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Edith Pitt Chace Award
The Edith Pitt Chace Award is named in memory of the director of the Penn State home economics program from 1918 to 1937 and honors students who are recognized as both exceptional student leaders and outstanding scholars.
Eligibility and Criteria
Candidates must:
- have at least seventh semester standing at the time of nomination;
- demonstrate outstanding scholarship (3.0 or above cumulative grade point average), and;
- demonstrate outstanding leadership in the college and The Pennsylvania State University, and;
- maintain their full-time enrollment in a major in the College of Health and Human Development.
- NOT be graduating before spring semester of the awarding year (May 2025)
Nominating Procedure
The Assistant Director of Alumni Relations will receive the nominations and forward them to the Awards Committee of the HHD Alumni Society Board. Nominations may be made by students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Students may and are encouraged to nominate themselves.
The nomination shall consist of:
- Completed online application form
- A rationale of why the nominee should be considered.
- Nominee's College of Health and Human Development activities.
- Nominee's Penn State activities.
- Nominee's community activities.
- Nominee's awards and honors.
- If this is a student self-nomination, the name and email address of one faculty or staff member who could serve as a reference to the selection committee is needed.
Selection Committee
The recipients of this award shall be selected by the Awards Committee of the College of Health and Human Development Alumni Society Board.
The Award
Two students will be considered for the award. The recipients shall each receive a $1,500 award, which will be applied toward tuition during the current academic year. The recipients will also receive a plaque, which will be presented during the Alumni Society Board's spring board meeting.
- Past Recipients
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2024 Ava Paulucci, KINES
Rachel Bliss, BBH
2023 Jenna L. Dehoff, BBH
Caroline T. Graff, KINES
2022 Emma Cladart, NUTR
Clair Leidy, BBH
2021 Abriana Cain
Elizabeth Soucy
2020 Laura Guay
Courtney McDowell
2019 Hannah Ross
Alexandra Wagner
2018 Michael Healy
Grace Mannix
2017 Hannah Yeager 2016 Stephanie Giaretta
Emily SchoettlerVenkata Meka
2015 Nicole Radlow
Abby MichaelHaley Schlechter
2014 Maggie Lamb
Kenya Crawford2013 Dayanna Reeves 2012 Catherine Hewlett
James Miller2011 Stephanie Mitchell
Wolfgang Woods2010 Stephanie Eldred 2009 Mackenzie Shields 2008 Priyanka Biswas 2007 Elizabeth Hahn 2006 Resham Patel 2005 Jennifer Regester 2004 Robyn Ricketts 2003 Jared Melzer 2002 Amanda Mihalko 2001 Annina Catherine Burns 2000 Sarah Ross 1999 Debra A. Baldassano 1998 not known 1997 not known 1996 Erin A. Foley 1995 James Russell Berry and Jason Dietz 1994 Gretchen A. Ketner 1993 not known 1992 Eugene Downey 1991 Jillian M. Piper 1990 Jennifer Fasold 1989 Lisa M. Taylor 1988 Michelle Mikanowicz 1987 Nancy Schnyder 1986 Joanne Ryczak 1985 Anne Barnhart Fulker 1984 Ann Reinhard Schildhammer 1983 Joseph S. Kucher 1982 Ann Hockler 1981 Beth Mincemoyer
- Recipients prior to 1981 (listed by graduation year of the recipient, not the year in which the award was presented)
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1981 Loretta Rieser-Danner, I F S
1979 Diana Kubitsky Fields, HE ED
1978 Cathy Ehrenzeller Dysinger, I F S
1974 Michelle A. Morganosky, MER C
1973 Betsy Hospers Quackenbush, C R S
1972 Susan Rode McLaughlin, I F S
1971 Mary Beth Pastorius, I F S
1970 Susan Lupton Nagy, I F S
1969 Margaret R. Schellin, C S B
1969 Wilma J. Yannerella, I F S
1967 Rebecca Kunkel Jessen McKillican, C S B
1966 Norma Kravitz Greenberg, C S B
1966 Rebecca Walker Mihelcic, CL TX
1965 Laura Smail Sims, I F S
1964 Kaye Kittle Boyer, H EC
1963 V. Sue Henderson Schantz, H EC
1962 Joann Carl Ertel, H EC
1962 Judith Wilson, PH ED
1961 Lurene Jochem Frantz, H EC
1961 Martha Wilson Smith, H EC
1960 Lorna Henry Cardinal, H EC
1960 Helen Skade Hintz, H EC
1959 Alice Beebe Ruffing, H EC
1958 Joan M. Halligan, H EC
1957 Barbara Kulp Gross, H EC
1957 Janet Reid Dierks, H EC
1956 Edith Kriebel Conte, H EC
1954 Jane Albrecht Hawkins, H EC
1953 Gale Grimm Smith, H EC
1952 Jane Strawn Brosius, H EC
1951 Barbara G. Van Sickel, H EC
1950 Martha Reichenbach Horn, H EC