SUNY ESF
Feinstone Environmental Award Past Winners
2020
No awards given
2019 Recipients
Honoring ESF & Syracuse Community Leaders: Neil and Joanne Murphy, and Joe Martens
2018 Recipients
Building a Vibrant Community: George W. Curry and William H. McAvoy
2017 Recipients
Community Stewards: Virginia C. Robbins, J. Andrew Breuer
2016 Recipients
Women in Science: Janine Benyus, Nancy Barbour, Anahita Williamson, Robin Kimmerer
2015 Recipient
The American Chestnut: Herbert F. Darling, Jr.
2014 Recipient
Capturing Our Living Environment: Larry Master
2013 Recipient
Recognizing the Importance of STEM Education: Larry Leatherman
2012 Recipients
Stewards of the New Frontier: Doreen and Jody Garrett
2011 Green Tie Dinner
Honoring the Edna Bailey Sussman Fund as part of the ESF Centennial Celebration
2010 Recipients
Celebrating Native Visions for a Sustainable Futures: Lew and Dawn Allyn.
2009 Recipients
Recognizing the Role of Innovative Transportation in Sustainable Communities: E. Scott
Kasprowicz and Matthew J. Driscoll.
2008 Recipients
Environmental Entrepreneurship: Jesse M. Fink and Elizabeth C. “Betsy” Mitchell-Fink,
and John P. Holdren.
2007 Recipients
Honoring Journalists: John Upton, Tracy Press, Tracy, Calif.; Jeff Kart, Bay City
Times, Bay City, Michigan;Honorary Feinstone Environmental award:Andrew C. Revkin.
2006 Recipients
Honoring Science Teachers: Carmen Glenn de Luna, teacher, City School District of
New Rochelle, N.Y.; Robert C. Hughes II, teacher, Wayland-Cohocton Central School
District, NY; Honorary Feinstone Environmental award: Ross S. Whaley, former ESF President
and presently Chairman of the Adirondack Park Agency
2005 Recipients
Honoring Leaders in Sustainability: Peggy Shepard, executive director of the West
Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.; Linda Dickerson Hartsock, executive director of
the Cortland County Business Development Corporation; Honorary Feinstone Environmental
award: Governor George E. Pataki
2004 Recipients
Honoring Conservation Education Centers: Primary Award Recipients: Aullwood Audubon
Center, Reedy Creek Nature Center; Secondary Award Recipients: Prospect Park Audubon
Center, Wehr Nature Center; Honorary Recipient: City of Syracuse, New York
2003 Recipients
Honoring Environmentally Conscientious Business: Primary Award Recipient: Bristol-Myers
Squibb Company; Honorary Feinstone Award Recipient: James T. Walsh—U.S. Congress Representing
the 25th District of New York
2002 Recipients
Honoring Middle and High School Science Teachers: Scott A. Jordan—Science Teacher
Cuba-Rushford Middle School Cuba, New York, Nancy E. Driscoll—Science Teacher Thomas
C. Armstrong Middle School Ontario Center, New York, Cathy J. Ellis—Education Specialist,
Adirondack Wilderness Challenge Schuyler Falls, New York, Allison C. Godshall—Integrated
Science and Biology Teacher School of the Future New York, New York, Michael J. Mallon—Environmental
Science Teacher, James I. O'Neill High School Highland Falls, New York; Honorary Feinstone
Award Recipient: The Honorable Carl L. Marcellino—New York State Senate Representing
the 5th District
2001-1998
No awards given
1997 Recipients
Harry “Skip” Edwards, Crawford, Colorado; Samuel F. Pryor III, Boston, Massachusetts
1996 Recipients
Anne Anderson, Woburn, Massachusetts; Elizabeth Titus Putnam, Shaftsbury, Vermont
1995 Recipients
Dan Chapin, Sacramento, California; Polly Dyer, Seattle, Washington; Duncan McFetridge,
San Diego, California; Margaret (Peg) Tileston, Anchorage, Alaska
1994 Recipients
Marie Aull, Dayton, Ohio; Dr. Frederick L Brown, Midland, Michigan; Emily H. Earley,
Madison, Wisconsin; Dr. John H. Kaufmann, Gainesville, Florida; Joseph H. Williams,
Tulsa, Oklahoma
1993 Recipients
Robbins Barstow, Wethersfield, Connecticut; Joe Feller, Phoenix, Arizona; Gilbert
and Josephine Fernandez, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts; Kathleen Goddard Jones, Arroyo
Grande, California; Ross D. Murphy, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1992 Recipients
