Wichita Business Hall of Fame Laureates

WICHITA BUSINESS HALL OF FAME LAUREATES

2010
Anita Oberwortmann - Wilson Building Maintenance and Metro Courier
David and Darrell Rolph - Carlos O'Kelly's
The Schwan Family - House of Schwan

2009
E.W. “Pete” Armstrong
Jeff Turner
Ted & Betty Vlamis 

2008
George Fahnestock - Fahnestock Heating & Cooling
Helen Galloway
Al Higdon

2007
No Laureates Selected

2006
Barry Downing - Entrepreneur
Bill Hanna- Koch Industries

2005
Bob Buford – Zenith Drilling Corporation
Dwayne Shannon - Metal-Fab
Don Slawson - Slawson Companies

2004
Chuck and Charlie Chandler - Intrust Bank
I.W. William and David Murfin - Murfin Drilling Company
Sterling Varner - Koch Industries

2003
The Bastian Family - Fidelity Bank
The Ritchie Family - Ritchie Corporation
The Weigand Family - J.P. Weigand & Sons

2002
Dondlinger Family - Dondlinger & Sons Construction Company
Jordan Haines - Fourth Financial Corporation
Russ Meyer - Cessna aircraft Company

2001
W. Frank Barton - Businessman
Daniel M. Carney - Pizza Hut
Thomas R. Devlin - Devlin Enterprises
Robert L. Goebel - Star Lumber & Supply Co., Inc.
William J. Goebel - Star Lumber & Supply Co., Inc.

2000
Fred E. Berry, Jr. - Berry Companies
Jess M. Cornejo - Cornejo & Sons
F.F. Mike Lynch - Great Empire Broadcasting
Michael C. Oatman - Great Empire Broadcasting

1999
Ronald D. Ryan - Ryan International Airlines
Reg V. Boothe - Bennett & Boothe
Rebecca L. Long - Rebecca Long & Associates

1998
George & Virginia Ablah - Ablah Enterprises
C.J. Chandler - First National Bank
Martin K. Eby, Sr. - Eby Construction
Anderson E. Jackson - Jackson Mortuary
Abner Jackson - Jackson Mortuary
Robert D. Love - Love Box Company

1997
Lionel D. Alford - The Boeing Company
Frank L. Carney - Pizza Hut
Sheldon Coleman, Sr. - The Coleman Company
Dr. Othello Curry, Jr. - Curry Animal Hospital
Jack P. DeBoer - Residence Inn
William L. Graham - Graham Oil Company
Frank E. Hedrick - Beech Aircraft Company
F.D. (Fran) Jabara - Wichita State University
Abner B. Jackson, Sr. - Jackson Mortuary
Charles G. Koch - Koch Industries
Fred C. Koch - Koch Industries
Charles McAfee - McAfee Architects
J. Earl Schaeffer - The Boeing Company
Hollis T. Sims - The Negro Star
Virginia Sims - The Negro Star
Dwane L. Wallace - Cessna Aircraft Company

1990
Gordon W. Evans - KG&E
Olive White Garvey - Civic Leader
Hugh Garvey - Attorney
Albert A. Hyde - Inventor of Mentholatum
Arthur W. Kincade, Sr. - Fourth National Bank
William H. Mathewson - “Buffalo Bill”

1986
Olive Ann Beech - Beech Aircraft Company
Walter Beech - Beech Aircraft Company
Clyde Cessna - Cessna Aircraft Company
Jesse Chisolm - Cattleman
William Coleman - The Coleman Company
James Davidson - Kansas National Bank
William Greiffenstein - “Father of Wichita”
Marshall M. Murdock - The Wichita Eagle