Cooperative Hall of Fame

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The Cooperative Hall of Fame recognizes individuals from the United States who have made outstanding contributions to cooperatives. The Hall of Fame was established in 1974 and is administered by the Cooperative Development Foundation. Nominations from the cooperative community are reviewed yearly by two committees composed of cooperative leaders. The committees make recommendations to the Board of Directors of National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), who make the final decision.[1]

The Cooperative League of the USA (now the NCBA) announced a Hall of Fame at its 29th biennial conference in San Francisco.[2] The Cooperative Hall of Fame and Historical Society was established in 1974. By 1990, 64 people were inducted in the Hall.[3] The Hall is located at NCBA's headquarters in Washington, D.C.[2] As of 2012, there are 153 inductees, dubbed "heroes" by the Hall.

Cooperative Hall of Fame
Name Image Birth–Death Year Area of achievement
Mary E. Arnold(1876–1968)1976Arnold was a co-founder of Consumers Cooperative Services, an organizer of housing cooperatives and credit unions, and director of the National Cooperative Business Association from 1927 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1950.[4][5]
Howard E. Babcock(1889–1950)1976Babcock was an agricultural cooperative leader. He was chair of the American Institute of Cooperation, co-president of the National Cooperative Council, and served on the Board of the Central Bank for Cooperatives[6]
Howard A. Cowden1976Cowden founded Farmland Industries in 1929, which later became the Consumers Cooperative Association.[7]
Edward Filene(1860–1937)1976Filene was a businessman, social entrepreneur and philanthropist who built the Filene's department store chain. He was the main driver behind the push to pass legislation allowing for credit unions in the United States.[8]
Harvey Hull1976Hull helped to create United Cooperatives (now Universal Cooperatives) and promoted credit unions and rural electrification.[9]
Abraham E. Kazan(1889–1971)1976Kazan is considered the father of cooperative housing in the United States. He developed housing cooperatives in New York City and helped the cooperative grocery stores form a federation.[10]
Murray D. Lincoln1976Lincoln was President of the National Cooperative Business Association from 1941 to 1965 and served on the board of the International Cooperative Alliance.[11]
John D. Miller1976Miller was largely responsible for drafting the Capper–Volstead Act. He was president of the National Cooperative Council and helped to create the National Milk Producers Federation.[12]
William I. Myers1976Myers was a governor of the Farm Credit Administration and architect of the Farm Credit System.[13]
Edwin Griswold Nourse(1883–1974)1976Nourse helped to develop the American Institute of Cooperation.[14]
A.J. Smaby1976Smaby was general manager of Midland Cooperatives. He was director of the Fund for International Cooperative Development and the NCBA.[15]
Jerry Voorhis(1901–1984)1976Voorhis was a five term California Congressman who served as executive director of the National Cooperative Business Association from 1947 to 1965. He helped to found the National Association of Housing Cooperatives and the Organization of Cooperatives of America.[16]
James Peter Warbasse(1866–1957)1976Warbasse was a surgeon who founded the Cooperative League of America (now NCBA) in 1916. He was the organization's president until 1941.[17]
Eugene R. Bowen1978Bowen was an executive with the National Cooperative Business Association, helping to expand the organization.[18]
George H. Dunlap1978Dunlap was chairman and CEO of Nationwide from 1969 to 1972. He was a central committee member for the International Cooperative Alliance and served on the board of the National Cooperative Business Association.[19]
Thomas F. Ellerbe, Sr.1978Ellerbe founded the Cooperative Foundation in Minnesota and planned a cooperatively owned and run community at Circle Pines, Minnesota.[20]
Hubert H. Humphrey(1911–1978)1978Vice President Humphrey sponsored legislation establishing the National Consumers Cooperative Bank. He supported the development of farm, telephone and electric cooperatives and defended the Capper–Volstead Act.[21]
Michael Shadid(1882–1966)1978Shadid was a physician and the first president of the Cooperative Health Federation of America. He advocated for cooperative health care and preventive medicine.[22]
Roy Bergengren(1879–1955)1979With Edward Filene, Bergengren was the main actor behind the proliferation of credit unions across the United States.[23]
D. W. Brooks(1901–1999)1979Brooks organized the Cotton Producers Association and led the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives.[24]
