The Leonard Munn Fowle Memorial Medal
The Leonard Munn Fowle Memorial Medal for Improvement was originally offered in 1935 in memory of a Marblehead yachting official whose interest in the encouragement, advancement, and improvement of junior yachting and the Pleon Yacht Club was unceasing and who obtained in 1921 a special invitation for Pleon, America's first junior yacht club, to compete in the first series for the Sears Cup sponsored by the Eastern Yacht Club.
The award is given annually to the member of Pleon Yacht Club who, in the opinion of the Race Committee and other competent judges, has shown the greatest improvement in sailing, racing tactics, and yacht handling since the last award.
THE WINNERS
|
Year |
Skipper |
Class |
|
2011 |
Reid Shanabrook |
Optimist |
|
2009 |
Hillman Hollister |
Optimist |
|
2008 |
Lydia Grassberger |
Optimist |
|
2007 |
Andrew Reiley |
Laser Class |
|
2006 |
Kristen Altreuter |
420 Class |
|
2005 |
Darby Smith |
420 Class |
|
2004 |
Gram Slattery |
Optimist |
|
2003 |
Heather Reiley |
Laser Class |
|
2002 |
Lucie Miller and Max Junda |
420 Class |
|
2001 |
Leland McManus |
Laser Class |
|
2000 |
Ian Cook |
420 Class |
|
1999 |
Anders Straume |
420 Class |
|
1998 |
Elizabeth Ryan |
Laser Class |
|
1997 |
Kevin Dooley |
420 Class |
|
1996 |
Francis Shiman-Hackett |
420 Class |
|
1995 |
Tom Loutrel |
420 Class |
|
1994 |
Robbie Gorman |
Optimist |
|
1993 |
Jon Tracy |
Optimist |
|
1991 |
Page Connolly |
Optimist |
|
1990 |
Ramsay Key |
Laser Class |
|
1989 |
David Warren |
Laser Class |
|
1988 |
Ryan Worobel |
Laser Class |
|
1987 |
Rob Sides |
Widgeon Class |
|
1986 |
Jennifer Coolidge |
420 Class |
|
1982 |
Hiromi and Kiyomi Munro |
420 Class |
|
1979 |
Ward Blodgett |
420 Class |
|
1978 |
Bill Kenney |
420 Class |
|
1974 |
Toby Reiley |
420 Class |
|
1973 |
Billy and Bob Columbo |
420 Class |
|
1972 |
Ted and David Cooke |
420 Class |
|
1971 |
John R. Blodgett |
420 Class |
|
1970 |
Marvin Duncan |
420 Class |
|
1969 |
Peter Fernberger |
420 Class |
|
1968 |
John Nystedt |
110 Class |
|
1967 |
Carl Rohde |
110 Class |
|
1966 |
Peter Warren |
110 Class |
|
1965 |
Robert McCann |
110 Class |
|
1964 |
Robert Doyle |
110 Class |
|
1963 |
Holly Harris |
110 Class |
|
1962 |
Donald Baumrucker |
110 Class |
|
1961 |
William Pevear |
210 Class |
|
1960 |
Peter Carlson |
Turnabout |
|
1959 |
Joan Thayer |
Brutal Beast |
|
1958 |
Stephen Wales |
110 Class |
|
1957 |
Geoffrey Mason |
110 Class |
|
1956 |
Stedman Amory |
110 Class |
|
1955 |
Jon Wales |
110 Class |
|
1954 |
Julia W. Sawtelle |
110 Class |
|
1953 |
Francis U. Paige |
110 Class |
|
1952 |
Peter Scully |
110 Class |
|
1951 |
Tomas H. Townsend |
110 Class |
|
1950 |
Stephen M. Smithwick |
110 Class |
|
1949 |
Philip Tierney |
110 Class |
|
1948 |
G. Dudley Shepard |
110 Class |
|
1947 |
Richard A. Kimball |
110 Class |
|
1946 |
P. Tapley Stephenson, Jr. |
110 Class |
|
1945 |
Bruce Hood |
110 Class |
|
1944 |
John Marvin |
110 Class |
|
1943 |
John H. Blodgett, Jr. |
110 Class |
|
1942 |
Bradley Noyes |
110 Class |
|
1941 |
Frank P. Scully, Jr. |
110 Class |
|
1940 |
Barbara L. Connolly |
M-B Class |
|
1939 |
Alexander Watson |
M-B Class |
|
1938 |
G. Clark Shepard |
Sophmore |
|
1937 |
Walter Page |
Class T |
|
1936 |
James T. Connolly, Jr. |
30 Sq. Meter |
|
1935 |
David W. Ives |
Class T |