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Frank L. Ashmore Award for Service to CASE and the Advancement Profession

Congratulations to the 2020 Frank L. Ashmore Award for Service to CASE and the Advancement Profession winner: Lynette Marshall.

The Frank L. Ashmore Award for Service to CASE and the Advancement Profession honors a current or former staff member at a CASE-member institution or educational partner who has served CASE in extraordinary ways. The American College Public Relations Association, a CASE predecessor organization, first presented this award in 1968. Originally known as the Presidential Citation, it was renamed in 1973 to honor the memory of Frank L. Ashmore, the director of ACPRA from 1959 to 1961.

Nominations for this award are reviewed by members of the CASE Board of Trustees, which ultimately selects the winner.

People who meet these criteria are eligible for nomination:

  • From a CASE member institution or Educational Partner, or retired from a CASE member institution.
  • Contributed to building and growing the advancement profession globally.
  • Made significant contributions to CASE.

The person submitting the nomination must be from a CASE member institution or Educational Partner.

 

Due to the global pandemic, nominations for this award are currently on hold. Thank you for your patience.

All nomination information and materials are submitted online by someone at a CASE member institution or Educational Partner.

The nominator also will be asked to upload four documents:

  1. A letter of nomination that:
    • Describes the length, type and variety of service that the nominee has given to the advancement profession, and the resulting impact.
    • Explains how has the nominee been involved with CASE. Examples may include serving as a volunteer leader, conference speaker/faculty, book author, advisory group member, etc.
    • Articulates what sets this nominee apart from other individuals who have contributed to CASE and the field of educational advancement?
  2. Nominee's professional or related vita, a brief bio or link to similar information, such as LinkedIn.
  3. Two supporting letters (not from the nominator) endorsing the nomination.

Guidance for letters:

  • Please reference the name of the award, and limit the letter to not more than two pages.
  • Letters can be addressed to the CASE Board of Trustees Awards Subcommittee, Washington, DC. 
  • Documents can be in PDF or Word format.
  • Please do not mail any materials directly to CASE.

2020 Lynette Marshall
2019 Jerry May
2018 William Walker
2017 Thomas Tillar
2016 Norma Walker
2015 Douglas Dibbert 
2014 Karen E. Osborne
2013 Jake Schrum
2012 Larry Lauer
2011 Lorna Somers
2010 Carol Cheney
2009 Kent Rollins
2008 April L. Harris
2007 Peter McE. Buchanan
2006 Mary Kay Murphy
2005 Ronald Stephany
2004 Dan L. Heinlen
2003 Judith Jasper Leicht
2002 Susan Kubik
2001 Ray Footman
2000 David Dunlop
1999 Curtis Simic
1998 Donald R. Perkins
1997 Jane A. Johnson
1996 Donald M. Pattison
1995 William W. Franklin
1994 Robert A. Reichley
1993 Stanton E. Schmid
1992 Merilyn H. Bonney
1991 Virginia Carter Smith
1990 Raymond E. Willemain
1989 Ted Gibbens
1988 Paul Franz
1987 M. Fredric Volkmann
1986 Maralyn O. Gillespie
1985 Warren Heemann
1984 Robert E. Linson
1983 John Hunter Detmold
1982 John E. Dolibois
1981 James W. Frick
1980 Edwin Crawford
1979 Elizabeth Bond Wood
1978 Alice Beeman
1977 W. Emerson Reck
1976 Jerry Horton
1975 The CASE Staff
1974 Michael Radock; Robert M. Rhodes
1973 No award
1972 M. M. Chambers
1971 The Internship Program of the University of Iowa
1970 Edward VanderHarr; James Denison