Honorary & Life Fellowship Award

Prior to 1986, Honorary Life Fellowship was usually given to Academy Fellows who had contributed significantly to the Academy with years of service being a factor in the selection; on several occasions this award was given to individuals who were not optometrists and were not members of the Academy.

Bylaw amendments adopted in 1986 changed the name of this award to Honorary Fellowship and defined it as honoring individuals who are not Academy Fellows for distinguished contributions to the Academy and/or the science and art of optometry. Nominations are made to the Awards Committee by Academy members and are approved by the Board of Directors. At the same time, the distinction of Life Fellowship was created to provide recognition to those Fellows who through long-time membership in the Academy have rendered distinguished service to the science and art of optometry; the selection procedure is the same as for Honorary Fellowship. Both awards also constitute membership categories.

Past Honorary Fellowship Award Recipients

Since 1986 the following persons have been elected as Honorary Fellows:
2012 Susan I. Eger, James F. Jorkasky
2009 Phil Keefer
2001 H. Dwight Cavanagh
2000 Donald Everett, Jr.
1993 Irving Fatt 
1999 Israel Goldberg 
1991 John K. Davis 
1997 Carl Kupfer
1988 Maria Dablemont 
1994 Eleanor Faye 
   
From 1964 to 1986 the following persons were elected as Honorary Life Fellows:
1981  Monroe J. Hirsch 1975 Glenn A. Fry
  Eric Bateman    J. L. Saks 
  Irvin M. Borish 1974  Lawrence Fitch 
  Edward J. Fisher 1973  Harold Simmerman
  Daniel G. Hummel   Carel C. Koch 
  Lois B. Bing 1972  John D. Perry
1980  Robert E. Bannon   William Policoff
  Meredith W. Morgan   John C. Neill 
  Henry W. Hofstetter   William Feinbloom 
1979 Leo A. Meyer    Russell Manwiller 
1976 Richard Held 1971  George T. Brooks 
  Harold M. Fisher 1970   Arthur P. Wheelock
  Mervyn H. Kauhl 1965  Kenneth B. Stoddard 
       
As of 1964, the following persons were listed in the directory of the Academy as Honorary Life Fellows:
       
  J. Fred Andreae    William L. Benedict 
  Arthur E. Hoare    Julius F. Neumueller 
  E. LeRoy Ryer    Alpheus W. Smith 
  Morris J. Steinfeld    Frank W. Weymouth 
  Eugene Wiseman    

Past Life Fellowship Award Recipients

 

2012 John F. Amos
2005 Judith A. Clay 1993 Merton C. Flom
  Brien A. Holden   G. Burtt Holmes
  Gerald E. Lowther 1992 Richard Feinberg
  Harold Solan   Robert A. Koetting
2004 Lester Caplan   Edwin B. Mehr
  Richard Hill   Helen M. Mehr
2003 Alden N. Haffner 1992 Bradford W. Wild
2002 William R. Baldwin 1991 J. Donald Kratz
  Scott Brisbin   Alfred A. Rosenbloom, Jr.
2001 Richard Hopping   John N. Schoen
1998 Irving Bennett, 1990 Frederick U. Baublitz
  Charles Stewart   Donald A. Springer
1997 Darrell B. Carter 1989 Morris Kirschen
  Edward Goodlaw   William M. Lyle
1996 Elmer H. Eger   Henry B. Peters
  Donald G. Pitts   Ralph E. Wick
1995 Theodore P. Grosvenor   John Zettel, Jr.
  Joseph Nupuf 1988 Gordon Heath
  Sol Tabak   Frederick Hebbard
  Edward K. Walker   Henry Knoll
1994 Merrill J. Allen 1987 Bengt Burman
  Solon Braff