- Calvert L. Willey Award
The Calvert L. Willey Award has been awarded every year since 1989. It is awarded to a member of the
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) who displayed meritorious and imaginative service to IFT. The award is named forCalvert L. Willey (1920-1994) who served as Executive Secretary and later Executive Director from 1961 until his retirement in 1987. Willey was given a distinguished service award by IFT at the 1987 Annual Meeting inLas Vegas, Nevada . This distinguished service award would be named in his honor and presented for the first time as an annual award at the 1989 Annual Meeting inChicago, Illinois . It was the first IFT Award to be named for a living person.Award winners receive an
USD 3000 honorarium and a plaque from IFT.Winners
References
* [http://members.ift.org/IFT/Awards/AchievmentAwards/AwardWinners/pastawardwinners.htm List of past winners] - Official site
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