The Lord and Lady Fairfax Awards Program yearly honors two volunteer leaders from each Magisterial District. The honorees are selected for their outstanding volunteer service in their home districts or for an act of heroism. This year's Lord and Lady are introduced below, and at the bottom of this page is a list of all the honorees from Mount Vernon.
Bill and Jan Vaughan Lord & Lady Fairfax 2018
For over two decades, Bill and Jan Vaughan have had the spectacular Christmas light display at 1601 Collingwood Road in the Fort Hunt neighborhood. This past holiday season, the Vaughan family won first prize on ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight.” The light display is perfectly synchronized to festive holiday music and takes over 300 hours per year to set up. The Vaughan’s home is across the street from a nursing home, bringing holiday joy to the elderly, as well as the many families that come from near and far to enjoy the award winning display. Bill worked for Potomac Construction and Renovation. Jan works for VDOT as a Program Manager. They both attended Fort Hunt High School. What started out for the Vaughan family as a holiday hobby, has turned out to be a nationally recognized holiday tradition.
Former Mount Vernon District
Lords and Ladies Fairfax
Year |
Lord Fairfax |
Lady Fairfax |
| 2018 | Barney Barnwell | Cathy Ledec |
| 2017 | Dale Rumberger | Mattie Palmore |
| 2016 | Larry Clark | Marcia Hanson |
| 2015 | Martin Tillet | Elisabeth Lardner |
| 2014 | COL Gregory Gadson | Mary Porter |
| 2013 | Jeff Todd | Becky Todd |
| 2012 | Jim Rees | Diana York |
| 2011 | Dale Johnson | Barbara Sullivan |
| 2010 | Linwood Gorham | Glenda Booth |
| 2009 | Gil McCutcheon | Christine Morin |
| 2008 | Frank Cohn | Susan Fremit |
| 2007 | Marvin Miller | Elizabeth I. Promen |
| 2006 | Mack Rhoades | Susan Aheron Magill |
| 2005 | Tim Sargeant | Louise Cleveland |
| 2004 | Joe Chudzik | Harriet Piper |
| 2003 | Neal F. McBride | Diane Donley |
| 2002 | Charlie Creighton | Beryl A. Harman |
| 2001 | John F. "Jack" Knowles | Irma A. Clifton |
| 2000 | Sy Berdux | Mary Jo Tandy |
| 1999 | Earl Flanagan | Queenie Cox |
| 1998 | Phil Downs | Betty McManus |
| 1997 | John Byers | Joyce D. Andrews |
| 1996 | Warren Cikins | Henley Gibble |
| 1995 | Eugene L. Krizek | Adeline R. Krizek |
| 1994 | Thomas W. Chadwick | Louise L. Meade |
| 1993 | Henry B. Norton, Jr. | Christa H. Hellberg-Cook |
| 1992 | Raymond W. Philipps | Gertrude L. Wright |
| 1991 | Colonel David Bolte | Ruth R. Freaney |
| 1990 | Arthur W. Friedberg | Anne A. Andrews |
| 1989 | Colonel Robert Hardiman | Virginia A. Weber |
| 1988 | Albert J. Perry | Emily Myatt |
| 1987 | Joseph T. Adinaro | A. Virginia Dupart |
| 1986 | Curtis Shufflebarger, Jr. | Virginia Shufflebarger |
| 1985 | Brigadier General Lyon | Helen Lyon |
| 1984 | Joseph Flakne | Eleanor Kennedy |
