This Award was created in 1975 to honor the VMHA Man and Woman who had demonstrated an above and beyond dedication to VMHA and the Morgan Horse through promotion and volunteerism. In 1991 this award be came known as the Person of the Year Award.

2023 – Angie Maple

2022 – Jennifer Hopper

2021 – Phil Pearo

2020 – Kathy Furr

2019 – Anne Brown

2018 – Don Tobey

2017 – Sam Stanley

2016 – Nina R Quinn

2015 – Jacquelyn Marston

2014 – Dennis Tatro

2013 – Karen McKnight

2012 – Anna Smith

2011 – Nancy Creswell

2010 – Amanda Ryan

2009 – Ruth L. Knab

2008 – Barbara Beauregard

2007 – John Greenall

2006 – Nancy Harvey

2005 – Bonnie Sogoloff

2004 – Cheryl Rivers

2003 – Connie Doucette

2002 – John Myers

2001 – Elise Raymond

2000 – Polly Quinn

1999 – Janet Kennedy

1998 – Beth Pollock

1997 – Barbara Dresser

1996 – Bob & Kay Switser

1995 – Stephen Davis

1994 – Ivan Beattie

1993 – Richard Kaufman

1992 – John Raymond

1991 – Lyman Orcutt

VMHA Man and Woman of the Year:

1990 – Harriet Hilts & Ernest Paquette

1989 – Hayes Sogoloff

1988 – Francis Bryant & Stanton Pratt

1987 – Clara Hendin & Charlie Ross

1986 – Kathleen Clark & Lewis Springer

1985 – Keynith Knapp

1984 – Bob Baker

1983 – Dr. Donald Balch

1981 – Gladys Severance & Roland Doucette

1980 – Margaret & Frank Lathrop

1979 – Leslie & Leonard Wales

1978 – Margaret & Lyle Bemis

1977 – The Malzac Family

1976 – Polly Quinn & Deane C. Davis

1975 – Andrea Squires & Don St. Pierre