Louis E. Yavner Award Winners
All award winners are from New York State. Citizen awards were first initiated in 1986.
| YEAR | TEACHER | CITIZEN |
| 2010 | No Awardees | No Awardees |
| 2009 | No Awardees | No Awardees |
| 2008 | Helene Alalouf - Yonkers |
Marion Blumenthal Lazan - Hewlett |
| 2007 | Barbara Bernard - Commack | Fred Bachner* - Somers |
| 2006 | Beth Quinn- Yonkers | Ira Bilus - Brooklyn |
| 2005 | Patrick E. Connelly - Webster | Sally Frishberg- Brooklyn |
| 2004 | Lori Megivern - Dryden | Jack Ratz - Brooklyn |
| 2003 | Abbie Laskey - East Hills | Walter Wolff* - Long Beach |
| 2002 | Neal Shultz - New York | Helen Sperling - New Hartford |
| 2001 | Julia Scallero -Tarrytown | Norbert Friedman - West Hempstead |
| 2000 | Susan J. Goldberg* Hastings-on-Hudson |
Irving Roth -Willison Park |
| 1999 | Marc Schimsky - Commack | Inge Liese Auerbacher - Jamaica |
| 1998 | Douglas W. Pelton - Dryden | Fanya Gottesfeld Heller - New York |
| 1997 | Dr. Sharon L. Dobkin - Akron | Jack Polak - Eastchester |
| 1996 | Dr. Milton Teichman Poughkeepsie | Anton Segore - Albany |
| 1995 | Mark Willner - Midwood | Renee Fersen-Osten - New Rochelle |
| 1994 | Shelly Zima Shapiro - Latham | Dr. Stephanie Isser* - Albany |
| 1993 | Donna Aufiero-Rosenblum - Merrick | Bozenna Urbanowicz-Gilbride Garden City |
| 1992 | Steven Paskuly - Buffalo | Siegmund Spiegel - East Meadow |
| 1991 | Grace M. Caporino - Yorktown Heights | Alfred Lipson - Bayside |
| 1990 | Dr. Diane Isaacs - Dobbs Ferry | Joseph Kalina - Dewitt |
| 1989 | Neil B. Yetwin - Schenectady | Georgine J. Hyde - Suffern |
| 1988 | Dr. Reuben Stern - Glendale | Clara Feldman - Whitestone |
| 1987 | Professor Yaffa Eliach Brooklyn | Dr. Dennis B. Klein - New York |
| 1986 | Vincent Marmorale - Uniondale | Dr. Luba Gurdus - New York |
| 1985 | Clayton Adams - Kenmore | |
| 1984 | Stuart Elenko - Bronx | |
| 1983 | Matthew McCarthy - East Meadow | |
| 1982 | Evelyn Becker* |
* = deceased
Last Updated:
March 27, 2012