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TSHA Honors & Awards - Past Recipients

Award of Honors

Year
Recipient
 
1972
Tina Bangs
 
1972
Jesse Villarreal       
 
1972
Empress Zedler
 
1972
Lear Ashmore
 
1972
Peggy Harrison
 
1972
Lennart Kopra
 
1977
Genevieve Arnadsaold
 
1977
Ima Clevenger
 
1977
Gardner Gately
 
1977
William Ickes
 
1980
Pat Cole
 
1980
Sibyl Gholson
 
1980
Richard Stream
 
1981
Larry Higdon
 
1981
Nancy Rounsefell
 
1982
Paul Roosevelt
 
1983
Donna Fox
 
1984
Joyce Lindsey
 
1984
Martha McGlothlin
 
1984
Cherry Wright
 
1984
Kathryn Stream
 
1985
Anne Mauzy
 
1985
Mary Lovey Wood
 
1986
Gil Hernandez
 
1986
Robbin Parrish
 
1987
Mary Ann Acevedo
 
1988
Donnell Johns
 
1989
Ellen Formby
 
1989
Gil Hanke
 
1989
Joe Helmick
 
1991
Ron Bender
 
1991
Dwayne Carter
 
1991
Betty Clark
 
1992
Benna Askew
 
1993
Malesa Breeding
 
1993
Jayne Larson
 
1993
Carol Venus
 
1994
Sandy Friel-Patti
 
1994
Karen Riley
 
1995
Jane Porter
 
1996
Dee Kirby
 
1996
Betty McDonald
 
1996
Donise Pearson
 
1997
Odette Gonzalez
 
1997
Martha Wristen
 
1997
Carolyn McCall
 
1998
Loretta Lee
 
1998
Sherry Sancibrian
 
1998
Joan Lynch
 
1999
Cynthia Campbell
 
1999
Thomas Fields
 
2000
Lynn Flahive
 
2000
Pat DeLuke
 
2000
Peggy Meeks
 
2001
Judi Keller
 
2001
Debbie Sears
 
2002
Julie Noel
 
2003
Mary Irene Burtis
 
2004
Melanie McDonald
 
2004
April Smith
 
2005
Peggy Kipping
 
2006
Janice Stroud
 
2007
Tiffany Sears Leach
 
2007
Debra Bankston
 
2008
Lynda Barbee
 
2008
Denise Barringer
 
2008
Melissa Sweeney
 
2009
Roya Daryapayma
 
2009
Rebecca (Becky) Gonzalez
 
2009
Jennifer Watson
 
2010
Judy Rudebusch
 
2010
Karen King
 
2011
Cindy Gill
 
2011
Stacy Reaves
 
2012
Keri Gonzalez
 
2012
Jan Lougeay
 
2012
Sue Shirley-Howard
 
2013
Melinda Corwin
 
2014
Amy Marciniak
 
2014
Bobbie Kay Turkett
 
2015
Tori Gustafson
 
2015
Lauren Mathews
 
2015
Margaret McAughan
 
2016
JoAnn Wiechmann
 
2017
Robyn Martin
 
2018
Gina Glover
 
2019
Rebecca Linke
 
2020
Erin Bellue
 
2020
Candace Hicks
 
2021
Margarita Limon-Ordonez
 
2022
Erinn Hengst
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2024
Brittany Hall
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2024
Michelle Mendietta
 

Jack L. Bangs

Year
Recipient
 
1981
Elizabeth Carrow Woolfolk
 
1981
Jesse Villarreal
 
1984
Tina Bangs
 
1984
Donnell Johns
 
1988
Pat Cole
 
1991
Joe Helmick
 
1991
Larry Higdon
 
1994
Ross Roeser
 
1996
Sandy Friel-Patti
 
1997
Robbin Parrish
 
1997
Martha McGlothlin
 
2000
Gil Hanke
 
2001
Cherry Wright
 
2006
Lynn Flahive
 
2006
Sherry Sancibrian
 
2007
Donise Pearson
 
2008
Julie B. Noel
 
2014
Judith P. Keller
 
2015
Jennifer B. Watson
 
2016
Tori Gustafson
 
2020
Judy Rich
 
2021
JoAnn Wiechmann
 

 

