American Recorder Society Honor Roll

Honorary President
Erich Katz (1900-1973)

Honorary Vice President
Winifred Jaeger


Distinguished Achievement Award

The ARS Distinguished Achievement Award was set up by the Board of Directors in October 1986 to recognize and honor individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to development of the recorder movement in North America.  Recipients are:
 

Friedrich von Huene 1987	Edgar Hunt 1997	Joel Newman 2007
Bernard Krainis 1989	Eugene Reichenthal 1999	Ken Wollitz 2009
Shelley Gruskin 1991	Frans Brüggen, 2001	David Lasocki 2011
Nobuo Toyama 1994	Valerie Horst 2002	Bernard Thomas 2013
LaNoue Davenport 1995	Pete Rose 2005	Piffaro 2015
Martha Bixler 1996	Marion Verbruggen 2006	Flanders Recorder Quartet 2018
		Thomas Prescott 2019

Members are invited to send a nomination, along with the reasons for nominating that individual, at any time for consideration by the Board.


President’s Special Honor Award

David Goldstein 2003
Carolyn Peskin 2005
Marie-Louise Smith 2005
Connie Primus 2006
Anthony Rowland-Jones 2007
Shirley Robbins 2007
Corlu Collier & Oregon Coast Recorder Society 2009
Louise Austin 2011
Peter Seibert 2012
Gail Nickless 2014
Eric Haas 2019
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Past Presidents

Irmgard Lehrer 1939	Peter Ballinger 1967	Gene Murrow 1995-2000
Harold Newman 1940-1950	Kenneth Wollitz 1968-1975	John Nelson 2001-2002
Erich Katz Music Dir. 1951-1959 (Honorary)	Jan Custer Bryan (Acting) 1976	Alan Karass 2002-2006
LaNoue Davenport 1960-1961	Martha Bixler 1977-1980	Letitia Berlin 2006-2008
Bernard Krainis 1962-1963	Shelley Gruskin 1981-1988	Lisette Kielson 2008-2012
A. Cook Glassgold 1964-1965	Martha Bixler 1989-1990	Laura Kuhlman 2012-2015
Howard Mayer Brown 1966	Constance M. Primus 1991-1994	David Podeschi (2015-present)

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Honorary Life Memberships

It has been the custom of the ARS Board to award Honorary Life Memberships to its past presidents, recipients of the Distinguished Achievement Award, and a very few others who have given special service to the ARS.

In addition to the above Honor Roll members, recipients include:
 
Suzanne Bloch
Winifred Jaeger, Honorary Vice-President
Joel Newman
Rhoda Weber


Lifetime Members

ARS is fortunate to have many Lifetime members. Here is the full list:

Ainsfield, Neale
Asakawa, Tetsuya
Bahl, Christina
Barclay Rovner, Ann
Beck, Barbara
Becker, Jann
Begley, Rachel
Berlin, Letitia
Bittner, Doug
Bjorklund, Michael
Bramwell, Jeannine
Brey, Ronald
Brian, Ed
Brylawski, Bob
Bueler, Lois
Burger, Mary Candice
Burriss, Larry
Carney, Ann
Carver, Martha J.
Chen, Franklin
Chifos, Bobbi
Cole, Atia
Cole, Liana
Corfman, Christopher
Davisson, Mimi
Dykes, Andrew
El-Chaar, Karen
Felton, Virginia
Frederick, Nancy
Gangwisch, John
George, Daniel
Gerlach, Eberhard
Gillmor, Mickey
Gruskin, Shelley
Gunnels, George
Hanley, Patricia
Heiman, Daniel F. & Jineen
Higby, Greg
Jaffe, Susan
Johnson, Mary
Koenig, Ann
Lamb, Kristine
Larkin, Bruce
Levine, Robin
Lippi, Cora
Long, William
Maarbjerg, Mary
Martin, Roy
Mavity-Hudson, Julie
McKinney, Mary
Moyer, Barry
Murphy, Allan
Murphy, Dr. David
Nadel, Russell
Neiburg, Dale
Newman, Connie
Niedzielska, Marie Suzanne
Oppenheimer, James
Paulson, Anne
Powers, Wendy
Prechter, Robin
Ragen, Brian Abel
Reimers, Edith
Richter, Susan
Rising, Linda
Roberts, Gwyn
Rodger, Norman
Roessel, Susan
Roudebush, Deborah
Schoomer, Suzanne
Schwartz, Eric
Seely, Neil & Liz
Shaw, Jon
Sherrick, Kathy
Simpson, Marc
Soussan, Daniel
Stuart, Kathleen
Terwilliger, Ward
Thornton, Helen
Timberlake, Anne
Timmons, Leslie
Tooney, Nancy
VanBrundt, Nancy
Vellekoop, Lijda
Von Preising, Arthur
West, Jane & Dobson
Wilson, J. H. and Carol A.
Beets, Tom
Bowman, Peter
Collier, Corlu
Finch, Peter & Constance
Fowles, Kerith
Haas, Eric
Horst, Valerie
Ifans, Myfanwy
Jaeger, Winifred
Jay, Mark
Karass, Alan
Kielson, Lisette
Kimball, Joan
Knight, Robert & Mary
Lasocki, David
Murrow, Gene
Nelson, John
Nickless, Gail
Porter, Gary
Prescott, Thomas
Primus, Constance
Riordan, John
Sanborn-Kuhlman, Laura
Seibert, Peter C. & Ellen
Spanhove, Bart
Thomas, Bernard
Van Goethem, Joris
Van Loey, Paul
Verbruggen, Marion
Warr, Dale
Zumoff, Michael


 
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