The Distinguished Service Award
is a prestigious honor bestowed by the Association on one of our members. It is awarded based upon extensive and meritorious service to the Association and our profession.
Award Recipients
2022 Recipient | Dr. Victor Ramsey
2020 Recipient | Margaret Robelee
2019 Recipient | Cathy Houston-Wilson
Previous Award Recipients
2018 Dr. Alisa James
2017 Jason Quitoni
2016 Lisa Sherman
2015 Cathy Haight
2014 Dr. Mara Manson
2012 Ed Woolston
2011 Tom Howard
2010 Paula Summit
2009 Sara Daggett
2006 Dr. Sarah Doolittle
Robert "Bob" Goldberg
Rick Amundson
2004 Dr. Leah Holland Fiorentino
2001 Robert Kenney
1999 Sandra Morley
1998 Tony Viollis
1997 Judy Ingram
Lloyd Mott
1996 Ellen Kowalski
Ted Kantorowski
1995 Ken Demas
Janet Marcus
Anthony Pira
1994 Sam Utter
Tom Fay
1993 Doris Harrington
Aggie Stillman
1992 Shirley Bowen
Michael Marcus
1991 Jack Baker
Richard Vercruysse
Diana D' Avino
1990 Jean Kraemer
Judi Knight
1989 Jack Ault
Robert Barczak
Connie McIntyre
1988 Phyllis Bigel
Arthur Grant
Arlene Seguine
1987 Norma Dayton
Ronald Feingold
1985 Ron Hoffman
Roy O'Neill
1984 Marie Corrado
Jack Rentz
Max Lederer
Sandra Suits
1983 Luke LaPorta
1982 Robert Wurtenberg
Sally Lawler
1981 Marcia Carlson
Frank Egan
Ellen Hawver
Virginia Kendall
1980 Barbara DiPalma
Craig Hitchcock
Harold Lovins
1979 Charles Lewis
Anthony Noto
Doris Soladay
1978 Robert Bub
Marcus Martone
1977 John Foley
Richard A. Ahkao
Angela Whisher
1976 John Piscopo
Elizabeth Schweitzer
James Runyan
Roger T. Bunce
1975 Edith J. Cobane
Doris B. McMahon
John Sich
1974 H. Jean Berger
Myrtle Merritt
William Rosenthal
Robert Weber
1973 Robert H. Young
Sidney Birnback
1972 Anna O. Allen
Kurt Beyer
Lawrence Grimes
1971 David S. Rothenberg
William J. McClogan
1970 J. Kenneth Hafner
William H. Rodiek
Nicholas A. Zona
1969 Emilio DaBramo
Kenneth R. Parker
1968 Thelma Douglas
Martin Rogers
1967 Elizabeth M. Desch
Katherine H. Fuehrer
NYS Teachers' Association
1965 Ann D. Mackey
Joseph A. Guerrera
Peter Cataldi
1964 Raymond S. Bradley
Don Begenau
Evelyn M. Rose
Arthur W. Selverstone
Marion N. Stowell
Francis R. Stuart
1963 Margaret M. Babich
Alice L. Backus
Pearl E. Britton
W. Edwin Long
1962 Ross L. Allen
Paul Fairfield
Ray Gunz
1961 Mary Fitzgerald
Ernest Tuttle
George Grover
1960 Clyde Cole
Josephine Hammington
Grace LeConte
Elmer Smith
1959 Mary Bowen
Richard Hayes
Julia Pratt
Harry C. Thompson
1958 Bernard E. Hughes
Beatrice Hunt
1957 Dorothea Deitz
Channing Mann
William A. Stebbins
1956 Harold Herkimer
John Shaw
Arthur L. Smith
Dorothy Zirbes
1955 Jay B. Nash
Frank J. O'Brien
Jeanteet B. Saurborn
1954 Lloyd O. Appleton
Ethel T. Kloberg
Caswell M. Miles
Carroll H. Smith
1953 Frank S. Lloyd
John L. Miller
Marie R. Schuler
State Committee on Tuberculosis/Public Health
State Charities Association
1952 Eugene Hofmeister
Julius Kubnert
Mary B. Rappaport
1951 Mary Washington Ball
Clifford Brownell
May Fagan
Albert Gay
1950 Arthur L. Howe
Ellis Champlin
Catherine Huntsman
Francis J. Moench
Lillian DeArmit
1949 Florence O'Neill
1948 Emory A. Bauer
Sally Luca Jean
Tom Keane
Pauline Williamson
1947Herman Norton
Katherine Sibley
1946 John Burke, MD
Marguerite Husey
Hiram A. Jones
Paul Krimmel
Amy R. Howland
Charles Kilbourne
1945 Carl Burkhardt
Helen McKinstry
Agnes Wayman
Jessie F. William
1943 A.K. Aldinger
Harold Buston
W.J. Vadison
Bessie L. Park