consider adding your medal or a family member’s medal to the historic display at APhA headquarters. For more information, please contact Duane Tackitt at dtackitt@aphanet.org.

The following Remington Honor Medalists have gifted and/or loaned their medal for display at APhA headquarters:

2012

William E. Evans
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2001

Jerome A. Halperin

1998

Kenneth N. Barker

1993

Robert C. Johnson

1991

George Griffenhagen

1991

George Griffenhagen

1990

Joseph A. Oddis

1984

William M. Heller

1973

Grover C. Bowles

1972

Glenn A. Sonnedecker

1919

James H. Beal

Remington Endowment Campaign

You are invited to join others in the community of pharmacy who have made a contribution to support bringing the brightest minds in pharmacy and partners in health care to solve the greatest health challenges of our time. 

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The APhA Foundation acknowledges and thanks these donors for their generous support to engage the entire profession of pharmacy to address our nation’s most challenging health care and medication use problems together and fund in perpetuity the annual awarding of pharmacy’s highest honor recognizing the profession’s most well-respected leaders and innovators.​

 

 

 

Remington Benefactor ($500,000-$999,999)

 

American Pharmacists Association

United States Pharmacopeia

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this list. To request an adjustment, please contact info@aphafoundation.org.

To learn more about the Remington Honor Medal, please visit https://www.pharmacist.com/Membership/Awards/Professionwide-Awards/Remington-Honor-Medal.

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