The Dyer Memorial Award, "Sugar Man of the Year" was established 1958 in memory of the company's founder, B. Wheeler Dyer by his two sons, Daniel and Ben. Each year a panel of three distinguished judges selects a person who has made meritorious contribution to the U.S. sugar industry to receive this widely acclaimed honor. The presentation is made each year at a function in May sponsored by DYER and attended by invited guests who represent a cross-section of outstanding industry leaders.

Dyer Memorial Awards Winners
"Sugar Man of the Year"

1958
Ernest W. Greene
  		1968
Neil Kelly
  		1978
William P. Cleaver
  		1988
John B. Bunker
  		1998
I. H. "Denny" Kempner, III
 
1959
Frank A. Kemp
  		1969
Benjamin A. Oxnard, Sr.
  		1979
Gilles E. Sarault
  		1989
Horace D. Godfrey
  		1999
Allan M. Lipman, Jr.
 
1960
George P. Meade
  		1970
Frank C. Staples
  		1980
Sir Ernest Jones-Parry
  		1990
Eiler C. Ravnholt
  		2000
Jack F. Lay
 
1961
Daniel Gutleben
  		1971
Harry T. Vaughn, Sr.
  		1981
Guy D. Manuel
  		1991
William C. Shanley, III
  		2001
Van R. Olsen
 
1962
Ody H. Lamborn
  		1972
Lawton M. Calhoun
  		1982
RichardW. Blake
  		1992
P.J. "Pete" deGravelles
  		2002
Jack P. Nelson
 
1963
Daniel D. Wadsworth
  		1973
John C. Bagwell
  		1983
John B. Boy
  		1993
Robert C. Hanna
  		2003
Jackie J. Theriot
 
1964
John W. Lowe
  		1974
Earle T. MacHardy
  		1984
William W. Sprague, Jr.
  		1994
Ernest Flegenheimer
  		2004
Benjamin A. Oxnard, Jr.
 
1965
Marvin Jones
  		1975
Irvin A. Hoff
  		1985
Richard A. McGinns
James H. Fischer 		1995
Nicholas A. Kominus
  		2005
George Wedgworth
 
1966
William H. Louviere
  		1976
James A. Marshall
  		1986
F.A. Graugnard, Jr.
  		1996
Sir Neil Shaw
  		2006
Chuck Hufford
 
1967
Robert H. Shields
  		1977
Aldrich C. Bloomquist
  		1987
Margaret A. Clarke
  		1997
Charles D. Shamel