This award recognizes individuals who have provided exemplary and sustained support of the causes, issues, and programs that strengthen independent pharmacy. The award is given annually since 1985 by The NCPA Foundation to honor those whose contributions on behalf of independent pharmacy embody the spirit of leadership and accomplishment personified by John W. Dargavel, who was executive secretary of the National Association of Retail Druggists (NARD), now NCPA, from 1933 to 1961. (The Foundation was established in 1953 to honor Dargavel.) Special thanks to McKesson for generously sponsoring this award since 2015!
Past Awardees
- 2024 DeAnn Mullins
- 2023 William Letendre
- 2022 James Schiffer
- 2021 Lonny Wilson (posthumously)
- 2020 William L. Scharringhausen
- 2019 John Vandel
- 2018 Scott Pace
- 2017 Ernest Boyd
- 2016 Sharlea Leatherwood
- 2015 John R. Carson and James H. Vincent (posthumously)
- 2014 Edward J. Hesterlee
- 2013 Mike James
- 2012 Larry L. Braden
- 2011 Carmen A. DiCello
- 2010 Paul J. Dumouchel
- 2009 Joseph A. Mosso
- 2008 Calvin J. Anthony
- 2007 Lonnie Hollingsworth
- 2006 David Sparks
- 2005 Gerald Shapiro
- 2004 Neil L. Pruitt and H. Joseph Schutte
- 2003 John M. Rector
- 2002 D.C. Huffman, Jr.
- 2001 Salvatore D’Angelo
- 2000 Martin Rubin
- 1999 Don Moore
- 1998 William Wickwire
- 1997 Daniel C. Leone
- 1996 Charles M. West
- 1995 Frederick Mayer and Irving Rubin
- 1994 George E. Benson
- 1993 Forest E. Pack, Jr.
- 1992 J. C. Cobb
- 1991 Stanley Hartman
- 1990 William Cornell, Jr. and Frank A. Lobraico
- 1989 Tom C. Sharp, Jr.
- 1988 George W. Scharringhausen, Jr. and Willard B. Simmons
- 1987 Don Newman
