Annual Awards
The Moles’ Awards were instituted in 1941 as a means by which this organization signalizes the honor it pays to outstanding ability and accomplishment in the heavy construction field. Two awardees are recognized each year—one member and one non-member. Recipients of the non-member award are also granted honorary membership in The Moles.
Through the years, the presentation of the The Moles Bronze plaque and the hand-illuminated and embossed parchment have served a two-fold purpose: to encourage noteworthy achievements, and to reward them with fitting symbols of what the honorees already have won—that most-cherished of all prizes, the admiration and esteem of fellow-workers.
At right, Carl E. Petrillo and Todd T. Semonite, the 2026 Member and Non-Member Award recipients respectively, congratulate one another at the Honored Guest Reception. The 2026 Annual Awards Dinner was held at the New York Marriott Marquis on January 7, 2026.
| Year | Speaker | Presented By | Member Award | Presented By | Non-Member Award | Presented By |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Leon Topalian | Michael D'Annunzio | Carl E. Petrillo | Timothy Caulfield | Todd T. Semonite | James Marquardt |
| 2025 | Rich Davey | John F. McNamara | Paul C. Schmall | Arthur Corwin | Anthony J. Binsfeld | Jesse Ottesen |
| 2024 | Dave Raymond | Al Daloisio, Jr. | Gary A. Almeraris | Michael Viggiano | James C. Maxwell | Alissa Maxwell Weiss |
| 2023 | Shailen Bhatt | Paul C. Schmall | Henry E. "Hank" Adams | Douglas Patterson | Dr. Gerhard Sauer | David R. Klug |
| 2022 | - - | - - | Alfonso Daloisio, Jr. | Joseph Vaccaro | Frederick P. Salvucci | Kristine Keville |
| 2021 | - - | - - | Kirk D. Junco | Donald P. Dobbs | - - | - - |
| 2020 | Steve Kroft | Christine Keville | James M. Marquardt | Peter O. Shea, Jr. | J. Fletcher Creamer, Jr. | Dale A. Creamer |
| 2019 |
Lt. General Dennis Hejlik USMC (Ret.) |
Kirk D. Junco | Joseph F. Malandro | George J. Tamaro | Dr. Moujalli Hourani | Milo E. Riverso |
| 2018 | Emmitt J. Smith III | Christopher S. Traylor | Alfred H. Brand | Peter W. Deming | Raymond G. Ames | Herbert W. Morgan |
| 2017 | Timothy Cardinal Dolan | Richard D. MacDonald | Francis J. Lombardi | Peter J. Zipf | John S. Alberici | James H. J. Hughes III |
| 2016 | John M. Paxton Jr. | James M. Marquardt | Arthur B. Corwin | Salvatore Mancini | Wayne E. Jones | Robert E. Sinkler |
| 2015 | Anthony R. Foxx | Henry E. Adams | Raymond R. Oneglia | David M. Oneglia | Timothy Barnard | Paul A. Franzen |
| 2014 | Chris Christie | Joseph F. Malandro | John L. Kolaya | Carl E. Petrillo | Ronald E. Heuer | George E. Williamson |
| 2013 | David H. Huntoon, Jr. | Arthur B. Corwin | Stephen J. Barlow | Christine Keville | Bruce E. Grewcock | Kenneth E. Stinson |
| 2012 | Andrew M. Cuomo | Stephen J. Barlow | Thomas N. Iovino | Salvatore Mancini | Richard E. Wagman | Robert R. Buckley |
| 2011 | Michael R. Bloomberg | Kirk R. Samuelson | Robert E. Alger | Richard S. Weeks | Peter O. Shea, Sr. | James M. Marquardt |
| 2010 | Barry R. McCaffrey | Robert E. Alger | Thomas W. Traylor | Lynn E. Barr | Thomas Dobson | Robert E. Alger |
| 2009 | Jon S. Corzine | Alfred H. Brand | Richard S. Weeks | Robert E. Alger | Martin Herrenknecht | James M. Marquardt |
| 2008 | Peter Pace | Salvatore Mancini | Salvatore Mancini | William V. McGuinness III | Robert S. Boh | Janice L. Tuchman |
| 2007 | James Carville | Richard S. Weeks | Robert R. Buckley | John F. Donohoe | Theodore H. Budd | Patrick B. Kenny |
| 2006 | James W. Owens | Thomas J. O’Neill | Edward Cruz | Joseph F. Malandro | Clyde N. Baker, Jr | Gerard M. Kenny |
| 2005 | G. Wayne Clough | John L. Kolaya | Kenneth E. Stinson | Walter Scott, Jr. | Matthew M. Walsh | David H. Watts |
