Honors

• Who’s Who in America (Marquis)
• Who’s Who in the Midwest (Marquis)
• Who’s Who in North America
• Who is Publishing in the Sciences
• Directory of Environmental Sociologists
• National Faculty Handbook
• Outstanding Young American
• Who’s Who in Nebraska
• Directory of International Biography
• National Gerontological Directory
• Personalities of the West and Midwest
• International Registry of Profiles
• Community Leaders and Noteworthy Americans
• Personalities in America
• International American
• Who’s Who in Community Service
• Men of Achievement
• Associate fellow for President Kennedy Foundation Library
• Five Thousand Personalities of the World
• International Leaders in Achievement
• Community Leaders of America
• Personalities of the Americas
• World Biographical Directory
• International Who’s Who of Intellectuals
• 1988 Governor of Iowa award as Outstanding Volunteer of the Year (Iowa Commission for the Blind)
• Fellow International Biographical Association
• Fellow American Biographical Association
• 1993 Outstanding Teacher at Kirkwood Community College
• 1997 International Biographical Directory
• 1997 Outstanding 2000 of the Twentieth Century
• 1997 “The Kirkwood Difference” Award
• Directory of American Scholars

Undergrad Honors

• Graduate 1961 Omaha Benson High School, Omaha, Nebraska
• National Honor Roll
• Participant to the United nations Pilgrimage for Youth (White House, Congress, Soviet Embassy, UN Security Council)
• ROTC 4 Years, Honors Courses in History and Literature
• Vice President of the Junior Class, Vice President of the Senior Class, Pi Kappa, Alpha
• Outstanding Student 1962, 1963, 1964
• Omicron Delta Kappa Senior Men’s Honorary
  
• American Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corp, 1962-1964

Additional Academic Honors

BA / MA hours

• Hastings College, 1961
• South Dakota State University, 1971, 1974-1975
• University of Nebraska-Omaha, 1972
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1976

Scholarships

• National Defense Fund 1967-1968
• American Lutheran Church 1971, 1974, 1976

Professional Organizations

• American Sociological Association
• The Midwest Sociological Association
• The Iowa Sociological Association
• The Midwest Criminal Justice Association
• American Association for Collegiate Independent Study

Community Organizations

• Liaison to Faces (Personal Crisis) Mental Health, 1977
• Transcriber for the Iowa Commission for the Blind, 1979-1989
• Planning Board for ENCOR (Mental Retardation)
• Friend of the Church of the Larger Fellowship Unitarian-Universalist, 1970 to date
• Member of the Unitarian-Universalist Christian Fellowship
• Foster Parents of Iowa 1983-1985
• Member of American Association of Independent Studies, 1994
• American Association of Retired People, 1994
• Mended Hearts