Public Service

Year
Recipient
 
1986  
Honorable Oscar H. Mauzy
 
1988
Rep. Mike Milsap
 
1988
Rep. Jack Vowell
 
1991
Rep. Ernestive V. Glossbrenner
 
1994
Rep. Scott Hochberg
 
1994
Rep. David Cain
 
1994
Sen. O.H. (Ike) Harris
 
1994
Margaret Thompson, TEA
 
1995
Mary Knotts Perkins
 
1996
Hugo Berlanga
 
1996
Ciro Rodriguez
 
1997
David McCall
 
2001
Rep. Elliott Naishtat
 
2001
Sen. Mike Moncrief
 
2003
Dorothy Cawthon
 
2003
Skip Williams
 
2004
Rep. Timoteo Garza, Rep. District 80
 
2005
Lee Reeves
 
2006
Roy Bohrer
 
2006
Stephanie McNickle
 
2010
Mark Hanna
 
2011
Karyn Kilory
 
2011
Gloria Key
 
2011
Jenny Katz
 
2011
Bettye Kuehler
 
2011
Kathy Clapsaddle
 
2011
Shirley Sanford
 
2011
Martha Elder
 
2011
Margaret Leifeste
 
2012
C. David Richards
 
2014
Shirley Sanford
 
2016
Mark Hanna
 
2019
David Knight
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2021
Kat Aoyama
 
2023
Brad Briscoe
 

 Hall of Fame

Year
Recipient
 
1995
Tina Bangs
 
1995
Donnell Johns
 
1995
Anne Mauzy
 
1995
Martha Williams
 
1995
Peggy Woods
 
1996
Deborah Card
 
1997
HACD
 
1998
Jon K. Ashby
 
1999
Sandy Friel-Patti
 
1999
Joe Helmick
 
2001
Mary Ann Acevedo
 
2002
Allan Bird
 
2002
Delva Culp
 
2002
Tricia Krauss-Lehrman
 
2002
Robert Thompson
 
2003
Frank Brister
 
2003
Patricia Summers
 
2004
Grace Middleton
 
2007
Jan Lougeay
 
2010
Anthony Salvatore
 
2014
Jennifer H. McGlothlin
 
2015
Love Decker
 
2016
Judi Keller
 
2017
Cherry Wright
 
2018
Martha McGlothlin
 
2018
Marva Mount
 
2019
Donise Pearson
 
2019
Sherry Sancibrian
 
2020
Denise Barringer
 
2021
Ann Higdon
 
2022
Lawrence "Larry" W. Higdon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2023
Melinda Corwin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2024
Lynn Flahive
 

Special Commendation Award

Year
Recipient
 
1998
Lawrence Higdon
 
2000
Banks Miller
 
2002
Peggy Kipping
 
2005
Cherry Wright
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2023
Dalan Gore
 
 

Executive Council Member of the Year

Year
Recipient
 
2024
Carmen McElfresh
 
 
 
 

Rolland J. Van Hattum Award (TSHA Nominee)







Year
Recipient
 
1995
Judy Achilles
 
1996
Bart Campbell
 
1997
Roxie Kleinworth Krahmer
 
2001
Judy Erwin
 
2001
Karen King
 
2002
Judy Janak
 
2004
Sue Johnsen
 
2005
Mary Johns
 
2007
Judy Rudebusch Rich
 
2008
Cherry Wright
 

Frank R. Kleffner Clinical Career Award (TSHA Nominee)

Year
Recipient
 
1986
Tina Bangs
 
2001
Elisabeth Wiig
 
2002
Donnell Johns
 
2004
Jon Ashby
 

Louis M. DiCarlo Award (TSHA Nominee)

Year
Recipient
 
1986
Donna Fox
 
1988
Sandi Friel-Patti
 

 

Legislators of the Year Award

Year
Recipient
 
2010
Wayne Christian
 
2010
Scott Hochberg
 
2012
Glenn Hegar
 
2014
Rep. Alma A. Allen
 
2014
Rep. Todd Hunter
 

 

Note: Texas Communicologist, Fall 1972, page 28 listed the following TSHA Awards of Honor :

  • Charter Member - Nina Kate Lewis
  • Civic and/or Private Clinics - Josephine Simonson
  • Director of Public School District Program - Margaret Crabtree
  • Public School Language-Speech-Hearing-Specialist - Gaby Scharlack
  • Regional Speech-Hearing Association - Dwayne Carter
  • Training Institutions - Empress Zedler