The Rabbi Martin Katzenstein Award
The Rabbi Martin Katzenstein Award was established in 1979 by the Harvard Divinity School Alumni/ae Association "to honor among its graduates one who exhibits a passionate and helpful interest in the lives of other people, an informed and realistic faithfulness, an embodiment of the idea that love is not so much a way of feeling as a way of acting, and a reliable sense of humor." [1] Rabbi Martin Katzenstein, ThM '58, who was Acting Dean of Students when he died in 1970, was passionately involved with the school for many years.
Past recipients
- 2012: Professor Dudley Rose, MDiv '83
- 2011: Rev. Carl R. Scovelm STB '57
- 2009: Lynne Landsberg, MTS '76
- 2008: Mary E. Hunt, MTS '74
- 2007: John Rugge, MTS '69
- 2006: Joe R. Feagin, BD '62, PhD '66
- 2005: Bishop William B. Oden, BD '61
- 2004: Elyn MacInnis, MDiv '77
- 2003: Dr. Oscar Allan Rogers, STB '53
- 2002: Paul D. Kennedy, STB '61
- 2001: Archbishop Iakovos, STM '45
- 2000: Carl R. Scovel, STB '57
- 1999: Archie C. Epps III, BD '61
- 1998: Letty Mandeville Russell, STB '58
- 1997: Richard Unsworth, ThM '63
- 1996: Janet Cooper Nelson, MDiv '80
- 1995: Victor H. Carpenter, Jr., Merrill Fellow '74, BD '75
- 1994: Scotty McLennan, MDiv '75
- 1993: Samuel McMurray Keen, STB '56, ThM '58
- 1992: Charles G. Adams, BD '64
- 1991: Ruth B. Purtilo, MTS '75, PhD '79
- 1990: Yehezkel Landau, MTS '76
- 1989: Henry C. Gregory, III, ThM '68
- 1988: Harry H. Hoehler, STB '54; Judith L. Hoehler, BD '58
- 1987: James Luther Adams, STB '27
- 1986: Ralph Lazzaro, STB '40, STM '41
- 1985: Professor Amos N. Wilder, '30
- 1984: Jack Mendelsohn, STB '45
- 1983: Professor C. Conrad Wright, HDS Faculty
- 1982: Professor John B. Carman, HDS Faculty
- 1981: Elinor (Bunn) Thompson
- 1980: Henry V. Richardson, STB '32