Category: Historian Awards

Recipients of the Martha Marlow Award for Historians

Above is the most recent version of the award, 2024.

Key factors in the Martha Marlowe award:

  • Shows consistent and significant support of the historian’s mission.
  • Assists other in learning how to retain and present history of the American Legion activities.
  • Develops new approaches to solving issues in maintaining histories.

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  • Recipients
    • 2025/26
    • 2024/25 – Tim Yauck, Post 522, Hubertus (2nd) “Wisconsin’s Forgotten Heroes”
    • 2023/24 – Morris Sadicario, Post 501, Madison, WI (3rd)
    • 2022/23
    • 2021/22
    • 2020/21
    • 2019/20 – COVID (no recipient)
    • 2018/19 – Fred Fink, Post 214, Darlington (3rd)
    • 2017/18
    • 2016/17
    • 2015/16
    • 2014/15 – Kendel Feilen, Post 415, Milwaukee (4th)
    • 2013/14
    • 2012/13 – Eric Brown, Boys State Historian
    • 2011/12 – Norm Bednarek, Post 47, Portage (2nd)
    • 2010/11 – James M. Rohan, Post 333, Sun Prairie (3rd)
    • 2009/10 – John Kovatch, Post 470, Saukville (2nd)
    • 2008/09 – Robert Moen, Post 498, Milwaukee (4th)
    • 2007/08 – Laurie Arendt, Auxiliary 355, Grafton (2nd)
    • 2006/07 – Leo P. Kulcinski, Post 310, Racine (1st)
    • 2005/06 – Denise Rohan, Post 333, Sun Prairie (3rd)
    • 2004/05 – Michael Wagoner, Post 52, La Crosse (7th)
    • 2003/04 – not awarded
    • 2002/03 – Donald C. Southworth, Post 469, Marathon (8th)
    • 2001/02 – Frank Mathison, Post 116, Chaseburg (7th)
    • 2000/01 – Robert C. Andersen, Post 345, Hingham (2nd)
    • 1999/00 – Robert W. Foley, Post 303, Winter (12th)
    • 1998/99 – Blanche Smith, Post 93, Tomahawk (11th)
    • 1997/98 – Jerry Casler, Post 185, Grantsburg (12th)
    • 1996/97 – Nellie P. De Baker, Post 262, Luxemburg (9th)
    • 1995/96 – Hubert Jakubovsky, Post 203, Milwaukee (4th)
    • 1994/95 – Loretta Miller, Post 70, Oshkosh (6th)
    • 1993/94 – Richard Zeitlin, Non-Legion
    • 1992/93 – Rosemarie Pitz, Post 70, Oshkosh, 6th
    • 1991/92 – Norbert Dziatkiewicz, Post 505, Milwaukee (4th)
    • 1990/91 – David Korth, Post 54, Marshfield (8th)
    • 1989/90 – Barbara Stuvengen, Post 209, Orfordville (1st)
    • 1988/89 – Arthur Heglund, Post 498, Milwaukee (4th)
    • 1987/88 – James Reininger, Post 333, Sun Prairie (3rd)
    • 1986/87 – Martin I. Bachhuber, Post 1, Milwaukee (2nd)
    • 1985/86 – Robert R. Filter, post 23, Milwaukee (5th)
    • 1984/85 – Ethel Matuschka, Post 448, Milwaukee (5th)
    • 1983/84 – Harold Van Dyke, Post 258, Little Chute, (9th)
    • 1982/83 – Hale Hunt, Post 52, La Crosse (7th)

Tim Yauck’s “Project Namesake”

Abstract: Operation Namesake ensures that each American Legion post honors the service member it is named after by preserving and sharing their story. The initiative involves researching, documenting, and presenting these legacies through multimedia to post members, communities, schools, and civic groups in Wisconsin. The mission is to remember the namesake as a life and legacy, not just a name, fulfilling a duty to keep their stories alive. Tim Yauck, Hubertus Post 522, was the recipient of the 2024/25 Martha Marlowe Historian of the Year Award. This award is for exceptional historical activity.

Tim developed “Project Namesake.” His mission statement:

“Operation namesake exists to ensure that every American Legion post’s namesake, that is the service member whose name the post carries, is remembered not only as a name on a wall, but as a life, a story, and a legacy. Our mission is simple in concept, but profound in impact. Every Legion post will research, document, and share the complete story of their namesake through multimedia presentations that will be shared with post members, communities, schools, and civic groups throughout Wisconsin.

We research their lives. We present their stories to the community. We keep their stories alive and fulfill our sacred duty.”