Past Recipients

2022

  • Nichole Biber, PhD, Little Traverse Bay Bands (LTBB) Odawa, Anishinaabekwe
  • Gary Buckberry
  • Kathleen Boyle

2021

  • The Peanut Barrel
  • Maureen McCabe-Power
  • Andrew Bernard Wells
  • Diana Tarpoff

2020

  • Ginger Ogilvie
  • Meegan Holland
  • Ralph Monsma
  • Konrad Hittner

2019

  • Luke Hackney
  • Patricia Robinson
  • Will Kopachik

2018

  • Jeffrey Kusler
  • Karen & Jerry Jennings
  • East Lansing Info
  • Chris Root

2017

  • Gary Beaudoin
  • Michael Moquin
  • Mike Wylie
  • Abbott Nursery School & Mary Howard

2016

  • Mike Vasievich
  • James Little
  • All Saints' Episcopal Church
  • East Lansing Food Co-op

2015

  • John Duley
  • Joan Fairey
  • Yvette Robinson
  • Rotary Club of East Lansing

2014

  • Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., Chi Epsilon Omega Chapter
  • George Brookover
  • Pat Enos, Ph.D
  • Jackson National Life

2013

  • Hometown Housing Partnership
  • Jim Cunningham
  • Michigan Flyer
  • Tom Petroni

2012

  • Dr. Dale Bartlett
  • Eric 'RicStar' Winter Music Therapy Camp
  • Marsha Bristor
  • Summer Circle Theatre

2011

  • Community Relations Coalition
  • Robert Uecker
  • Silver & Beyond
  • Susan Woods

2010

  • Art Korroch
  • Carol and Tom Luster
  • Creative Wellness
  • East Lansing Meridian Lions Club

2009

  • Eric Sudol
  • Chris Korest
  • Lisa Fletcher
  • Rod Ritchison

2008

  • Ann Nichols
  • Father Mark Inglot
  • Frank Leahey
  • MSU Federal Credit Union

2007

  • Sally Potter
  • Susan Schmidt
  • Ray Walsh

2006

  • Al and Beth Cafagna
  • Barbara McMillan
  • Howard Ballein

2005

  • Dr. Louis Hekhuis
  • Kevin Epling
  • Liz Schweitzer

2004

  • East Lansing Soccer Club
  • Jack Thompson
  • Volunteers of the East Lansing Seniors' Program

2003

  • Elizabeth “Beth” Schwarze
  • The Friends of the East Lansing Public Library
  • The Listening Ear Crisis Intervention Center

2002

  • Janet Mahoney
  • Jeremy L. “Jerry” Mattson
  • Sue Granger & Gerald Osborn
  • The Lansing Area Folksong Society

2001

  • Lola O’ Meara
  • Rollie Ledebuhr
  • The Student Body of MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine

2000

  • Betsy Stover
  • Bob Metzger
  • Luis Alonzo Garcia
  • MSU Circle K

1999

  • East Lansing Art Festival Board of Directors
  • Louise Sause
  • Shirley Minarchan

1998

  • Delores (Bea) Mott
  • Greg Brogan
  • Nancy Dunn

1997

  • Babette Krause
  • Community Volunteers for International Programs
  • Theda Assiff-MacGriff

1996

  • Bill Burgess
  • Edmund Outslay
  • Ronald Sprinkel

1995

  • Beverly Baten
  • Jim Ludwig
  • Kresge Art Museum Docents

1994

  • East Side Soccer Club
  • Lauren Ciesa
  • Nathaniel Lake, Jr.

1993

  • Jacobson’s East Lansing Store
  • Josephine Jeffries Ferguson Wharton
  • Patricia Brogan

1992

  • Lillian Kumata
  • The Pinecrest Parent Council
  • Verna Hodge

1991

  • Charles Seim, Jr.
  • Robert Wilcox
  • John “Jack” Patriarche
  • Norris C. “Sandy” Bryson

1990

  • Dr. C. Kurt Dewhurst and Dr. Marsha MacDowell
  • East Lansing’s Saturday Morning Math
  • Kiwanis Club of East Lansing
  • William Sharp

1989

  • Alan Suits and William Trevarthen
  • Albert A. White
  • Dr. Wilbur Brookover
  • Marianne Wiedemer

1988

  • Active Living for Adults (ALFA)
  • Jocundry Books 
  • Dianne Schwartz
  • Roy Saper