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The Apollo Award

The Apollo Award is the highest award presented to the general public by the American Optometric Association. It honors persons or organizations for distinguished service to the visual welfare of the public, and recipients have included educators and spokespersons, organizations such as service clubs and philanthropic groups, programs in schools and communities, and publications.

Prior to 1961 the awards were known as “Distinguished Service Awards,” and through 1980 optometrists were eligible to receive the award.

1957    Mrs. Agnes Beaton ● Automotive Safety Foundation

1958    Titmus Optical Company ● President Dwight D. Eisenhower

1959    Dr. Darell Boyd Harmon ● Better Light, Better Sight Bureau, New York ● Olin E. Teague

1960    Arnold Gesell ● Ben Massell .

1961    Alexander M. Skeffington, O.D. ● George D. Spache, Ph.D. ● WOI-TV, Ames Iowa

1962    Emmett A. Betts, Ph.D. ● R. Stuart MacKay, Ph.D. ● Optometric Center of New York City

1963    Lois B. Bing, O.D. ● William Greenspon, O.D. ● Elbert Hugunin ● Helen M. Robinson, Ph.D.

1964    Glenn A. Fry, Ph.D. ● Peter J. Salmon ● U. S. Senator H. A. Williams

1965    Nathan Edward Acree ● Better Vision Institute ● H. Ward Ewalt, Jr., O.D. ● Good Housekeeping
              Magazine  ● Optical Manufacturers Association 

1966    Howard  J Brown, M.D. ● George H. Giles, O.B.E. (posthumously) ● John C. Neill, O.D. ● 
               Col. John W. Sheridan, MSC, U.S.A.

1967    Gerald N. Getman, O.D. ● Emanuel C. Nurock, O.D. ● Harold W. Oyster, O.D. ● Winter Haven Lions 
               Research Foundation

1968    Irvin M. Borish, O.D. ● Robert S. Bray

1969    William C. Ezell, O.D. ● Hernando Henao, R., O.D., Bogota

1970    Samuel Howard Bartley, Ph.D. ● United States Jaycees ● Helen W. Worden

1971    Merrill J. Allen, O.D., Ph.D. ● Anna Berliner, Ph.D.

1972    Carel C. Koch, O.D. ● Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation

1973    Henry W. Hofstetter, O.D., Ph.D. ● Luci Johnson Nugent

1974    Lions International

1975    Meredith W. Morgan, O.D., Ph.D.

1976    Ernest B. Alexander, O.D.

1977    Auxiliary to the American Optometric Association

1978    National 4-H Council / 4-H Program

1979    Louis Jaques, Sr., O.D. ● Natalie Carter Barraga, Ed.D.

1980    Francis A. Young, Ph.D.

1981    Reader’s Digest large-type edition

1982    Veterans Administration’s VICTORS program

1983    Cazamer Loyd Crouch, P.E.

1984    55 Alive/ Mature Driving - AARP

1985    (no award given)

1986    Henrik L. Blum, M.D., M.P.H.

1987    Robert Beeten

1988    Salvation Army - USA

1989    Literacy Volunteers of America ● Albuquerque Mayor’s Commission on Adult Literacy ●  
               New Mexico Coalition for Literacy

1990    (no award given)

1991    American Public Health Association

1992    Adolph Coors Foundation

1993    (no award given)

1994    Descriptive Video Service / WGBH

1995    Optical Laboratories Association

1996    General Motors Corporation

1997    John Jay Moores, founder, River Blindness Foundation

1998    Special Olympics International, Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver

1999    (no award given)

2000    American Foundation for the Blind

2001    Carl Kupfer, M.D., National Eye Institute

2002    Gov. Paul E. Patton, State of Kentucky

2003    (no award given)

2004    U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland

2005    former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter

2006    (no award given)

2007    Pierre Le Falher

2008    James Kesteloot, Chicago Lighthouse