Paul Schmidt Award

Honor and recognize the outstanding services and contributions given by an elementary or secondary teacher or supervisor in the fields of health, physical education, recreation, or dance as exemplified by Paul F. Schmidt, supervisor of elementary physical and recreation, Rochester Public Schools.

2023 - Heather Burd
2020 - Laurie Jacobs
2019 - Dave Krenik
2018 - Stephanie Rupp
2017 - Deb Van Klei
2016 - George Beran
2011 - Annette Brewer
2010 - Elizabeth Parr-Smestad
2009 - Brenda Hadrich
2008 - Neil Paarmann
2007 - Brenda Corbin
2005 - Jan Braaten
2003 - Jeanne Ewen
2002 - Bennet Bloomquist
2001 - Pam Lindberg
2000 - Coleen Carder
1999 - Wally Grant
1998 - George Hanson
1997 - Meryl Gisselquist
1996 - Harold Christensen
1995 - Dan Midura
1994 - John Hopkins
1993 - Walter West
1992 - Mark Embretson
1991 - Phyllis Wheeler
1990 - Edward G. Prohofsky
1989 - Matt Ellsworth
1988 - Edward Scinto
1987 - Nancy Ostmoe
1986 - Pat Hansen
1985 - Bernie Schmidt
1984 - Michael Wagner
1983 - Charles Benda
1982 - Tom Hofflander
1981 - Elwood Sattervall
1980 - Mary Rae Addamson/Leif "Curly" Bolleson
1979 - Stu McDonald/Ron Juell
1978 - Jean F. Gustafson/Joan Garvin
1977 - Phyllis Glaser/Merle Vokaty
1976 - Robert J. Willliams/Roger Kuhn
1975 - Griffith C. O’Dell/Paul E. Busch
1974 - Paula Bauck
1973 - Dick Webster/Lee Ball/Mildred Deanovic
1971 - Shirley Price
1970 - Grace Gaarde
1969 - George Roscoe
1968 - George Kreutzer
1967 - Ted Sioris
1966 - Francis Kidd
1965 - Edward Bork
1964 - Victor Gislason
1963 - LeRoy Maas
1962 - Ralph Summers
1961 - Helen Starr
1960 - Tom Pfaender
1958 - Clarence Nelson
1956 - Paul Schmidt