Honorary Life Membership Award Recipients


The Honorary Life Membership Award is presented to a person who has been active with the Washington State Public Health Association for a number of years. The Association can depend upon this person to give of his or her talents to promoting public health throughout Washington State.

 

Prior to
1950
Stewart Murray, MD, Health Commissioner (ret.), Vancouver, BC
A. U. Simpson, MD, Epidemiologist, Washington State Department of Health
G. F. Amyot, MD, Deputy Minister of Health, British Columbia
Bethesda Buchanan, Executive Secretary (ret.), Washington State Tuberculosis Association
1950 Elizabeth S. Soule, RN, Dean, School of Nursing, University of Washington
1953 Anna R. Moore, RN, Director, Nursing Division, Washington State Department of Health
1954 Dorothy Tate Slaughter, RN, Public Health Nurse Consultant, Provincial Health Dept., Vancouver, B.C.
1955 Paul L. West, MD, Health Officer, Chelan-Douglas Health District
1956 Elsie Morck, Washington State Department of Health (ret.)
1960 R. Margaret Allen, RN, Nursing Consultant (ret.), Washington State Department of Health
Maude Fos, Bacteriologist (ret.), Washington State Department of Health
Alex E. (Sandy) Young, VD Investigator (ret.), Washington State Department of Health
1961 Honaria Hughes, Executive Secretary (ret.), King County Anti-Tuberculosis League
Julia F. Delk, RN, Klickitat County Health Department
1962 J. L. Jones, MD, Washington State Department of Health (ret.)
Aimee Ryan, RN, Public Health Nurse, Seattle-King County Health Department
1963 Joseph Gorman, RS, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
Mae Grigsby
, Grays Harbor Health District
Clara Nicholson
, RN
1964 Rachel Dirks, Bacteriologist, Clark County Health District
Monica Dwyer
, Bacteriologist, Seattle-King County Health Department
Lillian O’Callaghan
, RN, Nursing Consultant, Washington State Department of Health
Arthur C. Robinson
, RS, Advisory Sanitarian
1965 Carol Benner
Pearl Fink
John Drake
1966 Clarice Pittman
Tom Drummey
1967 Ruth Dean
1968 Vivian K. Harlin, MD, MSPM
1969 None selected
1970 None selected
1971 None selected
1972 Emil Jensen
Lee Minto
1973 John Church
Mary Ella Adams
1974 (unknown)
1975 Senator Warren G. Magnuson
1976 None selected
1977 J. Harvey Losh, DMD
Evelyn Lane
1978 Virgil Ward
1979 None selected
1980 The Honorable Paul Pruitt, Representative, Washington State Legislature
1981-92 None selected
1993 Connie Lee Mix
1994-95 None selected
1996 John A. Beare, MD, MPH
Bobbie Berkowitz
, PhD, RN
1997-00 None selected
2001 Jan Dahl, MA, BSN
2002 Karen Valenzuela, MA, MPA, Washington State Department of Health
2003 Ron Snyder, MSW, Whatcom County Health Department (retired 2003)
2004 None selected
2005 None selected

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