sentences:  The award is named for Calvert L. Willey (1920-1994) who served as Executive Secretary and later Executive Director from 1961 until his retirement in 1987.Willey was given a distinguished service award by IFT at the 1987 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.This distinguished service award would be named in his honor and presented for the first time as an annual award at the 1989 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.