| 2004 | Don Young | Edward Cruz | John F. Donohoe | Robert G. Lenz | Robert H. Luffy | Thomas J. O’Neill |
| 2003 | Max Cleland | Peter S. Schneidkraut | George J. Tamaro | Alfred H. Brand | Edward J. Cording | James L. Lammie |
| 2002 | Henry Petroski | George J. Tamaro | Byron F. Wetmore | Richard S. Weeks | David H. Watts | George B. Searle |
| 2001 | Donald T. DiFrancesco | Robert R. Buckley | Richard N. Weeks | Richard S. Weeks | Dennis R. Washington | Walter Scott, Jr. |
| 2000 | James J. Florio | Raymond R. Oneglia | Sherwood E. Liles III | John F. Donohoe | Guy M. Stricklin | Byron F. Wetmore |
| 1999 | William F. Buckley, Jr. | John F. Donohoe | Martin N. Kelley | Walter Scott, Jr. | John C. Hester III | Jack K. Lemley |
| 1998 | John H. Sununu | Roger J. Ludlam | Elmer A. Richards | Kenneth E. Stinson | George B. Toll, Jr. | Gerard M. Kenny |
| 1997 | Warren Rudman | Charles F. Vachris | Melvin Febesh | Norman A. Nadel | Charles H. Atherton | John E. Kenny |
| 1996 | John C. Rowland | Gerard A. Neumann, Jr. | George B. Searle | Robert R. Buckley | Richard C. Solari | Kenneth E. Stinson |
| 1995 | Christine Todd Whitman | Thomas E. Dailey | Robert C. Koch | Carl E. Petrillo | Wilfred F. Magann, Sr. | Sherwood E. Liles, III |
| 1994 | Patrick J. Buchanan | Elmer A. Richards | Charles H. Campbell | Walter Scott, Jr. | Les McCraw | Arthur J. Fox, Jr. |
| 1993 | Paul E. Tsongas | George B. Searle | S. Steve Greenfield | Norman A. Nadel | John M. Harbert, III | Charles E. Mergentime |
| 1992 | Kirk Fordice | Robert C. Koch | James P. Gould | William H. Mueser, Jr. | H. Bartell Zachry, Jr. | Ival R. Cianchette |
| 1991 | Philippe Essig | Charles H. Campbell | Gerard J. Carty | Thomas J. Henderson | John F. Shea | John M. Jacobs |
| 1990 | Thomas D. Larson | Sherwood E. Liles, III | Irving R. Huie | David B. Perini | Thomas J. White | Charles E. Mergentime |
| 1989 | Ray Barnhart | Gerard J. Carty | Robert G. Lenz | George A. Fox | Martin K. Eby, Jr. | David B. Perini |
| 1988 | James Courter | Irving R. Huie | Reuben Samuels | George J. Tamaro | Richard H. Roberts | Thomas W. Halligan |
| 1987 | Richard L. Tucker | Irving R. Huie | Charles E. Mergentime | John D. Saunders | Richard D. Harza | Wilson V. Binger |
| 1986 | Hermann Becker | S. S. Greenfield | Walter Scott, Jr. | Frank M. Warren, Jr. | John E. Kenny | G. W. Gilfillan |
| 1985 | Mario M. Cuomo | Charles E. Mergentime | Norman A. Nadel | Thomas R. Kuesel | Kenneth A. Roe | Arthur J. Fox, Jr. |
| 1984 | Edward I. Koch | John D. Saunders | David B. Perini | John M. Martin | George T. McCoy | James L. Mann |
| 1983 | James J. Howard | Norman A. Nadel | John D. Saunders | Irving R. Huie | Don U. Deere | George A. Fox |
| 1982 | Arthur G. Hansen | S. V. DeSimone | William H. McMurren | S. S. Greenfield | J. Robert Fluor | Henry F. LeMieux |
| 1981 | Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. | David B. Perini | Milton A. Hendrickson | Eugene F. Gibbons | J. Donovan Jacobs | J. Joseph Casey |
| 1980 | David McCullough | G. R. Gray | Henry F. LeMieux | Sherwood E. Liles, Jr. | Winton M. Blount | Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. |
| 1979 | Richard J. Hughes | Milton A. Hendrickson | George A. Fox | James A. Lilly | H. W. McCurdy | Dan S. Brock |
| 1978 | Irving S. Shapiro | Daniel M. Lazar | James D. McClary | Nello L. Teer | Joe B. McNabb | H. Edgar Lore |
| 1977 | John F. McGillicuddy | Henry F. LeMieux | Robert Crimmins | Daniel M. Lazar | Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. | Henry C. Boschen |
| 1976 | James D. McClary | Francis A. Vitolo | Peter Corradi | Eugene J. Peltier | Arthur Casagrande | S. Peter Volpe |
| 1975 | John M. Martin | Charles A. Richardson | William H. Mueser | Salvatore V. DeSimone | H. B. ``Pat’’ Zachry | Peter Corradi |
