Honorary Life Member Award

To be eligible for Honorary Life Membership of NAASS, the individual must have been active in summer session management for at least 10 years and have consistently provided outstanding service to NAASS.

Honorary Life Members

  • N. Lee Dunham, Baylor University (TX), 1978*
  • John A. Mapp, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1978*
  • William H. Jones, Emory University (GA), 1978*
  • Charles W. Orr, North Carolina Central University, 1978*
  • Lloyd R. O’Connor, San Francisco State University, 1978*
  • Charles W. Cole, The George Washington University, 1978*
  • Paul R. Busch, Trinity University (TX), 1978*
  • Thomas T. Earle, Tulane University (LA), 1978*
  • John R. Little, University of Colorado , 1978*
  • Stuart H. Manning, University of Connecticut, 1978*
  • Edward F. Overton, University of Richmond (VA), 1978*
  • Ellvert H. Himes, Utah State University, 1978*
  • Milton G. Hardiman, Lincoln University (MO), 1979*
  • J. Niel Armstrong, North Carolina A&T State University, 1979*
  • Marjorie B. Johansen, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981*
  • Harriet D. Darrow, Indiana State University, 1988*
  • Willard L. “Tommy” Thompson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1988*
  • Donald G. Tarbet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988*
  • Denis J. Kigin, Arizona State University, 1988*
  • Norman H. Sam, Lehigh University (PA), 1988*
  • Clarence A. “Clay” Schoenfeld, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988*
  • Anne E. Scheerer, Creighton University (NE), 1990
  • Nancy Abraham, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990
  • Charles M. White, Portland State University (OR), 1990
  • Norman S. Watt, University of British Columbia , 1993*
  • Richard D. Moe, Pacific Lutheran University (WA), 1994
  • Thomas S. McLeRoy, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 1996 *
  • Melvin Bernstein, University of Maryland at College Park, 1997
  • Michael U. Nelson, Washington University in St. Louis, 1998 *
  • Clodus R. Smith, University of Maryland at College Park, 2002
  • John F. Cudd Jr., North Carolina State University, 2005
  • Victor N. Kobayashi, University of Hawaii at Mania, 2006*
  • Gary W. Penders, University of California, Berkeley, 2007*
  • Les Coyne, Indiana University, 2008
  • Jim Murphy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009
  • Howard Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
  • John Leffler, Montclair State University, 2011*
  • Loy Lytle, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011
  • Kenneth Burrows, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 2013*
  • Clayton Sessoms, East Carolina University, 2015
  • Bill McClure, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015
  • William “Bill” Kops, University of Manitoba, 2017
  • Sue Day-Perroots, West Virginia University, 2019
  • Jan Loop, 2022
  • Lynette Orbovich, Appalachian State University, 2022

* Deceased