Marvin Beekman Award
The Beekman Award is MAASE's preeminent award presented annually at our Summer Institute event.
This award honors a candidate who has:
- Excelled in their education, experience, current administrative responsibilities
- Received local honors and special recognition
- Demonstrated leadership in organizational memberships
- Been actively involved in community activities
- Other distinguishing characteristics.
Do you know someone who is worthy? If so, please complete the nomination form linked in the button below.
Beekman Award Winner
Nominees for the Beekman Award must:
- Be a special education administrator at the local, regional, or state level.
- Have made significant contributions on behalf of special education.
- Have demonstrated quality service in the field of special education.
- Have exhibited integrity in his/her daily work and relationships.
- Have diverse involvement in both the community and educational arenas.
- Have made contributions to special education with statewide significance.
- Have made significant contributions to MAASE.
- Have proven him or herself to be a visionary.
- Possess personal attributes that make him/her an outstanding representative of the Beekman Award.
2026 Beekman Award Winner
Kirsten Myers, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, Kent ISD
Award presentation by Tina Lawson, MAASE President:
Formal speech transcript coming soon.
2025 Renee Thelan
2024 Rachel Fuerer
2023 Erin Senkowski
2022 Jackie McDougal
2021 Carol Creilick
2020 Eric Hoppstock
2019 Scott Richards
2018 Laura LaMore
2017 Vanessa Winborne
2016 Greg LaMore
2015 Kathleen Barker
2014 Laurie VanderPloeg
2013 Donna Tinberg
2012 Thomas Koepke
2011 Lucy Hough-Waite
2010 Eleanor White
2009 Kathleen Golinski
2008 Cynthia Smith
2007 Kathy Fortino
2006 Jim Walker
2005 Tom Miller
2004 W. Scott Hubble
2003 Jim Shaw
2002 William Hartl
2001 Michael Dombrowski
2000 Maureen Slade
1999 Robert Dietiker
1998 Jan Baxter
1997 Donald Trap
1996 Thomas J. Rivard
1995 Cherie Simpson
1994 Jay R. Leach
1993 John E. Lindholm
1992 Don Bollinger
1991 Bob Cross
1990 Fred Chappell
1989 June M. Schaefer
1988 Leonard Rezrnierski
1987 Bert Donaldson
1986 Fred Nowland
1985 Ed Birch
1984 Larry Campbell
1983 Tom Howard
1982 Murray Batten
1981 Casmir Schesky
1980 Arnold Larson
1979 Tracy Stockman
1978 Charles Mange
1977 Mary Blair
1976 Joseph Noorthoek
1975 Walter Wend
1974 David Haarer
1973 Marvin Beekman