SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARDS
Nominees for this award should be individuals or groups that have significantly contributed to the Bartow community and their individual accomplishments/contributions made a positive impact on the area’s quality of life.
2020 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD: 
Lucia Gillett, Community Volunteer
2018 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD: 
Elmer Dixon, Community Volunteer
Herbert Dixon, Scholarship Fund Raiser, Golfer
PHOTO BY JEFF ROSLOW
Michell and Steve Githens won the Spirit of Bartow Award at the Champions Cup ceremony Thursday at the Bartow Civic Center.
Michell & Steve Githens, Community Service
2017 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Bartow City Commission
Bartow’s Hurricane Irma Volunteers, Represented by Fred and Cindy Rhoden
City of Bartow Employees: Management, Supervisory, Line Staff
2016 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Karen Guffey, Jennifer Hall
2015 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Bartow Rotary Club, Ortelle Bowden, Sharon Casey, Harvey Lester, Charles Luster, Sean Serdynski
2014 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Lloyd Harris, Dr. Thomas McMicken, Gail Murray, Carver Young
2013 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
America Legion Post No. 3, Summerlin125 Grand Reunion Committee, Sandy Dobbertean, John Hutto, Pam Renew
2012 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Joyce Bentley, Chief Joe Hall, Shannon Medley, Frank Rouse, Gerald Tucker
20111 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Bonnie Allen, John Frost, Larry Madrid, Freda Ridgway
2010 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Mary Ann Harrell, Gloria Washington, Main Street Bartow, Inc., Anita Stasiak
2009 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Peggy Kehoe, Wayne Lewis, Father Wally Reynolds, Dixie Shivler, Gail Smith, Ken and, Levonia Wynn
2008 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
J.J. Corbett, Linda Culpepper, S.L. & Mary Frisbie, Wayne Harrison, Mary Ellen Stidham, Don & Holly Wilson
2007 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Chris Banks, Jim Duane, Brian Hinton, Neighborhood Improvement Corporation, Inc., Bill and Carolyn Simpson
2006 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Jennifer Daniels, George W. Harris, Jr., Magic on Main Committee, Trish Pfeiffer, Relay for Life Committee, Larry Tucker, Myrtice Young
2005 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Ernie Cooper, C.C. Corbett, Joe DeLegge, Bill Mills
2004 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Pam Mitchell, Tina Spath, Ruth Trainor, Harry Williams
2003 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Karen Boswell, Debbie Burdett, Ernest Smith, Geraldine Watson
2002 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Lisa Frisbie Cullins, Wally Edwards, Dave Hallock, Mary Ann Frisbie Holland, Leo Longworth, Christmas Tree Lane Residents, Mattie Mae Townsend
1998 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Tim Murphy, William Pickard
1996 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Ila Urshan, Reba Zoellner
1995 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Jeff Clark, Clyde Allen Gibson, Daniel L. Helmick, John Norman
1994 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
John DeYoung
1992 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Glenda Burr
1991 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Richard Clark, Boyce Garmon, Frank Johnson, Tom Thornburg
1990 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Pete & Jewell Denham, Lucille F. DuCharme, Patty Thackery, Leland Young
1989 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Pedro Almazan, Sam Griner, Rick Wilson
1988 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Andy Anderson
1987 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Justice Stephen H. Grimes, Jack M. Long, William J. Ruster, Madelyn L. Whidden
1986 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Mary Longworth
1985 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Beverly Burnsed
1984 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Bartow Key Club, Mayme Clark, Marshall Edwards, Roy Gallemore, William D. Helmuth, Lionel Hernandez,Jr., Paul Hogan
1983 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Jim O’Connor
1982 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Charles Friedlander, Richard Merrill, Kenneth Jerome Riley, Tony Sparks
1981 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Steve Earley, George Pittas
1980 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Will Irwin
1979 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Joe Beynon, Bill Orr, Garrett Swindal
1978 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Sam Marshall
1977 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Joanne & Gerald Houvener
1976 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Capt. Donald G.Carter, Barbara Newell, Gertrude Kuhn
1975 SPIRIT OF BARTOW AWARD:
Mary Brown
