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:

  1. An individual must have been associated with the EBAA for an accredited eye bank for at least 10 years.
  2. 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