The Aha! awards
Since 1990, the City of Little Rock has sponsored the aha! awards. These awards were established to recognize outstanding corporate support of Little Rock’s cultural life. There are categories for individuals as well as corporate entities.
These awards are handcrafted in the shape of an exclamation mark, signifying the excitement and element of discovery shared by cultural experiences.
Recipients are selected by a panel of independent judges who looked for an exceptional commitment from the company or individual in showing distinct leadership and that the work contributed to public understanding and awareness of Little Rock’s cultural life.
Previous aha! award Recipients
- First Ceremony
- Ellen M. Gray
- Harvest Foods
- H. Maurice Mitchell
- Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
- Wesson and Associates
- Second Ceremony
- R. McRae "Mac" Geschwind
- Dr. George K. Mitchell
- Worthen Banking Corporation
- Third Ceremony
- Combs and Heathcott
- Jemelene Moore
- Dena R. Reynolds
- Stephens Inc.
- Dr. James H. Young
- Fourth Ceremony
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Arkansas Power & Light Company
- Black Community Developers Inc.
- Lucy L. Cabe
- Cooper Shuffield and Company
- Dr. Calvin R. Ledbetter, Jr.
- Fifth Ceremony
- Arkansas Clinic for Women
- Dr. T. Harrison "Harri" Baker*
- Lorraine Cranford*
- First Commercial Bank
- Jeane Mussman Hamilton
- J.M. Products, Inc.
- Sixth Ceremony
- Arkansas Sports Medicine Clinic
- Virginia Bailey*
- Cliff Fannin Baker
- Baptist Health
Boatmen's National Bank of Arkansas
- Walter E. Hussman, Jr.
- Sidney Moncrief Pontiac Buick GMC
- Seventh Ceremony
- Creative Advantage
- Dr. Floyd Martin
- Jane Rogers
- Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
- Vratsinas Construction Company
- Eighth Ceremony
- Janet Glover Davis
- Junior League of Little Rock, Inc.
- KATV LLC Channel 7
- Mobil Corporation
- Everett "Rett" Tucker, III
- Wesson and Associates
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- Ninth Ceremony
- Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
- R. Renay Dean
- Paul Klipsch*
- L. Cotton Thomas and Company
- Townsend D. Wolfe
- Tenth Ceremony
- American Airlines
- Richard C. Butler, Sr.* (posthumous)
- William E. “Bill” Clark
- Little Rock Dodge
- Metropolitan National Bank
- Ned Perme
- Curtis B. Tate
- Eleventh Ceremony
- Robert Birch
- Curt Bradbury
- Mangan Holcomb Rainwater Culpepper
- Rebsamen Insurance
- Ruth Shepherd
- Twelfth Ceremony
- Avow Technology Solutions
- Phyllis Brandon and High Profile
- Cynthia Brinkley
- Brigita Gardner
- Joseph F. Kolb
- St. Vincent Health System
- Thirteenth Ceremony
- Bank of America
- J. French Hill
- LR Advertising & Promotion Commission and Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Mangan Holcomb Rainwater Culpepper
- Kathryn Donham Rice
- Fourteenth Ceremony
- Little Rock Rotary Club, Number 99
- Ann Nicholson
- Bill Rector
- St. Vincent Health System
- Today’s THV
- Fifteenth Ceremony
- Plans for this ceremony will be announced in Summer 2005
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