The Nelson H. Brooks Award for Outstanding Leadership in the Profession

At each annual Conference since 1968, the Board of Directors has honored a member of the profession for distinguished service and leadership. Since 1978 the award has been given in honor of Nelson H. Brooks.

1968 Stephen A. Freeman,
Middlebury College
1983 James R. Frith,
Foreign Service Institute
1998 Helene Zimmer-Loew,
AATG
1969 Nelson H. Brooks,
Yale University
1984 Wilga M. Rivers,
Harvard University
1999 June K. Phillips,
Weber State University
1970 Harry L. Levy,
Fordham University
1985 James E. Alatis,
Georgetown University
2000 Protase E. Woodford,
Educational Testing Service (ret.)
1971 Robert G. Mead,
Univ. of Connecticut
1986 Robert Lado,
Georgetown University
2001 C. Edward Scebold,
ACTFL
1972 Freeman Twadell,
Brown University
1987 Mary P. Thompson,
Glastonbury (CT) Public Schools
2002 Robert J. Ludwig,
NYSAFLT
1973 Emma Birkmaier,
Univ. of Minnesota
1988 Leo Benardo,
New York City Public Schools
2003 Frank W. Medley, Jr.,
West Virginia University
1974 Donald D. Walsh,
Northeast Conference
1989 Dora Kennedy,
Prince George's County (MD) Public Schools
2004 Martha G. Abbott,
Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools
1975 Theodore Andersson,
University of Texas
1990 Ann Beusch,
Maryland State Dept. of Education
2005 Ray T. Clifford,
Brigham Young University
1976 Wilmarth H. Starr,
New York University
1991 Helen Warriner-Burke,
Virginia State Dept. of Education
2006 Kathleen M. Riordan,
Springfield MA Public Schools (ret.)
1977 Kenneth W. Mildenberger,
Modern Language Association
1992 Sandye Jean McIntyre II,
Morgan State University
2007 Stephen L. Levy,
ACTFL
1978 Howard Lee Nostrand,
Univ. of Washington
1993 Dorothy James,
Hunter College
2008 Eileen W. Glisan,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1979 Dwight Bolinger,
Harvard University
1994 Eleanor Jorden, Emerita,
Cornell University
2009 Marjorie Hall Haley,
George Mason University
1980 Richard I. Brod,
Modern Language Association
1995 Earl W. Stevick, Emeritus,
Foreign Service Institute
2011

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1981 Laurence Wylie,
Harvard University
1996 Edward D. Allen, Emeritus,
Ohio State University
   
1982 Lorraine A. Strasheim,
Indiana University
1997 Ronald Walton,
National Foreign Language Center (posthumous award)
   

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