Clyde T. Ellis(1908–1980)1979Ellis was a leader of electric cooperatives and general manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.[25]
Joseph G. Knapp1979[26]
Felix F. Rondeau1979[27]
Andrew Volstead(1860–1947)1979Andrew Volstead was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota, 1903–1923, and a member of the Republican Party. He was the creator and proponent of the Capper–Volstead Act, sometimes referred to as the "farmer cooperative Magna Carta."[28]
Robert Neptune1980[29]
M.W. Thatcher1980[30]
Leslie E. Woodcock1980[31]
Wallace J. Campbell1981[32]
Fernand St. Germain(1928–2014)1981[33]
W. Gifford Hoag1982[34]
Dorothy and George Jacobson1982[35]
John Brandt1983[36]
Jack R. Cluck1983[37]
Louise McCarren Herring(1909–1987)1983Herring was a charter member of the Credit Union National Association and campaigned for a law establishing credit unions in Ohio. She was the first managing director of the Ohio Credit Union League and helped organize over 500 credit unions in the United States. She was the second woman to be inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame.[38][39]
Robert D. Partridge1983[40]
Charles C. Teague1983[41]
Jacob M. Kaplan1985[42]
Owen Cooper1985[43]
Roman N. Eller1985[44]
Walter Harrison1985[45]
Charles Holman1985[46]
W.A. MacColl1985[47]
Manly Glenwood Mann1985[48]
Florence Parker1985[49]
Leo H. Shapiro1985[50]
E.G. Cort1986[51]
Ed Jaenke1986[52]
Aaron Sapiro(1884–1959)1986Sapiro was a cooperative activist, lawyer and major leader of the farmers' movement during the 1920s. One of the many issues Sapiro spoke on was cooperative grain marketing and he was particularly active in California and Saskatoon in Saskatchewan.[53]
Roger Willcox1986[54]
Luther H. Buchele1987Buchele was the first executive director of the Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan.[55]
Benjamin Franklin(1706–1790)1987Founding Father and polymath, Franklin was [56]
Maurice J. McKay1987[57]
Albert McKnight1987[58]
Emil A. Syftestad1987[59]
Joseph L. Hansknecht1988[60]
Wilfred E. Rumble1988[61]
Beryle E. Stanton1988[62]
William G. Wysor1988[63]
Barbara Deverick1989[64]
Ed Jones(1912–1999)1989[65]
Frank Sollars1989[66]
Frank W. Hussey1990[67][68]
R.C. Morgan1990[69]
Harold Ostroff1990[70]
Chalmers P. Wylie(1920–1998)1990[71]
Aubrey Davis1991[72]
Jack and Connie McLanahan1991[73]
Gonze Lee Twitty1991[74]
Robert Vanderbeek1992[75]
Samuel E. Bunker1992[76]
Ralph Hofstad1992[77]
Dwight Oberschlake1992[78]
C.E. Toland1992Toland is the founder of Affiliated Foods Southwest.[79]
Lloyd and Mary Anderson1993Lloyd and Mary Anderson are the founders of REI.[80]
Orville L. Freeman(1918–2003)1993[81]
Ken Holum1993[82]
Bob Bergland(1928–)1994Bergland is a former Minnesota Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture under Jimmy Carter. He advocated for cooperatives as the vice president and general manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.[83]
John E. Fisher(1929–1998)1994[84][85]
Gordon E. Lindquist1994[86]
Fred & Virginia Thornthwaite1994[87]
James L. Grahl1995[88]
Alvin W. Jordan1995[89]
David Smith1995David Smith was president of president of Penn South Co-op and one of the original organizers of the Coordinating Council of Cooperatives.[90]
Burgee O. Amdahl1996[91]
Glenn M. Anderson1996Glenn Anderson is a former president of the Cooperative League of the USA (now NCBA).[92]
Katharine Whiteside Taylor1996Taylor founded the first cooperative preschool in California, Children's Community, in 1927.[93][94]
A.A. Bailey1997[95]
Stanley Dreyer1997[96]
Woodrow Keown1997[97]
W. Malcom Harding1997Harding was a leader in cooperative banking and helped to consolidate 11 Banks for Cooperatives into CoBank.[98]
Henry Holloway1998Henry Holloway served on the Maryland Farm Bureau Board and the Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Board.[99]
R. C. Robertson1998[100]
Charles Stenholm(1938–)1998Charles Stenholm is a Democratic Party politician from Texas, serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2005. He was formerly President of the Texas Rural Electric Cooperative Association.[101]
Richard H. Vilstrup1998[102]
Owen K. Hallberg1999[103]
John Earnest Johnson1999[104]
Vaughn O. Sinclair1999[105]
Dave and Erma Angevine2000Consumer Federation of America[106]
Edgar F. Callahan(1929–2009)2000Callahan was Chair of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA).[107]
Richard H. Magnuson2000[108]
O. Glenn Webb2000[109]
John B. Gauci2001[110]
David A. Hamil2001[111]
Otis & Mary Lee Molz2001[112]
Francis L. Lair2002[113][114]
Ralph K. Morris2002[115]
C. William Swank2002[116]
Herb Wegner2003[117]
