Ambrose Shotwell Memorial Award

The Ambrose M. Shotwell Memorial Award was established to honor an individual who has made significant outstanding contributions to the personal adjustment or rehabilitation of adults who are blind or visually impaired. These leadership contributions have had an impact on a national or international level through their direct effect on people with visual impairments through the insight or inspiration that they provided to rehabilitation personnel in other states or nations.

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Past Winners

In recognition of outstanding contributions to the rehabilitation of adults who are blind or visually impaired.

2024Gala Saber Brooks
2022Dr. Pris Rogers
2020Rodney J. Kossick
2018Carl R. Augusto
2016Gale Watson
2014Karen E. Wolffe
2012Chuck Huss
2010Michael Bina
Special RecognitionSteven Barrett
2008Kathleen Mary Huebner
2006Kenneth Rosenthal
2004William Wiener
2002Dr. Euclid J. Herie
2000William Ferrell
1998Stanley Suterko
1996Richard Welsh
1994Russell C. Williams
1992William F. Gallagher
1990Warren Bledsoe
1988Dr. Alfred Rosenbloom
1986Irvine Schloss
1984Natalie Barraga
1983Louis Vieceli
1982Harold Richterman
1981Donald Blasch
1979Ross C. Purse
1977Douglas C. MacFarland
1975Roy Kumpe
1973Robert S. Bray
1971Arthur McGill
1969Louis J. Rives
1968George Werntz
1967Jansen Noyes
1966Henry A. Wood
1965Berthold Lowenfeld
1964George Keane
1963Judge Sam Cathey
1962Lon E. Alsup
1961Francis J. Cummings
1960Philip Harrison
1959Lee S. Johnston
1958Francis Iberardi
1957J. Robert Atkinson
1956Maurice I. Tynan
1955Peter J. Salmon
1954Stetson K. Ryan
1953L. L. Watts
1952Col. E. A. Baker
1951Helen Keller
1950Mary Dranga Campbell
1949Joseph Clunk
1948Dr. Newell Perry
1947Florence Bichard
1945Dr. Edward E. Allen
1943Cobrun L. Broun
1941M. C. Migel
1939Charles W. Holmes & H.R. Latimer