Awards & Recognitions Recipients

• Drew Martin (2025)
• Kim Brown (2024)
• Faye Golden (2024)
• Wayne Buhler (2023)
• Kerry Richards (2022)
• Don Renchie (2020)
• Ed Crow (2020)
• Mike Weaver (2018)
• Clyde Ogg (2018)
• Andrew Thostenson (2017)
• Dean Herzfeld (2016)
• Ples Spradley (2016)
• Larry Olsen (2015)
• Joanne Kick-Raack (2014)
• Fred Whitford (2014)
• Dan Wixted (2013)
• Amy Brown (2009)
• Robert Wolf (2009)
• Mary Grodner (2007)
• Patrick O’Connor Marer (2007)
• Barry Brennan (2005)
• Carol Ramsay (2005)

• Recipients TBA 2026

Distinguished Achievement in Certification (retired 2025)

This award encouraged, recognized, and rewarded outstanding contributions to Pesticide Applicator Certification for achieving public good and the professionalism of pesticide safety education. The nominee must have demonstrated excellent performance through program innovation, efficiency, productivity, impact, and delivery as well as regional and national contributions. The award was available to ALL current AAPSE members, including those from universities, federal, tribe, or state agencies, industry, or non-governmental organizations.

• Andrew Martin (2018)
• Jack Peterson (2016)
• Sherman Takatori (2013)
• Leo Reed (2013)
• Kathy Dictor (2007)

Distinguished Achievement in Pesticide Safety Education (retired 2025)

This award encouraged, recognized, and rewarded outstanding contributions to Pesticide Safety Education for achieving public good and the professionalism of pesticide safety education. The nominee must have demonstrated excellent performance through program innovation, productivity, efficiency, impact, and delivery as well as regional and national contributions. The award was available to ALL current AAPSE members, including those from universities, federal, tribe, or state agencies, industry, or non-governmental organizations.

• Greg Puckett (2024)
• Lisa Blecker (2023)
• Rhonda Hirnyck (2022)
• Jolene (Hendrix) Warnke (2020)
• Becky Maguire (2020)
• Charlie Nagamine (2019)
• Kaci Buhl (2018)
• Betsy Buffington (2017)
• Jennifer Weber (2017)
• Erin Bauer (2015)
• Phil Nixon (2015)
• Kerry Richards (2015)
• Carol Somody (2013)
• Roger Flashinski (2011)
• Larry Schulze (2007)

• Recipients TBA 2026

Professional Recognition Award (previous title)

• Mike Cameron (2025)
• Tana Haugen-Brown (2024)
• Sam Polly (2024)
• Dan Sjarpe (2024)
• Sharon Gripp (2023)
• Gene Merkl (2023)
• Patrick Jones (2023)
• Stephen M. Vantassel (2023)
• Evan Alderman (2022)
• Brett Bultemeier, Tamara James (2022)
• Robin Tutor Marcom (2021)
• Daniel Frank, Whitney Weaver, Dana Beegle, Rachel Parson, Stephanie Wycoff (2020)
• Vickie Schroeder, Julie Jacobs (2020)
• Tana Haugen-Brown, Claire LaCanne (2020)
• Dan Wixted (2020)
• Wendy Sue Wheeler (2020)
• Lizabeth Stahl (2018)
• Jan Hygnstrom (2018)
• Tana Haugen-Brown (2018)
• Wayne Buhler (2018)

