This award is presented to the top musician in the Paris High School Band. The award was established by U of I band director A. Austin Harding to honor his good friend Ike Shaw and was originally designed to be awarded to the best clarinet player in the PHS Band. At one point, former PHS director Lou Waterloo approached Harding and said he simply did not have a clarinetist worthy of the award and asked if he could bestow it upon a non-clarinet playing musician. Mr. Harding agreed and since that time the award has gone to the top musician(s) in the band.
1966 Alan Arnold Byron Blair 1967 Don Anderson 1968 Bobby Jean Mattingly 1969 Allen A. Bell 1970 Dale Eveland 1971 James Windmiller Susan Blair 1972 Karen Tatara 1973 Don Alexander Dennis Pitcock 1974 Brad Frazier Richard Tatara Geneva Dodd 1975 Debbie Throneburg Dirk Wallace 1976 Steve Rigdon Ken Trine Ginger Stanley 1977 Aron Mike Berl 1978 Mary Margaret Ashley 1979 Gina Stanley Mark Sturgell 1980 Jill Followell Mike Dawson 1981 Lori Garwood 1982 Donna Adams Roger Neal Steve Schneider 1983 Amy Jones Evan Pratt Bret Frost 1984 Tim Dawson Sarah Hawbecker Carlin Davis 1985 Stacy Lee Smithson 1986 Angela Pendley Laura Wacaser D.R. Collier 1987 Mark Anderson David Cerra 1988 Julie Setzer Marty Sperry Angela Staley 1989 Mallory Claypool Kirk Jones Christian Landes Troy Stone 1990 Deandra Laine Mansfield Lisa Jane Young 1991 Kevin Pruiett 1992 Sarah Gill Jason Landes Nathan Landes Roger Stanley Jr. 1993 Scott Blair Pete Templeton 1994 Chris McNary Stacy Moody Pat Postlewait 1995 Jeremy Neal 1996 Curtis Cornwell Martha Dixon 1997 Ryan Carroll Michelle Nugent 1998 Elizabeth Dixon Allison Pruiett 1999 David Barnhart Sarah Fox Blake Young 2000 BJ Bellerud Kim Neal 2001 Kristin Dilts Rebeccah Dixon Jeff Pancake 2002 Clint Duzan Stefani Rigdon Staci Wirth 2003 Michelle Ochs Cynthia Pancake Suzi Hatcher 2004 Ryan Clawson Anna Garst Nathan Warren 2005 Karol Farris 2006 Kadie Savoree John Gowrylow 2007 Stefan Aydt Agnes Wright 2008 Hannah Church Emily Higginbotham 2009 Kiera Perry 2010 Raymond Turner 2011 Jacob Garver 2012 Erica Sheeran 2013 J.D. Hasler 2014 Emilie Emberton 2015 Paige Underwood 2016 Chandler Dorjahn 2017 Dillan Dorjahn 2018 Katherine Smith 2019 Chloe Koutsoumpas 2020 Alayna Whitkanack |