Charles and Nina Bradley (joint), Leopold Reserve, Wisconsin; Vivian Menaker, Haines,
Alaska; Peter J. Russo, Lyndhurst, New Jersey; Dale Shields, Sarasota, Florida; Richard
S. Weinstein, Palm Beach, Florida
1991 Recipients
Eddie C. Bridges, Greensboro, North Carolina; David L. Harrison, Boulder, Colorado;
R. Michael Leonard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Charles Russell, Arvada, Colorado;
Clinton B. Townsend, Canaan, Maine
1990 Recipients
Ruth B. Alexander, Rowley, Massachusetts; Lynn Crosby Gammill, Hattiesburg, Mississippi;
Sherry F. Huber, Falmouth, Maine; Hugh H. Iltis, Madison, Wisconsin; Dennis Puleston,
Brookhaven, New York
1989 Recipients
George Griffith, Grayling, Michigan and Arthur Neumann, Saginaw, Michigan (joint);
Keith Lewis, Block Island, Rhode Island; Clifford Messinger, Mukwonago, Wisconsin;
Judie Neilson, Portland, Oregon; John Randolph, Leeds, Alabama
1988 Recipients
Robert R. Buckmaster, Waterloo, Iowa; Richard P. Buegler, Staten Island, New York;
Celia M. Hunter, Fairbanks, Alaska; David L. Newhouse, Schenectady, New York; Frances
Stevens Reese, Hughsonville, New York; HONORARY RECIPIENT: Horace M. Albright
1987 Recipients
George and Olga Berg (joint), Rochester, New York; Joseph and Ilia Fehrer (joint),
Snow Hill, Maryland; Thom Henley, Victoria, British Columbia; Kenneth Morrison, Babson
Park, Florida; Liane B. and William L. Russell (joint), Oak Ridge, Tennessee
1986 Recipients
Ray L. Boice, Gering, Nebraska; Arthur P. Cooley, East Patchogue, New York; Ernest
M. Dickerman, Swoope, Virginia; Lloyd C. Hulbert, Manhattan, Kansas; Lenore N. McCullagh,
Orange Park, Florida; HONORARY RECIPIENT: Russell E. Train
1985 Recipients
Dorothy Ellis, Thayer, Missouri; Ralph Grossi, Novato, California; Ellen O'Flaherty
Pratt, Staten Island, New York; Lois Webster, Aurora, Colorado; Wayne T. Williams,
Sonoma, California
1984 Recipients
Jean Case, Sharon, Connecticut; Walter F. Coxe, Birmingham, Alabama; Jane Remmarck
Gulley, Little Rock, Arkansas; Charles C. Haffner Ill, Chicago, Illinois; June Janis,
Williamsburg, Michigan
1983 Recipients
Markham A. Dickson, Jr., Shreveport, Louisiana; Myrt Jones, Mobile, Alabama; A. Timon
Primm Ill, St. Louis, Missouri; Edward T. Richardson, Jr., South Portland, Maine;
Iva May Warner, Santa Rosa, California
1982 Recipients
Ezra James Briggs, Caribou, Maine; Arthur W. Cooper, Raleigh, North Carolina; Elsie
Quarterman, Nashville, Tennessee; Richard J. Sherry, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Robert A. Witzeman,
Phoenix, Arizona
1981 Recipients
Joseph Fernicola, Brooklyn, New York; Esther Gulick, Kay Kerr, Sylvia McLaughlin (joint),
San Francisco, California; Andy Lipkis, Los Angeles, California; Glenn Thompson, Dayton,
Ohio; Hubert Vogelmann, Burlington, Vermont
1980 Recipients
J. Anthony Angell, Seattle, Washington; Theodore M. and Ann 0. Edison (joint), West
Orange, New Jersey; Arthur Glowka, Stamford, Connecticut; Barbara Horton, Pasadena,
California; Verna F. McNamara, Jekyll Island, Georgia
1979 Recipients
Miron L. Heinselman, St. Paul, Minnesota; Philip M. Hocker, Jackson, Wyoming; Terrence
N. Ingram, Apple River, Illinois; Grace E. Simons, Los Angeles, California; Patricia
D. Weinberger, Ojai, California
1978 Recipients
Alice Berkner, Berkeley, California; Dorothy Erskine, San Francisco, California; Edward
C. Fritz, Dallas, Texas; Anna Laura Myers, Santa Barbara, California; Hazel A. Wolf,
Seattle, Washington
1977 Recipients
Barbara Blum, Atlanta, Georgia; Marjorie Harris Carr, Micanopy, Florida; Beula Edmiston,
Los Angeles, California; Ralph E. Madison, Louisville, Kentucky; William and Jean
Siri (joint), Richmond, California
1976 Recipients
Vim Crane Wright, Denver, Colorado; Judith Colt Johnson, Baltimore, Maryland; Daniel
Malkovich, Benton, Illinois; Jane S. Pinheiro, Quartz Hill, California; George Diel,
Twin Rocks, Oregon; HONORARY RECIPIENT: William 0. Douglas
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