Past Honorees The following is a list of Encore Award Honorees, from 1991-2005 (listed by most recent first).

A&BC/RI Encore Award
John Palumbo, Rhode Island Monthly
John C. Warren, The Washington Trust Company
Merrill W. Sherman, President & CEO of Bancorp Rhode Island
Larry Fish, Citizens Bank
Catherine Rein, Joseph Madden, MetLife Auto & Home
John Hazen, White & Happy White, Taco, Inc.
Donna Cupelo, President & CEO of Bell Atlantic
Richard M. Oster, Cookson Group plc
James F. Hardymon, Textron Inc.
James G. Babb, WJAR Channel 10
Fred C. Lohrum, Hospital Trust National Bank
Heidi and Chester Kirk, Amtrol Inc.
Terrence Murray, Fleet Financial Group
Stephen Hamblett, The Providence Journal Company
Francis, Henry, Joseph, Louis and Nicholas Fazzano

Small Business Award
John Chan, Chan's of Woonsocket
Cornish Associates
Robert L. Newbert, CEO Duffy & Shanley, Inc.
Barry Couto, Barrington Printing

The Jabez Gorham Award
Gamm Theatre
Providence Black Repertory Company
Island Moving Company
Festival Ballet Providence
Providence CityArts for Youth!
All Childrens Theatre Ensemble
Courthouse Center for the Arts
Looking Glass Theatre
Providence Children’s Museum
Rites & Reason Theatre
Groundwerx Dance Theatre
Providence Preservation Society
Perishable Theatre
The Chorus of Westerly
The Music School
Rhode Island School of Design
First Night Providence
Providence Performing Arts Center
AS220
The Rhode Island Philharmonic
The Langston Hughes Center for the Arts
Everett Dance Theatre
Newport Art Museum
Trinity Repertory Company

The A&BC/RI Individual Achievement Award
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley
George Kent
Deb Meunier
Kara Walker
Rose Weaver
Michael Harper
Ruth Dealy
David Macaulay
Eugene Lee
Maria Spacagna
Dr. Mark P. Malkovich, III
Len Cabral
Chris Van Allsburg
George Bass, posthumously
Dave McKenna

The A&BC/RI Humanitarian Award
Aaron H. Roitman, posthumously
Very Special Arts Rhode Island and the Circle of Clay Project at Hasbro Children’s Hospital
United States Senator Claiborne Pell

The A&BC/RI Business Leadership Award
Herbert W. Cummings

The A&BC/RI Arts Advocate Award
Dominique Alfandre
Mayor James Doyle of Pawtucket
Dr. Joseph A. Chazan
Bob and Jill Jaffe
Malcolm & Elizabeth Chace
Diana L. Johnson
RI Music Educators Association
Bob Rizzo
Paula Martiesian

The A&BC/RI Special Recognition Award
Erminio Pinque
Maxwell Mays
Deming E. Sherman
Virginia Lynch
Janice Kissinger
Barnaby Evans
Eugene A. Peloquin
Richard Jenkins
Vincent A. Cianci, Jr.
Franklin Robinson
Iona B. Dobbins

The Business Volunteer of the Year Award
John Ayers
James Mahoney
Anita H. Berger
Azim Mazagonwalla
Priscilla Angelo
Donald F. Keinz
David M. Spatt
L. Phillip Schlernitzauer
Frank Dempsey
Nita Shah
Barry Bainton