William S. Gray Citation of Merit

The William S. Gray Citation of Merit is awarded to a nationally or internationally known person for outstanding contributions to the field of reading.

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Award Recipients

2008
Elfrieda Hiebert

2007
Richard L. Allington

2006
Donna Alvermann

2005
Renate Valtin

2004
Steven A. Stahl

2003
Robert Tierney

2002
Isabel L. Beck

2001
Irene Gaskins

2000
Rebecca Barr

1999
—Not Given—

1998
David R. Olson

1997
Sam Weintraub

1996
Eve Malmquist

1995
Marie M. Clay

1994
Ira E. Aaron

1993
Anthony V. Manzo

1992
Richard C. Anderson

1991
Robert B. Ruddell

1990
P. David Pearson

1989
Harold L. Herber

1988
Dolores Durkin

1987
S. Jay Samuels

1986
Kenneth S. Goodman

1985
Leo Fay

1984
Roger Farr

1983
Margaret J. Early

1982
William K. Durr

1981
George Spache

1980
A. Sterl Artley

1979
Jeanne S. Chall

1978
Mildred A. Dawson

1977
Lynette Saine Gaines
Nancy Larrick

1976
Theodore L. Harris

1975
Mary C. Austin

1974
William D. Sheldon

1973
Edgar Dale

1972
Guy L. Bond

1971
Emmett Albert Betts

1970
Donald D. Durrell

1969
Helen M. Robinson

1968
Albert J. Harris

1967
Constance M. McCullough

1966
Gertrude Whipple

1965
Nila Banton Smith

1964
Paul A. Witty

1963
Guy Thomas Buswell
Gerald Alan Yoakam
Miles A. Tinker

1962
James M. McCallister
Ruth Strang

1961
Arthur I. Gates

1959-1960
—Not Given—

1958
William S. Gray

1957
Donald L. Cleland