The Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association is proud to announce Award Recipients:
MSHA Honors of the Association Application
MSHA Distinguished Service Award Application
MSHA Outstanding Clinician Award Application
2019 Honors of the Association
Heather Balog, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Balog Speech and Language Center, Plymouth. Heather is being honored for her many years of service on the MSHA Executive Board as President, for her role working with MSHA students at conference time and throughout the year, her support and participation for advocacy for the profession during key times but also at our Advocacy Day at the Capitol, and for her role as President of the MSHA Foundation (MSHF). The Honors of the Association is the highest award the Association can bestow.
2019 Distinguished Service Award
Peter LaPine, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Michigan State University is being honored for his work promoting international education during his distinguished career as a Speech-Language Pathologist and Professor at MSU. He was an integral member of the Operation Kindness, a service-learning project that gave students at MSU the opportunity to help those in need in Camargo, Mexico. He conducted nearly 50 week-long humanitarian medical and educational projects in the Yucatan peninsula.
2019 Outstanding Clinician Award
Margaret Tiner, M.S., CCC-SLP, Senior Speech-Language Pathologist, Michigan Medicine. 
Alice Silbergleit, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Director of Speech-Language Sciences, Henry Ford Health System
2019 Student Poster Session Winners
Assessing Speech-Language Pathologists' Comfort with Stuttering, Corinne Smyk, B.S. and J. Scott Yarus, Ph.D., CCC-SLP BCS-F, ASHA Fellow, Michigan State University
Parental Involvement in the IEP Process of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Andriana Evangelista, B.A. and Audrey Farrugia, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Eastern Michigan University
Thank you to Psi Iota Xi, Michigan chapters Eta Sigma, Zeta Theta, Theta Tau, and Eta Omicron, for their support of these awards. Thanks to our Michigan colleague Char Holcomb, and others, for continuing to support our students in this manner.
Honors of the Association Recipients
(in alphabetical order)
| Harold Bate | Susan Fleming | Kathleen Pistono |
| Margot Beckerman | Gerald Freeman | Eugene Popielec |
| Dorothy Billings | Dorothea French | Carl Powley |
| Mary Blair | Catherine Furbee | Julie Y. Pratt |
| H. Harlan Bloomer | John Gaeth | Doris Proctor |
| Susan Carlson | Sandra O. Glista | Nick J. Quarto |
| Heather Balog Kathyrn Boyer Mary Ellen Brandell | A. Bruce Graham Hildred Gross | Mary Jeanne Rintelmann Dale Omar Robinson |
| Sandra Briggs | Beverly Jaynes | Elaine Ledwon-Robinson |
| C. Rebecca Brown | Mary Kennedy | Frank Robinson |
| Anna Carr | Ronald Laeder | Michael I. Rolnick |
| Michael R. Chial | Gary D. Lawson | Ralph Rupp |
| John Clancy | Elizabeth Lockwood | Linda Seestedt-Stanford |
| Mary Rose Costello | Theodore Mandell | Linda Lou Smith |
| Ruth Curtis | Daniel Martin | Maureen Staskowski |
| David Daly | Keith Maxwell | William Stephenson, Jr. |
| Alvin Davis | Jan McCosky | Lizbeth Stevens |
| Leo V. Deal | Robert M. McLauchlin | Ann Thorne |
| Jessimae Deuel | Clarence Maedor | Charles Van Riper |
| Dorothy Dreyer Elsie Edwards | Richard M. Merson Nickola W. Nelson | L. Jean Walsh Sheila Powell Ward |
| Frances Eldis Robert Erikson | Courtney Osborn Herbert Oyer | Timothy G. Weise |
| Ellen Fairbrother | Paulette I. Piirainen | |
Distinguished Service Award Recipients
(in alphabetical order)
| Richard Baldwin | Jerry Johnson |
| Susan Howell Brubaker | David F. Katt |
| Mary Rose Costello | Nancy Kaufman |
| Ruth Curtis | Peter LaPine Richard Merson |
| Leo V. Deal | Kathleen Pistono |
| Dorothy E. Dreyer | Gerald Rice |
| Frances Eldis | Ralph R. Rupp |
| John Bryson Eulenberg | Norbert Edwin Smith |
| Sandra Oslager Glista | John Stevens |
| Matt Green | Lynn A. Sweeney |
| Edward Hardick | Suzanne Woods |