Join us for this very special evening, October 16 . . .
RVSP now for the 2009 Ovation Awards!
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Past Honorees
2007–08
Rose Marie Floyd – Dance
Ed Fraga – Art
Thorsten Kaye – Theatre
David Salzman – Communication
George Shirley – Music
Susan Mosey – Community Service Award
2006–07
Daniel Loepp – Communication
Eunice Moore – Dance
Larry Walker – Art
Leonard Leone – Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service
Tom Skerritt – Dean’s Award for Career Achievement
2005–06
Jack Kay – Communication
Stephen Millen – Music
Ernie Hudson – Theatre
Richard Bilaitis – Dean’s Distinguished Service Award
Detroit Free Press – Dean’s Community Service Award
2004
William Benoit – Communication
Robert Brock – Theatre
Helen Landgarten – Art Education
James Pallas – Art and Art History
Charles Postlewate – Music
John Richards – English
Sharon Unrau – Dance
2003
Jerry Flint – Communication
Annette Alexander Frank – Art Edu.
Cary Loren – Art and Art History
John Macurdy – Music
Ruben Santiago Hudson – Theatre
Linda Cleveland Simmons – Dance
Univ. Cultural Ctr. Assoc. – Advocate
2002
Kathleen Gaffney – Theatre
Harvey Goldstein – Art Education
Jennifer Noyer – Dance
Don Palmer – Music
John Nick Pappas – Art and Art History
Dr. Sidney A. Ribeau – Communication
Anca Vlasopolos – English
Peter Cummings – Arts Advocate
2001
Edward K. Christian – Communication
Ira Hearshen – Music
Victoria Holley-Foster – Dance
S. Epatha Merkerson – Theatre
David Small – Art and Art History
Aida Snow – Art Education
George Tysh – English
Dr. David DiChiera – Arts Advocate
2000
George Cantor – Communication
William P. Foster – Music
Carol Halsted – Dance
Carol S. Pylant – Art and Art History
Tom Sizemore – Theatre
Marian Kinney Stephens – Art Education
Maggie Allesee – Arts Advocate
1998–99
Charles Canon – Art Education
Alan Danielson – Dance
Arthur C. Danto – Art and Art History
Chad Everett – Communication
Yusef A. Lateef – Music
Martin Pakledinaz – Theatre
Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner – English
Frank D. Stella – Arts Advocate
1997
Kim Carney – Theatre
Lori Christmastree – Art and Art History
Malcolm Johns – Music
Marion K. Jones – Dance
Victor H. Miesel, Ph.D. – Art Education
Frank Pahl – English
Erik Smith – Communication
Emma Lazaroff Schaver – Arts Advocate
1996
Sergio DeGiusti – Art and Art History
Rosemary Gould – Art Education
Robert Lambert – Theatre
Joseph Loduca – Music
Alvin Mayes – Dance
Elizabeth Meese, Ph.D. – English
Thom Sharp – Communication
Louis G. Redstone – Arts Advocate
1995
Rose Marie Floyd – Dance
Mark Fritz – Communication
John P. Glick – Art and Art History
Dr. Polly Hughes – Art Education
Ollie McFarland – Music
Dr. Deborah Tannen – English
Barbara Tarbuck – Theatre
Arthur L. Johnson – Arts Advocate
1994
Robert Bates, Ph.D. – Music
Beverly Barber – Dance
Sonny Eliot – Communication
Woodie King, Jr. – Theatre
James Russell Mayes – English
Louise J. Nobili – Art and Art History
Shirley Woodson – Art Education
James F. Duffy, Jr. – Arts Advocate
1993
Roy E. Ernst – Music
Paula Gosling Hare – English
Diane D. Kordich – Art Education
Stanley Lechtzin – Art and Art History
Philip Spensley – Theatre
Helen Thomas – Communication
Charles A. Forbes – Arts Advocate
1992
Portia Fields-Anderson – Dance
Daniel Majeske – Music
Dr. David McKay – Art Education
Nancy Mitchnick – Art and Art History
Don Pilette – Communication
June Akers Seese – English
Russell E. Smith – Theatre
Dr. Charles H. Wright – Arts Advocate
1991
Lillian Wolock Elliott – Art Education
Clarice Tinsley-Giles – Communication
Julie Jensen – English
Mark A. Leithauser – Art and Art History
Gordon Mathie – Music
Sharon McColl – Dance
Tom Spackman – Theatre
Leon S. Cohan – Arts Advocate
1990
Alice Galloway – Theatre
Karen Goodman – Dance
Susan Hauptman – Art and Art History
Shirley Love – Music
Paul Petrie – English
Cledie Taylor – Art Education
Roger and Henrietta Friedholm – Arts Advocate
1989
Gere Baskin – Art and Art History
Frederick Coffin – Theatre
William Harris – English
Allan T. Mette – Art Education
Barbara Selinger – Dance
David Wagner – Music
Paul L. and Susan D. Nine – Arts Advocate
1988
Kenneth Burrell – Music
Sharon Dilworth – English
Barbara Hallman – Art Education
Ellen Phelan – Art and Art History
Irma Pylyshenko – Dance
Paul Stolarsky – Theatre
Michael Ilitch – Arts Advocate
1987
Leo “Ted” Conebeare – Art Education
Stephen Dobyns – English
Richard R. Kinney, Jr. – Art and Art History
Wil Love – Theatre
Joseph Striplin – Music
Anne Warren – Dance
Walter Buhl Ford, II – Arts Advocate
1986
Patricia Brooks – Dance
Dr. Seymour Chatman – English
Brazeal Dennard – Music
Walter Samuel Hamady - Art and Art History
James Jennings – Art Education
David Regal – Theatre
W. Hawkins Ferry – Arts Advocate
1985
Irving Berg – Art Education
Garth Fagan – Dance
Shirley Harbin – Theatre
Naomi Madgett Long – English
William Peck – Art and Art History
John Rea – Music
Leonard Leone – Arts Advocate
1984
Dr. Harry Begian – Music
Esther Broner – English
Susanne Hilberry – Art and Art History
George Pentecost – Theatre
Ann Zirulnik – Dance
Fern Zwickey – Art Education
Paul Ganson – Arts Advocate
1983
Joy Hakanson Colby – Art and Art History
Robert Harris – Music
Faye Kicknosway – English
Paula Kramer – Dance
Hughie Lee-Smith – Art Education
Robert Luscombe – Theatre
1982
David Barr – Art and Art History
Gay Delanghe – Dance
Maurice Grossman – Art Education
Barbara Meek – Theatre
Ann and Ken Mikolowski – English
Donald Sinta – Music
1981
Raymond Blackwell – Art Education
Hoyt W. Fuller – English
Jacqueline Davis – Dance
Roger Sherman – Art and Art History
George Shirley – Music
Jeffrey Tambor – Theatre
1980
Harriet Berg – Dance
Mary Jane Bigler – Art and Art History
Audley M. Grossman, Jr. – Theatre
Robert Hayden – English
Fred Harrington – Art Education
Isador Saslov – Music
1978–79
State Senator Jack Faxon – all departments
1977
Kathryn Ellis – Dance
Harlan Hoffa – Art Education
Addison Franklin Page – Art and Art History
Dudley Randall – English
James Tocco – Music
Max Wright – Theatre
1976
Howard and Cathy Clark – Art and Art History
Phillip Levine – English
Cyril Miles – Art Education
Ruth Murray – Dance
Felix Resnick – Music
Michael Tolan – Theatre
1975
Murray Douglas – Art Education
G. Alden Smith – Art and Art History