NSPA Pioneer Award Winners

The Pioneer Award is the highest award NSPA offers to journalism educators. Pioneers are individuals who make substantial contributions to high school publications and journalism programs outside of their primary employment. NSPA maintains a composite plaque of Pioneers and displays it at all JEA/NSPA fall national conventions. Candidates are nominated by previous Pioneer winners.

2009 Winners
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Mike Hiestand
Student Press Law Center

Monica Hill
North Carolina Scholastic Media Association

Mark Newton
Mountain Vista High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo.

Tracy Anne Sena
Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco

Linda Shockley
Dow Jones Newspaper Fund

Past Winners

Sr. M. Rita Jeanne
David Adams
Julian Adams
Ann Akers
Martha Akers
Olive Allen
Benjamin W. Allnut
Edmund C. Arnold
Mary Arnold
Robert Atwood
Judy Babb
Bob Bair
Ira L. Baker
Benjamin H. Baldwin
Marjorie Bell
Mary Benedict
Lester G. Benz
Don Bott
John Bowen
John Boyd
Diane Boyle
Regis L. Boyle
Wayne Brasler
Howard Brier
Donald E. Brown
W. Mike Brown
Mary Elizabeth Burdette
Robert Button
Laurence R. Campbell
Pat Clark
Molly Clemons
Ron Clemons
Jolene Combs
Judith Coolidge
David Cosgrove
Kathy Craghead
James Crook
Mattie Gay Crump
Alyce Culpepper
Jeffrey Currie
John Cutsinger
Kathy Daly
Sharon Deibel
Vince DeMiero
Beth Dickey
Merle Dieleman
Julie Dodd
Mary Kay Downes
William Downs, Jr.
Jack Dvorak
Gloria Eastman
Howard Emerson
Edwin Emery
Paul Ender
Jackie Engel
Tom Engleman
Earl English
Herman A. Estrin
Brenda Feldman
Nick Ferentinos
John Field
Beth Fitts
Lu Chapin Flannery
Karen Flowers
Virginia Follin
Mary Lu Foreman
George Gallup, Sr.
George Gallup, Jr.
Arnetta Garcin
Joseph Glowacki
Tony Gomez
Mark Goodman
Brenda Gorsuch
Pat Graff
JoAnne Graham
Nancy Green
Robert Greenman
Dorothy D. Greer
Ruth Marie Griggs
Clarence W. Hach
Max Haddick
Carol Hallenbeck
H.L. Hall
Nancy Hall
Bill Hankins
Laurie Hansen
Kathleen Hansen
Glenn Hanson
Jack Harkrider
Rowena Harvey
Nancy Hastings
Susan Hathaway
Bobby Hawthorne
Ann Christine Heintz
Andrea Henderson
R.D. Hendricks
Barbara Hines
Judith Hines
Richard Holden
Diane Yotsuya Honda
John Hudnall
Harold H. Herbert
Bonnie Horne
Freeman Hover
Rod Howe
Elizabeth Hurley
Orval C. Husted
Louis E. Ingelhart
Richard Johns
James Jordan
Linda Kane
Elwood C. Karwand
Crystal Kazmierski
Gretchen Kemp
Jack Kennedy
Linda Kennedy
Ellen Kersey
Fred Kildow
Bernard Kilgore
David Knight
Robert Knight
Judy Knudtson
Susan Komandosky
Bruce Konkle
Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver
Hillier Krieghbaum
Konnie Krislock
Carol Lange
Kathy Leabo
Skip Leabo
Mark Levin
Richard Lloyd
J. Grady Locklear
Dick LoPachin
Gary Lundgren
Roberta Mace
James Magmer
Dave Massy
Susan Massy
Steve Matson
Vida B. McGriffin
Richard McNeill
Dorothy McPhillips
C.J. Medlin
Rob Melton
Carl G. Miller
Bill Mohn
Dan Moore
Shirley Moravec
Betty Morton
John Mulligan
Joe Murphy
Mark Murray
Ed Nell
Terry Nelson
Casey Nichols
Sarah Nichols
Steve O'Donoghue
Gloria Olman
Charles O'Malley
Sarah Ortman
J.L. O'Sullivan
J.F. Paschal
N.S. Patterson
Nancy Patterson
Cheryl Pell
Candace Perkins
Terry Peterson
Kay Phillips
Wayna Polk
Margaret Popham
Homer A. Post
Hazel Glenn Presson
Mary Pulliam
Linda Puntney
Otto W. Quale
Betsy Pollard Rau
DeWitt C. Reddick
Mabel E. Robrock
Charles E. Savedge
Laura Schaub
Kathy Schrier
John B. Schrodt
Vicki Scorsone
Albert Scroggins, Jr.
Ellen Sengenberger
Alyce Rogers Sheetz
Gloria Shields
Becky Sipos
Kenson Siver
Sigmund Sluszka
Helen Smith
Linda Smoley
Howard Spanogle
Mary Sparks
L. Curtis Sheffield
Paul Schweiger
Harold Spears
Mary Still
F. Kenneth Stratton
Lynn Strause
Edmund Sullivan
Paul S. Swensson
Randy Swikle
George Taylor
H.C. Taylor
Sherri Taylor
Wilma Taylor
Barbara Thill
Robert Tottingham
Carl Towley
Craig Trygstad
Carol Underberger
Rod Vahl
Fern Valentine
Carl Vandermeulen
Ben Van Zante
Ann Visser
Randy Vonderheid
DeWitt Wallace
Bill Ward
Bruce Watterson
Marilyn Weaver
Alan Weintraut
David Weisenburger
Lorraine Wellenstein
John Wheeler
Anne Whitt
Laura Widmer
Bradley Wilson
Harold Wilson
Jack Wilson
Jan Wiseman
Sandy Woodcock
Virginia Woodring
Shirley Yaskin
Joanna Zander
Kathleen Zwiebel