Do you know someone who has made a significant contribution to civic life in Wauwatosa? The Wauwatosa Distinguished Citizen Award Council is taking nominations for its 2025 award until April 3.
The Distinguished Citizen Award has been given out since 1964 and honors people "who have made significant voluntary contributions to community life in Wauwatosa to make this city such a great place to live," the council said in its call for nominations.
An information packet about the award and how to nominate someone can be found online here.
Nominees need not be Tosa residents, though they should have demonstrated contributions to community life without receiving compensation for those contributions — in other words, as a volunteer and not as part of a paid job. Also, elected officials are not eligible during their term in office.
A recognition event for this year's winner will be planned in June.
Past winners:
1964 Howard Rausch
1965 Lt. Jack Cormack/Dr. Gerald Burghardt
1966 Gelinda Vescolani
1967 Dr. Fred Mossey
1968 The Rev. Norman S. Ream
1969 Audrey Baird
1970 Peter Botsch
1971 Patricia Garny
1972 Ervin A. Meier
1973 Warren E. Buesing
1974 Marilyn Muth Anderson
1975 Thomas B. Greenwill
1976 Arthur J. Wedemeyer
1977 Orville A. Matthias
1978 W. Grant Schmidt
1979 Raymond and Carolyn Jahn
1980 Lois Weber
1981 Thad Lantz
1982 Mary Jean Lefevre
1983 Kenneth L. Lindl
1984 Russell I. Townsend
1985 Dolly Joachim Peeples
1986 Joan Blancett Riggin
1987 Robert C. Christensen
1988 Beverly Born Hunt
1989 B. Leo Hitt
1990 Thomas L. Kirchen, Sr.
1991 James R. Vint
1992 Peter N. Brusky
1993 Les N. Roberts
1994 Michael A. Rooney
1995 Theo Baier and Betty Mosher
1996 Raymond Perry
1997 Gladys Miller
1998 Alice Krcbs
1999 Ken Elert
2000 Dr. Fred Olson
2001 Charles Causier
2002 Marion Peterson
2003 Barbara Lindl
2004 Paul Roller
2005 Gene and Mary Alice Brown
2006 Mary Ann Hamill
2007 Kent and Kathy Ehley
2008 Steve Weber
2009 Richard P. & Gloria L. Bachman
2010 Carolyn Dressler
2011 Denise Lindberg
2012 Debbie Dubinski
2013 Maureen Badding
2014 Mary Van Dervan
2015 Mike and Judy Doyle
2016 Jeffrey Roznowski
2017 Jill Wickham
2018 Arline Hayes
2019 Linda and Tom Ertel
2020-2022 Pandemic Break
2023 Robin Luther
2024 Sarah Lerand
