11.   The award is named for the producer and director George Abbott.

12.   The award is named for a former member of the association and the council.

13.   The award is named for the late Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, who is credited with developing the concept of nanotechnology.

14.   Until his death, Edward Devitt, a retired judge for whom the award was named, acted as chairman of the awards committee.

15.   One possibility was the tour naming an award after him.

16.   The award is named for former Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny.

17.   The award is named for Marian Anderson, the late opera singer and Philadelphia native who was the first black performer to entertain at the White House.

18.   The award is named for Spingarn, an American literary critic who was one of the first white leaders of the NAACP.

19.   The award is named for the postwar American military governor who ordered the Berlin airlift.

20.   The award was named for the LPGA player who died of breast cancer.