• Amanda Bachmann – President’s Award (2025)
• Beverly Catchot – President’s Award (2025)
• Faye Golden – President’s Award (2025)
• Mike Helms – President’s Award (2025)
• Sam Polly – President’s Award (2025)
• Jolene Warnke – President’s Award (2025)
• Sarah Kingsley-Richards – President’s Award (2024)
• Jolene Warnke – President’s Award (2024)
• Faye Golden – President’s Award (2023)
• Linda Johns – President’s Award (2023)
• Michael Weirda – President’s Award (2023)
• Carol Black – President’s Award (2022)
• Dr. Lawrence “Fudd” Graham – President’s Award (2022)
• Jan Hygnstrom – President’s Award (2022)
• Don Renchie – President’s Award (2022)
• Kristine Shaefer – President’s Award (2022)
• Sharon Gripp – President’s Award (2021)
• Patsy Laird – President’s Award (2021)
• Eugene Merkl – President’s Award (2021)
• Carol Black – President’s Award (2020)
• Kaci Buhl – President’s Award (2020)
• Becky Maguire – President’s Award (2020)
• Don Renchie – Past President’s Award (2019)
• Kerry Richards – Past President’s Award (2019)
• Betsy Buffington – President’s Award for Pesticide Safety Education (2019)
• Nancy Fitz – President’s Award for Regulatory Achievement (2019)
• Barry Brennan – President’s Award for Pesticide Safety Education (2018)
• Kevin Keaney – President’s Award for Regulatory Achievement (2018)
• Pat Hipkins (2016)
• Elizabeth Buffington (2015)
• Andrew Thostenson (2015)
• Barry Brennan (2014)
• Andrew Thostenson (2014)
• Liza Fleeson (2013)
• Wanda Michalowicz (2013)
• Amy Brown (2005)*
• Dean Herzfeld (2005)*
• Roger Flashinski (2005)*
• Gina Davis (2003)*
• Norm Nesheim (2003)*
• Carol Ramsay (2003)*
• Larry Schulze (2001)*
• Michael Weaver (2001)*
• Patricia Hipkins (2001)*
• Barry Brennan (2001)*
• Wayne Buhler (2001)*
• Carol Ramsay (2001)*
• Barry Brennan (1999)*
• Gene Burgess (1999)*
• Mary Grodner (1999)*
• Barry Brennan (1997)*
• Mary Grodner (1997)*
• John Impson (1997)*
• Michael Weaver (1997)*

*Formerly — AAPSE Award for Appreciation & Dedication

• Candace Bartholomew (PSEP Coordinator, University of Connecticut)
• Amy Brown (Professor, PSEP Coordinator, University of Maryland)
• Fred Fishel (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, University of Florida)
• Clyde Ogg (PSEP Coordinator, University of Nebraska/Lincoln)
• Richard Pont (Environmental Protection Specialist, Pesticide Safety and Worker Protection, USEPA)
• Robert Bellinger (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, Clemson University)
• Dean Hertzfeld (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, University of Minnesota)
• Kevin Keaney retired (National Program Manager, Pesticide Safety and Worker Protection, USEPA)
• Carol Somody (Stewardship & Pesticide Safety Education Manager, Syngenta Crop Protection US)
• Vickie Rengers retired (Program Supervisor, Certification, Licensing, Registration & Training, Office of Pesticide Services, Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services)
• Mike Weaver (Professor Emeritus & Director, Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs)
• Ron Gardener (Senior Extension Associate, PSEP Coordinator, Cornell University, Pesticide Management Education Program)
• Pat Hipkins (Senior Research (Extension) Associate, Assistant PSEP Coordinator, Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs)
• Philip Nixon (Extension Entomologist, PSEP leader, University of Illinois)
• Joanne Kick-Raack (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, Ohio State University)
• Bob Wolf (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, Kansas State University)
• Roger Flashinski (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, University of Wisconsin)
• Jim Criswell (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, Oklahoma State University
• Win Hock (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, Penn State University)
• Mary Grodner (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, Louisiana State University)
• Pat O’Connor-Marer (PSEP Coordinator, University of California-Davis)
• Larry Schulze (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, University of Nebraska)
• John Osmun (Professor Emeritus, Entomology Department Head, PSEP Coordinator, Purdue University)
• Ed Vitzthum (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, University of Nebraska)
• Barry Brennan (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, Extension Administrator, University of Hawaii)
• John Impson (Retired national program leader, ex-officio advisor – HELPS, USDA/CSREES)
• Norm Nesheim (Professor Emeritus, PSEP Coordinator, University of Florida)
• Murray Elmo Collum (Mississippi State University Extension)

Honorary Membership recognized sustained outstanding service to pesticide safety education and contributions that had significant impact on the science and profession nationally or internationally. Honorary members were selected from those individuals whose activities have been largely from outside AAPSE, but who have significantly contributed to the field of pesticide safety.

• Robert MaGee (2019)
• Jane Stautz (2019)
• John Osmun (1999)