Dwight Booher Cragun Superintendent's Award for Distinguished Teaching

The Dwight Booher Cragun Superintendent's Award for Distinguished Teaching is presented annually to a teacher selected by the Lebanon Superintendent of Schools as one whose meritorious service to education during the year deserves public recognition and support. A $2500 gift is made to the recipient to further develop his/her teaching skills and classroom effectiveness as a teacher in the Lebanon Community Schools.

The award is named for Dwight Booher Cragun who was the son of S.N. Cragun, former Lebanon High School Principal and Superintendent of Schools during the decade prior to his becoming publisher of the Lebanon Patriot from 1890 to 1913, a weekly newspaper antecedent to the Lebanon Reporter.

The gift is made in loving memory of Dwight Booher Cragun, a graduate of the Lebanon public schools who was distinguished in the financial world and who became a professor of finance/investments on the faculty of Indiana University during the 1930's. While his father was recognized as having improved the quality of teaching during his tenure as superintendent, Dwight was particularly concerned with helping the average student prepare for a University level education and worked to help many achieve that goal.

Recipients:

• 2011 - Jennifer Harrison, Central Elementary School
• 2010 - Don Polston, Lebanon Middle School
• 2009 - Byron Ernest, Lebanon High School
• 2008 - Leah Cavanagh, Lebanon Middle School
• 2007 - Molly A. Murphy, Lebanon High School
• 2006 - Sarah Puckett, Perry-Worth Elementary School; Debra Heck, Lebanon High School
• 2005 - Sarah Robey, Harney Elementary School; Beverly Cunningham, Harney Elementary School; Kathleen Cunningham, Lebanon High School; Carol Nester, Hattie B. Stokes Elementary School
• 2004 - Karen Turner, Central Elementary School; Pam Shelby, Central Elementary School
• 2003 - Ann Manak, Hattie B. Stokes Elementary School
• 2002 - Mary Dickerson, Perry-Worth Elementary School
• 2002 - Linda Johnson, Perry-Worth Elementary School
• 2001 - Molly A. Murphy, Lebanon High School School
• 2000 - Tim Curts, Lebanon High School; Kathy Wortman, Lebanon High School; Kendra Whipkey, Lebanon High School
• 1999 - Hattie B. Stokes Elementary School Teachers
• 1996 - Dan Warkentien, Lebanon High School
• 1995 - Ann Fetters, Hattie B. Stokes Elementary School and Central Elementary School
• 1994 - Ron Scherer, Lebanon Middle School
• 1993 - Cynthia Watson, Central Elementary School

David S. Richey Award Recipient

This award is given to any business, individual, or family in the community who has gone above and beyond the norm through both a personal and financial commitment to support the efforts of the Lebanon Educational Foundation. The 2008 winners recognized at the Lebanon Educational Foundation and Lebanon Community School Corporation Annual Teacher Celebration were Kenneth and Rosalie Limp.

Previous winners include:

• 2011 - Margi Walters
• 2010 - Virginia Smith
• 2009 - Chuck and Kathleen Cunningham
• 2008 - Kenneth and Rosalie Limp
• 2007 - Ron Lind, Melissa Ebert and Beth Hughes with the Accounting firm of Ronald L. Lind, CPA and Tina May, with the Accounting firm of Tina May, CPA
• 2006 - LuAnn Cowan Robertson
• 2005 - Ralph Walker
• 2004 - Jane Hammock
• 2003 - John Graft
• 2002 - Pete and Sandy Obremskey
• 2001 - Gene and Betty Denger
• 2000 - Chuck and Sue Ritz
• 1999 - Kandi Killin
• 1998 - Ben and Mary Jane Cragun
• 1997 - James V. Maines and Family
• 1996 - Arthur O. Dickerson
• 1995 - The Robert T. Lamb Family
• 1994 - David and Kerri Lewis
• 1993 - David S. Richey