Distinguished Service Award Winners

This award is not presented on any regular basis but is given sporadically to deserving individuals who have contributed long-term service to the Society. Nominations should include at least one letter of support in addition to the nomination letter describing the nominee's contributions. Awardees are given a plaque.

• Dr. Leo A. Whitehair, Director, Comparative Medicine Program, National Center for Research Resources, NIH, Washington -- 1994 for outstanding support of primate research during a lengthy career at the Animal Resources Branch/Comparative Medicine Program.
  
  
• Dr. Richard Harrison, Tulane Regional Primate Research Center, Covington -- 1994 for service as the Historian of the American Society of Primatologists.
  
  
• Judith Schrier, Brown University -- 1996 for longstanding committment to the publication of Laboratory Primate Newsletter
  
  
• Larry Jacobsen, Librarian, Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, Madison -- 1997 for significant contribution to the field of primatology and his pioneering efforts to disseminate information worldwide.