Heise Award
The Leonard Heise Award is presented to non-medical eye bankers recognized for their outstanding devotion to the EBAA's development and for exemplifying the precepts of Leonard Heise, a major contributor to the fight against blindness and one of the EBAA's founders. This award is given at the Annual Meeting.
Recipients of the award must meet the following qualifications:
- An individual must have been associated with the EBAA for an accredited eye bank for at least 10 years.
- An individual must have made significant contributions to eye banking at a local and national level. Examples of national level contributions are serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the EBAA or as chair of an EBAA committee, as well as volunteer services that enhance the mission of the national association. On a local level, the individual also must have demonstrated a positive influence, representing eye banking in his/her local eye bank area by working collaboratively with other organizations or at a community level.
- 2009: Monty Montoya
- 2007: Brenda Horn
- 2006: Linda Fraser
- 2005: Barbara Crow
- 2004: Florence Johnston
- 2003: Gerald J. Cole
- 2002: Mary Beth Danneffel-Mandelkorn
- 2001: Ginger Miller
- 2000: Patricia Dahl
- 1999: Marilyn Lindenauer
- 1998: John Requard, III
- 1997: Mary Jane O'Neill
- 1996: Frances Hughes
- 1995: Ellen Heck
- 1993: Fredrick Griffith
- 1992: PID Gene Polgar
- 1991: Donna Oiland
- 1990: Margaret Kelm
- 1989: C. W. Temples
- 1988: Emile J. Farge, PhD
- 1986: Jake Watson
- 1985: Y. T. Abernathy
- 1984: A. Howard Snyder
- 1983: W. M. Goldfinch
- 1982: Orville Gauthier
- 1981: R. Kenneth Hudgins
- 1980: Geraldine & Leroy Skouby