Recognition of leadership

Sun and Balance Award

The annual Sun and Balance Award is presented to a recipient who has shown leadership to advance the mission of the Rensselaer Newman Foundation. Past recipients include:    

2023: Dee & David Dziewulski
2022: Mary Holbritter
2021: Mary Crangle Nagy
2020: Brett M. Hutton
2019: Jenny and Paul Kraus
2018: Rev. Edward Kacerguis
2017: Sharon E. Valiquette
2016: William Webster
2015: Richard Hartt
2014: James J. Ljunglin
2013: Michael J. McCabe and Frederick E. Gallo, Jr.
2012: Rosanne M. Rose and Lawrence Mitter
2011: Megan Fannon and Nicholas J. Wengrenovich
2010: Michael F. Diacovo
2009: Teresa, James and Christopher Brennan
2008: William Drunsic and Peter Levatich (awarded posthumously)
2007: Frances and James Hyde and Family
2006: Kathleen and Edward Spain
2005: Matthew Kosara, Rebecca Lamb
2004: John A. Malitoris
2003: Nathan Robert Walsh
2002: David Marvin Orlep (awarded posthumously)
2001: Rev. Thomas Phelan
2000: Alice and William McLoughlin
1999: Mairin and Patrick Quinn
1998: Robert C. Thayer
1997: Ruth Ellen and R. Byron Pipes
1996: Richard C. Tantillo
1995: Suzanne F. Gutmann
1994: Anne and Jonathan Cassidy
1993: Frederica Z. Meindl
1992: David S. Haviland
1991: Michael C. Duffy
1990: Carl Engstrom, Arthur Gajarsa
1989: Rev. Gary B. Gelfenbien
1988: Bishop Howard Hubbard
1987: Constance B. Murray
1986: Sarah Catlin
1985: John and Mary K. Ryan
1984: Robert W. Petricca
1983: Paul J. Catan, Jr.
1982: M. Elizabeth and Stephen E. Wiberley
1981: McCarthy Family of Troy
1980: Ellis Robison
1979: Msgr. William M. Slavin, John Millet
1976: Eric Beltz
1972: A. Bruce Carlson
1968: Joseph Smith