Honorary Life Membership Award Recipients
1950 - 2009

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
2006	M. Ward Hinds, MD, MPH (retired 2006)
2007	None selected
2008	John Wiesman, MPH, Clark County Public Health
2009	Elaine Engle, BS, MST, Spokane Regional Health District, and Rick Porso, BS,RS, Tacoma Pierce County Public Health Department