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O Scale Hall of Fame 1993 to 2005  ¤  Y = still with us

Lindsey Adams 2005	Ed Alexander 2000	John Armstrong 1998	Al Armitage 2003
Irvin R. Athearn 2002	Bill Clouser 1994	Bob Colson Sr. 2001	Minton Cronkhite 2000
Tom D. Dressler 2005Y	Ed Duddy 2002Y	Frank Ellison 1995	Joe Fischer 2000
Clifford Grandt 2002	Max Gray 1995	Dan Henon 1994	Lorell Joiner 1994Y
Vane Jones 1993	Levon Kemalyan  2001	Stu Kleinschmidt 2003Y	Bill Lenoir 1998
Rollin Lobaugh 1995	Jan Lorenzen 2005	Rich L. Meyer 2004	Bill Pope 2004Y
Bob Smith 1993	Rich Wagner 2003	William Walthers 1998	Vince Waterman 2004
Bob Weaver 1993Y	Bob Whelove 1997	Jerry White 1997Y	Bill Wolfer 1996

O Scale Hall of Fame honorees are nominated and elected by popular vote of the attendees at the annual O Scale National Convention. Listed below (by year & alphabetically) in the order inducted. The links here may be used to learn more about these O Scale Pioneers. Always adding information as it is submitted (or dug out of archives), please email any corrections to osn@foxvalley.net Feel free to argue, but we crosscheck biographical detail against government records, public record, and hold all new notes for a short time until we have confirmation on new data as well as a chance to publish the information in our PRINT edition, 48/ft, O Scale News "O Scale Hall of Fame" column and/or "Mailbag." These comments now published online for the O Scale Hall of Fame honorees have all been previously published in 48/ft, O Scale News between 1970 and January 2002 and are covered by OSN's copyright in this form (including side comments). The links below will lead you only to a sketch (an outline) of their lives. Minor Note: While most year's there are 3-5 nominees and a lesser number of these are added to the Hall of Fame… sometimes there are exceptions: 1999,there was no vote at all; 2003, the committee chose their three (3) nominees leaving left space for one write-in and then rather than accepting the top person to honor added all three of the committee's choices (vote held this year at banquet — no write-in received more votes than the committee's choices). The 2003 Hall of Fame was also the 10th anniversary of this annual SONC event, and rather than this being mentioned as an "O Scale National Convention" function — the anniversary passed unnoticed and stress was placed on a social/business group, the O Scale Kings/O Scale Sig which has possibly acquired the O Scale Hall of Fame plaque and wishes to control this in the future. The original plaque, created by Ginger & Corey Jones in 1993, was not seen at the convention (and has not been displayed since the mid-1990's). Perhaps this will reappear in the future or someone will create a new plaque. New pages for honorees will not be added at this time. In 2004, there was no sign of a new plaque, but the committee created unique certificates for the inductees.

O Scale Hall of Fame Honorees by year in order of induction

1993	Indianapolis, IN	Bob Smith   •   Bob Weaver   •   Vane Jones
1994	Denver, CO	Bill Clouser   •   Dan Henon   •   Lorell Joiner
1995	Teaneck, NJ	Frank Ellison   •   Max Gray   •   Rollin Lobaugh
1996	San Antonio, TX	Bill Wolfer
1997	St. Louis, MO	Bob Whelove   •   Jerry White
1998	Marlboro, MA	John Armstrong • Bill Lenoir • William K. Walthers
1999	Atlanta, GA	No nominations, no vote, no awards.
2000	New Orleans, LA	Ed Alexander   •   Minton Cronkhite   •   Joe Fischer
2001	Stamford, CT	Levon Kemalyan   •   Bob Colson
2002	Chicago, IL	Irvin R. Athearn   •   Ed Duddy   •   Clifford Grandt
2003	Irving, TX	Al Armitage   •   Stu Kleinschmidt   •   Rich Wagner
2004	Washington, DC	Rich Meyer   •   Bill Pope   •   Vince Waterman
2005	St. Louis, MO	Lindsey Adams   •   Tom Dressler   •   Jan Lorenzen

"O" Scale National Convention History

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