Person of the Year

In 2009, NASPA took over from the NSA the role of honoring a member of the North American SCRABBLE® community with the title of Michael R. Wise Memorial Person of the Year (formerly Director of the Year).

The following table shows for each year the newsletter issue number in which the award was announced, the awardee and their home state or province.

Year	Issue	Person of the Year	Home
2009	n/a	John D. Williams, Jr. and Jane Ratsey Williams	New York
2008	225	Seth Lipkin	Massachusetts
		Keith Smith	Texas
2007	218	Chris Cree	Texas
2006	210	John Chew	Ontario
2005	202	Sherrie Saint John	Massachusetts
2004	193	Matthew Hopkins	Pennsylvania
2003	187	Larry Rand and Barbara Van Alen	Arizona
2002	177	Carol Ravichandran	Michigan
2001	170	RA Fontes and Ruth Hamilton	Oregon
2000	163	Mary Rhoades	Texas
1999	155	Margaret Bauer Williams	New Jersey
1998	148	Mady Garner	Tennessee
		Bernard Gotlieb	Québec
1997	137	Gwen Bishop	California
1996	129	Siri Tillekeratne	Alberta
1995	121	Bonnie Rudolph	Arizona
1994	113	Johnny Nevarez	California
1993	105	Michael Wise	Ontario
1992	97	Ron Tiekert	New York
1991	91	George Heussenstamm	California
1990	84B	K.C. Kozlowski Hoffmeister	Florida
1989	81	Stan Rubinsky	California