About
Honorary Membership is the highest honor that TMS can bestow on a member. It recognizes individuals who have attained acknowledged eminence related to masonry research, design, or construction. Honorary members share many similarities including the belief that TMS is a critical part of the masonry industry as well as their advocacy of masonry as a versatile structural material.
Honorary members of The Masonry Society are shown below, with a short description of their many accomplishments. The year listed in parenthesis indicates when the individual became an honorary member. Honorary Members carry the designation HTMS, Honorary Member of The Masonry Society.
Nomination Procedure & Requirements.
Only a TMS member may nominate an individual for honorary membership. Nominations may be submitted at any time, although nominations are typically considered during the early spring of each year so that the awards can be adequately considered at the Spring Meetings of TMS.
Nominations should be submitted to the Executive Director, who forwards the nomination to the President and the Immediate Past-President. If approved, the nomination is submitted to the Board of Directors who must unanimously approve the nomination.
Recipient Summary
- Daniel P. Abrams (2016)
- James E. Amrhein (1997)
- Stuart R. Beavers (2004)
- Richard M. Bennett (2024)
- David T. Biggs (2008)
- J. Gregg Borchelt (2011)
- Russell H. Brown (2006)
- Walter L Dickey (1995)
- Clayford T. Grimm (1997)
- George C. Hanson (1995)
- Arnold H. Hendry (1999)
- Richard E. Klingner (2018)
- John H. Matthys (2004)
- Clarence B. Monk, Jr. (1995)
- James L. Noland (1995)
- John G. Tawresey (2015)
- Donald A. Wakefield (1997)
- H.W.H. West (1999)
