The Mary Catherine Buswell Award
Past Recipients
The Mary Catherine Buswell Award was established in 1978 to honor a student, faculty or staff member
or citizen who has provided outstanding service to women at West Virginia University.
The award is named for the first award recipient, the late Mary Catherine Buswell, Professor Emerita
of English (1947-1978) and dedicated proponent of equal opportunities for women.

2009-10     Leslie Tower, Associate Professor, Division of Social Work
2008-09     Frances Vanscoy, Associate Professor, Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering
2007-08     Joyce McConnell, Dean of the WVU Shool of Law
2006-07     John Zondlo, Professor of Chemical Engineering
2005-06     Liz Finklea, International Students Organizaiton, Women Across Cultures Program;
                      part-time Women's Studies; former Chair, Council for Women's Concerns
2004-05     Barbara Ludlow, Professor of Special Education
2003-04     Suzanne Weller Gross, Assistant Dean for Student Services, WVU School of Nursing, 
2002-03     Judith Higgs, Dean of Students, WVU Parkersburg 
2001-02     Joyce McConnell, Associate Dean, Law School 
2000-01     Brenda Sue Black, Associate Director, Extension Services 
1999-00     no award presented 
1998-99     Dale L. Birkle, Associate Professor of Pharmacology 
1997-98     Anna Shannon Elfenbein, Associate Professor of English 
1996-97     Betty L. Miller, Associate Professor Emerita of Mathematics 
1995-96     Janis-Rozena Peri, Associate Professor of Music 
1994-95     Devika Malhotra, Professor of Sociology, WVU Parkersburg 
1993-94     Patty Ann Gibbs, Associate Professor of Social Work 
1992-93     Lillian J. Waugh, Co-Director, Center for Women’s Studies 
1991-92     Kittie J. Blakemore, Assistant Coach, Intercollegiate Athletics; Co-coach, Lady Mountaineers 
1990-91     Mary Jane B. Pearse, School of Physical Education (Retired) 
1989-90     Dennis H. O’Brien, Associate Professor of History 
1988-89     Mary E. Templeton, Professor, Resource Management, Agricultural Scientist 
1987-88     Carroll W. Wilkinson, Librarian; Adjunct Instructor for Library Studies 
1986-87      Elaine Ginsberg, Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Education 
1985-86     Betty Boyd, Dean, Student Life 
1984-85     Reba Thurmond, United Methodist Campus Minister; former Chair, West Virginia Women’s Commission 
1983-84     Carrie Koeturius, former manager, WVU Conference Services; Co-Chair, Women & Creativity Conference 
1982-83     Lauralee Sherwood, Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics;
                         former Chair, WVU Council for Women’s Concerns 
1981-82     Judith Gold Stitzel, Coordinator, Women’s Studies; Professor of English 
1980-81     Avis Stuart, Former clinical psychologist, WVU Student Counseling Center
1979-80     Sophia Peterson, Professor of Political Science 
1978-79     Mary Catherine Buswell, Professor Emerita of English