Harrison Award: Past Awardees

MiSHCA hosts the presentation of the Harrison Award. This award is selected and presented by the Michigan Model for Health State Steering Committee.

The Harrison award is given in recognition to honor individuals who have made a significant and lasting contribution to school health education in Michigan.  The Michigan Model for Health State Steering Committee has given this recognition annually (with exception of 2014-2017) since 1988 when Dr. James T. Harrison was recognized for his distinguished service and commitment to school health.

Dr. Harrison championed the first legislative appropriation in 1983 that created the concept of making available to every school; age appropriate, sequential, skill building comprehensive school health education through the Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education.  As the Chief Medical Officer for the then Michigan Department of Public Health, he resided over the Michigan Model State Steering Committee as the first chairperson for five years.

Past awardees are listed below by year:

2022	Cynthia Cook	Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency
2021	Amy Wassmann	Saginaw Intermediate School District
2020	Amy Zaggman	Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health
2019	Mary Beno	Livingston Educational Service Agency
	Cheryl Blair	Kent Intermediate School District
2018	Taryn Mason	Cooper County Mental Health Services Institute
2013	Beverly Schroeder	Ottawa Area Intermediate School District
2012	Mariane Fahlman	Wayne State University
2011	Patti Steele	Macomb Intermediate School District
2010	Betsy Pash	Michigan Department of Community Health
2009	Martha Neilsen	Retired from the Michigan Department of Education & Eaton Intermediate School District
2008	Kathy Gibson	Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency
2007	Dr. Jim O’Neill	Madonna University
2006	Wendy Sellers	Eaton Intermediate School District
2005	Steve Sukta	Jackson Intermediate School District
2004	Laurie Bassett	Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District
2003	Paula Nettleton	Education Materials Center, CMU
2002	Don Sweeney	Michigan Department of Community Health
2001	Michigan Model Health Coordinators
2000	Pat Nichols	Michigan Department of Education
1999	Loren Bensley	Central Michigan University (retired Health Ed. Professor)
1998	Barbara Bates	Oakland Intermediate School District
	Roy Peterson	Mott Children’s Health Center
1997	Anne Hansen	Michigan Department of Education
1996	Jean Chabut	Michigan Department of Community Health
1995	Wanda Jubb	CDC (previously MDE)
1994	Mary Ann George	Rivertown Consultants
1993	Betty Tableman	MI Department of Mental Health
1992	Rick Murdock	MI Department of Management and Budget
1991	Robert Harris	Michigan Department of Community Health
1990	Grace Tasker	Dairy Council of Michigan
1989	Marty Doring	Bay Arenac ISD
1988	James T. Harrison	Michigan Department of Public Health