| 1974 | James M. Gavin | Reuben Samuels | Charles A. Richardson | David B. Perini | Lyman D. Wilbur | John B. Bonny |
| 1973 | Hunter P. Wharton | Peter Corradi | John J. Murphy | A. Holmes Crimmins | Ralph B. Peck | Henry F. LeMieux |
| 1972 | Spiro T. Agnew | Alfred H. Korsen | Daniel M. Lazar | Edward E. White | Ralph M. Parsons | William D. Alexander |
| 1971 | Robert L. F. Sikes | John J. Murphy | Edward E. White | Howard Gould | Lester E. Huntington | John J. Walsh |
| 1970 | Walter M. Schirra, Jr., | Frank H. Peavey | Roger H. Corbetta | Francis A. Vitolo | Walter S. Douglas | Peter Corradi |
| 1969 | A. C. Husband | Howard R. Gould | Henry C. Boschen | William Denny | Lowell S. Dillingham | Edgar F. Kaiser |
| 1968 | John A. Volpe | Robert Crimmins | Frank M. Groves | Peter Kiewit | George R. Brown | Henry C. Boschen |
| 1967 | William Blackie | Henry C. Boschen | C. Warren Black | S. Everett Hunkin | Bernard F. Diamond | Ralph E. De Simone |
| 1966 | Arthur W. Radford | Richard E. Mynatt | A. Holmes Crimmins | Eugene F. Moran, Jr. | George H. Atkinson | Thomas J. Walsh, Jr. |
| 1965 | James M. Slattery | A. Holmes Crimmins | Lou R. Crandall | Eugene McGovern | ||
| 1964 | Richard M. Nixon | Eugene McGovern | Ralph E. DeSimone | William Denny | Sherwood E. Liles, Jr. | George Ferris |
| 1963 | H. Ladd Plumley | Eugene G. Rau | Carlton S. Proctor | Raymond A. Wheeler | Edgar F. Kaiser | John J. Walsh |
| 1962 | Kenneth McFarland | Harry T. Immerman | George F. Ferris | Ben Moreell | Karl Terzaghi | Carlton S. Proctor |
| 1961 | Robert I. Gannon, S.J. | Eugene G. Rau | Harry T. Immerman | George F. Flay, Jr. | Herman Brown | Francis Donaldson |
| 1960 | Abel Wolman | Mansell L. MacLean | William Denny | George F. Ferris | George M. Drake | Eugene McGovern |
| 1959 | James F. Armstrong | A. Holmes Crimmins | John B. Bonny | Louis R. Perini | ||
| 1958 | Bertram D. Tallamy | Richard A. Johnson | Peter F. Connolly | Edward G. Johnson | Francis Donaldson | Thomas J. Walsh |
| 1957 | Jesse V. Honeycutt | Thomas J. Walsh, Jr. | Louis R. Perini | Peter F. Connolly | Guy F. Atkinson | William A. Durkin |
| 1956 | Benjamin F. Fairless | A. Holmes Crimmins | Howard L. King | Miles I. Killmer | Harvey Slocum | Charles D. Riddle |
| 1955 | Richard L. Hearn | George F. Ferris | Thomas J. Walsh | Ben Moreell | Carl B. Jansen | A. Holmes Crimmins |
| 1954 | John R. Perry | Richard E. Dougherty | J. Rich Steers | Carlton S. Proctor | Glenway W. Maxon | Lester C. Rogers |
| 1953 | T. Keith Glennan | David Bonner | Edward P. Palmer | J. Rich Steers | Peter Kiewit | George F. Ferris |
| 1952 | Lucius D. Clay | David Bonner | Charles B. Spencer | Richard E. Dougherty | Stephen D. Bechtel | Ben Moreell |
| 1951 | James A. Farley | James F. Salmon | Ray N. Spooner | Edmund A. Prentis | Lester S. Corey | George F. Ferris |
| 1950 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Carlton S. Proctor | Richard E. Dougherty | William A. Durkin | Herbert Hoover | Carlton S. Proctor |
| 1949 | Thomas A. Scott | Frederic E. Lyford | Luther S. Oakes | Raymond A. Wheeler | ||
| 1948 | William A. Durkin | Richard E. Dougherty | Raymond A. Wheeler | Brehon B. Somervell | ||
| 1947 | Thomas Crimmins | J. Rich Steers | Harry W. Morrison | Ben Moreell | ||
| 1946 | Miles I. Killmer | Howard L. King | Oscar W. Swenson | Edmund A. Prentis | ||
| 1945 | William V. McMenimen | Ben Moreell | Frank T. Crowe | Carl L. Swenson | ||
| 1944 | Arthur A. Johnson | Edmund A. Prentis | Brehon B. Somervell | John S. Macdonald | ||
| 1943 | Frank W. Barnes | Thomas A. Scott | Ben Moreell | Charles B. Spencer | ||
| 1942 | Edmund A. Prentis | Ray N. Spooner | M. J. Madigan | Arthur A. Johnson | ||
| 1941 | John S. Macdonald | Ray N. Spooner | Robert Moses | Irving V. A. Huie |
