Texas Recreation & Park Society

Purpose: To document valuable dates, celebrate accomplishments, past award winners, milestones, pictures and any other important information.

The Texas Recreation Association was established on November 6, 1937. Though our organization has changed our name three more times over the years we will be 75 years old in 2012. This milestone in our history gives us the opportunity to reflex on the past and document important facts.

Take some time and remember the past and submit any photographs, memories, milestones and celebrations that will document our History!


Members: Chair, Vice-Chair, one member from each Region.

This is the highest award the Society bestows. This recipient of this award shall have been a member of TRAPS and shall have given outstanding service to the parks and recreation field for a minimum of ten (10) years and contributed to the promotion and advancement of the Texas Recreation and Park Society. One person will receive this award annually and be recognized at the annual conference.

Below is a list of Dan Whitworth Fellow Award winners - please submit additional winners or information to Mendy Marshall at mendy.marshall@ci.austin.tx.us

Past Award Winners
1957	1959	1962	1963
Joan Cass June Finck Bob Garrett A.C. Hamilton W.H. Keeling Gover Keeton George A. Lowrey Jr. Blance Marrero Reese Martin Joe Prowse Jr. Julie Quinn Allie Roddy Thelma Jeri Rudd Lillian Schwertz Beverly Sheffield Robert L. Shelton Jr. Robert E. Shipp Wayne Sudduth Harold Van Arsdale Glenn Wilcox William P. Witt	Jay Williams	Jack O. Ashworth R. Foster Blaisdell Frances Cowart Spencer Ellis Roy Guerrero Frances Hardisty Gus Haycock	Robert L. Frazier James D. Hamilton Richard Walker
	1964	1968	1968
	Virginia Eaves Dorothy Nan McLean	Marvin Austin	Don Maddox Bruce Waldo
	1971	1972	1973
	Melvin Shanks	Lester Witcher	Leonard Ehrler
	1974	1976	1977
	Lillian Schwertz	Terry Dopson Ed Schimmel	Henry W. Engelbrecht Bill Enlow B. Dan Kamp
	1979	1980	1981
	Johnny Carmichael Warren Leddick	Jack Robinson Alva Stern	James Kitchen
1982	1983	1987	1988
Don L. Cramer	Carson E. Watt	Jerry Garrett	Dr. Michal Anne Lord Ed Supina
1989	1990	1991	1992
Dr. Jackie Vaughan	Donna Brasher	Alicia Mentell	Don Olson Gene Spearman
1993	1994	1995	1996
Ty Probasco	Susan Eaves	Dianne Darnell	David Loughridge
1997	1998	1999	2000
Max Robertson	Alton Johnson	Dr. Peter Witt	Dr. John Crompton
2001	2002	2003	2004
Sally Gavlik	Eddie C. Hueston	Daniel L. Whitworth	Robert Armistead
2005	2006	2008	-
Timothy O'Conner	Stephen C. Beachy	Jane Dembski John K. Powers	-

Please submit any additional milestone to our history to Mendy Marshall at mendy.marshall@ci.austin.tx.us