Doug Bereuter(1939–)2003Doug Bereuter is a retired Republican politician from Nebraska, serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 until 2004. He introduced the Overseas Cooperative Development Act, which directed USAID to expand the use of cooperatives in its development programs.[118]
Rod Nilsestuen2003Nilsestuen was Wisconsin's Secretary of Agriculture and founder of Cooperative Development Services.[119]
J. K. Smith2003[120]
Allen Thurgood-Connolly2004[121]
Ralph Paige2004[122]
Henry H. Schriver2004[123]
Charles and Eva Rappaport2005The Rappaports were leaders in cooperative housing, both working for the Federation of 213s (later the Federation of New York Housing Cooperatives).[124][125]
Robert I. Kabat2005Kabat was director of the Management Services Department of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and developed educational programs for electric cooperatives.[124][126]
Pete Crear2005Crear helped establish the Credit Union National Association's relationship with the National Endowment for Financial Education.[124][127]
Rebecca Allen2006[128]
David O. Miller2006[129]
Frank Morton Hunt, II2006[130]
Thomas L. Lyon2006[131]
David L. Chatfield2007[132]
Jean Jantzen2007[133]
John E. Gherty2007[134]
Charles B. Gill2007[135]
Gary Hanman2008[136]
Terry Lewis2008Lewis is a former president of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives.[137]
Douglas D. Sims2008[138]
Walden Swanson & Kate Sumberg2008[139]
Howard Brodsky and Alan Greenberg2009Brodsky and Greenberg are founders of Carpet One.[140]
James R. Jones2009Jones is a leader in the student cooperative housing movement in North America. He has served as executive director of four student housing cooperatives as well as the North American Students of Cooperation.[141]
Edward E. Slettom2009[142]
Melbah M. Smith2009[143]
Larry Blanchard2010[144]
Glenn English(1940-)2010English is CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.[145]
Werqu Mekasha2010[146]
David Thompson2010Thompson is the author of Weavers of Dreams: The Founding of the Modern Co-operative Movement.[147][148]
Noel Estenson2011Estenson was CEO of CHS Inc. until 2000, overseeing the merger of Cenex and Harvest States Cooperatives.[149]
Gloria & Stanley Kuehn2011[150][151]
Daniel A. Mica(1944-)2011Mica was president and CEO of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) from 1996 to 2010.[152]
Shirley Sherrod2011Shirley Sherrod is the former Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture. She co-founded New Communities, a 6000-acre cooperative farm and was the Georgia State Director of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives.[153]
Charles Snyder2012Snyder is president and CEO of the National Cooperative Bank.[1][154]
Bill Gessner2012[155][156]
William Davisson2012Davisson was CEO of the agricultural supply cooperative Growmark from 1998 to 2010.[157][158]
Michael Cook2012Cook is a professor of Cooperative Leadership and executive director of The Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership (GICL), University of Missouri-Columbia.[159][160]
Joy Cousminer2013Joy Cousminer is the founding president and CEO of Bethex Federal Credit Union.
Steven L. Dawson2013Steven L. Dawson is the founder of the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI).
Rebecca Dunn2013Rebecca Dunn is the executive director of the Cooperative Fund of New England.[161]
Leland Ruth2013Leland "Lee" Ruth is president of the Agricultural Council of California.
Martin J. Lowry2014Martin Lowry is a rural utilities leader.[162]
Harriet May2014Harriet May is a credit union leader.[162]
Papa Sene2014Papa M.D. Sene is an international development leader.[162]
Barry Silver2014Barry Silver is a cooperative financer and the Executive Vice President of National Cooperative Bank.[162]
Ann Hoyt2015Ann Hoyt, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus at University of Wisconsin-Madison.[163]
William J. Nelson2015Agriculture and Education[164]
Daniel T. Kelley2015Agriculture [163]
Judy Ziewacz2015Judy Ziewacz is president and CEO of the National Cooperative Business Association/Cooperative League of the United States (NCBA/CLUSA)[163]
Dennis Bolling2016Agriculture. Former president and CEO of United Producers, Inc.[165]
Jessica Gordon Nembhard2016Education. Jessica Gordon Nembhard is Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the Department of Africana Studies at John Jay College, of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.[165]
Dennis Johnson2016Finance. Dennis Johnson is the former president and CEO of the Saint Paul Community Bank for Cooperatives.[165]
Richard Larochelle2017Rural Utilities/Education. Richard Larochelle, retired Senior Vice President, National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation.[166]

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