HMGS Legion of Honor and the Scruby Award

In 1989, Historical Miniature Gaming Society (HMGS) members created the Legion of Honor, an organization that recognized contributing individuals to the hobby of historical miniature wargaming. Since that time, the Legion of Honor has added members in an ad-hoc fashion until 1995, where a large batch were inducted. Since then, it has inducted two members per year. Here’s the list of Legion of Honor members to date:

Legion of Honor Members

Year Inducted	First Name	Last Name	Date of Passing
1989	Don	Featherstone	9/2/13
1991	Richard	Bryant
1993	Pat	Condray	4/2/15
1995	Scott	Bowden
1995	Frank	Chadwick
1995	Bob	Coggins	7/30/14
1995	Todd	Fisher
1995	James	Getz
1995	Johnson	Hood	Passed
1995	Ed	Mohrmann
1995	Duke	Seifried	9/29/18
1995	Wally	Simons	5/30/05
1995	Dick	Sossi
1995	Charlie	Sweet	Passed
1997	Phil	Barker
1997	Jay	Hadley	3/12/15
1998	Larry	Brom	Passed
1998	Leo	Cronin	8/6/21
1999	Greg	Novak	Passed
1999	Hal	Thinglum
2000	Duncan	Macfarlane	5/27/21
2000	Craig	Taylor	Passed
2001	Arty	Conliffe
2001	Peter	Panzeri
2002	John	Hill	9/26/15
2002	David	Waxtel
2003	Bob	Beattie
2003	Russell	Dunaway
2004	Fred	Hubig
2004	Greg	Scott
2005	Bill	Harting	2/01/22
2005	Richard	Hasenauer
2006	Jim	Birdseye
2006	Wilbur	Gray
2007	Glenn	Kidd
2007	Bill	Rutherford
2008	Bob	Giglio
2008	Jean	Lochet
2009	Don	Perrin
2009	Philip	Viverito
2010	Matt	Delamater
2010	Buck	Surdu
2011	Christopher	Duffy	11/16/22
2011	Scott	Mingus
2012	John-Paul	Brisigotti
2012	Michael	Koznarsky
2013	Heather	Blush
2013	Tod	Kershner
2014	William	Moreno	6/27/23
2014	Dean	West
2015	Barry	Hilton
2015	John	Stallard
2016	Alan	Perry
2016	Michael	Perry
2017	Scott	Fisher
2017	Howard	Whitehouse
2018	Richard	Borg
2018	Richard	Clark
2019	Rick	Priestly
2019	Frank	Preziosa
2020	Marty	Fenelon
2020	Dan	Murawski	1/10/2022
2021	Mike	Blake
2021	Nigel	Marsh
2022	Jim	Petrie
2022	Dave	Ryan
2023	Henry	Hyde
2023	Jim	McWee

The Legion of Honor, every two years, chooses the winner of the Scruby Award. It is an award recognizing extreme efforts by the individual and the value of the individual to the hobby of historical miniature wargaming.The winners are:

Scruby Award Winners

Scruby	First Name	Last Name
1989	Donald	Featherstone
1991	Richard	Bryant
1993	Pat	Condray
1995	Bruce “Uncle Duke”	Seifried
1997	Phil	Barker
1999	Robert	Coggins
2001	Frank	Chadwick
2003	Jay	Hadley
2005	Hal	Thinglum
2007	Scott	Bowden
2009	Todd	Fisher
2011	Russell	Dunaway
2013	Bob	Giglio
2015	Arty	Conliffe
2017	Alan	Perry
2017	Michael	Perry
2019	John	Stallard
2022	Mike	Blake
2023	Don	Perrin

Legion Officers

To keep the Legion of Honor running, there are two positions within the organization. The first is the Commandant. He is usually the oldest surviving member of the Legion of Honor, and has the duties of being the figurative lead of the Legion. The second is the Adjutant. He is usually a member recruited by the last Adjutant, to serve a four-year term. His or her duties are to administer the functions of the Legion of Honor, especially to maintain the Legion Bylaws, and to conduct the voting inof new members and voting for the next Scruby Award. Those who have held these positions are:

Commandants

Year	First Name	Last Name
1995-2013	Donald	Featherstone
2013-2018	Bruce “Uncle Duke”	Seifried
2018-Present	Richard	Bryant

Adjutants

Year	First Name	Last Name
1997-2001	Frank	Chadwick
2001-2005	Greg	Novak
2005-2009	Wilbur	Gray
2009-2012	Donald	Perrin
2012-2020	Michael	Koznarsky
2020-2023	Jim	Birdseye