Member Recognition

Distinguished Members

 

Honored in 1995
David Barkley
Peter Chase
Kathryn Coghlan
Mary Jane Cramer
Isaac Fein
Ruben Fogel
Elizabeth Jamison Hodges
Miroslav Kerner
Simeon Kinsley
Edward Landy
Frederick Rosenbaum

Honored in 1996
Myra Cotton
Ruth Farissey
Charles Moos
Milton Paisner

Honored in 1997
Robert Cobb, Jr.
John Patterson
Marguerite Ryan
Nancy Sack
Thelma Tyndall

Honored in 1998
Ruth Lockwood
Robert Power
Margaretta Thuma

Honored in 1999
Robert Gallant
Jacqueline Jacobs

 

Honored in 2000
Robert Bunshaft
Alice McGinty
Jeanne Wasserman

Honored in 2001
Sydney LeVine
Lal Minton

Honored in 2002

Harold Jacobs
Helene Lyne
Tony Pazzanita

Honored in 2003

Alice Casey
Gene Ferrari

Honored in 2004
Selma Eigner
James Fenn

Honored in 2005
Nancy Jacobson
Peter Spellman

Honored in 2006
Charles Allen
Harold Basser
Marie Riley

Honored in 2007
Eleanor Porter
Euclid (Ed) Peltier

Honored in 2008                           
Lillian Broderick
Robert Lurie
Katherine Selfridge

Honored in 2009
Ann Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer
Suzanne Pemsler

Honored in 2010
Elenore Freedman
Matthew Ruggiero
Ethel Sadowsky

Honored in 2011
Joyce Tyler 
Joyce Tyler's remarks
Anne Pirrera
Anne Pirrera's remarks

Honored in 2012
Mark Alimansky
Martin Aronson
Barbara Carlson

Honored in 2013
Frances McCormick
Ross Neisuler
Ann Ward

Honored in 2014
Patricia Meaney
Hyman Kempler
Paul Pemsler

Honored in 2015
Rhoada Wald
Michael Bennett
Leonie Gordon

Honorees for 2015

Rhoada Wald

 

Michael Bennett

 

Leonie Gordon

 

       
       

Special End-of-Year Awards

Awards in 2009
Robert Bunshaft
Susan Goldsmith
Anne Pirrera

Awards in 2010
Lorena Corona
Nancy Sack
Lydia Sheehan

Awards in 2011
Leonie Gordon

HILR Nonagenarians honored in 2008

On Friday, April 4, 2008, eleven members of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, all near- or actual nonagenarians, were honored by the University Marshal, Jackie O'Neill, for their dedication to lifelong learning. The ceremony at the Harvard Faculty Club was attended by friends and family of the honorees, by Dean Michael Shinagel of the Division of Continuing Education, by HILR President Anne Pirrera, and Director Leonie Gordon.
The honorees were Charles Allen, Leo Beranek, Barbara Berger, Robert Bunshaft (absent), Alice Casey, Milton Glickstein, Walter Guralnick, Mildred Lehman, Martha Paisner, Sidney Weinberg, and Liberty Winter. In listing their achievements and contributions to the HILR, Ms. O'Neill offered words of praise to the eleven members, citing them as models for continuing education in the Harvard community. She presented them with certificates and read the attached citations.

HILR Nonagenarians

Honored in 2011

On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 HILR honored twelve of its active nonagenarians at a festive ceremony at the Harvard Faculty Club.
Presiding at the event were Dean Michael Shinagel, Assistant Dean Leonie Gordon, and University Marshal Jackie O'Neill, who read aloud, with pride and respect, the individual citations for each member.

Persis Ballou
Natalie Eisen
John Hovorka
Marjorie Hovorka
Harold Jacobs
Gerard Kirby
Lal Minton
Robert Oppenheimer
Arthur Pardee
Ed Peltier
Jerome Rosen
Betty Taymor