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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The list of the distinguished recipients of the Remington Honor Medal includes:
2014 | MARILYN K. SPEEDIE | 1978 | EUGENE V. WHITE | 1940 | ROBERT L. SWAIN |
2013 | DENNIS K. HELLING | 1977 | DAVID J. KRIGSTEIN | 1938 | HENRY C. CHRISTENSEN |
2012 | WILLIAM E. EVANS | 1976 | MELVIN W. GREEN | 1937 | J. LEON LASCOFF |
2011 | PAUL W. LOFHOLM | 1975 | ALBERT DOERR | 1936 | EDMUND N. GATHERCOAL |
2010 | MARY ANNE KODA-KIMBLE | 1974 | LLOYD M. PARKS | 1935 | SAMUEL LOUIS HILTON |
2009 | JOHN A. GANS | 1973 | GROVER C. BOWLES | 1934 | SIR HENRY S. WELLCOME |
2008 | J. LYLE BOOTMAN | 1972 | GLENN SONNEDECKER | 1933 | EVANDER F. KELLY |
2007 | ERNEST MARIO | 1971 | LINWOOD F. TICE | 1932 | EUGENE G. EBERLE |
2006 | ROBERT D. GIBSON | 1970 | DONALD E. FRANCKE | 1931 | ERNEST FULLERTON COOK |
2005 | ROBERT J. OSTERHAUS | 1969 | GEORGE F. ARCHAMBAULT | 1930 | EDWARD KREMERS |
2004 | LOWELL J. ANDERSON | 1967 | WILLIAM S. APPLE | 1929 | WILBUR LINCOLN SCOVILLE |
2003 | MARY LOUISE ANDERSEN | 1965 | K. K. CHEN | 1928 | CHARLES H. LAWALL |
*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 info@aphafoundation.org.
The following Remington Honor Medalists have gifted and/or loaned their medal for display:
2021
Marialice Bennett
2012
William E. Evans
2001
Jerome A. Halperin
1998
Kenneth N. Barker
1993
Robert C. Johnson
1991
George Griffenhagen
1991
George Griffenhagen
1919
James H. Beal
1990
Joseph A. Oddis
1984
William M. Heller
1973
Grover C. Bowles
1972
Glenn A. Sonnedecker
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.
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.
